Chapter 12
(Alpha Lucas’s Extra: Part 02)
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I dug deep and uncovered a mountain of undeniable evidence.
Expression cold, I slammed the stack of photos into Claire’s chest.
She stared at me, terrified, and collapsed to her knees, sobbing and making excuses.
“Alpha Lucas, I was framed! You have to believe me-
Was it Josephine? It had to be her! She hates me for stealing you, for stealing Eclipse pack
The moment I heard Josephine’s name, pain surged through my chest. I was shaking with fury, tears falling down my face.
“You? You’re not even worthy to say her
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I gripped her throat, my fingers tightening with the urge to strangle her on the spot.
“Ggh–let go…”
Claire choked, struggling for air. She started O bleeding–miscarrying right there on the
floor.
The sight of the blood snapped me back. I looked down at her from above, cold and distant.
A memory hit me.
Back then, I had deliberately let a snake loose in a room, terrifying my stepmother into miscarrying. I still remembered the hatred in my father’s eyes.
And I had stood by, indifferent.
On the night I ran away from home, I’d come across a chubby little girl begging for help. At the time, I was angry at the world. But seeing her being beaten crving silently
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something broke inside me. I fought two grown men like my life depended on it.
That girl’s tears had somehow stirred the remnants of warmth in my blood, softened the beast I was becoming, reminded me I still had a conscience.
Back in the present, Claire lay weak and pale, a cruel smile tugging at her lips.
“Heh… Alpha Lucas, you idiot. I was originally going to give the bracelet to Alpha Terry. You just happened to catch me. You threw yourself at me, practically begged me to use you. If anyone’s to blame, it’s your own stupidity.”
Fury surged through my veins. I grabbed her chin tightly.
“Say that again.”
She coughed, smirking through the pain.
carbine was the little girl
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“Everyone knew Josephine was the little girl from back then–everyone except you two. You were the only ones in the dark.”
So that was it…
As Claire’s tears pooled on the floor, my heart didn’t stir in the slightest.
All I could think about was Josephine crying.
Only her pain made my heart ache.
I let out a low, bitter laugh.
“Ha… ha… ha… Fine. I was the fool.
Then you all–can die with me.”
(Alpha Lucas’s Extra: Part 03)
When the truth finally surfaced, I realized how terribly–irreparably–wrong I had been.
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So I made up my mind: every single person
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involved would pay. No exceptions.
The Silver Claw Pack had always had the upper hand over the Crown Shadow Pack, so I joined forces with their rivals and bled the Crown Shadow Pack dry–until they were kicked out of the ranks of the top four wolf packs.
I orchestrated a full–blown scandal for Claire. Her dirt went viral.
People spat her name like venom: homewrecker, slut, shameless whore.
I was willing to suffer–willing to live a life worse than death–just to drag them down with me into hell.
When Claire’s secrets blew wide open, I became the laughingstock of Silver Claw Pack.
But none of that mattered anymore.
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I didn’t care what anyone said.
I just wanted to find Josephine.
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I turned the entire wolf packs upside down looking for her.
But I couldn’t find a single trace.
And only then did I truly understand what she must have felt, that time I vanished- how desperate and lost she must have been as she searched for me.
People said she’d gone abroad, but no one could–or would–tell me where.
Eclipse pack seemed intent on erasing every trace of her.
Whenever I went looking, Josephine’s mother met me with nothing but cold eyes and a locked door.
I remembered that day I picked Josephine
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for dinner–the sadness on her mother’s face, the strange things she said.
The signs had all been there.
I’d just been too blind–too arrogant–to see them.
When she overheard the cruel things I said in Crown Shadow Pack, she must’ve already made up her mind.
To leave. Entirely.
She’d stayed just long enough to play her part–to share one last meal with me, to silence any suspicions from the Silver Claw Pack.
In that same window of time, she helped Eclipse pack legally reclaim their daughter.
The marriage alliance was switched to Claire, who was carrying a child.
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She left no room for the Silver Claw Pack to
back out.
And once everything was settled, she slipped away quietly, without a sound.
The moment she chose to make everything right for everyone else… was also the moment she chose to completely give up on
- me.
That realization hit like acid, eating through my heart.
When I returned to what was meant to be our bridal suite, I found that she’d wiped every trace of herself from it.
The guest room was covered in shredded paper and torn photographs.
The gifts I had given her. Our pictures together.
All destroyed.
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The wedding gown I’d promised to help her choose still lay there–except the chest was slashed open.
That gaping hole was her message to me.
Her heart was shattered. And it would never heal.
She meant it.
My grandpa was right.
Once I lost her… I didn’t even deserve the chance to regret it.
But the worst moment–the final blow–was when I found the notebook she’d left in the living room.
At the back, in her delicate handwriting, she had written:
“Lucas, I don’t owe you anything anymore.”
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pages.
I stared at it. Read it over and over.
Tears poured down my face.
My mind flashed to the day I proposed.
So many doves flying overhead, their wings fluttering around her like confetti.
Her eyes were filled with light, with emotion… with love.
My own feelings had been overflowing then -so deep they’d nearly burst out of me.
But I had smothered that love.
Buried it under delusions and vengeance.
That day at the hospital, I’d seen her–and yet I saw nothing.
Claire controlled every step I took, every
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And that moment…
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That was the beginning of something Josephine would never forgive.
Not in this life.
