Chapter 2

Four years later, I saw Airs again at the preschool entrance.

I had just picked up Amy when a mother of another young wolf suddenly came over.

"Rhea, look at that person across the street. Doesn't he look like that singer, that celebrity... what's his name..."

I followed her gesture and saw him.

"Airs!" The mother slapped her forehead. "Right, Airs!"

I looked away. "Don't know him."

She seemed surprised. "You don't listen to music? It's Airs! The most popular original singer these past few years! Won so many awards!"

"Oh my, honestly, his face looks kind of like yours. You're both gorgeous..."

I smiled and shook my head, taking Amy's hand and continuing forward.

"Una."

But from behind me came his voice.

I ignored it and kept walking.

"Una!"

Amy looked up.

"Mommy, is that man calling you? Why is he calling you Una?"

I shook my head with a smile.

"He's got the wrong person."

But when we reached the parking lot and I was about to open the car door, someone suddenly grabbed my arm.

I turned around. It was Airs, out of breath.

"Una, you're... actually still alive?!"

His words were as sharp and bitter as ever.

Perhaps from running too fast, his eyes had a faint tinge of red.

I dropped Amy off at a neighbor's house.

When I came back downstairs, Airs stood there with his hands in his pockets.

"How are you living in this dump? Where's your place? I'll come up and take a look."

I shook my head. "There's no need for that."

Four years ago, he had said with his own mouth that his only sister was Fiona.

He had also said with his own mouth that calling each other siblings made him sick.

When my adoptive brother Slater threw me out of their house and Gareth rejected me, when I had nowhere to turn, I had thought about finding this biological brother.

On a snowy day, I stood outside his company building all night, nearly freezing to death.

But in the end, all I got was his statement that his greatest wish was to never have had me as a sister.

"If you had never been born, Fiona wouldn't have been switched, and she wouldn't have suffered so much."

"Sister? How ridiculous. Slater doesn't want you anymore, so now you're trying to scam me with blood relations?"

"I would never acknowledge someone like you as my sister."

That's when I realized that no matter how good I was to him, he hated me because of Fiona.

At this moment, he still looked at me with scrutinizing eyes, frowning.

"That child, is it Gareth's? Did you run away to give birth to his child?"

Gareth. I hadn't heard that name in so long.

He was the Alpha heir of Diremaw Pack. I was his fated mate.

We had loved each other so much back then. He said he would love me forever, until Fiona appeared.

Later, he asked me to reject the bond. Maybe it was my good physical condition, maybe Amy was lucky, but the rejection didn't make me miscarry.

Snapping out of my memories, I was silent for a moment. "That's my child. Mine alone."

He smirked.

"Una, this kid is his spitting image. Do you think I'm blind?"

"You don't actually think that by secretly having his child, you can win back his heart, do you? You're such a hopeless romantic..."

"How pathetic, how foolish..."

"I said, this is my child. Mine alone." I interrupted him.

"I never thought about going back to Windrune Pack, and I never thought about using a child to compete with your sister for Gareth. You can rest assured, and you don't need to be so aggressive."

"Like you said back then, aside from blood relation, we're strangers. I'm not interested in your life now, so please don't tell me what to do."

He froze.

"If you don't have anything else, please leave." I turned around.

"Wait." He suddenly grabbed me.

He opened his mouth, then closed it.

"You, you..."

I frowned. "What?"

"Why... why did you leave back then..."

I looked at him quietly.

"You're a pampered young lady who can't do anything. People just said a few things to you. You were pregnant and you just disappeared."

"If I hadn't run into you, how long were you planning to live like this? And these four years..."

He paused.

"How... how did you survive?"