Thinking this, Luna Anya glanced around the messy room, and as if suddenly understanding something, a satisfied smirk touched her lips.
“She left? Finally showed some sense. Good riddance. I’ll go discuss the date for your and Gianna’s bonding ceremony with the Thunder Ridge elders right away.”
But something in her words struck a nerve. Eric’s face changed drastically, his voice hoarse but firm. “Impossible! Why would she leave me? She clearly…”
(
She clearly relied on him so much, needed his protection.
Luna Anya, seeing his insistence, scoffed. “What’s so impossible? She took the hundred million dollars without a second thought, you know.”
A hundred million dollars.
Eric seized on the number, jerking his head up to look at his mother, his voice filled with disbelief. “What did you say? What hundred million dollars?!”
Luna Anya laid it all out bluntly.
“I saw her a week ago. Gave her a hundred million dollars on the condition that she leave you and never show her face again. I thought she’d try to cling on, or say the money wasn’t enough, try to get more out of you. I didn’t expect her to just take the money and promise to disappear within a week. Counting the days, it’s about time.”
Eric had never imagined Sera left because of this.
His eyes started to burn, and a suffocating feeling he’d never known made his chest heave. The powerful Alpha, now like he’d lost all his strength, could only stand there trembling.
Eric clenched his jaw, unwilling to believe his mother, his gaze burning as he looked at her, searching for a final confirmation.
“You forced her to leave. She didn’t want to go,
right?”
But he was doomed to be disappointed. Luna Anya shook her head, no sympathy in her eyes. “Why would I lie to you? She really did take the money and leave.”
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Chapter 6
+25 Bonus
“She’s just a gold–digging, low–class Omega. What’s there to care about? You’re going to be bonded with Gianna soon. You should focus more on her. Even though Gianna is just a Beta, her family’s power and wealth are far greater than some lone Omega’s.”
Eric’s gaze fell on the phone nearby, like he was grasping at a last straw. He quickly picked it up, found the number in his contacts that he had deliberately ignored for so long, and dialed.
After a long series of rings, a cold, automated voice came through: “Sorry, the number you have dialed is switched off.”
He stared at the ‘call failed‘ screen in disbelief, as if he couldn’t trust his own eyes.
Had she… completely cut him off?
Eric couldn’t remember when Luna Anya finally left. He just sat stubbornly in Sera’s old room, staring blankly out the window.
In a daze, he thought he saw the door open, and Sera walked in, just like she used to, chattering about something that happened that day:
“Eric, I saw a lost little wolf cub today, it looked just like your baby pictures…”
He instinctively reached out to grab her, but only touched air.
The vision before him slowly faded, but her voice seemed to still echo in his ears.
It was only then, with a dawning horror, that he realized it was all just a hallucination.
Sera was really gone, and she might never come back.
