soaked with tears, mascara streaked across my face like black rivers. I couldn't move. I couldn't think. All I

le, the Alpha everyone admired, standing there in the doorway. And Amelia. My

sobbed, the tears burning as they ra

she's not always right?!" I whispered brokenly, my v

from months ago, a memory fla

e. You... you don't j

rusted them, trusted Rowan, trusted my own heart. And n

rch. Rowan's cold, unreadable face as he said, "I already claimed my mate." Amelia's

he remote and t

was alive with it. "Alpha Rowan Enga

the Year End

ina Cries at Ch

phone, every feed, every gossip

g, black streaks marking my sorrow like a warpaint of humiliation. My body shook, my ches

y he had rejected me publicly, not even sp

... in front

al, turned into somethi

nst my temples and whis

the end. They will regret every single second of this.

luxurious room. My life, my wealth, my status they could

. Every angle I could use. Rowan, Amelia, even Mom Eleanor had played her part

o

lina," I whispered to the empty room. "And they are going to watch me r

him, the perfect Alpha couple. But the cameras didn't show the truth. They didn't

inside me

or them... there