Chapter 69
I didn’t mean to eavesdrop.
Really, I didn’t.
I was just walking past Damian’s study, hoping to get some fresh air
through the hallway window, when I heard voices behind the slightly
ajar door.
“I didn’t know she was royalty before I took her to Carlo,” Taurus
said, his voice low but firm.
My heart stopped. What…?
Royalty?
What was he talking about?
I froze, leaning just slightly toward the door. My fingers clenched
around the hem of my hoodie, breath caught in my throat.
“She had a strange scent back then,” Taurus continued.
“Ivy’s downstairs,” Mira’s voice suddenly cut in, making me jolt away
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from the door like a guilty thief. My heart thudded in my ears, a cold
sweat breaking out on my back.
“Oh,” I said, trying to act natural.
Mira tilted her head. “Everything okay?”
“Yeah,” I forced a smile. “Just… stomach’s still a bit off.”
She narrowed her eyes but didn’t press it. “Come on, let’s go. Ivy’s
waiting.”
We walked down the grand staircase together, Mira slightly ahead. My
steps were shaky. I kept replaying those words in my head.
“I didn’t know she was royalty.”
What the hell did that mean?
Ivy sat in the living room, legs crossed with her laptop open, the glow
lighting up her sharp features. She looked like a hacker out of a movie
-calm, calculated, too clever for her own good.
“Well, everything Taurus said was true,” Ivy announced without
looking up.
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I blinked. “Wait… what?”
She finally glanced up. “About your records. Your birth file, your
identification… Your lineage. I was able to trace it back to your
father’s name. It’s… all there.”
I felt something tighten in my chest.
Wait.
“Hold on a second.” My voice cracked as I reached for her laptop.
“Can I just… Can I see that?”
“Sure,” Ivy said, surprised. “Knock yourself out.”
Without waiting, I took the laptop and walked to the dining area,
pretending I needed more light. Thankfully, no one followed me. My
hands trembled as I placed it on the table, the cursor blinking at me
like a silent challenge.
I didn’t even know what I was typing.
My fingers moved on their own.
*Blood Moon pack… Rogue Alpha… History… Alpha death…
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I scrolled through links, news clippings, archived reports from ten
months ago.
And then I saw it.
My vision blurred. For a second, I thought the screen had glitched.
But no–it was there. In black and white.
The report was brief but horrifying: An unidentified bounty hunter by
the name of Taurus was reportedly involved in the slaying of the Blood
Moon pack’s rogue Alpha during an operation funded by underground
markets.
That Alpha was my father.
My knees buckled.
The chair creaked as I sat down. I couldn’t feel my fingers anymore,
The air was thick and suffocating. My heart–oh god, my heart–was
pounding so loud I thought it might rip through my chest.
He killed my father.
Taurus. The man who now walked freely in this house. Who bowed to
Damian. Who whispered behind closed doors.
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He killed my father.
““Naia’s POV
“She… she refused to come with me,” I said, my voice cracking as I
stood before the circle of survivors.
I wanted to believe she was still the girl I grew up with. The girl who
used to braid flowers into my hair and sneak me extra bread when we
were starving. But that girl… she was gone.
“She looked me dead in the eye and said she loved him,” I added,
disgust bubbling in my throat.
Darius stepped forward. “Naia… calm down. She’s just confused. It’s
been years-”
“No!” I shouted. “I know what I saw! She’s living like a queen in his
mansion! Drinking his wine, wearing silk, letting Taurus and Damian
touch her like they didn’t tear our world apart!”
The room went silent. Torches flickered against the stone walls of our hidden refuge. The surviving packs–only twenty of us now–sat in tense silence. Some bore scars on their faces, others were too young
to even shift.
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“She’s not one of us anymore,” I said, voice lower now, almost a
whisper. “It’s us… against the world.”
A rumble of growls answered me.
One by one, the wolves of the broken Blood Moon pack stood.
Clenched fists. Burning eyes.
Darius met my gaze. “What do you want to do, Naia?”
“I want justice,” I said. “For Alpha mattius. For our families. For
everything we lost.”
“And Serene?”
I swallowed hard.
“She’ll regret choosing them.”
Back to Serene
That night, I didn’t sleep.
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I lay in bed beside Damian, his breathing soft and even, unaware that
my entire world had just been shattered.
I stared at the ceiling, my eyes burning with unshed tears. Every word
Naia said echoed in my skull like a curse.
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