Lahat ng Kabanata ng Disappointment 66 Times Over: Kabanata 1 - Kabanata 9

I was sitting on the floor, staring listlessly into space, when my parents came over to comfort me. "Hilary, if you're tired, let's go home together, and you can stop enduring all this suffering," they said.This was their 66th time telling me to go home with them. I looked up despondently, meeting my parents' expectant gazes. My father was the Beta in the Burning Flame Pack. He'd wanted me to be his successor, but I didn't want that. I chose to be a lawyer instead.He'd wanted me to work in the court of law in the Burning Flame Pack's territory, but I followed Arnold, whom I had met in school, to the Black Moon Pack. He came from a family of Rogues and was strongly resentful of pure-breed and powerful families. I didn't want him to think that I was from a social class he detested. In the six years I'd been with him, I'd never told him about my true origins. I'd gone with him while keeping my family background a secret.As far as he was concerned, I was born in an ordinary f

While the moon was still bright, Erna shook her hips in front of Arnold, showing off the sexy dress she was wearing. She looped her arms around his neck, breathing in his ear, "I'm wearing some new panties today…"Before she could finish her sentence, Arnold pushed her away and shot up abruptly. "Don't touch me!"Erna froze, shocked by his fury. Arnold kept on calling my number, but nothing went through. He'd even tried to reach me through our mind-link, only to realize that we weren't linked because we'd never marked each other.He had no choice but to call me again and again, but I didn't respond even once. "No, this can't be. You're just mad at me. You're playing a trick on me." Arnold figured as long as he went home, he could find me, and everything could return to how it was before. As he shoved the door open and broke out in a run, he heard Erna call him, but he pretended he hadn't heard anything.He got into his car and sped back home as fast as he could, only to return

It was already dark when I returned to the Burning Flame Pack. My parents were waiting for me at the airport, excited to see me at the arrival gate.Mom surged forward joyously and pulled me into her arms. "You've finally thought it through, darling."I hugged her back. "Sorry for making you worry, Mom." Dad came over and patted me on the back with a big grin. "You've matured. I'm happy you're back."The house looked the same as when I'd left. After taking a break for a few days, I reported for work in a law firm here.I preferred to keep a low profile, so I didn't tell anyone that I was the Beta's daughter. I entered the law firm as an ordinary intern, starting a new beginning. After leading a new life and working in a new firm, it became much easier to come into contact with new things and people.From today onward, I'd live my life for myself alone. If I could become a famous lawyer at the Black Moon Pack, I could do so here. Soon, the three-month probation period was up,

I thought Arnold would leave after that day. I didn't know how he'd managed it, but he roped in Polly to help him, and all my colleagues were on his side. When I reached the church and entered the hall, it was decorated painstakingly for a marking ceremony. I was shocked by the sight. I'd come here for a trip, but my mood was gone after seeing Arnold. He'd replicated the venue of our first attempt at holding a marking ceremony and was smiling at me, wearing a suit I'd tailored for him. "Will you let me mark you, Hilary?" He got down on his knee in front of me, gazing at me earnestly."Mark her, mark her!" my colleagues chanted in the hope that I would say yes. Arnold's eyes shone. He looked a fraction more confident than before. That stoked the flames of fury in my heart. I glared at him, incensed. He'd been an intelligent man, but this was absolutely idiotic of him.Did he really think I'd say yes after he'd relentlessly pestered me for so long? Where did his confidenc