Naïve and young, she-wolf Mariana Rose took the fall for her mate, Evan Hugh, agreeing to serve time in prison for a murder he committed. He promised to free her within a month—and marry her. But none of that happened. Instead of freedom, she received a wedding invitation from him and a death certificate of her father. Now, vengeance burns hotter than heartbreak. Furious to the core, she accepted a deal from a mysterious woman who bailed her out and arranged for her plastic surgery. Given a new face, Mariana is reborn into a princess. Under a stolen identity as the youngest daughter of the elite Silverthorne pack, she is ordered to infiltrate the most powerful pack in history. But her cover is threatened by the dangerous Rozen Ricks—the clan’s brooding alpha with a chilling aura, whose dark fearsome eyes pierce through her lies who seemed to know exactly what she’s hiding. He thinks she’s a threat, an enemy. She knows he’s a monster. And neither of them is ready for the forbidden fire that ignites between them.
もっと見るMariana
The jury foreperson of the National Wolf Council stood up to announce the verdict of the judges before the silent but harsh crowd inside the court.
“This court has found the accused, Mariana Rose…”
I clenched my hands on my lap and stared at the heavy cuffs on my bleeding wrists while comforting my crying wolf.
“It’s okay, Nirvana,” I kept telling her. “We are going to be fine a month from now.”
I still hoped that I would walk away free from this place no matter how impossible it may seem despite the fact that the powerful family together with the wealthy fiancé of Margot Hill, the luna of the Crest pack, the dead woman on the road, made sure I would rot in jail.
“…guilty of murder beyond reasonable doubt. Her wolf will be suppressed and she will serve a total of seventy years in the national penitentiary. So ordered.”
The judge punched the gavel handing me practically a death sentence.
I felt numb all over. I expected this already. I knew it would happen but still, my flesh is trembling.
Life sentence…
A lifetime imprisonment for a morbid sin that I did not commit but is willing to admit for my love.
My wolf will be sacrificed just because I want to prove how I love my mate and husband.
“Oh, thank goodness!” The victim’s family rejoiced and embraced each other in celebration. “Finally! Justice for our dear Margot!”
Tears fell from my eyes as I clutched my chest especially when my gaze fixed on my stepfather crying in the corner. He is probably asking himself what went wrong. What did he do wrong for his precious daughter to commit such a heinous crime?
He brought me up in his own small pack wishing that I would flee from my own mother’s fate but here I am again in the same court that my mother stood up in years ago.
“I’m sorry, dad,” I said in my head knowing I could never say that to him face to face anymore. He is dying and his funeral must be the first thing that I am going to go to the minute I get released from prison. “I’m sorry for being such a disappointing daughter to you.”
But it’s okay, Mariana, I kept telling myself as my eyes locked with Evan seating on the last row in the court.
He is my fated mate and the alpha of the powerful DarkNights pack. A month ago, we had a secret ceremony where he accepted our bond and promised me to be his one and only wife and luna.
The man nodded at me assuring me that I will be alright. He will get me out of there. He promised me. He loves me so much to not help me. He loves me more now because he saw how I am willing to sacrifice everything for him.
It’s okay because my husband will save me. He promised me that he will save me, I repeated in my head.
Our eyes met again when the prison guards pulled me up. For a second, doubt filled my heart when I read something in him but I quickly dismissed it.
I love him. He loves me too much too. We will get married in the grandest wedding everjust like in my dreams.
Everyone will know that I am someone’s mate and wife.
I know he will not fail me. I know he will come for me.
“Mariana!” My father’s frail voice filled the entire room when he tried to run towards me but his weak knees due to cancer stopped him. “Mariana, I know you did not do it, my child! I know you cannot do that! I know you are innocent, my daughter!”
I let out a cry and tried my very best to smile at him. “It’s okay, dad. I’m fine.”
“Let my daughter go!” he yelled at the guards who restrained him while the rest of the crowd began leaving the court still cursing my name.
I saw my life flash before me as the judge stood up and left.
It was supposed to be a happy honeymoon after our wedding ceremony. Evan and I were happily sitting in his car, singing our wedding tunes when a woman drastically crossed the street. Before I knew it, Evan took out his gun and shot the girl to my surprise.
Everything that happened after that became a blur in my head.
