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01:46He went to Amelia's den every single night to have dinner with her, and I would sit alone at our
01:51cold, empty dining table, reheating the untouched dishes again and again.
01:58For Amelia's birthday, he bid on a rare moonstone pendant worth a fortune.
02:03He personally clasped it around Amelia's neck.
02:06For our bonding anniversary, I gave him a watch I'd saved up for months to afford.
02:09He didn't even glance at it before tossing it straight into the trash.
02:12Something like this, how could I possibly wear it? It's beneath the status of a wolf king.
02:20It wasn't just on birthday that Marcus treated us differently.
02:24Even when I was struggling through a difficult labor, he disregarded my life and safety, choosing only to stand guard
02:29outside Amelia's delivery room.
02:31Five years of a mate bond, and I had never been more wrong about anything in my life.
02:35On the other end of the line, my mother's voice was raw with the heartache she could no longer hide.
02:39So you chose the Ralfa, is that any reason to cry?
02:41Your father and I will be there as soon as we can.
02:43Once the pup is delivered safely, we're all going home together.
02:47The moment I hung up, the front door swung open.
02:51Marcus returned from outside.
02:53In the past, I would have already been at the door to greet him.
02:56Asking if his pack duties had been tiring, my omega instinct desperately seeking his alpha scent.
03:01But this time, I simply sat on the couch in silence.
03:04Marcus stared down at his phone, a smile playing at the corner of his lips.
03:07I'll come see you soon, don't be impatient.
03:12His voice was incredibly gentle, and he didn't notice a thing out of the ordinary about me.
03:18Didn't even scent the distress breeding from my pheromones.
03:22I pulled my eyes away from him and looked up-up at our bonding portrait hanging on the wall.
03:25Even in that frozen, supposedly perfect moment, his expression was stern and rigid.
03:29So much so that the entire photograph seemed to radiate a chill.
03:32It struck me then, with sudden and painful clarity.
03:34Marcus had never once, in all our years of bonding, expressed any kind of affection towards me.
03:40His wolf had never truly recognized me as his mate.
03:43I had always told myself that he just wasn't good at showing his feelings.
03:47That was what I believed, right up until six months ago.
03:51It wasn't until Marcus began caring for Amelia that I realized this cold, unfeeling alpha was capable of gentle affection
03:59for someone else as well.
04:03He noticed I hadn't said a single word.
04:05The warmth in his eyes was completely gone when he looked at me.
04:09Replaced by that near-imperative alpha tone he always used with me.
04:13Why are all the lights off? Is dinner ready?
04:17Even though I had easing made up mind to leave, the voice in his coldness still mated my hand's jeans
04:22involuntarily.
04:24I drew a deep breath and forced my voice to stay steady.
04:27You've been eating at Amelia's den every night. I didn't bother making dinner.
04:30Amelia's almost at her due date. How could I ask her to cook for me?
04:33Marcus' brow fremoed with a flicker of irritation.
04:35Forget it. I'll grab something outside.
04:37I've got pack affairs to handle tonight so I won't be back.
04:39Then, without missing a beat, he shifted topics.
04:41Amelia's health has always been fragile.
04:44A postpartum nurse might not be able to care for her properly.
04:47I don't feel comfortable with her being alone, so I'm having her move into our den until she delivers.
04:55Take good care of her these next few days.
04:58She loves shrimp. Make sure you prepare some for her every day.
05:02The bitter ache in my chest sharpened.
05:04He could rattle off Amelia's favorite food without a second thought.
05:08But he had completely forgotten that I was deathly allergic to shrimp.
05:11I couldn't even touch it.
05:13I was carrying his pup inside me.
05:15An alpha heir.
05:17Yet he had never once mentioned hiring anyone to help take care of me.
05:20Instead, he was ordering me to wait on another she-wolf.
05:24Completely oblivious to the fact that I, too, was in the final stretch of my own pregnancy.
05:28I couldn't hold back any longer.
05:30Marcus, I'm carrying your pup!
05:32Marcus blinked, then glanced down toward my belly as though the fact had only just occurred to him.
05:36Oh, right. You're pregnant, too.
05:38A brief flicker of embarrassment crossed his face.
05:41Then he composed himself into his usual dispassional alpha expression.
05:44You must be, what, five or six months along by now?
05:46The pup's stable at that stage.
05:47Cooking a few meals won't hurt you.
05:48Once Amelia has her pup, she's delicate and weak, not as strong as you.
05:51She needs you to help her look after the cub.
05:52You can rest once you've given birth.
05:56Listening to the words coming out of his mouth, I suddenly felt the overwhelming urge to laugh.
06:01I had never expected him to treat me the way he treated Amelia.
06:05But even I hadn't imagined he wouldn't even know how many months pregnant I was.
06:08I was carrying his own bloodline, the heir to the Cain Dominion.
