My Fated Mate Chose My Sister, So I Left의 모든 챕터: 챕터 1 - 챕터 9

My fated mate, Elias, handed me a tissue, his tone light."Wipe your face. You're so fragile. You don't act like a werewolf at all. You can't even take a joke."My sister, Giulietta, walked over with her phone raised, aimed the camera at my face, and grinned."Mom, Dad, look at this. Liliana's face is a mess. Dirt and tears everywhere. She's filthy."My parents' disgusted voices came through the phone."Liliana, were you rolling around on the ground? How did you get that dirty?""A werewolf who cries this much. You should be ashamed of yourself."I silently wiped the dirt from my face with the tissue and did not argue.The bus was crowded. All I could do was curl up in a broken seat, unable to sleep a wink all night because of the noise.After I got off, I ran the whole way with my suitcase to make it to registration in time, falling more times than I could count, covered in dust and bruises.I heal poorly. Injuries like these are nothing to other werewolves, but they leave me in pain

I told my preferred advisor, Professor Adrian Cole, that I wanted to join his research group. After reviewing my resume, he was pleased with my qualifications.Just as it was about to be settled, a friend from high school sent me a message out of nowhere."Liliana, why am I seeing a video of you online?"I opened the link she sent and froze where I stood.The video stitched together clips of every time Giulietta had pranked me, from childhood onward.In every clip, I looked wretched, pathetic, and foolish.It already had a huge number of likes and comments. The first comment came from an account I recognized instantly by my mother's profile picture."This child has been slow and dull since she was little. Even her body is weaker than a normal werewolf's. This is the only time she's any fun."The newest comment was from Elias."My edit turned out pretty well, right? Thirty thousand likes already."Tears fell onto the screen and blurred my vision.My wolf-spirit was howling beyond my con

Elias had called sixteen times and sent fifty-three texts."Where did you go?"Why are all your things gone?"Liliana, why did you leave the bracelet I gave you in the entryway?"Please. Please don't shut me out."Twenty hours had passed since I left, and he hadn't rested for a moment, still trying to reach me.Holding my phone, I read through his messages one by one.His tone grew more and more urgent, until by the end there was nothing left but pleading."Liliana, at least tell me why you left. Can you please not ignore me?"I looked at his last message, my fingers tightening slightly around the phone.His question left me with no idea how to answer.Where was I supposed to start?With the university he had switched to without telling me, or with the twenty-four-hour bus ride?In the end I sent him one line."I already told you we were breaking up. You just didn't believe me. I meant it."After I sent it, I turned off my screen and took a car to meet my advisor.On the way I got a ca

After two weeks abroad, the fieldwork officially came to an end.Professor Reed said my fundamentals were solid and that I had done well during the fieldwork. He gave me a day off to explore the area.I filled the table with local specialties at a nearby restaurant, took a photo, and posted it. Elias and my mother both liked it immediately.Ever since I left, they had all been unusually attentive.It was as if overnight, everyone had started loving me again.After dinner, back at the hotel, Giulietta called.Her voice carried a deliberate, cloying sweetness over the phone."Aren't you over it yet, Liliana? Elias already bought you a new twin bed and the best mattress they had."I answered flatly."Use it yourselves. I'm not coming back."Giulietta spoke with the condescending magnanimity of someone bestowing a favour."Stop sulking, Liliana. If you come back now, I'll even let you share the master bedroom with Elias."She sounded so entitled that it struck me as almost funny."Giuliett

I rented a small, nicely finished place near campus, and finally had my own bed and my own room.The day after I moved, I organized all my data and reported Giulietta to the school for plagiarizing my paper.Her advisor thought highly of the paper and told her to refine it and submit it to a journal.But Giulietta lacked the ability to finish it, and without my complete dataset, she could not make any progress.That had already made her advisor suspicious. Once I filed my report, the truth was easy to uncover.Giulietta tried to argue her way out of it, but she couldn't even say where the data had come from. No one was going to believe her.In the end the school expelled her.The day after Giulietta was expelled, my mother came to campus looking for me.Seeing how much older her face looked and how her hair had turned almost completely white, I softened a little after all and agreed to hear her out.I expected her to plead for Giulietta. She didn't."Was the trip abroad hard on you? Di