Semua Bab My Boyfriend Brought His Mistress, I Chose the Alpha King: Bab 1 - Bab 10

"You don't know who I am?"I was too worked up to really hear him. I kept my head down and typed."I'm sorry, but... would you go on a date with me tonight?"He looked at my red-rimmed eyes. He did not even ask why. He only said quietly, "All right."The door behind me flew open, and Steve followed me out.The smile was gone from his face. He seemed to realize this was not going the way he had expected."Lavinia! It was a joke, and you actually went and found someone else?"I gripped my phone and backed away a few steps.Steve came closer, glanced at the stranger beside me, and sneered."Just because I brought Caroline, you grabbed some random man and offered yourself to him? And he's wearing a mask. Is he too ugly to show his face?"I looked up at him, then down at my phone and typed, "You're the one who replaced me first. And you've already marked her, haven't you?"He read the screen and frowned. "Five years together and you can't take a joke? Besides, Caroline is my mate. Was I sup

Leander spoke to the maître d', and we were shown to a private room.He took my hand again and said quietly, "Don't hold back. Tell me what you need and I'll see to it."He pulled out my chair, then took his own seat.I steadied myself before I asked, "Leander... Steve is the Alpha of the Grassland pack. You, you... should be careful. Don't put yourself at risk just to help..."He only smiled. "It's fine. I find you interesting."He had already cut his steak into pieces before swapping plates with me."Lavinia," he said, looking at me, "do you lose your voice every time you get nervous?"My hand stilled on the glass. I nodded."Since you were a child?" he asked."It started t... ten years ago..." I set the glass down and explained. "Ten years ago, on the night of the full moon, my whole family was on the road. Rogues attacked us. My father was driving when he realized... someone had tampered with the car. He had been drugged with a heavy dose of wolfsbane. He died fighting, and my moth

Before long, other packs moved against Grassland. It had always been the hub that connected the major packs.Rogues and vampires alike had their eyes on it.Once that was done, I searched for Caroline's name.The search turned up a result: two years ago, when Grassland was attacked, she was already at Steve's side.Steve messaged me less than two hours after I sent him my father's defense plan for Grassland. "Problem solved. I have no idea who was kind enough to save me."I sat grinning at that line like an idiot for a long time.I had meant to wait for him to ask and then surprise him.He never asked, so I kept it as a small secret of my own.Now I pulled up the list of people Grassland had thanked after the attack. Caroline was on it.In the photos, Steve had his arm around her waist, and she was tucked against him.I contacted Grassland's Gamma. He thought for a long time before answering."Caroline saved this pack. Two years ago, when we were attacked, she brought us several plans

He drove to my building himself. Once we were on the road, I noticed something was off."Is this... the road to the Grassland pack...?""You don't want to go?" he said mildly. When I did not answer, he slowed and pulled over.I looked at him and asked, "Why are we stopping?""You don't want to go?" he asked more seriously this time.I froze in the passenger seat. "How did you know?""When you're nervous, you keep touching your index finger."He answered, then looked ahead again. "I'm curious about you, but that doesn't give me the right to disrespect you. So where would you like to go?"I thought about it. "I haven't really looked at the sea since it happened ten years ago."I regretted it as soon as the words were out. The last thing I wanted was to show anyone how easily I broke...Leander did not ask anything more. He just nodded.He turned the car toward the pack by the sea anyway.I was still trying to process what was happening. "I... didn't say I wanted to come today.""I know."

Leander had sent a string of messages."Spies have been found around the Alpha's castle. Several neighboring packs have been attacked."I sat up quickly and turned on my computer.I was in the Western Territory pack, and it was all over the public channels.At four in the morning, three watch posts nearby were hit at once. Details of every internal patrol route had also been leaked.What chilled me even more was the set of forged commands the attackers had left at the scene.One look, and my fingers went stiff.They used my encryption.To be exact, they used my alias from two years ago, when I rebuilt Grassland's defenses.Someone had used that alias at the scene on purpose to pin the attacks on me.My phone buzzed again. A friend Steve and I had in common sent me a link. "Lavinia, what's going on?"Steve stood in front of a camera, drawn and tired, holding printed chat logs."Lavinia and I met five years ago. In the beginning, it really was a game of truth or dare."A reporter pressed