All Chapters of Rejected by the Alpha Heir, Mated to His Rival Brother: Chapter 81

Ciara's POVI sat in the chair by the window, staring out at the courtyard below. The sky was gray. The trees were bare. Everything looked dead. It matched how I felt inside.I had been outmaneuvered. Thorne had played me like a fool, and I had walked right into his trap. The case was closed. My reputation was destroyed. And no one believed me. Not my father. Not the council. Not a single person in this pack.I stood up. I started pacing. The room felt too small. The walls were closing in. My chest was tight. My hands were shaking. I had never felt so helpless in my entire life.My father. The man who had barely acknowledged my existence for most of my life. He had been Alpha when he got another woman pregnant while Kaden's mother was still Luna. My mother. She had been young. Naive. She had believed him when he said he would protect her. She had believed him when he said he would acknowledge me. She had believed him when he said he loved her.He never did.She died during childbirth,