Then I knew exactly how wrong I'd been.
If he wanted to warm another woman's body, he could have her. I was done.
When morning came, I wiped the dried tears from my face and made two calls on the communicator.
The first was to the Healing Hall. "I need to schedule a procedure. As soon as possible."
The second was to my mother. "Mom, Theron cheated on me. I'm dissolving the bond and coming home. Father's been wanting to hand the pack leadership over to me, right? I'll be there soon."
Lady Elara's voice didn't waver. "I told you from the start. You two come from different bloodlines. Mating with him was never going to end well. Come home. As for the pup, if you want to keep it, keep it. The Silvercrest line could use an heir."
I hung up and tore the writ in my hands clean in half.
Fifty billion gold moons. My father had transferred it to me. It was supposed to fund Theron's territorial expansion into the northern borderlands.
He would never see a single moon of it now.