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