When My Alpha Chose My Betrayer

The night I jumped from the third floor, my Alpha mate Carter finally screamed my name like he loved me. Hours earlier, we had just left our Mating Ceremony. I was still wearing the dress he chose for me when he smiled behind the wheel and said, “I fucked someone else.” Then he tapped the passenger seat. “She was right there yesterday. We didn’t even make it out of the car.” The woman was Chloe. My former best friend. The same woman who had climbed into my ex-mate Jake’s bed five years ago and made me lose my first Bond, my ten-year friendship, and the three-month-old pup I never got to hold. Back then, Carter was the one who saved me. He held me through the nightmares. He starved when I stopped eating. He cut himself every time I tried to bleed myself empty. He swore before the Moon that he would never become another man who broke me. I believed him. Until he told me he had slept with Chloe to “balance the scales.” Until he shoved me out of the car into the mud. Until he locked me in the room next to his bedroom and forced me to listen while he took her again. So I climbed through the skylight he once built for me to watch the stars. And I jumped. As I fell past his bedroom windo…

Oleh Solara