Reclaiming My Broken Luna by Selene Souchon

Chapter 301: Weight of Betrayal Astrid's POV

Damien didn't have to say a word for Vanessa to understand everything. She could feel the uneasiness of his wolf through the mate bond.

They had been together for years, and Vanessa could easily read him like an open book.

The truth was out, hanging heavily in the air between them, but it was the betrayal that made her heart break.

Tears that Vanessa had been trying so desperately to hold back finally fell freely from her eyes. Her voice trembled, but there was no mistaking the anger behind it.

"How could you do this to me?!" she yelled, her voice shaking with fury and pain. "You deceived me, Damien! You played me for a fool! Why didn't you tell me the truth? Why didn't you tell me that Giselle was the mother of your child?"

The crowd stood frozen in shock, the weight of the revelations suffocating the room.

People exchanged glances, wide-eyed and speechless, not knowing how to process everything they had just learned.

No one had expected to hear such devastating secrets today.

I felt the heaviness in my own chest as I looked at Vanessa. I couldn't even begin to imagine the depth of her pain.

She had always hated Giselle, loathed her with every fiber of her being. And now, to find out that the child she had loved and cared for, the one she treated as her own, was the daughter of the woman she

worse, a child she had with her own husband - was a betrayal beyond comprehension.

guilt creeping in. This wasn't how I wanted

humiliated like this, especially not

into a Beta family, had always carried herself with pride. She had never been humiliated

under her father's protection and now, the worst

whispered, his voice thick with emotion. "I'm so sorry... I never wanted this.

from him, her eyes filled with betrayal. "Don't touch me!" she snapped,

apologize now, Damien.

words. The pain in

bear. "I didn't have a choice," he said, his voice breaking. "I didn't mean to deceive

choice? You always had a choice, Damien. We've been together for years, you had all the chances to

absorbed the weight of Vanessa's words. Her pain, her betrayal-it was

sorry, Vanessa," he whispered, his eyes pleading with her to understand, though he knew the

done, no matter how much I wish I could. If I could go back, I would do things differently. I would have told you the

heart aching as he watched her retreat further, the

I was overcome

the truth, it would destroy everything. I thought I was protecting us... but I see now I that all

for a fleeting moment, but her expression remained guarded, the pain still lingering beneath the surface. "Then why did you help Giselle deceive