The Alpha Chose My Sister, So I Chose Revenge

Chapter 1

"Celeste, your resignation has been approved, but... are you certain about this? Alpha Marcus seemed surprised when he signed it. Perhaps you should reconsider?"

Celeste kept her eyes fixed on the resignation letter, her fingers tracing the familiar signature at the bottom. She shook her head slowly. "No need to reconsider. He's made his choice."

The HR manager shifted uncomfortably. "But Celeste, everyone knows how much the Alpha—"

"How much he what?" Celeste's laugh was hollow. "Cares about me? Values me? Loves me?"

What the HR manager didn't know was that Celeste wasn't just another pack member leaving the company. She was Marcus Sterling's mate—had been for four years. Their mating bond was a secret, buried beneath pack politics and his personal shame.

But love and mating were two very different things, as she'd learned six weeks ago.

The night she miscarried their first pup—alone in a hospital room at 2 AM, bleeding and terrified—she'd called him seventeen times through their mate bond. When he finally answered, his voice was thick with sleep and irritation.

"Celeste, it's the middle of the night. Can't this wait until morning?"

"Marcus, I'm losing the pup. I need you here. The doctors need consent for—"

"Look, I'm sure it's just cramping. She-wolves go through this all the time. Take some painkillers and call me in the morning."

The line went dead, and with it, something in their mate bond snapped forever.

She'd signed her own consent forms while hemorrhaging, her hands shaking so badly she could barely hold the pen. Her wolf whimpered in pain, calling for her mate, but he never came.

When the doctor told her the pup was gone, she was still alone.

Marcus showed up three days later—not to comfort his grieving mate, but to drag her back to work because his assistant, had accidentally deleted important files and he needed Celeste to recover them.

He had been with Raven.Raven. Her younger sister. The woman who'd been warming his bed while his mate was losing their pup.

"People change," Celeste said quietly to the HR manager. "I've given him four years of my life. That's enough."

The irony wasn't lost on her. Marcus had claimed her as his mate because she was useful—the brilliant daughter of a neighboring pack's Beta who could make his company profitable. But he'd never wanted a true mate. He'd wanted a business partner who occasionally warmed his bed.

Now that Raven was back from her Europe, he had what he'd always really wanted.

Before she left, though, Celeste had one final gift for her Alpha. Something that would set them both free.

The elevator to the executive floor felt like a countdown to her execution. Celeste clutched her bag, feeling the weight of the rejection papers inside—documents that would officially sever their mate bond.

She found Marcus in his office, arranging red roses in a crystal vase. Her chest tightened—in four years of being mated, he'd never once bought her flowers. He'd said