na

I pushed it open without knocking. Celeste and Sienna followed me in

assembled, a tribunal of h

t her eyes with a lace handkerchief, the picture of fragile distress. His mother, Brenda, and sister, Camille, stood flan

at, her voice shrill. "Anton made it clear

o the desk. I placed a single, fo

eave quietly, you can keep what's left of your dign

'm so sorry... Anton and I, we truly love

r pathetic performance like a shard of ice.

f any warmth. "I'm not here to listen to y

laugh. "Terms? A wolfless Omeg

"is the fact that your son, the great Alpha of the Blackwater pack

absolute, so thick I could

ainst the floor. His face was ashen. Alexa's hand flew

ora leaned forward, her s

know?" Anton's voice

Pack Law, to engage with another and conceive a child without formally severing a mate bond is a public desecration o

e blood drained fur

ed 'war hero' who gets pregnant out of wedlock while knowingly involving herself w

air, watching their panic bl

e one to publicly and formally rej

by an Omega-and a wolfless one at that-was the ultimate humiliation

ant family. Not just the trinkets in this house. I want everything my father left me.

n. "And for every coin you've spent over the pas

. "That money was used for the u

s upkeep? Does that include the thirty-thousand-gold-piece necklace yo

You have three days to sign this mate-bond dissolution agreement and the property restitutio

led off him, a suffocating pressure designed to bring any less

The pressure washed over me, as harmless as a su

the right to use your command on me," I said, each wo

stunned, hate-filled faces, I tu

, and we swept out, leaving the wre

away with this!" Camille's sc

't loo

d into the bright sunlight of the courtyard, I took a d

apital," I said, my voice steady and firm. "Sienna,

lame of vengeance that had bee

aid softly, "is