Chapter 284
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Ten minutes later, the three wolves who had nearly torn each other apart were finally forced into separate corners.
A ring of wary crew members stood around them like sentries, eyes sharp, muscles tense, ready to intervene at the slightest sign of another frenzy.
Outside the human wall, the director squatted alone, clutching the shattered equipment like a wounded cub, sobbing quietly to himself.
Fenrir’s eyes still bloodshot. Pain, hatred, and regret churned violently in his gaze.
“The Moonvale Pack never treated you badly,” he said hoarsely, every word scraping his throat raw. “Even at the end, we still gave you one million. How could you stab us in the back so casually? Do you know Father was so enraged he collapsed and was hospitalized?!”
At the yacht gathering, Fenrir had failed to secure a buyer. It had been Alpha Remus himself- swallowing his last shred of pride-who had begged and negotiated endlessly to find someone willing to take the deal.
The price was humiliatingly low, but it would have eased the Moonvale Pack’s immediate crisis.
Yet even that fragile lifeline had snapped.
At the very moment the contract was to be signed, the news channels erupted with a live broadcast: the Moonvale Pack’s former rival unveiling a new product.
A product powered by Moonvale’s proprietary technology.
The would-be buyer exploded in fury, overturning the table, cursing Alpha Remus to his face, and spreading word throughout the territory that the Moonvale Pack were liars who sold promises they could not keep.
The pack had only recently announced bankruptcy.
That broadcast sent creditors swarming like carrion birds, convinced they would never be repaid.
Fenrir had imagined many disasters.
He had never imagined the deepest blade lodged in the Moonvale Pack’s spine would be driven by Celestine.
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The technology had been protected with layers of secrecy-but Celestine had been Moonvale.
Alpha Remus and Fenrir had doted on her, placed her above even Aysel, their blood-born kin. The research team had never guarded against her.
Using her access during her internship, she had effortlessly colluded with their enemies.
Fenrir wanted to crush her throat.
That project was his life’s work. The Moonvale Pack’s last hope of surviving their debt crisis.
She had sold it cheaply-to his enemies.
Celestine’s face still bore traces of fear, but her lips curled in merciless mockery.
“Why shouldn’t I?” she sneered. “The Moonvale Pack’s downfall has nothing to do with me. Didn’t you already reclaim all the shares and assets you gave me? When I got out, how did you treat me? Coldness. Neglect. Suppression. One after another. Did you deserve my loyalty?”
She touched her bruised neck and laughed softly.
“Fenrir, this is your retribution.”
“You ungrateful wolf,” Fenrir spat, each word squeezed from between clenched teeth. “We never should have taken you in.”
She had known the entire pack was clinging to that patent.
She had watched him lower himself, begging Alpha after Alpha, smashing into dead ends like a beaten dog-yet she had said nothing. Worse, she had quietly taken Moonvale’s money at the end.
Celestine laughed sharply.
“Oh? And when Alpha Remus built connections off the reputation of adopting me-when he paraded me as a ‘genius dancer daughter’ to gain resources-why didn’t you say you shouldn’t have taken me in then?”
She straightened, eyes cold.
“Let me be clear. I’m now Damon Blackwood’s mate. If you don’t want trouble, crawl away.”
Fenrir fell silent.
His
gaze
his eyes.
drifted to the rescued wedding gown-now stained and rumpled-dark fury churning in
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After destroying the Moonvale Pack, she still wanted to marry Damon Blackwood happily under the moon?
Dream on.
“Celestine Ward,” he said flatly. “You will pay for this.”
For a brief second, her heart tightened-but she quickly lifted her chin again.
“Before I pay any price,” she sneered, “figure out how to save yourself. Fenrir-you’re not some noble young master anymore.”
Fenrir gave her one last look, then turned away.
He took one step-and met Aysel’s calm gaze.
He had sought Celestine deliberately. He had never expected to see Aysel here.
Realizing she had witnessed the most wretched moment of his life, shame flickered across his face.
When they were young, Aysel had always looked at him with trust and admiration.
How bitterly ironic.
They had chosen Celestine and abandoned Aysel-only to reap this consequence so quickly.
Every betrayal Celestine committed against Moonvale returned like a thrown blade.
From beginning to end, Magnus had only pressured Moonvale’s businesses slightly, nudging currents at key moments. The true collapse-the loss of reputation, the debt, the ruin-had been caused by their own past choices.
Fenrir pressed his lips together, then stepped forward under the stunned, gossiping stares of
the crew.
“Aysel,” he said hoarsely. “We… moved.”
The villa had been seized by the courts. The family of four now lived in a rented three- bedroom apartment.
The room Luna Evelyn had renovated for Aysel-she had never stayed in it for even a single night.
“Your belongings are at the new place. If you ever want to come home, the address is-”
“No need,” Aysel interrupted gently.
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She smiled-light, unburdened, as if everything had already passed.
“They’re just meaningless old things. They take up space. Burn them. As for new home… I already have one. I won’t go to someone else’s den.”
The blood drained from Fenrir’s face.
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