Chapter 8
In the video, Laila–who Jackson remembered as gentle, innocent, and supposedly poisoned by wolfsbane and needing protection–was smoking and drinking.”
+25 BONUS
Meanwhile, on the couch in front of her, Dad and Mary looked immensely pleased with themselves. Especially Mary, was counting the monetary wedding gift Jackson had given.
who
“Our darling daughter really is clever–pretending to be poisoned by wolfsbane and deceiving that dumb Jackson.
“Haha! He’s an Alpha, yet he can’t even tell real wolfsbane from fake? How on earth did he survive on the battlefield all these years?”
Mary’s tone was sharp and mocking. As she
spoke,
exchanged a smug glance with Father and sneered.
At this point, Father seemed to remember something and said bitterly, “If that brat Seraphina hadn’t run off to save his life back then, the Alpha title of the Ulverngard pack would’ve been mine! I spent so much money pulling strings to lure those enemies in!
“If we hadn’t run out of money, we wouldn’t have had to keep pushing Laila to cling to Jackson all these years!”
Mary also snorted. “Jackson is pathetic too–he abandoned Seraphina, who lost her wolf for him, and clings to Laila instead. Tsk! It must be her irresistible charm!”
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Father took a sip of red wine and arrogantly added, “Seraphina is just like her mother–despicable and born to suffer. If her mother had just handed over the inheritance like she was told, she wouldn’t have been tortured to the point of jump
of jumping off a building.
