All Chapters of Once Betrayed Now Untouchable : Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

Karina POV Through the half-open door of the Alpha's conference room, I watched my werewolf mate cheat on me. He was tangled up with some blonde she-wolf. His fingers threaded through her hair. His lips pressed to her neck in that same way he used to kiss me. I felt the sight in my gut—a tight, nauseating clench that had nothing to do with the physical agony of a broken mate bond, a pain my human body couldn't feel. Eight years, just like that, they were gone, shattered in a single moment. I was frozen there, my heels feeling like they'd been glued to the marble floor. A nasty little voice in my head started laughing, mocking the naive human girl who thought she could hold a werewolf's heart forever. My throat tightened and my stomach churned, but I shoved it all down. After a moment that stretched into an eternity, I finally managed to lift my hand and knock. "Come in," a deep, husky voice called—Edward's voice. My knuckles went white around the edges of the files I was ho

Karina POV Edward hauled me inside. As he turned, my eyes landed on the other person in the elevator. The man took up half the damn space—all broad shoulders and long legs, packed into a tailored black suit that probably cost more than my car. Even the way he stood, casual and relaxed, radiated a contained power that was nothing short of overwhelming. The small space immediately felt suffocating. As the doors began to close, I couldn't help but glance up at his face. It was the kind of aggressively handsome you'd see on a statue—all sharp jawline and aristocratic coldness. But his steel-gray eyes were pure predator, assessing me with a look of undisguised disdain. His lips were pursed slightly, and his whole face was a mask of elegant, detached aggression. I instinctively ducked my head, staring at the floor. My human senses might be weak compared to a wolf's, but even I could feel the raw power rolling off this stranger in waves. He wasn't just an alpha. He was something