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Chapter 1
Prologue
I should have listened…. when the stars tried to whisper of a betrayal, and a love that would bring me ruin.
But I ignored it. Instead, I insisted. Stubbornly. I covered my ears
ars and
pretended not to hear
1 filled my heart with empty hope
And now. I face my ending.
a single wave, I made the world shudder.
My golden eyes, once brimming with raw power and divinity, trembled. I gazed at my hand. With a single Standing upon the pedestal. I used to look down upon everything below me…
For I was the most regal, the most powerful.
I was the Queen of the Wolves.
I never imagined I would end this way.
Are you sure we should untie her? The man glanced at me with a flicker of doubt. “I know she’s gravely wounded and barely able to move, but she was still the Queen. I even heard she can raise people from the dead. His voice wavered, a flash of hidden fear in his eyes. But his concern was dismissed with a wave.
“Stop being such a coward! One of her arms is severed, and her heart’s been pierced by the lord’s sword. She may have been very powerful once. but what can she do now, on her last breath scoffed the older man.
“And this is the lord’s command. Even if she lies unrestrained and abandoned, all she can do is spend her final moments like a beggar r in a back alley
“Lord. My mind faltered. There was no other who they called the lord, except… Him. Silas, my chosen mate. The one I trusted the most. A. strained laugh escaped my dry throat.
So, he really betrayed me I painfully admitted. I protected him… I cherished him… I did everything I could for him… But in the end, he still betrayed me.
Did you really want the throne this bad? To even stab my back with the blade I gave you?‘ The sharp pain I felt in my heart was worse than the pain of my severed body.
After roughly untying me, the old man locked eyes with mine, his expression cold and unyielding
“You deserve this–after all the evil and cruel things you’ve done. I hope you don’t rest in peace, evil queen.” He chuckled darkly before the two of them left me there, alone and dying.
Evil queen! The words echoed in my mind, and for a moment, I froze.
In my life, I had never done anything evil or cruel. Toward my people, I had only shown kindness and benevolence. So why would he call me that? Why would hr call me an evil queen? Confusion flooded my thoughts, but at that moment, the truth could only remain a mystery. I was already slipping away. My body was broken, and the last remnants of my life were fading fast.
Pain comumed me. My body was battered and torn, and everything within me–my heart, my soul–felt shattered beyond repair. As I lay dying in a dirty, abandoned alley, even my pride as Queen was utterly gone.
I started to feel cold. A feeling I was most familiar with.
“I did everything I could. I supposed, nothing else matters now…” I murmured to myself. A smile filled with sadness appeared on my lips. The feeling of tragic melancholy surrounded me.
“Perhaps, this is just my fate. I should just let go.” I whispered to myself.
I was exhausted. After experiencing betrayal. I just lost all my will to fight. But surprisingly, I was calm as I submitted to my fate. I merely sat upumoving as I awaited deaths to claim me. Slowly yet surely, my golden eyes that used to brightly shine, started to darken
But when everything seemed to be coming to an end. I heard a gentle and alluring voice. In contrast to the silence of the back alley, this voice sounded like balls ringing awakening not just my mind but also my soul.
“So, this is how you end?
I blinked my blurry eyes and looked at the gure approaching me. It was talla figure I knew too well.. but also someone I never imagined I would vec in my final moments
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“All that power you possessed, and you ended up like a mouse dying in an abandoned alley” The man stopped in front of me, his captivating eyes looking at me with a hint of regret
“Rowan…” I breathed his name.
Alpha Rowan–the Alpha of the most powerful pack in the world, the only pack that had refused to bow to royalty.
The Evil Rogue King.
That was the title he had earned. The only man who had openly defied my will, showing nothing but defiance and hostility towards me.
A soft laugh escaped my lips. How ironic. The one I had considered my enemy all my life was the one who had not participated in my downfall
“Why is he here?” I wondered. To mock met ‘To watch as I finally succumb to my end?
“Well at least I wouldn’t die alone. At least someone is here to see me as I fade away, I thought with a tired smile. The light in my eyes flickered and dimmed even further.
“I was wrong.” Rowan said, his gaze fixed on me. “You’re not just a dying mouse..” His voice was cold, cutting. “You’re a foolish dying mouse who forgave the very people who beat you to death.
