ar
versation with my father last night hadn't gone smoothly; it didn't favor me. So
ain. This time, I was already
Luna," I manage
doing?" she asked wit
ied weakly. "Do y
y the window, her movements graceful, every part of her natural appearance screaming authority. M
ow what to
y head. "
fake." Everything about her was fake. The woman in front of me hadn't always been this way; she
de me feel small and foolish. "You should start
those words like a nuclear bomb. I stayed
I whispered. "Why
should it be?" Her voice held tha
tate. "She's also th
bond, a gift from the Moon Goddess. She'll live happily with he
"Do I deserve nothing better
uld feel the anger radiating from her as she struggled to control herself. "My husband told me h
o defend, knowing it was a lie. He hated me. My mate wanted
should stop loving someone who hates and rejects you. I guess..." Her eyes roamed my body, finally land
n't the omega blood. It was my father's cursed blood." I allowed a twisted smir
creamed. Her
, feeling the words rise from somewhere deep, dark, and
hose daughter I was. He hated me for being an omega, but
fury twisting her features, but a
ching us. "I already asked you to
ing to him. He pulled her
the deal." He looked at me with that same cold detachment, as if I were nothing more tha
mate to reject her," she tattled
ze back to me, a smirk tugging at the corner of his mouth. "S
ut
ered, watching me as if trying to gauge my reactio
a perfect husband for her," I an
ker of satisfaction at having caught them off gua
ores he has in his harem. Grateful for being chosen at all
s wanted,"
ed. "You shoul
. "For marrying someone who had a mate an
eone else's child, daughter. I already sold both
u mean? You sold
ry a broken omega like you as a wife
ay with this," I said, the wo
can a lowly omega even do to an Alpha? Face it, S
tall, but their words made me t
my voice trembling
worry, dear," my stepmother muttered, waving dismissively. "
trem
to your new pack," my father said, wrapping his han
-
without my input-felt too tight around my chest, though I knew it wasn't just the fabric constricting my bre
soften the hardness in his glacier-blue eyes as they swept over me with clinical detachment. Not onc
d enough for others to hear. Several pack members snickered, and I caught sight of a woman in a blood-red dres
bow my head in the traditional gesture of re
arrangement isn't a marriage-it's a transaction. Your father needed an alliance, and I needed a legitimate
he purred, running a perfectly manicured nail down my arm. "You won't have to trouble yourself with actu
ere? You should know there are guards at every exit. Your father
ispered, hating how
us knows exactly what kind of worthless omega you are." He straightened his jacket, that cold smile never reaching his
oulder, hard enough to make me stumble. "Better get used
ectively cradling my stomach. My child kicked, as if sensing my distress, and I drew what li
s cheerful notes mocking the prison s
of our Alpha, Alpha Dickson, as he t
m off. "Skip the ceremony.
e, do you take Alpha Dickson Br
rd a growl beside me. A dangerous
e priest, who trembled in fear. He was every bit the tyrant they
ologized. "Do you accept Scarlett
ed on his face, he r
turned to face me. "Do you accept t
ears, swallowing th
, you may ki
stomach tightened in dread, but I raised my
eclared, his voic
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