Chapter 1The Hero’s Daughter They Exiled Now Reborn
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At the Wolfen Academy’s annual ball, I stumbled upon a group of high-ranking Alphas cornering an Omega girl. They were trying to film her, to humiliate her.
I stepped in. I saved her.
A week later, she turned on me. She told everyone I was the one who bullied her. That I was the one blackmailing her with a video.
I was taken away by the Alliance Enforcers. I lost my spot in the elite Gamma Team.
The story blew up on the pack network. They even dragged my father’s name through the mud—a hero who died fighting vampires, now called a fraud.
Our family lives and dies by its honor.
Under the weight of it all, my mother wrote a letter. Then she killed herself on my father’s grave to prove my innocence.
Eventually, the charges were dropped. I was cleared.
But my family’s honor was destroyed. My pack had already cast me out.
I found the girl. I asked her why.
"He's the future Alpha of the Crimson Fang pack—the most powerful in the North. That night, he was just playing around with me," she said.
"He wants me. An Omega with nothing could become his Luna! You stood in my way. Don't you think that was your crime?"
Just then, the Crimson Fang's future Alpha wrapped his arm around her.
"Daughter of a war hero? So what? Dreamed of joining the Gamma Team?" he sneered. "Now you're just prey crushed under my boot."
His men swarmed me. Everything went black.
When I opened my eyes, I was back in that moment. Watching them corner her.
This time, I turned away.
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"Get off me! Who are you!"
"This is the academy ball! I'll call the Enforcers!"
The terrace door slammed open, shaking me from my daze. The frame rattled.
In the reflection of the glass doors opposite, a chaotic scene played out.
A tall Alpha had one foot on the railing, pinning down an Omega girl.
The dark air was thick with the scent of her terror. It frayed my nerves.
My wolf whimpered. Cold sweat beaded on my forehead.
I closed my eyes, the memory hitting me like a tidal wave.
Beneath my gown, I dug my nails into my thigh.
Pain. Real pain.
I wasn't dead. I was back. Right back at the beginning of the end. Memories of my first life hit me.
I was a candidate for the Gamma Enforcement Team. My final selection was just days away.
A position that stood for the highest honor in the werewolf Alliance.
Faced with such cruelty, I’d acted on instinct. I rushed onto the terrace and kicked the Alpha away.
He went down howling, then realized he’d been caught and vanished into the night.
The girl was trembling, but she managed to crawl over and thank me.
Pride swelled in my chest. I felt like a hero. I told her to go to the Enforcers. That catching him was the only way to truly be safe.
I even gave her a description of the Alpha.
Back at the academy, I told my friends.
They all said I was a true Gamma warrior. My dorm even threw a party for me.
I never imagined that one good deed would cost me my family. My life.
A week later, I was at the selection ceremony. She burst through the doors, screaming that I was the one who had attacked her.
She pointed a finger at me, accusing me of being the mastermind behind the assault.
She claimed I followed her afterward, threatening to post the naked video online if she ever told the Enforcers.
She collapsed, sobbing. She said she was forced into silence but found the courage to speak up now. To protect other Omegas.
She screamed right at me, her finger jabbing the air. "You monster! Wasn't tormenting me once enough? You had to blackmail me with that video, too!"
I was frozen. A statue.
There, on the Gamma Team's oath stage, I was taken away by fully armed Enforcers.