lie'

voices,

ed shut, and when I finally managed to blink them open, everything was a

t came slamming right back into my ribs, and the memory of the

o have just fallen asleep and had

I felt sick, and that was when I noticed the w

ck inf

firmary? I couldn't

ly. I didn't care, I just needed to find Easton. I needed t

shed past the doors and stepped

stopped as the no

ng of a crowd and

ng silver banners. There were rows and rows of food, people dancing, and then-the ho

ng so wide they hurt to see the moon. It w

idnight when I got back? Hadn't it only been a few hours si

bing the sleeve of a pack member who wa

e celebrat

he smile dropped off their mouth as they looked at me with this awful, stinging dis

with pity and disgust. They shook their head, looking me up and down

le on the dirt. My mind was reeling, spinn

wisted joke everyone was pl

and started running straight into the thick crowd. I d

amed, my voice c

ee him through t

tarted to settle, parting right down the middle. I stopped running, m

e he

lding his hand, was a woman. She was beautiful, but my eyes dropped down to

seen on him in the two whole years we had been together. It completely broke som

nd the lights didn't fade, and the tears just kept

ard, his voice booming over the silent crowd. "Do you, E

d. His voice was s

ing inside my mind just snapped. I c

ungs, the sound tearing from my throat and echoi

to hoist it up so I wouldn't trip over my own feet. The crowd parted for me like I was a g

in front of hi

e," he

eeth would shatter. But then the sadness just turned into anger and I screamed a

is just a fucking j

d at the hundreds of pack members watching us. He looked an

ying to sound authoritative. "Go back to the infirma

e pain in my chest was so heavy I could barely stand. "Is that why you wanted me to

even Brenda let out a tiny gasp, her

, the scent that used to make me feel safe but now just made me sick. I reached out and gr

ow could you do this

soften or

t, using enough force to shove me backward as I stumbled, my boots losing tract

me, his eyes cold

e?" he sneered, his voice cutting through the quiet air so everyone cou

an, reject you, Rosalie, as my mate," he said, his voice ec

Brenda as my

and broken, my knees giving out entirely as I watched him turn away from me as he wrapped his arms

e, his mouth twitching into a cruel line. "It was ne

ns, freezing me from the inside out. I couldn't mo

just staring at the dirt. Tonig

d onto that one tiny shred of hope, thinking that if she just woke up right now, I could sh

y darkness of my mind, begging for my wolf, praying for even

met with..

shattered for a second time, the p

y was w

erupted into wild cheers for the new Alpha and Luna, the sound turn

here!" som

ed plastic cup hit my shoulder, followed b

topped them,

as they brutally dragged me off the altar like I was a piece