Chapter 27
Ashley spat at my feet.
The parents jumped in. “Just a golddigger pretending to be some Princess.”
“She actually thinks sleeping with Magnus makes her somebody?”
“Called the cops on herself how pathetic!”
I looked to Blair, helplessly, and said, “I’m old enough to even be a mother, so stop calling me princess and just call me by my name: Lilliana Blackwood.”
Blackwood is one of the last names of the werewolf royal family.
I turned to the officers, my voice steady. “These people assaulted me, vandalized my car, destroyed
millions in artwork, and their son deliberately injured my daughter with a wire.”
“I want them charged. No deals.”
The once–bold parents started to squirm.
But some still shouted. “Stand your ground! We’re protecting marriage here! Just because you’re from a royal family doesn’t give you a free pass to ruin someone’s MATE relationship.”
“Right! We’re fighting for morality! Everyone supports us!”
The crowd cheered, boosting their fading courage.
Blair surveyed the damage, his expression darkening. He came over and picked me up off the floor while holding my daughter.
Ashley grabbed Magnus’s arm. “Here’s my Alpha! Tell them, honey! All these bodyguar chariots, and lawyers, they’re all Steele Pack’s property!”
Magnus yanked away like her touch burned. “Get off me!”
Ashley froze, staring at him in shock.
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The crowd fell silent, confused. “What’s happening?”
As everyone watched, Magnus walked slowly toward me.
Then he dropped to his knees.
His voice shook. “Tm so sorry, Lilliana. My Luna!”
Magnus knelt there in the schoolyard dust, his expensive suit collecting dirt as he called me his wife.
The scene froze every parent in place. Their Mind–Link Crystals hung forgotten in mid–air.
The crowd that had been so sure of everything moments ago now stood in stunned silence.
Ashley’s perfectly crafted world cracked. “What… what’s happening?”
“Did he just call her… his Luna?”
“That can’t be right. There must be some mistake.”
The parents swarmed Ashley with questions she couldn’t answer. Their certainty crumbled like a house of cards.
The color drained from her face. The confident socialite facade shattered, revealing the desperate
woman beneath.
When she finally found her voice, it came out as a shriek. “Magnus! What the hell is this? Why are you calling that whore your Luna?”
Her designer handbag hit the ground as she grabbed his shoulders. “You told me our marriage was just paperwork! You promised we’d have a real wedding once you took over the Pack!TM
Her voice cracked with hysteria. “We have a son together! And now you’re kneeling to… to her?”
The carefully maintained composure of the Ashley dissolved completely.
“You said I was the love of your life! Was that all lies? Answer me!” She shook him violey, mascara running down her cheeks.
Magnus shoved her away with enough force to send her stumbling. “Just shut up!”
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“Can’t you see you’re ruining everything?”
Ashley staggered back like she’d been slapped. This wasn’t her charming, devoted Magnus. This was a stranger wearing his face.
The man she’d built her dreams around had vanished in an instant.
But Magnus was already focused on me, his only thought now self–preservation. Still on his knees, his voice turned pleading.
“Baby, please. I know I screwed up badly. Give me one more chance. Just one.”
The polished Alpha was gone. In his place knelt a desperate man who’d lost his script.
I looked down at him, feeling nothing. Five years of love had turned to ash.
Ashley didn’t take this reality in stride, she yelled: “You insolent bitch. I don’t care what kind of stupid act you’re playing with these goons you hired, but you’re not going to get away with this.”
She turned to the crowd of people watching. “I bet these men here are the actors she hired. Won’t be hard for this whore to get people to play out her little drama.”
Magnus ignored the mad Ashley.
“Lilliana, please!” His hands clutched at mine, eyes wild with fear. “I swear I love you! This was a mistake. It’ll never happen again!”
Ashley still couldn’t grasp what was happening. “Magnus, why are you begging her? Even if she is your wife, you’re the one with the power. You run Steele Pack!”
Magnus whirled on her, face contorted with rage. “Because I used to be broke! Everything now – the money, the position, all of it – it’s all HERS!”
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