---- "Sophia! I've been looking all over for you!" she said, out of breath. "The ceremony's about to get to the ring exchange, and you need to be up there as my maid of honor..." "Maid of honor?" Ethan looked stunned. "yep," Sarah said with a smile. "Sophia's my best friend, of course she's my maid of honor. By the way, who are you two?" "T'm Sophia's..." Ethan stopped, not knowing how to introduce himself. "Ex-mate," I finished for him. "Sarah, I'll be right there." Sarah nodded, gave Ethan and Vivian a curious look, and then left. "So," Ethan turned to me, a mix of emotions in his eyes, "you really are just here for a friend's wedding." "T told you I was." ---- "You didn't come to get my attention?" "Get your attention?" I couldn't help but laugh. " Ethan, do you really think you're worth that kind of effort?" His face changed. "I know you're still angry, but the pack's crisis..." "The pack's crisis has nothing to do with me." I turned to leave. "Sophia!" Ethan grabbed my arm. "You can't do this!" Iyanked my hand away. "Don't touch me." "Please," Ethan's voice trembled, "even if not for me, for the innocent pack members. Can you really bear to watch them die?" "Where were those pack members?" I shot back. " When you pretended you'd lost the mate bond, where were they? When you let me take the blame, where were they? When you humiliated me, where ---- were they?" Ethan was speechless. "Now that you need me, they're 'innocent pack members.'" I scoffed. "When you don't need me, they just play deaf and dumb." "But..." "No buts," I said firmly. "I'm going to my friend's wedding. As for your pack crisis, go ask your new Luna to fix it." I walked towards Sarah's wedding ceremony without looking back. "Sophia, stop! Can you just stop making a scene?!"