06:12And he had never once truly held it in his heart.
06:15Forget it.
06:17I let out a hollow, self-mocking laugh.
06:20Marcus, however, took it as me refusing to help.
06:22His voice hardened with displeasure.
06:25Don't tell me you're planning on making Amelia, a new mother in recovery, turn around and take care of you?
06:31She'll barely have the strength to look after her own pup, let alone wait on you.
06:34The thing my brother worried about most, right before he died in that battle, was Amelia and the pup.
06:39I have to make sure they're taken care of.
06:40As my bonded mate, your heart and your thoughts should be aligned with mine.
06:44Before I could utter another word, his phone buzzed again.
06:48Marcus had exhausted what little patience he'd had for me.
06:51He grabbed his jacket and rushed out the door.
06:57The door slammed shut behind him, and silence reclaimed the den.
07:04I don't know how much time passed before the den's lock chimed.
07:07Amelia walked in, one hand braced against her lower back.
07:11Behind her, hauling her luggage, was Marcus's most trusted bea subordinate.
07:15The one Marcus valued above all others in the pack.
07:17All those times in the past when I'd asked that beta for the smallest favor.
07:20Marcus had accused me of abusing his position as Alpha's mate.
07:23But now he dispatched his most valued pack members entirely to Amelia's side.
07:27Flanked by his personal staff, Amelia swept into the den and surveyed the lavish surroundings.
07:31Then she turned to me with a smile.
07:33Sophie, I'm so sorry to impose on you like this over the coming days.
07:37The beta subordinate hovered close behind her, eyeing me with undisguised warriness.
07:43I lowered my gaze and kept my voice even.
07:45It's fine, come in.
07:46Then I turned and walked into the kitchen.
07:48With my heavy belly leading the way, I made a bowl of pasta for Amelia.
07:52By the time I came back out, she was directing the pack staff as they reapprained the furniture.
08:00Sophie, Marcus insisted they swap out all the furniture for pieces without sharp corners.
08:04He even made sure there were no chemical odors.
08:06He said he couldn't risk anything making me uncomfortable.
08:08She glanced down at my belly.
08:10Come to think of it, you're carrying too.
08:13You really should be taking these same precautions.
08:15I answered flatly.
08:16Mmm.
08:17She pivoted seamlessly, her voice taking on a coy, almost chatting sweetness.
08:22He really is something, isn't he?
08:24Keeping something as big as your pregnancy from me all this time.
08:27He didn't even give me a chance to get you a gift.
08:31Her voice was soft as silk, yet every word cut sharper than any claw, drawing blood no one could see.
08:39But she carried on as though my feelings were completely invisible to her.
08:44Sophie, thank you for being so tolerant and understanding these past six months.
08:48After Marcus's brother fell in battle, it felt like the sky had come crashing down on top of me.
08:52There were so many nights I thought about taking the pup and just going to join him in the afterlife.
08:56Marcus was terrified I might do something drastic.
09:01He lay on the floor beside my bed every single night.
09:05The Wolf King himself, sleeping on cold stone for me.
09:08He didn't dare leave me alone for even a moment.
09:11My morning sickness was brutal.
09:13Marcus made me warm soup by hand.
09:14He fed me my medicine himself.
09:16He tracked down every heel across the territory to try and ease my symptoms.
09:20If it weren't for him, I honestly don't know how I would have survived.
09:25She smiled.
09:27Even when his brother was still alive, he never took care of me the way Marcus has.
09:30I bit down so hard on my lip that I tasted copper, barely managing to hold my composure.
09:35Amelia and I had been carrying it almost exactly the same time.
09:38When her morning sickness was at its worst, I was suffering just as miserably.
09:42Utterly debilitated by my own symptoms.
09:45Back then, I couldn't keep anything down.
09:47In less than two weeks, I lost over 20 pounds.
09:50Physically wrecked and emotionally shattered, I missed Marcus with every fiber of my beaving.
09:55But he was too busy taking care of another she-wolf.
09:59So busy, he couldn't spare even a single phone call for me.
10:05All I could do was curl up alone in our bed, clutching his shirt to my chest.
10:10Desperate for any trace of his scent, staring wide-eyed through one endless lonely night after another.
10:15He's always been very responsible.
10:18My voice came out harny.
10:20Ever since I got pregnant, Marcus has come to every single one of my prenatal appointments.
10:25All the healers and nurses assumed he was my mate.
10:28I had to correct them so many times I lost count.
10:30Not prenatal appointments.
10:32Every time I had asked Marcus to come with me to one of mine, he'd brushed me off.
10:37He even called me fragile and spoiled, said that an omega about to become a mother should have more grit.
10:43Then one day, I happened to run into them at that very healer's facility.
10:47There he was, accompanying Amelia to her prenatal appointment.