His words hung in the air, heavy with accusation. “And you still smile like a fool, silently accepting everything–forgiving those who burnt your back, tortured your people and murdered your family.”
Everything seemed to freeze.
What!
My hands trembled as 1 struggled to look at Rowan, desperately searching for some kind of answer.
Burnt my pack!
Tortured… my people?
Murdered my family?
Suddenly, the entire world seemed to be crashing down.
The night of the treason, I had not fought. I had let then capture ine without resistance. After all, they were just after my seat, my throne. I thought they just wanted a new king.
-I had left my throne without a fight, believing they would spare my people–who had offered no resistance–from any harm. But what did Rowan
mean when he said that my pack was burnt, my people had been tortured?
And what did he mean by my family, who had been living peacefully in my father’s pack… murdered?
Although we were adversaries, Rowan was never the one to lie like this.
The rims of my eyes burned, the first hint of tears threatening to fall.
“Olu didn’t you know?” Rowan raised a brow. “The night of the treason, your father’s pack was attacked. They burnt everything to the ground, and those who lived were subjected with all kinds of torture.”
“That rabid Silas, along with his loyal lapdog. Acl! They personally led the attack and guess what?”
“Your father, mother, and your son were stabbed in the back and beheaded. Their heads were stabbed with steaks and displayed triumphantly in your own caule Rowan slowly spoke. Like the devil, his alluring eyes were like dancing in the dark while bearing me the cruel news.
“No.” I gasped, my breath catching in my throat. That couldn’t be true. Silas is River’s father how could he. My mind raced, desperate to make sense of it, but before I could convince myself with false realities. Rowan touched my lips with his finger.
“Little mouse, still–don’t get it? That little boy that you hid from the world–do you still think he’s that rabid dog’s son?”
1 froze. My body went stiff as the words sank in. My mind snapped back to that night–the night I was poisoned. A nun had helped me then, and as a apsult, I ended up carrying River. When I woke up, Silas had claimed to be my savior and River’s father.
“That couldn’t be…
That une, be already started deceiving mer
My thoughts scattered. Suddenly, my entire life seemed to have been a lie. The smiling faces of those who I cherished and protected the man who I gave my devotion to..
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Everything was nothing but lies?
An image appeared in my head–my sweet little boy. His gentle golden eyes, like mine, were filled with divinity. That soft, kind smile… To protect him. I hid him. I sent him to my parents and got separated from him.
But River, father and mother, were gone?
Subbed in the back, beheaded, and stabbed by a stake and displayed for everyone to see!
My entire body started shaking- Shaking from disbelief from pain.
from hatred.
Silas How dare him!
I have treated him with nothing but kindness and benevolence. Even after he betrayed me, I protected his people, even at the cost of my life.
But he destroyed my pack and killed my family!
My father.. my mother… and my son!
Suddenly, rage and regret surged through me, crashing like a tidal wave, flooding my mind and body. In an instant, I was consumed by the urge to light to destroy everything in my path.
The bud of hatred that appeared in my mind started to grow until my entire body, life and soul was filled with it.
Rowan silently watched me for a few seconds
He knelt in front of me. Bringing his face to mine, like the predator seducing his prey, he whispered softly, almost alluringly. “This little proud mouse seemed to finally learned hatred.” He talked with a charming smile.
“But what use is it now?”
“Everything that you cherished is already destroyed. Everyone that you loved is already gone,” his soft words were like little sharp knives that repeatedly stabbed my heart, making my soul bleed.
Rowan leaned towards me, he pressed his lips on my ear and whispered softly, “If only you can turn back the time..”
“Then you could make everything right..”
Turning back the time? Suddenly, a hint of clarity appeared in my eyes.
Yes… If I could turn back the time, I would make everything right…
I would protect my family and my pack.. I would make everyone who betrayed me suffer…
I would surrender everything.. my divinity… my power, this entire kingdom…
Even if it meant selling my soul.
In that moment, I felt a warm light rise from the depths of my soul, slowly resurfacing until it consumed my entire being and erupted. A radiant, divine light engulfed us, swallowing everything in its brilliance.
Rowan’s eyes widened in surprise before they locked with mine. Then, to my astonishment, they lit up with an unexpected gleam of joy. His lips curved into a sly smile, and a deep laugh escaped him, low and chilling.
But before I could rear, the world around us dissolved into noddingness….
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