Reclaiming My Broken Luna by Selene Souchon

Chapter 208: Glass House

Astrid's POV

I held myself together as I locked gazes with Giselle. She knew I heard her words. She probably spoke it out loud to make sure that I would hear her.

"Does it even matter who she is? As long as she's a member of the Shadowfang Pack, for sure she could help us. If we want to impress their Alpha, we must at least impress her first." I heard someone whisper.

However, Giselle only laughed, stealing everyone's attention. "She's just a mistress, she had no influence over the affairs of the Shadowfang Pack. It would be better if you just go directly to the Alpha instead of wasting your time with her." I forced back a smile when I heard her words. She had no idea just how much influence I had here ever since I became the Pack's acting beta.

"Astrid," Giselle's voice, laced with venom, cut through the air. "She's just a mistress, after all. A temporary distraction a fleeting fancy. For sure the Alpha will get bored of her just like how the previous Alphas she dated did."

I've been holding myself together, trying my best to ignore Giselle's words and avoid making a scene in front of the guests.

However, when I heard what she had just said, my vision darkened, and I finally snapped.

"Giselle," I began, my voice trembling with barely contained fury. "You have no right—"

But before I could unleash the torrent of words building inside of me, a female's voice, sharp and clear, cut through the air.

"Giselle," a pregnant woman stood up from the crowd. "Don't you dare speak of mistresses," she spoke, her voice low and dangerous. "You of all people, should know better than to throw stones in a glass house."

stared at the woman who spoke, wondering why she stood up for me when

Everybody seemed to hold their breath, the murmur of conversation fading into a hushed

once flushed with indignation, paled as the weight of Vanessa's words

audacity she held in shaming me?

a moment there, I thought she was describing herself," I spoke up, adding fuel to

laughed at my words. Her laughs came

to say a

in me turned their interest on her and started talking

others without looking on herself first. Didn't she just got pregnant by an Alpha that is not her mate? In fact

doesn't matter whether the wife cheated. It's clear

shaming another mistress.

one another, and the tides turned against Giselle. Giselle could only fume in silence, unable to defend

here, sit with

pulled me from the crowd. "I'm Vanessa and you are Astrid, right?" she asked me as she pulled me

with how close she was to me. I've only met her now. "That's right," I answered

people here, she was the only one who stood up for me. I think

that's not the same for me. Well, I'm Vanessa the Luna of Crimsonbane Pack,"

Luna! I've heard some things about her in the

think when I was still the Luna, she wasn't yet the Luna of their Pack, which is why I am unfamiliar with