He Wants to Buy My Heart—But It’s Not for Sale Chapter 04

He Wants to Buy My Heart—But It’s Not for Sale Chapter 04

I laughed.

Buy.

Again with buying.

In Thayer’s eyes, everything I had could be priced and paid for.

Three years ago, on the night of our bonding ceremony, I had fallen apart after his confession.

Thayer ignored my collapse, turned around, and took another woman out, leaving me alone in our bed.

Before dawn, news of their date had spread through the pack.

I, the Luna, became the joke of Blackthorn Pack overnight.

I sat alone until sunrise.

When he finally called, his tone had been just as arrogant as it was now.

“Can we discuss terms like adults now?”

“Selah, I’ve given you status, position, money. Everything I can give, I’ve given.”

“I swear you’re the one I love most. But you’re too greedy. You want me to spend the rest of my life with only you.”

I could not understand it.

He was the one who had promised me everything.

How had I become greedy for expecting him to keep his word?

I had tangled myself in him out of unwillingness, just as desperately as he had once tangled himself around me.

Every time he hurt me, he used money to buy off my pain.

This time, he could buy off our love with his own hands.

I looked into Thayer’s cruel eyes and raised the number from ten million to one hundred million.

The moment I said it, Thayer burst out laughing.

“Selah, have you lost your mind over money?”

“This broken little box costs that much? What’s inside it? A human life?”

I clenched the shattered piece of the urn in my palm.

Yes.

Inside that box, light as dust, was a life I could not bear losing.

Delphine laughed too.

“Sorry, Selah. Thayer can’t give you one hundred million.”

“He just bought me ten South African diamonds for the tiara I’m wearing at my birthday gala. Ten million each. Exactly one hundred million.”

The last thread of reason inside me snapped.

The shard cut deep into my palm.

I shot to my feet and lunged at Delphine with everything I had.

Too slow.

Thayer moved faster.

He shielded her and shoved me away.

I stumbled back and crashed into the railing. Blood streamed down my forehead.

Thayer did not even glance at me.

He only checked Delphine in a panic, making sure she was not hurt.

Delphine curled against him, one hand carefully protecting her stomach.

“Thayer, my stomach hurts. The baby… will the baby be okay?”

I looked up, stunned, and stared at her belly in disbelief.

She immediately put on a frightened expression.

“Thayer, what do we do? She knows about the baby now.”

“She looks so scary. What if she tries to hurt the baby?”

Thayer turned back toward me.

His eyes were full of warning.

“Selah, I’ll give you one more chance.”

“Name a price. I’ll give you whatever you want.”

Countless emotions wrapped around my wolf like vines laced with silver.

In that moment, I did not care about one hundred million.

I did not care about ten million.

I only wanted to disappear from Thayer Blackthorn’s world forever.

My silence only made Thayer believe Delphine more.

He decided I would harm her and the child inside her.

His voice turned cold as ice.

“Selah, I’ll give you three days. Bring me an answer I can accept.”

“Don’t forget. Your mother is still in the hospital.”

But my mother’s ashes were right beneath his foot.

How stupid could he be, using a dead woman to threaten me?