The Beta’s Betrayal,Her Bond RejectionChapter 1

Seven moons along with pup. Confined to my chambers on healer's orders. Anxiety clawing at my chest as I scrolled obsessively through the pack-net mark-threads.

"Should I make my mate try a whelping simulation?"

A reply with captured images caught my eye.

"Definitely! My intended did one and swore he'd never let me endure that alone. But I'm about to become a mother anyway."

Someone challenged her: "If you're not carrying the pup yourself, where's it coming from?"

The poster replied smugly: "My intended's bonded mate spent five heat cycles trying to conceive and finally caught with pup. Once she whelps, the little one belongs to me."

"She's seven moons along now, just resting in her den like a fool, waiting to birth. Has no clue whose pup it truly is."

Five heat cycles of trying. Seven moons pregnant. I knew exactly how brutal that journey was.

I couldn't stop the rage boiling inside me at this shameless she-wolf.

I kept scrolling—and froze.

A healer's scrying image. The kind that showed the pup's form in the womb.

My breath stopped. She was showing off a picture of my pup.

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