Cocojam
On the night of our engagement party, my fiancé, Alpha Caleb, and my own brother, Finn, gave me a gift. A rare blood monarch chrysalis.
They said it was a sacred artifact. That it would nourish the Luna’s inner wolf.
But I had it sealed away immediately.
Because I’ve been reborn.
In my last life, they told me the butterfly would nourish my wolf.
So I kept it in my room. I guarded it with the purest moonlight. I even built it a miniature garden, caring for it until it hatched.
Its tendrils pierced my skin. Deep. I endured the pain. I naively thought it was just bonding with my inner wolf.
But after it hatched, it just grew. Bigger and bigger. It wouldn’t eat anything.
It only wanted to drain me.
At first, it was a faint sting in my fingertips. Then, deep marks on my wrist, my collarbone, my neck.
Every night, I’d wake up with new wounds. My wolf grew weaker.
And with every drop of my blood it drank, the patterns on its wings grew more beautiful.
I couldn’t take the torture anymore. I tried to throw the greedy thing out of our territory.
But Caleb used his Alpha Command. He forced me to my knees.
“It’s a gift from me and Finn. It will make you a stronger Luna, Cora. Can't you handle a little pain?”
It drained my blood dry. It shattered my inner wolf. I died three months after our engagement.
My soul lingered after death. I watched it rise from my cold corpse.
A naked woman landed on the carpet. She fell right into my fiancé’s arms.
And my dear brother, Finn, hugged her with joy.
“Lilith, you're finally back! You are the one true Luna of our Pack!”
Seeing that familiar face, I finally understood.
The butterfly wasn't a sacred artifact. It was a parasite. It was my sister. My older sister, Lilith, who supposedly died.
The hypocritical sister Finn had always favored.