My Pack Ditched Me on the Holiday. Now, I’m Out of Reach. Chapter 10

My Pack Ditched Me on the Holiday. Now, I’m Out of Reach. Chapter 10

After Luna Elena and Alpha Victor learned the truth, Luna Elena raised her hand and slapped Ruby hard

across the face.

“Do you have any idea what you’ve done? You’ve destroyed this family! Destroyed our pack!”

My parents were both heartbroken and furious.

In that moment, they looked like they wanted to tear Ruby apart.

They ended the party early.

Then they dragged Ruby home and locked her in her room.

“You’re not coming out until you truly understand what you did wrong.”

After punishing her, my parents contacted me through my academic advisor.

They’d hoped the college admission celebration would repair our relationship, but it had backfired- completely backfired.

Most of the guests at the party could tell right from wrong, and they didn’t blame me too harshly.

But there were too many people, too many opinions, too many versions of the story. Someone spread it beyond the ballroom.

When it went viral online, people started accusing me of being a fraud-academically and morally.

On the phone, my parents sobbed and apologized.

“Selene, you have to believe us. None of this was what we wanted.”

Silas also apologized on the call. “Selene, I was blind before. You’ve always been the best sister I could have,

and the one I’m most proud of.”

Then the three of them hesitated before pleading with me.

“Selene, please forgive us one more time. Give us another chance.”

I cut off their endless begging, “You want me to forgive you? Fine. Then tell the whole truth. Tell everyone

what really happened, including how Ruby drugged my milk before.”

“If you do that, maybe I’ll still call you my parents.”

Elena and Victor, who’d been chattering nonstop, suddenly went quiet.

“But… but if we do that, Ruby’s reputation will be ruined.”

“Why don’t you ask for something else? Money, or anything you want. Just name it, and we’ll-”

“No need.” My voice remained calm. “One more thing. Stop contacting me.”

I hung up without hesitation.

Even when they claimed they wanted to make it up to me, their actions still chose Ruby in the end.

But unlike before, I no longer felt hurt or disappointed; there was no storm inside me anymore.

I’d already walked out of the shadow of never being chosen.

College life was calm and fulfilling.

Besides my major courses, I also took classes in international trade.

I got top marks in every class.

I won every major academic award the school offered.

Before graduation, I’d already received a job offer from a company on the Fortune 500 of all wolf packs.

During those four years, Zane sent countless gifts and letters.

Every letter said the same thing: he apologized for overlooking me in the past, and confessed that he loved

I never replied to a single letter, and all the gifts were returned unopened.

On graduation day, I saw Luna Elena and Alpha Victor again.

In just four years, they looked like they’d aged over a decade.

Their tired eyes were full of exhaustion.

From their tearful explanations, I learned what had happened after I left.

Even though they’d refused to clear my name, the truth eventually spread online anyway.

Someone in the know had exposed everything.

As the mastermind behind it all, Ruby was brutally attacked online.

She fell into depression and had to take a leave from school.

She blamed everything on Luna Elena and Alpha Victor, insisting that they’d leaked the truth and ruined her.

Luna Elena and Alpha Victor couldn’t take it anymore.

In the end, they sent her to a rehabilitation center.

After that, they never saw her again.

They took my hands, their eyes full of regret.

“Selene, we truly know we were wrong this time.”

“We’re so sorry.”

I just pulled my hands away without a word and turned to leave.

It had taken me four whole years to climb out of the mire of the past.

I no longer needed the kind of family love I’d once craved.