LOGIN“Will you die for them?” The Alpha King’s voice was cold enough to silence the hall. And Althea heard the answer long before she spoke it… not from herself, but from the minds screaming around her. ‘Just sacrifice yourself.’ ‘You’re nothing.’ ‘You should die for us.’ Her gift or curse let her hear and read every hateful thought, every desperate plea. And even then, she still stepped forward. She chose to protect the weak, the innocent, the only ones who had ever shown her kindness… even if the price was her life. But Gavriel Kingsley, the Alpha King, didn’t kill her. He wanted something else. Ownership. "You are mine now," His voice barely above a whisper. “As a slave?!” The King chuckled, his gaze dark as midnight. “As my breeder.”
View More“W-Where are you taking me?!”
Althea’s hands scraped against the cold stone wall as she tried to grab onto anything. But she was too weak, too small. The two men dragging her barely felt her resistance. They hauled her like she weighed nothing.
She didn’t know how long she’d been locked in that dark dungeon Luna Meena had thrown her into. Time blurred as everyone above scrambled to flee after her father’s message arrived telling the entire pack to escape immediately. His attempt to overthrow the Alpha King had failed.And now the wrath of the Realm of the Moon was coming for them.
“Please…” she whispered as they pulled her up the stairway. Her eyes burned from the sudden brightness at the surface.
The world above was chaos. Torches blazed. Fire spread across the cottages. Screams and cries ripped through the night.
Althea’s eyes widened in horror. Blood soaked the ground and bodies lay everywhere. Her father’s pack was being wiped out.
Her heart sank. Her breath stopped.
She didn’t ask the men anything else because the answer was already in front of her. She knew the moment she saw the destruction that their pack had fallen. Her father wasn’t becoming the new Alpha King. He was now a traitor.
And she… she was being dragged to die because she carried his blood.
Althea squeezed her eyes shut as her shoulders slumped. Luna Meena hadn’t taken her with them. They escaped without her. Left her here to face the Alpha King’s fury alone.
They abandoned her.
And now she would walk toward the end she didn’t deserve.
But when they dragged her into the grand hall, what she saw made her blood run cold.
Everyone was there… Luna Meena, her father’s other mistresses, her half-siblings and even the servants who abandoned her.
All on their knees. Heads bowed.
Waiting.
Then… a scream. THUD.
Her half-brother’s body crashed beside her, a pool of blood spreading like ink across the marble floor. Althea choked back a scream.
A familiar man stepped forward, face blank, blade dripping. He wiped the sword on her brother’s sleeve without a second glance.
“Anyone else care to run and escape?” he asked, calm as if talking about the weather.
No one moved. No one breathed. Then his gaze landed on her. He wasn’t just a guard based on his silver-trimmed armor and the force of his presence. He was, in no doubt, one of the Alpha King’s most trusted warriors.
‘Gamma Simon.’ Althea quietly thought. She recognized him because he once visited their pack to personally deliver a message from the Alpha King last week.
“That one’s human,” he said, eyeing Althea. “No need for silver.” A guard reached to shackle her anyway.
“Move, traitor-blood,” the guard snapped, shoving her forward.
Althea stumbled. Her eyes lifted, just for a second, and met the guard’s gaze. His sick thought hit her like a slap. ‘She’s the most beautiful of Alpha Cain’s daughters. Killing her would be a waste… I will love to take her to my bed first. I wonder how she tastes when I-’
She quickly looked away, her stomach twisting.
Whether a gift or curse… she hated this ability to hear and read people’s thoughts through eye contact. It had saved her life more than once but some truths were too disgusting to bear.
“You know the law,” Gamma Simon looked around at the kneeling pack inside the hall and said coldly. “Alpha Cain committed treason and his bloodline must pay.”
“If the rest of the pack bends the knee, they might be spared. But the traitor’s family…” he let the silence drag, “…their fate belongs to the Alpha King.”
Everyone knew what that meant. The Alpha King was ruthless and there was only one fate waiting for Cain’s bloodline… DEATH.
Just then…
“The Alpha King approaches.”
Silence fell like a hammer.
Althea’s head snapped up, and there he was. Gavriel Kingsley, the Alpha King of the Moon Continent.
He stepped into the hall like a storm wearing a man’s shape. Tall. Broad-shouldered. Every line of him radiated authority. His sharp, predatory gray eyes swept over the room, missing nothing.
Althea swallowed hard. He hadn’t spoken a single word, but the weight of his presence crashed down on everyone the moment he entered. His power didn’t need an announcement. It filled the air on its own.
