Fake Mating To My Ex's Powerful Enemy
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Chapter 9 Chapter 9 A Win-Win Solution img
Chapter 10 Chapter 10 Drafting the Agreement img
Chapter 11 Chapter 11 The Restaurant Owner img
Chapter 12 Chapter 12 Eviction Notice img
Chapter 13 Chapter 13 The Blackout img
Chapter 14 Chapter 14 Steamy Dreams img
Chapter 15 Chapter 15 The Accident img
Chapter 16 Chapter 16 Hospital Night img
Chapter 17 Chapter 17 Insane plan img
Chapter 18 Chapter 18 Fake It Till You Make Her img
Chapter 19 Chapter 19 Taking It to the Next Level img
Chapter 20 Chapter 20 Thinking It Over img
Chapter 21 Chapter 21 Haters at Work img
Chapter 22 Chapter 22 Sell the Act, Call Me img
Chapter 23 Chapter 23 Social Gathering img
Chapter 24 Chapter 24 The Real Designer img
Chapter 25 Chapter 25 The Dickhead and His Side Piece img
Chapter 26 Chapter 26 Frame Me Get Slapped! img
Chapter 27 Chapter 27 My Savage Beauty img
Chapter 28 Chapter 28 His Secret Identity img
Chapter 29 Chapter 29 It's Complicated img
Chapter 30 Chapter 30 You Can Leave. She Stays. img
Chapter 31 Chapter 31 Blame Me For Everything img
Chapter 32 Chapter 32 Standing Up for Me img
Chapter 33 Chapter 33 Louisa Wakes Up img
Chapter 34 Chapter 34 Marry Me img
Chapter 35 Chapter 35 Why Me img
Chapter 36 Chapter 36 Cold Commands img
Chapter 37 Chapter 37 He's on a Date img
Chapter 38 Chapter 38 The Cold Shoulder Strategy img
Chapter 39 Chapter 39 His Long-Lost Love img
Chapter 40 Chapter 40 Out of Patience img
Chapter 41 Chapter 41 A Quick Detour img
Chapter 42 Chapter 42 Marriage Registration img
Chapter 43 Chapter 43 Return of the Brooch img
Chapter 44 Chapter 44 You Marry Hudson img
Chapter 45 Chapter 45 The Past Erased img
Chapter 46 Chapter 46 The Gift Exchange img
Chapter 47 Chapter 47 Contract Hardly! img
Chapter 48 Chapter 48 Planning This All Along img
Chapter 49 Chapter 49 Midnight Cleanup img
Chapter 50 Chapter 50 Mopping Up img
Chapter 51 Chapter 51 Changing the Narrative img
Chapter 52 Chapter 52 Well, Crazy Ex's Late-Night Meltdown img
Chapter 53 Chapter 53 If You Kill Him, I'm a Witness img
Chapter 54 Chapter 54 An Invitation to Live Together img
Chapter 55 Chapter 55 Humiliation img
Chapter 56 Chapter 56 Rumors Go Viral img
Chapter 57 Chapter 57 Legal Consultation img
Chapter 58 Chapter 58 Birthday Battle img
Chapter 59 Chapter 59 Payback img
Chapter 60 Chapter 60 Blackmail img
Chapter 61 Chapter 61 Emergency Meeting img
Chapter 62 Chapter 62 Backstabbed img
Chapter 63 Chapter 63 Sudden Riches img
Chapter 64 Chapter 64 Trophy Wife Treatment img
Chapter 65 Chapter 65 Jewelry Galore img
Chapter 66 Chapter 66 When To Tell Her img
Chapter 67 Chapter 67 The Awkward Dinner img
Chapter 68 Chapter 68 Late Night Encounters img
Chapter 69 Chapter 69 Temptations img
Chapter 70 Chapter 70 Dance With My Husband img
Chapter 71 Chapter 71 A Hug img
Chapter 72 Chapter 72 Practice Kiss img
Chapter 73 Chapter 73 The Waiting img
Chapter 74 Chapter 74 Caught Past Curfew Like a Teenager img
Chapter 75 Chapter 75 Morning After Awkwardness img
Chapter 76 Chapter 76 The Wrong Timing img
Chapter 77 Chapter 77 Meeting a Star img
Chapter 78 Chapter 78 Hidden Secretes img
Chapter 79 Chapter 79 Kiss Me Senseless img
Chapter 80 Chapter 80 The Weight of Responsibility img
Chapter 81 Chapter 81 Unanswered Questions img
Chapter 82 Chapter 82 Old Enemies img
Chapter 83 Chapter 83 Waiting in Vain img
Chapter 84 Chapter 84 Missing Alpha img
Chapter 85 Chapter 85 The Rehearsal img
Chapter 86 Chapter 86 Playing with Fire img
Chapter 87 Chapter 87 Meeting the In-Laws img
Chapter 88 Chapter 88 A Warm Family Welcome img
Chapter 89 Chapter 89 Enemies Reunited img
Chapter 90 Chapter 90 The Past Bites Back img
Chapter 91 Chapter 91 Drowning img
Chapter 92 Chapter 92 Rescue img
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Fake Mating To My Ex's Powerful Enemy

