Semua Bab Reborn the Wrong Baby on the Altar: Bab 1 - Bab 7

At the pack's annual ritual, everyone had their eyes closed in solemn prayer.A piercing scream shattered the silence."Oh God, something just fell onto the altar!"All eyes snapped open. There, on the sacrificial altar, lay a baby wrapped in red cloth.His body shriveled before our eyes. In less than ten seconds, he was nothing but a desiccated corpse.The crowd screamed in horror.I heard a malicious giggle right beside me.I looked up and caught Chloe watching from the bushes. She shot me a taunting smirk before bolting.Damian immediately halted the ritual. His mother, Juliet, rushed forward to check on the baby.The body was beyond recognition. All anyone could tell was that the victim had been a baby.Damian barely glanced at the pup before shaking his head at me. "It's pointless. The baby's dead."Chloe's smug smile flashed across my mind, and the last of my restraint snapped.I stormed up to the bushes and shouted, "Chloe, get out here! What did you do?"The thicket was vast an

Before the body had completely withered into a husk, I stole a quick glance.I hadn't gotten a clear look, but something about the pup seemed familiar.I already had a sinking suspicion of who the pup was.But when I reached the altar, the body was gone.My heart dropped. I seized Damian by the collar and demanded answers."Where is the pup? What did you do with the body?"Damian caught my hand and tried to soothe me. "The pup is dead. Nothing will bring him back."We'll tell everyone Nate died in an accident and hold a proper funeral. Then we'll put this behind us."I wasn't listening to his excuses. I raised my voice and demanded again, "I asked you, where's the baby?"Damian frowned, his tone suggesting I was being unreasonable. "I already told you to let this go. Stop dwelling on this. Do you really want to turn this into a public scandal?"I took a deep breath, fighting to keep my voice from shaking with rage. "But that was an innocent life. You can't just sweep it under the rug."

The ritual had drawn nearly every member of the pack to the altar grounds.They quickly gathered around. After learning the full story, they began pointing fingers at Chloe and Serena."Serves them right. They tried to kill someone else's pup and ended up killing their own.""Like mother, like daughter.""The Werewolf Bureau is right here. There's no getting out of this now."The crowd murmured among themselves. Serena was on the verge of a complete breakdown.She couldn't bring herself to look at what was left of her son's body.Serena ?pointed at me and cursed, "You evil bitch! You switched out Axel on purpose! You deliberately set this up to hurt my baby! I'll make you pay! I'll make you pay for this!"Her eyes blazed crimson as she charged at me.I knocked her to the ground with a single slap. She clutched her cheek and glared up at me, eyes full of pure hatred.I looked down at her and sneered. "Your daughter threw your son onto the altar and had him drained dry. You were the one

Before long, the day of Chloe's exile arrived.Serena, unable to cope with one devastating blow after another, began to lose her mind.She would often cradle the little blanket her son had been wrapped in when he died, imagining he was still with her.With my father's withdrawal of funding, Damian's pack was crippled.After the scandal, the pack's reputation was in ruins, and no other pack was willing to work with them.Damian drowned in massive debt, and the pack teetered on the brink of collapse.Neighboring packs smelled blood and closed in, intent on swallowing his territory whole.Desperate and out of options, Damian came crawling back to me.He knelt before my house. He looked nothing like the man who had come here demanding answers the last time.Gone was the aggression. Gone was the arrogance. He humbled himself completely.His temples had gone gray, and his frame had thinned. He was a shadow of the Alpha he had once been."Crystal, I'm begging you. I have nowhere else to go. M