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

hung heavy in the air. Everybody seemed to hold their breath, the murmur of

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

Where is the audacity she held in shaming me? The moment that the

I thought she was describing herself," I

laughs came from the pit of her stomach. She

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

who was so interested in me turned their interest on her and

on herself first. Didn't she just got pregnant by an Alpha that is not her mate? In fact her husband now was still

wife cheated. It's clear that the husband

mistress shaming another mistress. Oh how

Giselle could only fume in silence,

with

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

smile on my face. I felt uncomfortable with how close she was

nice; out of all the people here, she was the only one who stood

same for me. Well, I'm Vanessa the Luna of Crimsonbane Pack," Vanessa introduced

in realization. She's that Luna! I've heard some things about her in

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