Chapter 262: A Different Olivia
Lennox’s POV
The heavy doors groaned as they opened, and we stepped into the hall.
There was silence as everyone’s eyes were focused on the people on the stage, and mine followed, almost on instinct. Then I saw her.
Olivia?
Our Olivia?
For a heartbeat, it felt like a dream—some cruel illusion my mind had conjured up to torture me. But she was real. The girl seated on the platform was her.
Her alluring eyes—those eyes I’d memorized—widened the second they found mine.
My breath caught.
My wolf roared in my head, louder than I’d ever heard him before.
"Mate!"
I stumbled slightly, blinking hard.
What?
I glanced at Levi and Louis beside me—they looked just as stunned, frozen in place. Their chests rose and fell rapidly. They felt it too.
"No," I whispered under my breath.
Not because I didn’t want her. Goddess, I wanted her. Even after everything... she still owned every broken piece of me.
But this wasn’t possible.
We’d been rejected.
The bond was gone. Broken. Severed. She’d made sure of it.
So how—?
My heart thudded painfully in my chest as my wolf howled again, clawing to get out, to go to her. To fall at her feet. To beg. To make it right.
But I couldn’t move.
I watched her, watched her mouth part slightly, watched her hands tremble as she stared back at us like we were a curse come to life.
She was scared.
at us like we were
And we were.
breath, his voice barely audible. "Is
can’t be," Levi muttered. "It shouldn’t
But it was.
it—stronger than before. Raw.
mate bond...
it had never really
My brow furrowed deeply.
Why was she here?
she seated on a
staring at her
the hell was
head around it, Calvin’s voice rang out across the hall,
proudly on her shoulder, "I want you all to join me... as we
I blinked.
What?
did he
turned sharply to Levi and Louis, who looked
slightly, but no words came
Levi stared ahead, frozen.
my breath, eyes darting between Calvin
couldn’t be
be some kind of show. A
one of Calvin’s twisted political
I looked
Really looked.
sharp cheekbones. The same
staggered back a little as the
Olivia wasn’t actually Mr. and Mrs. Parker’s biological
it all made
She’s really his sister...
Calvin’s sister.
that mean Calvin is related to
further into the hall. My brothers stayed close behind, just as lost as I was. My wolf was howling, frantic, begging me to close the distance—so I did. I kept moving until I stood at the front,
she didn’t know... like her wolf wasn’t
look at us again. It was
were
The guests began to move, slowly rising from their seats and making
to greet her. Some bowed. Some kissed the back of her hand. Some whispered blessings or words of
beautiful in person," someone
special one..." another voice whispered
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