Chapter 7-
Chapter 7
After recovering and returning to our home, I found a thin layer of dust covering the furniture in the room. It seemed Alpha Joseph had been staying with Hallie and hadn’t been home for days.
I began taking stock of the things Alpha Joseph had given me during our time as mates. The more I counted, the colder my heart felt.
As an Alpha, Alpha Joseph had vast wealth and resources, yet in all our years together, he never gave me anything of significant value. The romantic gestures he did make were surprisingly inexpensive. For our anniversaries, he never even gave me a decent piece of jewelry, not even a simple ring.
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I rummaged through several storage boxes,
sorting out my belongings. I looked around the house and took down the wedding photo from the living room wall. I carefully cut out my part and put it away, while I tore Alpha Joseph’s portion to shreds and threw it into the toilet.
Strangely enough, I had asked the photo studio to Photoshop this combined picture because he was too busy to take a complete set of wedding photos with me.
I took scissors and cut the air conditioning, TV, and internet cables. Then, I went to the kitchen and smashed all the dishes.
Most of the clothes in Alpha Joseph’s wardrobe were things I had bought for him, so I poured red paint over them.
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I thought for a moment and went downstairs to buy a bucket of clear, strong adhesive. Whistling
a tune, I gleefully poured it all over Alpha Joseph’s bed.
Everything that could be burned was burned, and everything that could be smashed was smashed.
After two hours, the house looked unrecognizable. I nodded with satisfaction.
At that moment, my father’s beta, Colin, arrived at the front of the house. He looked around, dumbfounded, and asked, “Oh, Evelyn, has this place been robbed or is it a crime scene?”
Having vented some of the anger I had bottled up, I managed to joke, “Yes, maybe the culprit is
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standing right in front of you.”
Colin paused, as if realizing something. “Did Alpha Joseph cheat?”
I nodded, remaining silent.
Colin didn’t say anything more but began hauling my luggage downstairs. Once I was in the car, he returned to the house. Half an hour later, when he got back into the car, I saw smoke billowing from Alpha Joseph’s home.
“Evelyn, you’re too gentle. Dealing with a cheating man should be like how I do it. No
matter how wealthy you are, don’t leave
anything that belongs to you for that unfaithful jerk.”
During our relationship, I had arranged and
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funded everything in Alpha Joseph’s home, as rebuilding his pack required a lot of money. Now that he had cheated, everything should be returned to its original state.
Colin drove me back to the Darkmoon Pack’s estate. My father looked at all my luggage, surprised. “Did you have a fight?”
The news of my breaking off the mate bond with Alpha Joseph was a thunderbolt to him.
My parents were also a non-mate pairing, but their love had remained steadfast for ten years. My mother, in my father’s affection, always looked so happy.
When I was nineteen, my mother passed away, and my father lost his Luna. Even when my father later met his destined mate, he rejected
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her.
His love for my mother had once made me believe that love could sometimes surpass even the Moon Goddess’s choice of mate.
But clearly, not everyone could be like my father.
I suddenly remembered many years ago, my father had opposed my relationship with Alpha Joseph, though he had soon relented. I had once thought it was because Wilderness Pack had fallen, but now I realized my father was not so superficial.
So I asked, “Dad, why didn’t you want me to be with Alpha Joseph back then?”
“Because you were too alike. Both stubborn
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and unwilling to back down, no matter what. You would be the most loyal partners,” my
father said, looking at me for a long time before patting my head. “But I didn’t see in him the depth of love for you that I saw in you for him.”
Is that so?
Maybe it is. Alpha Joseph had always loved Hallie and never truly loved me. From the beginning, it was clear-I had loved the wrong
person.
