Alpha King Chases Abandoned Luna

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Chapter 288

The women's expressions darkened as they surrounded me, their wolves bristling beneath their skin. I suddenly realized how

vulnerable I was an elderly, ill she-wolf confronting three healthy Betas.

"Everyone in the pack knows the truth," one sneered, pushing me backward. "Your daughter drugged Alpha Stone with moonberry wine during a pack celebration, got herself pupped, and forced his true mate Victoria Frost to step aside."

"That's not what happened!" I tried desperately to explain. "Olivia was a victim too! She never intended to come between mates!"

But the women refused to listen, their minds poisoned by years of pack gossip. One of them shoved me roughly, sending me stumbling backward.

"Your daughter is nothing but an opportunist," Brenda Ellis hissed. "She saw a chance to become Luna and took it, regardless of

who got hurt."

"You don't understand," I pleaded, my strength waning. "Victoria Frost is not what she seems. She's manipulated everyone, including Alpha Stone!"

This only enraged them further. Overwhelmed by both anger and grief, my wolf surged forward defensively. I lashed out

physically, but outnumbered and weakened by my illness, I couldn't match their strength.

One of the women shoved me roughly, sending me sprawling to the ground. I clutched at my chest, a sharp pain radiating through my body as my wolf whimpered in distress.

"Look what you've done to yourself, old woman," Brenda Ellis said coldly. "Maybe you should worry less about defending your daughter's reputation and more about your own health."

My vision blurred as I

fear and pain.

losing consciousness was their retreating

(Victoria's POV)

my Raven-Trimmed Wheelchair positioned discreetly behind a stand of tall moonflowers, feeling

deliberately chosen this secluded area of the Silvercrest Medical

with Brenda Ellis, knowing the

provoke Evelyn, hoping the stress would worsen her heart

Seeing the elderly she-

me with cold

wheeled myself in the opposite direction, pleased with the outcome of

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in my path to securing Ethan's complete devotion was being

my neck the token he had given to "Little Orange" all those years ago. My fingers met

whined anxiously. The amulet was missing! I frantically

it had simply

Nothing.

dread washed over me. That amulet was irreplaceable - the ancestral stone that Ethan had worn

one such amulet in

and someone found this amulet near her body, Ethan would definitely suspect me. The reason I had spread rumors and paid others to

was over between us, as long as I remained "Little Orange" in his heart, I knew he would come back to me one day. I couldn't risk losing

my