Branded a Traitor, My Alpha Went Mad
As my body was pulled from the desolate marsh, Kian, the Alpha I had been mated to for ten years, was in the middle of his Mating Ceremony with his Beta, Sienna.
My rotting corpse was mangled beyond recognition by layers of different wolfsbane poisons, my very bones stained black by the toxin's deep penetration.
Even the pack's eldest healer retched at the sight of it.
But, Kian, seemingly unfazed by the gruesome discovery, exchanged vows with Sienna before the Moon Altar.
They received the blessings of the entire pack, while no one remembered me, even though I had only been missing for three months.
It wasn't until my brother Ronan, the pack's Head Enforcer, began his investigation and found a shattered moonstone deep within my skeletal remains.
"Ronan... if anyone can hear this... the Rogue Alpha has infiltrated..."
The fragmented, static-laced voice that emanated from it made my brother freeze.
When the truth was finally revealed, I was proven to be not the traitor who eloped with a Rogue Alpha, but the hero who died protecting the pack.
And as for that Alpha who always looked down on me? He completely lost his mind.