“No… Olivia, you’re lying. You feel it… I know you do,”

“Tell us what?” Louis asked quietly.

“That’s enough,” he said sharply. “It’s time for you all to leave.”

“She’s our mate,” I echoed. “We all felt it… the second we walked into that hall.”

She turned and held my gaze. “Yes, it’s me,“ she said plainly.

“No,” Lennox said stubbornly from behind me. “Not until we get answers. Not until Olivia-”

“What?” Louis said, his voice cracking. “You can’t-”

“Mine!” my wolf howled possessively inside me.

“You wouldn’t-”

“She’s our mate,” he said firmly, his voice low but filled with raw emotion. “She’s our second chance mate.”

Calvin’s fist connected with Lennox’s jaw, snapping his head sideways.

“Then go ask your parents why they lied to you,” he said coldly. “Maybe then you’ll understand why I want you nowhere near my sister.”

I took a shaky breath. “Olivia… is this really you…” I asked, my lips trembling slightly.

My heart dropped.

I blinked. “The mate bond. You feel it too… don’t you?”

I swallowed hard.

How?

THUD!

“Please leave.”

We were stunned. Breathless.

“A silly joke,” she muttered, shaking her head slightly. “That’s what this is.”

Then Olivia spoke, her voice sounding like a plea.

“Leave.” His voice boomed with finality. “Before I stop being polite.”

One word.

Louis barely had time to move away before Calvin’s fist caught him clean in the face, sending him crashing into the chair behind him.

A thick silence followed.

Then she scoffed.

I exchanged glances with Lennox and Louis. Both of them looked just as wrecked—torn, ashamed, hurting.

“I can,” Calvin snapped. “And I just did.”

“Olivia,” I said gently. “Tell him. Tell Calvin… you feel it too, right?”

I looked at Olivia again, searching for something in her expression. Something in her eyes to tell us she felt it too… she felt the bond, but her eyes gave nothing.

“Oh, I would,” Calvin cut in coldly. “You may be powerful Alphas, but this is my pack. My territory. And right now, you’re standing on my land.”

None of us spoke.

My wolf whimpered.

“No, it’s not,” Louis said quickly. “We’re telling the truth. Don’t you feel anything?”

He spun and slammed his fist into my gut, knocking the breath out of me.

Calvin’s face didn’t soften. Not even a little.

Levi’s POV

That was it.

“Olivia is a Beckham,” he snapped. “She comes from a sacred bloodline—our bloodline! And you fools… you dared to treat her like trash. You subjected her to pain, humiliation, rejection. Do you have any idea who she is?!”

One moment, we were standing there in silence – tension thick in the air – and the next…

I doubled over, coughing.

“We just found out a few days ago,” Lennox added hoarsely. “Everything we were told growing up was a lie.”

Calvin stood above us, breathing hard, his eyes burning with rage.

We turned to Olivia.

My stomach twisted. “What the hell is going on?”

Lennox suddenly stepped forward, his frown deepening, his jaw clenched tight.

Calvin looked at us like we were insane. “And you expect me to believe that?”

“What are you talking about?” she asked coldly.

“Your family and mine are bound by blood to hate each other… we’re like snakes and humans, doomed to destroy on sight. When a snake crosses paths with a human, it coils to strike, and when a human sees a snake, they crush it without mercy. Believe me, they had no idea you three were coming here. If they did, they’d have spilled blood before ever letting you set foot in this place.”

He looked at us like we were pathetic. “Your parents never told you, did they?”

“Blood enemies? We didn’t even know Great-Grandmother Hailee had other children until a few days ago,” Lennox muttered.

“And two: to tell you to stay the hell away from her for the rest of your lives.”

“You don’t feel anything?” Lennox asked quietly.

She was still seated. Not even moved by what had just happened.

“We didn’t know,” I said quietly, “We had no idea our great-grandmother had children with anyone else.”

“We are not lying… Olivia is our second chance mate.”

“I called you here for two reasons,” he said, his tone sharper now. “One: so you could see her. See who she is. What she’s become.”

She folded her arms, her face hardening with a bitter frown. “Why should I? I rejected you. And there is no way you three can be my second chance mates….”

We frowned at his words.

Was it only us feeling the bond?

He took a slow, threatening step forward.

But it hurt more than everything else combined.

Calvin’s eyes narrowed, disbelief flashing across his face. “That’s impossible. She rejected you. The bond was broken. And besides…” he added with a bitter scoff, “you’re related.”

“That…” he growled, “was for hurting my sister.”

“Calvin-”

Everything went still.

She had been quiet through all of this, her face unreadable.

She frowned. “Feel what?”

Calvin let out a dry, bitter laugh. “So you really don’t know.”

I stiffened.

CRACK!

Louis stepped closer too, desperation in his voice. “It’s real. We know it’s crazy, but the bond–it’s back.”

Confusion swirled inside me. I looked at my brothers. They looked just as lost.

Calvin’s head snapped in his direction. “What did you just say?”

I took a grip of myself and stared at Olivia, whose eyes had been avoiding us.

But before I could get closer, Calvin stepped between us like a wall.

I blinked, stunned. “Blood feud? What feud?”

A sad smile spread across my face, but before I could speak, Calvin spoke.

Pain throbbed through my body. My wolf snarled inside me, begging to be let out–but I held him back. This wasn’t the time.

I took a slow step forward, desperate. “Olivia-”

He paused, his eyes narrowing.

Lennox frowned. “We share the same great-grandmother. How can we be enemies?

His voice dropped lower, angrier. “Don’t make me remember the blood feud between our families.”

Calvin scoffed bitterly. “And I’m supposed to care?”

It happened so fast.

How could we stay away when we’d just realized she was our second chance mate?

He turned slightly – toward Olivia.

Why?

Before I could even react-

She stared at us for a long moment.

“I said leave,” Calvin growled, his eyes glowing faintly with Alpha command. “Don’t make me call the warriors.”

What could we even say?

“You three better start talking. Because right now, the only thing stopping me from finishing what I just started… is her.”

Her eyebrows slowly drew together in a frown.

“I don’t,” she snapped, her eyes flashing with anger. “What the hell are you three even saying? How can we be mates again? Do you even hear yourselves?”

He glared at us, anger vibrating from his entire body.

My head spun.

BAM!

None of us moved.