Semua Bab Fated Mate Isn’t Me: Bab 1 - Bab 10

Everyone says Blood Moon Pack’s Alpha, Adrian, is a born flirt. He never dates the same woman twice.And yet, he crashed hard on me.The day after I fought with Adrian and dumped him, he tried to win me back.He didn’t care that he was an Alpha. He knelt outside my house for a full day and night, yet I ignored him.On the second day, he cooked my favorite food himself. I turned around and dumped it straight into the trash.On the third day, he spent a fortune to buy back an heirloom my late grandmother had left behind just to beg me to look back at him.After that, he even announced publicly that other than me, he would never love anyone else.We made a whole spectacle of it for a year. In the end, I was moved, and I agreed to reconcile.To celebrate, we threw a lively bonfire party in the main hall.We invited the elders of Blood Moon Pack to witness it and announced that we were about to complete the mate ceremony.I would become his Luna.Someone gossiped that with omega blood, I wa

The days that followed, I was forced to wake at four a.m., kneel on the ice-cold marble, and listen to the elder read vows in front of me while my wolf soul felt like it was being torn apart. The food was so bland it made me nauseous. At night I slept on a hard plank bed under a thin cotton blanket.On the third night, I spiked a fever. A dull ache tugged low in my belly until I curled into the corner of the bed.“Baby…” I stroked my stomach as tears slid soundlessly down my face. “Hold on a little longer…”I lay curled on the plank bed, my fever blurring my vision. The cramping in my lower belly came in waves, tighter and tighter. Cold sweat soaked through the thin robe.“Is anyone there…?” I dragged myself to the door and pounded on the thick wood with what little strength I had left. “Please… let me see the Pack Doctor…”Outside, the elder’s voice was calm, flat. “Luna, Adrian told me you’d try any method to avoid atonement.”“I’m not avoiding…” My throat was so raw I could barely f

I was folding the last coat I wore all the time into my suitcase when my bedroom door flew open with a violent bang. The sound was so loud it made my heart jerk in my chest.Adrian stormed in like a violent gust, his eyes bloodshot, a terrifying, murderous aura clinging to him.He crossed the room in a few strides and clamped a hand around my wrist. The grip was so tight it felt like he was about to crush bone.“Ann! I already told you Emma and I have nothing going on! She already lost a pup because of us, and she’s ended up like this. Why can’t you just let her go?!” he roared, each word forced out through his teeth.I stumbled from the force of his pull. A sharp pain shot through my wrist, and my face went instantly pale.“Adrian! Let go! You’re hurting me!” I fought to twist free, but it was like an ant trying to shake off a steel trap.My cry of pain only seemed to make him angrier. He glared down at me, disgust and exhaustion written plainly across his face.“Acting again? You’re

Adrian’s tightly knitted brows finally relaxed, like he’d just solved a massive problem. He reached for me, but I turned aside and avoided his hand.He didn’t care. His voice even softened rarely, briefly. “See? Wouldn’t it have been better if you’d done this from the start? Come on. Let’s go home.”Home.The word sounded like a joke.Stepping back into that familiar house felt like walking into another lifetime.In just a few days, Emma had been pampered back to health. Her cheeks were rosy. She wore soft pajamas, and everything about her glowed with the shine of being cherished.She sat on the sofa arranging flowers, elegant and composed.Then there was me—gaunt, sallow, carrying the stubborn smell of grease and cheap disinfectant from the restaurant no matter how hard I scrubbed. Standing next to her, we looked like we belonged to two different worlds.Emma saw me and froze. Then her eyes reddened fast, her lips trembling, as if she’d been wronged beyond words.Adrian immediately st

“Security footage.”My voice went sharp with panic I couldn’t suppress. “Pull every camera around the villa. Now.”I couldn’t stand this feeling, this loss of control.Ann was like a drop of water, silently evaporating from my world.The footage came quickly.In the dusk light, she wore plain clothes, nothing like the brands she usually wore.Alone, she walked out the front gate.She didn’t look back.Her steps seemed a little unsteady, but there was something terrifyingly firm in them.Then a black Rolls-Royce Phantom stopped in front of her without a sound. She opened the door and got in. The car slid into traffic and disappeared beyond the camera’s reach.The second I saw that car, the tension in my body loosened in a way that was almost weird.I even let out a laugh bitter, mocking.“Heh.”I put my phone away and leaned back into the leather seat, rubbing my brow.“So she’s pulling the White family routine again.”In my mind, Ann had always been a canary with clipped wings.No matt