Chapter 200

The next part of the video was even harder to watch.

Alex, small hands rifling through the cabinet, finding the bottle of sleeping pills. His little fingers hesitated over two pills before he took out a few more, as if unsure if two would be enough.

Then, with a deep breath, he dropped them all into the glass of water.

Arnold had watched it in silence. He had watched it again.

Now, standing in front of Nora, he didn’t know what to say.

She turned her gaze away, her voice devoid of emotion. “This time, I won’t help him hide it.”

There was no rage in her tone, no dramatic outburst. That’s what made it worse. Nora had already given up.

Nora reached for a folder sitting on the bedside table and held it out to him. Her movements were calm, almost too steady. “I’ve already spoken to my grandmother. She won’t stop us from getting a divorce.”

Arnold’s fingers tightened around the divorce papers, his grip turning his knuckles white.

An unfamiliar resistance welled up inside him, a feeling he hadn’t expected. His entire body felt tense, like a coil wound too tightly.

Why?

Hadn’t this been his decision all along? Hadn’t he been the one to suggest divorce in the first place?

Yet now, with the documents in his hands, the finality of it pressed against him like an invisible weight.

“What are you hesitating about?” Nora’s voice was calm, almost indifferent, but there was an underlying sharpness to it, like the edge of a blade.

voice to stay level. “You’re

met his gaze without flinching. “Well,” she said, her tone light but firm, “Alpha

something dark flared

him, hot and unrestrained. He clenched his

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their marriage had been born out of manipulation. She had drugged him, seduced him, and after one

been stripped from him, and they had been forced into marriage.

his astonishment, Nora

light laugh. It was cold, bitter, the kind that scraped against the walls of a shattered

her head, “we’re MATES. If I wanted to seduce you into bed, do you really think I needed to drug

of her filling his senses… familiar, intoxicating, dangerous.

but it sent a jolt through him,

tightening. Lust flared in his eyes, raw and unchecked.

between them charged. Her expression

she whispered. “It’s like this.”

anything in that wine. And you’re the Alpha…

found out if you really wanted to. But you didn’t.

Arnold remained silent.

yourself,” she continued, her voice softer now, tinged with something almost like pity. “You resisted our bond from the start. You never wanted to be told who to love… not by

destiny.”

told yourself you were forced. That the wine was drugged. That I trapped

now, controlled. But his pulse was

exhaustion. “For years, I put up with your indifference. I kept hoping,

gestured toward the papers between them. “Sign them,

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