Althea’s breath caught as her eyes met his, just for a moment-
But there was nothing... She read nor heard nothing in those intimidating eyes of his.
Her gift, the one that always worked, failed for the first time.
‘Why can’t I read him?’ she thought, heart pounding. Realizing she stared far too long, she quickly looked down.
“They are all here, Alpha King,” Gamma Simon reported. “Except for Alpha Cain, his son Rett, and his Beta Lucio.”
Still, Gavriel said nothing. He walked slowly, cold eyes scanning each face, each trembling child, each sobbing woman. Then he stopped in front of Luna Meena.
The woman quickly bowed her head, hitting the floor.
“Please, Alpha King!” Luna Meena cried. “We didn’t know anything about Alpha Cain’s betrayal. Please, have mercy! We’ll do anything! Spare us!”
Silence.
Then his voice, deep and cold, filled the hall, “Will you die to save them?”
Gasps echoed then there was stillness while Luna Meena’s face went pale.
“The punishment for treason is death to the traitor’s bloodline,” Gavriel said. “But I will grant mercy. If one of you takes responsibility.”
He stared at Luna Meena. “One life for the rest. Yours.”
Luna Meena hesitated. Her lips parted, but no sound came out. Althea didn’t need to hear her thoughts to know what she was thinking. But she did anyway…
‘Why should I die? I’m the Luna. Noble. Important. That weak girl should be the one. Let her die!’
Then the words left Luna Meena’s mouth, sharp and full of venom.
“Take her!” she screamed, pointing at Althea. “Alpha Cain will be devastated if she dies!”
Her voice cracked with desperation. “Even if he’s in hiding, killing his favorite daughter will break him! She’s nothing, just a weak human born from a slave! No one will raise another rebellion for her death. But Alpha Cain? He’ll suffer. He cherishes that bastard more than anyone!”
Althea stood frozen as all eyes turned to her.
“Take her life instead! She was Cain’s favorite! The reason he lost his mind! Kill her and end this!”
“Take him down right now,” Althea cried to Gavriel. She could no longer bear watching Kael being poisoned and slowly consumed by the darkness.“Strike through his heart,” she added when she saw the black heart coiled around Kael’s own, pulsing like a parasite feeding on him.Gavriel did not hesitate.He moved instantly and drove his still-sheathed sword straight toward Kael’s chest.The moment the blade struck, a burst of white flame erupted from it and spread across Kael’s body in a swirling wave of holy light. Althea watched as Lionel’s power surged forward, crushing the black, beating heart wrapped around Kael’s own.Kael screamed.But the scream that followed was not entirely his.Another voice rose with it… sharp, furious, and filled with agony as the demonic spirit inside him was forced into the light.By the time Kael collapsed to the ground, Althea quickly ran to his side and knelt beside him, taking his hand tightly in hers.“Kael, renounce it,” she urged softly but firmly. “
The deliverance was supposed to happen tonight after dinner. That had been their plan once Althea confirmed whether there was any demonic or unclean spirit inside Kael’s body. They intended to invite Kael and the other contestants to dine with them, then quietly ask everyone else to leave afterward so Kael could remain behind. That was when they would begin the deliverance. It was meant to be their first operation.Originally, it would have been Gavriel and Osman performing the deliverance with Althea guiding them. But Gavriel had already refused to let his wife become physically involved. Unfortunately for him, Althea was stubborn.They had already begun forming a small group of gifted individuals who could see and sense demonic and unclean spirits. In the future, this group would assist during deliverance rites under Gavriel’s lead together with Althea. However, the members were still undergoing training and screening. Elior himself would arrive in two days to personally guide the
The next morning, Althea attended the court session with Gavriel, seated beside him on the royal dais. It wasn’t her first time attending a meeting like this, yet somehow she still felt nervous.Gavriel had been unusually quiet since morning, and she already knew why. Even now, she could hardly believe how petty the once ruthless Gavriel could be when it came to her. He was truly waiting for her to show everyone, right there in court, how much she doted on him.The great doors swung open as the guards announced the arrival of the four remaining candidates for the position of Minister of Justice.Althea’s eyes immediately found Kael among them. At the same moment, his gaze searched for hers as well.Her fingers tightened unconsciously around the hem of her gown.‘No,’ she gasped silently under her breath. She had to blink several times to make sure she was seeing it correctly.She couldn’t believe it.A dark demonic spirit like a serpent was latched onto Kael’s back, its long shadowy b
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