Chapter 2

Rin’s eyes welled up with tears again.

“Luna, are you doubting me? Do you really think I tried to seduce the professor? If I didn’t allow him to apply the medicine, the silver poison would have eaten away at my wolf spirit. He had no choice! How could you… how could you think that of us?”

The truth stabbed me like a knife. Trevor had already seen and already touched every inch of her body.

My limbs went numb and stiff. I did not know how to react, only that when I finally spoke, even my voice was breaking.

“It’s fine. Trevor’s more practiced at applying the medicine. I’ll call your professor for you.”

Rin shook her head, crying harder.

“Luna, please, don’t say that. I was wrong. If my presence here upsets you, then I’ll leave. I’ll leave right now…”

She tried to stand up in a rush, but her foot slipped and she crashed hard onto the floor.

Before I could move, the door burst open with a bang.

Trevor stormed in, shoving me aside and shielding Rin with his body. His eyes blazed with fury.

“Lara, are you trying to kill her? What will it take to satisfy you?!”

Rin curled into his arms, sobbing so hard she could barely breathe.

“Professor, please don’t misunderstand! I fell on my own! It wasn’t Luna’s fault!”

However, as she spoke, she suddenly broke into violent sobs, struggling against him.

“What did I do wrong? What did I say that made her hate me? Am I really so stupid, so useless, that even fate itself has cursed me with the torment of a rogue wolf’s life? Maybe I deserve it…”

Her cries made Trevor’s expression grow darker. His hand clenched into a fist.

He was not one to anger easily, but the look he casted towards me was sharp enough to cut.

“Lara, look at her. Look at what your jealousy has done to her. Can’t you feel even a shred of remorse?! I don’t understand. How did your heart become so cruel?”

I stood frozen, a smile uglier than my tears on my face. “Is that it? That I’ve changed, or is it you?”

Trevor did not even spare me a glance. He carried Rin in his arms and left.

“Reflect on yourself. Rin is a genius, not some toy for you to torment.”

He condemned me and never came back that night.

I sat in a daze on the bed, opening up the black market page I had kept hidden for months — the one selling the scroll to sever a mate bond painlessly.

Beside me, my phone kept lighting up with messages from my best friend.

[Lara, don’t overthink this. That Omega wolf wasn’t your fault. The rogue wolves were to blame. Your Alpha knows that. He just wants to help his student.]

[You two are fated mates. After all these years, don’t you know what kind of man he is?]

Did I know Trevor?

I had no idea.

The man who used to keep his distance from every other female wolf, who made me feel safe, had removed his name from our mate registry without my consent, only to register himself with Rin.

All it took were a few malicious rumors in the pack, and he had decided that I had plotted to harm her.

I opened an anonymous message again. It contained the chat logs between him and Rin.

[Rin: Professor, I feel embarrassed saying this, but whenever I lose control of my inner wolf, your presence nearby always calms me down.]

[Trevor: Don’t worry. I’ll stay by your side.]

Each line of their messages went far beyond what should exist between professor and student, leaving my heart in tatters.

I lost control and hurled my phone away. I threw out our wedding photo and the bond ring he once kissed with such devotion.

I threw away so many things filled with our memories.

In the end, I sat alone in the wreckage, laughing and crying.

Perhaps I really was a sinner. Perhaps I did ruin a genius like Rin.

Would it not have been better if I had just let them be together from the start?

Tears blurred my eyes until dawn. Finally, I placed the order for the magic scroll.

When I left the room, I walked past the guest bedroom. Light slipped out through the crack in the door. On impulse, I glanced inside.

The lamp was still on. Trevor lay on the floor, perfectly still.

However, his hand rested on the bed, where Rin held it tightly in hers.

Their hands were clasped so firmly.

The Alpha’s soothing scent wrapped so tightly around Rin.

It looked like nothing had happened, and yet, like everything had.

I stood in the doorway, watching, until tears turned into a bitter smile.

It was time for me to go.

I turned and left the place I had once called home, heading straight to the Wolf Pack headquarters to formally resign as Luna.

By the time I was done, it was nearly noon. As I passed the Alpha’s office, I heard something I had not heard in a long time. It was Trevor’s relaxed laughter.

I looked through the open doorway. He was holding a thick book, explaining something to Rin with seemingly infinite patience.

She sat beside him, gazing at him with worship in her eyes, leaning in so close her arm nearly touched his.

That was the moment when every trace of doubt and heartache inside me froze into unshakable resolve.

I pushed the door open. The laughter stopped instantly.

I handed Trevor the scroll calmly and said, “Sign it.”

His gaze fell on the scroll I handed him, and the bold words “Dissolution of Mate Bond” seared into him like a brand. His pupils contracted sharply.