FAKE MATE, REAL BOND

ter

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Brandon, not even to check in on me. Until today when I was summoned int

ar he wanted nothing to do with me I had al

in me and I wanted to find love still and have a family of my own.

nched so tightly in my lap that my nails bit into my palms. He hadn't look

sn't even there. Pretending I hadn't just lost our child. Pretendi

ted

with startling cl

g ball," he said finally, voice low, casu

jerking like he'd

old, distant. "Two weeks. All unmated

ing to parade around like some desperate omega wh

faintly. "You're an unmated omega again,

embled. "I'

brow, amused

ve the pack."

is face immedi

'll be gone before the moon turns. I'll go quietly.

racked across th

chest heaving. "You

the desk like a predator. "You think you can run?

"You lied to me. You used me.

distraction. A pretty little thing to break in. And

f. My nails dug deeper. "Yo

loser. I did

spine? Let me remind you..." He paused, smiling coldly. "You

I spat. "I'll

at about yo

fr

of this," I sai

flesh. "You forget, she works in the kitchens. Cleaning up

slightly, but I

would

n't I? You know what I'm c

efore I could stop them.

give me a

rld who had ever loved me without condition. Who'd stayed when everyo

end the ball. Be good. And maybe maybe you

The pain I thought I'd buried surged up li

ered. "I won'

in close, breath hot against my

How could he be so inconsiderate and cru

oing to publicly humiliate me by announcing Ashley

our anything. You rejected me and chose Ashley, so go be with her." i yelled at him, te

until his palms connected with my face and I

landed on the floor, my whole bod

I am your Alpha and it seems like you

n't happen again."

pare for the mating ceremony. And you better

g in to serve him his morning coffee. Our eyes Locke

to see me crying o