After Silver Prison
Just one second before Alpha Daniel’s fated mark burned into my skin, a sharp voice pierced the air at the bonding ceremony.
“Stop!”
Jessica, Daniel’s first love, stumbled forward, her belly swollen.
“Are you all really going to let this vicious woman become your Luna?” she cried, pointing at me with trembling hands. “She’s been torturing me for months! She poisoned my tea, left knives at my door, and tried to force me to abort Alpha’s pup!”
My mind went blank at her sudden, fabricated accusations.
“What? I didn’t—”
Before I could finish, Jessica lunged toward me.
Acting on instinct, I raised my arm to block her, but she collapsed heavily to the floor.
“My pup!” she shrieked. “Daniel, look! She’s trying to hurt us again! Call the enforcers to arrest her!”
In the next heartbeat, Daniel rushed forward, shielding Jessica in his arms without hesitation.
He looked at me, his gaze cold and disappointed.
“Rosie, why couldn’t you just behave? This pup is our pack’s heir!”
Around us, the elders exchanged dark, knowing glances, silently condemning me.
With no way to prove my innocence, I was sentenced to three years in the nightmare Silver Prison.
Whips, hunger, endless violence… Eventually, I learned what Daniel really meant by “behave”.
But why was he the one who regretted it?