Saoirse
I swear I couldn’t even breathe the moment I stepped into the hall.
The whispers weren’t even whispers anymore. They were loud. Brazen. Like I was some horror story they could say out loud now because the monster finally showed its face.
“She’s their stepsister, right?”
“Oh my goddess, they were kissing her?”
“I saw the footage—both of them? And she looked like she was enjoying it.”
My chest clenched. My ears rang. I could barely feel my legs, but I walked anyway. Or floated. Or just… crumbled with every step.
And then I heard my mother screaming when she was alone with Alpha Callum.
Screaming.
“She has to be removed from this Pack, Callum!” Her voice sliced the air like a whip, sharp and unforgiving. “Do you hear me?! You’re the Alpha. You saw the news. She’s trending lik
