His Substitute Mate Is the Alpha’s Daughter
"Elias, you marked the weakest Beta in the pack just to protect Chloe?"
"The elder has too many rules. He was afraid she'd make Chloe's life miserable. That's why he married someone reckless--someone who could cause trouble and take all the fire."
Chloe Nightingale. The Omega that Elias Blackwood's brother married into the pack.
I stand outside the study door. My heart doesn't even flutter.
In my past life, I heard these words and burst through that door to confront Elias.
All I got from him was: "Lose your Luna status and go back to being a useless Beta. Or pretend you never heard anything."
Silence hangs in the study for a moment.
Then Elias's voice cuts through--the words that shattered me the first time:
"Chloe is soft. She can't take the pressure. But Wren... Wren can handle it."
I can handle it?
That was it. In my past life, every struggle, every scream, every ounce of pain I endured--he saw it all. He just thought I could take it.
So I deserved to be used. Deserved to be the shield that protected his precious Omega.
I blink. When I come back to myself, Elias has already left the study.
I wipe the tears from my face. Hard. Then I pull out my phone and call my father.
All this time, I've been hiding the truth from him.
Letting him believe his daughter married into the Blackwood pack as nothing but a weak Beta.
But I'm the Alpha King's daughter.
So this time--
This time, I won't cling to Elias Blackwood anymore.