Chapter 311\u00a0<\/p>\n
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:.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Finished\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou gave Blackmaw Pack\u2019s Alpha daughter Tessa false information. You lured her into the Black Forest, and now she lies in a coma after being mauled by Rogues. You deserve to die.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
I froze.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Maddox-my mate-stood in front of me, his voice like ice, his eyes filled with contempt. Behind him, peeking from the safety of his shoulder, my adoptive sister Scarlett watched me with a victorious smile.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She did it. She set me up.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But no one cared.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tessa was found on the brink of death, her body bloodied, surrounded by signs of a violent Rogue ambush. The scent markers left behind pointed to one culprit-one of Alpha Alaric\u2019s daughters from the Ebonclaw Pack.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Everyone knew there were two.\u00a0<\/p>\n
One was Scarlett, the sweet, perfect daughter raised under Luna Zara\u2019s gentle care, groomed for Pack leadership, adored by all.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The other was me.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I\u2019m Riley.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The daughter who disappeared fifteen years ago. The one raised by Rogues.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Three years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Ebonclaw Pack raided our Rogue settlement. Their Alpha stepped into the clearing, caught my scent, and froze. He said I smelled like his \u201clittle pup.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
He took me back.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And then it came true.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I had a father. A mother. A tall, handsome Alpha brother-Kael Vale. A real family.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But the little princess wasn\u2019t me.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It was Scarlett.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Chapter 311\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Finished\u00a0<\/p>\n
The girl they adopted when I vanished. The Beta-born child a seer had claimed could \u201cheal\u201d my mother\u2019s grief. She was accepted as their own, cherished without question.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And when I returned, they didn\u2019t want to choose.\u00a0<\/p>\n
So they simply didn\u2019t.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I was tolerated. A ghost in the family mansion. A name without a place.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And worse, I was incomplete.\u00a0<\/p>\n
My wolf-my birthright-barely stirred inside me. Sometimes, I could feel her pulse in my blood, like a whisper. But mostly, she slept. And that made me weak in their eyes. Unworthy.\u00a0<\/p>\n
So when someone had to be blamed for Tessa\u2019s suffering, they all looked at me.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Because Scarlett? She would never.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But me? A rogue-born, half-wolf disgrace? Of course I would.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I turned to Kael-my brother.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He had been the first to arrive at the scene of the attack. I had followed right behind him, just\u00a0<\/p>\n
in time to see him stoop, pick something up, and quietly slip it into his pocket.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I saw what it was.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Scarlett\u2019s earring.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The same global limited edition he gave her when she shifted for the first time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He knew.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He knew the truth.\u00a0<\/p>\n
So I looked at him now, heart pounding, throat dry, begging for just one word. One truth. One shred of loyalty.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cKael\u2026\u201d My voice cracked. \u201cYou too?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
He stared at me, and for a moment, I saw the conflict in his eyes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Then he exhaled, looked me dead in the face, and said, \u201cEven now? Still lying when you\u2019re already as good as dead?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
My heart shattered.\u00a0<\/p>\n
2\/4\u00a0<\/p>\n
12:58 Thu, Dec 25 M\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 311\u00a0<\/p>\n
82\u00a0<\/p>\n
Finished\u00a0<\/p>\n
I didn\u2019t even have time to react before Alpha Ronan charged forward.\u00a0<\/p>\n
His boot connected with my stomach, and I flew across the floor like a rag doll. Pain exploded in my ribs, sharp and burning, like every bone inside me had been cracked in half by his Alpha strength.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I gasped for air and looked up-at my father, Alpha Alaric.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He stood still, expression unreadable, eyes locked on me like I was nothing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Beside him stood Luna Zara. My mother.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I pleaded with my eyes, silently begging her to step forward. To say something.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She hesitated.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And then looked away.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Another kick came. Then another. I curled into myself, not from fear, but from despair.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSend her to the Werewolf Prison, waiting for the verdict of the Werewolf Court.\u201d Ronan snarled, his voice layered with Alpha authority that burned against my skin like acid.\u00a0<\/p>\n
My breath caught in my throat.\u00a0<\/p>\n
No.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Anything but that.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I had never been to the Werewolf Prison, but I\u2019d heard the stories. Torture. Chains. Madness. No sunlight. No mercy.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Death would be kinder.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Two warriors grabbed me by the arms and began dragging me across the ground. My knees scraped against the dirt, and tears welled in my eyes-not from pain, but from betrayal.\u00a0<\/p>\n
From Maddox.\u00a0<\/p>\n
From Kael.\u00a0<\/p>\n
From them all.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Then Ronan crouched beside me and leaned in close, his breath brushing my cheek like frostbite.\u00a0<\/p>\n
3\/4\u00a0<\/p>\n
12:58 Thu, Dec 25 M\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Chapter 311\u00a0<\/p>\n
82\u00a0<\/p>\n
Finished\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll make sure someone takes good care of you in there,\u201d he whispered. \u201cFor what you did to my sister.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
And just like that, my last hope died.\u00a0<\/p>\n
730\u00a0<\/p>\n
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12:58 Thu, Dec 25\u00a0<\/p>\n
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