ed Alpha

at everyone

r twenty-sixth birthday if they didn't find

d without hesitation, unlike their father, who had been known as a kind Alpha. Yet peop

h blessed with a white wolf-

were standing before me,

pouring down on me, but my body trembled, and my breathing grew heavy-almost suffocati

Do you feel unwell?" the

is face was unreadable, not a flicker of

ha S

h eyes as piercing

s okay, Silas," a lo

against the car, arms folded, an amused smirk tug

e added with a low chuckle, water sliding down the sharp l

his gaze, and when his eyes narrowed on me, t

ha C

lowered my head

e that choice," a cold voice drawled. "Let's go. I'd rather n

look up to know wh

ha L

I was in a daze-drenched, trembling,

t kept running through my mi

he car came barreling toward me... h

t wasn't the bad memories I saw. It was the good ones, the ones from

ad shone brighter

ther left for the war

my father, mother, and I-sitting toget

ke about his return in time

mised me he

ame true but I had al

, my father always made me promise that if anyt

would remain unbroken. T

ught he was just trea

t it was

w I und

sks that came w

he might leave..

brought my hands to my face, more followed, my body wrecked with s

harder because I had almost broken that promise

y, Lucien. That's pretty mean of you," I heard

of me, asked. And as I lifted my head, eyes blurred

linging to his face as he reached his hand out for

the sharp ringing of a phone cut through the moment. I blinked, then

y knew wh

hos

w the caller I

swering, even though I was stil

nected, the voice on the

ch you for a while now. Can you come to

tomach as the voice became static an

you hear me?" I asked, my voice rising with

you hear me? What ha

resp

my face with shaky hands

e ground and turned around, running throug

my heart in my ears as I silently prayed to the goddess that my mother would

before I arrived

nists who recognized me immediately stepped forward but I rushed past her, heading s

reached ther

front of the door, instruc

onvulsing again due to the wolfsbane sprea

, stepping forward,

urned to look at me, a sad

ars ago, I had learned to read the doctors' expressions and even

p and walked past h

e hospital bed, with life support machines h

e from beside me, but I didn't look aw

eyond our control now. As you know, we don't have a cure for wolfsbane yet. T

off, but I already

il I

us, heavy and suffocating

one more day. I'll hav

embled as I c

y something but instead

don't be late. We can't af

that,

r and sank to the floor, curling in on my

I supposed

come up with that kin

cry anymore. I ju

d to fin

my desperate questions, two women passed by in

d just for spending the night with the

it because of that ritual where the Alphas are sleeping with different women

walking away, the

r her body for the nig

ground, breath catchin

The only cho

ed to save

eep my last piece

o the Alpha triplets. I had