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Chapter 36

Author: TanuS
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I turned slowly, already knowing who it was. “What do you want?”

There she stood, Alyssa. My fake sister. Her chin tilted with arrogance, her lips twisted into a cruel smirk. The same face I had grown up seeing tower over me, looking down like I was less than dirt.

“Is that how you speak to your Luna?” she snapped, voice sharp with wounded pride.

“You are not my Luna,” I said flatly, not even blinking.

“Juno is your Alpha. That makes me your Luna,” she said, voice rising with authority she thought I still feared.

But I didn’t.

“You’re nothing but a murderer.”

The words left my mouth before I could filter them. For the first time, they didn’t taste like fear. They tasted like truth.

She froze, her eyes widening in shock. “What did you just say?”

“A murderer who killed her own mother,” I said, steady and unwavering.

“Shut up, Scarlet!” she hissed, stepping closer, but I didn’t flinch.

“Alyssa,” I said calmly, “you should really stop. If you keep acting like this, your precious little co
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