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Behind the door,My Alpha mate Merrick laughed, “Relax, I filmed everything. No one will ever believe her.” Their voices crushed me—my brother’s hate, my lover’s betrayal. And when I finally disappeared from the Pack that night… When I was ten, my mother chose a Second Mate, the Alpha of the Dark Forest Pack. My new stepbrother, the future Alpha Kieran Astor, would kick and hit me whenever no one else was around. He mocked me for being a parasite without a wolf, kicking my face, my ribs, my chest, and once shoved me down a staircase. He stared coldly as I lay in a pool of blood. "Don't think you and your mistress mother can squeeze your way into the Dark Forest Pack. I'm going to throw you out sooner or later." He tore up my homework, scribbled on my dresses with markers, making sure I was humiliated. Even though I never fought back, his cruelty never stopped. Not until his best friend Merrick Allen confessed to me in college. From that day on, Kieran stopped picking on me. For the first time in my life, he didn't treat me like something under his boot. I believed Merrick was the one good thing that had ever happened to me. On my eighteenth birthday, I slept with him. The next morning, I accidentally overheard him talking with Kieran. "Did you get her first time on camera?" Kieran's voice was dripping with malice. Merrick chuckled. "Of course. Full HD. I'd never touch a girl like her if I wasn't helping you get even." My hand flew to my mouth as tears streamed uncontrollably. My so called salvation had been nothing more than Kieran's revenge. I turned away and never looked back. ... Inside the private lounge, Kieran took a drag of his cigarette. "With her reputation ruined, let's see how she clings to the Dark Forest Pack now." "What if she can't handle it and something happens to her..." Kieran shot him a look and laughed. "What, getting soft? Don't tell me you've actually fallen for her." Merrick quickly denied it. "No way. I was just playing around. Lope's coming
