A knight in shining armor

Freya's POV

Just as I took one final breath and was about to cross over to the other side of the world–a place where pain and horrors didn't exist.

A place of heavenly serenity where I'd get reunited with my parents, I heard light footsteps and I chuckled to myself.

Luciano had probably come to finish me off by himself.

Moments ago, his egoistical gamma had come with a physician to assess the severity of my injuries but had given me a condition before the physician would treat me;

I had to confess to a crime I didn't commit–I had to tell him that truly, I had killed the dowager luna.

In response to his utterance, I had just laughed and told him not to bother treating me.

For all I knew, he could have been lying.

I didn't trust one thing that left his lips; he couldn have been sent by the alpha to take advantage of my severely injured condition and lure me into making a confession under duress.

When he noticed that I stood my ground and wasn't planning to confess, he had left with the