My Alpha Discarded Me For Being “Useless” — He Didn’t Know He Was Setting Me Free
Part 2
“A debt?”
I blinked, confusion momentarily overriding my fear.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
Scott gestured to one of his men, a younger warrior with a shock of red hair and a slight limp, who stepped forward and offered me a deep bow.
“Six months ago,” Scott began, his golden eyes never leaving mine.
“One of my scouts was gutted by a Pine Ridge patrol and left to die in a ditch.”
“He would have bled out, had a young woman from the enemy pack not found him.”
“She spent three hours packing his wounds with comfrey, stitched him up, and dragged him to our border.”
I stared at the young red-haired man.
I remembered that night vividly.
I had sneaked out to gather herbs, only to find a dying boy.
I hadn’t cared about pack politics; I was a healer.
“Tim is my cousin,” Scott said softly, closing the distance between us.
He reached out gently, pushing my trembling knife-hand downward.
“Craig is a fool,” he murmured.
“He chases after titles, completely blind to the fact that he had a queen standing right in front of him.”
Without hesitation, Scott unclasped his own heavy fur mantle and draped it over my shoulders.
“You have crossed into my lands, Megan.”
“If you wish it, you will ride with us to our fortress, not as a prisoner, but as an honored guest.”
“Take me with you,” I whispered.
For the first three weeks at his fortress, Scott defied every brutal rumor whispered about him.
He gave me an entire wing to convert into an apothecary.
But one evening, he entered my workspace, his expression darkening as he leaned close and inhaled the scent of my old winter cloak.
He told me my scent had been masked by something highly acidic.
Wolfsbane.
He explained that microdoses administered over years would paralyze the inner wolf, keeping the victim docile and human.
He asked if Craig had ever brought me a drink during his late-night visits.
The memory of the ceramic mug of mulled wine hit me with the force of a physical blow.
Every single night, Craig had insisted I drink it.
He hadn’t rejected me because I was a late bloomer; he had actively poisoned me to keep me compliant.
Scott pulled me against his chest, promising to purge the venom from my veins.
After seven agonizing days of cleansing rituals and violent fevers, the chemical cage holding my beast finally broke.
I stood on the balcony under the full moon and let out a shattering howl.
I didn’t just shift into an ordinary wolf; I transformed into a massive, breathtaking creature of pure, luminescent silver.
As the raw, dominant alpha energy flooded my veins, I looked toward the southern border, wondering just how long it would take for Craig to realize the magnitude of the mistake he had made.
Part 3
It wouldn’t take long for Craig to realize the magnitude of his mistake.
He hadn’t just discarded a late bloomer; he had banished the very savior his pack desperately needed.
By the time he understood the true power he had thrown away, it would be far too late.
Winter had always been a cruel master in the northern territories of the Pine Ridge Pack.
The biting wind rattled the heavy timber doors of the great hall with unforgiving intensity.
Inside, however, the air was thick and heavy, saturated with the scent of roasted venison and the musk of three hundred celebrating werewolves.
The highly anticipated night of the frost festival had arrived.
This was a sacred tradition where the alpha would formally announce his mate, binding their bloodlines before the first heavy snowfall.
Megan stood quietly near the massive stone hearth.
Her slender hands tightly clutched a ceramic mug of mulled wine, drawing warmth from the heated clay.
At twenty-one, she was considered an anomaly within the pack.
She was a late bloomer, a werewolf whose inner beast had yet to awaken from its slumber.
In a society built entirely on raw physical power, razor-sharp fangs, and battlefield supremacy, a delayed shift was heavily stigmatized.
But Megan was not idle.
While the warriors trained with heavy broadswords in the snow-dusted courtyards, she spent her days locked in the apothecary towers.
She had meticulously memorized the properties of every root, moss, and herb that grew within their borders.
Her carefully crafted poultices of comfrey and yarrow had pulled countless Pine Ridge warriors back from the brink of death.
She believed that her quiet contributions mattered just as much as a warrior’s blade.
More importantly, she believed in Craig.
The newly ascended alpha of Pine Ridge, Craig, looked every bit the picture of ruthless nobility.
He had spent the last two years visiting Megan’s chambers in the dead of night, slipping away from the prying eyes of his council.
