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."

the woman who spoke, wondering why she stood

heavy in the air. Everybody seemed to hold their breath, the murmur of conversation fading into

indignation, paled as the weight of Vanessa's words

sting? Where is the audacity she held in shaming me? The moment that the woman spoke up, Giselle was instantly reduced

thought she was describing herself," I spoke

at my words. Her laughs came from the pit of her

she stared at us, unable to say a word. The woman's words really drove into her with a chilling

who was so interested in me turned their interest on

about the others without looking on herself first. Didn't she just got pregnant by an Alpha that is not her

whether the wife cheated. It's clear that

another mistress. Oh

another, and the tides turned against Giselle. Giselle could

sit with

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

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

the people here, she was the only one who stood up for me. I think that's enough to label her as a

heard so much about you, but I'm sure that's not the same for me. Well,

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

was still the Luna, she wasn't yet the Luna of