Luna’s Goodbye to Her Deceitful Alpha Chapter 03
I woke up again to find the pack doctor and several pack nurses surrounding me. One of the nurses had an indignant look on her face.
“Nicole,” she said, “the Alpha is so irresponsible. I called him dozens of times for you, and he didn’t pick up once.”
At these words, the pack doctor’s face went pale. “Shut up,” she said. “How dare you disrespect the Alpha like that?”
In the middle of their argument, my phone rang at the worst possible moment. I pressed answer.
“Can you stop harassing me already?”
“You keep calling me like this. Fine. I’ll come over there myself and see what other tricks you’re trying to pull.”
His words were so harsh that the pack doctor, who had just been defending him, turned an ugly, twisted shade.
She couldn’t even bring herself to say the word “Alpha” anymore. Instead, she lowered her voice and tried to comfort me.
“Nicole, we’ll take good care of you.”
I shook my head. I didn’t have the strength left for another round of humiliation and torture.
I forced myself to sit up. My voice was calm but firm. “Doctor, I want to leave the pack medical center early.”
The pack doctor looked into my eyes and saw the dead, empty resolve in them. She finally gave in.
“I’ll handle the paperwork.”
The whole reason I was pushing myself to leave was because I didn’t want to see him.
But the second I walked out the front door of the pack medical center, I ran right into Brenda.
She watched me limp out, and she couldn’t even hide the smug look in her eyes.
“Oh my,” she said, “Nicole, why are you walking out by yourself?”
Then she pulled out her phone, pointed it at my face, and snapped a few pictures. The shutter clicked loudly each time. Then she sent a voice message.
“Wow, look at Nicole’s makeup. That ‘sick look’ is so real. Mind sharing how you did it?”
I frowned. “Who are you talking to?”
Brenda acted like I’d just told the funniest joke. She flashed her phone at me.
“A group chat,” she said. “The high-ranking wolf group of Stonevein Pack.”
Only then, a beat too late, did I notice that my phone was buzzing too.
Sebastian had actually added her to that group. The one you couldn’t get into unless you were at least a Delta-level wolf.
The ranking wolves of Stonevein Pack had always looked down on me. I was a wolf from a southern pack, nothing special to them.
If Sebastian hadn’t used his Alpha authority to announce that I was the only one he would ever recognize as his future Luna, I never would have made it into that group. And none of those high and mighty wolves would have said a single word to me.
But now, with just one message from Brenda, they were going wild.
[Damn. Nicole looks as pathetic as a rogue.]
[She used to look okay, didn’t she? Is this what she really looks like?]
[Told you outsiders are all scheming. She’s acting this desperately just to become Luna.]
…
Before this, all those people were forced to be polite to me. Now, finally, they could use Sebastian’s “memory loss” as an excuse to drop the act. They could mock me all they wanted.
I watched Brenda’s face get smugger and smugger. Then I calmly typed out a reply in the group.
[The reason most pack members accept me is because of my wholehearted dedication to protecting and managing this pack. Not like you, @Brenda, who gets by on climbing the ranks through any wolf she can latch onto.]
The message barely sent before a notification popped up.
[You were removed from the group by the admin.]
I stared at that message for a few seconds. I felt like I’d been dropped into a frozen lake.
Before I could even put my phone down, I heard familiar footsteps behind me.
Sebastian and Logan chased after me.
“Nicole,” he said, his voice sharp. “There are so many pack members in that group. Why did you have to say something so harsh?”
“Just cool down for a few days, and I’ll add you back.”
I stopped walking. I turned around and looked at him calmly. “I don’t need you to.”
He froze on the spot. Like he never expected those words to come out of my mouth.
Back when I was young, my parents almost broke their mate bond because they had nothing left to talk about.
I swore I wouldn’t make the same mistake. I threw myself into fitting into his world.
I forced myself to drink. I learned how to manage pack business. How to be a proper Luna.
Every time he went out to socialize with other Alphas, I had everything ready for him beforehand.
But now? I was done trying to please anyone.
Sebastian saw the coldness in my eyes. The distance. And for the first time, the Alpha who had always been reckless and arrogant started to panic for the first time.
