The Alpha Marked Another While I Was Dying의 모든 챕터: 챕터 1 - 챕터 9

The pack healer's words still echoed in my ears."Wolf Soul Degeneration, Bella. There's no cure. You have maybe a week left. Possibly less.”I had been sitting on the sofa staring at my hands for an hour, wondering how everything had fallen apart so quickly. The door opened, and Alice, Kael's mother, stepped inside. "Bella," she said, her voice tight with forced sympathy. "I heard about the diagnosis. I'm so sorry." She sat down across from me. "Your Marking Ceremony is a month away. If Kael finds out about this, he'll abandon his claim to the Alpha title entirely and never leave your side. You know he would."I nodded silently. I knew better than anyone how fiercely Kael loved me. If he knew I was dying, he would give up the Alpha title he had worked his entire life for without a second thought."The pack needs him, Bella," Alice continued, her voice growing more urgent. "The Old Alpha's health is failing fast. If Kael doesn't complete the Trials, the title will pass to his cousi

Three days passed in a haze of weakness and pain. The Wolf Soul Degeneration had progressed far faster than even the healer had feared. I lost the ability to shift the day after my diagnosis, and now I could barely walk across the room without collapsing from exhaustion. I probably only had three days left.Then, the entire pack erupted in chaos.The very same day, the pack announced that Kael would be mating with Ella, the heir to the Blackstone Pack, in three days. The Marking Ceremony would be the largest and most extravagant event our pack had seen in generations.I told myself he was trying to hurt me. But three days? He had already claimed Ella as his mate and his future Luna.Though, perhaps it's fitting. I might just have enough strength left to hold on until the Marking Ceremony ends.I was lying in bed when my mother came in, her face pale. "Bella," she said softly. "They're here. Kael and Ella. They want to see you."My heart started pounding. "Tell them I'm not here,"

I collapsed onto the platform as soon as he was out of sight. My whole body was shaking, and I could barely breathe. I had never felt so weak, so tired, so alone. I just wanted to close my eyes and never wake up."Get up."I looked up, and Ella was standing over me, her face twisted with hatred. All the sweetness and innocence was gone. "You think you're so clever, don't you?" she said. "Pretending to be weak and helpless to get Kael's sympathy. Well, it's not going to work. Kael is mine now. He loves me only!"I didn't have the energy to argue with her. I slowly pushed myself up to my feet, and I started walking towards the exit. "Leave me alone, Ella," I said quietly. "I'm not going to fight you for him. He's yours."But she wasn't done. She followed me, yelling at me the whole way. "You think he still loves you? He hates you! He only asked you to officiate the ceremony so he could humiliate you! You're nothing to him! Nothing!"I kept walking, ignoring her. And then, suddenly,

The rooms were dark and still. He searched every room anyway. But there was nothing. Just silence and shadows and the lingering scent of me, already beginning to fade.He ran to the healer's quarters next. He burst through the door so violently that the healer nearly dropped her supplies. "Where is Bella?" he demanded. "She collapsed yesterday. She was sick. Where is she?"The healer shook her head, her face confused and frightened. "I haven't seen her, Kael. No one brought her to me."He didn't wait for her to finish. He sprinted to every small medical hut and healing station he could think of, his desperation growing with each step. None of them had seen me. None of them knew anything. It was as if my mother and I had vanished from the face of the earth. Finally, Kael stopped running. He stood alone in the middle of an empty road, breathing hard, his hands trembling at his sides.Then he pressed his hand against his heart as if it were physically breaking apart inside his chest

Kael didn’t go to the Northern Trials. For days, he stayed at my grave beneath the old oak tree. He didn’t eat. He barely moved. The light in his eyes was gone.Alice came first. She stopped behind him, her voice tight with frustration.“Kael, enough. You’ve been here for seven days. The Trials won’t wait. The elders are starting to question your place. Come home.”He didn’t turn around.“Do you hear me?” Her voice sharpened. “You are the future Alpha of Silverclaw! Do you want the entire pack to see you like this?”He stood up slowly and turned to face her. The emptiness in his eyes made her step back. “When she was alive, you hid her from me. Now she’s dead, and you still want me to go somewhere else.”“She betrayed you,” Alice said, forcing her voice steady. “She wasn’t worth this.”“You’re lying.” Kael’s voice exploded like a storm breaking. “You lied from the start! You arranged Liam. You made Ella play along. You knew Bella was dying, and you watched me humiliate her, torture