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After He Left Me to Freeze, I Rejected Him as My Mate

After He Left Me to Freeze, I Rejected Him as My Mate

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After Death

Feel-Good Story

Plot Twists

Alpha

Homewrecker

Scumbag

Regret

Karma

Female Growth

Before our marking ceremony, Alpha Theodore Pierce let his childhood sweetheart, Eliana Vale, throw me into a walk-in freezer for a pre-wedding test. I have cold agglutinin disease. Prolonged exposure to cold can trigger acute hemolysis. The pack's chosen best man and maid of honor stood outside the freezer. They held up their phones and started a livestream. "If you want to be our Luna, kneel and beg Eliana." "Promise that once you accept the mate bond, you won't come between her and Alpha Theodore." Half an hour later, the freezer door finally opened. I was on my knees on the ice, my fingertips frozen blue-black. I no longer had the strength to lift my head. Jeering comments flooded the livestream. Theodore ignored my pain. Instead, he shrugged off his coat and draped it around Eliana. All because she had complained of the cold when the freezer door opened. "You know she has a soft heart. Is that why you put on this act, so she would pity you?" Theodore held the list of pre-wedding tests, never imagining I had read every item. Hiding my emergency medication, sabotaging the radiant heat at home, staging a rogue kidnapping, causing me to fall through the ice of a frozen river... Each time they completed one, he checked it off. The freezer challenge was number eleven. Eliana had invented it. The final test was scheduled for the day of the marking ceremony. Stage his death and test the Luna's loyalty. So that was it... Every time I woke in the medical wing after almost dying, it signaled the start of their next game. Theodore lifted my chin with the toe of his shoe. "Show up on time to the marking ceremony tomorrow, and I'll consider keeping tonight's video private." I stood, removed the pack Luna's crest, and dropped it at Eliana's feet. "I'm done playing." "From this moment on, I reject you as my mate. As far as you're concerned, I died in that freezer!"

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Chapter 1

Chapter 1

I was still staggering when I left the freezer. Eliana's friends kept streaming.

The camera tracked me. Every face wore a smirk; every laugh cut.

"Is our Luna really this weak? Half an hour in the cold and she's already done? How will she survive the marking ceremony?"

"She might as well give the title to Eliana!"

Photos of me raced across the pack forum.

Both knees on the ice, my head resting against the door, my fingertips frozen blue.

The headline read, "Westridge Alpha and His Secretary Break Their Luna."

Rumors spread until someone finally pointed out, "The Luna is from the Meadowland pack. It's spring there year-round. I heard she has some kind of medical condition..."

Theodore dismissed the warning.

"Doctors always give you the worst-case scenario. She's a wolf. There's no way a little cold could hurt her!"

He did not stop the spectacle. He even sent the photo to the wolf officiating the next day's marking ceremony.

"Put this on display at the venue before the ceremony."

I pulled off the oxygen mask the doctor had fitted over my face and stared at him.

"Delete it!"

He had not expected me to talk back.

"What did you say?"

"I said, delete it!"

Theodore opened the photo right in front of me.

"Lyra Bennett, if you can't handle it, don't pick a fight with me."

"Everyone saw you today. You put on that half-dead act to make us feel sorry for you, didn't you?"

The pack doctor cut my sleeve open, and the skin underneath had gone purple with cold.

"She's experiencing acute hemolysis. Call hematology now."

Theodore frowned.

"She loves to perform. It isn't nearly that serious."

The pack doctor looked up, his voice tight.

"Alpha! The Luna's lips are turning blue-black, and her blood pressure is dropping. Any longer and she could die."

That finally scared Theodore. He moved toward me.

Then Eliana made a show of fainting, careful to make enough noise.

When Theodore turned, he saw a cut less than half an inch long on Eliana's arm. No one had noticed when it happened.

He hurried over and took her hand, his voice full of concern. "Why is it bleeding?"

He lowered his head and blew gently on the cut, then snapped at the staff.

"What's wrong with all of you? The door is broken, and no one noticed?"

I spent half an hour locked in a freezer, and he called me ungrateful.

Eliana shed a few drops of blood, and he was ready to put the entire pack on trial.

I motioned for the paramedics to take me to the hospital. Then Theodore seemed to remember something.

He stopped them and warned me not to be late for the ceremony the next day.

