They had bound me to Alpha Dashiell as his Luna, but now, after everything, they believed they could use the Hargrove Pack alliance to drag me back? Typical. I had long since grown numb to my parents' suffocating control. Their pleas, their demands, their threats—they didn’t even faze me anymore.
With icy detachment, I spoke, “I’m safe now. Your worries are unnecessary.”
“There’s nothing left between me and Alpha Dashiell. I’ve already set things in motion with a lawyer to sever the bond,” I added flatly.
My mother’s sigh echoed through the phone, dripping with that all-too-familiar guilt-trip tone. “Alpha Dashiell’s father is enraged. After you left, he made him kneel outside the packhouse the entire night. He swore if Alpha Dashiell doesn’t bring you back, he’ll strip him of his title
