The Alpha King's Defiant Hidden Princess

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framed for a murder

house. In my first life, my husband's mistress faked a pregnancy, accused me of pushing her into a lake, and watched as I was c

don't alway

ll laced with sedative. My husband's footsteps were already poundi

t beg. I don't cr

the pack doctor examine his precious lover-right here, in fron

e weak, wolfless prince

o idea what

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icy memory of a needle plunging into my arm. The chemical fire spreading throu

to a lavish canopy of silk and mahogany. I was in a bed-ridiculously soft, s

I pressed my palms into the mattress, feeling every thread, every feather, grounding myself in this

lendar glowed with the date: the second month after

ling: My personal maid, under the orders of Caitlynn Strong - my mother-in-law's niece

tside, hurried and frantic, punctua

ned to a block of ice in my

lit my lip. The way they dragged me across the marble floor while I begged. Then the trial, the gleeful witnesses, the gavel that seal

is very bed, his face twisted in disgust, his accusations ringing i

ice pleading innocence, and the stingi

my own sobs, and the cold satisfaction in My

shame of my own weakness, the fury at my

crashed open, spl

a rage that made him ugly. Behind him, his mother, Lady Rowena, her expression a mask of

tracking clean paths down her cheeks. One hand pressed protective

cked onto me, cold an

g the crystal on the vanity. "What did you do to Ca

ched the performance. A flicker of something that might have been a smile

t, her voice a pathetic whimper. "Our baby is gone

family will not tolerate a murderer in our midst! Y

at, so empty. I knew better than anyone tha

haos filling the room. The drug still made my limbs heavy, but my will had been forged in the fire of a second chance. I had died once. I had felt m

bed. "How dare you act so calm? You've committed such cruel and vicious acts and you

its place was something ancient and cold, a shard of ice from the grave I had just

gh the noise like a razor. "For a pregnancy that

hey all stared, their scripts forgotten. This was

ure panic flashed in her eyes before sh

"You're just jealous of my baby with Bowen! Because you

finger at me. "The evidence is clear! Do you deny you were a

kept my eyes loc

had once feigned. "Before you condemn me, shouldn't you f

n Bowen's white-hot rage. He looked down at the woman

, burying her face in his shirt, her shou

st life had taught me that. They would twis

y of my first death, surged throug

e sickly, compliant wife, but Fiona Avery, a princess, daughter of

three of them, my postu

had never heard from me before, "demand the pack doctor be summo