Revenge of The Shadow Heir

SEVENTH MONTH OF YEAR 992. DAHLIA: “I dragged myself through hell just to make you suffer, and I’ll make sure you really suffer!” These were your bitter words to me, my dearest Tristan, the words that had finally woke me up and shook me awake for what you really were. You said you’ve only come to me for revenge – to see me spill the blood that have been spilled similarly by your pack, by your own people, but did you not see that I was also one of your people? I am your wife now, your other half… Do you really think so poorly of me that you’d rather see me die and wither away like this rather than save me? When I accepted your hand back then, I admit that I was scared… I have never known what love was like. I had never known what freedom was like too, and you had given me those choices when you extended your hands towards me. “Dahlly,” you said, calling me softly by my childhood name, “Dahlly, come and run away with me. Come with me… Yo

DAHLIA:“Good job, everyone. Now let’s go home,” I told them after finishing up on today’s charity work.Everybody was tired, but they were all smiling. Once everything has been cleared away and the supplies were safely loaded back into the wagon, I boarded the carriage with Lina, and we journeyed back together to the mansion.“Lady Dahlia, how long are you planning to give these free medical services along the poor men’s villages,” Lina asked.Lina was only two years older than me, and we grew up together. She was almost like a sister, but even though I loved her to death, I always hated this side of her – the side that occasionally spoke so harshly against the poor and the common people.“Whatever do you mean, Lina? I’ll do this forever,” I said.“Surely you don’t mean that, right, my lady? How about when you become the queen? I don’t think you will either

DAHLIA:I woke up to the smell of burning firewood and into the arms of someone clutching me so tightly inside a cave.I yelped in alarm. For a few seconds, I had forgotten what had happened. I didn’t know where I was or how I got there.“W-What?…”“I see you’ve woken up.”It was a man who was holding me close. I tried to look back at him, but he held me even tighter that I cannot seem to breathe.“Who… Who are you?”He didn’t have to answer me at all. At that exact moment, I remembered clutching a furry body as I fell down the cliff towards my death…“Don’t squirm so hard, my lady… Otherwise, you’d get my body too damn excited.”As soon as he said this, my body immediately stiffened. I felt every inch of my face turning red. Even the hairs at the back of my neck stood up when I realized that he was breathing right n

DAHLIA: “Lady Dahlia, are you sure you’re alright?” “Umm, yeah… yes…” It was not true. My head and heart were in a daze. Ever since the white wolf had left, it felt like my heart was in excruciating pain that I cannot speak. Were all fated mate partings like this? ‘Of course, what were you thinking,’ Eve said. After speaking her first words to me earlier, she found the power of her speech so amusing that all she could do now was talk. ‘Fated mates are destined by the Moon Goddess herself. Once a wolf finds his or her fated mate, he or she becomes complete. What do you think will happen once you separate again? It’s like splitting your soul in half!’ It felt exactly like that - like my heart was splitting itself into pieces, crushing my whole being. I wanted to cry and whimper, but I could not. I was still a long way from home… It was already morning time. After finding me, Sir Raleigh, Rick, Lina, and I stopped by an inn in the next vi

DAHLIA:I didn’t know what Kaist said to my father that day when papa ordered me to sleep, but it must not be good, at least for me.As expected, Kaist’s effort to find Tristan bore no fruits. The engagement party proceeded as planned.Three days went by very quickly. I rarely slept at night time. I cried my eyes out whenever I had an opportunity to be alone.“Lady Dahlia, you don’t look good,” Lina said, frowning immensely at my thinning wrist. “Your eyes are so sallow, and you look so pale. Did you not sleep again last night?”I had no energy to talk to Lina. She continued to brush my hair in front of the mirror, preparing me for the beautification needed for the day.Everyday was the same since the day I met Tristan. There was a gaping hole inside my heart, and I felt like I was in excruciating pain just thinking that I will be wed soon to someone else.Worse, I had no way of finding him, b