Chapter 183 A Vow in the Clouds

    Lyana’s POV

    Eric’s eyes pierced through me like a de to the heart.

    But no one cared how I felt.

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    Leslie nced sideways at me, her gaze dripping with contempt. As if reading my thoughts, she scoffed, “She’s not capable of that.”

    At her words, both Eric and Thorbane exhaled in relief.

    Thorbane’s attention then shifted to Kirby, his expression shadowed with suspicion.

    Was he questioning Kirby’s role in this? Whether those Gamma wolves were his… or mine?

    “Mr. Kirby,” Thorbane said coldly, “what are you doing here?”

    Kirby didn’t respond. He simply stared at Leslie, his face dark with unreadable fury.

    Leiss rushed forward, exining the situation in a flurry. Mch nodded at his side, confirming every word.

    After a moment of quiet thought, Thorbane seemed to weigh Kirby’s pride against the possibility that he’d every a hand on a woman. In the end, his gaze settled on me.

    He’d made up his mind.

    He believed I was the one behind it all.

    He turned to Leslie. “What do you want to do with her?”

    Leslie raised an eyebrow, her voice casual yet edged with ice. “Simple. I’ll finish what the Smoke Pack Alpha started. Let a few filthy Omegas mark her, take some nice photos. If she cooperates,

    it’ll hurt less.”

    I snapped my head up in shock, eyes wide.

    She actually said that? Right in front of Eric?

    I was the renowned powerhouse of the Southern Continent, a respected businesswoman–and she dared to humiliate me like this?

    “Leslie, you wouldn’t dare!” I shouted through gritted teeth, rage swelling in my throat.

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    “Why wouldn’t I?” she answered mildly, like it was no more serious than a change in the weather.

    “The Smoke Pack won’t let you get away with this. The entire Southern business circle will turn on you!” I tried to threaten her with the empire I’d built through ten years of work.

    But Leslie onlyughed coldly–and before she could even speak, Thorbane cut in with at derisive snort. His tone was absolute.

    “Using the Smoke Pack to scare my sister? Howughable. Maybe there are too many Packs crowding the Southern Continent these days.”

    His words hit like a hammer.

    In that instant, I understood exactly what he meant.

    My face drained of color.

    I’d spent a decade building the Smoke Pack’s reputation in the South, carving out our ce- but Thorbane could destroy all of it with a singlemand.

    Eric’s voice rang out from the side,ced with impatience. “If you’re gonna do something, quit yapping and get on with it. Let’s get the pictures and call it a night.”

    His words fluttered through the air like dead leaves,pletely dismissing my shame.

    Leslie muttered something about how “disgusting” the sight was, then turned and walked off in

    her heels.

    Of course, Eric followed.

    Thorbane’s guards remained to handle the cleanup.

    And I knew–I had lost. Completely, utterly, devastatingly.

    Still trembling, I raised my voice, cold and raw with heartbreak, and shouted at the man whose back I had followed for ten years.

    “Eric! You think I did all this for nothing? It was for you! I’ve loved you for a decade! How can you not even look at me? Leslie only sees you as a backup–do you really think she cares about you? She’s never loved anyone but herself! She’s just using you, just to toy with your feelings! You think she’ll ever choose you?”

    I no longer cared who heard. My world was already crumbling.

    I screamed, throwing ten years of secrets into the wind, wing for the one person I had lived for.

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    And then I waited, watching his back, praying for the smallest mercy.

    Just one nce.

    But the silence suffocated everything.

    After a long pause, Eric slowly turned around.

    And in his eyes–clear, sharp, and unfiltered–was pure disgust.

    “Damn. Of all people… I had to be the one youtched onto?”

    A cold wind blew past.

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    And with that single line–sharp, venomous, final–he shattered thest piece of hope I had left.

    I was taken away that night by Thorbane’s guards, sent back to the Southern Continent on the next flight.

    I didn’t cry. My face was nk.

    But as the ne pierced the clouds and I looked down at thend I had bled for, I made a vow in the deepest corners of my heart.

    Leslie.

    I’ll remember every drop of humiliation you gave me tonight.

    Everything you have–your power, your beauty, your crown… and Eric’s love–I will take it all from you.

    I will be stronger

    than you.

    Crueler than you.

    I will find allies more dangerous than you’ve ever imagined. I’ll master strategies darker than your worst fears.

    And one day… I will make you crawl.

    On your knees, at my feet.

    Begging for mercy,

    I, Lyana, swear it before the Moon Goddess.

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