Chapter 1

“This is the list of alphas. Which one of them do you want, dear?”

I’m alive!

I sucked in a sharp breath as I looked around the room, and thus… this was when I was choosing my mate from the list of alphas my father provided.

Wasn’t I just drowned in pain from the mate bond? I have watched my husband Mathew torture me by sleeping with different women every night, knowing it would cause me pain.

Have I been reborn?

The memories came rushing back all at once. I, Olivia Thompson, was the only daughter of the Silver Crest Pack, and my father was a very powerful alpha, giving me the right to pick my own husband and the heir to our pack.

Even though Mathew has never been someone of a very high ranking, I have chased him relentlessly and picked him as my chosen mate without a second thought.

Mathew has always been charming before we got married. He’d save me when I was in danger; the time I had surely fallen in love with him was when my father said he had brought me home after I went to train but was severely wounded by a group of bears. Since then, my love for him has known no boundaries.

Everyone knows just how obsessed I was with him. Who knew just how cruel he was? He had used me to get the alpha position.

He had cruelly betrayed me, watching me lay in my own pool of blood, fighting for my life and that of our baby, and yet he just kicked me and laughed.

Before I lost the last string of life, I saw Aria step into the room before my vision darkened. She had a baby with her. She was alive and healthy.

I remember the nights after the betrayal clearer than anything. Mathew would bring those women right into our room. He would make sure the door stayed open so I could hear every sound.

The mate bond would twist inside me like someone was ripping my chest open with bare hands. I would curl up on the floor outside and still feel every thrust through the bond.

He knew. He always knew. Sometimes he would look at me while he was still inside them and smile like it was a joke only he understood.

“Sister, haven’t you always wanted Mathew? I think you should pick him; he would be very happy.” The same voice mocking and laughing at me in my past life snapped me back into reality.

Beside me was my adopted sister, the spare one my father had adopted because I have always wanted one and was tired of being the only child. I stared at her in disbelief, her eyes shaking with clear and pure hatred. How have I never seen the hatred in her eyes before?

I have been so foolish and always treating her nicely; I even had my father grant her the title of princess so others won’t look down at her. Yet she was never happy; she wanted everything I have. She wanted to be me.

“Since when was it a spare’s turn to speak about her alpha’s mate?” I said.

Her eyes widened in shock as she stared at me before lowering her gaze, tears filling her eyes. “So-sorry, I was just trying to be nice.”

The tears are the same ones she used in the past life whenever someone almost discovered what she was doing. They used to work on me. They used to make me apologize even when I was the one who had been wronged.

I look at the pictures on the table. Mathew’s face is right there among them, smiling the same way he used to smile at me before the wedding. I used to stare at that smile for hours. Now it only makes my stomach turn.

“Father, the person I want to mate with—”

“How dare you treat Aria like that?!”