Alpha Nolan led my family straight into the pack, entrusting the matter entirely to Beta for investigation.
Beta found it odd and said, “Perhaps Miss Odelia just ran away. After all, what happened at the wedding must have been a shock…”
I nodded in agreement from behind him.
However, Alpha Nolan shook his head and said, “On the day she went missing, I did run away from the wedding, but she didn’t come home to get her ID, credit cards, or suitcase. It definitely wasn’t just a simple runaway.”
The Alpha’s orders were not to be disobeyed, so Beta took on the case, preparing to
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investigate.
Alpha Nolan also returned home to search for any clues about where I might have gone or whom I might have seen.
He found my diagnosis report in one of my favorite fairy tale books.
Late–stage cancer, severe depression…
When he saw the diagnosis report, he trembled all over.
He collapsed powerlessly to the ground, muttering, “Impossible, impossible. How could Odelia, so healthy and lively, have cancer? How could she have severe depression?”
He repeated it over and over as if trying to convince himself.
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The two diagnosis reports in front of him were just props for a prank I left behind; it was all a little joke from me.
The more he deceived himself this way, the more he seemed to be in pain.
Clutching his chest, he squatted down weakly, gasping for breath as if he might faint at any moment.
He buried his head, and when he looked up again, his proud face was already stained with tears.
A strange, inexplicable pain enveloped him deeply. He couldn’t understand the reason why, just that his heart hurt so much.
As he touched the tears on his face, he felt utterly bewildered.
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Meanwhile, I felt nothing but irony: when I had once pleaded with him to stay, he had shown no sadness or guilt.
Patients with late–stage cancer become extremely thin.
The man who claimed to love me hadn’t ever noticed that.
I really doubted the love he professed.
As I coldly laughed at his apparent affection, suddenly Alpha Nolan had a strong, bad premonition.
That feeling made him extremely uneasy, his whole body began to tremble, as if something most important had been lost.
He mobilized the entire pack to search for
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Until the police called with the heartbreaking
news.
“Alpha, according to surveillance footage, on the day of your wedding, it appears our Luna jumped into the sea to end her life. The court, police, and rescue teams are already working together, but it doesn’t look promising. Please, you and other family members need to come to the station as soon as possible…”
This outcome was something no one dared to even imagine.
It was the worst case they didn’t want to consider.
When all those close to me were gathered at the police station, seeing their panicked
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and deeply saddened expressions, I was surprised to realize they did care about whether I was alive or dead.
Even my most hated sister, Sylvia, whom I despised, sat there with a vacant look.
They sat together, watching me tie heavy stones to the wedding dress I had so carefully prepared.
They also saw, in my last moments, how I picked up my mother’s call, only to be met with another tirade of insults.
They watched me casually toss the phone aside and walk with calm and determined steps toward the river’s center.
And just like that, I vanished into the water, disappearing from this world.
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Seeing this scene, my usually strict father became overwhelmed with grief.
What surprised me the most was Sylvia’s reaction. After my death, she wasn’t happy at all. Instead, she seemed particularly pained.
She walked right up to Alpha Nolan and
