Sophia’s POV
For one second, my heartbeat pounded so hard against my eardrums it hurt.
I could feel every pair of eyes in the room on me—shock, jealousy, pure disbelief.
I had really been chosen.
But why me?
“What the—” the blonde Omega shrieked first. “Alpha Alistane, you have to have picked the wrong person! She’s a mated she-wolf! She still smells like another man!”
“Yeah! She’s just some w***e so desperate for money she lost her mind!”
“Alpha, which one of us isn’t better than her?”
Their anger and resentment shattered the last of their self-control. The she-wolves started shouting over each other, protesting wildly.
Heat rushed to my face. I lowered my head and clenched my hands so tightly my nails bit into my palms.
“Shut up.”
Alistane didn’t even turn around.
He only low
