It feels like the air has been knocked out of my lungs. I just stand there, frozen, my heart pounding far too hard against my chest.
Did I hear that right?
Live here? Win his heart? Be his?
My eyes instinctively flick to Jack—and for the briefest moment, I swear—I see it. The faintest twitch at the corner of his lips. A damn smile—or is it a smirk?
And just like that, it’s gone—vanished like it was never there. But I saw it.
Something twists painfully in my chest.
Is he… enjoying this?
“Focus on what really matters,” my wolf growls inside my head, her voice sharp and jagged like broken glass. “Mate rejected the Alpha King’s offer—for us. Stop gawking like some jealous fool and claim him. He chose you. Stop being stupid. Accept him. Let him mark us now so we can throw that b***h out
