Chapter 22

"I heard that if you are mated with each other, he could feel your pain. Call him!"

I grin at him, "Too bad, Mr. Calderon. I have no mate."

His brow furrowed. "What do you mean you don't have a mate? How about the lycan wolf?"

I let out a sarcastic laugh that made his face more angry. "Oh, Lycan Steven? He was my mate. We severed our mate bond long ago."

"That is impossible!"

"It is possible. He rejected me in front of the Moon Goddess Temple!"

Hazel's father step forward and looks at me with dagger eyes. "Let us see, then."

My eyes bulged out after he nodded to one of his men who were holding a rifle.

Ah!

The cold ground beneath me felt unforgiving, as Hazel's father's weight pinned me down, an unyielding force that seemed to press the very breath from my lungs.

Bang!

The sharp crack of a gunshot shattered the tense silence, a searing pain erupting in my shoulder, spreading like wildfire through my veins.

I couldn't help but flinch, a gasp escaping my lips as my eyes, wide with s