He’d made himself very clear, not only during that heat, but here and now after it, this accusation he, the Alpha himself had just made against her, his Luna of 22 years, that did nothing but give him everything he wanted, even to the point of never complaining about him not spending time with her anymore. She just sucked it up, for the will of their Goddess wanting them to be Mates.
Eventually, she and her wolf Laud would be nothing more than a title place holder, right this very minute in time, she didn’t think she held any place in his or Shades heart. She’d been fully eclipsed now by Christy.
When she got that trump card and played it, he’d have no way of talking his way out of it either, Not considering she documented everything, including when they had sex, where it was, and how long it was before he got that mind-link from Christy, and he got up and left her bed to go to his other Mate.
All her feelings on the matter were documented for each time this had happened. Eventually, there was going to be the words “I didn’t care,” or “I feel nothing.” Were going to be written there. Already now she could see how her own pain was getting less and less.
Though it had been all anger and fury during her heat and him not coming, even her handwriting wasn’t neat in her fury to document how callous he’d been, telling her he would come but never coming to tend to her.
The last entry for that had simply been “I now know the utter ugly truth of my Mate Bond with the Alpha.” She’d not even put his name in there.
Hell, she’d called him Alpha on several occasions, and he’d either not noticed it or blipped over it, maybe even thought it was appropriate because only Christy mattered to him now. Most Alpha Mates would take that as a sign something was very wrong with their mate bond, or that they were in deep trouble with their Luna. Not Anthony. No, he’d not even batted an eyelid.
She was going to leave him when those words were written, and she knew it, regardless of the fact that they were Goddess-Gifted to each other, and she believed in being with the one Selena gifted to you. Maybe sometimes bonds were just meant to be dissolved to move on to bigger and better or much simpler things.
Her Alpha/Luna bond had once been strong, and she’d thought unbreakable, but now she knew better. This bond was fragile and weakening every single day. Today showed it in full how broken they were.
He’d once defended her against Christy’s accusations, but not today. He’d been swayed, she knew, by something that she-wolf stated and then come and accused of doing something to Christy without so much as a single shred of proof.
That told her he no longer trusted her the way he had once had, their mate bond had, had blind faith once upon a time, that went both ways. Only now there was no faith at all between them. She’d lost it months ago. Who knew when he had for her, probably with this event and Christy’s whispered words that alluded to that it was all her doing.
So, today he’d gotten a taste of how she felt. Today she’d dished it right out and back at him, and he’d not liked hearing it at all. Hadn’t liked being on the receiving end of an unproveable accusation. She’d made complete sense even though he’d called her unreasonable.
Everything she’d said today was in fact plausible and could well have happened, and he couldn’t prove it hadn’t been like that, because it would just be his word against the facts that she’d already pointed out. He didn’t call to get Christy any help, he didn’t leave the room to stop her from being over mated by himself or his wolf.
He had, in fact, stayed in there the entire time of his own free will and continued to mate that she-wolf for nine days solid. As not only Christy’s Mate but an Alpha, he should never have continued to mate her when he realized something was off about the heat. Yet he had.
She knew that Alpha unit all saw the way Anthony practically pandered to Christy’s every whim, and saw it was Christy that was slowly but surely pulling them apart and destroying their bond. So, when Mischa did ask them to do something like this, investigate formally, they actually went off and did it. Her word was no different to Anthony’s.
They all also knew she was just out to simply clear her name was all, and nothing more, if the investigation they held, because she wasn’t involved in it. Showed to a very blind Anthony that Christy was the problem and trying to drive a wedge between him and Mischa. That was their doing, not hers.
Christy still claimed she was young and insecure and Anthony stated it as well, fell back on those words when defending himself if Mischa brought it up, not that she did anymore. But really how long could one play that card? It had been two years now and she still said the same thing.
‘You love Mischa more than me, ‘Mischa’s so accomplished, how can I compare.’ ‘I’m still learning how to be a proper Luna you know I’m trying my best.’ ‘Mischa’s got 20 years more experience.’
When, in fact, Mischa doubted Anthony even thought about her at all unless he was walking past her or needed to actually talk to her about pack-related things. Yes, there was a mate bond between them, but if she walked away from this pack he’d likely just shrug it off after the initial pain of rejection, because he had Christy.
She got the footage later that afternoon from Kendrick and sat and watched it, shook her head as she watched that first day of her heat. It started with Anthony making his way through the packhouse and bypassing the Alpha Suite to go right to her room. But then it showed Christy had banged out of the Alpha Suite and stood staring down the hallway towards where her room was, that her fists had been balled at her sides.
That she’d prowled around out there a lot, then had been seen walking to Mischa’s suite, yanked into it and then a few minutes later shoved out of it as well. That she’d banged into the Alpha Suite once more and nothing. No one had come and gone from that suite until the following morning, when Christy had walked out of the Alpha Suite and into the Luna Suite, then a few minutes later into the Alpha Suite once more.
20 minutes after that, Anthony had been seen leaving her room to go to the Alpha Suite when Christy’s heat had started. That was it; No one had gone near Christy, not even an omega had been up there in that room that morning, it had been early and omegas didn’t clean suites until after 9am, it had been before that.
That 20 minutes, Mischa had been in a bout of heat herself, then the shower where they’d argued. Not even Anthony could deny that, so there was no way she could have even ordered anyone to do anything to Christy.
It was clear no one had done anything to Christy, she’d been perfectly fine other than being clearly mad about Mischa being in heat. Showing her she-wolf jealousy. That first day, she’d been completely fine. The morning of Mischa’s second day of heat as well.
She was now dead certain Christy had done this to herself, on purpose and not had anyone help her either.
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