Chapter 6: Grace: Revoked Privileges

The way everything changes so quickly, like I never existed as Alpha's daughter, is shocking. In a week, all my privileges have been stripped away. Even things I didn't realize were a privilege.

Like clothes.

A private bathroom.

Even my name.

"Hey!"

Yeah, that's my new name.

"Hey! You!"

Stopping mid-step, I turn, only to find myself wanting to be swallowed whole. Seriously, a sinkhole opening up right beneath me would be heaven right now.

It's Rafe's mate.

The sight of her approaching sends a jolt through my system, my heart lurching painfully in my chest. She's even more stunning up close, her long black hair cascading over her shoulders like a silken waterfall, those piercing green eyes pure poison as they watch me.

"Remember me?" Her voice drips with honeyed venom.

She's not alone. A few she-wolves follow along behind her. Some are faces I recognize; part of the pack. The others are strangers.

"I..." My voice catches in my throat, barely a whisper. "Yes."

days. It's nothing to lower my gaze to the ground in

kidding? It's shredding me

hate to think I made such

that fit. Instead, I'm in an oversized t-shirt with holes in the hem and jeans

mock sympathy. "Your alpha's little pet has been reduced to this.

me want to snap back, to defend myself, but what's the point? I'm nothing now. No one

want?" Keeping my voice level and calm is the only

to the side. "Want? Oh, darling. I already have everything I want." Her smile widens, revealing perfect

the wolves can talk about; the successful mateship of our pack to the neighboring

dad's the

Not like me. I'm just Rafe's castaway, the abandoned adopted daughter of his

birthright, makes my blood boil. But there's

strand of my greasy hair around her finger. Baths are also a privilege I've had to

away from her touch, my skin crawling.

me. "It doesn't matter now, does it? You're

of seeing me cry. Despite telling myself that I wouldn't rise to the occasion, she got

in close, her breath hot against my ear, "Rafe told me

him laughing at me behind my back, mocking my feelings... The same person who once declared his love to

not true," I whisper, but

of me in denial about the wolf

cared for you? A human? He was just amusing himself."

way she says it makes my stomach

elegant with my vomit all over her. I clench my

I'm just going to have to clean it

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