บททั้งหมดของ Alpha’s Childhood Sweetheart Killed My Mother, I Faked Death: บทที่ 1 - บทที่ 10

My Alpha mate Cain's ex-girlfriend Vivienne had returned from her overseas training in healing.She'd made a bet with the other healers in the medical wing.She was convinced she could use the deadly wolfsbane to cure patients.Every senior healer told her it was absolutely impossible.She ignored the warnings and injected a massive dose of wolfsbane extract straight into my mother Iris's body.The medical instruments screamed with alarms. The treatment was a complete failure.Vivienne, humiliated in front of her colleagues, stormed out of the treatment room.My mother's wolf was killed—poisoned to death by the toxin.Her body was still breathing, but her consciousness had sunk into an unreachable sleep.My brother Ethan nearly broke the door down when he burst into the healing center.One look at our mother lying in that hospital bed, and his fists clenched so hard his knuckles went white."Trial by Blood." His voice was low and shaking. "I'm invoking Trial by Blood against Vivienne."

The silver prison door slammed shut behind me.I was an ordinary she-wolf. My tolerance for silver was nowhere near a warrior's.In less than ten minutes, my skin erupted in burning red welts—itching and stinging at once.The sealed space was saturated with silver toxin. Every breath felt like inhaling fire.I pounded on the door. I screamed all night.No one came.My voice gave out completely.I curled up on the one small patch of floor in the center of the cell that wasn't lined with silver.Covered in welts, my consciousness started to slip.I don't know how much time passed before the door opened.Cain stood in the doorway.When he saw the state I was in, his brow furrowed sharply.He walked in quickly and crouched down in front of me.I felt his hand touch my forehead. Burning hot."Don't do something that cruel again." His voice was soft.My lips twitched.A miserable smile.I was in too much pain to even explain.He said "cruel."I'd been locked in a silver prison for god knows

Cain stayed by my bed all night.He kept tucking in the blankets, pressing his hand to my forehead to check for fever.But I pretended to sleep the entire night. I didn't want to respond.The next day I was still resting in the medical wing.The door slammed open. Cain walked in, his face like stone.He strode to my bed and threw something onto me.A moonstone necklace, smeared with blood.I recognized it—the one Cain had the Beta deliver to me before.I'd never worn it. Not even once. I'd thrown it straight in the trash.How was it here?"Vivienne disappeared last night." Cain's voice was cold and shaking. "The only thing on her pillow was this necklace of yours."I froze."Yesterday you accused Vivienne of hiring rogues to attack you. Today she's gone." He stepped closer, his eyes boring into mine. "You wanted revenge, didn't you?""I had nothing to do with this." I said. "I was in the medical wing all night. I never left."Cain scoffed."Explain the necklace. I gave it to you. It's

"I want to sever the Mate Bond." I looked into Cain's eyes and repeated it, word by word.Cain's tall frame went stiff.There was no anger on his face—only the raw, ugly look of someone who'd been struck deep.The room was deathly silent. After a long time, he slowly rose from the chair."You're just lashing out, Wren." He deliberately kept his voice low.I looked at him coldly. It was almost laughable."Once you've calmed down, you'll understand that the choice I made today was absolutely right." He continued in that tone of absolute certainty."Vivienne's hand could not be sacrificed. She's the key to whether your mother ever wakes up.""I couldn't not save her. Do you understand?"I stayed silent. I didn't want to say another word to him.Cain took a piece of moonlight amber from his pocket and set it gently on my nightstand."Keep this. It'll help your damaged wolf recover."He turned and walked toward the door.His hand gripped the handle. His steps faltered for a moment, but he d

By the time Vivienne registered what had happened, the cliff's edge was empty.She looked down at her own hands.She leaned over the railing and peered at the black sea below.I had been swallowed whole by the darkness.Vivienne's heart hammered wildly, her chest heaving.But she forced herself to calm down."It's fine. No one saw," she whispered to herself."No one knows it was me."Even if something came to light later, she just had to play the traumatized victim.She'd cry and say I slipped. Cain would protect her, just like he always did.He always took her side without hesitation, didn't he?Vivienne drew a deep breath and pushed the panic down behind her eyes.She raised a hand and smoothed the hair the sea wind had tousled.She turned, walked back to the banquet hall in her heels, composed as ever.Inside the hall, Cain was holding a glass of wine, making small talk with several Elders.His gaze drifted casually toward the entrance.Vivienne walked in alone from the direction of