She dabbed at her tears like a drama queen. "I wasn't going to say anything, but she was so cruel earlier."
"Real bonds aren't about timing—they're about truth," she said, chin lifted with infuriating pride. "Marriage certificates mean nothing if the heart was never in it. What we have is real. She's the one intruding on what was never hers to begin with."
The sheer shamelessness of her logic disgusted everyone in the room. The wives and female Alphas present—veterans of dealing with homewreckers on the regular—looked like they wanted to spit in her face. How could anyone be so completely shameless?
Only their reluctance to piss off the Shadow Pack kept them silent.
Xavier's expression remained ice-cold. "Can you stand behind what you've just claimed?"
"I swear it!" Cici cried, eyes w
