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Chapter 2

Penulis: Redleaves
Everyone went still.

Their eyes flicked between Daddy's mouth and Vanessa's.

Daddy reached out and pinched my cheek, hard enough to make me cry.

“Don't make things up,” he snapped.

But I hadn't. His lips really were red, the same red as Vanessa's.

Everyone in the hall was afraid of the Alpha, though, and no one said a word.

Daddy drove us home, then left again with Vanessa.

Later, on my tablet, I saw a picture of them kissing on the balcony outside the room where I'd had my shot.

There was writing under the photo, and I couldn't read most of it.

“Al-pha. Cheat…” I pointed at the screen. “Mommy, is this the word for cheating?”

Mommy didn't answer. She just turned the tablet off.

I didn't get angry. Mommy only had twenty more days with me.

Daddy came back furious, Vanessa crying behind him.

He swept everything off the table, and my favorite glass shattered on the floor.

I hid behind Mommy and peeked out at him.

He pulled up the photo on his phone and shoved it in her face.

“You ruined Vanessa! How is she supposed to show her face now? And have you even thought about my reputation as Alpha?”

I clutched the back of Mommy's pants and buried my face.

His Alpha aura pressed down like a giant hand over my nose and mouth, and I couldn't breathe.

I didn't understand. He was the one who'd kissed Vanessa, so why was he yelling at Mommy?

“It wasn't me,” Mommy said.

“Then who? You took my hundred million and promised to stay out of it.”

“Your words and deeds are totally different. You're a fucking bitch!”

He grabbed her shoulders and shook her, then shoved her hard.

She fell into the shards of broken glass.

Cuts opened on her hands and legs, and the blood started running.

Her wolf was too dim. The wounds didn't close, and the blood kept coming.

I unzipped my little bag and dug out the bandages Mommy had packed for me.

She waved me away. “Serena, it's dangerous! Don't come here. Stay right where you are.”

I stood still and watched Vanessa smile behind Daddy's back.

“Luna, I know you don't like me. But even if you want to get back at me, think of the Alpha's reputation.”

Daddy turned around, and she pouted instantly. She burst into tears.

He wiped her face and told Mommy to apologize.

But Mommy was the Luna, and a Luna outranked Vanessa. Why did she have to apologize?

Mommy gritted her teeth and pulled the glass out of her own wounds.

“I didn't do it. Go check.”

The blood kept running, thin red lines down her arms and legs, like ribbons tied around her.

Daddy saw she couldn't stop the bleeding. He crouched down, panicked, and reached for her.

“Fiona, I got too worked up. Come on, let me take you to the infirmary.”

Mommy pushed his hand away and got up, swaying.

She looked at me, then at Daddy. Her voice was light, almost weightless.

“Theodore, if you feel guilty, sign the vacation house over to me.”

“Don't worry. I won't get in your way with Vanessa.”

Daddy froze. His face went red, then white.

He pulled his aura back, and the pressure on my mouth disappeared.

He looked stunned.

It wasn't surprising. Mommy was so different now.

Before, when Daddy didn't come home for dinner, Mommy would be miserable. When she saw him with other she-wolves, she'd hide somewhere alone and cry.

But now Mommy didn't look sad at all.

She had all those cuts and she wasn't even crying.

Not like Vanessa, who cried over nothing.

I was right. Lunas were stronger than ordinary she-wolves.

Daddy stood there a long time. Finally, he nodded.

But the way he looked at Mommy was strange, and I couldn't read it.

Grown-ups were so weird.

After Daddy left with Vanessa, Mommy bandaged her own cuts and called the hospital to schedule a heart transplant.

I asked her what that was.

She said she'd be fine.
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