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Chapter 9

Author: Liora Z
The blizzard raged. I didn’t even give him a second glance as I walked right past him.

Jaxon didn’t reach out to stop me. He just followed behind me. He kept a careful distance, stumbling through the deep snow.

I stopped at the crossroads ahead. I turned and looked at him.

“What do you want?” My voice was ice.

Jaxon stopped instantly, a few feet away. Snow covered his shoulders. His freezing body was tense.

“I took you for granted. I expected you to just bow to me,” he said. His eyes were f
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    A sharp ‘beep’ broke the quiet of the command center. The Council's highest-level red alert forced itself onto my main screen. My second-in-command stared, his eyes wide. “Alpha Alora! Look at the network! Jaxon just broadcasted a public confession across the entire pack-link!”I leaned back in my chair. My face was blank as I glanced at the glaring red-and-black text. In the long message, he had shed every last bit of his pride as a leader. He confessed to all the packs that I was his one true Mate. He admitted that for five years, his own selfishness had made him hide me away. He admitted he had allowed others to humiliate and hurt me. He even exposed his ugliest side. Confessing that at the annual gala, he had used his Alpha Command to force me into submission. At the end of the announcement that set the entire network on fire, he set the record straight: “Alora was never the one clinging. It was I who failed the Moon Goddess’s gift.”I closed the screen. I felt nothing. Just

  • He Denied Our Bond so I Ended It Myself   Chapter 9

    The blizzard raged. I didn’t even give him a second glance as I walked right past him. Jaxon didn’t reach out to stop me. He just followed behind me. He kept a careful distance, stumbling through the deep snow. I stopped at the crossroads ahead. I turned and looked at him. “What do you want?” My voice was ice. Jaxon stopped instantly, a few feet away. Snow covered his shoulders. His freezing body was tense. “I took you for granted. I expected you to just bow to me,” he said. His eyes were full of a pathetic need to please. “Now I know I have no right to ask you for anything. I just… I just want to be closer to you. Even if you never forgive me. Just watching from a distance is enough.”He took a sharp breath of frigid air. His voice shook even more. “For those five years… I hid you away for my own ambition. I wouldn't acknowledge you as my mate. I’m so sorry, Alora.”Faced with the apology I had once dreamed of, I felt utterly calm. “I admit it. I waited for you for five years l

  • He Denied Our Bond so I Ended It Myself   Chapter 8

    My footsteps faltered for a second. “I brought her favorite white roses,” he begged like a man on the street. “Can you let me visit her grave? I want to apologize to her in person.”I didn’t turn back. “No. You don’t deserve to.”Two days later, I took the day off and drove to the mountain cemetery alone. A cold rain was falling. From a distance, I saw a fresh bouquet of edelweiss on my mother’s headstone. Her favorite. A tall figure stood beside it. Jaxon. He didn’t have an umbrella. Rain streamed through his dark hair, plastering it to his face. He held another bouquet of white roses. He didn’t see me. He carefully placed the flowers down, then dropped hard to his knees in the mud. “I’m sorry,” he choked out. His voice was a broken, hoarse whisper. “I really didn’t know.”His shoulders shook violently. The once-invincible Alpha buried his head in his hands. “I didn’t know you were gone for two years. I didn’t know what Alora was going through all alone.” He clawed at the muddy

  • He Denied Our Bond so I Ended It Myself   Chapter 7

    “Are you satisfied now, Alora?!”A shrill, crying voice pierced through the phone, making my eardrum ache. I sipped my coffee, leaning against the control console. My voice was calm.“Clara, if you just called to scream at me, I’m hanging up in three seconds.”“Jaxon took your side!” she sobbed hysterically. “He didn’t say a single word to defend me! He gave the evidence to the Elders himself! I’ve been stripped of my rank! Exiled from the packs! This is all your fault!”I listened coldly. I didn't even bother to argue. The pack networks had been on fire for days. The Elders’ bulletin confirmed Clara was guilty. And Jaxon—the same Alpha who had pressured me for her, who had deleted posts to protect her—had personally handed over the evidence of his own cover-up. He took off his shirt in front of the Elders. He took fifty lashes from a silver-tipped whip. Silver poison burns werewolves to the bone, but he stood there bleeding without making a sound. For his actions, his Council voti

  • He Denied Our Bond so I Ended It Myself   Chapter 6

    “We’re not even! Alora, we are not even!” Jaxon’s roar blasted through the speaker. The crazed desperation of a broken Alpha.My fingertips went white. But faced with his delayed breakdown, I felt absolutely nothing.“That’s your problem.”I hit ‘end call,’ cutting off his hopeless shouts. For the next few days, my phone wouldn't stop lighting up. At first, he tried to hang on to his Alpha pride. He sent messages with his usual commanding tone. “It’s cold in the North. Dress warmer.”“Don’t stay up all night looking at tactical maps.”I just looked at the screen, swiped to delete, and never replied. A few days later, his walls completely crumbled. “I went to your old apartment.”“I saw the picture of your mother. I’m sorry, Alora.”One night, a photo popped up. It was an old, yellowed wooden box. Scattered inside were all my childhood hunting badges. In the very center lay a rough-looking stone. The mating stone Jaxon had carved for me when we were teenagers. Two lines were scra

  • He Denied Our Bond so I Ended It Myself   Chapter 5

    Day three in the North. I pushed open the doors to the Northern Packs' Joint Defense Center. No southern luxury here. Just cold, hard tactical boards and the static hiss of radios. Starting today, this frozen wasteland’s defense was mine.I’d just sat down at the tactical map when my phone lit up. It was an official summons from the Council of Elders. They were verifying the surveillance footage I’d sent. They were also launching a full investigation into Clara for paying off wolves to spread those rumors.I tossed my phone onto the desk. I braced myself for Jaxon’s call. For his rage. I could already picture it. His furious face. That arrogant Alpha tone, accusing me of being cruel. Blaming me for ruining Clara's reputation and his shot at the Council. But he didn't call. All day, his line was dead silent. Night fell. I was alone in the command center, reviewing the complex patrol maps. Suddenly, my phone exploded. The screen flashed. Message after message. All from Jaxon.“Answ

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