After The Alpha's Betrayal, I Married The Mad Lycan

e bustling city with

e hospital, her beloved mate, Cassia

ce thought Cassian's love was enough

n so naive.

ipped a hand into her pocket and pu

t it. Inside were two ring

ian.

symbolized their love. She clenched her palm

wasn't about

ether someone's words

words ever matched

ous adopted sister. She unclenched her

ock sounded

ard the door. "Come in," she said, casua

nlike his usual doctor's attire, toda

e finished your discharge pap

ul smile appeared on her face. "Thank you, Doctor

r Smith had insisted she remain in the hospital so he could

d medication to help

his pockets. "So, where are you goi

did you know I'm leaving?"

e was anyone

ash can. "You look like you've mad

prising that an outsider had noticed the chang

ee years hadn't known her at all, de

ing it. She said direc

ge containing Elena's identity and he

was pack her belongi

"Good. Then you sho

did his voice somehow ca

seemed more exci

everything she'd gone through over the past six months. Tha

. "Thank you, Doctor Smit

nk me. It's the job I've been assigned." With that,

flickered across her face. The

redibly mysterious, and Rae c

d her back. There was no point in

things to do. She sti

l ward, and her chest tighten

orn the clothes provided by the hospital, eaten the hospital meals, and even ha

isted on covering her medical

f wolf dreaming of becoming Luna?

ing

package her mother had sent be

r apartment on the outski

e incident three years ago had stolen that future

she left the Blackwood Pack, th

tponed the wedding. After that, the subje

arranged an apartment for Rae in a distant p

eant love. That it mea

her, he would have brought her into his own h

k territory, which meant leaving would be easy. She wou

r, and some of the tension left h

ky

inside and l

fore still sat untouched on the dining table,

the floor where she'd care

he bed, and decorative ribbon

as she remembered what she'd been

That Cassian would make love to her and finally c

net. Photographs of the two

ere filled with happiness, her

had been taken after s

ae had believed she was the

the bedroom an

ee years, she didn't have much

uitcase and returne

everything for Cassian, and he'

en long for her t

with a natural

cruel was that? She could no longer hear the sou

had become nothing more than a deaf wolf, moc

e straighte

se and walked out of the apartment,