The doctor tried to explain, panic in his voice. "Alpha! We need to run tests first. If her condition is severe, she may need to be admitted."
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Unsatisfying. The plot point about stealing credit for saving the male lead was never addressed/resolved.
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14 Chapters
Chapter 1
I was still staggering when I left the freezer. Eliana's friends kept streaming.The camera tracked me. Every face wore a smirk; every laugh cut."Is our Luna really this weak? Half an hour in the cold and she's already done? How will she survive the marking ceremony?""She might as well give the title to Eliana!"Photos of me raced across the pack forum.Both knees on the ice, my head resting against the door, my fingertips frozen blue.The headline read, "Westridge Alpha and His Secretary Break Their Luna."Rumors spread until someone finally pointed out, "The Luna is from the Meadowland pack. It's spring there year-round. I heard she has some kind of medical condition..."Theodore dismissed the warning."Doctors always give you the worst-case scenario. She's a wolf. There's no way a little cold could hurt her!"He did not stop the spectacle. He even sent the photo to the wolf officiating the next day's marking ceremony."Put this on display at the venue before the ceremony."I pulle
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Chapter 2
"You and Lyra planned this, didn't you? You agreed to make it sound worse than it is?"Theodore's expression darkened. He could not stand being challenged by a doctor."Lyra, stop pretending. Every time this happens, you sleep it off and wake up fine."Hearing him say my name took me back to the day they hid my emergency medication in an ice bucket.When the attack hit, I collapsed and struggled on the floor for more than ten minutes.Theodore stood over me with Eliana in his arms."Answer me, Lyra! Which do you love more: me or your own life?"I told him we were mates and that I loved him, but I wanted to live, too.He left the decision to Eliana."Ana, sweetheart, you decide."That day, I knelt at Eliana's feet for five minutes.She made me swear that whenever she needed Theodore, I would never get in the way.I clenched my teeth and never gave in.Only after I was admitted did Theodore take my hand and apologize. "I'm sorry, Lyra! I misjudged how far to take it. I promise there won'
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Chapter 3
I looked at the messages he had sent, and stayed silent for a long time.There had been a time when a couple of perfunctory reassurances from him were enough for me to invent my own excuse to forgive him.He would hurt me, soothe me with two sentences, spare me a little time, and I would convince myself he loved me.He made me kneel to Eliana, then coaxed me back again.I told myself his childhood friend had simply led him astray.But the doctor had just told me that another ten minutes in the cold would have killed me.Theodore only cared whether the footage gave him enough leverage to control me.At three in the morning, my father reached the hospital with mismatched socks.He touched my face and his eyes went red."Where is Theodore?""He left already."I answered evenly. I did not want to hurt him."He said he had to go back and get ready for the marking ceremony."My father choked out a curse. I stayed calm."Dad, do three things for me... I want to reject the bond."He pulled me
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Chapter 4
At ten o'clock sharp, I still had not arrived.The Beta came rushing in, visibly rattled. "Alpha, the Luna has canceled the ceremony. The banquet will proceed as planned, and you're covering the cost."At that, Theodore sat straight up out of the coffin in his suit.A splinter had torn his cuff, leaving him looking both ridiculous and undignified.Rowena Pierce, Westridge's former Luna, stormed into the venue and ripped down the memorial portrait.She planted herself beside the coffin and demanded, "Tell me what you've done to Lyra this time!"Eliana sat up in Theodore's arms."Luna Rowena... it was only a pre-wedding test, only a joke. Lyra loves Theodore so much, she would never take it to heart."Rowena ignored her and turned on her son instead. "Then why is Lyra still not here? Beta Grayson said she went to the hospital!"Theodore climbed out of the coffin, his expression icy."She's always been frail. A cold breeze is too much for her. Now she's canceled the ceremony and humiliate
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Chapter 5
A photo came with the form: Theodore, supposedly shot dead by rogues, his chest soaked in crimson, a silver ring on his left hand.I suspected this might be another game.But twelve years of living side by side closed around my heart like a fist.Even though I suspected it was another game, I could not silence the fear that this time it might be real.Once stabilized, I was moved to a standard hospital room for treatment.The nurse tried to stop me, warning me that I could relapse at any moment.I signed a discharge-against-medical-advice form and insisted on leaving.My father was handling the transfer paperwork.As I was leaving the hospital, he called.I hung up.In that moment, I was afraid not only that my father would stop me, but that I would hate myself even more for walking back into danger over a single photograph of an injured Theodore after I had already decided to reject our bond.Before I went into the funeral home, I turned on the voice recorder on my phone.I did it not
