The Mate Who Broke My Wolf’s Heart Chapter 08

The Mate Who Broke My Wolf’s Heart Chapter 08

While I was working on the lawsuit and organizing all the evidence, news from my Family reached

me again.

But this time, they didn’t contact me directly.

I heard it from another source.

That day, I went to Council Court to submit additional evidence. By coincidence, I ran into an old classmate. He now worked within the Council system.

“Lyra? Are you… doing okay?”

I looked at the way he avoided my eyes.

“I’m fine. What happened?”

“Well… Valerie’s review results seem to have come out.”

My heart moved slightly, but my expression remained unchanged.

“Oh? What was the result?”

“She didn’t pass.”

“The exact reason wasn’t made public. But I heard it was because an immediate Family member was involved in a serious online incident, and the case might also be connected to a criminal investigation.”

He lowered his voice.

“It seems to be related to that illusion-created video of yours. The Pack Enforcer has officially opened an investigation.”

“Also… Valerie was found to have suspicious financial activity.”

His voice became quieter.

“Lyra, don’t be too upset. No one expected things to end up like this.”

I simply nodded and gave him a polite smile.

“It’s fine. She made her choice. Now she can live with it.”

After saying goodbye to my classmate, I sat alone on a bench outside Council Court.

I took out my phone and checked the investigation information that had not yet been made public.

The Council Enforcer’s investigation moved faster than I expected.

The $200,000 Valerie transferred to Selena had passed through several accounts before eventually

reaching an overseas online manipulation group.

And that group was one of the key players behind creating and spreading the illusion-created video.

Valerie thought she was paying to make the trouble disappear.

She never realized that she had personally funded the criminal chain behind it.

The entire situation had changed.

She was no longer just the Family member of someone involved in the incident.

She had become one of the people who provided financial support.

So Valerie’s review result was already decided.

I lowered my eyes and looked at my phone.

Her face appeared in my mind.

The sister who had always stood above me.

The sister who constantly spoke about Family honor as if it mattered more than anything else.

What expression was she wearing now?

Anger?

Collapse?

Or regret?

I didn’t know.

But I knew one thing.

Mom would never accept this result.

Just as I expected, that night, I received a message from an unknown number.

There was only one sentence.

yra, something happened to Valerie. She took pills and is in the hospital. Come back

immediately.”

I stared at the screen.

I felt nothing.

It felt like I was watching someone else’s life fall apart.

There was a time when a single word from my Family could keep me awake all night.

But that time was over.

I replied:

“I’m not going back.”

“She made her choice. Now she has to face the consequences.

“And don’t contact me from unknown numbers again. If you keep harassing me, I’ll report it to the

Council Enforcer.”

After sending the message, I turned off my phone and looked up at the sky.

The heavy clouds slowly drifted apart.

Moonlight spilled across the ground again.

The weight that had been pressing against my chest for so long finally began to disappear.

So this was what their choices had led to.

Back then, they forced me to take the blame for something I never did because they wanted to protect their so-called Family future.

But now, the future they fought so hard to protect had collapsed because of their own choices.