Chapter 15: A Friend.
Karen’s POV
I’m seething, that b***h!
How dare she?
How dare she?
How dare she look at me like that-like I’m some pathetic little insect she can flick off her perfect Luna gown. How dare she speak to me like I’m beneath her. Like I’m not the one who should’ve been standing beside Aiden in the first place.
I stomp through the courtyard, ignoring the gawkers.
She treated me like I was some lowly omega. Doesn’t she remember I had Aiden first?
He was mine. I f****d with him way before she did. Aiden hated Irina; everyone knew it, and the fact that he treated her like s**t during the last Alpha Gathering was a clear indicator that
he never wanted her as Luna.
I’m sure if it weren’t for the mate bond, they wouldn’t be together.
To everyone with a set of eyes, Aiden is clearly unhappy with the Luna he has now, which is why the pack hasn’t accepted her yet.
And still… she dared to humiliate me.
Me.
In front of half the Alphas of this region. In front of my own brother. All because I dared challenge her?
As if she would win.
She might have been an Alpha’s daughter, but she was always regular.
Now that she is with Aiden, she acts as a goddess descended from the moon itself. Elegant and untouchable, but I’m going to bring her down and show her what she truly is.
Not a Luna, only an omega.
“You are going to get us killed,” Lilly muttered, sighing heavily. “Stop it, Karen. Aiden isn’t even
our mate.”
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“And? Do you think our mate will be better?” I scoffed. “He is the strongest Alpha in the f*****g region!”
“Power is not everything,” Lilly hissed in the back of my mind.
“It is to me,” I snapped.
She groaned, rolling her eyes. “No, Karen. You know damn well what I mean. Aiden’s isn’t yours. He was never yours. He fooled around with you because he was lonely, angry, and reckless. He didn’t want you. He never chose you.”
I clenched my jaw so tightly my teeth hurt.
“He respected me more than he respects her,” I hissed.
“Karen… be real. He didn’t let you stay the night,” She muttered. “You were convenient for hi loneliness.”
“I was not just a f**k!” I argued.
My wolf shook her head. “Karen… be realistic. Aiden never told you he loved you, right?”
I refused to reply.
“He called, you came, you f****d, and then he told you to leave. That was it, even if you win the fight, he won’t accept you as his Luna.”
“He has to!” I growled. “Those are the terms.”
“So
you
will force a man to be with you?” She questioned.
I don’t want to talk to her anymore, so I put a block between us.
I’m sure, even if Aiden doesn’t like me right now, he will soon realize I’m a better fit than that
scammer.
I stopped walking.
That was it, I had to show Aiden who Irina truly was. My brother told me something about her, declaring she was an enigma or some bullshit like that, but that is just nonsense.
An enigma doesn’t exist. I’m sure she created that story, so Aiden would think she is not as weak as she actually is.
Which is why the challenge is perfect.
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Once I win, Aiden won’t want someone as weak as her by her side. He will realize he cares about me. That we loved each other, that-
“He ignored you for weeks at a time,” Lilly interrupted. “He avoided talking to you in public. He never looked at you the way he looks at her now. Karen… he was using you.”
My throat tightened, but I shook my head, refusing to let the truth sink its claws into me.
No. No no no.
“He slept with me more than once,” I said. “He kept coming back.”
“Because you made it easy,” Lilly replied quietly.
I froze.
“I was not easy!” I barked and blocked her once more.
If she was not going to be helpful, then she didn’t deserve a place in my head right now.
I slammed the mental door shut so hard that Lilly’s presence flickered into silence.
Good.
I didn’t need her judgment. I didn’t need her warnings. I didn’t need her pathetic, moral little voice telling me I wasn’t enough.
I know exactly what I am.
And I know exactly what I deserve.
I was going to show Irina tomorrow what I was made from.
I marched deeper into the courtyard, ignoring the lingering gazes that followed me-some pitying, some amused, some afraid.
In a few hours, they’d be looking at me for a different reason.
The next Luna. The rightful Luna.
Aiden needed someone like me-someone ruthless, someone who understood the politics, someone who had been waiting for him long before Irina even thought to show her face here.
Irina wasn’t strong. She wasn’t special. She was just… difficult. Stubborn. Annoying.
That orange dress-gods, it made me sick. The confidence in her eyes, the way she lifted her chin like she was born to lead-
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Fake.
All of it fake.
And everyone was falling for it.
Everyone except me.
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I know the truth. I know who she was before Aiden was forced to accept her. A mess. A disappointment. A failure of an Alpha heir. She wasn’t even strong enough to keep her own pack together-
But now she expects to lead Shadow Pack?
Ridiculous.
“I refuse to let her stand above me,” I muttered to myself.
I stopped when I reached the edge of the courtyard, my hands curling into fists around the fabric of my dress.
I could almost see it. Irina on her knees in the arena. Sweat, blood, fear in her eyes. Aiden rushing in, finally realizing-
That she wasn’t the Luna he needed.
That she wasn’t worthy of him.
That I was right all along.
“You are deep in thought,” a deep voice said from behind me, making me jump.
I spun around so fast my heels scraped the stone.
And there he was.
Handsome. Sharp-jawed. A smile like sin carved into his mouth. Eyes that always seemed to glow with amusement-or danger.
I rolled my eyes.
He was hot, but he couldn’t hold a candle against Aiden.
My Aiden is perfect. Taller, broader, more handsome, and powerful.
He stepped closer, and the look he gave me reminded me of a predator, ready to devour anyone who stood in his way.
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I swallowed hard.
He chuckled. “No greeting? How cold of you.”
I lifted my chin. “What do you want?”
He smirked, delighted. “Ah. Straight to the point. Good.”
He looked me over-slowly, knowingly-and then drifted beside me as if we were old friends sharing a casual conversation under the moonlight.
“Tell me,” he murmured, voice low and smooth, “are you ready to do whatever it takes to get Irina out of your way?”
My pulse stumbled.
I didn’t answer.
Not because I didn’t have an answer-but because saying it aloud felt like stepping past a
point of no return.
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