10:51His face lit up with a tenderness I had never once seen directed at me.
10:55His voice was soft and gentle as he pested the healer with question after question about her health.
11:00Even the healer couldn't help but tease them.
11:02In all my years, I don't think I've ever seen an alpha drolled on his mate this much.
11:05You're a very fortunate she-wolf.
11:11A flicker of awkwardness passed between Amelia and Marcus.
11:15But neither of them corrected the healer.
11:18I stood frozen outside the room door.
11:21My entire body going cold.
11:23The edges of my vision blurring as I nearly collapsed.
11:28But in the end, I said nothing.
11:30I dragged my nearly unconscious body back to the den alone.
11:34That night, I ran a fever of 104 degrees.
11:38Drifting in and out of delirium, I called Marcus ten times through the pack mind link.
11:43He didn't answer once.
11:45The sharp ring of a phone shattered the memory.
11:47The caller ID read, Marcus.
11:50How is Amelia?
11:51Are you taking good care of her?
11:52He was calling my phone, but every question was about her.
11:56I lowered my eyes and kept my voice completely level.
11:59She's fine.
12:00Marcus's tone finally relaxed a degree.
12:03Amelia is due any day now.
12:04It could happen overnight at any moment.
12:06I'm dealing with a territorial dispute at the border and can't make it back tonight.
12:10I need you to sleep on the floor in her room so someone's there if she needs help in the
12:13middle of the night.
12:17Perhaps even he realized how cold his words sounded because his voice softened, just barely.
12:22I know this is hard on you.
12:23Once Amelia's finished with her recovery, I'll come home and be with you for your delivery.
12:27The very last flicker of hope in my heart finally, quietly, went dark.
12:31All right.
12:32Maybe the emotional upheaval was too much.
12:36That very night, my water broke without warning.
12:39I collapsed to the floor, curled into myself, trembling with fear.
12:43My omega pheromones spiked wildly with panic and pain.
12:46My cries of pain woked Amelia.
12:48She startled, instantly moving to climb out of bed, but her body was too heavy and unhandable.
12:52She lost her footing.
12:52Her foot came down hard on my stomach.
12:55She toppled over with a cry.
12:58By then, the pain had nearly stripped me of consciousness.
13:02I couldn't process whether Amelia's misstep had been an accident or something else.
13:09With the last shred of strength I had, I grabbed my phone and dialed Marcus.
13:14I also tried the pack mind link.
13:16Once.
13:17Twice.
13:18Three times.
13:20No answer.
13:21At the same moment, Amelia had gotten her hands on her own phone.
13:25She dialed, and the call connected almost instantly.
13:29Amelia?
13:29What's wrong?
13:33The moment Marcus's worried voice poured through the speaker, Amelia burst into tears.
13:38Marcus, I fell.
13:39It hurts so much.
13:40Marcus's voice instantly pitched into panic.
13:42How could Sophie let this happen?
13:44How could she let you fall?
13:46Amelia, don't be scared.
13:47I'm coming home right now.
13:49Less than ten minutes later, the front door was thrown open.
13:52Marcus stormed inside, his alpha aura flooding the den.
13:56Seeing both Amelia and me collapsed on the floor, his expression darkened sharply.
14:02Sophie, you...
14:03He never finished.
14:05Amelia's cries of pain cut him off.
14:07Marcus, it hurts so much.
14:09Please, help me.
14:11Marcus rushed over and scooped Amelia into his arms, already pivoting instinctively toward
14:17the door.
14:19Perhaps he remembered, in that split second, that I was still lying on the floor.
14:24His stride hit it, and his voice came out stiff and wooden.
14:28Amelia's about to give birth.
14:29It's an emergency.
14:30I have to get her to the healer's facility first.
14:32I've called the pack medics.
14:33They'll be here soon.
14:34Just hold on and wait at the den for a little while.
14:36He looked like he wanted to say more, but Amelia moaned again in his arms.
14:41Marcus, am I dying?
14:43It hurts so much.
14:46Marcus turned and strode away, still holding her.
14:50His voice drifted back through the doorway.
14:53Amelia, don't be scared.
14:55Marcus is right here with you.
14:56As long as I'm here, nothing bad is going to happen to you.
15:00I swear it on my wolf.
15:04Bang.
15:05The door slammed shut.
15:07The den was empty once more, and I was alone.
15:10I don't know where I found the strength, but with violently shaking hands, I picked up
15:14my phone again.
15:15I dialed my mother.
15:18Mom, I'm in labor.
15:20Tears streamed silently down my face.
15:25As the darkness swallowed my consciousness, I whispered to myself,
15:30I want to sever the mate bond.
15:34When I woke again, I was lying on a healer's bed.
15:38Through the fog of semi-consciousness, I heard the healer's urgent voice.
