Chapter 8: A Family Reunion That Shocked Everyone

The moment Darren called me 'Mommy,' the entire banquet hall fell silent.

Every pair of eyes turned toward us in complete disbelief.

Hailey's confident smile instantly froze on her face.

August stared at Darren, then at Ryder, before finally looking back at me.

"Mommy?" he repeated under his breath.

Darren nodded proudly before wrapping his little arms around my neck.

"Mommy, does your hand still hurt? Daddy told me I must always protect you because you're carrying my little brother or sister."

His innocent words exploded like a bomb inside the hall.

"She's... pregnant?"

"And she already has a child with Chairman Weyland?"

"Then everything she said at the airport was true!"

The guests looked at August with expressions full of pity and ridicule.

August's face turned deathly pale.

He finally understood why I had kept rubbing my stomach and why my clothes looked loose.

I wasn't hiding poverty.

I was protecting my unborn child.

Hailey suddenly shook her head frantically.

"Impossible! She's lying! That child can't possibly belong to Chairman Weyland!"

Before anyone could respond, Darren looked at Hailey with an unhappy expression.

"You're the bad lady who hurt Mommy, aren't you? Daddy, she made Mommy bleed."

Ryder slowly looked down at the blood still staining my wrist.

The warmth in his eyes disappeared instantly.

"Who did this?" he asked quietly.

His calm voice was far more frightening than shouting.

The Aurelis Alpha immediately sensed danger.

"Who injured Mrs. Weyland? Speak now!"

No one dared answer.

Hailey instinctively took a step backward.

Unfortunately, Darren raised his tiny finger and pointed directly at her.

"It was her. She stepped on Mommy's hand and broke Daddy's gift."

Ryder's gaze slowly shifted toward the shattered bracelet scattered across the floor.

His expression grew colder with every passing second.

The entire banquet hall felt suffocating under his overwhelming aura.

Even August unconsciously swallowed hard.

For the first time in years, he realized the woman standing before him was no longer the abandoned girlfriend he believed would always wait for him.

She was now the Luna of the Lymerian Pack and the wife of the most powerful lycan chairman in the region.

And everyone who had humiliated her was about to face the consequences.