Effective immediately, you are stripped of your title as Alpha’s mate. You will vacate the pack’s territory within 24 hours. Failure to comply will result in exile by force.
Sir Alpha Kane."
The paper crumpled in my fist as fury blinded me. Exile? For what? For being betrayed? For being nothing but disposable?
I stormed out, heading straight for Lukas’s quarters. My blood boiled with every step. When I burst into his room, he looked up from his desk with a calm expression, as though he had been waiting for me.
"You’re late," he said.
"You think you can exile me?" I snapped, slamming the letter onto his desk. "For what crime?"
Alpha Kane leaned back, his icy blue eyes piercing mine.
"Lukas has chosen a new mate. You’re a distraction, Ayla. And distractions weaken the pack."
"A distraction?" My voice cracked. "I gave everything to this pack. To Lukas. And now I’m tossed aside like trash?"
Kane’s lips twitched into a small smirk.
"Life isn’t fair, Ayla. But you knew that."
Something inside me broke. I lunged at him, claws out, but before I could reach him, he grabbed me by the throat and slammed me against the wall.