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All Chapters of After I Faked My Death, My Brother and Mate Went Crazy: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

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Chapter 1

“Miss Nightingale, are you certain you want us to stage your death in three days?” the elder from the Silver Coast Temple asked gravely.It happened to be the Moon Blessing Festival, the most important day of the year for every werewolf pack.The wind came howling straight at me. I closed my eyes and let the tears slide down my face.“Yes,” I said. “I'm certain.”The elder fell silent for a long moment before letting out a low sigh.“Who would have thought Miss Nightingale, once treasured by Alpha Kaiden and Beta Soren, would be pushed this far by an adopted Omega?”“Still, now that you've made up your mind, I hope you make the most of these last few days with your family.”I watched him leave and stood there for a long moment.My cheek still ached from the force of Kaiden shoving me aside after Lia, the outsider Omega my brother had adopted, tearfully accused me of coating her utensils with silver poison.“Three days left,” I murmured. “After that, we probably won't see each other aga

Chapter 2

As I stood there in silence, the room settled back into that warm, familiar atmosphere.Lia leaned against the pillows, fingers brushing the Moonstone necklace I had given her. A little life had finally returned to her eyes when she spoke, her voice still weak from illness.“This necklace is beautiful.”“I bet it would look even prettier in the tower closest to the moonlight.”Lia lowered her head, looking embarrassed. “I heard the pack say Freya's tower is the closest place to the moonlight. An outsider Omega like me has never seen anything like it.”Kaiden tucked the blanket around her and hesitated, rare for him.“You like that place? But...”Soren cut him off, his voice still gentle.“If you like it, Freya can give you the key.”That tower had been built for me by Soren.When I was little, I used to complain that the moonlight was too far away, that I could never catch it. So Soren had brought people to the highest slope in the north and built me a tower there.He told me that when

Chapter 3

I turned around. Kaiden stood in the doorway, his coat still carrying the herbal scent of the hospital.Soren was behind him, his gaze falling on my closed suitcase. Lia had come too, wrapped in a thick white cloak, her face pale while her eyes stayed fixed on the boxes I had packed.She could barely hide her excitement.I lowered my gaze and forced myself to remain calm.“I'm clearing out the master bedroom. You want Lia to move in.”Soren's expression eased a little, but Kaiden had already spoken coldly.“She's in poor health. She'll only stay for a few days. You don't need to act like you're running away from home.”I put the last old photo album into the suitcase.“I'll move to the old cabin.”Kaiden frowned. “That place has been abandoned for years. It's cold at night.”There was finally real concern in his voice. I looked up and met his eyes, almost wanting to ask him why, if he knew it was cold, he had still agreed to make me give up the master bedroom.But Lia coughed softly.K

Chapter 4

For as long as I could remember, my parents were rarely home.They were the Beta couple of the Moonshadow Pack, and they had spent their lives guarding the borders for the old Alpha. Whenever the pack mentioned them, people called them loyal and powerful. They also said I was lucky to have parents like them and a brother like Soren.But I barely saw them. The one who truly raised me was Soren.When I was six, I was bullied by young wolves in the pack and hid behind the Moonlight Tree crying. When Soren found me, his shoes were covered in snow and mud.He crouched down to wipe my face, his voice still awkward with youth.“Don't cry. Your brother will protect you.”The next day, he went to the training field and beat up the young wolves who had bullied me. The elders punished him by making him serve as a sparring partner for the border warriors for a full month.When I secretly went to see him, an adult wolf had just thrown him to the ground. There was blood at the corner of his mouth, y

Chapter 5

After leaving the villa, I moved into the old cabin behind the northern slope. It had been abandoned for years, and at night, all I could hear was wind passing through the wooden windows.I sorted through the things I had brought with me one by one. What needed to be kept went into a wooden box. What needed to burn stayed in the cabin, waiting to turn to ash with it in three days.The next afternoon, I went to the archive hall alone to retrieve the Mating vows I had left in the blessing documents section.Just as I reached the long table, I ran into Kaiden and Soren.Lia sat at the long table with the Moonstone necklace around her neck. The moment she saw me, she hid the parchment in her hands behind her back.Kaiden frowned. “What are you doing here?”I calmly closed the file in my hand. “Retrieving something old.”They were the Mating vows I had prepared for Kaiden over seven years.From eighteen to twenty-five, every time the ceremony was postponed, I rewrote them. I had once imagin

