Chapter 281
Chapter 281:
I was Mrs. Jase Davenport.
The terrifying anonymous text message and the dead bird from that morning felt like distant, irrelevant nightmares. I had won. I scanned the dimly lit ballroom, the air thick with champagne and the scents of hundreds of powerful Alphas and Lunas.
Then I spotted her. Adelina Wolfe sat at a corner table, draped in midnight blue, with the Lycan King at her side.
A vicious, triumphant thrill shot through my veins. She looked so calm, completely unaware that the guillotine was about to drop. I had given the AV technician the flash drive containing the blurry photo of Kain kissing his supposed hidden Luna on the balcony.
The host stepped up to the microphone on the stage, his voice booming over the speakers. “Ladies and gentlemen, if I could direct your attention to the screens — the bride and groom have prepared a special love story montage to share with us tonight p>
The ballroom lights dimmed. A hush fell over the crowd.
I turned my head, locking eyes with Adelina across the room. I offered her a slow, venomous smirk, waiting for the photo to flash on the screen and shatter her pathetic, wolfless life forever.
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The massive LED screens flickered.
But instead of romantic music, a harsh, piercing burst of static ripped through the speakers.
My smile faltered. The screen didn’t show the balcony photo. It showed a shadowy street corner — the footage crystal clear, stamped with a timecode from last Tuesday.
A collective gasp rippled through the ballroom.
On the massive screens, my own face appeared, illuminated by a streetlamp. I was handing a small vial to Branden Cole.
Then my voice — amplified by the elite sound system Kain’s Warriors had secretly hijacked — boomed through the silent, horrified ballroom.
“I don’t just want her embarrassed, Branden. I want her broken. I want the Lycan King to see what a pathetic, wolfless creature he’s bound himself to p>
The cloying jasmine of my perfume instantly turned rancid, souring with absolute, paralyzing terror. The blood drained from my face, leaving my skin as cold as a corpse.
Beside me, Jase went completely rigid. The smug Alpha pride radiating from him shattered in a single heartbeat. He slowly turned his head to look at me, his eyes wide with a horrifying, sickening realization.
Adelina POV
The silence in the Grand Ballroom was absolute, broken only by the echoing, venomous voice of the bride herself.
“I want the Lycan King to see what a pathetic, wolfless creature he’s bound himself to p>
On the massive LED screens, the footage froze on Kira’s face, twisted by pure, unadulterated malice. I stood in the heavy shadows of the back pillars, watching the exact moment her flawless facade shattered. The cloying jasmine of her perfume instantly turned rancid, flooding the room with the sour, suffocating stench of absolute terror.
“Turn it off!” Kira shrieked, her voice cracking hysterically as she pointed a trembling finger at the AV booth. “Turn it off right now p>