Third Person POV

“I… what did I do wrong?” Aubrey whispered in her dream.

She only had a gift for medicine–yet Bailey exploited her, drained her dry.

She was betrothed to Alpha Henry–and Mariana envied and framed her.

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She refused to sacrifice herself just to prolong someone else’s life—and so she was hunted down.

She only wanted to run–but still ended up captured, reduced to a voiceless experimental subject…

Her whole life had been spent fleeing from one nightmare to the next. And yet the nightmare never ended. Countless times, she had begged in her heart–if only someone would just reach out a hand.

She didn’t ask to be treasured, didn’t ask to be loved above all else. She only wanted someone to pull her up, to give her a moment to breathe.

The fragmented words from her lips made Alpha Henry clutch her hand even tighter.

“Aubrey! You didn’t do anything wrong, it was everyone else! Please, wake up! I’ll treat you well, I’ll treat you well for the rest of my life, I’ll never be good to anyone but you!”

Suddenly, Aubrey’s eyes opened. Her pupils shrank, and deep within them lingered the tremor of her dream.

Alpha Henry’s anxious voice still rang in her ears, but strangely, he felt so far away.


She knew he looked desperate. She knew she should respond, should give him a reassuring smile. But she couldn’t.

Instead, she felt the faintest trace of annoyance…

sudden cold gaze. A heavy pang struck his chest. Even with their fingers laced tightly together, he felt as though Aubrey was

finally woke up!” Professor Ginnie exhaled a long breath of relief. “Any longer, I thought my own

wolf doctor burst into tears. “You’ve suffered

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herself then. She shifted her gaze away, scanning the room before speaking hoarsely, “Not only am I awake,


was rough, but her eyes were clear again as

The injection was a combination of formulas One, Four, and Nine, wasn’t it? The dosage

words, Xavier’s eyes lit up with

“You mean to say…”

“”

Just what you think. I believe

the words left her mouth, the researchers

enough. For weeks, the lab had

more than a month, maybe now we can

dreamed of Aubrey’s muffled cries, her stifled screams echoing in their ears. It had been

empty hands. Since the moment Aubrey

was overreacting. Perhaps she had simply been in a rush to share the news.

few pills, Aubrey immediately threw herself into rapid discussions with the wolf doctors, not sparing


announce it to the outside world. Not every werewolf had Aubrey’s endurance.

had

they finally wound down their work, it was well past one in the morning. Only then did the group notice that Alpha

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