Chapter 6

On the day my death plan began, I opened my phone for the last time.The first thing I saw was Lia's newest video. She sat on the plush bed in the master bedroom, dressed in my favorite moon-silver gown and wearing the moonstone necklace I had given her.Behind her were the moon lamps I had chosen myself, my mother's silver gauze curtains, and the cabinet where I used to keep my jewelry.Soren was lighting the birthday candles for her. Kaiden stood beside her, lowering his head to straighten the shawl around her shoulders.The video was short. So was the caption.[Thank you to the most important people in my life.]I stared at that line for a long time, and my heart slowly settled.So my room, my gown, and all the years I had waited had become decorations for her birthday.I checked the time. The ship at North Harbor would be leaving soon. In the end, I still decided to speak to them one last time.I called Kaiden.Lia answered. Her voice was bright, with no trace of illness.“Freya, a

Chapter 7

Kaiden & Soren POVKaiden stared at the scene before him in disbelief. It was the same old place he knew so well, but now, all that remained was a ruin. The fire must have burned for a long time. Most of the cabin had already burned to ash.Then the rain had come down over it, driving the ash deep into the scorched earth.Soren was on his knees in the middle of the ruins, his hands hanging at his sides, blood dripping from his fingers.The warriors nearby did not dare come closer. They could only stand outside the wreckage, their eyes red-rimmed.Kaiden stumbled forward a few steps and looked at Soren, his face drained of color as he murmured.“How did this happen? Tell me this isn't real!”“Freya isn't dead! She hasn't even become my Luna yet. How could she be dead?”His wolf slammed wildly inside his mind, as if it wanted to tear out of his body and drag Freya back with its own claws. But all around him was the smell of wet ash and scorched earth. The fire had erased every trace of h

Chapter 8

Kaiden and Soren split up and searched every place Freya had ever gone. They searched from afternoon until dawn the next day, but found nothing.Panic kept eating away at what little reason they had left. They locked themselves in the council hall, and even when Lia tried several times to reach them through the mind link, both of them shut her out.It was not until noon that a warrior came into the council hall with a clear plastic evidence bag. Inside were a moonstone ring and a red agate bracelet, almost burned black.The moment Soren and Kaiden saw them, their faces went white.“This is the promise ring I gave her.”“And that red agate bracelet... I made it for her with my own hands. She wore it for twenty years.”Soren murmured the words, his voice rough and choked. It felt as though invisible hands were ripping his heart apart, the pain almost unbearable. Regret came crashing over him, swallowing him whole.Kaiden felt the world tilt beneath his feet. Blackness kept pulsing at the

Chapter 9

I settled into life at the Silver Coast Temple.Life there moved slowly. Every morning, sea mist would drift over the white stone steps outside the temple before the bells rang from the tower.I would wake to the sound of those bells, change into the silver-white robes of a Moon Priestess, and go to the main hall to light the moon lamps and record the names of the wolves who came to pray.In the afternoons, I stayed in the archives sorting old scrolls, or followed the elders as they taught me how to recognize the traces left behind by the Moon Goddess's blessing.When I had free time, I went for walks at North Harbor. I let my mind go blank and thought of nothing at all.News from the Moonshadow Pack still reached me from time to time.For example, after my death notice was sent back to the pack, Kaiden and Soren nearly tore the entire northern territory apart looking for me.And later, they made Lia's stolen identity public.The real Lia had died long ago in the battle at the southern

Chapter 10

The footsteps were familiar. Strangely, my heart settled instead.Only when they stopped behind me did Kaiden's trembling, careful voice reach me.“Freya, is that you?”I did not turn around. I lowered my eyes and kept looking at my phone.Kaiden came around to stand in front of me. He stared at me, then took one step closer.“Freya, I know it's you.”I lifted my head, letting a trace of confusion show on my face.“Sir, are you speaking to me?”Almost two years had passed. My long hair had been cut to my shoulders.The silver-white robe I wore no longer belonged to the Moonshadow Pack. It was the robe of a Silver Coast Temple Priestess.Even my scent had been altered by the temple's moon spring. It was nothing like before.Kaiden's eyes slowly reddened.“Freya, I know you're still angry with me. Lia lied to me back then. That's why I hurt you.”“But I regret it now. Freya, I truly know I was wrong.”Lia's tricks had never been clever. They were crude, even.But he and Soren had believe

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