“Didn’t you say you wanted to look at Luna gowns today? Let me take you.”
Listening to Damon’s tender words and watching the two of them looking so perfect together, I couldn’t help thinking.
Perhaps Damon hoped I would stay lost in memory forever.
Perhaps I had been holding him back all these years. Maybe from the beginning, he had wanted to marry Serena.
So he fed me the forbidden potion, giving him a legitimate reason to marry her and protect her.
If he had feelings for her, then what did all my years mean? Why did he have to keep deceiving me?
Damon looked down at me again, his voice gentle.
“I’ll take Serena to try on the Luna gown for the mating ceremony first. If you’re not feeling well, go see the pack healer. Don’t delay treatment.”
I laughed softly, my gaze indifferent.
“Brother-in-law, you’re worrying about the wrong person. I don’t need your concern.”
Damon froze for a moment, seeming surprised by my coldness.
But then he remembered that someone who drank the memory potion would forget the person they loved most.
His brow relaxed halfway.
He turned and walked away with Serena.
Serena clung tightly to his arm, her whole body pressed against him. He just smiled indulgently and didn’t push her away.
My face went pale. I pressed my hand against my heart, which felt like it might shatter, comforting myself.
“I just finally saw his true nature. Better to hurt now than regret later.”
Soon after, my best friend Harper came bursting in. She was a beta wolf who was like a sister to me. When she learned I had drunk the memory potion for Damon and Serena, she cried hysterically.
“Aria! The Alpha used to love you so much, he would have died for you! How could he suddenly… how could he suddenly decide to hold a bonding ceremony with that little bitch Serena?! And what’s this nonsense about breaking a curse? You actually believed that garbage?!”
I wiped away her tears, speaking with calm composure.
“I can live without him.”
I explained the whole memory potion situation to her.
“How could the Alpha do this to you?!”
“Serena’s worthless life – if she dies, she dies! How could he treat you this way? Actually making you drink a forbidden potion?! I’m definitely reporting him to the Alpha Council!”
“It’s fine. Let it be. The memory potion… forgetting might be better.”
“But what will you do now?”
“I’ll leave Red Stone pack. The Alpha Council arranged for me to serve as a Healer advisor at Dark Moon pack before, but I refused because I thought Damon needed me more. Now it’s perfect timing.”
“There’s nothing worth staying for here anyway. This time I’ll go see what Dark Moon pack is like.”
“This place looks like my home, but really… there’s been no place for me here for a long time.”
Within seven days, all memories of him would be completely erased. Then I could start my own new life.
