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.

my meals...now they

Like this was justice.

father’s death was their

they had never been one of us at

louder than

and ugly twisted through me. My cracked lips curled

Crack.

The pain came instantly.

side, a hot agony exploding through my skull. My cheek burned. My lip split open again.

a blade. Even the crowd

wobbled, but I stayed upright—barely. My vision blurred. My body

belonged to a Gamma male, tall and

message was clear: I wasn’t allowed to show defiance. Not even

the sting, blinking back the dizzy haze pressing in around the edges of

voice returned

did not

My stomach dropped.

our people. The last thread of the

My hands shook.

of your title... but of your blood. From this day forward, you will no longer

second, I

foolish part of me hoped for

an omega,"

I held my breath.

are less

My heart stopped.

to be branded...

Time shattered.

couldn’t feel my hands.

Slave?

No.

No.

was the daughter of an alpha

Even omegas had rights.

Slaves didn’t.

my head slowly, disbelief

they wouldn’t

trembled as I raised my eyes

staring at me—Aeron, Luca, Kael, Lucian and I