The Crippled Alpha's Secret Reborn Mate

Chapter 4

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e layers of the night and shadow. For a heartbeat, I felt expos

k receded, and the mask of the fra

" I murmured, my voice a soft, trembling whisper. It wa

the bench. There she was-right where April's cruelty had lef

oth, like stones rolling in a deep river. I

my ribs. How long had he b

rry into my tone. "She felt faint. I brought her

se, full of holes, b

slow, deliberate nod, his amber eyes return

ng in the air be

ipped. He s

lpha." I kept my eyes downcast, lett

the only sound in the silent garden. That limp was his greatest disguise, a cloa

one b

m, "with a passed-out attendant in a secluded corner of th

was toying with me. I

was true enough to be believable but far enoug

ering on my lower lashes, my lower lip trembling just

pril... she wants Alpha Brody's attention s

d have seen a hundred times in the royal court. I deliberately left Hamilto

of something in his eyes. He knew his brothers. He knew their

hint of something-was i

April's attendant. They argued, and... and this happened." I gestured t

But I didn't need him to believe it. I only neede

My entire future hinged on his next move. If he to

stirred, letting

er side, kneeling on the cool grass and ge

o shift his attention. I felt his gaze on m

ing in my scent, which was always faint, not the cloying sweetness of

anomaly.

embered with a jolt, loved

ose me, not yet. He would watch. He would wait. And he

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“I was forced to attend the grand Bloom Gala. My stepsister, April, glided towards me in her emerald dress and pressed a glass of champagne into my hand. "Drink this. You must be nervous," she smiled, as sweet as poison. It was this exact glass of drugged wine that started my ultimate ruin. After drinking it, I lost consciousness and was dragged to the Nightingale Pavilion, where I was forcibly mated by Alpha Hamilton. April then orchestrated a grand show, leading the entire party to "discover" my scandal. I was instantly branded a shameless Omega, paraded as a disgrace, and became nothing but a stepping stone for Hamilton's ambition to take the throne. When I was no longer useful, he chained me in a damp dungeon and slid a silver blade into my pregnant belly. I screamed silently as the life drained from me, the warmth of my unborn child turning cold. April just stood there, watching my gruesome death with hidden malice. Until I died, I couldn't accept it. Why did my own family weave such a vicious web just to destroy me for power? The sharp sound of shattering glass suddenly pulled me back from the nightmare. I stared down at my pale, unscarred hands and flattened my palm against my stomach. It was empty. Safe. I had been reborn to the night I was sixteen, right before the trap was sprung. Looking at April's expectant eyes, I calmly tipped the poisoned champagne into a potted fern. The lamb they had led to slaughter was dead, and the wolf had returned for blood.”