Chapter 3

Later that night, my parents had me locked in the dungeon– a precaution they took to protect their favourite daughter’s ceremony from me.

I begged them to take me out, threatened them, and used every possible way to convince them I wasn't interested in Klaid. But they would just not listen.

In the end, I used the sacred power of my wolf and hypnotized the warriors of our pack. They tore the walls of the pack house and shielded me against my own family.

After they rescued me, I called my mate. He immediately sent his warriors in a black SUV, who safely escorted me to the luxurious hotel where I chilled for two days while my parents were busy calculating the damage I caused them.

The day of the mating ceremony finally arrived.

When I appeared on the Moon Goddess Temple wearing that exact custom, high-end white silk gown—the one my fiancé had personally designed—my parents and Mia all lost the color in their faces.

I had no idea they had chosen the same place for their ceremony as well.

A flash of possessive delight surged in Klaid’s eyes, but he quickly masked it, barking at me with a darkened face.

"Katherine, are you wearing that dress just to crash my mating ceremony? How utterly shameless!”

I looked at him like he was a bug on my windshield. "You're flattering yourself, Klaid. I have not come here for your ceremony. Move aside, you're blocking my view of someone actually worth looking at."

Mia rushed over, deliberately tripping over her heavy skirt to make herself look fragile.

"Sister... how could you do this to us? You made our warriors harm each other just because Klaid chose me? And now you are here to ruin our special day?"

"Katherine, you absolute monster!" my father roared, stepping between Mia and Mia. "You ruined our Pack's strength, and now you come here to flaunt some cheap jewelry you probably sold your body for? Return your sister's dress and crawl back to the pack house to beg for forgiveness, or I'll have the guards throw you in the rogue dungeons!"

The surrounding Alphas and Lunas began whispering, casting disgusted looks my way.

"Is that the eldest daughter? To ruin her own pack and spill blood over a man... how shameless."

"Look at how she's dressed. She’s clearly trying to seduce the groom away from her sister."

I let out a cold, melodious laugh that echoed through the hall, cutting through their whispers like a knife.

Klaid’s mother, Luna, looked incredibly uneasy. She had noticed the suffocating, ancient aura radiating from the diamonds on my neck—gems that only a legendary Royal Alpha could possess. "Katherine... where did you get those jewels? Who is backing you?"

Before I could answer, Klaid stepped forward, grabbing my wrist with brute force. "I don't care who she's sleeping with for money! Katherine, you are my rejected mate. You will look at me when I speak to you!"

My parents felt even more humiliated. “Katherine, you even began sleeping your way off just to fight your sister? How shameless!”

“From this day on, we are cutting off our ties with you. We don't have a daughter like you anymore.”

“Very well!” I said, “Then the disaster waiting for this family has nothing to do with me. Everyone, please be my witness. I don't belong to this family or the pack anymore.”

Klaid leaned in, his voice dropping to a venomous whisper. "You think after making a fuss here, you can ruin our ceremony? Six hours from now, when the moon is full, I will mate with Mia. You'll watch me love Mia every single day."

“After that I’ll get even with you!” He snorted.

I didn't flinch. I just smiled, counting down the hours in my head. In six hours, the curse would mutate his DNA, turning him into a weak, furless monstrosity.

"If you're so eager to sprint toward your own execution, Klaid, be my guest," I whispered back. “I just feel pity for your parents.”

“What do you mean, lady Katherine?” Luna Amelia frowned.

“Mia doesn't possess the power of the silver wolf, Luna. She can't save your son.” I said. She almost collapsed listening to this.

“Spread whatever rumors you want to spread about Mia. But, in this life, you have no chance over me. I’ll never mate with you.” Klaid yelled, holding his mother in his hands.

Suddenly, the grand oak doors of the banquet hall were blasted off their hinges, splintering into a thousand pieces.

A heavy, suffocating darkness flooded everyone, so powerful that half the guests instantly collapsed to their knees, gasping for air under the weight of a supreme Alpha pressure.

"A mangy stray like you," the man’s voice vibrated through the very foundations of the building, "is not qualified to touch even a single hair on my Luna's head, let alone dream of forming a mate bond with her.”