Prologue

It’s quite a nerve-wracking night. Alpha Ordovic stood, sat, paced and then paused just to look at the large wooden house behind him. His face is worried but also full of hope.

Luna Lisha will give birth soon, now she is struggling in the room, accompanied by a midwife who is also a seer, and Luna Lisha's older sister, Lycia. Sweat dripped down her face and she strained, trying to push the baby out.

At midnight, Luna Lisha's baby was finally born. Alpha Ordovic and several people who were outside were still waiting without knowing that Luna's baby had been born. Meanwhile, Luna Lisha was lying limp and panting for breath. Tears dripped from her eyes, but there was no happiness in her eyes.

Lycia tried to calm her sister down, assuring her that everything would be fine. Luna Lisha could only stay silent and continued to shed tears. A few minutes later the midwife came back from another room after cleaning the baby.

The baby is a girl, looking healthy and beautiful. The midwife handed the baby to the mother, but Luna Lisha didn't budge. Her eyes flashed with fear. There's a bit of anger there. Her face then turned to the opposite direction, reluctant to look at her baby.

“Just kill her.”

Lycia jerked to her feet in surprise. Her face was angry and disappointed. “What do you mean, Lisha? She is your biological daughter!”

Luna Lisha turned her head and fixedly stared at Lycia. “I have an obligation to keep our pack safe. It—” she glanced at the baby still being held by the midwife, “—is a threat. The Moonstone Pack will be in danger if she is allowed to live.”

“She is not ‘it’.” Lycia gritted her teeth furiously.

Luna Lisha looked at Lycia again. “And I don't care. If killing one baby could save the entire pack from disaster, then that would be what I would do.” The Luna turned to the midwife. “Kill her.”

Before the midwife could answer, Lycia snatched the baby from her hand.

“Lycia!” snapped Lisha angrily.

Alpha Ordovic flinched, thinking something had happened to his Luna. He ran into the house and then into the room, then stopped in surprise when he saw Lycia holding a baby in her arms.

“My baby is born?” Alpha Ordovic asked unsure. He walked closer to Lycia, but his sister-in-law even backed off. Her expression is defensive.

Alpha Ordovic stopped. His expression hardened. He turned to the midwife. “When was she born? Why can't I hear her crying?”

The midwife lowered her head. “Alpha, there's something odd about Luna's baby. I'm afraid she'll be the cause of the pack's destruction in—”

“Nonsense!” shouted Lycia. “Stupid prophecy! She's just a baby! What do you think she will do?”

The midwife recoiled in fright, but Alpha Ordovic ordered her to continue speaking. Since birth, the midwife could predict some bad events that would befall someone and she is sure that what she saw in the baby now is not something to be taken lightly.

“Indeed she won't be able to do anything now, Miss Lycia, but later, when she grows up.”

Lycia looked at the Alpha and knew that he had the same thoughts as his Luna.

“Alpha, with all due respect, before you can kill this baby, you must kill me first.” Lycia turned to the stunned Lisha. “A baby isn't going to turn dangerous once she gets older unless you expect her to be.”

Lycia came out of the room, took quick steps to go to her own little house.

The baby has the right to live.