Five years ago, my Alpha parents rescued me from an orphanage and brought me home to the Blue Moon Pack. I thought my life was finally taking a turn for the better. I thought I was safe. But I was wrong.
Yolanda McKinney—the fake heiress—conspired with rogue wolves to destroy me. They kidnapped me, ran over my legs with a car, breaking them, and left me battered and bleeding.
When my parents and my childhood sweetheart, Joseph Delgado, found me lying in a pool of my own blood, their panic was unmistakable. They rushed me to the pack hospital, but the diagnosis was devastating: I might never walk again.
Joseph proposed to me on the spot, vowing to stand by me through everything. My parents, furious at Yolanda\'s betrayal, promised swift justice. They assured me they had cut all ties with her, that she\'d fled in guilt and drowned in a tragic accident. I believed them. I had to.
For five years, I focused on recovery, trying to rebuild my shattered life. My marriage to Joseph was my anchor, the one thing I thought I could trust.
Until the day I saw Yolanda McKinney alive.
\"You and Mom and Dad saved my life,\" she said smugly, her voice dripping with venom. \"Without you, that pathetic cripple would’ve been the end of me.\"
My blood ran cold as she continued. \"But she never suspected, not even for a second, that you and I have a pup. Mom and Dad? They erased every trace, switched her meds for useless pills—hell, they even buried the evidence.\"
Joseph\'s response shattered what little remained of my heart. \"Don\'t make it sound so harsh,\" he murmured. \"Marrying her was the only way I could keep sending those forgiveness letters. It was the only way to keep you and our son safe.\"
Every word stabbed me like a blade.
My marriage? A lie. My parents? Traitors who discarded me like trash. The justice they’d promised me? A farce.
Fine. If I meant nothing to them, then they would mean nothing to me.