Chapter 13
Maeve chuckled unfazed at his words. Gideon was surprised that she didn’t look worried.
“Why are you so intent on keeping me back here? You rejected me. You humiliated me. You chose someone else.” She raised an eyebrow. “Now suddenly, you want to use pack rules to trap me?”
Gideon’s smirk faltered slightly, but he hid his unease. “Rules are rules, Maeve. You belong to this pack until I say otherwise. Unless you’re officially released, you can’t join another pack, even if it is the Aeternum Pack”
Maxwell smiled, “Well, I don’t see the problem then.”
Gideon’s smirk faded. He was confused,
something was wrong. “What are you talking about?”
Maeve replied. “You have already signed
the valoar
100 calm and
the release papers” Her voice was calm and confident.
Gideon blinked in confusion. “What? That’s impossible. I didn’t-”
“Oh, but you did,” Maeve interrupted with a wide smile. “Remember the day you were rushing off to meet Wren? I handed you some documents to sign. You didn’t even read them. You just signed them and shoved them back into my hands.”
Gideon’s face turned pale as realization began to dawn. “No… no, that can’t be- “I told you they were papers for the conference meeting, Maeve continued with a grin. “But because you didn’t go through them, you didn’t see my official release paper. So you stamped, and approved by yourself.”
Gasps echoed again around the crowd.
Gideon stood frozen and speechless. His mouth opened, but no words came out.
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“So thank you, Gideon. For setting her free. And for clearing the way for her to take her rightful place as my Luna, I will make sure I send you a fruit basket.” The smug look on Gideon’s face had completely vanished now. All that was left was disbelief and humiliation.
Maeve looked at him one last time. “I’m not yours to command, control, or insult anymore. You threw me away, Gideon. And now… I’ve moved on from you.”
Maxwell extended his hand again, and Maeve didn’t hesitate this time. She took it proudly, with a loving smile on her face.
A weird sensation burned through Gideon. He recognized that smile, Maeve had given it to him all the time, but now that he thought about it, she had been more withdrawn and cold recently.
He had thought that it was just a phase, that it would pass, But it was much more than
that
The crowd silently parted to make way for the Aeternum Pack Alpha and his Luna,
Maxwell paused, “Hey, one more thing, Gideon.”
Gideon looked up.
“Don’t expect any Alpha to come,” Maxwell said casually.
It was that moment that Gideon realized that something was wrong. He glanced around, panic rising in his chest. No alpha was here yet.
Even with all the delay because of Maeve and Maxwell, none of them were here yet? He had sent out the invitations weeks ago. He even confirmed with a few of them. Why hadn’t they come?
Gideon frowned, confused. “What do you mean? What did you do?” Maxwell shrugged. “They’re all at our mating ceremony venue.”
Gideon’s mouth fell open. “W–What?”
Maxwell’s smirk widened. “Oh? You didn’t know?” He tilted his head with mock innocence. “I’m so sorry. We’re having our mating ceremony today as well. What a… coincidence.”
The crowd murmured as they realized what was going on. Maxwell had fixed their mating ceremony the same day as Gideon’s mating ceremony.
All the Alphas were absent from Gideon’s ceremony because they had chosen to attend Maxwell’s instead. Maxwell’s pack was the largest and most powerful. No one wanted to risk offending the Aeternum Pack Alpha.
Maxwell threw an envelope over his shoulder
as he walked away chuckling
Chapter 13
without looking back.
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Maeve didn’t even glance at Gideon. As she walked away holding hands with Maxwell.
Gideon stared at the envelope. His hand shook as he bent to pick it up. On the front, it read:
The Mating Ceremony of Alpha Maxwell of the Aeternum Pack and Luna Maeve.
