She stared at him in astonishment.

Was he even serious right now?“I am going to repeat my question, Riannon,” Brayden growled, “What have youdone to my mate?!”“What have I done to your mate?” She shot her brow up at her ex, “Your so-called mate has just killed Dean.”She felt tears burning her eyes again, but she was not going to give him thesatisfaction of seeing her crying in front of him.

Not even for Dean.

Brayden didnot deserve to see her cry.“That’s a lie!” her ex-husband gritted through her teeth,(This novel will be dailyupdtaed at com) “How on earth would Roxy do something likethat?! She is just a weak omega! She can’t hurt a fly!”“We have about a dozen witnesses, Bray!” she stopped him, and his mouthopened in shock, “She is hardly an omega! Moreover, she isn’t even a wolf! Sheis a god damn fox!”He stared at her bluntly, lost in his thoughts and not knowing what to say.

Butthen he clenched his fists and looked the crowd that came with her up and down.His own warriors were by his side already.“And I guess those wonderful and very reliable witnesses of yours are the lycansnext to you? How convenient! Maybe also Maya the traitor?”She slapped him.

Hard.

She knew that this was the last thing that was neededright now to get what she wanted, but it felt so good.“Don’t you dare!” she warned him, “The only traitor in our pack was always yourfake mate!”“It’s not our pack anymore,” he smirked, “Remember, you ruined that earliertoday?”

“I saved what I could from you and your fox!” she snapped at her ex again.

Forthe first time ever she felt like she really hated him.

Onyx, who was growlinginside of her, wasn’t helping to calm down either.

In their past life, he hurt her themost and she still couldn’t forgive him.“How fortunate for you!” Brayden chuckled, “Riannon the saviour! When I dosomething, it’s because I am selfish.

But when you do something, it’s for thecommon good!”“That’s what happens when people think of others, Brayden.

You should try thatone day, ” she scoffed, folding her hands on her chest, “I demand you to give meRoxanne.

I need just a minute with her and I will be able to prove to you who sheis! Now that I know the truth.

And then I will kill her with my own hands foreverything that she has done!”“I am tired of repeating myself,” Bray rubbed the bridge of his nose, letting out an“Useless!” Ria mumbled to herself, rolling her eyes.

The fox won’t come backhere.

Not when her identity was discovered.Now that she thought about it, she understood what a silly idea that was.

But inthe heat of the moment, she wasn’t thinking clearly, and this fiasco was theresult.“Let’s go,” she commanded to her people, turning away.“Not so fast!” Brayden grabbed her hand but in the next moment, (This novel willbe daily updtaed at com)Gideon was already pinning him to thewall of the mansion.

It all happened so fast that the guards from both sides didn’teven have time to react.“You touch her like that again and I will rip your head off,” the lycan king growled,squeezing his fingers around his opponent’s neck, “Not only is she and Alpha ofher own pack now, but she is also my queen.

Do something like this again and itwill be your death sentence! And you will be lucky if it’s you alone.

Because if you

piss me off properly one more time, might as well wipe out what is left of yourpack! Not that there is a lot.”“Gideon,” Riannon brushed her hand over her mate’s back, soothing him,“Please, don’t.”He sighed heavily and let go of Brayden with a huff.

The alpha almost fell to hisfeet but managed to lean over the wall for support.“You came to my territory! You did something to my mate!” he started listing thethings he thought actually happened.“Your mate?” Gideon chuckled loudly, “Are you even serious?! Haven’t you losther? AGAIN.

Do you even know that it is physically impossible to lose a mate orto forget about her? I hate to be the one who breaks it to you, Alpha Brayden, butyou don’t have a mate.

I mean, maybe you do, somewhere in the world and oneday you will meet her.

But that fox isn’t the one.”“She is not...” Bray tried to protest.“She is a fox!” Riannon cut him off, “And she also works with the werebears.

Idon’t know how she convinced you that she is your mate, but I also really doubtthat it’s the truth.

Just think about it, Brayden.”Her ex-husband looked at her with clenched lips and fists and she had no idea ifhe believed them.

But neither did she care anymore.

It was his problem and nothers.She knew that the next time she would meet Roxy, she would be the one to killher.

Because her patience was wearing thin.

She only regretted that she hadn’tdone it sooner.“Let’s go, Riannon,” Gideon wrapped his hands around her and looked her in theeye, “I don’t think she will come back here.

She is not that stupid.”“Yeah,” his queen nodded and followed his lead back to the car.

Brayden’s warriors got closer now that the lycans were gone but he pushed themaway and went inside of the mansion.He watched his ex-wife being cared for by the lycan king in front of his eyes andthe sight still made him shudder inside.

But on top of it, the news of his mate wasbreaking him.He didn’t even notice how she disappeared.