15:44Abdominal trauma from external impact is causing a complicated labor.
15:47Her blood pressure is still dropping.
15:48The situation is critical.
15:51We need to operate immediately.
15:53Have you reached your family?
15:55The nurse paused, and when she spoke, her voice was tinged with disbelief and exhaustion.
16:00I called seven times.
16:01The family member said he's currently accompanying someone more important who's also in labor.
16:05He doesn't have time to come.
16:08Hiausoid, his mate, is only five or six months pregnant.
16:12So a complicated labor is impossible.
16:20He accused us of making things up to harass him.
16:23I stared up at the stark white ceiling of the emergency room.
16:26I felt nothing but a vast, hollow irony.
16:29Even now, at this moment, he still believed I was only five or six months along.
16:32All those years of devotion, they had been nothing but a joke.
16:35A complete and utter joke.
16:36The nurse urged me to try reaching Marcus again through the pack mind link.
16:41But I gathered what little strength I had and spoke.
16:44There's no need.
16:46I'll sign the consent form myself.
16:49Fighting through the pain, I said to the nurse,
16:51Please, print out a copy of a mate-bond severance petition for me as well.
16:57The nurse froze for a beat, then nodded.
17:00Within moments, both the surgical consent form and the mate-bond severance petition were laid out before me.
17:08With the absolute last reserves of my strength, I signed my name.
17:14The surgery went relatively smoothly.
17:17My parents, having received my call, rushed to the healer's facility.
17:23Once they confirmed I was out of danger,
17:25they immediately arranged for my transfer to another healer's facility in a different territory.
17:34They repeatedly implored the healers and nurses not to contact Marcus again.
17:39They also asked the staff to deliver the signed papers to him.
17:43Five hours later, I was lying in the top-tier private suite of a healer's facility in a completely different
17:50city.
17:51At that very same moment, as anesthesia was wearing off,
17:58Marcus, the pup.
18:00She gazed up at him, her eyes weak but unable to conceal the adoration shining through.
18:06For some reason, the image of me collapsed on the floor,
18:08my face drained of all color, suddenly surfaced in Marcus Cain's mind.
18:12His wolf stirred restlessly.
18:13The look in my eyes back then sent a sharp jad through his chest.
18:16He found he couldn't meet Amelia's gaze.
18:18He quickly grabbed the pup as an excuse to look away.
18:20The pup is perfectly healthy.
18:21You're still very weak.
18:22Get some rest and don't worry about anything.
18:24He brought the pup close so she could see, his voice gentle.
18:27Amelia tried to speak again.
18:28Her body was simply too exhausted.
18:30After Marcus helped her drink a little water, she slipped back into a deep sleep.
18:38Only then did Marcus hand the pup off to the nurse.
18:41He strode out of the room and hurried towards the surgical wing.
18:44A nurse was just emerging through the doors.
18:46He stopped her immediately.
18:48Excuse me, is Sophie Lane in surgery here?
18:51I'm her alpha, her bonded mate.
18:53The nurse had been the one making those calls to Marcus earlier.
18:57She knew exactly what had happened.
18:58She stared at him.
19:00Her expression caught somewhere between shock and disbelief.
19:03Alpha Cain, what took you so long?
19:06Marcus's tone remained perfectly even.
19:08My brother's widow was also in labor.
19:10I had to make sure she was taken care of first.
19:12Thankfully, both she and the pup are doing well.
19:14Now, how is my mate?
19:15The nurse frowned and her expression grew complicated.
19:19Your mate Alpha Cain is no longer here.
19:21Marcus froze.
19:22What do you mean?
19:23Weren't you the ones who called me seven times?
19:25That was ten hours ago, Alpha Cain.
19:27Your mate was transferred to another healer's facility by her parents long before you arrived.
19:31Marcus stood there, completely paralyzed.
19:36Marcus remained frozen in place for a full fifteen seconds
19:39before his brain finally seemed to process what the nurse had said.
19:42He stepped forward abruptly, his voice rising.
19:45His Alpha dominance bleeding into the air.
19:47Which facility was my mate transferred to?
19:48When did she leave?
19:49How did the surgery go?
19:50The nurse took a half step back,
19:51Abeya intinctively retreating from an Alpha's pressure.
19:54Her expression remained professionally neutral,
19:56but a note of guardedness crept into her tone.
19:58The patient was in critical condition for a time,
20:00but the surgery was successful.
20:02She's now out of immediate danger.
20:04As for anything further, I'm sorry,
20:06but that falls under the patient's right to medical privacy.
20:08I can't disclose more than that.
20:10Medical privacy?
20:12Marcus stared at her as though she'd just said the most absurd thing he'd ever heard.
20:15I'm her Alpha, her bonded mate!
20:17I have the right to know everything about her condition.
20:20Now tell me, which facility was she transferred to?
