Chapter 1

It was strange. Everything seemed to have returned to three years ago.

Just a moment ago, I had been tied to the cliff by Harry, my mate.

Somehow, I went back to Harry’s and my mate bond ceremony.

Teresa was standing before us. Her eyes were filled with tears. She looked at Harry and me with a mix of distress and anxiety.

I tried to recall the memories from before.

Three years ago, Harry and I started our mate bond.

Teresa was his first love, but I had thought it was all over.

I was wrong.

Teresa rushed into our ceremony to stop us.

Stephen, the Alpha of our pack, had specifically ordered servants to keep her out to prevent her from disrupting the ceremony.

It wasn’t until Harry and I were at the bottom of the cliff, just about to mark each other, that Teresa suddenly jumped down from the top of the cliff, crashing right between us.

I still remembered how Harry looked.

He was heartbroken.

Though he had insisted on finishing the ceremony with me, that one look told me he had always loved Teresa.

Becoming my mate was merely because my family could help his family’s business.

Later, he had hated Stephen and me for years.

“Please, Ivy…”

I was jolted back to reality.

Suddenly, Teresa knelt before me.

“Please,” she begged, “can you give Harry back to me? We’re the ones who belong together. Your family already has so many businesses and so much money. You have everything you could ever want. Harry is all I have. You can’t take him from me.”

I was about to speak when Harry rushed over.

He shoved me hard to the side.

I nearly fell, but Stephen caught me just in time.

Harry pulled Teresa into a hug.

“Are you okay, Teresa?” he asked her, then turned to me. “Ivy, what are you doing to Teresa? I already agreed to be your mate, why would you make Teresa kneel like this, in front of all the pack elders? Don’t you think that’s going too far?”

I watched as Teresa leaned into Harry’s arms.

She said, “Harry, you can’t marry her. I’m already carrying your pup. Our pup can’t grow up without a father-wolf.”

I saw a flash of joy flicker in Harry’s eyes, though he tried to hide it.

He bent down to wipe Teresa’s tears, then glanced at her belly.

“Teresa,” he said. “It’s okay, don’t worry. I’ll be the father-wolf to our pup. I promise.”

Harry looked around at the pack elders, then turned to Stephen.

“Alpha, I can’t go through with this mate bond ceremony today.”

He shifted his gaze to me.

“Ivy, we can’t be mates. I have someone more important now. Teresa needs my protection. Go tell the whole pack you’ve found another werewolf and don’t want to marry me. The mansion your parents prepared for us, and the luxury Maserati… We can split it fifty-fifty. The money deposited into our joint account… Unlike your family, my parents worked hard to save that money. Transfer half of it back to me, and we’ll be done.”

My parents paid for the whole ceremony.

They’ve also deposited $1 billion into our joint account.

Harry said his parents were having trouble with their business. They only put $10,000 into the account.

He wanted half of everything?

Before he could finish, my hands shifted into wolf claws, and I slashed his face hard.

Claw marks appeared on his skin. He was bleeding.

The music stopped instantly, and every werewolf in the pack turned to stare.

I took a handkerchief and wiped the blood from my claws.

“What are you doing, Ivy? Are you insane?”

“Harry, have you lost your mind?” I asked back. “You got another she-wolf pregnant before even becoming my mate. Do you think I’m an idiot? And now you want me to lie to everyone saying I cheated, so you can call off this ceremony? Do you really think I’m that easy to push around? Or did you just assume I would agree to anything you said?”

I stepped toward Teresa. She stared at me in fear.

Harry protected her into his arms.

“Don’t you hurt Teresa!”

His eyes were already turning red with anger.

I pointed at Harry.

“You’re a cheating werewolf. An irresponsible Beta. Why didn’t you say something earlier? You should remember how you even became a Beta in the first place.”

I tore off the bride’s cloak and threw it into Harry’s arms.

“Harry, even if you want to be my mate now, I won’t. I will never be your mate.”

Harry stared at me in shock.

I turned and walked away from the ceremony.