ログインOn the drive from our Mating Ceremony, Carter’s voice cut the silence like a blade. "I fucked someone else." He tapped the passenger seat, grinning. "She was right there yesterday. We didn't even make it out of the car." The betrayal hit me like a physical blow, a sickening echo of the past. My throat locked; my chest throbbed with a hollow, crushing ache. "Now I finally get Jake," Carter drawled. "Chloe’s a goddamn firecracker in Heat. That scent? It leveled me." Jake was my ex. Chloe had been my best friend—until I caught them in bed five years ago. When my world collapsed then, Carter was the one who pulled me from the wreckage. Now, he had crawled into the same bed. I was drowning all over again.
もっと見るThe next day, I "remembered" that the man I loved craved his food scorching hot, laced with ghost peppers and chili. By that evening, the Alpha who couldn't handle a hint of spice was admitted to the Pack clinic with acute gastritis.Late that night, I stood over Carter’s hospital bed. His fever had spiked so high he’d slipped into unconsciousness. My face was a mask of indifference.It hit me then. I’d felt a flicker of satisfaction watching him suffer—sharp, brutal, and fleeting. But then, it was gone. I was empty where something vital should have been.I didn't understand it until Carter began to mumble in his delirium, his cracked lips straining to whisper my name. In that moment, the pain, the hatred, and the love all went flat.Carter had used another woman to punish me for my past, and it had worked—it destroyed me because I had actually loved him. But what was I doing now? I was using his love for me as leverage, running the exact same play he had.I sat by his bed until dawn.
Carter panicked, his hands trembling with a sudden, restless energy. He had no idea where the ring was.When we’d gone to pick it up, I’d clutched that velvet box against my chest as if it were a holy relic. Then he had shoved me out of the car, and the box had vanished into the mud along with me.I watched the realization fracture his expression. Then, I let the madness take over. I threw a fit, hurling everything within reach at him and screaming at the top of my lungs until the hospital staff stopped to stare."If you can lose the ring that was supposed to be our future, you never loved me!" I shrieked. "I want to break the Bond. I want to Reject you right now!"Carter was cornered. He dropped to both knees beside my hospital bed, his pride in tatters. "It was my fault. I’ll have a new one made—one I’ll guard with my life. Please, Selene, just trust me."I made him work for it. It took hours of him begging on his knees and signing over several of his most lucrative Pack holdings int
Carter had made the ultimate mistake. He went to her; he took her to bed.Afterward, he returned home, carefully bringing a blueberry tart—the sweet treat the Pack doctor said would help a body heal. He sat there and watched me eat it, smiling and completely oblivious. Within him, a bitter resentment festered. Why should he be the one to suffer while I sat there happy, blissfully unaware of the truth?So, on that storm-lashed night, Carter laid it all bare. He threw me out of the car and into the freezing mud.The SUV screeched to a halt, snapping Carter out of the memory. He had no time for remorse now. He kicked the door open, sprinted into the clinic, and carried me directly into the trauma bay. The betrayal, the petty revenge—Carter realized now that they were the most catastrophic choices of his life. Had he known the price of his vengeance would be losing me, he would have swallowed every drop of his pain in silence.The thought sent a fresh wave of agony through his chest as he
On the way to the clinic, Carter held me in a death grip.His body was a wall of tension as memories fractured in his mind. He remembered the first time he saw me—at the training grounds. He’d taken a brutal hit during a spar and was losing blood fast. I was the one who knelt in the dirt, pulling healing herbs from my kit and pressing them into the wound.Carter hadn’t known back then that I was already with Jake. He’d gotten a taste of my scent and decided right then that he was coming for me. By the time he learned the truth, Jake and I had already shared our first Mark.The night of my bonding ceremony with Jake, Carter spent the hours howling at the moon. He’d shifted and tracked our convoy from the shadows the entire way. When Jake finally carried me across the threshold, Carter couldn't bear to watch. He turned and vanished into the rain.That night, half-conscious and drowning in whiskey, he dreamed. In his sleep, he was the Alpha marking my neck. He was the one holding me. When






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