In the dark, he had whispered sweet promises of a future together.
He had told her repeatedly that a pack needed a healer’s gentle touch just as much as it needed a warrior’s ferocity.
He had even given her a silver pendant shaped like a crescent moon.
It was a silent, secret vow that when the frost festival finally arrived, she would be the one standing proudly by his side.
Tonight was supposed to be the night he made good on those promises.
Megan nervously smoothed the skirts of her dark emerald gown.
Across the crowded hall, she caught the eye of Dave, a fierce scout and one of the few who treated her with genuine respect.
Dave offered a warm, encouraging smile, and Megan returned it, her heart fluttering against her ribs like a trapped bird.
The heavy oak throne scraped against the stone floor as Craig rose to his feet.
The massive hall instantly fell into a breathless, expectant silence.
“My brothers and sisters of Pine Ridge,” Craig’s voice boomed, rich and commanding.
“The winter ahead promises to be our most brutal yet.”
“The Deep River Pack tests our southern borders constantly, and the biting cold threatens the weak among us.”
“A pack is only as strong as its alpha, and an alpha is only as unbreakable as the mate who anchors him to the earth.”
Megan took a half-step forward, her pulse pounding a frantic rhythm in her ears.
“To secure our future, to ensure our bloodline remains fierce and entirely unchallenged, I have made my choice,” Craig continued.
His gaze swept slowly over the massive crowd.
For a fraction of a second, his flinty eyes locked onto Megan’s hopeful face.
There was no warmth in his stare.
There was only a cold, calculating emptiness that sent a sudden chill down her spine.
“I proudly present to you your new Luna, Brenda.”
The breath left Megan’s lungs in a sudden, violent rush.
The crowd erupted into thunderous cheers and deafening howls of approval.
From the front of the hall, Brenda stepped gracefully up to the raised dais.
She was a statuesque, fully shifted warrior whose powerful family controlled the wealthy eastern trade routes.
She looked utterly triumphant.
Megan completely froze.
The ceramic mug slipped from her suddenly numb fingers.
It shattered violently on the hard stone floor, sending dark red wine splashing across the hem of her emerald gown.
The sharp sound of breaking clay was instantly swallowed by the roaring approval of the crowd.
As the cheers finally began to die down, Craig raised a heavy, scarred hand for silence.
Brenda’s father stood nearby with his massive arms crossed over his chest, his stern expression demanding a public display of loyalty.
“There are some who whispered that I might choose a softer path,” Craig announced, his voice suddenly carrying a cruel, mocking edge.
He looked directly at Megan now, ensuring the entire hall followed his gaze to where she stood by the fire.
The crowd slowly parted, stepping away as if she carried a plague.
They left her completely isolated near the hearth, the broken pieces of her mug pooling with red wine at her feet like fresh blood.
“Some believed I would bind myself to a weakling,” Craig sneered, his upper lip curling in disgust.
“To an unshifted girl who hides behind crushed weeds and dirty bandages because she completely lacks the strength to bare her fangs.”
A low, uncomfortable murmur rippled through the gathered pack.
“Megan,” Craig said, his tone entirely devoid of the tender man who had held her in the dark.
“You are a healer, yes, but you are a late shifter, and therefore a massive liability.”
“In the harsh, unforgiving winters to come, Pine Ridge has absolutely no room for those who cannot defend our borders.”
“You are completely useless to the strength of this pack.”
“You will remain locked in the apothecary, serving your new Luna, and you will immediately forget whatever foolish delusions you harbored.”
The public humiliation was a physical blow, sharper and far more agonizing than any blade.
He hadn’t just rejected her in favor of a stronger political match.
He had deliberately stripped her of her dignity, reducing her years of dedicated service and secret devotion to a cruel punchline.
Cold, mocking laughter bubbled up from a few of Brenda’s most loyal followers.
Megan looked up at the man she had loved so deeply.
For the first time, she saw the pathetic cowardice hiding just behind his fierce, imposing facade.
He had traded loyalty and love for a wealthy army.
She absolutely refused to give him the satisfaction of seeing her cry.
With agonizing slowness, Megan reached up to the back of her neck.
