Chapter 3

Lena froze at my question, a flash of embarrassment crossing her face.

"I'm his mistress, but hear me out—Karen says he has no feelings for that nominal mate of his! It's all her family clinging to him."

"Her family just saw that Karen was capable and a natural Alpha candidate, so they pestered him relentlessly until he married her. The pathetic resources her family gave Karen were all earned by Karen saving her back then. He doesn't owe that woman anything."

My fingers gripping the water glass suddenly tightened, knuckles turning white, fingertips nearly embedding into the glass.

Saved me? Hearing this almost made me laugh out loud.

When I met Karen, he was just a bottom-tier werewolf in Black Pack who couldn't even afford a decent business dinner.

One year Black Pack was attacked by rogues. He rashly charged forward trying to claim credit and was nearly surrounded and killed in the chaos.

I desperately dragged him out of the pile of corpses and saved his life.

To save him I was poisoned with wolf venom and nearly lost the ability to shift for life.

At the time he'd knelt before me with red eyes, clutching my hand and swearing he'd never betray me in this lifetime.

To make things easier for him, I went home and begged my father on my knees for five million in startup capital.

I also got him inserted into Black Pack's core management and helped him climb to the Alpha position.

My family poured our hearts out to pull him from the mud into the spotlight, giving him money, connections, and dignity.

But in his mouth, my life-saving grace, all my sacrifices, became evidence of me pestering him relentlessly to marry him.

He turned around and used our sincerity as gifts to court his mistress, even twisting the truth to say we were clinging to him.

Looking at Lena's smug face, the last bit of hope in my heart shattered completely.

"That woman is not only gloomy in personality but also boring in bed," Lena pursed her lips, her face full of disdain.

"Karen says staying with her is especially depressing. If it weren't for transitioning through her family's connections, he would have divorced her long ago."

As she spoke, her face took on a deliberately flaunting sweetness:

"But the hard times are almost over. Karen said once he's firmly established as Alpha, he'll divorce that woman immediately."

Next month on the 16th is our anniversary. He says he's going to give me the beach house under that woman's name."

The 16th...

That was the day I woke up after being severely injured and falling into a coma while saving Karen.

Karen didn't come see me until the day after I woke up, saying he'd been delayed handling clan affairs the night before.

Turns out while I lay unconscious in the hospital bed, he was sleeping with another Omega and taking credit for my life-saving grace to show off.

"That woman still has no clue even now. She's stupid as hell." Lena sneered, her tone arrogant to the extreme. "She still thinks she married such a good, loyal husband. When Karen asks her for a divorce, she won't even have anywhere to cry. If she's smart she'll pack her things and get lost, instead of refusing to let go of the Luna position."

She continued prattling in my ear, bragging about her sex with Karen, counting off the things Karen had given her—things that originally belonged to me.

I couldn't suppress the fury in my chest any longer. I suddenly stood up and viciously threw the water in my hand onto her smug face.