After Rejection Divorced Luna Becomes A Famous Doctor (Hailey and Dominic) novel Chapter 195

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HAILEY

He rose, and Yasmine and the other council members followed suit. They filed out of the room, their faces unreadable, leaving Dominic and me alone in the suffocating silence of the council chamber.

I let out a breath I didn’t realize I’d been holding, my shoulders slumping in defeat. “They’re going to let her back in,” I said, my voice flat. “I can feel it.”

“Not if I have anything to say about it,” Dominic said his jaw tight. “They’re not looking at this with clear eyes. They’re looking at it with their hearts, with their outdated sense of honor. They see a grieving daughter, not a manipulative snake.”

“So what do we do?” I asked, my mind racing. “We have one hour. What can we possibly do to change their minds? She’s a damn good actress, I’ll give her that.”

Dominic started pacing the room, his long strides eating up the space. He stopped in front of the large window, looking out at the pack lands. “We’re fighting the wrong battle,” he said, turning to face me. “We’re trying to prove she’s a threat, but she’s already painted herself as a reformed sinner. They want to believe her. So we give them something they can’t ignore. Something that isn’t just our word against hers.”

“Like what?” I asked, a spark of hope igniting in my chest. “Her magic? She’s a witch, Dom. There’s no concrete proof of what she’s done with it, not that the council would accept. They’re wolves. They’re skeptical of magic they don’t understand.”

“Then we don’t give them magic,” he said, a slow smile spreading across his face. “We give them a conspiracy. Yasmine said her mother died in a human facility. That’s the lie we unravel. If she’s lying about that, what else is she lying about?”

“Her mother was banished with her,” I said, picking up his train of thought. “They were supposed to be together, struggling, suffering the consequences. If her mother is dead, and Yasmine is trying to use it to get back in, the circumstances of that death are everything.

“Exactly,” Dominic said, pulling out his phone. “I have a contact. A private investigator, human, but the best. He’s discreet, and he owes me a favor. I’m going to have him look into Yasmine’s mother’s death. Every detail. Where she died, when who was with her. If there’s a lie, he’ll find it.”

He stepped away, his voice low as he made the call I watched him, my admiration for him swelling in my chest. This was why he was the Alpha. He didn’t just react with anger; he strategized. He found the weakness in the enemy’s armor and exploited it.

While he was on the phone, I pulled out my own. I had an idea, a long shot, but one I had to take. I scrolled through my contacts until I found the name I was looking for. Eleanor Vance. She was a

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retired librarian from the old pack records department, a woman who knew more about the pack’s

history and its secrets than anyone alive. She had always been fond of me, and she had a deep

seated distrust of anyone who abused power.

She answered on the fourth ring. “Hailey? What a surprise. Everything alright?”

“I need your help, Eleanor,” I said, keeping my voice low. “It’s a council matter. It’s about Yasmine.”

There was a pause on the other end of the line, and I could almost hear her sitting up straighter.

“That girl is trouble. Always was. What’s she done now?”

I quickly filled her in, leaving out no detail, the threat against Phoenix, the council meeting, the

petition for her return. When I was finished, there was another long silence.

“They’re considering letting her back in?” Eleanor’s voice was laced with disbelief and a hint of fury.

“Have they all gone senile? After what she did to the Alpha? To the pack?”

“It seems they’re more swayed by a sob story than by the safety of their Alpha’s family,” I said

grimly. “But Dominic is working on an angle with her mother’s death. I was hoping for something

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