She unclasped the delicate silver crescent moon pendant.
The metal was still holding the warmth of her own skin.
She didn’t throw it at his face.
She simply let it drop from her fingers onto the wine-stained stones.
The quiet, sharp clink of silver hitting stone seemed to echo much louder than Craig’s booming, authoritative voice.
Without uttering a single word, Megan turned her back on the alpha of Pine Ridge.
She walked with deliberate, steady steps toward the heavy timber doors.
“Where do you think you are going?”
Craig snapped loudly.
A flicker of genuine irritation broke his carefully maintained stoic mask.
“I didn’t dismiss you.”
Megan didn’t even pause her stride.
She shoved her weight against the heavy iron latch.
The freezing, violent wind instantly howled into the great hall, violently blowing out the nearest torches.
She stepped out into the raging blizzard without looking back.
The heavy doors slammed shut behind her with a deafening thud, sealing her fate in the brutal cold.
It revealed a vast sky the color of heavily bruised iron.
Megan was utterly exhausted, her vision violently blurring at the edges as she stumbled through a waist-deep snowdrift.
She realized with a jolt that she had crossed the invisible border.
She was now standing deep in Deep River territory.
The Deep River Pack was legendary across the continent for its sheer brutality.
They were the hardened descendants of outcasts, shaped by the most unforgiving, savage terrain in the entire realm.
Their Alpha, Scott, was known simply and fearfully as the Winter Wolf.
Horrific tales whispered across dimly lit tavern tables claimed he was a towering beast of a man.
They said he was a ruthless, bloodthirsty warlord who took no prisoners and ruled his frozen lands with an iron, blood-soaked fist.
Pine Ridge mothers frequently used his terrifying name to frighten disobedient pups into submission.
Megan knew the massive risks of crossing into his lands.
But she had already decided that she would much rather die on her own two feet in enemy territory than live on her knees as Craig’s humiliated servant.
A sudden, sharp snap of a heavy twig broke the heavy, oppressive silence of the snowy forest.
Megan instantly froze in her tracks.
Her trembling hand instinctively drifted down to the small, unimpressive hunting knife strapped to her thigh.
It was a pitiful defense against fully shifted wolves, she knew, but she absolutely wouldn’t go down without a bloody fight.
From the dark, ominous shadows of the massive pines, they slowly emerged.
Five massive dire wolves stepped into the clearing.
Their thick fur was matted with heavy snow, and their eyes glowed with a terrifying, predatory intelligence.
They didn’t growl or bare their teeth.
Their absolute, coordinated silence was far more terrifying than any snarling beast.
They fanned out in a perfect, fluid tactical arc, completely cutting off any possible chance of escape.
Megan’s ragged breath hitched painfully in her throat.
She drew her small knife, her hands shaking violently from both the freezing cold and the surging adrenaline.
The largest wolf of the pack stepped forward.
It was a massive creature of pure midnight black, with eyes that burned like molten gold.
It stared at her intently for a long, agonizing moment before its form suddenly began to ripple and crack.
In a fluid, terrifyingly beautiful display of raw power, the giant beast shifted.
Standing before her was a man who seemed to be carved directly from the unforgiving mountains around them.
He was clad in heavy dark furs and thick, boiled leather armor.
A jagged, pale scar cut sharply across his left cheek, adding to his deeply savage appearance.
His golden eyes locked onto Megan with a piercing, overwhelming intensity.
This terrifying man was Scott.
“Lower the blade, little bird,” the massive alpha rumbled.
His voice was a deep, gravelly rumble that literally vibrated through the snow-dampened air.
It wasn’t a threat; it was an absolute, unquestionable command.
“Before you end up hurting yourself.”
“I know exactly who you are,” Megan said, her voice hoarse and completely ruined, but remarkably steady.
She kept the small blade raised defensively.
“If you’re going to kill me, just do it.”
“But I absolutely won’t be a prisoner of the Deep River pack.”
Scott tilted his head slightly, studying her with open curiosity.
His golden gaze swept over her badly frostbitten cheeks, her violently trembling frame, and the crest of the Pine Ridge pack that was barely visible on the clasp of her stolen cloak.
He took a slow, highly deliberate step closer to her.
