From Wolfless Omega To The Rival Alpha's Queen

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for Blackwood Group's expansion, and unofficially, three years since

nown each other f

rt seem like a joke. I

her degree, he first forgot to go with me to try on wedding dresses. Then, with

ficed for this company. That p

lec's office, wanting to find out

lla lattes w

r him. His favorite. Extra vanilla syrup, just how he liked i

ver of light and sound escaped into the hallway. I slowed my steps,

zed them

his Beta,

thing in their tone held me there, a cold knot tightening in my s

remony finalized?" Ethan's voice was low

ient sound. A

han. A show for the e

which had been steady, tightened. The paper cups groaned under th

hitched. A

pping even lower, "Kay has been by your

f being my Luna? She's a wolfless Omega, Ethan. She should be grateful I even loo

ntly I thought I might be sick. Wolfless. He'd never said it to my face, not with that kind of venom. It was the pack's dirt

egy was brilliant," Ethan argued,

coldly. "It was a good way for her to contri

or a dizzying moment, all I could see were the endless nights I'd spent poring over financial models, the we

e is back..." Ethan'

mega from a European noble line, just returned to the States. I'd seen pictur

all pretense. It was a confession. "She is the Luna this

sudden, roaring silence of my mind

tool. A seven-yea

eject Kay after the merger

through with the ceremony. It will appease the elders and secure the final votes. Once everything is s

skin, but the pain was distant. The real pain was a cold, sharp thing twisting in my chest, making it hard to breath

ct? The Phoeni

al cruelty of it knocking me back a step. "A we

from the ground up. The one I was sup

I had given up a full scholarship to an Ivy League school for him. I had believed his promise

All

s weekend." Alec continued, his voice shif

y. The one I'd told him about for months, t

r. The perfect, fragile illusion I had built my entire adul

air inside the office. Foo

conscious thought, only a primal instinct for survival. I

linder, was three feet away. In one fluid, decisive motion, I tipped the tray. The two vanilla

p spilled on the

e door open. I slipped into the adjacent doorway, p

echoing in the concrete stairwell,

nally broke

ther. I slid down the wall until I was sitting on the gritty steps, my professional suit jacket bunching

wing my wallpaper: a smiling photo of Alec and me from last year's pack gala. His arm was a

began to burn through the shock. It started in my g

my settings and changed the wallpaper to the phone's defaul

ed a new, encrypted file. I ti

cation flashed across the top

Confirmation for Collin

y digital signature t

It was a harsh, ugly soun

ail opened. At the bottom were tw

eat. Then, I pressed "Reject." A confirmation box pop

d "Rejec

od measure, I de

ance. I made her a promise. I would not be the weak, crying Omega Alec e

k of ice in my chest. I stood up, brushing the dust from my skirt. I straig

nto the plush, silent hallway. The air was no longer

esk. I didn't go to the

he elevator bank and p

m the mirrored wall: pale, eyes a little too wide, but my jaw was set. The woman in the mirro

I wasn't just going to leave. I was going to erase myself from his life

I pushed through the revolving doors, a blast of reality that fel

walked to the curb, raise

ving the driver my address, I kn

ft my formal notic

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