I walked down the red carpet, arm in arm with Alpha Ross, the sharp clicks of my heels echoing like declarations. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Alpha Fermando standing there, frozen like a statue. Bianca was whispering frantically beside him, but his gaze was glued to me—filled with shock, frustration, and something else I couldn’t quite read.
"Don’t look back," Alpha Ross murmured close to my ear, his warm breath brushing my skin. "Your future is ahead of you."
I drew in a deep breath, straightened my spine, and kept walking. There was a time I’d imagined myself walking this same path beside Alpha Fermando. I used to dream of it.
But now, I was just grateful to have escaped that humiliating past.
“He regrets it,” Leona, my wolf soul, whispered in my mind. Her voice was cool and s