Megan braced herself firmly, fully expecting him to strike her down.
Instead, he stopped short, his nostrils flaring slightly as he took in her unique scent.
A strange, sudden flicker of recognition passed over his harsh, scarred features.
“You smell of crushed yarrow, dried blood, and bitter ash,” Scott stated flatly, his eyes narrowing.
He looked down at the heavy, worn leather satchel slung across her shoulder.
“You’re the late bloomer.”
“Craig’s little apothecary.”
Megan stiffened her spine, refusing to look away.
“My name is Megan, and I am beholden to no one.”
A low, deep chuckle rumbled deep in Scott’s massive chest.
It was a warm sound that seemed entirely foreign to the terrifying, bloodthirsty warlord of the tavern rumors.
He gestured casually for his warriors, who had also silently shifted into their human forms, to stand down.
“Put the blade away, Megan,” Scott said, his tone shifting from commanding to something strangely, genuinely respectful.
“You are in absolutely no danger here.”
“In fact, you are owed a significant debt.”
Megan blinked rapidly, confusion momentarily overriding her deeply ingrained fear.
“A debt?” she rasped.
“I honestly have no idea what you’re talking about.”
Scott gestured to one of his men.
A younger warrior with a bright shock of red hair and a slight, noticeable limp stepped forward from the trees.
The young man offered Megan a deep, highly formal bow of absolute respect.
“Six months ago,” Scott began, his golden eyes never leaving hers for a second.
“One of my young scouts was gutted by a Pine Ridge patrol and carelessly left to die in a muddy ditch.”
“He would have bled out right there in the mud, had a young woman from the enemy pack not stumbled upon him.”
“She didn’t run him through herself.”
“Instead, she spent three grueling hours packing his fatal wounds with a thick poultice of comfrey and cobwebs, stitched him up perfectly, and dragged his heavy body all the way to our border before disappearing into the night.”
Megan stared blankly at the young red-haired man.
She remembered that horrific night very vividly.
She had sneaked out of the territory under the cover of darkness to gather rare moonbloom, only to find a dying, terrified boy.
She hadn’t cared at all about the complex, bloody pack politics.
She was a dedicated healer, and she simply couldn’t let a boy die alone in the cold.
“Tim is my cousin,” Scott said softly, completely closing the distance between them.
He reached out with a massive, scarred hand and gently pushed her trembling knife-hand downward.
“Craig is an absolute fool,” Scott murmured.
“He blindly chases after useless swords and empty titles, completely oblivious to the fact that he had a queen standing right in front of him.”
Megan looked up into the rugged face of the supposed monster.
For the very first time in days, the crushing, agonizing weight in her chest began to ease.
“You are freezing to death,” Scott noted, looking closely at her blue-tinged lips.
Without a single moment of hesitation, he unclasped his own incredibly heavy dire-bear fur mantle.
He gently draped the massive fur over her small, shivering shoulders.
“You have officially crossed into my lands, Megan.”
“You are no longer a hunted outcast.”
“If you wish it, you will ride with us immediately to the obsidian fortress of Deep River.”
“Not as a prisoner, but as a highly honored guest.”
Megan looked back over her shoulder toward the dark treeline.
Then she looked back at the terrifying alpha of Deep River, who had just offered her absolute sanctuary and respect.
“Take me with you,” she whispered.
Scott smiled, a highly dangerous but utterly thrilling expression.
“Let’s go home, little bird.”
“The real winter is just beginning, and Craig is going to need a very hard lesson in what happens when you carelessly throw away something precious.”
Shadows danced wildly along the towering basalt walls of the Deep River fortress.
Unlike the polished, highly opulent halls of Pine Ridge, this stronghold was carved directly into the jagged, unforgiving peaks of the northern mountains.
It was a harsh place of raw, unyielding survival.
Yet to Megan, it felt incredibly warmer than Craig’s lavish chambers ever had.
For the first three weeks, Megan constantly expected the other shoe to drop.
She anxiously anticipated the familiar mockery, the disdain for her unshifted state, or the heavy-handed demands of a ruthless warlord.
But Scott constantly defied every single brutal rumor whispered about him.