“Mariana, I don’t know what to do anymore!” Evan is panicking when we are back at our apartment and the news of the murder spreads like wildfire. “I cannot be jailed! My father would kill me! He will strip me off my title as the alpha of my pack! You know it’s my dream to be one!”
Seeing how depressed he is, I held his hands and looked into his eyes, bent to appease his panic-stricken face.
“What do you want me to do? Tell me and I will do it for you.”
Relief flooded his eyes as he kissed both of my hands. “Can you tell them you’re the one who did it? Admit to the crime. Just say that you accidentally killed her and I will do the rest. Don’t worry, I will help you! I’ve got connections.” He caressed my face lovingly. “I will certainly get you out of the prison myself, my mate. I will pull my connections. Please, save me. In return, I will save you too.”
I fell silent. It’s like I swallowed my own tongue at his suggestion.
“Evan…”
“Please, Mariana. If you really love me, then you will do it for me, for our future.”
“I love you!” I exclaimed.
I am a weak person with a weak wolf that is why I never expected that a strong man like him from a powerful pack is going to be my mate.
He is a dream come true. He is my savior! There isn't anything in this world that I would not do for him.
“Then show me! Tell the police it’s your gun, not mine. Tell them you are the one who did it, not me. Please, save me, my love! Save your mate!”
“Yes,” I answered with tears streaming down my face, my decision final and irrevocable. “I am the one who killed that woman, Evan.”
So here I am taking all the blame for my husband.
But before the guards could completely usher me away, a man in a suit who is obviously in power by the way they accorded him, gripped my arm and smothered my shoulder.
His eyes reminded me of my own father when he learned that my mother remarried to my stepfather now.
“I will make sure you will forever rot in jail, murderer!” Victor Phillips said in gritted teeth, his eyes spitting out venom.
“I-I’m sorry…” was all I could say as I slowly sank into my knees and kissed his feet. “I’m so so sorry for your loss.”
“Your sorry cannot undo anything. You cannot bring my luna back alive! For that, I will show you what a real hell is like Mariana Rose. You will forever regret what you did to my mate!”
The guards dragged me away into the yard of the court where a heavily guarded vehicle was waiting. They travelled me to the national penitentiary, the known prison in the land where the cruelest criminals are locked up.
Depositing me to a tiny cell, they injected me with a medicine that basically rendered my wolf comatose.
“Mariana Rose?” A tall dark woman with piercings all over her face entered my cell with a grin on her mischievous empty eyes.
Nightcrawlers. They are rogue wolves that are paid to kill.
“Yes…” I said in a shrill voice when I slowly stood up from the cold steel bunk bed, cold sweat trailing down my back. “W-Why are you…”
I did not have time to finish my sentence when she slammed my face down into the lavatory using her big calloused hands. Blood surged out of my nose as I fell down to the floor clutching my dizzy head.
My wolf whimpered wishing it could help me but the bind the National Wolf Council put on it prevented me from letting it out.
She pulled my hair and spat on my face, his nails digging into the flesh in my head.
“I wonder what you did to the great kind man for him to ask me to do this to you.”
She kicked me on the stomach and punched my head repeatedly until I could only see nothing but darkness.
“Mr. Phillips asked me to take good care of you and that’s exactly what I am going to do, pretty little criminal hoe,” she whispered into my ear before laughing and leaving me alone, the scent of her cold-blooded wolf still lingering in my nose.
As I lay there in the cold tiled floor of my small prison cell, my head swimming in the pool of my own blood, nothing is running in my mind but pain.
“A month,” I whispered through the cuts and blisters in my lips. “I just have to endure a month here.”
