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.
we were the storm
And we were.
voice barely audible. "Is this... is this
can’t be," Levi muttered. "It
But it was.
than before.
mate bond...
maybe... it had
My brow furrowed deeply.
Why was she here?
was she seated on
at her like
the hell
my head around it, Calvin’s voice rang out across the hall,
her shoulder, "I want you
I blinked.
What?
he
sharply to Levi and
mouth opened slightly, but no
Levi stared ahead, frozen.
my breath, eyes darting between Calvin and
couldn’t
some
of Calvin’s twisted
then I looked at
Really looked.
to ignore. The sharp cheekbones. The same
little as the realization
remembered what my parents said—how Olivia wasn’t actually Mr. and Mrs. Parker’s
all made
She’s really his sister...
Calvin’s sister.
that mean Calvin is
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, so close I could almost
she didn’t know... like
at us again. It was like we didn’t
were strangers.
lullaby. The guests began to move, slowly rising from their seats
Some bowed. Some kissed the back of her hand. Some whispered blessings or
in person," someone
special one..." another voice whispered from
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