ログインKaireen's POVHis body had me fully pressed against the wall and the crutch he had thrown aside was still clattering against the tile floor when the sound finally died and the silence rushed in to replace it — thick and suffocating and charged with something I did not have a name for yet."You want to say that again?" His voice was low and rough. His pale blue eyes were darker now, the pale washed out by something sharp and furious and entirely alpha. "Go ahead. Say it again to my face."I kept my breathing even. "I already said everything I needed to say," I told him. "Let go of me.""You don't get to do that." He pressed closer instead of backing away and his jaw was tight enough I could see the muscle jumping beneath his skin. "You don't get to stand there and tell me you will never marry me like it's nothing." His grip on my waist tightened. "You don't get to be that cruel.""Evander—""What is it that you actually want?" His voice cracked slightly on the last word and the crack w
Kaireen's Pov"I'll handle it," he said again, and this time he was looking at Ronan and not at me.The two of them looked at each other. Just for a second. The kind of look men exchanged when the actual conversation was happening somewhere underneath the words."It's fine," I said, stepping between whatever that moment was before it could become anything larger. I looked at Ronan and made my voice even. "Go. I'm alright."He did not answer right away. His eyes stayed on my face for a beat that stretched just slightly past comfortable, reading something I was not intending to show, and I looked away first because looking back felt dangerous."Go," I said again, softer. "Please."He left.I didn't watch him walk away. I turned and headed back down the corridor toward the small supply room at the far end of the hallway, keeping my spine straight and my chin level and my eyes fixed ahead because the stares from the remaining staff were like pins across the back of my neck and the last th
Kaireen's POVThe act was so transparent it was almost insulting.Selene stood in the middle of the corridor with tears rolling down her perfect face, clutching her cheek like she had been mortally wounded, and everything about her performance screamed fake — from the way her voice kept hitching at exactly the right moments to the way she had positioned herself directly in Ronan's line of sight the second he appeared at the end of the hallway.She had done it deliberately.All of it.The tray. The heel grinding into my hand. The gasping and the tears. It had been a performance from start to finish and the worst part was that she had done it brilliantly, had calculated every second of it, and now she was standing there wrapped in the role of the wounded Luna with mascara running perfectly down her cheeks and her silk blouse slightly disheveled and her husband staring at her with an unreadable expression."Ronan," she whimpered, her voice small and trembling. "She hit me. I was only try
Selene's Pov "What do you mean?" he asked carefully. "Exactly what you think I mean," I said, and I kept my voice low even though we were alone. "I think he's fucking her, Evander. I think they're mates or involved or something, and that's why he won't touch me, won't mark me, won't even look at me the way a husband should look at his wife." Evander's eyes flashed with anger and he sat up straighter in bed. "Don't repeat that nonsense," he growled. "Kaireen wouldn't—she's engaged to me. She agreed to the alliance between our packs. She wouldn't betray that by sleeping with her own brother, she's a sweet soul.." "You don't have to believe me," I scoffed. "But I'm going to bring you proof soon. I have someone watching them, reporting back to me about everything they do. And when I have concrete evidence, when I can prove what's happening, you're going to help me expose them. Just keep watch on her, Evander. Watch whatever she does, wh
Kaireen's Pov I had barely managed to hold my position here in this pack after being disowned, had fought tooth and nail to prove myself as a competent doctor, had poured my heart and soul into building this clinic from nothing, and she wanted to take it all away from me just because I was an inconvenience to her political plans. I could overlook a lot of things, could forgive the years of neglect and the way they had treated my wolf like it was worthless, could even understand why Caspian had disowned me when I refused to marry the alpha he had chosen, but this? This I was not going to overlook. I walked across the pack grounds toward the main house, my feet carrying me faster and faster until I was almost running, and by the time I reached Ronan's office I did not even think about knocking, just slammed the door open and barged inside. Ronan was sitting behind his massive oak d
Selene's Pov I was fuming, absolutely burning with rage, pacing back and forth in the guest room that had become mine after my husband, my brand new husband, had told me to get out of his bedroom on our wedding night when I had tried to give him what any mate should want, and every step I took across the plush carpet felt like I was trying to walk off the humiliation that was eating me alive from the inside out. There was something going on between Ronan and Kaireen, I knew it, could feel it in my gut the same way I could feel when a storm was coming, and I was done pretending I did not see it, done making excuses for why my husband looked at his adopted sister like she was the only person in the world who mattered. I stopped pacing and turned to face the maid standing nervously near the door, a young beta female named Iris who I had specifically requested be assigned to me when I moved into the pack house, because I needed someone lo