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Chapter 1 Chapter 1 Rejecting Me for His Ex's Photo

Christina's POV

Slap!

My head snapped to the side, vision blurring, skin burning as if someone had pressed a brand into me. For a heartbeat, I couldn't even process it.

My fated mate just hit me.

Three minutes ago, I'd been stupidly daydreaming about curtains, rugs, chandeliers, wondering how I would make the ridiculously expensive pack house look less like a museum screaming I have more money than personality.

Two minutes ago, I'd knocked over a framed photograph in his bedroom. Just an accident. A picture of my sister smiling like the golden saint she always was.

Now, blood rushed in my ears as the sting on my face spread, sharp and humiliating. The boy I once believed was my forever had just turned me into the villain of his story.

Akira roared inside me, claws scraping at the walls of my chest.

Rage, betrayal, heartbreak swirled together until I could barely breathe.

Niall's lips pressed into a tight line."You broke the only photo I had with Beatrice. Your jealousy makes me sick."

"Are you fucking insane?" I gritted my teeth.

"No, you're the insane one!" he roared."I already agreed to marry you,what more do you want? Beatrice had to leave because of you!Because you exposed our mate bond and forced me to accept you!"

The hatred in his eyes cut deeper than the slap.

"She was your sister! And now you're jealous? You won't rest until every trace of her is erased, will you?" He said in anger as he shoved me backward, into the coffee table.

Sharp pain sliced through my palm as I landed on the shattered glass frame.

Blood smeared across Beatrice's perfect smile.

How poetic.

My cheek throbbed. My hand was bleeding.But nothing hurt more than the realization that my so-called mate had never loved me.

"It wasn't me," I said, one final attempt at reason."I never forced this mate bond on you. I never asked her to leave."

Technically speaking, I understood why someone might blame me.

On my eighteenth birthday, I shifted and realized Niall was my fated mate.Stupidly, I wrote it all down in my diary.I planned to tell him when he returned from his business trip. If he couldn't accept me, I was prepared for rejection.

But Beatrice found my diary and made it public.

Privacy was apparently a foreign concept to her. She told everyone in The Crescent pack about my diary.

I was dragged out and shamed as the pathetic spare who dared reach above her station for her perfect sister's Alpha.

Then Beatrice graciously left for abroad,leaving behind a letter saying she'd "discovered my secret" and decided to "let go," to "let him be mine."

My sister was about as generous as a reality TV contestant with someone else's money.

And I? I was the villain who drove away The Crescent Pack's perfect princess.

To my family,I'd been bumped to the starting lineup after years on the bench,so I should've been grateful.My parents didn't truly care which daughter married Niall, only that the pack alliance was sealed.Even if Niall had literally ripped my heart out, my parents would've handed him napkins to clean up.

It was as if my parents had always hated me. No matter how much I outperformed Beatrice in training, they always made excuses for her and found fault with me. I was bitter, ungrateful, someone who couldn't appreciate her dear sister.

My fingers clenched around the engagement ring.This pathetic symbol of our joke mateship.

Hot tears blurred my vision. I blinked them back fast.

I bolted for the door.Had to get out before the tears came.

Niall grabbed my wrist to stop me. "Clean it up."

"What?"I stared him in disbelief, needing to confirm I'd heard him right.

