Semua Bab I Cheated Back On My Mate: Now I'm In Serious Trouble!: Bab 1 - Bab 5

The night I was supposed to get engaged became the night my entire world fell apart.I wasn’t supposed to walk in on Ethan, my fated mate, the man who promised me forever, bent over my best friend in his apartment. I wasn’t supposed to hear their shameless moans, the sound of their skin colliding, or the desperate way he groaned her name instead of mine.For a moment, I couldn’t even breathe. My engagement dress slipped from my hand as if my body knew before my mind caught up. All those years of dreaming, of believing in the sacred bond the Moon Goddess herself had tied, went up in flames.“Aria! Wait....” Ethan called out to me in shock, on the brink of his release, I guessed. His voice was breathless, and he didn’t even pull out of her. He released everything inside her.That told me everything I needed to know about them.I turned, rage and humiliation burning through my chest, but the tears betrayed me anyway. I wasn’t strong in that moment. I was broken, gutted, ripped apart in a

My body recoiled at the sound of his voice. “Talk?” I spat, stepping down the porch stairs toward him. “Like the way you ‘talked’ with my best friend between your sheets?”Gasps rippled from the wolves around us, but I didn’t care. My anger tasted like iron on my tongue.Ethan flinched, but he didn’t look away. “This isn’t about that. Not now.”“Oh, yes it’s about that,” I snarled, closing the distance until I could feel the heat of him. My wolf clawed inside me, furious and wounded. “Don’t you dare act like what you did doesn’t matter. You ruined everything, Ethan. And you know I loved you so much.”His lips pressed into a grim line. “I ruined us, yes. But your father? That wasn’t me.”My stomach clenched. My mother’s sobs still rang in my ears. “Then who?”Ethan leaned closer, lowering his voice so only I could hear. “The Council. And they’re not after him. They’re after you. It's you they really want.”The ground seemed to tilt beneath me. My fists curled at my sides. “What the hel

I jerked my chin from his grip, heat and fury radiating from my chest. “Give me my phone, Damian.”“No.”The single word was a wall I slammed into. Wolves were everywhere.Somewhere behind them, my mother cried my name, but the sound drowned beneath boots and the snap of orders as a black-column of Gammas marched up the drive in lockstep.A silver-bannered standard rose above them. The Council’s crest.My blood went cold.“Aria Valery!” the lead Gamma barked in a high voice. “By order of the Lycan Council, you’re to be taken into custody under Article Forty-Seven, Bloodline Containment.”Damian didn’t turn his head, but power rolled off him in a silent shockwave. “You brought a containment writ into my city without notice.” Not a question. An accusation.The Gamma captain shifted his weight. “Chairman Storm. The order is valid and immediate. Step aside.”He didn’t move. “Show me the writ.”The captain hesitated, then lifted a sealed scroll. Damian’s hand rose, and the parchment slid t