บททั้งหมดของ The Alpha Who Left Me Unmarked: บทที่ 1 - บทที่ 8

I returned to the side house Drake had given me.Calling it a side house was generous. It was a small cabin on the edge of Blackwood territory. Three years ago, when Drake brought me back from a human town, he told me this would be our place.When I pushed the door open, I was surprised to find someone inside.“Selene. Long time no see.”Scarlett stood in a thin moon-white robe that showed off the shape of her newly shifted wolf body. She walked out of the master bedroom Drake and I shared, wearing an apologetic smile that carried clear provocation.“Drake was worried about me recovering alone, so he let me stay here.”I looked around the cabin I had decorated with wolftail grass and moon vines. All the paired fur cushions, matching cups, and shared hunting tools had been thrown carelessly into the storage room. In their place were Scarlett’s vanity mirror, moonstone jewelry, and healing salves.“Drake said this room gets the best moonlight. I just had old wounds removed at a healing w

I was in too much pain to speak.When I looked at Drake, a trace of despair finally rose in my eyes.So this was what my future and my life were worth to him. Less than a scratch on Scarlett’s skin.Fortunately, the head healer arrived in time, so Drake no longer had to choose.The moment the healing ward doors closed, whatever remained between us felt as if it had been cut clean.From then on, we owed each other nothing.When I woke, Drake was standing beside my bed with a cold expression.“Awake? Scarlett needed more than a dozen stitches. None of this would have happened if not for you. Her room is upstairs. When you feel better, go apologize to her.”I looked at him as if he were a stranger.“I did nothing wrong,” I said quietly, while my heart sank little by little.“If you refuse to apologize, don’t come back to the territory. And there is no need for another marking ceremony.”After saying that, Drake left in anger.He never noticed that his threat no longer had the power to hur

I was still wearing the moonvine brace when we began choosing my ceremonial battle robes.My mother and Lady Silvermoon accompanied me into Silvermoon’s ancient weaving chamber. One by one, the pack weavers presented robes crafted from moon-silk beneath the full moon, each glowing silver beneath the light.Every set earned endless praise.“Karl truly got lucky.”“Our Selene looks beautiful in everything. She has the aura of an Alpha by birth.”I smiled until the weavers brought out the final robe.The moment I saw it, I froze.The patterns woven into the fabric were identical to the markings that had first appeared across my wolf fur three years ago during my awakening.The forgotten crest of the Frostvale bloodline.That night, moon energy had erupted from my body and formed those markings beneath the moonlight. A passing Silvermoon elder had recognized the ancient symbol immediately.And from that moment on, Karl knew I existed.As for the moon-energy blessing awakened alongside thos

My mother and Lady Silvermoon looked at me with aching eyes.I smiled and comforted them.“It’s over now.”The parchment Orion gave Drake and Scarlett contained more than the termination notice for Frostvale’s support.It also contained evidence that Scarlett had been selling Blackwood’s defense maps for years.Worse, Drake’s brother had died because of her.The border ambush that killed him had happened because Scarlett leaked the patrol route. Drake’s brother was forced to hold the line alone and died fighting.Scarlett returned to Blackwood as his grieving widow and put on the mask of a fragile, harmless woman.When Drake looked at Scarlett, cold spread through him from the bone.The person he had protected so desperately all these years was the murderer who had helped kill his own brother.The fragile flower he protected was the real poison all along.Because of her, he had lost the Selene who had stayed by his side since they were fifteen.He had cast aside the girl who grew besid