Mariana RoseI left my room ready to go back to the mansion. Victor is out into a business with most of the lycans in his pack and I did not come along because I am still in pain from keeping my mate bond with Rozen.This would be the best time to go home for a while.“Luna Phillips, where are you going?”I turned around, forcing myself not to roll my eyes when the head maid Robbie called me. She volunteered herself to be my aid and attendant in front of Victor. At the get go, she seemed nice but my experience at the jail taught me never to let my guard down.Sure enough, my guess was tested and I learned who she really is. She’s nagging as if she outranks me. She bosses me around and decides for me and incites the other maids to talk behind my back.“To my house,” I answered briefly. “I just need to get something from there.”But what she did annoyed the shit out of me. She grabbed my hand and forced me back to the room and blocked the door with her body. “You can tell us what you ne
Mariana RoseI can’t explain my feelings while on the way to Alpha Victor’s mansion for the celebration.My hands are sweating cold, my wolf is in immeasurable pain, and my heart is being ripped into pieces. The wedding ceremony in front of the moon goddess sealing me with another man other than my own mate causes my heart rate to slow down.Noticing my silence, Victor moved to hold my hand but I quickly hid it away. He sighed but did not pursue it anymore.“I know this is just a marriage of convenience for the two packs but I want this to work, Glenda. I want us to work.”I cleared the lump in my throat. “Me too. I want us to work but can you not hurry me up? I mean you know that…”Chuckling, he jokingly elbowed my arm. “I properly understand what you mean. I respect you. Always. You are my friend, Glenda.”I smiled back but was instantly turned into a grimace when I heard the loudest thud on the rear end of the car followed by a deafening growl.I jumped hard and saw first the golde
Mariana RoseI spent the whole night ruminating what to do next while the whole mansion is in chaos celebrating the alpha who has risen back to life. The doctors rushed in confirming that his vital signs are back and running and anytime from now, he will open his eyes.“What should I do now?” I repeatedly asked myself while pacing back and forth nervously. “Once he wakes up and sees me, he will sense our bond. That can’t happen as early as now! I have to disrupt it! I have to make sure he doesn’t know that I am his second mate, too.”With that in mind, I glanced at my phone where ten missed calls from Victor are lodged. This wedding is definitely not going to get delayed again.I ran out of my room and hurriedly barged into Jezebel’s office where Justin and Drake are present talking about something.They all looked at me, with surprise on their faces.“Glenda, why the hell are you barging in here without knocking?!”I did not have time to indulge her and bent my knees before her.“Mot
Mariana RoseI burst into tears when shame and guilt washed over me. I can’t believe that I did that! I can’t believe that I tried to force myself into him.“I’m sorry, Alpha Rozen!” I cried out and lowered myself, my hands covering my face. “I just really want to wake you up and this is the only thing I could think about. I will take any punishment you will order.”But I did not hear anything from him. He’s just staring as he slowly sits down on the bed. “Alpha Rozen?” I lifted my hand to touch his face when he seemed a bit out of himself. “Are you alright?”Bad move.That was the worst move that I could have done because now I find myself under him in an instant, his hot body literally above me and his whole weight pressing down on me.“Alpha Ro-”I didn’t have time to finish my sentence when he covered my mouth with his and crushed me with his kiss.His hands began wandering across my body, pinching my breasts and kneading my nipples with harsh maneuvers all the while his fingers
Mariana Rose“I will marry you,” I assured him, “when I make sure that my brother is safe.While on the way, I kept on biting the inside of my tongue ruminating what transpired at the police. Evan is really one scheming evil persona. He knows that Rozen is sick and Glenda is a wealthy werewolf with an identity to be protected that’s why he targeted her.The same thing happened to me before. He knows I’m foolish and naïve, that's why he approached me.“You know I care for you, right?” Victor reached for my hand when we were outside the Ricks’ mansion.I smiled at him tactically hiding the darkness of my stare. “I know, thank you.”I got out of the car determined to wake Rozen up when my phone rang.“Hello.”“It seems like you are enjoying living the life of Glenda that you forget what you came there for,” said a cold feminine voice.“Empress…” I uttered and closed my eyes.I almost forgot about my promise! I told her I would work on finding the whereabouts of Rozen’s father but I was t
Mariana RoseThe police escorted me into their mobile car while the pack’s guards looked on towards me wanting to help seeing that their alpha’s sister had been taken away but Melissa’s order was to let the officers do their job.No one should interfere, she said, because if they find out that I really burned Evan Hugh’s house, then I will be a liability to the Silverthorne pack.With no one to save me this time, I sat calmly in the interrogating room waiting for the questions to be asked.My hands are still shaking from the memories of being in this similar room while they make me admit that I killed Margot Hill.“You burned Evan Hugh’s mansion on the night of his birthday.” The investigator slammed his hands on the metal table and inspected my face. “Why did you do that?”I gasped seeing that he is the same office who questioned me back then.“I did not burn his house,” I answered in a composed manner even though my chest is tightening and my vision is getting blurry.“A servant saw
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