a P

ribunal was waiting for

ster, my ex-fiancé-were arranged like a panel of judges, ready to pas

ith fury. "You will return the ten million dollars, and then we wi

able one. "Arla, please. Just give the money back. We

bbing at her eyes. "How could you be so cr

I sat down in the single armchair opposite

silent, I turned

the tense room. "Let's talk about five years ago.

ightened. "The evidence was present

eem to have forgotten a key detail. For the entire week leading up to that attack, I was in the infirmary's i

u're lying! You

Dr. Alan Reynolds attended to me. His medical logs

ed narrative. They had counted on me being a broken, forgotten girl. They ne

bribed him!" Foster st

the resources? You, on the other hand, Foster... I recall you were the only junior

e to green. He was corn

s a physical thing, a heav

broken by the s

guttural roar of high-performa

into the room. "Madam! It's... it's th

er stared, mouths agape

dress and fluffing her hair, a hopeful, greedy light in her eyes. She a

t on

doors sw

he center of gravity, the vortex of power that pulled all attention to him. The sheer force of his Alpha presence

oom, dismissing Andra, Delpha, and Foster as if

it h

"Alpha Gilmore, welcome..." He didn't even glance at her. He moved as if she were noth

eta, Blake, materialized at his side, hol

to me. His voice was cold, devoid of em

he said. "Sign it, and

e to his Beta. "Transfer the bride price I

tablet. A second later, my pho

n dollars has been

ndred

ha, and Foster stared, their eyes wide with disbeli

For me. The w

I took the contract from his hand, didn't even glance

d signed my name with a firm

older back to

our things. W

definitive motion. "I have

ties to this place. It was a declaration of war,

e shrieked, her carefully maintained facade cracking comp

orbin's guards stepped in her w

ssion cold. "You exiled her for f

physical thing, screamed at him. "She's a liar and a thief! She s

row and looked at me,

"It was my mother's trust fund.

hat. His decis

ack's finances, going back twenty years. I want to know every asset they have misap

Andra and Delpha's fa

bin held out his han

back at his face. And I did something th

to step beside him, and started walking towa

t powerful Alpha in the region, leaving t

e Corbin Gi

claimed was also The Surgeon. And when he fou