บททั้งหมดของ BETRAYED, REBORN, RETURNED: THE RISE OF THE FEMALE ALPHA : บทที่ 51 - บทที่ 60

The room was completely wrecked, with broken glass scattered across the floor, a chair lying on its side, and long scratches running down the wall like claw marks.Valkira stood in the middle of it, staring at the damage as anger slowly took over. Her fury burned beneath her skin, and her black claws pushed halfway through her fingertips. She clenched her hands and forced them back before taking a slow breath.Her young daughter was gone, and her mother was badly hurt. They were the two people Valkira loved most and would do anything to protect. She had sworn an oath to the Bright Moon to keep them safe, and she had meant every word of it. But someone had broken that promise tonight. Chris stepped further into the messy room, scanning the broken glass and overturned furniture. “What exactly happened here?” he asked, his voice low.“There were six of them,” Helen said. “They smashed through the back security gate while you were away. Yana fought them with everything she had. She bit o

Through the gaps between the men, Valkira spotted Yana lying on the ground. She was still weak and barely conscious, but there were no visible wounds on her, and her clothes were still intact. The man who had tried to touch her was screaming on the floor, his hand pinned down by Valkira’s dagger. Valkira breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that Yana was unharmed, but her anger only grew. These men had come after her daughter and had already struck her elderly mother. They had just signed their own death warrants. A large henchman lunged at Valkira with a jagged hunting knife, but she caught his wrist before the blade could reach her and twisted hard enough to snap his arm. He cried out as Valkira drove her forehead into his face, sending him crashing to the concrete floor where he lay still. Chris tore through the left side of the guards, attacking without holding back. His massive wolf form sent men flying as he bit through their leather armor and raked them with his claws.

These words left Aaron speechless. His face turned ashen as he stared up at her, unable to think of anything else to say.Valkira raised her claw, and Aaron held his breath, thinking she was about to finish him. But instead, she opened her hand and slowly pulled back the black claws.Aaron blinked, confused. Why had she stopped? Was she really going to let him live?Valkira looked down at him, her silver eyes narrowing as she watched him.“I gave you a fair chance back at the city auction,” she said, her voice flat.Aaron’s breath caught, and his chest rose and fell as he stared at her.“You refused to apologize then,” she continued. “So I had to teach you a lesson. You could have offended me in any number of ways, Aaron, and I might have let it slide.”She bent down over him, her cold eyes fixed on his face.“But there is one thing you absolutely should never have done,” she whispered. “You should never have touched my daughter and mother.”The words came quietly, but Aaron felt the

Helen gasped, her lips trembling as she struggled to answer. She wanted to ask Valkira to stop, to let the revenge and bloodshed end now that Valkira was home and they finally had their own place again.They had Yana back. They were alive and safe for the moment. Helen wanted to say, We are alive. That is enough. But she couldn’t bring herself to say it. She had been forced to kneel before, and she still remembered the humiliation of losing everything.The memory of the Blackwood intruders came back, their heavy boots on her floors, their cruel smiles, and the way they shoved her down and laughed at her.Helen had once been the Luna of the Crescent Pack, standing beside Alpha Hertos and helping rule one of the strongest packs on the continent. Now she was an old woman who had been beaten, humiliated, and forced to kneel.The memory still hurt. No matter how much time passed, Helen knew she would never forget what they had done to her.Helen looked at Valkira and saw the determination

Valkira unfolded the list and started reading through the names. The six major packs were all there: Blackwood Pack, Whitesmith Pack, Ashen Pack, Vespar Pack, Aegis Pack, and Obsidian Pack. The Bloodmoon Pack was on the list too, along with several other powerful packs. Her face tightened as she read the names. “I remember them,” Valkira said. “Back when Crescent was at its strongest, none of these families could stand against us.” Chris nodded. “Your father could have kept them from growing.” “But he didn't.” Valkira looked down at the list. “He helped them instead. He gave them what they needed to become stronger.” “And this is how they repaid him,” she said, her voice low. Chris looked at her. “They've grown powerful since then.” Valkira's grip tightened around the paper. “My father trusted them. He helped them when they had nothing, and they turned around and betrayed the Crescent Pack.” Chris took a breath. “You cannot fight them all at once.” “No,” Valkira said.