Alpha Rejected the Tomboy. Now, She’s Gone. Chapter 07

Alpha Rejected the Tomboy. Now, She’s Gone. Chapter 07

Courtney remained kneeling on the ground, crying 

for a long time. 

By the time Adam returned, she was still sobbing 

uncontrollably. 

Students filmed videos and posted updates. 

nonstop. Every group chat flooded with photos of 

her newly shaved head. 

Adam stopped in front of her, his face completely 

blank, and spoke in a flat tone. 

“Courtney, let’s dissolve our mate bond.” 

Courtney lifted her tear–streaked face, eyes wide 

with utter disbelief. 

“Adam, what are you saying?” 

“I said, we’re ending our bond.” 

“No! You can’t do this!” Courtney threw herself 

forward and clung tightly to his legs. “Adam, don’t 

leave me. I know I messed up. Just give me one 

more chance…” 

But Adam’s next words shattered every last bit of 

her hope. 

“Courtney, I never planned to stay with you 

long–term. You know I’ve never taken any of my 

temporary mates seriously.” 

Courtney collapsed fully onto the pavement, her 

cries growing louder and more broken. 

The surrounding crowd whispered among themselves, many raising their phones to record 

the brutal breakup. 

Adam made no move to comfort her. Cold and 

unyielding, he initiated the formal bond rejection. 

ritual right there in public. 

Courtney crumpled under the excruciating 

spiritual pain, barely clinging to consciousness, 

yet Adam paid her no mind. He turned and left 

without a second glance. 

Dusk fell over the town, the street lamps still unlit. 

He walked alone down the quiet road, his 

footsteps echoing sharply through the empty 

evening air. 

This was the same road he and Jamie had walked 

side by side for more than a decade. 

He drifted back to the winter when they were eight 

years old. 

Jamie’s parents had broken their mate bond that 

winter, abandoning their daughter entirely. 

She’d hidden alone inside a closet, crying 

hysterically, until he’d pulled her out. 

She’d buried her face in his chest, smearing tears 

and snot all over his clothes. 

His young heart had ached fiercely for her, and 

he’d sworn firmly, “Jamie, I’ll protect you from now 

on.” 

He had only been eight back then, too young to 

understand the full weight of those two words. 

But he had known, even then, that he would never 

make that promise to anyone else. 

Soon after, Jamie started dressing and acting like ” 

a boy. 

She cut her hair short and wore matching outfits 

with him, saying it made them look like real 

brothers. 

But she looked beautiful with long hair and flowing 

dresses. 

He had never told her that. 

He had always harbored an inexplicable. 

possessiveness over her. 

He hated the thought of other boys seeing her 

beauty, hated anyone getting too close to her. 

He’d chased away every boy who tried to 

approach her over the years. 

When they entered middle school, Jamie 

consistently scored top of the grade. 

He began pulling away from her, stopping their 

daily hangouts. 

He claimed he didn’t want to distract her from her 

studies, but the truth was that he was afraid. 

He was terrified that her brilliance would make her 

outgrow him, that she would drift further and 

further away. 

Then Jamie’s grades slowly began to drop. 

He worried for her, yet selfishly felt relieved, glad 

that she was returning to his side. 

During a truth–or–dare game in freshman year, he 

lost the round. 

The crowd cheered and pressured him into kissing Jamie, the only girl present. 

He’d had countless excuses to refuse. 

But he’d lost all self–control, leaned down, and 

pressed his lips to hers. 

In that moment, he’d heard his own heartbeat- 

loud, frantic, and utterly out of control. 

Jamie stared up at him with flushed cheeks, her 

lips parting like she was about to confess her 

feelings. 

He’d known exactly what she wanted to say. 

Panicked, he stepped sharply back and mumbled, 

“It’s just a game. Don’t read into it.” 

Fear had consumed him again. 

He was terrified that if they became lovers, a 

future broken bond would make him lose her 

completely. 

Adam had never believed in love, not since he was 

a child. 

His father, Alpha Ethan, had loved his mate Luna Olivia deeply. 

But a blood curse ran through their pack’s lineage. 

Whenever Ethan drank alcohol, his wolf went feral. He turned violent and hurt Olivia without mercy. 

Olivia’s wolf was far weaker than a full Alpha’s, leaving her powerless to do anything but endure 

his abuse. 

The next morning, Ethan would set aside his Alpha pride and beg desperately for her forgiveness. 

Yet he never quit drinking, never changed his 

ways. 

The same tragedy repeated itself over and over, 

year after year. 

It all ended on Adam’s twelfth birthday. 

Olivia cooked him a grand birthday dinner, held. 

him close, and whispered a final warning. 

“Never trust anyone, baby. Love is nothing but a 

lie. Even fated mates cannot escape heartbreak.” 

After that day, Olivia vanished from the pack 

without a trace. No one ever found her. 

After losing his mate, Ethan grew colder, crueler, 

and more volatile. His temper turned harsh, and he 

treated his own son Adam with unrelenting 

strictness and indifference. 

Adam understood why his mother left. 

But he never dared to believe in love again. 

All pairs of lovers broke apart eventually. 

He could not bear the thought of separating from 

Jamie. He wanted her by his side forever. 

He ignored his wolf’s constant insistence that 

Jamie was his true fated mate. 

That was why he’d dated endlessly, cycling 

through one temporary mate after another. 

He never cared about any of them. Girls called him 

reckless, fickle, and heartless, but he never cared. 

They were nothing but boundaries, reminders to 

keep himself from crossing the line with Jamie. 

Lovers split. Splitting meant losing each other. 

But brothers stayed together for life. 

No matter what happened in the future, he and 

Jamie would never be separated. 

Adam had foolishly believed that. 

He’d thought that by refusing to claim her, by 

pushing her away and keeping their relationship 

as simple friendship, he would never lose her. 

But now, he had lost her anyway.