Chapter 2

Mabel’s POV

“Kyran, how could you do this to your own child?” I gritted out, my fingers tightening around the phone until my knuckles turned pale. 

But no matter how angry or heartbroken I felt right now, I refused to let his foolishness cost my daughter her life.

The pack had always hated me since they wanted Gena as their Luna instead of me, so despite carrying the title for five years, I barely played that role openly and Kyran had never once cared enough to correct the disrespect. 

Still, a Luna and her Alpha were equal in status as mates, and in situations where an Alpha was unavailable, the Luna had the authority to occupy his office and make decisions in his place.

I turned toward my daughter again, and my chest tightened painfully at the sight of her tiny body lying weakly against the hospital bed. 

Her breathing was uneven again, and even while asleep, she looked uncomfortable, her little brows furrowed like she could still feel the pain moving through her body. 

I couldn’t leave her alone, not even for a few minutes, and she was far too weak to be carried around the pack in this condition.

I quickly reached for my phone again and called the nanny. Thankfully she answered immediately.

“Luna?”

“Bring my Luna seal and the official pack letter headed paper to the hospital right now,” I said quickly, already walking toward the small table beside the ward window. “And don’t let anyone stop you.”

The nanny must have heard the urgency in my voice because she didn’t ask questions.

“I’ll be there immediately.”

True to her words, she arrived less than twenty minutes later looking slightly out of breath, her hair messy from rushing. The moment she stepped into the ward, she pulled the sealed wooden box from her bag carefully before handing it over to me.

“Luna, what’s going on?” she asked softly, glancing nervously at my daughter.

I swallowed hard before opening the box. 

The silver Luna seal sat inside, polished and beautiful, carrying the crescent symbol of Darknile Pack. 

For a moment I stared at it quietly, remembering how proud I had been the first day the elders placed it in my hands after my marriage to Kyran. 

Back then I truly believed maybe I could become accepted someday.

What a joke.

“The hospital transferred my daughter’s donor heart to Gena’s child under Kyran’s order,” I finally said, and the nanny gasped loudly.

“What?”

“I don’t have time to explain,” I muttered, pulling the official papers toward me. 

“The Supreme Territory Hospital can still approve an emergency transfer if the request carries Alpha authority.”

The nanny looked relieved immediately. “Then that’s good, right? You’re the Luna.”

I didn’t answer her immediately.

Instead, I picked up the pen slowly and began writing the request letter with trembling fingers. 

Every line felt heavier than it should have, mostly because I hated the fact that after everything, I still needed Kyran’s title to save our daughter. 

The hospital ward remained quiet except for the scratching sound of my pen against paper and the soft beeping of the machines attached to my daughter.

Once I finished writing the emergency request, I pressed the Luna seal firmly against the document, watching the silver imprint settle beautifully against the paper.

For the first time since the call ended, a small breath escaped my lips. Maybe this would work.

Maybe I was not completely powerless yet. 

I immediately handed the documents over to Dr. Hale the moment he returned.

“This should authorize the transfer request,” I said quickly. “Send it immediately.”

He took the papers from me, scanning through them briefly before nodding. 

“I’ll personally make sure it reaches the Supreme Territory.”

“Please,” my voice softened despite myself, “my daughter doesn’t have much time and she's in pain.”

His expression shifted slightly at that before he turned and left the ward with the papers in hand.

The waiting that followed felt unbearable.

Every minute stretched endlessly while I sat beside my daughter’s bed holding her tiny hand, staring at the clock hanging on the hospital wall like somehow watching it closely would force time to slow down. 

The nanny stayed quietly in the corner while nurses moved in and out of the room occasionally checking the monitors.

Hours later, the ward door opened again.

I immediately stood up.

“Did they approve it?”

Dr. Hale walked in holding the same documents, but the look on his face made my stomach drop instantly.

My smile faded slowly. “What happened?”

The doctor hesitated before handing the papers back to me. The large red stamp across the front page almost blinded me.

REQUEST DENIED.

My eyes widened instantly.

“What?”

I grabbed the papers from him quickly, scanning through the rejection notice again and again like the words would somehow change if I stared long enough, but they remained the same.

Authority invalid.

Luna privileges revoked.

Direct order submitted by Alpha Kyran Zendaro.

For a moment I genuinely stopped breathing.

“What is this?” I whispered.

The doctor looked uncomfortable again. 

“A decree was submitted from the Alpha office this morning. Your Luna authority has officially been suspended under the Alpha’s direct command.”

I stared at him blankly.

“No…” I shook my head immediately. “That doesn’t make sense. Kyran can’t revoke my authority without informing me first.”

But even as the words left my mouth, I realized how stupid they sounded.

Of course he could.

Kyran had not looked at me in months.

Why would he bother informing me?

The humiliation hit me so hard my face burned instantly. 

My fingers tightened around the papers while my mind struggled to process everything at once. 

While I had been sitting beside our dying daughter all day, Kyran had signed a decree stripping me of my Luna authority like I was some criminal abusing power.

Because of Gena.

Because he believed her over me once again.

“They said the Luna had abused her authority and treated pack members like trash” Dr. Hale reported.

“I didn’t abuse anything,” I said quietly, more to myself than anyone else. 

“I was trying to save our child.”

Dr. Hale avoided my eyes.

I slowly lowered myself back into the chair beside my daughter’s bed, suddenly feeling exhausted in a way sleep could never fix. 

Even after everything I had endured in that pack, part of me still believed I at least had some place beside Kyran.

But now even that illusion was gone.

I quickly grabbed my phone again and called Kyran once more.

No answer…The third call didn’t even ring fully before it got rejected.

A shaky laugh escaped my lips before I could stop it.

Of course.

At this point I didn’t even know why I was still expecting anything different.

My daughter stirred weakly again, letting out a soft cry that immediately snapped my attention back to her. I leaned closer quickly, smoothing my hand gently over her hair while trying to calm myself down at the same time.

“I’m here baby,” I whispered softly. “Mama is here.”

The ward suddenly felt colder than before.

Outside the ward, I suddenly heard two passing nurses who clearly didn’t realize I could hear them.

“So it’s true? The Alpha really removed Luna Mabel?”

“Well everyone knows Lady Gena was always supposed to be Luna anyway.”

“I heard the Alpha only married Mabel because of the child.”

“And now Lady Gena is back where she belongs.”

“I heard the Alpha house is throwing a private celebration tonight.”

“Well, Lady Gena’s daughter survived the surgery, of course they’ll celebrate.”

“I even heard young master Arlan helped decorate the cake himself. He’s probably there already.”

My body froze instantly.

Celebration?

My daughter was lying here dying while they were celebrating another child surviving with the heart stolen from her.