All Chapters of Left Behind, I Became Another Pack’s Alpha Female: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

Three days left.I never imagined that even the attic would soon be taken from me.While making breakfast, Mom casually mentioned it to Marcus."Once Beatrice leaves for the joint patrol, we'll tear down the attic partition. Leah wants a puppy."Marcus agreed without hesitation. A puppy would make Leah happy.Dad nodded as he took another bite of his sandwich."Sounds good. The attic's small, but it's the perfect size for a puppy.""That's too much trouble." Leah lowered her head, twisting the hem of her shirt between her fingers. "Besides, Beatrice will need somewhere to stay when she comes back to visit."Marcus smiled and ruffled her hair."Your happiness comes first. We'll worry about the rest later."I sat quietly at the table, eating my fried eggs.No one had asked if I even wanted to take Dad's place on the joint patrol.No one had asked whether I'd been provided with housing or when I'd be coming home.They just needed me gone. Then they could erase every trace that I'd ever li

Marcus's phone destroyed the last bit of hope I had left.The day before their departure, he went to take a shower, leaving his phone on the couch.The screen lit up with a notification from a family group chat.It was called "We Love Leah."There were five members.Dad, Mom, Marcus, Hale, and Leah.My parents, my brother, the mate who had once been mine, and a girl who didn't share a drop of our blood had made a family of their own without me.So where did that leave me?I couldn't stop myself from opening the chat. The message history went back several months.The group had been created the day they booked the tickets.Mom had posted photos of Leah trying on her ski outfit."Little Leah is finally going on her very first trip!"Marcus had sent a string of celebratory stickers."Anything for my baby sister. Wherever you want to go, I'll take you."Scrolling further back, I found a voice message from Dad."Hale, you're good to Leah. She hasn't had it easy. With you looking after her, I

Mom began searching for me frantically.Using her authority as Luna, she contacted one pack after another, trying to find out where I was.The answer was always the same."Top secret. Access denied."Refusing to give up, she dragged Dad straight to the Alpha King.He turned them away without hesitation."Beatrice volunteered for a classified project. Her whereabouts are confidential and no longer any concern of your family. You have no right to interfere."Mom left looking like an empty shell.Dad followed silently behind her.Back home, Mom stood at the attic entrance and stared inside for a long time.The attic was barely twenty inches high, and it didn't even have a window.The air was thick with dust and mildew.Somehow, she had never really noticed any of it before.Marcus stopped reporting for pack duty too.He locked himself in his room, scrolling endlessly through the group chat.He replayed Mom's voice message."Little Leah is finally taking her first trip!"Then he found his

For them, every day without me was a slow, lingering torment.During the first month, Mom was still frantically asking around.By the fifth month, she had stopped asking because the Alpha King had issued our pack a formal warning.By the tenth month, she could barely sleep at all.She had to rely on heavy doses of sleeping pills just to get a few hours of rest.In the middle of the night, she would wander to the attic like a ghost.She refused to lock it, clinging to the fantasy that one day I would come home, walk through that door, and tell her how tired I was.Without me, pack affairs fell into chaos.Dad worked himself ragged until his hair turned completely white.One night, as he flipped through a photo album, his fingers suddenly went still."Have you noticed?" His voice was hoarse."Ever since Leah joined our family, Beatrice hasn't appeared in a single family photo.""She was always there. Yet somehow, no one ever seemed to see her."At that, Mom burst into tears.Marcus didn'

Mom found out from Leah that I'd come back.On the phone, her voice was hoarse and shaky."Baby, where are you? Let me come get you and take you home, okay?""No need." I leaned back in my chair. "I'll come see you today."After hanging up, I stood by the window for a long time.I wondered what it would be like to see them again.That evening, I stood outside the house in a sharply tailored trench coat.The front door was wide open.Mom, once the proud Luna of the pack, was now nothing but skin and bone.With her hands slick with grease, she stood in the kitchen, hurriedly sprinkling chili powder over the grilled meat.The instant I stepped into the living room, her legs gave out and she fell to her knees."Beatrice... I was wrong. I finally understand that now!"Dad rose from the couch, his lips trembling."You're home. That's all that matters. That's all that matters."Marcus came charging down the stairs, tripped on the rug, and stumbled toward me."Beatrice, I don't deserve to be y