The hurt that crashed through me was overwhelming. My chest felt like it was being crushed from the inside.
“You’re both here,” I whispered, the horrible truth finally sinking in. “You were never kidnapped at
all.”
Neither of them denied it. The silence stretched between us like a chasm.
“Why?” I asked, my voice barely audible. “Why did you help Scarlett deceive me? Why did you lure me here?”
My father’s expression remained coldly indifferent, as if I were nothing more than a stranger asking him for directions.
“I have worked hard to raise you for twenty–six years,” he said with bitter resentment. “I arranged for
you to marry an Alpha, thinking you would finally be useful to this family.”
His voice grew harsher with each word.
“But instead of helping us secure resources and elevate our family’s position, you go against me at every turn. You even convinced Ethan to cut off your brother’s training resources.”
The accusation in his tone made my stomach turn. He was blaming me for standing up for myself.
‘Just because of that?” I asked, my voice full of hurt and disbelief. “You betrayed your own daughter just because of pack politics?”
My father shrugged as if it were the most reasonable thing in the world.
‘Since you refuse to be an obedient daughter, I might as well help someone who will actually benefit our family,” he said with chilling practicality.
He gestured toward Scarlett, who was watching our exchange with obvious satisfaction. ‘Scarlett at least made me a concrete promise. Once she and Ethan mate, she’ll give your brother enough training resources to make him the next Beta of the pack.”
My heart shattered into a thousand pieces. To my father, I was nothing more than a failed
investment.
‘She also offered me enough money to secure a comfortable retirement,” he added with a cruel smile. “Unlike you, she understands the value of family loyalty.”
looked at my mother, desperate for any sign of love or regret.
‘Mom?” I whispered, hoping against hope that she would show some maternal instinct.
A flash of guilt and reluctance crossed her face. She took a hesitant step toward me, her hand eaching out slightly.
But my father’s sharp voice stopped her cold.
‘Don’t,” he commanded, grabbing her arm roughly. “She made her choice when she decided to defy this family.”
My mother’s hand dropped to her side. She looked at the ground, unable to meet my eyes. ‘Even so,” I said, my voice shaking with a mixture of rage and heartbreak, “could you really watch
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while they hurt me? Could you actually help them destroy your own daughter?”
My eyes burned with unshed tears as I stared at both of them.
“How could you stand by and let Scarlett’s plan happen? How could you help her arrange for these rogue wolves to attack me?”
For a moment, my mother’s composure cracked. Tears welled up in her eyes and she looked like she wanted to run to me.
But my father’s grip on her arm tightened, keeping her firmly in place.
“Don’t blame us for this, Emma,” he said coldly. “Blame Ethan for loving you more than I thought
he would.”
His voice carried a note of genuine frustration.
“You obviously refused to mate with him, rejected his mark, and ran away from him. But he still insisted on making you his Luna instead of choosing someone more suitable.”
The cruelty in his tone was devastating.
“If he had simply moved on and chosen Scarlett from the beginning, none of this would have been necessary.”
I closed my eyes as his words washed over me. A single tear of complete despair fell down my
cheek.
The betrayal was total and absolute. Everyone I had ever trusted, everyone I had ever loved, had betrayed me.
My parents had sold me out for money and resources. Ethan had chosen Scarlett over me 105 times. Even my own family saw me as nothing more than a tool to be used and discarded.
A huge wave of hatred surged through my heart, dark and consuming. It felt like poison spreading through my veins.
No one had ever really loved me. No one had ever seen me as worth protecting or cherishing.
I was completely alone in the world, surrounded by people who wanted to use me or destroy me.
The rogue wolves began closing in again, emboldened by my family’s betrayal. Scarlett smiled with triumphant satisfaction.
Just as despair threatened to consume me entirely, the forest suddenly filled with an overwhelming presence.
The pressure of absolute authority crashed down on the clearing like a physical force.
Every wolf present–rogue and family member alike–immediately dropped to the ground, their bodies trembling uncontrollably under the weight of pure Alpha dominance.
Even my father, despite his Beta status, was forced to his knees by the crushing power,
Grayson had arrived.
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