He did not lock her in a high tower, nor did he demand her servitude in the kitchens.
Instead, he gave her an entire sprawling wing of the massive fortress to convert into a state-of-the-art apothecary.
He fully stocked it with incredibly rare highland herbs, dried roots, and ancient, priceless leather-bound medical texts.
One particularly cold evening, as the northern lights painted the night sky in vivid, violent strokes of green and purple, Scott entered her apothecary.
He wore a simple, loose linen tunic, his massive frame visibly relaxing as he breathed in the calming scent of drying lavender and crushed peppermint.
“You work far too late, little bird,” Scott rumbled, leaning casually against the heavy oak doorframe.
“My fierce warriors are openly complaining that they cannot sleep, knowing their savior is burning the midnight oil.”
Megan smiled warmly, wiping her herb-stained hands on her linen apron.
“I was just reviewing some of the village elders’ symptoms.”
“The winter rot is extremely aggressive this year, but a strong tincture of elderberry and white willow bark is already easing their aching joints.”
Scott crossed the room, his heavy footsteps completely silent despite his massive size.
He stopped just mere inches from her.
He reached out to gently tuck a stray, loose lock of hair behind her ear.
“You have done vastly more for my people in three short weeks than my best medics have done in a decade.”
“But you look absolutely exhausted.”
“You are busy healing everyone but yourself.”
Megan looked down at the floor, the deeply familiar sting of shame creeping back into her chest.
“I am fine, Scott.”
“Just a little tired.”
“My body has always been weak.”
“That is why I cannot shift.”
“That is why Craig—”
“Do not speak his pathetic name,” Scott interrupted, a low, highly dangerous growl vibrating deep in his chest.
“You are not weak.”
“I have personally seen you stare down a pack of starving dire wolves without even blinking.”
“The block on your inner wolf is not natural, Megan.”
“It is entirely forced.”
Megan frowned deeply, sheer confusion knotting her brow.
“Forced?” she asked.
“What exactly do you mean?”
Scott motioned toward her cluttered workbench.
“When my border scouts first found you, your natural scent was heavily masked by something highly acidic.”
“We initially thought it was just the potent herbs you carry in your satchel.”
“But the pack’s elder thoroughly sniffed your stolen cloak.”
“He recognized the faint, lingering residue instantly.”
“Aconitum napellus.”
“Wolfsbane.”
Megan gasped sharply, her blood suddenly running ice cold.
“But I never harvest raw wolfsbane without wearing thick leather gloves!”
“And I certainly do not ingest it.”
“It is highly lethal to our kind.”
“In large, concentrated doses, yes,” Scott explained, his square jaw ticking violently with suppressed rage.
“But in carefully measured microdoses, administered consistently over years, it doesn’t kill the host.”
“It completely paralyzes the inner wolf.”
“It severely stunts the shift, keeping the unfortunate victim docile, physically weak, and entirely human.”
“Tell me, Megan.”
“Did Craig ever bring you food or drink during his late-night visits to your chambers?”
The horrific memory hit her with the devastating force of a physical blow.
The warm ceramic mug of spiced mulled wine.
Every single night without fail, Craig had absolutely insisted she drink it.
He claimed it was a special, rare vintage specifically meant to help her relax after a long day working in the healing wards.
He had been actively poisoning her.
The sickening realization completely shattered the last lingering illusion she held of the man she had once loved.
Craig hadn’t publicly rejected her simply because she was a late bloomer.
He had deliberately made her a late bloomer.
He fully knew her ancient bloodline carried an incredibly rare, latent dominant alpha healer gene.
If she had been allowed to shift, her sheer power would have easily rivaled his own.
He had wanted a compliant, weak servant, not a powerful equal who could challenge his authority.
When she finally became a political liability, he simply discarded the very woman he had secretly broken.
Hot tears of absolute, unadulterated fury welled up in Megan’s eyes.
“Hey,” Scott whispered, stepping closer and wrapping his massive, muscular arms entirely around her.
He pulled her tightly against his broad chest, completely engulfing her in his incredible warmth and the comforting scent of pine and fresh snow.
“He will pay dearly for every single drop he ever made you drink.”
“But first, we must purge the venom from your veins.”