20:22The nurse met his eyes without flinching.
20:23Even the nurse looked at Marcus with a hint of contempt.
20:28She turned, pulled a document from the nurse's station,
20:32and held it out to him.
20:34Alpha Cain, your mate left this for you.
20:37Marcus looked down.
20:38On the stark white sheet of paper,
20:40a bold header in solemn black lettering seared itself into his vision.
20:43Petition for mate bond severance.
20:45His entire expression seized up.
20:46His wolf let out a keening howl inside him.
20:49The nurse spoke coolly.
20:51Your mate signed this before she went into surgery.
20:54Although the bond has not yet been formally severed by the PAC elder counsel,
20:58she has already retained counsel and intends to dissolve the bond fully.
21:02While proceedings are underway, you can no longer use your status as her Alpha
21:05to unilaterally demand access to her personal information.
21:08The nurse pressed the document into Marcus's hands.
21:11Marcus stared down at the severance petitional in his hands.
21:14The edges of the paper crinkled under his tightening grip.
21:17His eyes dropped to the signature line at the bottom.
21:20The two words, Sophie Lane, were written unevenly,
21:23the strokes trembling visibly.
21:28It was clear they had been signed by someone who had poured every ounce of remaining strength
21:32into the act.
21:33He could picture it perfectly.
21:35The way I must have looked when I put that pen to paper.
21:37My face asmin and bloodless.
21:39My fingers shaking from sheer exhaustion.
21:41Yet still clenching my draw and dragging that pen,
21:44stroke by agonizing stroke,
21:45across the page.
21:48He knew I wasn't just signing my name.
21:50I was signing away everything.
21:52Our mate bond.
21:54Our pack.
21:55Five years of my life.
21:57A clean break.
21:59A final, irreversible goodbye.
22:02The buzz of his phone jolted Marcus from his days.
22:06An unfamiliar number flashed on the screen.
22:08Alpha Kane, Mrs. Amelia is awake.
22:11She's extremely agitated.
22:12She won't stop crying.
22:13She's insisting you come back.
22:15She says she needs you here.
22:16Marcus didn't turn and leave immediately the way he always had before.
22:22He stood there, one hand gripping the papers, the other lutching his phone.
22:28The voice on the other end kept going, careful and tentative.
22:32We've tried calming her down, but she won't listen to anyone.
22:36She's crying uncontrollably.
22:37She says she's terrified.
22:39She keeps saying she needs to see her Alpha.
22:45Sir, would it be possible for you to come?
22:47Every other time Amelia had cried or thrown a fit, Marcus had immediately dropped whatever
22:51he was doing and rushed to her side at top speed.
22:54She cried.
22:55He soothed.
22:56She was scared.
22:57He stayed.
22:58She needed someone there.
22:59He slept on the floor beside her bed.
23:00He had told himself it was duty.
23:02A debt that had to be repaid.
23:04But now, listening to that familiar, plaintiful crying drifting through the phone, what rose
23:08up in Marcus's chest wasn't urgency.
23:10It wasn't concern.
23:12It was something he had never felt before.
23:14A surge of raw, uncontrollable irritation.
23:17He suddenly remembered the look of utter despair on my face right before he'd carried Amelia
23:21out the door.
23:23The den lights had been dim.
23:25He'd been in a frantic rush.
23:27So even though something had seemed off, he hadn't stopped to think about it.
23:31Now, replaying the scene in his mind, he realized with sicking clarity.
23:36There had been fluid seeping beneath me on the floor, dark streaks that looked understakably
23:41like blood.
23:45And my belly.
23:47It hadn't been the size of someone five or six months pregnant.
23:54It had been even larger than Amelia's.
23:57The nurse's earlier phone calls had clearly said I was in a complicated labor.
24:01Amelia, on the other hand, for all to scream about dying, the healers had confirmed the
24:06moment she arrived that her condition was completely stable.
24:09She had simply worked herself into a panic over the pain.
24:12Looking back now, there was no question.
24:15My situation had been immeasurably more dangerous than hers.
24:18And he had ignored his own mate's suffering entirely.
24:22He had scooped Amelia up and walked out, leaving me collapsed on the freezing floor.
24:27Marcus couldn't help it.
24:28He raised his hand and struck himself hard across his own face.
24:31Anguish flooded his eyes.
24:32His wolf wound, pacing frantically within him.
24:34The severance petition burned against his fingers like a piece of red-hot iron.
24:37But what good was regret now?
24:42The Omega who had once given up everything, her family, her home, five years of severed ties
24:48just to bond with him, had already let him go.
24:52Ape Avoyans on the phone was still waiting for his answer.
24:55Alpha Cain, when can we expect you?
24:57Marcus closed his eyes and forced down the storm of emotions churning through him.
25:02I understand.
25:04I'm on my way.
