The Heartbroken Luna's Choice Banish Love novel Chapter 198

Chapter 198

Third Person’s POV

Trista’s sharp, final question hit the room like a localized explosion.

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Instantly, the air was flooded with the agitated pheromones of the high–ranking wolves present.

The noble she–wolves nearby traded scandalous looks, their hushed whispers swirling through the hallway like a growing storm.

Samantha felt the floor falling out from under her. Her low–level omega scent grew sour and erratic with panic. She scrambled forward, trying to wrap herself back in her cloak of innocence.

“Luna Trista, please… don’t be angry, you’re misunderstanding everything!” she stammered, her voice trembling. “I… I had a feminine emergency. My cycle started early and I ruined my clothes. Alpha Cassian was only being a gentleman, stepping in to help someone in need.”

Trista let out a sharp, cold snort. Inside her, the wolf that had been dormant for so long let out a low, guttural snarl.

She looked at Samantha, her voice like ice shards grinding together. “Since you’re such a ‘dear friend‘ of Ms. Poole’s, and this lounge is crawling with women, why didn’t you seek help from one of them? Why was it absolutely necessary to bypass every social rank and find my Alpha to handle such a… private matter?”

Trapped by Trista’s airtight logic and the piercing stares of the elite, Samantha’s pale face flushed a deep, humiliated red.

She looked toward Cassian, her throat working as she tried to find a defense, but she eventually went silent under the crushing weight of the Luna’s aura.

In the eyes of the onlookers, that guilty silence was as good as a confession. It confirmed every dark rumor about the illicit connection between the Ironthorn Alpha and this nobody.

Cassian’s eyes were locked on Trista, his mind racing to find a way to contain the fallout.

He released a wave of Alpha aura–heavy and threatening–hoping to force the chaos into submission.

He reached out and grabbed Trista’s arm, his voice low and dangerous. “Trista, stop overthinking this. I was just helping out. It’s not what you think.”

Right in front of everyone, Trista ripped her arm out of his grip.

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That same hand had held her captive in private, but here, in the light, it just looked repulsive.

She tilted her head back, her voice clear and ringing. “Alpha Cassian, are you calling me deaf? She called you by your first name in front of this entire hallway. Everyone heard it.”

Her eyes were rimmed with red, but she didn’t back down an inch. “You dumped your mate downstairs so you could sneak her into our private suite and let her put on my ceremonial dress. And you’re telling me you were just ‘helping out“?”

Trista stepped into his space, challenging him. “Where exactly do I fit into Ironthorn, Cassian? What am I to you?”

They were dangerously close.

Cassian could feel the frantic vibrations from their mating bond–a warning that he was losing his grip on the situation.

He leaned in, his voice a low warning in her ear. “Are you sure you want to do this here? Do you really want to burn it all down in public?”

He knew the truth.

Trista hadn’t just “snapped.”

This card game, the trip upstairs–it was a setup.

She didn’t want an explanation; she wanted to drag Samantha out into the light and gut her reputation in front of the pack’s power players.

She was retaliating.

And she was doing it in the most public, brutal way possible.

Trista saw the darkness in his face and felt a flicker of cold satisfaction. Suddenly, she turned and practically collapsed into Priscilla’s arms.

She stopped acting tough; her shoulders began to shake, and her voice broke into a sob. “Priscilla… I can’t… I can’t do this anymore. It hurts too much.”

The hallway went dead silent.

Priscilla was notoriously protective of her own, and she had been close friends with Trista’s grandmother.

Seeing Trista break down like this was the last straw. Her face hardened instantly.

She slammed her cane against the floor, the sound echoing like a gavel. “Cassian! Silverlight

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might not be what it used to be, but Trista is still one of us! If you think you can humiliate her in this city and get away with it, you’ve got another thing coming!”

Before Cassian could even open his mouth, Chloe added a lethal smirk. “Alpha Cassian, I actually thought you were different from those other Alphas who let their instincts do the thinking. I guess I was wrong. You can’t even protect your own mate.”

Another she–wolf was even more blunt. “If you’re going to cheat, at least pick someone worth the scandal. Bringing a rogue into a place like this? You’re just twisting the knife in your mate’s heart.”

Chloe’s gaze swept over Samantha before landing on Madison. “Ms. Poole, you might want to be more careful about the ‘friends‘ you keep. Bringing just anyone into our circle is a great way to make yourself an outcast.”

Madison went pale. She didn’t dare utter a word, keeping her head down.

Standing at the center of the storm, Samantha clenched her fists until her knuckles turned white.

The aura of the high–ranking wolves was making it hard for her to even stand. Humiliation and hatred churned in her gut.

“How is this fair?” she thought.

“Why do these she–wolves get to trample me just because they were born into the right families?”

“I just want my man back. Why am I the one being shamed?”

She gritted her teeth, swallowing her rage.

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