No matter what they did… no matter how powerful their magic… no matter how skilled their healing hands… the real wound was deeper than flesh. The damage was done in places they could never reach-in our hearts, in our souls.
The pain there would never go away.
I turned my head slowly and looked to the side. My eyes landed on Levi, who was lying next to me on my right.
He was crying.
Silent tears rolled down his face, one after another. His chest rose and fell with shaky breaths as he tried to hold it all in. But I could see it-he was falling apart, just like me.
On my other side, Louis lay/still, staring up at the ceiling with empty eyes. He wasn’t crying, but I could feel his pain. It was in the way his fists were clenched, in the tight line of his jaw, in the way his whole body trembled.
We were broken.
All three of us.
And the worst part?
We did this to ourselves.
I closed my eyes and took a shaky breath. Olivia’s voice still echoed in my head.
“Lennox Luciano… I, Olivia Parker… reject you as my mate.”
Fresh, hot tears fell down my cheek, but I didn’t wipe the tears from my face. I let them fall.
My wolf was crying too, broken and empty. I reached inside, searching for the bond, trying to feel her again. That warm feeling… that pull toward her…. the sense that no matter where she was, I could find her.
But there was nothing.
Just silence.
It felt like part of my soul had been ripped out. Like something sacred had been taken from me and would never return.
“Maybe we should have fought harder…” Louis whispered, his voice shaking. “We shouldn’t have agreed to the rejection.”
I didn’t respond.
There was nothing to say.
We couldn’t fight it-not with the Elders’ decision, not when Olivia herself wanted it. Not when she has a solid proof to back up her claims. Even if we had told them about the letters-that someone bewitched us, poisoned us against her-no one would have believed us.
Not even her.
She’d think it was just another excuse. Another lie.
And the worst part?
We thought if we accepted the rejection, she would agree to stay back.
But we were wrong.
Our plan didn’t work.
And now… she’s gone.
A sudden sound snapped me out of my thoughts.
One of the healers gasped. “Alpha Levi-his pulse is dropping!”
“What?” I jolted up, the pain in my chest forgotten as I turned to him.
Levi’s face had gone pale-his lips slightly blue, his eyes half-closed. His breaths were shallow, and his body barely moved.
“No-no, no!” I crawled to him, grabbing his hand. “Levi! Stay with us!”
The healers moved quickly, placing glowing stones on his chest and pouring some kind of potion into his mouth. One of them pressed her hands over his heart, whispering a spell over and over.
I held my breath, my hand clutching his tightly.
“Come on… you can’t leave us,” I whispered.
Then-finally-he gasped.
His eyes flew open, and air rushed into his lungs. His chest heaved as he started breathing again. His fingers twitched, and a tear slid from the corner of his eye.
“He’s stable,” the healer said with relief. “But he was close.”
I let out a shaky breath, burying my face in my hands for a moment. That fear-that I was about to lose him too-shook me to my core.
Then the door burst open.
“Sons!” a familiar voice cried.
It was our mother.
She ran in, eyes wide with panic, followed closely by our father. Their expressions were full of fear and pain as they rushed to Levi’s side.
“What happened?!” Mother asked, dropping to her knees beside the bed, her hands reaching for us all.
Father looked at us-his powerful, stern eyes filled with concern. “You went through with it…”
And just behind them… walked in our uncle.
My frown deepened as I glared at him, but he had a smirk on his face… that kind of victorious smirk.
My weak wolf growled angrily inside me. I forced myself up from the bed and began approaching him… my hands trembling with anger.
“How could you, Uncle… how could you do this to us…” I spat in anger and pain.
“There are so many girls… why our Olivia…” I spat and stood just an inch away from him. I was filled with anger but also in pain. Damien was more than an uncle to us… he was like an elder brother to us… When I was younger, confused by the strange feelings I’d begun to have for Olivia, I had gone to him. I had left home, traveled to his pack just to confide in him.
“You knew we loved her,” I whispered, my voice hoarse. “We adored her. And you still
“I took what you took from me,” Damien said calmly, his smirk widening just a little. “An eye for an eye, right?”
I froze.
His words didn’t make sense.
“What… what are you talking about?” I asked, frowning, my anger twisting into confusion.
Lennox’s POV
“What do you mean?” I asked, confused.
Uncle Damien scoffed bitterly, shaking his head. “Don’t act like you don’t know what you did… you and your brothers. You three are the reason Sofia left me. I’ve been waiting for the right moment to pay you back. And when the chance came-oh, I grabbed it without a second thought.”
My frown deepened. I genuinely had no idea what he was talking about.
“What do you mean we’re the reason Sofia left?” I muttered, stunned.
Louis, who had been silent this whole time, stood up and marched toward Damien. “What the hell are you saying?” he snapped.
Damien narrowed his eyes. “Stop pretending. You all know exactly what I’m talking about.”
“We don’t!” I growled, losing my patience. “We don’t fucking know what you’re talking about!”
Father stepped forward, his voice calm but edged with confusion. “Damien… what is this really about?”
Damien turned to him, his face hardening. “Your sons… they betrayed me.”
“How?” I demanded. “How did we betray you?!”
Damien was like an older brother to us. He is family. We respected him-loved him. What betrayal was he talking about?
He glared at the three of us. “You remember when you came to spend those few days in my pack? I saw the way you acted around Sofia. At first, I thought nothing of it… figured you were just being friendly, maybe saw her as a sister. I never imagined you were catching feelings for my fianc?e.”
I took a step forward, disgusted. “God forbid! Are you even hearing yourself? Sofia was your fianc?e-and she was five years older than us! How could you ever think we’d have feelings for her?”
“You’re lying,” Damien said coldly. “All three of you-liars
Louis looked like he’d explode. “You’re insane.”
Damien ignored him. “And as if that wasn’t bad enough… I shared something with you -something only I and my personal healer knew. I told you I was… impotent. That my healer had confirmed it. I told you how scared I was to tell Sofia… because she wanted kids. Because she dreamed of being a mother.”
He clenched his fists, trembling with anger. “I trusted you with that. And the very next day, she left. She left a letter saying she couldn’t be with me now that she knew I couldn’t give her children. She knew the one thing no one else did. And the only people I told… were you three.” 4
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.