25:05Marcus folded the severance petition carefully and slipped it into the inside pocket of his
25:10jacket.
25:10Pressed flush against his chest, right over his heart, where the mate bond once pulsed
25:15warm and steady.
25:17The pages weren't physically heavy, but they weighed on him like a stone.
25:21On the way, he called a beta subordinate and ordered him to track down the facility I had
25:26been transferred to.
25:26By the time Marcus reached the door to Amelia's room, his hand hadn't even touched the handle
25:31before a sharp, piercing female voice cut through from inside.
25:34Are you blind?
25:35You spilled boiling water all over my hand!
25:38Are you trying to burn me alive?
25:44Amelia's voice was sterly and biting, utterly unrecognizable from the soft, fragile persona
25:49he always presented in front of him.
25:51Do you have any idea who I am?
25:52If anything happens to me, do you seriously think you can bear the consequences?
25:57Marcus's hand stopped mid-air.
25:59Through the narrow glass panel set into the door, he saw Amelia half reclined against the
26:05headboard, face flushed with color, brimming with energy.
26:09She didn't look the least bit weak or distressed.
26:12A young beta nurse stood beside the bed, clutching an overturned water cup.
26:17The entire front of her uniform was soaked through.
26:19Her head hung low as she apologized over and over.
26:23I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to.
26:25You think sorry fixes everything?
26:29Amelia let out a cold laugh, tilting her chin up slightly.
26:32Let me tell you something.
26:34The moment Alpha Marcus gets here, you'll be the first one cast out of this pack.
26:38Do you have any clue who I am?
26:40Even the head healer of this facility would have to bow and scrape in front of me!
26:44The young beta nurse's face had gone completely white.
26:48Her lips trembled violently.
26:50The tears she'd been fighting swam in her eyes and finally spilled over.
26:59But she didn't dare talk back.
27:01She didn't dare leave.
27:02She just stood there frozen, shoulders quickling as she sobbed in silence.
27:07Marcus watched it all unfold and his face slowly, steadily hardened into stone.
27:12The she-wolf he was seeing now bore almost no resemblance to the Amelia he thought he knew.
27:16He wasn't sure he had ever known the real her at all.
27:18The door handle clicked sharply under his graph as he pushed it down,
27:22and the door swung open with a rounding crack.
27:25Amelia turned toward the sound.
27:26The instant she registered Marcus's face,
27:28every trace of venom and arrogance drained from her expression like a receding tide.
27:32In its place bloomed perfect wounded helplessness.
27:35Her eyes even glistened with gathering tears.
27:37She pointed a trembling finger at the nurse.
27:40Marcus, perfect timing.
27:42This nurse deliberately poured boiling water on me.
27:45It hurt so badly.
27:47In the past, Marcus would have blindly taken Amelia's side without hesitation.
27:50He would have granted her anything she asked.
27:53But now, all he could see when he looked at this she-wolf
27:56was someone utterly nauseatingly fake.
27:59Marcus's voice was ice.
28:02Apologize.
28:05A flicker of triumphant satisfaction danced in Amelia's eyes.
28:09She struggled to contain her smugness as she turned towards the nurse.
28:12Yes, you need to apologize to me right now.
28:15I meant you.
28:18Marcus's gaze landed squarely on Amelia's face,
28:21devoid of every trace of the tenderness that had always been there before.
28:25The room went deathly silent.
28:27The young beta nurse stopped crying altogether.
28:30She raised her head in stunned disbelief, staring at Marcus.
28:35W-what did you say?
28:36Amelia stammered.
28:37Marcus ignored her completely.
28:39He turned to face the shell-shocked nurse and dipped his head slightly.
28:44I'm sorry.
28:45The nurse was so startled, she flailed her hands in protest.
28:48No, please.
28:49I failed to keep my conduct in check, and I allowed her to bully you in my name.
28:53Rest assured, I will handle this.
28:55I give you my word, no one in this pack is going to make you suffer simply for doing your
29:00duty.
29:00The young beta nurse's eyes reddened again, but this time, the tears weren't from humiliation.
29:05She gave a forceful sniff, ducked a hasty bow towards Marcus, and fled the suffocating room.
29:13Amelia still hadn't recovered from the shock of what had just happened.
29:16Marcus, what is that supposed to mean?
29:19You have never, never spoken to me like this.
29:22Marcus stood at the foot of her bed, staring down at her with a coldness she had never seen in
29:25his eyes before.
29:26You've had your pup.
29:27I've fulfilled every promise I made to my brother.
29:29From here on, you're on your own.
29:31Amelia's pupils contracted violently.
29:33She shook her head in desperate denial.
29:35The tears splashed onto the blanket.
29:36You're lying.
29:37You told me you'd take care of us, me and the pup, forever.
29:40You're all I have left to lean on.
