Chapter Five.

“Lyra, don’t tell me you will throw away what we have. You will wait for me, right? Wait for me. I will get mated to the she-wolf my parents chose for me, get my uncle’s pack and when I merge his pack with mine, I will come for you.”

I stared at Conan in disbelief. He was doing two things incorrectly. Leaving me for a pack and mating a fellow she-wolf like me just because he wanted to get a pack. I wondered if she knew that he was only mating her for that reason.

If he can be that deceitful then he could definitely deceive me.

“Does she know?” I asked.

“What?”

“Does the Alpha’s daughter you are marrying know that you’re only marrying two so you can take over your uncle’s pack?”

“Does it matter? What matters is that when it’s time, I’ll leave her for you.”

“Leave,” I thundered, glaring hard at Conan. He stared back in disbelief without moving a muscle.

At that moment, Kade stepped in. “Are you deaf? She asked you to leave.”

Without saying anything in protest, he left.

Now, I was certain that he was not the one for me. I deserved better than a spineless, selfish wolf.

“You should leave too,” I said immediately Conan left.

“You’re not doing that, right?” Kade asked instead. “You should take out that good for nothing ring from your finger. You deserve better than that spineless wolf.”

I cocked an eyebrow. “Who is this better? You?” I let out a bitter laugh.

“I want to be the better for you. Not better. The best. I want to be the best for you.”

I laughed in response, then my laughter died off and everywhere became quiet for a while. This must be a joke to him. He definitely sees this as something he could joke about. He wanted the best for me? Hilarious. The same man who denied me in a heartbeat. “You all are the same, right?”

“I would never do what Conan did. A pack over you? Never.”

I scoffed. “Since you’ve forgotten, you always choose Tim over me. You must have hidden me because you felt Tim would never approve. I love Tim, but an Alpha choosing a Pack sounds more reasonable than a straight man choosing the male sibling. And, don’t give me that I was young bullshit. You very much knew what you were doing.”

“And I am sorry. Cutting me off was not a bad decision. I deserved it. Conan should be cut off too and you should never let him back into your life again.”

“That is for me to decide. Not you.”

“What is there to decide? You’re the kind of girl who should break up with a guy who forgets her birthday. You’re Lyra and you don’t deserve to be a second choice. If you accept, you’ll end up being a concubine to a lowly Alpha like Conan. Not even his uncle’s pack can shoot him to the top. An Alpha who cannot stand up for himself can never get to the top. How would he protect you? Can he even protect himself? What do you see in him?”

“You’re an Alpha. Go back to your Alpha court and stop trying to interfere with my life. Plus, I need no man to protect me. Whether or not I choose to wait for Conan is not your cup of tea.”

“Everything about you is my cup of tea,” Kade said softly.

I snored. “How? You’re nobody to me. I don’t even like you, so how is everything about me your cup of tea?”

His phone rang out.

Hoping that he would take that as a cue to leave, I looked away from him. “I want to be alone.”

For some reason, a single tear ran down my cheeks.

“Lyra?”

“Just leave,” I thundered and he left the room, but I could feel that he was still hanging around.

After a few minutes, I dashed out of her room and my guess was right. Kade was still very much outside my room. Ignoring him, I stormed over to the living room

There, I took off the engagement ring Conan gave me and threw it to the ground. “Conan, you should leave. We no longer have any connection with each other so please leave my welcome party.”

I was heartbroken and life without Conan was hard to imagine but I would get over it eventually.

From the corner of my eye, I saw Kade’s feet begin to move and for the first time in a long time, I saw him sway his body a little. The fool must think that nobody was watching him.

He must also think that Conan’s exit meant that he had a chance. I snorted. He was out of his mind for thinking so.

Kade was not getting me.