Seven years. Seven years of loving an Alpha who rationed his warmth like it cost him something. Then one night — still in our bed, sheets still warm — he lit a cigarette and said: "Let's dissolve our matebond. She's dying. It's her last wish." I said fine. He expected me to beg. To cry. To chase him the way I always had. He didn't expect me to hand him a property division agreement with my signature already on it. He didn't expect me to move out the same afternoon. He didn't expect me to burn every photograph that proved what he really felt — and who he really felt it for. And he certainly didn't expect me to walk onto the biggest stage in Briarwood six days later, violin in hand, wearing a mask he couldn't see through. Jake Weiss thought he knew me. He knew the Luna who cooked his meals and managed his pack and sat up waiting for him with a book sliding off her chest. He didn't know the woman underneath. The songwriter whose pain he'd handed to another woman to wear as a costume. The heiress whose family legacy he'd absorbed without reading the fine print. The wolf whose love he'd mistaken for obedience — for seven years. It's too late, Alpha. The Luna has already moved on.

"You never marked me, Alpha. You never really wanted me. So tell me — why does it look like you're the one who can't let go?" ----- My Alpha came home on our anniversary with another woman's scent on his skin and her pregnancy announcement in his mouth. "I reject you, Olivia Astor, as my mate and Luna." He said it like I was nothing. Like two years meant nothing. Like the child growing inside me — the heir he didn't know existed — meant nothing. So I let him think exactly that. I accepted his rejection, walked out of Auris Pack with a single bag, and never looked back. No tears. No begging. No scene. What Kael Foster didn't know — what he couldn't know, because he never bothered to mark me, never fully committed to our bond — was that I wasn't leaving empty-handed. I was leaving with his son. Six months later, I'm not the silent Luna who waited by the door every night hoping her Alpha would come home. I'm Olivia Astor, Alpha-heir of Starveil Pack, CEO of the most powerful pack territory in the North — and I'm systematically dismantling every alliance Auris Pack has ever built. One broken contract at a time. One pack stolen at a time. One humiliation at a time. Kael thought rejecting me was the end of the story. It was the beginning of mine. And when he finally finds out about our son? Let him come. I've been waiting.