Chapter 12
With a beep, the call ended. All the guests in the hall looked over with strange expressions. Mr. and Mrs. Blake were a nervous ness, trying to talk some sense into him.
The mating ceremony has started, Julian. What are you doing? Shelly and her family aren’t coming, and they aren’t coming back to he country. Why are you making things hard for them? Hurry up and get inside!”
The day they left, we called you dozens of times to ask you to come back for a proper goodbye, but you didn’t answer a single one. What’s the point of being anxious now? Get married first, then we’ll go to Spain together, and you can properly explain everything
o Mr. Ross.”
Every word they said felt like hot oil being poured over Julian’s heart. The thought of maybe never seeing Shelly again made his
ands tremble.
The emcee reminded him a third time, but he still didn’t move. Instead, he started calling her back. A “phone is not in service” nessage made him even more frustrated, so he called Shelly again. This time, it wasn’t offline, but a prompt that the number vasn’t available, which meant she had blocked him.
When he realized this, a vein throbbed in his forehead. He forgot all his Alpha pride and opened his chat app, sending a bunch of question marks. But a series of “message failed’ notifications and a screen full of red exclamation marks became the final blow to
is last bit of hope.
He turned to leave, but at the exit, he ran into Grace, who was wearing her wedding dress. She stared at him, her eyes confused and vorried. “The Oracle has called a third time, Julian. Why aren’t you going in?”
Faced with her question, Julian’s words came out a bit jumbled. “I, I have something I need to take care of first. Can the mating eremony be postponed for a few days?”
Grace’s face instantly went dark. She let go of her dress, and her eyes turned cold. “Why postpone it for no reason? Do you not want o marry me?”
Before Julian could speak, Mr. Blake quickly jumped in.”It’s not like that, Grace. Julian just heard about Shelly’s family moving and ouldn’t handle it. Wait a while, he’ll be fine once he calms down.”
Hearing those words, Grace instantly understood what he was really dealing with. The anger that had been building inside her urst out, and she shrieked, losing her cool.”Are you going to postpone our mating ceremony for Shelly? Julian, are you crazy? I’m elling you, if you dare to take one step out of this church today, we’re over!”
