Chapter 6
At the castle’s entrance, Richard finally caught up with me and grabbed my arm.
His expression was darker than the night itself, his eyes blazing with the instinctive fury of an Alpha.
“Fiona, what exactly do you mean?”
I turned around, looking at him calmly, and spoke slowly and deliberately:
“I do love Fiona. She’s the only Omega I want to marry. But to expect me to only sleep with her… I just can’t.”
Those were his own words.
Hearing them from my mouth now hit him like thunder–an unrelenting judgment striking his nerves.
He froze, anger flaring in his handsome features.
“Who told you? Laura? Is she the one who betrayed me?!”
I sneered.
“Oh? So you don’t like the taste of betrayal either
“Was it her?!” His voice was almost a roar.
“No. I heard it with my own ears. That night–I was at Night Hall.”
Richard’s face finally changed, revealing the cold beast beneath the torn mask.
“You found out, yet pretended you didn’t, just to humiliate me in public today?”
I smiled lightly.
“You overestimate yourself.”
“Guess why I moved the vow exchange to the end?”
He said nothing, just narrowed his eyes, his gaze sharp as a blade.
“Because I wanted to go through the whole wedding properly. I wanted to watch tonight’s fireworks.”
“This is the most important wedding of my life–maybe the last. I spent a year preparing it–designing, revising, visiting florists, choosing fabrics, running across the entire Northern territory–all for a perfect day.”
“Even if you don’t deserve it, my efforts deserve a proper ending.”
“I don’t want to carry the regret of an unfinished wedding in my memories.”
“As for humiliating you you’re not worthy.”
“Didn’t you notice? Today, none of the wedding footage ever focused on you.”
“For this wedding, it’s enough that I’m in the spotlight.”
Richard’s eyes darkened. He clenched his jaw and his breathing grew heavy.
“You mean… you want to end this bond?”
I nodded, taking a deep breath.
“My ‘I don’t want to‘ said it all.”
Richard’s voice was hoarse.
“Are you really giving up on me? You’ll never find an Alpha stronger than me.”
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I smiled softly.
“I don’t need to find one.”
“I’m capable, intelligent, independent, and whole.”
“Though I’m an Omega, I’m not a weakling who needs to
“You need a marriage to glorify your bloodline and
ly on an Alpha to survive.”
fulfill your heir plans. But I don’t need a marriage to prove my worth.”
In the night, his figure seemed carved by the cold wind into a statue of sorrow and rage.
I turned away, the hem of my dress brushing the gravel as I slowly walked down the ritual path.
Tears silently slid down my chin.
But I did not stop.
This was the last time I would
shed tears for this relationship.
Next time, I would face
every storm
with a smile.
Before the moon set, I left the Northern Castle and hid alone in a hotel for three whole days.
I turned off my phone, disabled the mind link, and uninstalled all sensory systems connected
No eyes open, no thoughts, no words.
When I finally reemerged into the sunlight, it felt
my
to
the wolf pack network.
couldn’t quite focus on the world.
a
I hailed a cab and returned to Night Hall to gather my things.
The room was empty, with signs of frenzy everywhere.
The sofa was crooked, claw marks crisscrossed the walls, a vase shattered on the floor,
crack.
e wild.
Clearly, Richard had lost control. His wolf had gone
I looked carefully and realized there wasn’t much I could take-
even the wolf clan emblem on the wall had
Most of the clothes, accessories, collections, even the furniture were all carefully chosen by Richard for
He had marked them with his Alpha scent, and now, they no longer belonged to me.
In the end, I took only one suitcase.
As I walked down the stairs, my eyes met with the messy–haired Alpha sprawled on the grand hall floor.
Richard’s hair was disheveled, his cheek stubbled and patchy, his eyes bloodshot and wild.
