Chapter 2The Hero’s Daughter They Exiled Now Reborn

My friends, once so proud of me, were now called accomplices.

Other students who didn’t know me were outraged. They posted the video of my arrest on the pack network.

"GAMMA CANDIDATE BULLIES OMEGA." The scandal exploded.

Being a war hero's daughter and a future Gamma just made me look like a two-faced monster.

People who were jealous of me crawled out of the woodwork. They spread rumors that I’d always been violent. That I used my strength to bully weaker Omega pups in our pack.

A few so-called "witnesses" even came forward to back up the lies.

They didn’t stop with me. They smeared my father’s name. Said he wasn't a war hero who died fighting vampires. Just a lie our family made up for glory.

It all happened so fast. The academy cut ties immediately, expelling me to save its own reputation.

Years of brutal training, gone. I was a disgrace.

Our family valued honor above life itself.

My mother believed me. But she had no power, no way to find the truth.

She left a single letter and took her own life at my father's memorial.

She swore my innocence to the Moon Goddess with her final breath.

A hero's widow, driven to suicide by lies. A hero, desecrated. The scandal finally got the Alliance High Council’s attention.

A special investigation was launched. The best lawyers came to see me. They cleared my name.

But my mother was gone forever. My future was gone.

Even with the official ruling, no one believed I was innocent.

They whispered it was just my "fake hero" father's family, buying my freedom.

I wore a mask to hide my face, working as a waitress in a neutral-zone hotel.

And one night, I found myself serving at her mating ceremony.

A giant screen showed her, beaming, on the arm of a man. Her new mate was the Alpha from that night.

I couldn't let it go. I stormed into her private room and demanded to know why she framed me.

She looked at me with a blank, innocent stare. As if she’d never seen me before.

Finally, after I reminded her, she remembered.

She rolled her eyes. "He's the future Alpha of the Crimson Fang. He was just having some fun that night."

"He chose me. An Omega with nothing could become his Luna! You got in my way. Don't you think you're the one who's guilty?"

Then, the Crimson Fang heir appeared. He pulled her into his arms and sneered at me.

"Daughter of a war hero? So what? Thought you could make the Gamma Team? Now you're just prey for me to crush."

His men rushed me. I lost consciousness.

So my sense of justice was a crime in their eyes?

When I opened my eyes again, I was back at the academy ball.

I downed a glass of liquor, collapsed into a chair, and closed my eyes. Her cries slowly faded into the distance.

Besides, she had liked it, hadn't she?

Sunlight streamed through the windows. Figures moved around me.

My academy instructor was shaking my shoulder, trying to wake me.

"Amelia? Amelia, did you hear anything last night?"

I clutched the bottle, my words slurred. "Sorry... what did you say?"

She just sighed and walked away.

Last time, I told her to go to the Enforcers. She didn't. Then she said I threatened her not to.

This time, I wasn't lifting a finger to help.