The extensive cleansing process was nothing short of brutal.
For seven agonizing days and seven sleepless nights, Megan lay thrashing in Scott’s own private chambers, burning with a violent, consuming fever.
As Scott and his highly skilled healers administered ancient, painful cleansing rituals, they constantly fed her crushed charcoal, raw goat’s milk, and highly potent highland thistles.
The harsh mixture was designed to violently strip the heavy toxins from her abused system.
From day one to three, she suffered agonizing, bone-rattling tremors and a raging fever that threatened to literally boil her alive.
Scott absolutely never left her side for a moment.
He cooled her burning skin with fresh mountain ice and constantly whispered fierce promises of bloody retribution into her ear.
On day four and five, the horrific hallucinations began in earnest.
The dark shadows in the room began twisting into Craig’s mocking, arrogant face.
Scott held her thrashing body down firmly.
His remarkably steady voice acted as a solid anchor in the raging storm, and his dominant alpha aura completely shielded her fractured mind.
Finally, on day six, the terrible fever completely broke.
The sickly, grey pallor of her damp skin was quickly replaced by a highly radiant, flushed, healthy glow.
On the night of the seventh day, the full, bright moon hung high over the massive obsidian fortress.
Megan stood outside on the high main balcony.
The freezing, biting wind whipped her unbound hair wildly around her face.
She felt entirely different.
The heavy, incredibly lethargic weight she had carried for so many years was entirely gone.
In its place was a roaring, highly untamed fire burning in her core.
Scott stood just a few paces behind her in the shadows, watching her with breathless, awestruck anticipation.
Megan slowly closed her eyes, clearly visualizing the chemical cage that had trapped her inner beast for so incredibly long.
With a furious, emotionally shattering push, she finally broke the cage.
The dramatic shift was instantaneous and surprisingly painless.
It was a fluid, rushing blur of cracking bone, shifting cartilage, and rapidly expanding muscle.
Where a fragile, human apothecary had stood just seconds before, a massive, utterly breathtaking dire wolf now remained.
Her thick fur was not the common, dull brown or muted gray of the Pine Ridge pack.
She was entirely pure, luminescent silver.
She shone brilliantly like captured starlight against the dark, imposing basalt of the fortress walls.
She threw her massive head back and unleashed a deafening howl that literally shook the very foundations of the mountain.
It was a beautiful sound of pure, unadulterated liberation and immense power.
Scott instantly shifted right beside her.
His massive, midnight black form dwarfed hers only very slightly.
He affectionately nudged his massive muzzle against her bright silver neck.
He intertwined their unique scents, completely sealing a mating bond that needed absolutely no human words.
She was not just a simple healer anymore.
She was his true equal.
She was his Luna.
Desperate, deeply humiliated, and facing a very real mutiny from his own starving council, Craig finally realized his fatal mistake.
He desperately needed Megan back.
Not as an honored Luna, but as his tightly chained, compliant apothecary.
Gathering a heavily armed, desperate battalion of his few remaining healthy warriors, Craig aggressively marched directly on the Deep River borders.
He fully expected to find a savage, highly disorganized pack of barbarians.
Instead, he found a massive, heavily fortified, and highly disciplined army waiting patiently for him at the frozen river that permanently divided their lands.
Craig sat nervously atop a massive, completely black warhorse.
His heavy broadsword rested loosely on his saddle pommel.
Across the wide frozen expanse, Scott stood proudly at the very head of the Deep River vanguard.
His massive arms were casually crossed over his chest, and his expression was utterly, insultingly bored.
“Scott!”
Craig bellowed loudly, his desperate voice echoing sharply across the cracked ice.
“You illegally harbor a known thief and a runaway.”
“Hand over the apothecary immediately.”
“Do this, and I will generously spare your miserable border patrols from total slaughter.”
Scott let out a sharp, incredibly booming laugh that carried effortlessly over the howling wind.
“You are in absolutely no position to make demands of me, Craig.”
“Your men look like they are entirely ready to collapse face-first into the snow.”
“Go back home before I decide to take your entire territory as compensation for your blatant trespassing.”
Craig’s arrogant face twisted in ugly rage.
He angrily spurred his warhorse forward a few aggressive paces.
