Chapter 1

When Caleb's Omega lover got pregnant for the third time, my reaction was calm.

I even had the mood to admire the matching couple rings they wore.

Caleb frowned, coldly blocking Isabella protectively.

"I know I promised you I wouldn't have children with other women."

"But if Bella loses this baby, she'll lose her ability to have children completely. So this child must stay. If she gets hurt, I won't let you off."

After saying that, he took two steps back.

He probably thought I'd fly into hysterics and fight with him like before.

But this time, I didn't.

He didn't know that this time, I came to divorce him.

I raised an eyebrow, glancing at the brand-new ring on Isabella's hand.

It was obviously a matching set with the one Caleb wore.

As for our wedding rings, he hadn't worn his in a long time.

"The ring is flashy, but the style's a bit tacky."

If she hadn't deliberately sent me the pregnancy test results, I wouldn't have even known she was pregnant again.

Over these past few years, I'd gotten used to her provocations.

When Caleb first started his affair, he still remembered to take her far away, worried I might notice.

Later, he stopped caring about such things.

I could suffer from his infidelity and our mate bond at any time, anywhere.

The first time I learned of Isabella's existence, I felt like I'd been torn in half alive, my heart twisting in excruciating pain.

When I traced the clues to their secret apartment, Caleb wasn't the least bit surprised by my arrival.

My eyes bloodshot, I grabbed a kettle and hurled it at Caleb's head.

But being an Alpha's son, Caleb remained completely unharmed.

He didn't even dodge. He let the kettle hit his head and fall to the ground, shattering.

He looked at me with helpless eyes, but every word protected her.

"Honey, you haven't changed at all—always flying off the handle so easily. But I really do like her. Don't touch her, and we can talk about anything. Was one throw enough? Want to throw a couple more to vent?"

Back then, I felt like my whole world had collapsed. For many nights in a row, I was mentally unstable, even hallucinating, tormenting myself until I was haggard.

But now, I felt nothing at all.

Caleb paused. After a long moment, he stared at me with a half-smile.

"Honey, changing strategies? But you know, even if you try to stop us, it won't end well for you."

He was right.

I completely agreed and nodded.

"I won't stop you. Do whatever you want."

Seeing I wasn't crying or making a scene, Caleb finally relaxed.

A trace of guilt flickered in his eyes.

"Use my card. Buy whatever you want."

With that, he left with Isabella in his arms, as if afraid of tiring her out.

Watching their retreating figures, I felt only dazed.

The physical and emotional pain had become numb from habit.

I remembered at one party, I confronted Caleb with evidence in front of all our friends.

I wanted him to admit his mistake, to come back to me.

Who knew he would openly introduce Isabella's identity in front of everyone instead.

When someone badmouthed Isabella, he pulled out their teeth.

When someone harassed Isabella and called her a homewrecker, he broke their leg.

No one dared disrespect Isabella anymore.

I practically screamed myself hoarse in breakdown.

"Caleb, what am I to you?! Didn't you say you'd love me forever? We're getting divorced!"

Caleb chuckled softly and kissed my lips.

"Darling, I never said I stopped loving you. It's just that, well, after so much time, I got a bit bored. I promise you'll always be my mate. As for divorce... if you divorce me, where can you even go?"

All my words got stuck in my throat.

Yes, where could someone like me go—someone who'd lost her wolf and had no family left?

I endured the pain.

Until I learned Isabella was pregnant. That's when I completely lost it.

Before Caleb was acknowledged by Shadow Fang Pack, he still couldn't shift properly.

But I inherited my parents' talent and mastered shifting early on.

Everyone said I would become the strongest warrior in the pack.

Until I turned sixteen, when a Rogue set his sights on Caleb.

To protect him, I fought that Rogue for a day and a night. My wolf suffered severe injuries, and my body became extremely weak. The doctor determined I'd almost completely lost my ability to have children.

Originally, neither of us cared much about this.

Until Luna Evelyn found Caleb and brought him back as Shadow Fang Pack's Alpha heir.

For an Alpha heir to be unable to have his own offspring was something the Pack couldn't accept.

The Alpha might revoke his position because of it.

This was something Luna Evelyn couldn't accept.

She urged Caleb to abandon me and find his true mate.

Caleb didn't give in. He married me and announced to everyone that I was his only mate.

He even challenged everyone who gossiped about me, using his fists to shut them up.

Everyone knew Caleb loved me.

I thought so too.

So when I found out Isabella was pregnant, I confronted her, slapped her twice, dragged her to the hospital, and made her abort the child.

When Caleb found out, he had someone bring over my grandmother's only photo and burned it in front of me.

In that moment, I felt like I'd died.

My heart felt like it was being pricked by countless tiny needles. Every beat brought stabbing pain like bleeding.

My face went deathly pale as I asked him if he'd gone mad.

When he was down and out, wasn't it my grandmother who gave him food and shelter so he could survive to this day?

Before she died, my grandmother treated him like her own grandson, splitting her life savings in half—one half for me, one half for him to start his business.

She believed he would make me happy.

But she never imagined that ten years later, Caleb would burn her only photograph.

I laughed twice, full of sarcasm, coughing up blood from my throat.

Caleb remained unmoved, still absentmindedly smoking his cigarette on the sofa.

"Honey, you were the one who attacked her first."

"I warned you, but you just wouldn't listen."

After that day, Caleb never came home. For several weeks straight, he stayed by Isabella's side, making her happy.

I withered like a dying flower in this home we'd decorated together.

Seeing posts on social media about Caleb renting out an entire amusement park for Isabella, I went out and bought a bottle of poison.

Then I sat in the bathtub and drank the entire bottle.

Life drained from me bit by bit. Sounds around me grew distant.

Bone-chilling cold slowly consumed me.

I felt only relief as I slowly closed my eyes.