Contract Marriage With Alpha Snow novel Chapter 412

Chapter 412: Vera’s Breaking Point

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Chapter 412

~Snow’s POV~

I stepped out into the front yard, my body vibrating with fury. This wasn’t over. I wouldn’t let her slip through my fingers. Not now.

I shut my eyes, inhaling deeply, pushing past the storm of emotions raging inside me. I needed to focus.

"Glacier, I need you."

My wolf stirred, his presence immediately becoming strong in my mind.

"We’ve been lied to for weeks now. We lost our chosen mate in the process. For Zara’s sake, I need you to find Vera. Wherever she is. She’s cloaking herself, I know that, but use whatever is left of the fake mate bond."

There was silence, then a pause. I knew Glacier cared for Vera and asking him to do this was a gamble but he felt hurt with Zara leaving. He needed this too.

Then, Glacier growled. "That’s the problem, Snow. The mate bond isn’t fake."

I stiffened. "What?"

"You heard me."

My fists clenched. "How would you know?"

Glacier exhaled sharply. "Trust me, I just know. But that doesn’t change the fact that she lied. She used us. And I will not tolerate lies. I will find her, but..." He hesitated. "You promise not to kill her."

I opened my eyes, my jaw tightening. "I can’t promise that."

Because the next time I saw Vera? She was done.

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As soon as Glacier spotted her from kilometres away, I moved swiftly in her direction.

My breath came out in sharp, heavy pants as I stood in the forest, the scent of damp earth and blood thick in the air.

And then—I saw her.

Vera was kneeling beside the dead demon-wolf’s body, her fingers tracing strange symbols into the ground, her lips moving in a low, eerie chant. Dark energy pulsed around her, wrapping itself around the corpse like a mist.

The moment she sensed me, her entire body jerked.

Her eyes snapped open, locking onto mine as shock flashed across her face.

I didn’t stop. I moved towards her, my long, heavy strides cutting through the distance between us like a blade.

"So this is what you’ve been up to, huh?" My voice came out cold and deadly.

Vera quickly scrambled to her feet, her hands twitching as if she was about to perform more magic, but then she stopped, attempting to school her expression into innocence.

"It’s not what it looks like," she said quickly.

I let out a sharp, humourless laugh. "Really?"

"Yes, Snow. I was just..." She hesitated, her eyes darting around. "I was only praying for its poor soul to rest," she lied, her voice trembling just enough to sound believable. _{ƒrēewebnoѵёl.cσm}

A deep growl rumbled from my chest. "You must think me a dimwit if you believe I don’t know damn dark magic when I see it. That wasn’t a prayer, Vera. That was a curse."

Her lips parted, her breath hitching as she shuddered slightly. She tried stepping toward me, her hands reaching out like she had done so many times before, her expression shifting into the vulnerable girl act.

But I saw through it.