Ethan was soaked to the bone, but the freezing water was nothing compared to the white-hot humiliation burning in his chest.
To be thrown out like a common beggar was a stain on his dignity that he couldn't wash away.
He was furious at being treated like this, yet he seemed to have completely forgotten that he had subjected Clara to things a thousand times worse.
His first instinct was to wash his hands of her entirely and take Jessica and the kids to the Isles, but an urgent call from his Beta dragged him back to his pack.
"Alpha Ethan, there's a major crisis with the Northern Pack Alliance partnership. You need to handle this immediately."
This was a multi-billion-dollar strategic collaboration—the bedrock of Silvermoon's growth for the next decade. It couldn't fail.
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