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After that, I kept myself so engrossed in my work that I rarely went home, making Xavier feel that something was wrong.
One day my mother–in–law who had always seen me as a dirty orphan, unworthy of their status called unexpectedly.
“Mia, Xavier told me that you were fighting with him when it was majorly your fault to delay us that day at the royal banquet. Even though you were born poor without anyone to teach you manners, the least you can do is not to pull my son’s status down at your level!
You are soon going to give birth to the future Alpha so stop with your nonsense, the people
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around us have already started creating rumors about you and Xavier separating. I have organized a dinner today, inviting Xavier’s close friends. Arrive on time with Xavier and do not create a scene here.”
From starting to the end she ordered me around before hanging up.
I wanted to see the faces of the people who betrayed me, treating me worse than an animal one last time before leaving for the capital city, so I took a taxi to my mother–in- law’s house.
Xavier’s mother was sitting at the head of the table when I entered the hall. A hush covered the arena as Xavier’s friends rolled their eyes when they saw me.
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“Aunty, why did you even invite her here, when all she is going to do is spoil the mood?”
“The witch is here to intrude between the loving couple again.” Their voice was not low as they deliberately spoke for me to listen to their harsh words.
“Mia sit down here.” Xavier’s mother pointed to a seat only for me to ignore her as I was already seated at the end of the table.
“Hey Mia, what was your surname again? Oh my apologies I forgot that you were without any surname, since you don’t have a father.” Xavier’s best friend Theodore smirked as he
waited for me to make a fool of myself.
“Who are you again?” when I raised my head staring directly at him with disinterest like he
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was a clown jumping over to make everyone laugh, their smiles were wiped off their faces.
Shortly after, Xavier arrived–with Vanessa by his side, when he saw that I had arrived earlier than the designated time and was looking between him and Vanessa, he quickly
maintained a distance with her.
I noticed Vanessa had removed the pendant and without another word followed my
mother–in–law to the kitchen.
Xavier quickly took the seat beside me, smiling gently as he moved my hair to one side before clasping the diamond pendant on my neck creating a show of loving couple.
“This will be your first time wearing
diamonds in your entire life right, right? Rest
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assured I will buy you your favorite Sapphires
next time.”
Without a sense of shame, he looked at me and lied smoothly, “I lost it at the pack house, and after talking to you when I
realized that it was gone I rushed to search for it.”
The pendant around my neck especially felt suffocating thus I took it off without another word shocking Xavier.
“Mia, what the hell do you think you are doing?”
“To think that she is so greedy, no wonder aunt does not like her.
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“Mia, Why did you take it off?” My mother- in–law glared at me.
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“It’s just too tight.” I ignored the murmurs
around me and just sat quietly without speaking a word to Xavier.
In reality, the diamonds were considered dishonorable for the royal family to wear. In older traditions, the outcasts of the royal family were given a single diamond as the last thing of monetary value before they were banished from the palace
And I was not banished.
I was going to return to my home.
From the kitchen, I heard my mother–in–law gently laughing with Vanessa, as she clung to her arm acting spoiled. “Auntie, how can you work so hard all alone, if I was here these past years I would have never let you work.”
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“This child! Of course it would have been
different if it was you.
Oh Vanessa, let Mia help the servant with the dishes, you must have never done these
things and to think you are so kind even to
the maids.
If only Mia was half as sensible as you. But since she had started living at Xavier’s house, he kicked out the maid. She can do all manual work by herself, wiping the floor and washing the dishes is just normal for her. Dont ruin your beautiful hands I will make Mia do it.” I bit my lip as my husband agreed to his mother seeing nothing wrong in overworking his wife.
They soon came out of the kitchen hand in
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hand, with Vanessa sitting right in between Xavier and my mother–in–law.
“Aunty these past years I have missed you a lot. There hasn’t been a single day I had not missed Xavier.” the people sitting at the table did not feel anything wrong with Vanessa’s words to long for another man when she was already mated to someone else.
“Of course dear? If the things didn’t go wrong, you would have already been my daughter–in- law-.” Xavier‘ s mother teased, casting a quick glance in my direction before pulling Vanessa closer to which Xavier did not speak a word, angry that I rejected his gift.
Turning to me, my mother–in–law added with feigned innocence, “Oh my? I must have
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spoken too much because of my old age. Mia meet Vanessa, my goddaughter, she and
Xavier are childhood friends and were raised
alongside.
I heard that you were making a fuss at home because of her, but Vanessa is like a sister to Xavier so you should not throw a tantrum out of jealousy.
These two have always been so close, so you must trust your husband a little and stop keeping tabs on him.”
“Auntie is absolutely right, Vanessa was only doing a favor to you.” Xavier’s friend Colin spoke with a smug look on his face. He was the one who supported the ‘perfect match‘ and gave me the nickname ‘homewrecker‘
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in secret.
“Yes, Mia, you‘ re always checking up on Xavier. You are just too controlling, do you think we are going to ruin Xavier’s life? Since Vanessa and Xavier are inseparable, if he
wanted to leave you, he would have done that long ago.”
Besides, Xavier promised Vanessa to soon join two of our packs together to make a larger one, so it’s better if you accommodate her. That’s the least you can do as a luna.”
My eyes widened when I realized that our Jade moon pack was going to be amalgamated with another one. As the Luna I was not even
aware of any such thing
Realizing he’d said too much, Colin instantly
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fell silent, exchanging uneasy glances with
the others as the room went quiet.
