Crosb

oying thing. I stared at Caden, searching his fac

was

squeezed her hand. "I'll stay. I'll be rig

before she quickly masked it with one of overwhelmin

the master bedroom that should have been ours, he was going to stay for her. He sai

't watch

e wall, escaping the suffoca

. Where could I go? Where in this world

anor. My "home." Frida had cursed me, but Barnett Beaumont... my

ife, Elzada, despised me. But in the depths of this absolute despair

and, classical estate that spoke of

d found myself outside the library. A light was on insid

y the door,

ou still hesitating for? Now that Alanna, that Omega, is dead,

he wolf world, it was the lowest rank, a genetic marker f

was tired. "But...

wler Alpha King publicly cast aside? Don't forget, Bonita is the future of the Beaumont family! She is graceful,

pirit trembling. In their eyes, I was nothing more than a pawn

ighed. "You're right. For Bonita... for the family.

his because he hated me-that would have been easier to understand. He was doing it because I was inconvenient. A loose end. A name that needed to be erased so Bon

e'll let it be known that Alanna had a mental breakdown after the reje

ath. They were going to slander my memory, pa

w cold. This

never known I was disposable. There was a d

"They all agree Bonita is the superior choice. Besides, with her delicate h

hoed in my mind. It'

smirk on her face. My father, Barnett Beaumont, sat slumped in his c

the woman who raised me. Plotting togethe

s a poisoned dagger. It had de

this so-called family

ld night wind. Mate, mother, father... every pillar of

usiness at the Alpha King's mansion. I needed to see how deep their game went. And Caden

thought

I will watch every

will watch Caden drown in regret for his blindness. And I will wa

ly a vast, frozen wasteland where a fire of vengeance was beginning to smolder. I d