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Chapter 6
My father found the ward empty and tracked my phone straight to me.He ran into the funeral home just in time to see Theodore holding Eliana.He rushed over and lifted me up.My lips were purple, and my body temperature had plummeted.The staff hurried to shut off the refrigeration unit."Ms. Vale told us to keep it cold. She had us turn the unit on.""We had no idea she had cold agglutinin disease."The remote was still in Eliana's hand.Tears sprang to Eliana's eyes. "We were only playing a game. I had no idea the Luna's condition could be this serious."Theodore stepped in front of her. "Call an ambulance first. Blaming her won't help."My father drove his fist into Theodore's face."So you do remember how to call an ambulance?"When the ambulance arrived, Theodore was about to climb in.Eliana called after him from behind, "Alpha Theodore, I can't breathe properly."His step faltered.When Theodore was eighteen, someone poisoned him with wolfsbane. Eliana tricked Rowena out of a he
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Chapter 7
Theodore reached the hospital still wearing his formal clothes.He shoved the nurse aside. "Let me in. She is my Luna."Even after checking the system, the nurse barred his way. "The patient's emergency contact has been updated. You're not listed."Theodore froze. "How could I not be on it?""It was updated early this morning."The color drained out of his face. "That's impossible. She was still preparing for our Blue Moon ceremony last night."My father roared at him, "Last night, you triggered an attack that nearly killed her."Only when Theodore saw me in intensive care, with tubes running everywhere, did he understand how serious my condition was. "Duncan, let me in. Let me talk to her. She listens to me. Every time she has an attack, I soothe her a little and she gets better."My father stared at him. "You think she is joking with you?"The police arrived at the hospital with the props they had seized from the funeral home.The game list was in the box.Item eleven read: Freezer.
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Chapter 8
Before the operating room doors closed, the police were questioning Eliana."Do the records of the first eleven games still exist?"Eliana laughed once. "They do."She looked past the officer, at Theodore. "And I am not the one who started this game. He is."Theodore sat outside the operating room until daybreak.Before the police took Eliana into custody, she gave Theodore a cloud-storage login. "You always thought I was the one who put you up to all of it. Take a good look. Whose plan was this, really?"Eleven videos, hundreds of messages, and the planning lists for every game were all stored on the drive.The first game really had been simple.He had only hidden my heat packs to see whether I would come to him for warmth.In the video, by the time I found him, my face was drained white, and my lips and hands were already numb.He laughed softly and folded his arms around me. "See? It takes trouble for you to understand how much I mean to you."For the second game, he deliberately lo
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Chapter 9
When the sun came up, Theodore stopped making excuses for what he had done.He gave the police the cloud-storage login, the original audio files, and every chat log.The operating room light went dark. The doctor came out and told us I needed to be transferred to the territory's top medical center.Theodore stepped forward immediately. "I am going with her."My father glanced at him. "What right do you have?""I know her. I know everything about her. I know when she sleeps she—""You know her?"My father did not let him finish. "You knew her well enough to strike where it hurt most every time."They wheeled me out of the operating room, still unconscious.Theodore had barely started toward me when the heart rate on my monitor spiked.A nurse stepped between us. "Her heart rate is spiking. Please step back."He had not said a word yet.But my body knew his scent far too well.My father watched the monitor. "She will not forgive you. She isn't even conscious, and she's still afraid of yo
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Chapter 10
Three days later, everyone involved received a formal demand letter.The pack erupted.Some said they had only watched for fun.Others begged me through tears to go easy on them and not ruin their lives.I watched without sympathy.I gave them the same indifference they had shown when I begged them to open the freezer.They repented only because they feared the judgment ahead.Eliana's parents arrived at the ward with their arms full of gifts.Eliana's mother dropped to her knees as soon as she entered. "Lyra, Eliana is young and impulsive. You're alive. Don't ruin her life over one misunderstanding."I looked at Mr. Hale. "Escort her out."Eliana's mother dragged herself on her knees to my bedside. "You're alive. Why are you trying to kill her?"My father gave a humorless laugh. "My daughter survived because help arrived in time. And you have the nerve to use that as an excuse to clear your daughter?"Eliana's father's face darkened."Lyra, don't take this too far."Mr. Hale stepped f
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