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Chapter 2

Author: Juno
"This was supposed to be your Mating Ceremony! Couldn't you have waited just one more day?" Bella’s voice was as sharp as a blade.

"Ivy, listen to me, this was all just a goddamn mistake!"

A mistake?

Was it a mistake that every time Silas and I fought and he stormed out, Bella’s phone would suddenly go dead?. Was it a mistake that when Silas and I visited her place, he seemed more familiar with every corner of her home than I was?. Even the dog Bella owned only ever acted friendly toward Silas.

Perhaps I should have seen it all along. I simply didn't want to believe that the two most important people in my life would conspire to put on such a cruel performance.

"Bella, you are absolutely shameless!"

Rage swallowed my reason, and my palm cracked hard across her face before I could think.

Silas rushed forward, shoving me back. "Ivy! Are you fucking losing it?!". He stood protectively in front of Bella, looking at me with a gaze full of unfamiliar disgust.

"We screwed up, okay? But do you have any idea how much Bella has sacrificed for you over the years?". "Every time we went out to eat, she only ordered the things you liked! She once spent an entire concert with you while she was practically dying of a high fever!". "She even hid our relationship for five whole years just to protect your goddamn pride!"

"Now, for once, can't you just let her have something? Can't you just let her have your man for once?"

Silas’s roar sent a deafening ring through my head.

We had been together for eight years; they had been together for five. Five years of them fucking right under my nose. While I was excitedly planning our future, they were tangled together in the very bed I slept in. Then they’d act like nothing happened, soaking up my love without a shred of guilt.

It was laughably pathetic.

My mother caught up just in time to hear everything. Her eyes widened, filled with utter disbelief. Not long ago, Silas had knelt before her, swearing he would cherish me for the rest of his life, promising she could trust him with my heart. To prove his devotion, he had transferred all his private assets into my name. Even the deed to our future home was in my name alone.

But now, his eyes held nothing but ice for me. His entire world was Bella.

"Bella! How could you do this to Ivy?!"

My mother was so overcome with fury that she collapsed on the spot, falling straight to the floor. Bella tried to step forward, but I snarled at her, sending her backing away.

"Get out!".

In the car on the way to the Pack Hospital, I gripped my mother’s cold hand, my entire body shaking. The tears finally broke through the dam.

"Mom... I don't want the ceremony anymore. Please, you just have to be okay."
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