บททั้งหมดของ After 37 Attempts to Bond, I Walked Away Pregnant: บทที่ 1 - บทที่ 8

Willow Ashford, the secretary of my mate, Alpha Garrett Blackwood, files our marking ceremony application as a mate bond dissolution for the 37th time.I finally can't hold back anymore and storm into Garrett's office, my voice trembling. "Is this what you call a top graduate from the Elite Werewolves Academy? She couldn't even figure out a simple marking ceremony application!"This is the 37th time. If you really don't have time to manage your employees, I can help you fire her."Garrett looks up from his documents, glances at the application records on my phone screen, and sighs. "I told you before, you can't have someone of Willow's caliber doing menial tasks for you. "If you have time to come here and lose your temper at me, you might as well go handle it yourself."But he doesn't know that I just discovered I'm with pup. The doctor warned me to protect the pup and avoid crowds, and the Werewolf Affairs Department is always packed and suffocating.I look at his cold profile, and s

I walked out of the meeting room and found the Elders waiting at the end of the hallway.Elder Roger saw me come out alone and glanced toward Garrett's office. The last glimmer of hope in his eyes died. "Raven, have you really decided?"I nodded firmly and handed him the document again. "I won't change my mind. Please approve it, Elder Roger."Elder Roger looked at my resolute expression and fell silent for a long time before finally accepting the application and stamping it."So be it. Since we can't make you stay, we won't force you. May the Moon Goddess always watch over you."After receiving the officially stamped document to leave the pack, I returned to my office to gather my last few belongings. Lynn Valdez, one of the few friends who knew my past, stood there with red-rimmed eyes."Raven, are you really leaving? Now I'll have to watch that Willow prancing around in front of me every day!"I followed her gaze, where I saw the Alpha's office door was half open. Garrett sto

Elder Roger was preparing to go home and rest when a frantic Garrett intercepted him at the council chamber door, breathlessly asking, "Did Raven really submit an application to leave the pack? Did you approve it?"Elder Roger took in Garrett's distraught appearance with a gaze full of disappointment. "You didn't know? She was very determined about it yesterday, said it had nothing to do with you, that it was her own decision. I thought you knew about it afterward."At these words, Garrett froze on the spot. His mind flashed to yesterday's image of me trying to speak but stopping myself.But every time, he had been interrupted by Willow and then distracted by her various issues. The entire day, he hadn't given me a single chance to speak with him alone properly.He gripped Elder Roger's shoulders tightly, asking with his last glimmer of hope, "Do you know where she went?"Elder Roger sighed and patted his hand consolingly."She's no longer a member of our pack. We have no right t

Garrett didn't say a word. He just stubbornly pressed the wooden box into my hands."Then keep it. This used to be your most treasured possession. I don't mean anything by it. I just want you to be happy."I looked at the wooden box forced into my hands, but I didn't open it. I just lightly traced the cold patterns on the lid.After a long moment, I spoke softly, my voice betraying no emotion. "Garrett, something that's been broken once will always have cracks, even after it's been fixed."Just like us. We can't go back to the way things were."With that, I gently placed the wooden box on a stone bench between us and didn't look at it again. Garrett's mouth opened slightly, but he couldn't find the words to say for a long time."I used to treasure it because I loved you, so I treasured everything about you. But now…" I paused and looked at him calmly. "That love is gone. Without love to sustain it, this means nothing to me anymore."As I spoke and watched as this man's eyes turn