“She legally belongs to Pine Ridge!”
“She is my absolute subject, a weak, entirely unshifted liability that I officially demand you return to me!”
“She was absolutely never yours.”
A new, incredibly crystal-clear voice rang out brightly over the frozen river.
The disciplined ranks of the massive Deep River warriors instantly parted.
Megan walked slowly and confidently through them.
She was absolutely no longer the meek, terrified girl in a torn emerald gown.
She wore a stunning, highly crafted armor of boiled black leather and bright silver chainmail.
A pure white, heavy fur cloak billowed dramatically behind her in the wind.
She walked with the lethal, fluid grace of an apex predator.
Her chin was held incredibly high, and her bright eyes blazed with an ancient, terrifying power.
Craig’s jaw literally dropped in sheer shock.
“Megan?” he stammered weakly.
“You look… alive.”
“Cured,” Megan finished coldly for him, stopping right beside Scott.
She absolutely didn’t flinch under Craig’s stunned, terrified gaze.
“Untethered from the wolfsbane you spent two entire years secretly slipping into my cup.”
A collective, highly audible gasp rapidly rippled through the ranks of the Pine Ridge warriors.
Poisoning a fellow pack member specifically to suppress their wolf was a highly heinous, medieval crime.
It was strictly punishable by immediate exile or brutal death.
Several of Craig’s own men instantly lowered their heavy weapons, looking at their supposed alpha in absolute horror.
“Lies!”
Craig stammered frantically, quickly drawing his heavy broadsword in a panic.
“She is a dark witch!”
“She has poisoned all of your minds!”
“The only poison here is you, Craig,” Megan said, her voice dropping to a highly lethal, completely commanding octave.
Before Craig could even attempt to issue a desperate order to attack, Megan violently shifted.
The transformation was so incredibly fast, so completely exploding with raw, unadulterated power, that several Pine Ridge horses reared up in sheer terror.
The magnificent, glowing Silver Wolf stood proudly on the thick ice.
She bared her razor-sharp fangs and let out a low, incredibly rumbling growl that actually shook the frozen river beneath them.
She didn’t just casually shift.
She entirely unleashed her incredibly rare, dominant alpha healer aura.
It was a massive wave of pure, crushing energy that forcibly drove the weakest of Craig’s men directly to their knees in involuntary submission.
Scott immediately shifted right beside her.
The monstrous, completely black beast stood firmly shoulder-to-shoulder with the highly radiant silver Luna.
Together, they looked exactly like the ancient gods of winter and night.
Craig’s fragile army completely shattered.
Seeing the pure, incredibly unadulterated power of the amazing woman their alpha had so carelessly discarded, the truth became undeniable.
Knowing the sickening depths of his cowardly treachery, the honorable Pine Ridge beta, Dave, threw his heavy sword directly onto the ice.
“We absolutely do not follow poisoners,” Dave spat angrily, completely turning his back on Craig.
One by one, the rest of the Pine Ridge warriors dropped their heavy weapons.
They began the long, quiet march back to their own territory, completely abandoning their treacherous alpha alone on the ice.
Craig sat entirely alone on his nervous horse.
He was visibly trembling with a pathetic mixture of stark terror and utter, complete humiliation.
He stared blankly at the massive, powerful silver wolf.
He stared at the incredible woman who would have happily handed him the entire world if he had only been man enough to see her true worth.
Through their powerful mating bond, Scott’s deep voice echoed warmly in Megan’s mind.
“Do we kill him, my love?”
Megan looked at the highly pathetic, violently shivering man sitting alone on the horse.
“No,” she replied calmly through the bond, turning her massive silver head completely away from him.
“Living with the absolute knowledge of what he threw away, and watching his stolen pack crumble because of it, is a far worse fate.”
Together, the highly feared winter wolf and the radiant silver Luna turned their backs on the broken, pathetic alpha.
They walked proudly back toward the massive Obsidian fortress.
The heavy timber gates securely closed firmly behind them.
They sealed the incredible warmth, the fierce loyalty, and the boundless love of the Deep River pack safely within.
They left the miserable traitor completely alone to freeze in the cold, bitter reality of his own making.
THE END
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