Chapter 2

Eero's perspective

Clenching my fist, I let my anger in charge. 

In the heat of the moment when I was fuming mad at them, my wolf howled in sharp pain, sending a message to everyone in the pack about what just happened.

"You mind linked everyone? Are you fucking insane?!" Cohen didn't expect I would ever fight back.

"Why not? You had it coming! You fucking deserve it!!" I shouted back while standing up from the floor.

"I think this is the perfect timing you break up with that piece of worthless she-wolf, baby." I was caught off-guard by the mean words that escaped from my sister's lips. 

I thought she was crying as she looked down at the comforter, her shoulders shaking. It turned out that she was laughing!

"Serra, please. Leave this to me, baby." Cohen put on a gentle smile on his face when turning to my bitchy sister.

"Why? Did I say something wrong? You said you wanted to break up with her because she's like a dumbass. Why don't you just tell her that now?" Serra shouted at Cohen, looking disappointed.

How could she be mad when I was the victim here? 

I stared at her back in shock when she turned to me, cutting the distance between the two of us. 

"This man right here is too indecisive to break up with you. But you'll dump him now that you caught us making out here, right?"

"Excuse me? Are you asking me to break up with my mate?" I pointed at myself. "Who the hell do you think you are? Have some sense! I'm supposed to be the one asking you to break up with my mate!" 

I shifted my eyes from my shameless sister to my cheating mate. 

"You! I need you to fucking choose. Remember I AM YOUR MATE! Think about it!" I tried to keep my voice steady despite the sharp pain in my chest. "I'll just pretend that nothing happened if you choose me over her."

The pain was beating on my chest endlessly. 

Cohen was not just a boyfriend of mine. He was my mate. I needed to fight for him! As for Serra, I knew her well. She was just trying to get on skin by tempting Cohen. She was always like this.

Silence loomed at us until Serra suddenly broke it with laughter. 

"See? Stop trying, Eero. You're each other's mates, but I am the one that he is madly in love with. If only you'd kept your eyes wide open, you would have noticed that Cohen fell out of love with you a long time ago." 

This was my cue to leave. But still, I couldn't. I still had this last drop of hope that Cohen would change his mind and come to me instead. So I fixated my gaze on Cohen, waiting for him to speak up. 

"I'm going to propose to Serra. We're getting married within this year." 

And that last drop of hope that I was holding onto was gone after I heard those words from my long-time boyfriend. 

Ten years. We were in a relationship for ten fucking years, and he threw it all behind because of my sister. 

"D-Did you get her pregnant?" 

"Did you get her pregnant?" Serra mimicked me, and then burst into a louder laugh. 

"What do you think of me? Of course not! Face it, Eero. We're serious about this. What we have is not something like an illicit affair that you could simply bury in the past. If there is something that Cohen needs to bury in the past, it's having you as his mate!" 

Just as I was confronting Cohen and Serra, my arm got pulled by my mother Luna Vera unexpectedly. She held me so tight that I flinched in pain.

"Is it you?! Did you just mindlink everyone to taint your sister's reputation? Are you out of mind?!!"

I swallowed a lump in my throat and shot a glance at Serra and Cohen. 

Serra was now wrapped in a blanket, while Cohen was still topless. 

"Mom?! Are you blaming me just because I told everyone that my sister Serra seduced my mate?" I tore my eyes off her, and then turned to my father Alpha Ameo for support, hoping that he would take my side this time.

But he didn't. All I could see in his eyes was indifference and rage. He was angry at me for hurting his precious Serra. 

As all of them stared at me as if I was the wrong party, I felt another fit of striking pain in my chest, my wolf crying for help.

I knew it was Cohen trying to reject me. The bond between the two of us was fading. He was trying to sever our bond completely. 

But there must be something wrong, because although the bond between us was fading, it was still there. 

"You fucking son of a bitch! You think you can get rid of me this easily, huh? I'll kill you, you fucking cheater!"