She was his mate.His wife.The one fate carved into his bones.Before the rejection, there was warmth, quiet touches in the dark, shared breaths, a bond he never denied in private. He held her like something precious. Like something he would one day claim.Then he chose power.In front of the pack, the Alpha turned his back on the woman bound to him by fate and law. He named another as his Luna, while she stood beside him, unclaimed, unseen, erased.The bond did not break.It punished.Every heartbeat became pain. Every memory turned sharp. And the woman who replaced her smiled with perfect grace, whispering poison wrapped in kindness.Selene never raised her voice.She never struck.She simply made sure everyone believed the truth was the lie, and the lie was mercy.As the Alpha continued to hesitate, to delay, to believe he could fix everything later, the woman he once loved began to disappear. Not in anger. Not in revenge.But in silence.And when she finally walks away, tearing the bond apart to survive, the Alpha learns the cruelest truth of all.Some rejections are irreversible.And some regrets come far too late.