And, of course, there was a simpleand reasonable explanation for that.

He was busy.

With his pack being broken inhalf and with the move.

So much had to be arranged in such a short period oftime that he forgot about her completely...Was it normal? Could it even be happening? (This novel will be daily updtaed atcom)The lycan had a point...

How could one forget about hismate?Riannon used to be his chosen mate but he never forgot about her.

Even now,after everything, he was still thinking about her more than she deserved it.

Histhoughts today were busy with her when he had to pay attention to his truemate...He called his top warrior, Jacob, first and promoted him to a Beta dryly, thenordered to find out what happened to his mate.“Find video footage from the grounds, a trace, her scent...

whatever.

I want tofind out if she walked out of here herself or was kidnapped,” he told the guy andlooked him in the eye,“ Be discreet about it.

Until I know what happened hereexactly, I don’t want anyone to know a thing.”“Yes, Alpha,” Jacob bowed politely and walked out.Brayden did not count on him finding out much about it.

He wasn’t Ash.

Hisprevious Beta had an eye for details that everyone else missed.

He paid attentionand knew how to stay in the shadows, unnoticed.

Jacob...

wasn’t it.

He was one of his best warriors, but not a match to his oldfriend.

The same way as Roxy wasn’t a match to Riannon.

No matter how muchhe tried to imagine that she was.Was it possible that she was a fox? He never asked her to shift.

Mostly becausehe thought that she was an omega and was embarrassed about others seeingthat the Moon mate?That thought scared him.

Because then he lost Riannon for nothing.Everybody knew that foxes could change their scents, so theoretically speaking,if Roxy was a fox, she could fake the scent of his mate.

But for that, she wouldneed to know that scent ...

Moreover, the scent alone wasn’t the problem.

Thebond was.

No fox could fake that.

So, why did he want the redhead all the time?He wasn’t a manwh*re.

Lust wasn’t what he lived for and he knew very well howto control himself.So, what would happen there if Roxanne wasn’t his mate? Could there be adifferent explanation for everything? That did not seem likely.

Unless witcheswere involved.

But that was also a far cry.

Love spells did not exist.

Andwerewolves were resistant to any kind of spell-infused mind manipulation.He couldn’t find an answer no matter how hard he tried.After he dealt with all the urgent matters, he closed himself alone in his office witha bottle of brandy.Usually, Ash would join him for this with a conversation that would helpeverything to get into the right places.

Until Riannon came to end it with an evenbetter solution.And then she would take him to bed...But now all of this was over...

He took a deep gulp of the fiery liquid, feeling it burn his throat.

However, it didnot make anything better.His fingers ended up rubbing the mark on his neck again, which was botheringhim.

It did not disappear.

Even though he didn’t feel pain through it anymore.

Hisbond with Riannon was broken now.

And it was even more painful than when shewas in the lycan’s bed.The knock on the door broke his train of thought and his new Beta walked in withthe laptop.“Alpha,” he said, “I think you need to see this...”Roxanne was driving fast.

She couldn’t let anyone catch up with her.Today she f*cked up big time and she knew it.

Castiel would never forgive her fordestroying his perfect plan this early and for losing that many people.

The bearking wouldn’t be happy either her group.

Always.She wouldn’t come to her king empty-handed.

She would bring him the peaceoffering.She parked right next to the packhouse in the Fox kingdom and walked out of thecar.

She knew she couldn’t go inside.

And she wasn’t wrong about it, becausewhen Castiel walked out of the mansion, he looked furious.He didn’t even let her say a word before he grabbed her neck and jerked her upin the air.

Her legs trembled, not finding any kind of support and she felt his gripgetting tighter and restricting her airways.“You are either super brave to come here after what you have done, or you aresuper stupid!” her king growled.

In other circumstances, she would enjoy thatsound.

But not now.Now, he wasn’t playing with her.

He was ready to kill her any moment now for hermistakes.

“You failed your mission, couldn’t fix it and then only made it worse from there!You blew our cover and had my men killed!” Castiel continued, “You almost costme this war! Tell me, Roxanne, why shouldn’t I snap your neck this verymoment? I don’t think I need to keep such a disappointment as you!”One of his eyes glowed red and her toes curled.

That man was always her mainweakness.“I brought you something!” she croaked, hoping to appease him, (This novel willbe daily updtaed at com)“It will help...” He watched her for a fewseconds and after that swore loudly, dropping her to the floor.“This better be good!” he spat and she crawled in the direction of the car trunk.Roxy stood up on shaky legs, trying to make her breathing steady, but failing.She hated to be so weak in front of him.

He hated weakness...She found the key in the pocket of her jeans and opened the trunk,demonstrating to him her little present and praying that this was enough...