at the blinding white l

nging ears. Pins pricked all parts of my skin, making me moan in pain

al voice wrapped aroun

sta

a decade ago. It was what my mother called me before she died but my father pr

he aw

in. My eyes opened to see what the afterlife had waiting for

inched when I realized the 'white light' was actually Doctor Lorenzo's salty wh

" Sylvia wept, her hands shaking as

the pounding in my ears, my hands shook on the bed beside me. "Where a

ade made of silver and coated in venom. I died after that. Could this be the afterli

k garden. You fell into a bush. I – Please forgive me. I fa

here? I should have died!" My eye

e? I didn't want to die in the first place but it didn't mean I wa

looked scandalized, her re

ortunate day I mated with Cassius. On that day,

ld scratches but rest assured your injuries will heal before your engagement ceremony next week. As a result of t

next week. Engagemen

e doctor expected me to be worried about. Sylvia a

take my hands in hers. My breath turned ragged when I looked at my hands. "

ing the glasses on his face. "It looks like – Ha, these

ense!" My maid barked. "Silver h

eat. "Yes, I must be wrong. Only criminals have such inju

dream? Ugly white scars covered bot

k nonsense!?" Sylvia continued to berate the doctor. My shy m

o the rose bush?" Lorenzo winced after his weak quest

be healed?" I asked Lorenzo. The r

a lifetime – there are even s

ings?" I

od ran cold. "Ah, but – but that's just nonsensical talk amon

my wrists again. "Wh

he thousandth year of the Deimos kingdom," t

wo years and seven d

back at me had waist-length, silky black hair and bangs. It was my trademark hairstyle until last

ble to go ba

into my room. Before, his eyes had grown cold as he drifted from me t

my feet and I let out

~

. My mother died an hour after she birthe

er of

e became Persephone, the only daughter of Alpha Rufus Adelard, the man who led

go months without seeing my father. I lived without family and friends, locked up in my father's man

his dirty clothes quivering on his thin body as he trespassed into the home of the Crims

cked Alpha. I lured my father out of retirement and made him join Cass' pa

I wanted something and Father didn't oblige me, I held my mother's name as a card over him. I threatened to kill myself, I told him how disappointed my moth

y father into h