Igor

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fast enough. He never looked back, so he didn't see my legs give way the moment the door slammed behind him. I slid slowly down the wall, too weak to continue standing. I looked down at the rejection as my trembling fingers touched his signature. This will be the last thing I will ever do for Igor. In seven days, I will no longer be his Moon. I will take our unborn child and disappear from his life forever.

He rose to his feet, his tall figure approaching until his shadow completely engulfed me. Then he reached out to me. His fingers grabbed my chin and lifted it, forcing me to look directly at him. There was something fierce in his eyes. Possessiveness. The instinctive dominance an Alpha displayed toward his true self. "Today is our wedding anniversary," he said quietly, his hand sliding from her chin to her throat, his rough thumb slowly tracing the sensitive skin. "By pack tradition, I must stay with you tonight." His touch burned my skin, but my heart remained cold and still. At that moment, his phone suddenly rang. The glowing screen showed a name I knew all too well – Alice. Igor's body tensed. He answered immediately, and Alice's trembling voice came from the receiver: "Igor, I'm scared. It's thundering really loudly today. Can you come and stay with me?" Igor looked at me, and for a moment a look of hesitation crossed his face. I forced a weak smile onto my lips and urged, "You should go. Alice just got back and hasn't fully recovered yet. As the Alpha of the pack, you're responsible for looking after your pack members. I'll be fine on my own." Igor continued to stare at me, as if trying to find some trace of resentment hidden behind my words. But he found nothing. I looked empty enough to fool even him, like a doll with nothing left inside. "You're finally starting to understand what it means to be Luna," he said after a moment, a hint of satisfaction creeping into his tone as he put the phone away. "I know it's been tough for you. Once Alice gets settled, I'll make it up to you." Will he reimburse me? I never wanted compensation. I only wanted the one thing he never truly gave me – his whole heart. “Okay,” I replied, nodding. Igor turned and headed for the door, his hurried steps giving the impression that he couldn't get away long enough.

On behalf of Lilia: In my third month of pregnancy, I, Liliya Romanova, was in a car accident. Half-conscious and shaking, I kept calling my husband, Alpha Igor Vlasov, but he never answered. When the pain finally subsided enough for me to come to my senses, I opened my phone and saw a post from his first love, Alisa Brunina. "I have to thank Igor for staying with me all night because he knows I'm afraid of the dark. He even canceled all his appointments today to take me to the auction and bought me the most beautiful gift in the world. I'm so happy!" At that moment, I understood everything – when I had seriously suffered while protecting my child, he chose to stay with the other wolf. Without saying a word, I liked the post and closed the app. If he wanted his first love back, then let him take her. In seven days, I will disappear from his life forever – along with our child. Clutching the freshly imprinted rejection, I dragged my traumatized body home. I swung open the heavy oak door. The living room was plunged into darkness, and only the dim glow of the wall sconces cut through the shadows. In the dim light, a tall figure sat on the sofa, his presence heavy and suffocating. The pressure emanating from him belonged only to a top-level Alpha. It was none other than my true Igor. "So you still remember this is your home?" his voice cut through the silence like frost. Before I could respond, he rose from the couch and crossed the room in a few long strides. His hand gripped my wrist with brutal force, and pain shot through my arm, as if he were about to break the bones. "Lilya, what was the point of liking Alisa's post?" he barked, looking at me with open contempt. "She just got back, and her condition isn't stable yet. She can't handle the stress right now. Did I try to remind her that you're my Luna?"