All Chapters of My Pack Killed My Daughter While I Served the Moon Goddess: Chapter 1 - Chapter 8

When Great Elder Peter found me, I was holding my daughter Bella's body and staring blankly ahead.Her body was cold, and her cheeks were hollow from prolonged malnutrition.The last time I saw her was five years ago, at her mating ceremony with Mark.She didn't know then that her father had already ordered me to go serve the Moon Goddess.I'd had to fight just to be allowed to attend her ceremony before leaving.When it was over, she finally found out.She held on to my hands and cried until she was a mess."Mom, I'm grown up now. I can help you and Dad protect the pack too."Please don't go."Seeing her cry made it even harder to leave.But she and Lucas were only safe if the pack was safe.So I pried her fingers loose."Don't be sad. I will be back before you know it."By then, who knows? Maybe you will have made me a grandmother."I never imagined that would be our last goodbye.I buried her carefully. Then I ran my hand over her headstone and spoke, my voice cold. "Peter, my only

At the sight of me, everyone stared in shock.Faye found her voice first. "Bella? Aren't you confined to quarters? How are you even here?"Then Mina put on a concerned voice. "Yes, Bella. We've already forgiven you for poisoning Faye."Keeping you confined wasn't meant as punishment. We just wanted you to admit you were wrong."And now you come barging into our home without a care? After everything the Alpha and Mark have done for your sake?"Disgust spread across Lucas's face as he listened.Before he could speak, Mark cut in with a scowl. "Bella, you poisoned Faye with wolfsbane, and you still have the nerve to show up? You even brought a fake corpse here just to put on an act?"He grabbed the body off the bed and threw it down at my feet."Faye's barely recovered, and you come here to scare her? That's vicious!"I stared at him.He was nothing like the man I'd met five years ago.He'd been a rogue. Ten years ago, he'd collapsed outside our borders, badly wounded. Bella had found him

Mina spoke before Lucas could react."Bella, drop the act!"That bitch is long dead and gone! You think pretending to be her will scare us?"Put Faye down, and I'll still ask Lucas to spare your life!"Mark came forward with a hand over his bleeding eye."Bella, Faye already apologized. Are you really going to kill her?"He closed his eyes as if he were making a noble sacrifice."All you want is a pup, right?"Let Faye go and I'll allow you to have one."I looked at him and tried to find any sign that he was joking.There wasn't one.My daughter had lain bleeding in that water cell, begging for help, but no one came.He treated his permission as though he were bestowing an enormous favor on her."Faye was never pregnant back then, and you've known that the whole time, haven't you?"Mark froze for a moment, then looked even more self-righteous."So what if I did?"You've always lorded it over Faye because your mother awakened a white wolf."She's been through hell. If I don't protect he

Peter dropped to his knees in front of me and reached out to help me up."She's our Luna! If she dies, the Dawnlight pack is finished!"The guard dropped his blade, and it clattered to the floor.Mina grabbed Lucas's arm, her voice shrill. "Impossible! The Luna is still on the mountain. How could she be standing here?"Peter pushed his bloodstained sleeve back and pointed at my throat."The necklace is broken! I found her at Bella's grave!"Mark took half a step toward me, then stopped when his toe hit the blade on the floor."At her grave?"I ignored Peter's outstretched hand and pushed myself up using the edge of the table.My white wolf's form filled the space behind me. The armed guards backed away one after another.Lucas took a step back too.I walked toward him instead."Lucas. Still want me dead?"His lips moved a few times before he finally said my name. "Elise..."Bella went up the mountain to find you, didn't she?"He stepped around a fallen chair, trying to reach my side.I