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I had just stepped out of the shower and was about to crawl into bed when my phone rang, shattering the quiet of the night like a siren.
The caller ID flashed a name I knew all too well-Ursula.
I picked up.
“June,” she whined in that high, familiar voice. “Your brother’s coming back tomorrow. Please, just one last night out with me. Let’s go wild at the bar. Who knows when I’ll get to sneak out again?”
That phone call confirmed it-I had been reborn.
In my previous life, this exact call came on this very night.
Back then, I’d said yes.
I showed up at the bar as planned, but Ursula never came. I called her, and she told me to wait for her in one of the VIP
rooms. Said she was just around the corner.
I sat there like a fool, calling her again and again, worried something had happened. I even considered calling the Pack
Patrol.
But before I could act, the door swung open.
Ursula stood there-with my parents.
And with my brother Tristan, who wasn’t supposed to return until the next day.
She ran straight into his arms, tears pouring down her face. Then she looked at me and said something that shattered my
entire world.
“Tristan,” she sobbed, clinging to him like a damsel in distress. “June… June tried to break our mate bond by having
Paxton… rape me!”
My blood ran cold.
Before I could even speak, Tristan kicked me hard in the stomach. The pain knocked the air from my lungs and dropped
me to my knees.
Our parents called in the Alpha King’s enforcers, the highest-ranking lawkeepers assigned to our pack.
They arrived in minutes.
>”I swear,” I pleaded. “She invited me to the bar. We never even saw each other that night! Why would I set her up? Paxton
and I have both been so swamped lately we haven’t even seen each other, let alone had time to plot something like this.”
But I never expected what came next.
The one person I trusted more than anyone… the mate I loved with all my heart… stepped forward-and shoved me off the
cliff.
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Paxton dropped to his knees in front of Ursula, his voice trembling. “I’m sorry… Ursula. June made me do it. She said she’d kill herself if I didn’t… I didn’t have a choice…”
His words destroyed me.
Everything I’d said-everything I could say-meant nothing now.
The Enforcers dragged me away.
My parents looked at me with shame in their eyes.
“I can’t believe we raised something so vile,” my mother whispered. “To betray your own brother like this…”
At my trial, Ursula played the perfect victim.
Wrapped in white and weakness, she wept before the court. “Tristan and I… we were going to have a baby. But because of June’s scheme, I was assaulted, and we lost the child. The pack doctor said… that was my last chance to be a mother…”
That one sentence lit a firestorm.
The entire pack turned against me. The hate, the curses, the humiliation-it drowned me.
And in prison, Tristan made sure I never forgot what I’d done. His “special attention” left me bloody and broken, day after
day.
Every time I woke up, I asked myself-what really happened between Paxton and Ursula?
It wasn’t until I finally died, depressed and alone, that I learned the truth.
They were each other’s first love.
When they turned eighteen, they thought they weren’t fated mates, so they let go. Tried to move on. But at the Alpha Ball,
they reunited-and the spark reignited.
Old flames, new fire.
And I was the one who got burned.
Together, they plotted my downfall. Together, they destroyed me.
Once I was out of the way, they didn’t stop. They devoured everything-our family, our land, our legacy.
My parents died, broken by the betrayal. And Tristan-he was executed under the guise of a rogue ambush, just another casualty in their brutal takeover.
Paxton didn’t just rise from the ashes like a conqueror-he stormed in like a warlord, seized control of the entire pack, and
claimed everything we had as his spoils.
But not this time.
I’ve been reborn-and this time, I won’t take the bait. I won’t go to that bar, I won’t let them play me like a fool. I’m done
being their pawn. This time, I’m the one holding the knife-and I’ll be the one to strike first.
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