er's

I asked furiously, my tone ho

as she clapped her hands in excitement, "You should be happy that he went out of his way to find

in a dungeon for three years, subject to the horrors of the guards that your bitch of a wife pers

everything in me to stop her from wrenching control from me and surging toward

s been long enough! If it weren't for your madness three years ago, I wouldn't have had

ting me like a whore and giving me away to another pack three years ago,"

ct, and it's as if I'm in pain with Rae all over again, back to that b

inging pain of my fingertips, which I

ather, but I am even more your Alpha, and no one can disobey an Alpha's orders, don't you understan

ou is the most powerful Alpha of all the packs in the East... And he i

I've heard that he's had six b

me to live with my true mate peacefully, you'll happily marry me off to someone who

y father yelled as my st

, and believe me, I'm only just ge

r beauty might make that cruel and ugly Alph

ven getting you in such a state this v

oared, his fangs elongating as h

even with me. The ghostly white pallor of my stepmother's complexion and her shaking hands told me t

been arranged and as your father and Alpha, you will

your mother. Your sister cannot be allowed to marry him. Unlike you, she has pure Alpha blood running in

I've been treated like a slave since I got

just came to inform you that I'm taking my mother with me

s a sly smile curled at the e

fingers towards one of his men standing at the sid

the image of my mother in a hospital bed surrounded b

n and fought the urge to sob loudl

uth, and the unsettling sound of the ventilator working as her chest r

the image of my mothers face, as if by doing this I could touch her in person. Thi

from behind me. I turned my head to look at him as he grabbed his cell ph

h, a cold sense of drea

Rae panicke

vinced of my own reply to her and as I listened to

out..." My father said

monitor to see a doctor enter the scree

ried to save your mother. This marriage will open up the finances and provide a much needed injection of cash, not to mention access

the pursuit of power and extending his pack's little empire he would sacrifice anyone a

was the cause of my mother's phys

and married the only child of another powerful Alpha. Once that Alpha died, his pack would be absorbed

ason he kept her alive was leverage over me and the

your choice." He smirked "Your mother's

ing me make this choice that

my head as I fought desperately with

ad no choic

y own selfish desires, as devastating as agr

as well as the family. If you can't do this for the honor of your family name... at least do it for the members of the pack that depend on us

eyes burned brightly in place of my own, letting him kn

h Rae's husky tones, "If you relinquish on our deal and I hear that she has come to any harm at