My Death Shattered My Alpha Dad

I had been dead four days, yet my father was still tearing through the territory vowing to rip me apart with his own hands, because he was convinced I had slipped wolfsbane to his precious stepdaughter, Kate Lawrence."Is that wretch still alive?"In the manor's council room, my father, Alpha Jack Blackwood, questioned as if he were inquiring about a mangy Rogue.The butler, Marcus Benton, answered, his voice trembling, "Alpha Jack, Ava is still in the cell."Dad raised his whiskey. "I spoiled her, and now she has dared to desecrate the sacred full moon ceremony. This time, I'll make sure that she learns a lesson she'll never forget."Marcus said carefully, "Alpha Jack, the silver chains are burning her skin and suppressing her wolf... Ava might not hold on!""That's what I want," Dad replied, his words sounding like ice. "Let her taste what Kate suffered. Only when silver burns her own flesh will she understand how wrong she was."He spoke like he had forgotten I had already be

Close to midnight, when the whole manor had finally gone quiet, Marcus slipped into the basement.He didn't even reach the cell before the stench hit him.A werewolf's nose was a hundred times sharper than a human's. The closer he came to the cell, the stronger the stench became.He saw dark, reddish fluid pooled beneath the door, with tiny white worms writhing in it.His wolf howled in his head. "That is the smell of death! Get out of here!"My spirit drifted in front of him. "Marcus, don't go in. What's inside will haunt your dreams."He was a decent man. He had spoken for me once, but as a butler, his words carried no weight against an Alpha.Perhaps it was his wolf's instinct. Marcus actually stumbled back a few steps and fled the basement.…The next morning at breakfast, Dad was beaming. He opened the safe, took out a velvet box, and placed it in front of Kate."Sweetheart, happy birthday! You're 18 years old now. This is your gift."Kate's face lit up as she opened th

Marcus and the staff were shaking so hard that no one dared step within a yard of the body.He drew a long breath, unpinned the silver badge that marked him as butler, and let it clatter to the stone."I'm done," he said. "The rest of you should go, too, while you still can."That broke the dam. One by one, they sided with him.If the Alpha could kill his own daughter, who knew when their turn might come?"I'm leaving, too! An Alpha who raises a cruel hand against his own daughter isn't worthy of our loyalty!""By the Moon Goddess, a man who kills his own daughter will be cursed!"In just an hour, the manor was empty, with every one of the staff gone.When Dad returned that evening, he called repeatedly for someone to serve him, but no one came.At last, Kate appeared with a glass of red wine in hand."Dad, the staff are all gone," she said."What? All of them?" He couldn't believe it."They said they could smell death in the manor and fled. We don't even have a cook now,"

"Katherine!" Dad lunged and scooped her up in a panic.This time, she wasn't faking it. Kate had laced her prenatal tonic with wolfsbane."Help me! Please, save my pup!" Katherine sobbed, clutching her belly.The enforcers had no choice but to call in the healers, and the search was put on hold.Outside the operating room, Dad smashed a fist into the wall again and again. "This is Ava's doing! She cursed my son!"Kate stood in a shadowed corner, her eyes cold and full of malice. She was wiping out every rival, including the pup Katherine was carrying."It's so touching," I said into the empty air. "Your mom injected me with silver to kill me, and you poisoned your mom to keep the inheritance all to yourself!"Three hours later, the operating room doors swung open. The pup had made it, but Katherine almost bled out on the table."It's all Ava's doing..." she whispered, looking gray with shock. "She's cursing us...""When she comes back, I'll cut her to pieces!" Dad snarled.I

My spirit was practically buzzing, darting from one side of the hall to the other."Yes! The basement! Right there!" I urged them where they couldn't see. "My body is in the cell!"The enforcers fanned out around the stairwell, but Dad planted himself in the way."This is my private property!" he snapped. "You don't have a warrant!"Nelson produced a parchment stamped with a crimson seal. "Special order, signed by the Alpha King. When a pureblood goes missing, we can search anywhere."Just then, Kate came clattering down the stairs with a phone in her hand."Wait!" she called, waving the screen. "Ava just shared her live location! She's at the abandoned factory up north!"A blinking dot crawled across the map.Half the team went after it, yet the old witch and the necromancer both shook their heads."You can't fool me," the witch said. "You can move a phone, but not a soul. Ava's soul is trapped here in the manor, beneath our feet, sobbing in the dark."Dad balled his fists.