“You’re just a discarded, forgotten she-wolf hiding in this den —how dare you sleep with a guard and carry a bastard pup?”
“Today, I’ll teach you what real pack law looks like!”
On her orders, the female servants shaved all my hair, stripped me naked,and dragged me across the stone yard to the punishment grounds,where she commanded a group of criminal wolves to whip me and violate me.
She even took a blade and cut open my swollen belly herself.
Then, holding the blood-soaked, lifeless pup,she walked into the Alpha’s chamber.
“Alpha,” she said coldly,“I have uncovered a she-wolf who defiled the laws of the pack.This is the cursed whelp she carried.I leave her punishment in your hands.”
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Eight months into my pregnancy, my body had grown unbearably heavy.
Every breath felt like it carried a weight it couldn’t release,and exhaustion clung to my bones like winter frost.
I had just lain down to rest when a loud commotion erupted outside the den.
“Outrageous!A ranked she-wolf of the inner territory dares to sleep with a pack guard — and even carry his bastard pup?She must have a death wish!”
“Everyone knows it’s Lady Lyra here who truly holds authority over the pack now!