Five Alphas Kneel for Me (Isabella) novel Chapter 5

“Isabella, how dare you treat Emily so cruelly?

Do you have no remorse for Marcus’s sacrifice? He died saving you!” Caleb’s voice, icy as the Moonstone Springs, cut through me.

My past life flashed before my eyes.

Emily’s brother, Marcus, perished in a fire while supposedly saving me;

I’d lost part of my memory.

The Miller family, believing I owed Emily a debt for Marcus’s death, adopted her after she’d lost both parents and her brother..

After that, the whole Pack started saying I was forever indebted to Emily, obligated to acquiesce to her every whim.

But rebirth brought clarity.

It wasn’t Marcus who saved me; it was Emily and Marcus who set the fire! Marcus hadn’t died a hero; he’d been trapped, his sister’s deliberate act of cruelty ending his life.

Emily then played the role of the grief–stricken orphan, manipulating the Millers into adopting her.

She hadn’t anticipated my survival.

My rage

boiled over.

Emily was a murderer, a thief, a manipulator!

“Your defiance is astounding! Unless you apologize, you will be forbidden from attending the Moonstone Hunt! Your training will cease until you repent!”

I heaved myself up, my head swimming from fever.

My body ached, but I stood defiant.

Caleb’s fury intensified at my continued insubordination.

Then, a shift in my own wolf.

A calculated risk.

“I apologize,” I suddenly said.