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Chapter 4

Author: Yumi
The sharp crack echoed through the night.

Noah stood frozen.

He'd probably never imagined I would strike him.

I backhanded him again.

This one was for Father.

He staggered back, his face flushed crimson.

"Elsa! Have you lost your mind?!"

I stood in the courtyard, my expression dark, my voice cold as ice.

"You steal my things. You destroy Father's belongings. And you expect me to be grateful?"

"Noah — who gave you the right?"

Humiliated and enraged, he shoved me into a stone pillar.

My back hit the sharp edge of the stone pillar. My palm tore open; blood trailed down my hand in thin lines.

Then a soft voice broke in.

"Please, don't blame Noah."

Freya approached, eyes reddened, looking fragile and innocent.

"It's my fault. I didn't realize these things meant so much to you."

She bent down, reaching for the shredded scraps of parchment.

"Don't touch them," I said, my voice cutting.

She flinched as if startled, swaying on her feet.

Noah immediately shielded her.

"You want to hurt Freya now too?!"

A moment later, my mother's silhouette appeared at the corridor's edge.

Her eyes went to Freya first — confirming she was unharmed — before drifting to me.

No concern. Only impatience and disgust.

"What are you causing trouble about now?"

I noticed then: she'd been entirely focused on Freya, who had merely stumbled, without even registering the blood still dripping from my hand.

"I'm reclaiming what's mine."

She frowned.

"They're just old things. Broken is broken. Why make a fuss?"

"They were Father's."

I stared at her.

Her voice hitched, then turned cold.

"Your father is gone. You can't spend your whole life using relics to prove who you are."

Prove who you are.

The words struck something deep in my chest.

I was her daughter. Why did I need to prove who I was?

Before I could think further, Freya tugged gently at my mother's sleeve, tears glistening.

"Mother, it's all my fault. I shouldn't have moved into her room."

Her tone softened instantly.

"It's not your fault."

The shift was so practiced it chilled me to the bone.

She looked at me, her voice hard as iron.

"You think going to the Luna Trials in Freya's place entitles you to bargain? Let me be clear — you owed her that."

"If your father hadn't insisted on pouring the pack's rarest resources into you, she wouldn't have been held back all these years."

I laughed — actually laughed — and met her eyes.

"Mother. Am I really your biological daughter?"

The silence that followed was absolute.

For the first time, her composure cracked open.

Not anger. Something closer to panic — the look of someone whose secret had been exposed.

She snarled at me, her expression twisting as though I'd committed an unforgivable sin.

"Elsa! How dare you! What kind of nonsense is that?!"

But she only lashed out. She didn't deny it — not the way she normally would have, not immediately, not instinctively.

That single moment of hesitation told me everything I needed to know.

I took a slow breath.

"In that case, I'd like a public announcement. From this day forward, I, Elsa, have no ties to the Frostfang Pack."

She erupted.

"Guards! Take her to the courtyard! Make her kneel until morning — until she remembers her place!"

The guards stepped forward to grab my arms, but I sidestepped them without effort.

She pointed at me, her finger trembling, her eyes wide with shock and fury.

"You dare resist? Elsa — do you have any respect for me at all?!"

Then a low, amused voice drifted in from the darkness.

"How entertaining. Is this how the Frostfang Pack treats the winner of the Luna Trials?"
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