My Guardian Married My Sister But I’m His Alpha Chapter 31
Chiara stood alone on the sidewalk.
Her phone vibrated again.
The last message from Griffin.
*Chiara, at that ceremony, I never spoke the formal mate vows, and I never marked her. We don’t have a mate bond. I will tell you why, sooner or later. But not now.*
Back in her room, Chiara didn’t turn on the lights.
The message glowed on the screen.
*Not now.*
It was always the same with him.
Three years ago, it was silence.
Three years later, it was *sooner or later*.
When was *sooner or later* supposed to be?
After she left Nightfall territory again?
Or after the Moretti family had successfully married her off to another Pack?
Chiara turned the phone facedown.
Outside, the city lights blurred into a soft glow.
But tonight, something was different.
Tonight, someone at the Pack dinner had said, loud and clear, that her choices were her own.
Someone had pulled out her chair for her.
Someone had held out a hand to her at the chapel doors—and hadn’t used his Alpha status to force her to take it.
Her phone buzzed one more time.
Not Griffin.
Sterling.
He had sent a photo.
It was a picture of the hotel lobby.Â