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MALIA’S POV The cabin suddenly felt too small. Every instinct in my body screamed at me to run as Emil turned fully toward me, the firelight flickering across his face. As if finding me here had merely confirmed something he already knew. Meanwhile, I could barely stay standing. “You stayed hidden longer than I expected,” he said evenly. My chest tightened violently. Even now, he sounded calm. Not relieved. Not angry. Just… calculating. I took a slow step backward, fingers twitching toward my silver gun. “You’re insane,” I breathed out. For the first time, something faint shifted in his expression. His eyes flickered briefly gold before settling again. “You would really go to these lengths just to prove a point?” he asked coldly. A sharp laugh escaped me. “A point?” My voice cracked with disbelief. “You humiliated me in front of an entire hall full of people, Emil.” I took another step back. My hand steady on the gun. “You lied to me for years. Cheated on me. Got
MALIA’S POV “You’ll die the moment you cross the border.” The words echoed inside my head long after I left Flora standing in the forest. Die. No. I tightened my grip around the strap of my bag and forced my legs to keep moving through the trees. Flora had to be wrong. She spent too much time alone in the woods collecting herbs and speaking about spirits and visions. Maybe she was mixing reality with one of her strange dreams again. Because none of this made sense. I wasn’t sick anymore. If anything, I had felt stronger these past few years than I ever had in my entire life. So no. I refused to believe crossing some invisible border would suddenly kill me. The forest thickened around me as I pushed forward, branches scraping against my arms while the cold night air burned my lungs. Somewhere behind me, the distant sounds of the ceremony still echoed faintly through the mountains. Meanwhile, I was out here running for my life while another woman prepared to
MALIA’S POV As I stared into his glowing gold eyes, I realized I didn’t recognize the man standing in front of me anymore. This wasn’t the Emil I had crossed worlds for. This wasn’t the man I had spent two years grieving, searching for, destroying myself over. This was a stranger. A dangerous stranger who looked at me like I was nothing more than a problem he was trying to keep under control. “Who are you?” The words slipped out breathlessly before I could stop them. “What happened to you, Emil?” For a brief second, his hand tightened harder against my jaw. Then suddenly, he let go. No explanation. No denial. Nothing. He turned and walked out of the room without another word. The slam of the door echoed violently behind him, loud enough to rattle the walls, and somehow that silence afterward hurt even more. Because deep down, I already knew. The Emil I loved was gone. And maybe he had been gone for a very long time. But one thing that was clearer than ever n
MALIA’S POV.I sucked in a shaky breath and tried to slip past him, but Emil’s massive frame completely blocked the doorway, trapping me between him and the wall like there was nowhere in this pack house I could run without his permission.His gaze flicked briefly toward Blake before settling back on me. The moment he noticed the backpack hanging from my shoulder, his expression darkened slightly.“Where are you going?”“Move,” I gritted out, unable to force myself to meet his eyes.Those cheating eyes.“I asked you a question.”“And I told you to fucking move.”The image of that kiss flashed violently through my head again. Her hands on his face. His hand on her waist. The way they had fit together so naturally, like I had been the outsider all along.“Malia,” Emil said slowly, his voice colder now, “what exactly is going on here?”A bitter laugh nearly tore out of me.“What’s going on?” I repeated. “I’m done. This pathetic excuse of a marriage—this mating, whatever the hell you want
MALIA’S POV He was still kissing her. His hand rested against her ass while she let out a soft little moan into his mouth, like this was something they had done a hundred times before. The room suddenly felt too large, the voices too distant, the air too thick to breathe properly. For a second, I genuinely thought I might collapse right there in front of everyone. “He probably didn’t tell her,” someone whispered from somewhere within the crowd, the words quiet enough to seem discreet yet loud enough for me to hear every single syllable. My gaze slowly swept across the hall, and that was when the real horror settled in. I was the only one shocked. No one else looked confused. No one looked uncomfortable. The guests stood around watching calmly, as if this scene was completely normal to them. My chest tightened painfully when my eyes met Blake’s. Over the past two years, he had become more than just a beta. Whenever I needed help, Blake had always shown up. He had list
MALIA’S POVWithout another word, he rolled off the bed and stood.“Tell them we’ll be down shortly.”“Yes, Alpha.”The omega rushed out, the door clicking shut behind her.Silence dropped back into the room like a weight.I reached for my phone on the nightstand, frowning when I saw the time. Something about the early hour already felt off.I looked up at Emil.“Isn’t this a little early for guests?”He pulled a black shirt over his head, his movements were calm and controlled, almost too controlled.“They’re staying for the ceremony tonight.” My stomach tightened slightly.“So they’ll be here the entire day?”“There are things we need to go over first.”His tone changed there.I sat up a little straighter, studying him.“Important enough to drag everyone here while the sun is still out?”A brief flicker crossed his jaw before he finally looked at me. “Get dressed. They’re waiting.”“…Right.”I swung my legs off the bed and got ready in silence. Loose blue jeans, a fitted shirt, a li







