Wolfsbane for the Alpha's Daughter
I was raised to be Alpha Corbin Vance's most obedient daughter.
When my parents found me in a den of Rogues in the Fringe Territories and brought me back to the Silvercrest Pack, my adopted sister, Bianca Croft, began to taunt me.
"I thought you'd surely been killed by those Rogues! I never thought you'd make it back to the pack in one piece! Some wolves have all the luck. Why don't you just die already?"
My eyes were hollow as I nodded.
Then, I reached into the leather sheath I carried, pulled out a ceremonial silver dagger, and plunged it into my neck without hesitation.
My parents were horrified.
They scrambled to throw the dagger aside, but my brother, Alaric Vance, remained completely unfazed.
"You just love the attention, don't you? What makes you think you can still be the Alpha's daughter? You might as well drink some wolfsbane and die!"
Fine.
I grabbed a vial of wolfsbane and downed it in one gulp.
Alaric was terrified and rushed me to the pack's healing center.
When the healer told him I would have died if he’d been two minutes later, the color drained from Alaric's face.
While I was hospitalized, Bianca showed off the new tattoo Alaric had gotten for her, a desecration of the mate mark I had once designed for him.
She pretended to fall, and her friends pointed at me, shouting, "If anything happens to Bianca, you'll pay with your life!"
Pay with my life? Fine.
Without a second thought, I pulled a decorative silver blade from the wall and slit my throat.
My parents walked in just in time to see it.
Their screams tore through the air.
"Call the healer! Quickly!"
Alaric tried to staunch the bleeding with trembling hands.
Before my eyes fluttered shut, blood sprayed across their panicked faces and the ceiling.
Isn't this what you wanted? For me to die? Aren't you enjoying the show?