Chapter 1 A Tragic Death

Aubrey Mary’s POV

I was going to die, and the killer would be my own sister.

The moment she appeared in the sealed intensive care unit of the Shadowmoon Pack’s Level-Four Virology Research Center, where I was staying, I knew she had come to take my life.

She had no reason to be here. Unless… she was here to make sure I would never leave this room alive.

“Other werewolves infected with the Lupine Virus die screaming in pools of their own blood under the first full moon. But you?” Bailey Mary stood beside my bed, towering over me, a mocking smirk tugging at her lips. “You not only survived; you didn’t even become contagious. A perfect test subject. These past three years—has the life of a lab rat treated you well?”

I stared at her, my throat too dry to form words.

For three years, the virus had eaten away at my body. Now I was a skeletal shell covered in tubes and needles. Pain had distorted my face beyond recognition; I couldn’t even shift into my wolf form anymore.

My claws, once sharp as blades, were now too fragile to slice through paper. My keen sense of smell, once able to pick out the scent of blood from miles away, now burned painfully from the sharp tang of disinfectant in this very room.

And Bailey, she was still beautiful, still powerful. If anything, she had become even more beloved by the pack.

She twirled a syringe in her hand, filled with a pale yellow liquid that glistened in the light.

“Oh, this? It’s the anti-viral serum they finally developed just yesterday. You’ve clung to life this long, all for this, haven’t you? They took pity on your suffering, so the moment it was ready, they prepared a dose just for you. All you have to do is take the shot—you’ll be cured! Aubrey, don’t you want it?”

I did. I wanted it desperately.

I shut my eyes, burying the despair welling up inside me.

Of course, I wanted it. But now that the serum was in my dear sister’s hands, I knew today would likely be my last. After all, I had only contracted the Lupine Virus because of Bailey.

Five years ago, the Alpha King who ruled over all werewolf packs had died unexpectedly, leaving no heir behind. The once-unified werewolf clans fractured immediately. After a bloody struggle, the land had split between North and South.

The southern werewolves, working with evil sorcerers, engineered a virus targeting the unique physiology of northern werewolves.

They called it the Lupine Virus. Once infected, northern werewolves would lose their bond with their wolf, their organs would rapidly fail, and they would die in agony and despair.

virus soon reached the Shadowmoon Pack. Bailey tricked me into drinking contaminated

slowly, and something in my blood seemed to resist

drained my blood, cut my flesh, hoping to extract whatever was fighting the virus—to create a vaccine that could save

had naively believed that if I

just the virus.

her fame as a brilliant medical prodigy was stolen from me. She

had never awakened my wolf was because Bailey

nearly drove me mad. But I couldn’t die, not yet. I hadn’t had

will to live, saying I was noble to sacrifice myself

hell with their so-called

of torment so they would hurry up and make that serum—so I could survive long enough to

completed. But the thing that could save

say. So here’s the deal—give me the combination to your lab’s safe, and I’ll inject you with the serum. I’ll even send you abroad after that. How about

why she

clenched. “This is the first

life wasn’t enough for her. Now, before killing me, she wanted to wring out the last bit of value I

“You won’t tell me?”

important than your life? You’re not

let out a cold laugh and

grew spiteful and played her trump

That wench! She helped me ruin

Alpha in the

Hearing it now was

could hear the regret in Bailey’s voice; marrying Henry had been her dream. But Mariana had stolen

regretted it every day

fallen in love

have been drugged, violated… almost

nightmare surged back again. Regret, hatred—they boiled

wrong to love someone? Was it wrong to be kind? Why had I

is filled with wolfsbane!” My bloodshot eyes burned as I shouted,

the moment Bailey walked into this room, I had abandoned any foolish hope. She would only deceive me, wring me dry, then

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