lle'

in cold stora

bla

sho

y skin. My knees bled onto the stone

could hea

r Kael and Elar

howled th

A! EL

aughter echoed. Wi

and listening to my stepsister receive t

hairpin

beneath

he door ba

tood outside.

ants you in hi

but my legs were n

agged m

st the stone as they pulle

e. No one looked at me as the warriors hauled

study door

ng the clothes from last night's feast. His eyes were red,

im in a red gown, smil

e had w

gement dress. She was still glowing, still perfe

s though I were garbage

n't tell

coldly. "You stink of cold

esk, barefoot and bleeding, my

the

u humiliated Silvercrest in front of the Alliance Council last night.

did

throat was raw fr

e next time he came, he would come to p

id not

t against the desk. T

r! Your true Alpha daughter! He chose a

ed softly beh

ht an Alpha would want a servant. It's almost cute. T

d her mouth

rd throughout my childhood while I scr

. "Stop laughing at

silver dress brushed again

could hear her. "Kael never wanted you, he told me you begged him for attent

ips c

your witch mother did. You're exactly

snapped

before my brai

appe

a

d through the st

ways. A red mark bloomed

ga

udly enough for the

WOLFLESS BITCH! Y

ia sh

ED YOUR DAUGHTER!

ly that his chair c

il I cried out. Pain shot up my arm,

anger fill

, his Alpha aura crushing down on me until my lungs

ate

sleepless night, every insult, every floor I had scrub

s? What did I ever do to you? Even as a chil

ened until my

ur father, respect me as your Alp

retending to

rs streaming

m call me a failure. You called me you

nce

her eyes filling with

ti

hed without

l sm

disgust, as though I were a s

" he said in a l

t so abruptly that

throbbing, my legs still wea

forward, smoothi

ed sweet, like

have a solution. Two useless pe

od ran

ha

his sleeves as though the shouting had

iance with the Blackthorns. But their tru

he quill in

oison runs through his blood. He needs a bride be

ly looke

atherly affect

culation of an Al

offere

oom t

eneath my feet again. I could almost feel

. offe

e of the dying Al

ssion did

lpha's bed during his final months. We get their army and

red a

fat

wn b

nce told me I had

love me?" I

hat of the little girl who had o

? Did you ev

didn't

and signed the

down the quill. "You leave at dawn. A warrior esc

ened the s

was pure

d a wolfless girl

r fake tears, still hol

le. You'll be a

loser, lower

ill ever want you. N