Meanwhile, Sophia gazed at Leo and choked out:"Alpha, you're so good to me. If you hadn't arrived in time that day, I would have been torn apart by the undercurrents."Leo held her tighter:"I'm sorry, Sophia. I failed to protect you.""But I promise you, after this penance, Catherine's temper will be well and truly broken. She cares so much about her dignity—having to relieve herself in the water for days, that's a humiliation she'll never want to experience again.""If she ever dares to disrespect you again, I won't go easy on her!"Those words pierced my ears like silver needles dipped in wolfsbane, a drilling agony.So he knew how much I valued my dignity—and yet he let me die without a shred of it.I had been dragged by Leo the entire way, my feet scraped raw.He hadn't even looked at me as he threw me into the water dungeon, then ordered the wolf guards to keep flooding it with ice water.The instinct to survive forced me into wolf form.I kept climbing upward, but he personally
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