Semua Bab My Mother Saved Every Blessing for My Sister: Bab 1 - Bab 9

The door opened behind me, and I stepped away before anyone could catch me listening.Margaret stood at the end of the hall. The moment she saw me outside Chloe's room, suspicion flashed across her face.My mother had barely spoken to me since childhood. I'd learned to build whole answers from the depth of her frown, the direction of her fingers, and the pauses between her breaths.This time, my mouth moved before my brain caught up. "I just got home. I didn't hear anything."She studied me for two seconds, then gave a cool nod. No explanation. No question about why I was standing there.Chloe came out behind her, rubbing her eyes before leaning against Margaret's shoulder. "Why are you still awake, Evelyn? The pack medical center's appointment ceremony is tomorrow night. I'm so nervous I don't think I'll sleep at all."She lowered her voice as if sharing a secret. "Mom usually guards every word like it costs her blood. Who knows if she'll even bless us onstage?"I looked at her wide,

Chloe never used the stolen sample.After my ownership notice, the board introduced coded verification. If Chloe submitted my stabilizer, she'd lose her license before she could uncork it.Margaret didn't apologize. She put the sample on the dining table and said coldly, "You won."As if keeping my own name attached to my own work was some petty contest between sisters.Three days later, Chloe's private clinic closed after a financial investigation. She lost her job and the recommendation required for the senior examination.She locked herself in her room and refused to eat. Margaret sat outside the door, promising over and over that she would fix everything.I should have known her solution would cost me.The Harper Family Medical Center had belonged to my grandmother. Margaret inherited sixty percent of the voting rights, while I became director. Over five years, my team turned a failing clinic into Black Pine's only facility equipped for round-the-clock shift emergencies.It was the

Margaret returned home after midnight.The Pack Medical Council had interrupted Chloe's celebration to announce that the Harper center's emergency certification was under review.Margaret had called me eleven times from the center. Chloe had sent messages ordering me to come back and fix the problem.I answered neither of them.Margaret entered the living room and stopped.My Black Pine badge lay on the table beside the finalized transfer notice.[PACK TRANSFER CONFIRMATION][Former member: Evelyn Harper][New affiliation: Northern Royal Pack][Status: Permanent]Beside it lay Scott's broken red collar.Until that moment, Margaret had been angry.She believed I had transferred packs to punish her, leaving behind a crisis she should never have been forced to handle.Then she saw the blood dried into the red leather.Standing alone in the silent room, she finally remembered the alarm she'd heard through the phone.She had heard me begging her to save Scott.But Chloe had been minutes awa

Two weeks after I left Black Pine, a patrol vehicle overturned on a rain-slick road. Nine injured wolves reached the Harper center at once.In mass-casualty emergencies, I divided patients by severity and assigned separate teams to shift injuries and ordinary trauma.Chloe sent everyone into the same treatment room.She couldn't read my triage marks and refused to admit it. By the time a senior healer noticed, one patrolman was in shock from incompatible medications."Call Evelyn!" someone shouted.Chloe froze.She had been texting me for two weeks without receiving a single reply.By the time Margaret reached the center, the emergency wing was in chaos. Chloe grabbed her hand, trembling. "Mom, I didn't mean for this to happen. Evelyn didn't give me the complete protocol. She knew something like this could happen."Margaret opened her mouth, instinctively reaching for a blessing.Fire tore through her throat.She had used this month's words on Chloe's presentation. The blessing made he

Margaret didn't leave the north right away.The next day, she brought papers to cancel my pack transfer.I refused to sign.On the third night, she waited outside the medical center until dawn. When I arrived, she didn't demand that I return. She only asked for one chance to make amends.I agreed to see her one last time.We met in the Northern Pack Registry Office. The Alpha, Aurora, and a pack registrar were present as witnesses. I placed a legal renunciation of family authority in front of Margaret.The declaration couldn't erase our blood, but it removed her rights as my emergency contact, asset representative, and medical decision-maker. She could no longer claim authority over my work, home, treatment, or pack.The last trace of color vanished from her face as she read it. "Does it have to go this far?""Yes.""I know I was wrong.""Scott won't come back, and neither will the years I lost."The pen hovered above the signature line. "What if I stop choosing Chloe over you?"I look