CHAPTER 4

MALLORY:

I awoke and found myself on a bed in a white-painted room. The medical monitor beeped near my head, and a ventilator was connected to my nostrils.

"What am I doing here?" I asked myself, pulling off the IV drip and equipment as I carefully sat up on the bed.

I recalled the eve of my 18th birthday.

"Ace..." I tried to mind-link him, but there was no connection with my mate.

"Ace..." I got down from the hospital bed and saw that I was wearing a white dress and my feet were bare.

I rushed out of the hospital room, but a female nurse and a male doctor stopped me.

"Hey! Where are you rushing to? Come back here!" The young female nurse chased after me and caught my left arm.

"Let me go!" I screamed, crying and trying to break free from her strong hold. But she held me firmly.

"No. You are sick and were brought in here as an outsider. You cannot go anywhere except to our palace for our Alpha's son to decide on you," she said. I grasped my hand away from hers and glared at her.

"What's that supposed to mean? Isn't this my father's pack? The Bright Moon Pack?" I demanded, and the nurse looked at me with shock and shook her head. Her enchanting yellow eyes widened with disbelief, but she quickly explained, "No. You are in the Crescent Moon Pack. This is our pack's hospital. You were spotted at the pack's border severely injured two weeks ago, and our warriors brought you here. You were in a coma since then, and they will soon come and pick you up once they receive the notification that you are awake. So, you have to cooperate and tell our Alpha the truth as to why you were sent away from your old pack—unless you want to get sent away and remain a rogue." I looked at her beautiful fair face with disbelief.

"What? Was I truly banished from the Bright Moon Pack? I thought my father didn't mean any of it," I said, tears welling in my blue eyes.

"I'm sorry, but I don't know what happened to you. Come with me." The nurse led me back to my hospital room and ordered me to sit on the white bed.

The pack's doctor, a young man dressed in a white doctor's coat, white dress shirt, and black trousers, came into the room to meet us. He wore a pair of black polished shoes and stood regal and tall. His cold yellow eyes watched me like a hawk.

"What's wrong with the patient, Nurse Elena? Why is she crying?" he asked the female nurse, standing in front of me as I shed tears, unable to believe that my father had banished me.

My father was everything to me. He raised me and defended me when I was a child. How could he just banish me on my 18th birthday? How? I cried, and Nurse Elena said, "I don't know what happened to her, Doctor. But she said she was banished from her father's pack—The Bright Moon Pack. I guess she is Alpha Bruce's first daughter who was rumored to have caused his first mate's death."

"What? You know my father?" I asked Nurse Elena with disbelief, and she nodded.

"Yes. Who doesn't know your father, Alpha Bruce Adonis? He has destroyed many growing packs and taken over many lands and territories. But he cannot take ours." She said with a proud smile, and the male doctor narrowed his eyes at me and said, "I will be back to check on her. I have to contact Alpha Benson to let him know that the stranger is awake—and she is Alpha Bruce's first daughter too."

"Wait, Doctor Chris! Do you think it's important to tell Alpha Benson the truth about her recovery yet? She is still recovering, and she cannot be subjected to any punishment or suffering for now. How about you allow her to heal a few more days and report to Beta Dennis that she has not woken up yet?" Nurse Elena begged on my behalf, and Dr. Chris looked at her face with disbelief.

"Nurse Elena, I see you want to banish me and make me to lose my hard work as a doctor for this foreigner!" Dr. Chris growled as he pointed at me. "She doesn't belong here, and we cannot trust any stranger from another pack—let alone an alpha wolf and an Alpha's daughter too."

"What??!" My blue eyes widened in shock.

"Wait! What did you say? I am an omega she-wolf, not an alpha wolf," I corrected Dr. Chris even though I knew he didn't like me.

"Are you seriously kidding me?" Dr. Chris glared at me and said, "You are an alpha wolf with a very strong bloodline in your veins, and you're calling yourself an omega? Haha." Dr. Chris laughed menacingly and marched up to my bed to meet me.

"Don't think I got my doctor's license to treat other werewolves in our pack for free. I studied our kinds—werewolves and humans—and I tested your blood to know the type of werewolf you are. You are a powerful alpha she-wolf, so don't tell me that crap again that you are an omega wolf. And you better not lie to the face of our Alpha. He is not as merciful as you think. Excuse me." Dr. Chris glared at me and walked away, while my jaw dropped upon hearing that I was an alpha werewolf.

I looked back at Nurse Elena, who had been kind to me, and told her, "I am an omega she-wolf since birth, and that was why I was banished from my pack—because my father thinks I am weak and cannot become the Luna. I haven't been able to shift, nor am I as powerful as Dr. Chris accused me of."

I looked at Nurse Elena with pleading eyes, and she sighed.

"Alright. I don't know what they may have told you in your former pack, but Dr. Chris is very right with his test result. So if he tells you that you are an alpha with a powerful bloodline, it's best that you believe him. I have to go now and attend to other patients. And what's your name? Because I just wrote 'foreigner' on your medical report."

"My name?" I asked Nurse Elena, and she smiled and nodded.

"Yes. What's your full name?" she repeated her questions, and I told her, "Mallory Adonis."

"Alright. Take care, Mallory. I will be back, and be ready in case the warriors come here to take you to our alpha." She said, smiling, and exited the hospital room.

I sighed and looked around the small room, wondering if I was truly an alpha wolf or if Dr. Chris was just wrong about my test result.

All my life, I had grown up believing I was an omega. Was it possible that I was an alpha and Dr. Chosen from the Bright Moon Pack had lied to my father, just to allow my father to marry his only daughter?

"Mmm..." I frowned and thought about it.