Semua Bab Boyfriend’s Regret After Tricking Me Into Leaving the Pack: Bab 1 - Bab 7

I stood outside the private room, listening to the smug laughter spilling through the door."Xander, you've got some nerve, stringing two women along like that. Aren't you scared Serena will find out and lose it on you?"Xander's wineglass paused in midair. He scoffed. "Once Vivienne's family helps me become Alpha, Serena will be begging me for a mating ceremony. Why would she be mad?""Women are all the same. As long as you've got money and power, they'll forgive you for anything, even the worst things a man can do.""Especially an orphan like Serena. Her parents are gone. She has nothing in this world but me. However angry she gets, one sweet apology and she'll come crawling right back."Another round of laughter. Through the crack in the door, I watched the smug look on his face, and my stomach heaved.He lifted his glass and took a slow sip. "Vivienne's different. She's a noble's daughter. I can't become Alpha without her help. That's why I had to talk Serena into leaving the pack,

That night, Xander came home reeking of alcohol. The second the door opened, he rushed over and locked me in a crushing hug."Serena, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have snapped at you. I bought you a present. Do you like it?"He pulled a small box from his pocket. Inside sat a delicate ring."As soon as I finish handing off my work, I'll quit and leave the pack with you."Vivienne's perfume clung to his clothes, and my stomach started to churn. Then I saw the bright lipstick mark on his collar, and I shoved him off me."I've already turned in my resignation, and all my withdrawal paperwork is done. My flight leaves first thing tomorrow, so I'm going to bed early. If there's nothing else, go back to your own room."Xander stayed silent for a long while. Then, suddenly, "Serena, the truth is, I..."His phone rang. I recognized the ringtone instantly. It was the one he had set just for Vivienne.He answered, and a conflicted look crossed his face right away. He shot me a guilty glance, muttered

I didn't remember how I left that office. By the time I came back to myself, I was sitting on the living room couch, and the wound on my head had already scabbed over.My father's words circled my skull like a death sentence.I was his illegitimate son. If he threw me out of the family, my life was finished.I tried to contact Serena, but she had vanished off the face of the earth. I made dozens of calls, and every single one came back not in service.And of course that was the moment Vivienne chose to come slinking over. She draped herself across me and put on her sweetest baby voice. "Stop frowning all the time. I bought something lacy. Why don't we..."She undid two buttons of my shirt.Once upon a time, I might have played along and had some fun with her. Now I was wound so tight I couldn't even stand the sight of her.I flung her hand away. "Not in the mood."She froze, clearly thrown, then leaned in again anyway.My patience snapped. I shoved her to the floor and snarled at her.

I walked out to the front gate, and the man standing there was almost beyond recognition.He looked no different from a beggar now. Matted hair, ragged clothes, and a tiny pup swaddled in his arms.His hair had grown long enough to cover half his face, hiding whatever expression he wore.I brought him to a conference room and sent my assistant out to buy a can of milk powder for the pup. The little thing was skin and bones, and he sucked down that hard-won meal like it might be snatched away.Only then did Xander finally speak, his voice rasping like dried-out bark.And I finally learned what these past few years had done to him.His father had thrown him out of the family and fired him in the same breath. With no job and no income, he was squeezed out at every turn in the pack. Even his house was seized to cover his debts, and with nowhere to live, he drifted from street to street.When his affair with Vivienne came to light, her noble family cast her out too.Two people with nowhere