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.
like we
And we were.
barely audible. "Is this... is this
can’t be," Levi
But it was.
felt it—stronger than before.
bond...
maybe... it had
My brow furrowed deeply.
Why was she here?
was she seated on
everyone staring at her like she was
hell was
could wrap my head around it, Calvin’s voice rang out across the hall, calm but
said, standing beside Olivia with a hand proudly on her shoulder, "I want you all to
I blinked.
What?
he
turned sharply to Levi and Louis, who looked just as
mouth opened slightly, but
Levi stared ahead, frozen.
echoed under my breath, eyes darting between
couldn’t
some kind of show. A
Calvin’s twisted political
then I looked at her
Really looked.
to ignore. The sharp cheekbones. The same piercing
back a little as the
wasn’t actually Mr.
all made
She’s really his sister...
Calvin’s sister.
that mean Calvin is related
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, so close
us. She acted as if she didn’t know... like her wolf wasn’t
us
were strangers.
lullaby. The guests
her. Some bowed. Some kissed the back of her hand. Some whispered
beautiful in
the special one..." another voice whispered from behind
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