The Witch and Her Four Dangerous Alphas

Chapter 2: Chapter 02: Just kill me... please, just kill me...

Selene’s POV

The wind had gone still.

Not a single leaf stirred and not a single whisper moved. Dust hung in the air like the whole world was holding its breath, and I knelt in the center of it all...chained, bruised, and surrounded. The cold stone beneath my knees was soaked with my own blood, and my wrists throbbed inside the iron cuffs. Every shallow breath I took tasted like ash and iron.

But none of it hurt as much as the weight of their eyes.

Hundreds of wolves. Lining the towers. Filling the ledges. Blocking the gates. The entire Silver Dawn Pack had gathered to watch me fall. I could feel their hatred pressing down on me, hot and suffocating. There was no escape and no place to hide.

Then I saw him step forward.

Aeron Duskdraven.

he was tall and...cold. His presence hit like steel drawn from a scabbard. And when he spoke, his voice sliced through the square like a blade.

"The war is over."

A roar answered him. Wolves howled and fists lifted in triumph.

"The Crimson Fang Pack has fallen. The tyranny of Alpha Eirik Moonveil is no more."

My father’s name echoed like a curse through the square.

I clenched my jaw, but the ache in my chest spread like rot. I had stopped crying day ago. Now there was only numbness and the hollow kind of pain that went deeper than bruises ever could.

"We have slaughtered their warriors. Broken their walls. And today, those who remain will kneel beneath us."

His eyes swept across the other captured noble girls behind me. I didn’t turn to look. I didn’t need to. I could feel them shaking. I knew they were afraid. And I hated that I still felt something for them...some pitiful sense of guilt.

"By decree of the Silver Dawn Pack," Aeron continued, "you will all be stripped of your ranks and merged into our society as the lowest rank of omega. You will live among the filth you once stepped over. You will serve the wolves your kind once oppressed."

The crowd went wild.

And then... I looked up.

That was my mistake.

Because what I saw tore something inside me I didn’t know was still intact.

The omegas.

My omegas.

smiled at me, fetched my meals...now they stood among the crowd with bright

Like this was justice.

father’s death

been

louder than anyone

something bitter and ugly twisted through me. My cracked lips

Crack.

The pain came instantly.

hot agony exploding through my

blade. Even the crowd went

My vision blurred. My body

struck me belonged to a Gamma male, tall and cruel-eyed. He didn’t say a word. He didn’t have

wasn’t allowed to show defiance. Not even on my

blinking back the dizzy haze pressing in around

Aeron’s voice returned

the traitor among them. The one who did not just stand behind the tyrant... but bears

My stomach dropped.

Daughter of the monster. Branded murderer of our people. The last thread of the

My hands shook.

blood. From this day forward, you will no longer be considered Alpha-born. Your existence will be

second,

me hoped for mercy. A second

not an omega,"

I held my breath.

are less

My heart stopped.

to be branded... as a

Time shattered.

feel my hands. My skin went

Slave?

No.

No.

can’t be a slave. I still had Alpha blood. I was the daughter of an alpha line.

Even omegas had rights.

Slaves didn’t.

head slowly,

they

trembled as I raised my eyes to

were all staring at me—Aeron, Luca, Kael, Lucian and I saw nothing in them but