My Mother's Face, My Mate's Mistress
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The first time I pulled a pearl earring from Kaelen's pocket, my father stepped up to vouch for him: "That's a token left behind by the female Elder."
Later, when I found a lace choker stuffed in the cracks of the car seat, his deputy rushed to take the blame: "I bought that for my mate and left it with the Alpha for safekeeping."
Ever since then, whenever I caught a slip-up, someone close to me would jump out to cover for him.
For the tenth time, I confronted him about the distinct scent of an Omega's heat pheromones on his jacket.
"How do you explain this scent?"
Kaelen stiffened for a fraction of a second, then seamlessly dialed my best friend's number.
"Maya, when we were doing the accounts last night, did you spill perfume on my coat?"
Maya answered without missing a beat: "Yeah! Half my new bottle leaked. Is Elara being paranoid again? If she keeps throwing these tantrums, you might as well cancel the mating ceremony."
Hanging up, Kaelen put on the pained look of a wrongly accused man:
"Clear now? If you're going to keep up these ridiculous interrogations, maybe this ceremony..."
"Agreed. Let's just cancel it," I cut him off coldly.
What Kaelen didn't know was that the scent on him wasn't a flaw left by his mistress.
It was a black-market pheromone perfume I'd secretly sprayed on his jacket as bait.
I did it to see just how flawlessly my closest kin—from my father to my best friend—could cover up his betrayal.
Later, when I found a lace choker stuffed in the cracks of the car seat, his deputy rushed to take the blame: "I bought that for my mate and left it with the Alpha for safekeeping."
Ever since then, whenever I caught a slip-up, someone close to me would jump out to cover for him.
For the tenth time, I confronted him about the distinct scent of an Omega's heat pheromones on his jacket.
"How do you explain this scent?"
Kaelen stiffened for a fraction of a second, then seamlessly dialed my best friend's number.
"Maya, when we were doing the accounts last night, did you spill perfume on my coat?"
Maya answered without missing a beat: "Yeah! Half my new bottle leaked. Is Elara being paranoid again? If she keeps throwing these tantrums, you might as well cancel the mating ceremony."
Hanging up, Kaelen put on the pained look of a wrongly accused man:
"Clear now? If you're going to keep up these ridiculous interrogations, maybe this ceremony..."
"Agreed. Let's just cancel it," I cut him off coldly.
What Kaelen didn't know was that the scent on him wasn't a flaw left by his mistress.
It was a black-market pheromone perfume I'd secretly sprayed on his jacket as bait.
I did it to see just how flawlessly my closest kin—from my father to my best friend—could cover up his betrayal.


















































