All Chapters of The Queen Left After Alpha’s Betrayal: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

For ten years, I stayed by Damien Thorne's side, helping him grow from a servant's son to the Alpha of Shadow Pack. I believed I would eventually see the day he'd claim me as his mate. Instead, he brought home Scarlett Rivers and marked her his Luna. To help his beloved Scarlett and free her parents from prison, Damien handed over my healing potion patents without hesitation.The television droned on about Scarlett’s parents' joyful reunion with their family following their release from prison. Watching their warm embrace on screen, I realized my years of devotion had been nothing but a cruel joke.Standing there, I reflected on all my sacrifices. Besides touching my own heart, who else had ever cared?"Elena Blackwood! What are you doing just standing there? I told you to get the paint supplies. Who gave you permission to slack off?"A sharpened pencil flew through the air, stabbing deep into my arm and leaving a shocking bloody wound.The next moment, Scarlett emerged from the room

That night, I was jolted awake by the crushing weight of someone pressing down on my chest, cutting off my air supply.My lungs burned as I fought desperately against the suffocating pressure. In my panic, I managed to shove my attacker off me, sending them tumbling to the floor.When I fumbled for the light switch, my blood turned to ice.It was Marcus. My own five-year-old son."Elena Blackwood! You evil woman!" His small face was twisted with pure hatred. "If it weren't for you, why wouldn't Mom want me?""You're just a lowly caretaker! Why don't you just die?"The venom in his voice hit me harder than any physical blow. This child who stood before me, radiating such intense loathing, was the same baby whose first cries had sounded like a tiny wolf pup's howls.I remembered the agony of his birth. The complications that nearly killed me as I bled out on the operating table. Damien had actually told the doctor to prioritize saving me over the baby, but I'd fought with every ounce of

The plane touched down faster than I expected. One moment I was closing my eyes, exhausted from everything that had happened, and the next I was opening them to see the familiar landscape of the Southern Territory stretching out below me.Every sight that greeted me felt like a warm embrace. The rolling hills, the ancient oak trees lining the roads, even the way the sunlight hit the buildings—everything was exactly as I remembered.My parents —— Alpha King Victor and Luna Queen Isabella were already waiting at the airport when I emerged from the terminal. They had been standing there for who knows how long, their faces lighting up the moment they spotted me.The Blackwood Pack ruled as the wealthiest and most powerful pack in the Southern Territory, but we had never been the type of royalty to look down on others from our ivory tower.From my earliest memories, my parents had drilled into me that our wealth and influence came with responsibility. We were meant to lift others up, to hel

Damien's face contorted with anguish and pain, his features twisted into something I barely recognized."I've been with you for ten years, and in just two short days, you're already with another man?"His voice cracked with desperation. "Or have you already betrayed me? Have you been seeing him behind my back this whole time?"The accusations spilling from his lips were so absurd that laughter bubbled up from my chest—cold, bitter laughter that surprised even me."Damien Thorne, do I need to remind you that you have a mate? You think it's ridiculous that I'm betraying you?"His eyes blazed crimson with fury and something that looked dangerously close to madness."You clearly know this is all fake! You're the only person I've ever truly loved.""Soon you'll be able to become my rightful mate. Just wait a little longer."The familiar refrain made my stomach turn. How many times had I heard those exact words? How many years had I wasted believing them?"But I've waited enough," I said wit

For several days now, Damien Thorne has been desperately searching for any trace of me throughout the territory.The irony isn't lost on me. To protect his fragile ego all those years ago, I'd told him I was nothing more than an illegitimate daughter of the Blackwood family—a shameful secret they barely acknowledged.Now he watches me come and go from the Blackwood Estate like I own the place, but he only dares lurk outside the gates like some pathetic stalker.He doesn't dare set foot on our property.Even with all his newfound power as Shadow Pack's Alpha, he knows better than to openly challenge the royal family of the Southern Territory. The Blackwood Pack could crush his little operation without breaking a sweat.But desperation makes people do foolish things.Today he brought Marcus with him.My barely five-year-old son stands wilting under the brutal afternoon sun, his small lips already pale from the heat. Damien is using our child as a weapon, hoping the sight of Marcus suffer