Chapter 29
She stumbled and crashed to the floor, blood pooling from a gash on her forehead.
“BELLONA!”
Prince Alex’s roar shook the room as he burst in.
He scooped Bellona into his arms, his eyes burning with hatred as he glared at me.
“I warned you to stay away from her! You dared to scar my future Luna!”
“Prince, she’s lying! She attacked me first!” I snapped.
Bellona sobbed into his chest.
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“She was jealous, my prince. She pushed me because she wanted you for herself.”
The Seer stepped forward.
“Your Highness, there’s been a misunderstanding-”
“Silence!”
Alex snarled.
“I always knew you favored Amelia over your own daughter, but I never thought you’d protect a traitor!”
He grabbed a silver – rimmed goblet and hurled it at me.
It slammed into my forehead, sending a searing pain through my skull and warm blood trickling down my face.
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“So you thought you could play innocent? You planned this all along, didn’t you? Trying to eliminate Bellona so you could slither back into my life?”
He turned to his guards.
“Take this liar to the town square. Let the whole pack see the true face of this scheming she wolf who dared to dream of being my mate!”
The Seer’s desperate howl shattered the air as Alex’s guards dragged me away.
Silver – laced chains bit into my wrists, sending jolts of searing pain through my body.-
I was unceremoniously thrown into an iron cag. The cage was then roughly chained to
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the back of a rattling wagon, and we took off at breakneck speed through the cobblestone streets of the werewolf kingdom’s capital.
As we entered the bustling heart of the pack, the air grew thick with the scents of fear and excitement.
Werewolves of all ranks, their eyes glowing with savage curiosity, crowded around the wagon, pressing against it to get a better look.
Alex, his eyes glinting maliciously, snatched a rancid – smelling barrel of slop and dumped it over me.
The putrid liquid clung to my body, stinging my eyes and burning my sensitive wolf nose.
The stench was overwhelming, a foul mixture of rotting food and waste that made
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my stomach churn.
“Behold Amelia Wight, the liar who dared to claim the Seer’s bloodline!”
Alex roared, his voice booming and echoing off the stone buildings.
“She attacked Bellona Wright, the true diviner, to steal her place as my Luna! Would you let such a treacherous she wolf rule our pack? She’s a threat to our very existence, a stain on our noble bloodline!”
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“Howl for justice!” a guard shouted, and the crowd erupted into a frenzy.
Their growls turned into a deafening chorus, and I could feel the hatred and aggression rolling off them in waves.
I bared my teeth through the bars, my eyes
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locked on Alex.
“You forget who kept you alive, Alex. Who guided you through every assassination attempt, every political trap? I was the one who risked everything for you!”
He crouched low, his hot breath fanning my face.
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