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."

stood up for me

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

indignation, paled as the weight of Vanessa's

audacity she held in shaming me? The moment

there, I thought she was describing herself," I

words. Her laughs came

us, unable to say a word. The woman's words really drove into her with a chilling precision, breaking

so interested in me turned their

by an Alpha that is not her mate? In fact her husband now was still married with someone else

doesn't matter whether the wife cheated.

shaming another mistress. Oh

another, and the tides turned against Giselle. Giselle could only fume in silence, unable to defend herself from the words of the

here, sit with me,"

huge smile as she laced her arm around mine and pulled me from the crowd. "I'm Vanessa and

a smile on my face. I felt uncomfortable with how close she was to me. I've only met

was the only one who stood up for me. I think that's enough to label her

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

I've

think when I was still the Luna, she wasn't yet the Luna of their Pack, which