Chapter 3

I was basically thrown into the cell and was starved for two days.

My energy drained, my reopened wounds began to fester.

The door opened, and while I thought it was Yohan, I heard Eva's gleeful laughter instead.

"Did you think it was Yohan? Oh, you're so funny, Yvie."

"What are you doing here?!" I snapped, not at all surprised to see that look on her face.

"What, you ask?!"

Eva snapped her fingers, and two male lycans leaped up at me.

"Let go of me!" I snarled and struggled, but I didn't have the strength to fight, completely helpless as they injected something inside me.

Eva then grabbed my jaw, growling coolly, "I used to envy how you always had the Alpha to yourself, so I'm really grateful that you saved him… so that I can steal your place! As a reward, I'll give you a night you'll never forget!"

She snapped her fingers again, and in came the rogue lycan who stabbed me during the second marking ceremony.

"W-What are you doing?!" I backed away despite my limp form.

That only made Eva laugh harder, and she told the rogue lycan, "Don't kill her—keep her alive, so that Yohan can see her true face…"

Just as she finished, a female lycan ran inside. "My lady. The Bloodmoon Kingdom's inquisitor has arrived, and they are asking to see our Luna. Our Alpha is asking for you."

Eva smirked at me and left with her cronies, leaving just me and that rogue lycan in the cell.

He was licking his lips, chuckling, "Oh, you're so beautiful… That's why the Alpha loved you so much."

As he lunged on top of me and clawed my clothes, he said, "Don't worry, I'll make you feel good."

I tried to struggle, but I had even less strength after I was drugged, and despair unfurled inside me.

Was I going to die now, butchered by this filthy lycan?

No… No!!!

I refused to die! I had yet to see Yohan and Eva being punished!

Mustering strength out of nowhere, I kicked the rogue lycan in the groin and rushed outside while he reeled in pain.

Eva had left the door open so that she could come straight inside when she brought Yohan, and I escaped smoothly thanks to that!

-

Meanwhile, Yohan had taken Eva to meet River Moon, the Inquisitor of the Bloodmoon Kingdom.

She was surprised that it wasn't me. "Alpha Yohan, is that woman your Luna?"

Yohan nodded, determined. "Yes, she mentally regressed to five years old to save me. I was just hoping that your shaman could help cure her."

River frowned, but remembering my father's orders, she decided to negotiate. "We can cure her, but on one condition—there's someone here I must see."

"Who?"

"Yvie Stark."

Yohan immediately presumed that I had committed a crime, but he agreed to it regardless. "Of course, but your shaman must cure Eva first."

Eva cringed in panic in his arms. "I don't wanna... I'm scared…"

Yohan didn't see that she was panicking, merely patting her head and assured her, "Be good, Eva. You will be better after the shaman helps you."

-

River almost didn't recognize me when Yohan's men threw me unceremoniously in front of the Bloodmoon Kingdom's envoy.

I was covered in injuries, and my festered wounds stank, while my cheeks were flushed unnaturally—there wasn't even a hint of dignity left in me as the heir to the Bloodmoon Kingdom.

Yohan glanced at me in disdain before turning to bow his head at River. "Apologies. While I'm not sure why this peasant lycan did to offend you, I will make sure to punish her—"

Even before Yohan finished, River slapped him furiously across the face. "How dare you hurt her!"

Then, she ran over to catch me, holding me up to my feet while glaring viciously at Yohan. "You have no idea who she is?! She's—"