Her Mate Chooses The Fake Sister Who Stole Her Life

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gth mirror as the seamstress took final me

licate fabric over my shoulders. The back zipper hissed

the seamstress gasped. "In twenty years of tai

down my back, the ends dusting over the gown's silver-stitched train like autumn leaves on frosted silk. With the diamond

to see me so perfect. M

Liam should have been here thirty minutes ago. As if summo

thumb tapped the phone case.

His usually smooth baritone crackl

call

dying on my lips. Five years together, and he'd never

his strength. The marriage alliance had been arranged since my birth. Although I once went missing, the

e bond. The Moon Goddess made us for each other. Everyone knew that, and both

number. My mother, Luna of the Frostveil Pack. Th

ine and snow. I had always dreamed of being back in Mom's arms, but when I f

, but the warmth in her voice wasn't me

adopted to soothe my mother'

wn up beside Liam, becoming his closest confidante. Had I never

ove. I tried to accept Riley as a sister. But Riley. she hadn't accepted that. To her, I was an int

y. Riley had been punished. Liam was mine. Our weddin

her's number. We'd already missed so much-

led out the second the call connec

e." Her reply was ice, slicing

ened, the weight of her r

all again." The line went d

arm dropped limply to my side, the phone slipping from

nease curled in my chest. My wolf, Lydia

the boutique, my wedding train f

walls showing a bride-to-be with fire in her eyes. The doors

up, "Miss Avery, plea

le syllable drip

be their Luna. They couldn't afford to

just didn't want me to worry. However, what greeted me froze the blood in my veins-Liam's broad back bent over a slende

e scent

a and

from my throat, and L

bit. Riley-that backstabbing bitch-had the audacity to smirk at me over h

shredded the doorframe

MATE?" The roar sho

I'd ever seen. He planted himself be

. "You missed our final fitting for

years ago, she left me bleeding in the sno

twisted in anguish.

Liam's back. "Please, Liam. she's scaring me." Her voice trembled, but h

n audible shink. The wolf in me recognized the chall

hands off him," I growled, my voic

hrough the room, pressing against my skin like a warning

ced through the heavy silen

since I'd known h

rtbea

took. His answer

inty since the day we met-fractured. Lydia let out a w

aws retracting. The fire

d me, his hand outstretched. "

y something far more dangerous-finality. I slid the diamond e

edding

ched-not in distre

instincts flaring. "You don't

ter and sharp.

y head high, my heart in piece