29:42How can you abandon us?
29:44I promised my brother I would look after you until the pup was born.
29:49Marcus cut her off.
29:51Not for the rest of your life.
29:54Amelia sobs, caught in her throat with a sharp, hiccuping gasp.
29:59There has never been anything between you and me that exceeded the bounds of pack duty.
30:03So don't use words like abandon.
30:04Watch your language.
30:05Then why were you so good to me?
30:07Amelia's voice scraped out raw and ragged.
30:13How was I supposed to not read into it?
30:15How was anyone supposed to not read into it?
30:18Marcus was silent for two full seconds.
30:20You're right.
30:21It was my fault.
30:21I should never have let you develop unrealistic expectations.
30:24I had originally intended to keep looking after you and your pup, out of respect for my brother's sacrifice.
30:28But after what I saw today, I now understand that my so-called care hasn't helped you at all.
30:33It has only made you arrogant.
30:35Arrogant enough to believe you're entitled to stand at my side as alpha female.
30:38And arrogant enough to abuse others with that delusion.
30:41It's despicable.
30:42A violent shudder ran through the woman's body.
30:45To have turned my brother's widow into someone like this.
30:48That failure is mine.
30:49So as of this moment, I will no longer involve myself in any of your affairs.
30:53The territory and resources my brother left behind are more than enough to support your living expenses.
30:57As for everything else, you're on your own.
31:00Marcus.
31:01Amelia's lips had gone white.
31:02Her voice was barely a whisper of air.
31:05With that, Marcus turned and walked away.
31:10Amelia sat rigid on the bed, her eyes locked on Marcus' retreating back.
31:15The moment she saw his hand close upon the door handle, raw panic consumed her.
31:19Don't go!
31:21Ignoring the surgical incision on her abdomen that hadn't yet healed, she threw off the covers and tumbled off the
31:25bed.
31:26Barefoot and staggling, she lunged toward the door and seized Marcus' sleeve with both hands.
31:31Marcus' brow furrowed into a tight knot.
31:33Let go.
31:33Amelia lifted her head, her face a mess of tears.
31:39Her voice came out jagged and horny.
31:42You said it was just a promise, Marcus Kane?
31:44Put your hand on your heart and tell me what part of everything you did for me was just a
31:48promise!
31:49Marcus, who'd been trying to pull his arm free, stopped short.
31:52Does a promise include having dinner together every night?
31:55Does a promise include sleeping on the floor beside my bed?
31:58Does a promise include abandoning your own bonded mate to hand-feed me soup and medicine?
32:04Lying on my floor at night, coming to every single one of my prenatal appointments,
32:08replacing all the furniture in your own den because you were worried I might bump into a sharp corner.
32:14Marcus Kane, you call all of that just keeping a promise?
32:21Marcus' face darkened.
32:23He wrenched his arm back with a sharp jerk, breaking confree of her grip.
32:25I, Marcus Kane, have a clear conscience when it comes to you.
32:28Everything I did was in fulfillment of the promise I made to my brother before he died on that battlefield.
32:33If my actions led you to any misunderstandings, that was entirely in your own head.
32:39Deprived of her anchor, Amelia collapsed to the floor.
32:42A strangled grunt of pain escaped her as the motion wrenched her surgical wound.
32:47She looked up at Marcus, tears still streaming, but her eyes no longer held hurt.
32:52They held hatred.
32:55Misunderstandings?
32:57Amelia laughed, a short, ugly, contemptuous sound.
33:02If you were really just looking after your brother's widow,
33:05then why did you never dare let Sophie know what you were doing?
33:10Marcus' breath stopped short.
33:12Every time you came to see me, you silenced your phone.
33:15Sophie called, you ignored it.
33:18Sophie reached for you through the bond.
33:20You blocked her out.
33:24And you never explained anything to her afterward.
33:27You never once told her what that looking after actually entailed.
33:30Don't tell me you really didn't know.
33:32Try telling any one of those things you did to your pack elders.
33:34Try telling Sophie.
33:35See if a single wolf among them believes you were just keeping a promise to your brother.
33:40You just loved the feeling of being needed.
33:41Being someone's whole world, you loved having two she-wolves revolve around you.
33:45Sophie gave you the perfect, dutiful mate in a stable den.
33:48I gave you the ego boost of playing the savior.
33:50But you could never admit it.
33:52Because the moment you did, you'd stop being the noble, honorable alpha.
33:56The wolf of duty and sacrifice.
33:58You'd be exactly what you are.
34:00A faithless coward who betrayed his mate and doesn't have the guts to face the consequences.
34:04So you hid behind that word, promise, and used it to soothe your own conscience.
34:10The healer's ward fell into a silence so complete that only the faint echo of footsteps from the corridor remained.
34:16Marcus stood there, paralyzed, like a statue poured in lead.
