Semua Bab Abandoned By My Alpha: From Grass To Grace: Bab 1 - Bab 4

AlaricI never chose Elena Frost as my mate.Three years ago, when I officially took control of the Ashbourne Pack, my authority was still being tested. Power alone wasn’t enough. The elders watched every of my decision, allied packs measured my stability, and my enemies were lurking, waiting for a single misstep.An Alpha without a Luna was a flaw in the hierarchy—an imbalance that could never be respected.That was when my grandmother stepped in—ending the discussion before it become a debate.Patricia Ashbourne, my grandmother, had ruled this pack long before I did. Even after stepping down, her word remained absolute. She told me that the pack demanded stability, not love. Her role was to quiet unrest, secure power, and end all talk.I objected once.Yet, she reminded me that Alpha authority was not about personal preference. It was about power and dominance.Elena Frost was her chosen candidate.She bore a rare ancestral wolf bloodline—one said to steady an Alpha’s power. Yet whe

ElenaI stood under the shower far longer than necessary, letting the hot water beat against my back until my skin turned pink, until the steam blurred the mirror and erased my reflection.Still, my heart wouldn’t calm down.That moment—that surge from earlier…It hadn’t been imagination.My wolf had moved.For the first time in years. I picked up its scent, its move…even for a brief second.Wrapped in a towel, I stepped out and caught my reflection in the fogged glass. My face was pale—still padded with the remnants of fat in my cheeks. Yet compared to three years ago, when my reflection seemed to consume the entire mirror, there were changes.A bitter laugh replaced my restless heart.For whom did I work hard trying to get the body that I once thought the Alpha would like? I once believed if I could just fix myself—fix my appearance, fix my body, fix the parts that embarrassed him—then maybe… maybe he would see me.So, I worked harder than anyone knew.I followed doctors’ instructio