From Betrayed Luna to Wolf Queen (Lillian) novel Chapter 100

Chapter 100 The Trap

Third–Person POV:

Julian hadn’t slept either. He’d spent the whole night searching for Lillian.

But after hours of turning the city upside down, she was still nowhere to be found.

And now this Iris plagiarism scandal had detonated.

The whole city was tearing Iris apart online, ripping into her reputation like wolves on fresh

meat.

It finally clicked for him–Lillian wasn’t just lashing out. She was declaring war.

And him? Her partner? She hadn’t trusted him enough to give so much as a heads–up.

“Anything yet?”

The moment Thomas walked in with a stack of files, Julian’s question came before anything else.

Thomas shook his head. “Nothing.”

Julian pressed his fingers to his temples, trying to ease the pounding ache behind his eyes.

She was his mate. His. And right now, she was out there somewhere, hurting, hiding–and he couldn’t find her.

“Has she shown up at Finn’s biotech lab?”

Thomas replied, “No.”

Every place Lillian had ever frequented, Thomas had people watching. If she so much as breathed near any of them, he’d know within minutes.

But so far? Radio silence.

Julian’s breathing went heavy.

She was gone. Her phone was dead. Vanished.

Finally, out of pure desperation, he grabbed a burner phone and dialed her number.

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Illian was half–asleep when the vibration pulled her out of a dream. She answered without thinking

“Hello”

Julian’s voice came through cold and clipped. “You want to dissolve the bond so bad? Fine. Let’s do it.”

The moment those words hit her ears, she was wide awake.

“You mean that?”

She sat up straight in bed before she even realized she’d moved.

Julian said, “Yeah. Meet me at the courthouse in half an hour.”

“Done.”

Hearing that Julian had finally caved sent a rush of relief through her chest.

God, she’d been waiting six months for this moment.

Getting him to agree had felt impossible.

But now that he had–maybe, just maybe, the last few days of chaos had actually been worth it.

She hung up.

Threw herself together. Headed downstairs.

George spotted her dressed to leave and blinked. “Alpha Edmund left strict orders—you’re not to leave the house for the next two weeks.”

Yesterday’s bleeding at Inkwood Gardens had freaked Edmund out bad. He was all the way across the ocean in the Western Territory, but that didn’t stop him from losing it when he heard.

Back when Lillian had been fighting to survive under the Graves Pack’s thumb, he’d understood why she pushed herself past every limit.

But now? She didn’t have to fight like that anymore.

So when he found out she’d collapsed from blood loss, he’d personally ordered George to keep her inside.

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Lillian smiled Tm going to dissolve my partnership with Juliars”

Well. That changed things.

“Then I’ll drive you myself.”

If Julian had finally agreed to end it, they needed to move fast. No delays. No second thoughts.

Starfall Mountain sat on the far edge of the territory, which meant the drive to the courthouse took time.

Julian had said half an hour, but by the time Lillian pulled up, almost fifty minutes had passed.

The moment she stepped out of the car, she spotted him leaning against his Maybach nearby.

Sunlight cut across his face, but underneath it, exhaustion was carved deep. He looked like he hadn’t slept in days.

When he saw her arrive, Julian didn’t know whether to laugh or lose his mind.

Had it really come to this? That the only way he could get her to show up was by pretending to end what they had?

And then he noticed who’d driven her. George. From Starfall Mountain. Julian’s eyes went

arctic.

So that was it. Finn had been hiding her all along.

Lillian walked up to him, small bag in hand, face unreadable. “Let’s go.”

Two words. Flat. Final.

No hesitation. No flicker of feeling. Whatever they’d been, she’d already buried it.

Julian’s gaze narrowed. “You’re that eager to cut ties?”

Lillian just looked at him. Said nothing.

In her mind, there was nothing left to say. The last few days had said it all.

Julian stared at her silence and felt something crack behind his ribs. “After everything I’ve done for you–you ungrateful little-”

“What’s the point of rehashing that now?”

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Yeah He’d been good to her once Better than good.

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But a parmership wasn’t just two people. It came with strings. His family. His pack. Tris. All of

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And being treated well wasn’t enough to make her stay through all of that.

A person could only swallow so much before they forgot how to breathe. And Lillian was done choking.

Even without Edmund stepping in–she and Julian had always been heading here.

“The point?” Julian’s voice went sharp. “You wanna end things with me so you can crawl into bed with Finn? That’s the point? You that desperate to be with him?”

Lillian almost laughed. Almost.

Julian asked, “How long has this been going on? When did it start?”

He was fully spiraling now, fury bleeding through every word.

Lillian looked at him. And stayed quiet again.

Julian shouted, “Say something.”

Her silence cut deeper than any scream ever could. Every second of it felt like another slice across his chest.

Lillian finally spoke, “What if I told you there’s nothing between Finn and me? Would you believe it?”

“No.”

“Then fine. There’s something. Let’s just dissolve the bond.”

At this point, she was done trying to protect anyone.

If Julian was determined to believe she was sleeping with Finn, then let him. She’d use it. She’d use every weapon she had to walk away.

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Lillian pressed on, her tone laced with venom. “That night on the rooftop. You carried her down in your arms. The media ate it up–how perfect you two looked together”

Julian said nothing, but the muscles in his jaw were taut.

“If I’d reacted even a second slower, if I hadn’t moved when I did–in this whole mess with you and Iris, I’d be the one everyone hated right now.

“And you want me to have told you about things? Please.”

It was absurd. Laughable.

Julian felt like all the air had been knocked out of him.