Todos los capítulos de He Stole My Scales, I Left Him Dead : Capítulo 1 - Capítulo 10

As my body crumpled to the ground, my first instinct was to shield my pregnant belly. However, my hand passed straight through it.I looked down and saw my own body lying motionless on the ground, my dress soaked in blood. The familiar flutter of life inside me had gone still.The third and final dragon scale had burned to ash. The blood curse had claimed both my life and the life of my unborn pup.Rhaine leaped down the hillside and reached my side in just a few strides. He gathered my body into his arms.When he spoke, his voice carried the unmistakable ease of a man whose plan had gone exactly as intended."Selene, wake up. The pups are safe now. You've saved the entire pack once again. Why aren't you saying anything?"I floated nearby, watching him with sorrow.This was the man I had loved with everything I had. He was also the same man who had stolen all three of my lives with his own hands.He pressed a hand to my cheek. When he felt the lingering warmth of my corpse, the

The laughter and chatter at the celebration came to an abrupt halt.The physician's hands trembled as he tore open Rhaine's collar. Black veins had already spread all the way to his jaw.His medicine chest slipped from his hands and crashed to the floor."It's the plague... the very same plague from 3 years ago! It's back!"The elders who had been praising Rhaine only moments earlier stumbled backward in terror. Mara scooped up her pup and hurried away from the crowd.That was when the pack members remembered me."Go get Selene! She cured it once. She can surely do it again!""Yes! Hurry and bring her here! She has to save the Alpha!"Standing in the middle of the crowd, Vivian raised her voice."After what we did to deceive her last night, you expect her to save us today? She might not agree."I turned to Vivian in utter disbelief, struggling to hold back a bitter laugh.Whenever someone in the pack came to me for help, no matter how serious or minor their injuries were, I

When Rhaine opened his eyes again, the first thing he did was reach for the space beside him.However, his palm met only a flattened pillow and rumpled sheets.He scrambled out of bed and rushed barefoot to my bedroom, desperately calling my name."Selene? Selene, please. Just answer me. You haven't left, have you?"No one answered.He searched everywhere, under the bed, inside the wardrobe, behind the curtains. He tore through every place where someone could possibly hide.He flung open cabinet doors and rummaged through them, searching for hiding places that could not possibly exist.The medicine bottles I had left behind scattered across the floor.Rhaine seized the physician by the collar. The black markings had spread past his jaw, making his furious expression even more terrifying."Where did she go?"With trembling fingers, the physician pointed toward the bed.All that remained there was an empty dress, the gift Rhaine had given me as a memento of our courtship.It

The day the plague poison reached Rhaine's heart, the physician closed his medicine chest and let out one heavy sigh after another.They had tried every preion, yet the black markings spreading across Rhaine's body only grew darker.At last, the physician dropped to his knees."If we cannot find an antidote before the next full moon, the plague will consume your wolf spirit."Rhaine stared at the calendar on the wall. He reached up, tore off the page marking the full moon, and tossed it into the brazier, watching it burn to ash.That night, he personally went through my belongings.The medical books were missing their crucial pages. The dragon fang was gone, and my empty dress was stained with the perfumed powder Vivian always wore.He stormed into Vivian's room in the middle of the night and hurled the dress at her."What gives you the right to imitate her? How dare you touch her things?!"Vivian dropped to her knees. Tears immediately began streaming down her face."But she

Half an hour later, the border defenses collapsed completely.Garr still gave no order to attack.The first thing thrown across the border was the corpse of a wolf infected with the plague.The second was a carcass covered in plague-tainted blood.Both landed within the boundary markers, yet not a single guard dared touch them.The rogues were waiting.They intended to let those infected remains do the work of weapons and soldiers, breaching the pack's defenses on their behalf.The elders rang the great bell, summoning every pack member still capable of fighting.Oren was the first to step forward.Instead of joining the ranks, he removed his armor in front of everyone.Then he took out the false mask he had worn while posing as a rogue wolf that night and publicly confessed everything."There was never an enemy attack that night."Oren pointed to the cages, then to the pups and the wooden barrels filled with fake blood."We were acting on the Alpha's orders. We staged the