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I prepared the divorce papers.
But Alpha
After Logan wouldn’t sign them.
After I exposed his secret, he actually seemed relieved, staying out all night. The next morning, he returned, looking exhausted, and began making breakfast for me in the kitchen.
I waited, papers in hand.
When he finally sat down, I slid the divorce papers across the table. “Sign these.”
He didn’t even glance at them. Instead, he pushed a steaming bowl of porridge toward me. “Eat first. We’ll talk later”
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“Talk? What’s there to talk about?” My voice rose, my wolf, Amber, growling faintly in my mind. “You cheated on me, Logan. It’s over”
He leaned back in his chair, pinching the bridge of his nose like I was being unreasonable. “My parents are desperate for a pup; they practically threatened to die if I didn’t give them one. I had no choice. Once Joanna has the baby, I’ll cut things off with her.”
So her name was Joanna. I’d never heard him say another woman’s name with such tenderness.
I swallowed my bitterness. “If you’d told me sooner, I wouldn’t have held on to you.”
“Melissa, I never intended to divorce you. My parents just wanted a pup, and I’m giving them one. After that, we can live our own
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lives.”
“A man who’s slept with another woman- you actually think I’d still want you?”
I stood, slamming my hands on the table. “Logan, let me make this simple for you.”
Squaring my shoulders, I leveled him with a steady gaze. “I, Melissa Maxwell, rejected you, Alpha Logan Alvarez, as my mate.”
Alpha Logan shot to his feet, the chair scraping loudly against the floor.
“Melissa,” he barked, his voice edged with disbelief, “are you out of your mind? I, Alpha Logan Alvarez, reject your rejection.”
His rejection left me momentarily
speechless. He must have noticed the way my face paled because he exhaled deeply,
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his expression softening, as though he were offering me a lifeline.
“My grandmother is turning eighty. Come with me to her birthday celebration.”
I almost laughed from the bitterness, but he knew just how to play on my weakness.
I was an orphan, and his grandmother was my benefactor.
I once imagined the person supporting me was a wealthy heir who’d never known hardship, but when I met her, she was just a humble old woman, collecting plastic bottles with a burlap sack slung over her shoulder.
I chose to stay by her side out of gratitude, and that’s when I met Alpha Logan, who was as warm–hearted as his grandmother. When everyone opposed our marriage, it was his
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grandmother who gave her blessing, sealing our union.
Now, she was gravely ill, and the doctors had warned us to prepare for the worst. The family organized the birthday celebration in hopes it would bring her some joy.
I had no excuse to refuse.
When we arrived at the venue,where the wolves‘ den of gossip and side–eyes awaited.
And there she was. Joanna. With her rounded belly, she stood boldly by Alpha Logan’s mother, greeting the werewolves like she was the Luna of The Crystal Blood Pack.
That was when I learned her name was Joanna–the daughter of Alpha Logan’s mother’s old friend. Ironically, I’d met her several times before.
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Joanna used to come to the house with Alpha Logan; back then, she was young and clung to him like a little sister, and I hadn’t given it much thought, assuming it was just a child’s admiration for her “big brother.”
It seemed they had been having an affair for some time now.
“Look at Joanna,” Logan’s mother crowed, loud enough for the whole pack to hear. “she’s done something worthwhile–carrying a pup! Not like you, can’t even give us a pup. How will I face our ancestors when my time comes?” Her gaze cut to me like a dagger.
Amber growled in my head, itching to pounce. “Melissa, just give me the reins for five minutes. Let’s see how smug she is without a tongue.”
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“Not now, Amber,‘ I muttered internally.
Alpha Logan’s mother began to mock me openly, complaining to the relatives, saying that by marrying me, her son was risking the extinction of his family line, especially now that his career had taken off. Her attitude toward me had only grown more arrogant since then.
The relatives, eager to curry favor with Alpha Logan’s mother, had a lot of grievances against me as well.
“Joanna is so beautiful and gentle, one said.
“Such a blessing to the family, chimed another.
“Unlike some people who can’t have children and harbor a malicious heart” a third added, pointedly not pointing at me but obviously
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meaning me.
Alpha Logan’s mother had once asked me for money, but at the time, The Crystal Blood Pack was struggling financially, so I turned her down. This had caused her to harbor
resentment towards me ever since.
Everyone seemed to reject me, and Alpha Logan’s mother made a show of sitting
beside Joanna at the main table, as if I were the one everyone should scorn as an intruder.
My wolf was pacing, her claws scratching at the edges of my mind. Logan, ever the peacemaker, leaned in. “Just let them vent. Don’t upset Grandma.”
Grandma sat in her wheelchair, painfully thin from her illness. Her vision was blurred, her hearing nearly gone, yet she recognized me
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the moment I approached. Her shaking hand touched my face, her cloudy eyes welling with tears.
“Melissa, it’s my fault… I’m the one who brought you into The Crystal Blood Pack, only for you to be treated this way.”
Joanna walked over, casting a haughty
lance at me. “Grandma, don’t you want a great–grandchild at your age? She can’t give you one–why do you only have eyes for her?”