Semua Bab Two She-Wolves, One Choice: Sever the Bond: Bab 1 - Bab 8

His mockery tore through my eardrums like claws. My wolf howled low and long, her sorrow echoing through my bones.I felt her pain like it was my own — the moment she sensed Joanne’s death, something inside her shattered.Staring at Joanne's cooling in the blood-soaked earth, I rasped, "Shawn. This isn't a joke. Joanne... has gone."“Hmph.” A cold laugh echoed through the phone."Hah," his mental scoff vibrated in my skull. "Dead? Shall I order a moon funeral and howl until the Blood Moon rises?"“Jose, tell her not to waste her time. I won’t believe a word she says — and no, I’m not letting her back into the mindlink. Not because of some pathetic little trick like that!”“Although you've mated to my brother, you are nothing to me. These games between you and Joanne wouldn't fool a pup.”The midsummer wind cut like silver blades.I should've known.To Shawn, Joanne was just a tool to appease the Elders.Even as death closed in, she still held on — foolishly, desperately — to the hope

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

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

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