Mighty Female Alpha, Fearless of Betrayal Chapter 06
I sidestepped her cleanly. She hit the floor hard.
I looked down at her and kept my voice level. “Give back your babies? Vivian, do you actually think your deserve to be anyone’s mother?”
“You switched them! You stole my pup, you killed.
them!”
“I killed them?” I let the words hang for a second. “You spent your entire pregnancy drinking, eating raw meat, ignoring every warning your doctor gave you. You told the clinic to their face that it didn’t
matter if a few didn’t survive.
“You put a dark witch’s curse on a charm and
handed it to your pregnant Alpha. And now you’re standing in my living room screaming about
consequences?”
“This is what you chose. Every single part of it.”
I turned to my guards and tipped my head toward
the door. “Get her out.”
Ethan stepped in fast, hand on my arm, voice. dropping to something placating. “She’s not
herself right now. Don’t take it seriously. She’s
grieving, she’s not thinking straight.”
I pulled my arm free and nodded toward the
wooden box sitting on the side table.
“Open it.”
Ethan crossed the room slowly, lifted the lid, and
stumbled back a full step.
“What the hell is that?”
Inside the box was the shaman’s creature. The thing that had been born in his sanctuary.
I picked up the severance agreement from beside
it and dropped it onto the lid.
“Take your son. Sign that. And get out of my house.”
While they’d thought I was neutralized, convinced the hex had worked and all they had to do was wait, I’d been rebuilding everything quietly.
I’d restructured the pack hierarchy. Recalled the resources. Closed every door he’d been slowly walking through.
I could afford to let them see my face now.
What followed came a few days later.
Ethan showed up at the shaman’s sanctuary in a rage. He spotted the stray cat immediately, locked in her cage, charm still hanging from her collar.
She stared back at him with flat yellow eyes, a low growl building in her chest.
He grabbed a rod from the corner and started
swinging at the cage. “This is your fault, you filthy
animal!”
The cat blew the cage door off its hinges.
She hit him like a missile, locked her jaws around
his forearm and tore a chunk out before he could.
get a hand on her.
Ethan went down screaming, nearly shifted on the
spot.
The shaman pinned him against the wall with one‘
hand before it went any further.
“Ethan. This is my sanctuary. Do you want blood
spilled on sacred ground?”
Ethan had already received the order I’d sent down. He was no longer Beta. Just an ordinary pack wolf with no rank, no authority, no leverage.
He paid the shaman one hundred thousand dollars for the damages. Walked away looking like
a man who’d lost everything and knew it.
A few days later we met outside city hall.
We’d already dissolved the mate bond through the pack elders. This was just the legal paperwork, the human side of things that still had to be done.
Ethan dropped to his knees on the sidewalk before I could reach the door.
“Aurora.” His voice broke. “After everything we’ve been through, you can’t just throw that away. I can’t lose you. I won’t sign.”
“Interesting timing for that speech,” I said. “Where was it when you were in my bed with her? When
you were slipping sedatives into my milk? When the two of you sat there planning to swap my pup?”
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He went white. His jaw clenched. He didn’t deny it.
I reached into my bag and dropped a thick stack
of documents at his feet.
“Go ahead and look.”
The pages scattered across the pavement. High–resolution photos. Security footage stills. Screenshots of messages between him and Vivian, plotting the charm, planning the switch, confirming the details.
Every moment had been documented. I’d spent weeks making sure.
Ethan’s hands shook as he stared at the images. He reached toward my ankle.
I stepped back and let him have the ground.