"You broke the photo frame. Clean up the pieces." Ice-cold command.

Too bad I never was good at taking orders.

"No." I lifted my chin. Zero compromise.

His jaw clenched. "You sure you want to do this, Christina?"

"Yes. I said no." I stared him down without flinching.

If love meant grinding my self-respect into cigarette ash, then fuck love.

The air between us snapped, tension rising like a storm. He leaned in, fury blazing. "Last chance. Disobey me, and I'll end this bond right here-"

"We are over," I cut in.

Shock froze his face.

For a moment,the air went still.

He hadn't expected me to actually say it.

I yanked my arm free, breath hitching as hope for escape flared-only for him to seize me again, his grip bruising, his eyes burning with something close to hatred.

"This is on you, Christina!" Niall snarled, his tone that of a sworn enemy rather than the mate fate had chained me to.

"I, Niall Granger, Alpha of the Frostpelt Pack, reject-"

"Shut the hell up!" I snapped.

If anyone was ending this bond, it would be me.

My gaze locked onto his, unflinching.

"You don't get to reject me. I reject you, Niall. Now accept it."

The world seemed to crack in half.

Akira howled inside me, a keening wail of loss, while searing agony tore through my chest as the bond unraveled thread by thread.

His jaw tightened,but he forced the words past clenched teeth.

"I accept your rejection. Now clean up your mess and fix the damn photo."

My hands shook as I picked up the shattered frame, shards biting into my skin, my blood smearing across the glass. I tore the picture down the middle, ripping his face away from my sister's, as if severing every last tie.

Without hesitation,I swung my hand and slapped him hard across that infuriatingly handsome, arrogant face. The crack echoed between us.

I leaned in, letting him see the fire in my eyes.

"Now," I hissed, "we're done.."

The silence was absolute.

My palm stung, but oh, the satisfaction almost dulled the pain in my chest.

Niall staggered back, shock flashing in his eyes.

It wasn't from pain, but from realizing the docile girl he'd despised no longer existed.

I smiled coldly. "Goodbye, Niall. Go worship your shrine to Beatrice."

And I walked out of that suffocating hell, head high.

I would rather drown in my own tears than let him see one more drop.

When I reached the parking lot, the cold night air hit my face, but overwhelming pain crashed over me like a tidal wave.

Fuck, no one ever told me that breaking the mate bond would be this excruciating.

It felt like having my heart sliced up and served to Hannibal Lecter.He'd probably enjoy it with a nice chianti and some fava bean sauce.

I curled up in the driver's seat, cold sweat streaming down my face.

Akira lay weakly inside me,whimpering,"It's so fucking strange!Like someone reached into my gut and tore something out with their fist."

I couldn't agree more.

I wanted to find my mother,she would definitely know how to ease this kind of pain.

Or maybe any creature in pain instinctively thinks of their mother.

As I hesitated between sending a mind-link or making a call, my phone vibrated.

My eyes were so blurry that I fumbled to swipe and answer.

"Chrissy, you must be insane!" My mother screamed."How dare you humiliate Niall like this! The pack alliance is ruined!"

"Mom, he rejected me," I said weakly. "As in, formally. Also, he hit me. So there's that fun detail."

"He... what?" For once, she sounded stunned.

My dad's voice cut in, "Don't be dramatic. After everything Beatrice sacrificed for you? You will apologize to Niall immediately and beg him to marry you, or you're no longer welcome in our territory!"

He hung up before I could respond.

I stared at my phone in bewilderment, my father's words echoing in my head.

Not "Are you okay?" Not "We're coming to get you."

Just threats about banishing me from the pack.

Why was it that no matter how hard I tried, I still couldn't earn even a sliver of their approval? When I was rejected by my mate and dying from the pain, all my parents could think about was the pack alliance and my fucking sister who had disappeared God knows where!

Beatrice never had to do anything, yet she was their precious jewel.

So, this is it?

On the day I severed the mate bond with my fated mate, I finally realized that my parents had never loved me.

It shattered my last remaining, pathetic and pitiful longing for my parents' love.

Enough.

I was done trying to earn love that would never be given.

I was done being the convenient backup daughter.

I was taking back the self-respect I'd lost long ago, and I was breaking free of this engagement-no matter the consequences.

            
            

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