Chapter 4

Alpha James brought us to the old mansion to spend one last night with him.

Kael fell asleep on the sofa. Alpha James went to get a handmade cotton blanket for him.

Suddenly, the mansion's front door banged open.

Leon stormed in furiously, carrying Aisling.

"Clara! I really underestimated you. Where's that bracelet? Give it back now. Do you know Aisling had a mysterious headache this afternoon and got into a car accident on the way to the hospital?"

"I thought it was too coincidental at first, until I met a witch and learned you tampered with the bracelet and cursed her! How can you be so vicious?"

I sneered.

"Just some offhand remarks to provoke you. You actually believed them? Where's this witch who so conveniently let you meet them? Ask them which witch I hired to curse Aisling."

He was speechless, about to speak.

Aisling sobbed and walked over to Kael.

"It's okay, maybe it really is my poor health and I just happened to encounter these things. I just want my gold bracelet back."

I stepped to block her.

"I'll return the bracelet tomorrow. Kael is already asleep. Please leave now."

Leon glared at me.

"Why can't you give it now? What else do you need it for?"

I frowned, about to speak, when Leon instantly picked up the sleeping child.

"What are you doing! Don't touch him!"

Aisling grabbed Kael's arm and forcibly removed the bracelet.

"Clara, this is for your own good. No matter how much you hate me, you can't use the child. You used the gold bracelet I gave the baby to curse me. What if... what if the curse backfires on the child? What will you do then?"

"Better to take it off now."

Kael was hurt and his crying made my heart clench.

I rushed forward and slapped her to the ground.

"What nonsense are you talking! I told you there's nothing. Don't you dare touch my child!"

She looked at Leon tearfully.

The next second, his eyes reddened. He pushed me down hard and casually tossed the baby onto the sofa.

He helped Aisling up tenderly.

"We're reducing your and Kael's karma, and look at you acting crazy!"

He used too much force. My lower back hit the corner of the coffee table, and excruciating pain spread throughout my body.

But what chilled my heart more was how callous he was toward his own flesh and blood.

Alpha James, who'd rushed over at the sound, helped me up.

He picked up Kael, whose face was red from crying.

He slapped Leon across the face.

"You animal! Abusing your own son for a mistress!"

"You'll regret this one day! Get out! Get out of my sight!"

"She started it..."

Leon's originally dark gaze suddenly froze.

He paused.

"What do you mean, what 'last'..."

But before he could finish, Aisling collapsed on the ground and fainted.

He instantly panicked and quickly picked her up.

But as he was leaving, he suddenly looked back at me.

Unease flashed in his eyes.

"I'll come back for the bracelet tomorrow. Don't try anything!"

Alpha James slammed the door shut.

Early the next morning, the butler brought back the freshly stamped divorce decree.

The witch also severed the mate bond between Leon and me.

I didn't disturb Alpha James.

I placed the divorce decree under the gold bracelet, put it in the large box that once held the ring Leon gave me years ago.

I set it in a prominent position on the coffee table.

Looking at Kael in his swaddling clothes, my tone was more relaxed than ever before.

"Baby, let's start a new life together."

He suddenly broke into a smile, his eyes curved like crescent moons.

In his innocent, unknowing laughter, we boarded the plane to a new world.