“So, who does the Alpha heir truly love? Why must we choose one of you to form a sworn brotherhood?”
I shook my head blankly, feeling guilty, and said, "I died in such a hurry that I didn't hear it."
I turned my gaze to Lyra, but she also replied helplessly, "I don't know either."
Yeah, Cassian never told us this.
After a long and stressful day, we finally decided to split up and take action.
My mother went out for a walk to see if anyone was willing to exchange Mate Contracts with my sister and me, while Lyra was responsible for checking all the eligible female wolves in the territory to see who had any connection with Cassian.
Since I was most familiar with Cassian's character, I had to go to him and try to find out what he had to say.
When I saw Cassian again, he was drawing a portrait of the Moon Soul in Alpha's study.
A portrait of a woman, but without facial features.
When I leaned over to ask him something, he calmly set down his brush.
Just like before, her smile was perfectly timed.
“Can't you see? Of course, this woman is you.”
My heart ached.
Cassian particularly liked to draw portraits of moon spirits without facial features.
Red dresses, white dresses, black dresses—some sing moon songs, some bask in moonlight, and some peruse ancient books.
Every time I asked him, he said it was me.
He didn't draw my facial features because I was the most beautiful in his heart, and no paintbrush could depict my appearance.
I was always overjoyed after hearing it, and never bothered to investigate its flaws.
Now that his mindset had changed, he noticed the abnormality in the details.
The woman in the portrait had a crescent-shaped mark on her right neck, but I didn't.
In addition, there was a very faint scent of Moon Lily remaining on the drawing paper.
I stopped trying to hide it and went straight to the point. "Cassian, this isn't me, is it? There was no crescent-shaped mark on the right side of my neck.”
Cassian's back stiffened, a rare occurrence.
After regaining his senses, he looked up at me and asked, "Selena, do you really want to know who she is?"
I held my breath, intently awaiting Cassian's next sentence.
But then he changed the subject, saying, "You fool, this is really you."
“That's not a mark, it's just some moon ink that got on my neck by accident. Don't you know how I've treated you since you all these years?”
I was speechless for a moment.
Yeah, it was right that Cassian was really good to me.
Alpha Magnus and my father were best friends, and both Cassian and me were inseparable since I could remember.
When I was a young pup, I was playful and didn't like learning the ancient language of the wolf tribe, so I always secretly skipped classes.
Every time my parents were about to punish me, Cassian would rush to my aid.
He promised his parents that he would personally teach me the lessons I had missed.
I always escaped danger because of him.
And he wasn't just saying it casually. He really sacrificed his time, staying up late to tutor me.
He even secretly learned Luna Code and told me about it.
I once laughed at him for having an Alpha heir learning such things, and he sighed and told me that he was afraid that I would be gossiped about by other wolves after I registered in the Luna Registry.
That time, a warm feeling inexplicably rose in my heart. It was around that time that I suddenly felt it would be great to be his Luna.
Later, for his sake, I learned my lesson and reined in my temper.
I truly became a qualified noble Luna heir.
Standing next to him, I could always hear others praising us as a couple blessed by the moon goddess.
Even the Lycan Queen was very satisfied with me and repeatedly told Cassian to treat me well.
He kept those words in mind and treated me better and better.
When I fell ill, he stayed by my side day and night, personally preparing medicine for my treatment.
Whenever I was bullied, he would always stand up for me immediately, no matter who the other person was.
Even during my coming-of-age ceremony, he prepared a sea of moonlight flowers covering the entire territory for me, saying that he didn't want anyone to look down on me.
I really couldn't understand when someone who was so nice suddenly changed.
The sour feeling rising in my throat pulled me back to reality.
I rubbed my nose and asked in a muffled voice, "Cassian, if you really care about me, why didn't you clearly write your name on the Mate Contract?"
