1 sat bolt upright as two more pictures came through. Jane slipping inside the room, and then the door shut behind her with a sock on the handle.
The final message was just a regr text: “Looks like your mate bond isn’t the only thing that’s broken. He’s with her right now.”
I stared at the phone, my hands shaking. No. This couldn’t be real. Alexander wouldn’t do this.
I tried calling him right away. The phone rang once, then cut to a message saying the number couldn’t be reached.
I tried again. Same thing.
Still, I thought that this had to be fake. Someone was trying to make it look like Alexander was cheating. But who? And why?
I didn’t sleep the rest of the night.
By morning, my phone was exploding with notifications. I picked it up and unlocked it with trembling finger The pictures were everywhere, of course. News sites, social media, gossip blogs. Everyone was talking about it.
“Alpha King caught with PR manager.”
“Alexander Sce’s affair exposed.”
“Is this the end for the so–called Luna E?”
I felt sick. My phone rang, and I answered without looking at the caller ID, thinking that it must be Alexander calling to fix everything.
“Hello?”
“E.” It wasn’t Alexander, but my father’s voice that responded. Of course. “I saw the news. I’m so sorry this happened to you.”
“Fuck off, Richard.”
“Now, now. Is that any way to speak to your father? I’m calling because I want to help you, sweetheart.”
“Help me? You’re the one who kidnapped my mother. And don’t start with the ‘father‘ shit like you haven’t been telling everyone I’m an imposter for weeks.”
“I am sorry about that. About all of it. But I can fix everything. Daddy can fix everything.” He paused. “All you have to do is publicly denounce your rtionship with Alexander. Admit that you’re not really E, that you’ve been lying this whole time. Thene home and take your proper ce as an Omega servant in my pack.”
“Are you out of your fucking mind?”
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“Alexander clearly doesn’t want you anymore. Why else would he be with Jane? Your mate bond is have nothing holding you together except a false sense of loyalty.” His voice turned cold. “I can make all of this go away. The pictures, the scandal, everything. Your mother will be released. You’ll be safe. You’ll only be an Omega for a while, just as punishment for what you did to Margaret.”
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“You are so full of shit. Go fuck yourself.”
He started to say something else, but I didn’t want to hear it. I hung up and threw my phone on the bed. My father was delusional if he thought I’d ever agree to that. But the pictures…
My phone buzzed again. This time, it was a call from the Anthonies, surprisingly. Curious, I answered, “Hello?”
“E? It’s Anthony.”
I sat up straighter. “Anthony? Is everything okay?”
“Yes, yes. Well, no. I saw the news this morning. About Alexander.” He paused. “I’m calling because Tony and I have been analyzing your samples, and we found something interesting. We were going to wait until your next appointment to talk about it, but Tony said you might want to hear it now what with everything else going on.
“What is it?”
“We think we may be able to help you restore your mate bond.”
My breath caught. “What?”
“The crystal in your chest, the way it’s integrated with your cells–we think there’s a way to use that to rec. the bond that was severed. It’s experimental, and there are risks, but…” He trailed off. “We wanted to offer you the chance to try, given… Well… Only if you still want to, of course.”
I shouldn’t have said yes. I should have waited to see Alexander again. I should have at least slept first.
But in that moment, all my fear and insecurity and hurt coalesced into three words that tumbled out before I could stop them.
“I’ll do it.”
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