Chapter 4

•MALLORY•

I awoke and found myself lying on a hospital bed in a white‑painted room, an oxygen mask connected to my nostrils.

“What am I doing here?” I asked myself as I pulled off the drip and oxygen mask. I carefully sat up on the bed, and I recalled the eve of my 18th birthday.

“Ace…” I tried to mindlink him, but there was no connection with my fated 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 and a female nurse and a male doctor stopped me.

“Hey! Where are you rushing to? Come here!” the nurse chased after me and caught my left arm.

“Let me go!” I cried, wanting to break free from her strong hold, but she held me firmly.

“No. You are sick and brought in here as an outsider. You cannot go anywhere except to the palace for our Alpha’s son to decide on you,” she yelled, and I yanked my left 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 asked her, and she gasped and shook her head.

“No. You are in the Crescent Moon Pack. This is our pack hospital. You were spotted at the pack’s border, severely injured, two weeks ago and our warriors brought you here. 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. Except you want to remain a rogue,” she said, and I looked at her beautiful fair face, shocked.

“Was I truly banished? I thought my father didn’t mean any of it,” I said, tears welling in my eyes.

“I am 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 bed.

The pack doctor, a young man in a white doctor’s coat and black trousers, came into the room to meet us.

“What’s wrong with the patient, Elena? Why is she crying?” he asked, standing in front of me as I struggled to believe that my father had banished me.

My father was my everything. How could he banish me on my 18th birthday? I cried, and Nurse Elena said, “I don’t know, Doctor Chris. But she said that she was banished from her father’s pack. I guess she is Alpha Bruce’s first daughter who was rumoured to have caused his first mate’s death.”

“What? You know my father?” I asked Nurse Elena, and she nodded.

“Yes. Who doesn’t know your father? He has destroyed many packs and taken over many lands and territories. But he cannot take ours,” she said with a proud smile, and the Dr. Chris 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 that she is Alpha Bruce’s daughter too.”

“Wait, Doctor Chris! Do you think it’s best to tell Alpha Benson the truth about her yet? She is still recovering and she cannot be subjected to any punishment or suffering for now. How about you allow her to heal and report to Beta Dennis that she has not woken up yet?” Nurse Elena begged, and Dr. Chris looked at her in disbelief.

“I see you want to have me banished and lose my hard work as a doctor for this foreigner. 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,” Dr. Chris said, and my blue eyes widened in shock.

“Wait! What did you say? I am an Omega she‑wolf, not an Alpha wolf,” I corrected him, even when I knew that he didn’t like me.

“Are you seriously kidding me? You are an Alpha wolf with a very strong bloodline in your veins and you’re calling yourself an Omega… haha,” Dr. Chris laughed and marched up to my bed to meet me.

“Don’t think that I got my doctor’s license to treat other werewolves for free. I studied our kind—werewolves and humans—and I tested your blood to know the type of werewolf that you are. You are a powerful Alpha, so don’t tell me that crap that you are an Omega wolf. And you had 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, and my jaw dropped upon hearing that I am an Alpha werewolf.

I looked back at Nurse Elena, who was kind to me, and I told her, “I am an Omega since birth and that was why I was banished from my pack, because my father thinks I am weak. 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.

“Hmm. 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 and a powerful werewolf, it’s best that you believe him. I have to go now and attend to other patients. And what’s your name? I just wrote ‘foreigner’ on your medical report.”

“My name?” I asked her, and she smiled and nodded.

“Yes. What’s your name?” she asked me once more, and I told her, “Mallory Adonis.”

“Alright, Mallory. Take care. 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 room, wondering if I am truly an Alpha wolf or if Dr. Chris was just wrong about my test result.

All my life, I had grown up believing I am an Omega. Was it possible that I am an Alpha and Dr. Chosen had lied to my father just to allow my father to marry his daughter?

“Mmm…” I frowned and thought about it.