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Chapter 4

Author: Bella
At that moment, Shawn burst into our den without warning.

His face was shadowed with a gloom darker than the blackest night.

His wolf eyes—no longer the calm blue I once knew—swirled with crimson fury… and a flicker of something far more fragile. Fear.

“Jose…” His voice cracked, barely human.

“Tell me… why?

Why did Joanne leap from the Moonlit Crag?”

Shawn's voice was a raw, grating rasp, and each syllable dragged from the depths of his throat, thick with barely restrained accusation.

So, he had found out the truth and finally, he'd been forced to believe that Joanne was really gone.

"Jose, tell me, why did Joanne leap from the Moonlit Crag? And… that passage token to the Northern Wolf Clans territory… what was that about?"

"She wanted to leave me?"

I let out a cold and scornful laugh, "It was more than that."

Shawn's brow furrowed violently and the mask of the perpetual smile was gone, replaced by a storm-cloud darkness.

But fear was the last thing I felt, and a twisted vindication su
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    The healer's costume blurred in my vision as Edwin called for him, and his voice was cracking."How long was I out?""Three days."His exhaustion was palpable with shadowed eyes and a hoarse voice.He gripped my hand like I'd clawed back from the Spirit Realm."The healers said stress triggered the collapse. Carmen's sentenced to death, Jose.""The letter. What was in it?""It's over now.""What was it?" My throat burned, but I demanded the truth.Edwin's gaze fell. Shame seemed to hang heavy in the air around him. "It's your... private photos. Carmen meant to blackmail you. But Joanne intercepted it… so she went instead.""It's finished, Jose."I closed my eyes, pulled my hand free, and turned away.Finished. Time to leave.I'd saved a vial of Joanne's ashes in a small bottle, and now I held the bottle against my chest.It was time to fulfill my promise: to see the mountains, rivers, the sea, and the snow peak from my dreams.The severance decree felt heavier this time. I handed it t

  • Two She-Wolves, One Choice: Sever the Bond   Chapter 7

    Edwin sighed softly. "Jose, Carmen and I are just friends. Why must you doubt us? All our problems stem from your suspicion."I smiled coldly. "So, if I had a he-wolf 'friend', that is someone I abandoned you for countless times, someone I was intimate with in public while neglecting you in the den, someone I let rumors swirl around, and I just said, 'We're only friends, and this is all in your head'... You'd magnanimously welcome him and accept him, right?"I leaned closer, "Oh, and I'd even bring him to the den and ask you to make bed for him."Edwin's expression froze and his brow furrowed.See? I hissed. "You can't accept it either. So why preach magnanimity to me?"Silence thickened in the car.After a long pause, Edwin murmured, "So… if I cut ties with Carmen, you'll retract the severance decree?"I offered a faint smile. Instantly, relief washed over his face.Then I shattered it. "Of course not. I still want to sever the mate bond. Because I despise you."Watching his face dark

  • Two She-Wolves, One Choice: Sever the Bond   Chapter 6

    Then, a video arrived.The video showed Edwin massaging Carmen's ankle with a tenderness I'd never seen directed at me.Each whimper of pain from her elicited visible concern and gentle reassurances from him.I watched it impassively. When it ended, I replied, "If you want him, convince him to sign it and unmark me. I won't stand in your way."Carmen had grown up alongside the Alpha Edwin and Beta Shawn. The pack was rife with bets about who she would eventually mate with. And odds were evenly split.Then, three years ago, Carmen abruptly left for another territory.It sent shockwaves through the Snowclaw Pack.It was around that time I was being pressured into an arranged mate bond.However, one day, my potential mate was Edwin. He proposed a mate bond.Edwin had a sterling reputation within our territory, and we'd met socially a few times before. So, I agreed.Only now am I beginning to understand. Back then, he was reeling from Carmen's departure, seeking solace in the ritual.And I

  • Two She-Wolves, One Choice: Sever the Bond   Chapter 5

    Edwin's eyes narrowed to slits, the air around him thickening with a suffocating Alpha pressure.Truth be told, Edwin was no better than Shawn.Our bonding was an alliance mating, a union forged for pack strength. A veneer of mutual respect marked the first two years. But these past six months… he'd crossed too many lines.He'd even threatened my father's pack.If I hadn't suddenly woken up to the truth and decided to sever the mate bond, Joanne might never have proposed escaping with me.Then… perhaps she wouldn't have leaped from the Moonlit Crag.A sharp, wolfsbane-thorn pain lanced through my heart. A chilling thought whispered, that was, did I cause Joanne's death?My face paled, then I wrenched my wrist free from his grasp. I said, "You should ask him what he did to Joanne.""Jose…""Edwin," I cut him off sharply. Whatever he was about to say, it wouldn't be good. I couldn't bear to hear Joanne's name on his lips again because it felt like a desecration."Edwin, let's sever the m

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    At that moment, Shawn burst into our den without warning.His face was shadowed with a gloom darker than the blackest night.His wolf eyes—no longer the calm blue I once knew—swirled with crimson fury… and a flicker of something far more fragile. Fear.“Jose…” His voice cracked, barely human.“Tell me… why?Why did Joanne leap from the Moonlit Crag?”Shawn's voice was a raw, grating rasp, and each syllable dragged from the depths of his throat, thick with barely restrained accusation.So, he had found out the truth and finally, he'd been forced to believe that Joanne was really gone."Jose, tell me, why did Joanne leap from the Moonlit Crag? And… that passage token to the Northern Wolf Clans territory… what was that about?""She wanted to leave me?"I let out a cold and scornful laugh, "It was more than that."Shawn's brow furrowed violently and the mask of the perpetual smile was gone, replaced by a storm-cloud darkness.But fear was the last thing I felt, and a twisted vindication su

  • Two She-Wolves, One Choice: Sever the Bond   Chapter 3

    Perhaps disappointment had already piled into a frigid mountain, so when I uttered the words "sever the mate bond," I was unnervingly, deathly calm.I waited silently for Edwin's verdict.He had no reason to refuse because Carmen was back. Severing the mate bond with me would free him to pursue his true Fated Mate without a second thought for the alliance between our packs or the gossip within and beyond.Just then, he got a call, that was from Carmen. Panic flashed in Edwin's deep, abyssal wolf eyes.He accepted it without hesitation, right in front of me.Then Carmen's voice came through."Edwin… I… I feel so cold. Could you take me to the Pack Healer? I called Shawn… but he… he didn't even respond…"Carmen's voice dripped with a vulnerable, wounded tone.The moment Carmen called, I saw it — that Alpha's instinctive tenderness flare in Edwin’s eyes.She had merely caught a chill, and he was beside himself.But when I had burned with fever, barely able to stand, begging him to take me

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