34:23His wolf had gone utterly silent inside him.
34:26His mouth opened.
34:27He wanted to deny it, to refute everything.
34:30But not a single word came out.
34:32By the time he realized what he was doing, his hand was already arcing through the air.
34:37It connected with the side of Amelia's face in a brutal slap.
34:41But Amelia didn't cry.
34:43Her gaze was calmer than it had ever been.
34:45The faintest glimmer of a mocking, contemptual smile tugged at the corner of her lips.
34:49Looks like I hit a nerve.
34:51Marcus' chest heaved.
34:52His breathing was ragged and heavy.
34:54His alpha pheromones surging wildly.
34:57Amelia's smile remained.
34:59Her voice dripped with delition.
35:01Marcus Cain?
35:03Do you really think you can still go crawling back to Sophie?
35:07Marcus's entire body went rigid.
35:10The nurses out in the hallway have been talking about it all day.
35:13You abandoned your mate while she was hemorrhaging and in a complicated labor,
35:16so you could be at another she-wolf side while she gave birth.
35:19Sophie Lane, the omega whose heart you shattered into pieces,
35:22signed a mate-bond-separance petition and was transferred out by her parents.
35:28Marcus's hands clenched into fists so tight his knuckles cracked.
35:32Amelia's laughter grew more unhinged.
35:34You deserve every bit of this, Marcus Cain.
35:36Marcus couldn't answer her.
35:38He fled.
35:39It was nothing short of a rout.
35:43Behind him, Amelia's laughter chased him down the corridor.
35:49That same evening, Amelia took her pup and checked herself out of the facility.
35:54Marcus couldn't spare any attention for where Amelia had gone.
36:00He had just gotten hold of the address of the facility I'd been transferred to.
36:05He rushed there immediately,
36:09only to be stopped at the door by my parents.
36:12Sir, ma'am, please, I'm begging you, just let me see Sophie.
36:17Marcus tried desperately to persuade them,
36:18but my mother and father both let out cold, disdainful snorts.
36:22They pointed straight at his face.
36:24Don't you dare call us sir and ma'am.
36:25We are not your pack kin.
36:27Where were you when our daughter was lying on that operating table,
36:30barely clinging to life?
36:31Where were you when she was collapsed on the floor,
36:33carrying your pup, your heir?
36:37Now that the other she-wolf has safely delivered,
36:40suddenly you remember you have a mate?
36:42Marcus's mouth opened.
36:43He tried to offer an explanation,
36:44but my father cut him off before a single word could leave his lips.
36:47Sophie gave up everything for you.
36:48Her pack, her family, five years of her life.
36:51And how did you repay her?
36:53Marcus's lips moved, but nothing came out.
36:55My mother's voice was ice.
36:57Get out.
36:58Our daughter walked through the valley of death.
37:00She's only just now beginning to recover.
37:02If you have even a shred of conscience left,
37:04you'll stop coming here and tormenting her.
37:08Right at that moment, Marcus's phone rang.
37:11He had no choice but to swallow every argument
37:14he was preparing to make to my parents.
37:17Marcus Kane, you've been charged with misappropriation of pack resources
37:20and the purchase of moonstone artifacts worth over a million.
37:23The Kane dominion is now facing desolation by the pack elder council.
37:28Marcus's brow frundled deeply.
37:31Dissolution?
37:32Marcus stood frozen to the spot.
37:35In that moment, his mind flashed to the wristwatch I had given him.
37:40The one he had thrown away without a second glance.
37:46At the same time, the elder council's ruling was delivered to Marcus.
37:50The mate bond between him and I was formally and irravicably severed.
37:53He was ordered to forfeit half of all his territory and assets.
37:57The day we went to finalize the sever since was the last time I saw Marcus.
38:00He looked utterly broken.
38:01Face gaunt and hammered, his alpha aura diminished to a pale shadow.
38:05His eyes, when they met mine, filled with exhaustion and pain.
38:08Sophie, I know I did so many things wrong, but please, can you just give me one chance to make
38:13it right?
38:14We could-
38:14He was begging me for another chance, but I didn't hesitate for a single second.
38:18I signed my name on the severance registration.
38:20I ignored his pleas, turned around, and walked away without looking back.
38:27The moment I stepped out of the elder council's hall, I felt nothing but an overwhelming, almost dizzying lightness.
38:35The phantom weight of the broken mate bond, the constant ache I had carried for five years, finally, mercifully, faded
38:41to silence.
38:41Mom, the severance is finalized. I'm going to stop and pick up some fruit. I'll be home soon.
38:45I hit send, slipped my phone back into my pocket, and walked forward, into the sunlight.
38:53I hit send, slipped my phone back into my pocket, and walked away with my pocket, and walked away with
38:57my pocket, and walked away with my pocket, and walked away with my pocket.
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