Katerina
I was born under a curse that made my wolf’s presence so faint that everyone instinctively overlooked me.
At the pack orphanage, the caretakers forgot to give me bread, leaving me hungry for three days.
During a hunting exercise, my companions forgot I was with them, leaving me trapped in a hunter’s silver snare for three days and three nights.
Then vampires attacked.
The Alpha ordered everyone to evacuate through the pack link—everyone except me.
They left me behind, and the vampires drained every drop of blood from my body.
When I opened my eyes again, I was back at the pack orphanage, only weeks before the vampire attack that had killed me.
After dying once, I no longer wanted to struggle. This time, I planned to wait quietly for death.
Then, against all odds, the Alpha and Luna of the Silver Moon Pack found me. They told me I was the daughter they had lost seventeen years ago.
My mother, Luna Eleanor, held me in her arms and wept.
“You are our daughter, Ivy—the princess of the Silver Moon Pack. We will never let you suffer again.”
My father, Alpha Marcus, gently touched my head.
“Once you come home with us, even if the sky falls, we’ll hold it up for you.”
They even gave me a blood-bound moonstone pendant that could send an emergency signal to my parents and my brother, Adrian. They swore they would never overlook me again.
For the first time, I believed I had finally found a family.
I decided I wanted to live.
But when an earthquake buried me beneath the ruins of our family lodge, I activated the pendant with the last of my strength.
My adopted sister, Brielle, claimed she had already seen me escape into the forest.
My entire family believed her.
They ignored my distress signal and abandoned me beneath the rubble.
Only after they found my body did they realize I had never escaped.
And by then, the daughter they had sworn never to forget was already dead.
That was when they all lost their minds with regret.