“Damn Omega! She brings shame to our pack and our Alpha!” One of the maids said disgustedly as she pulled my hair to the surface.
I breathed a sigh of relief when I got oxygen again. I narrowed my eyes and stared at Olivia, who was crouching in front of me.
“Olivia, what else do you want?”
Smack!
“Wow, you're getting bold! Are you getting more daring because Logan keeps giving you gifts?!”
I pressed my lips together, my teeth chattering from the cold pool water.
“Luna, Alpha always loves you. There's no point in you always being jealous of me!”
Olivia pulled my hair. "True, but his attention is always divided between you. Did you know that after the miscarriage of the twins, Logan searched the world for a witch to find another potion that would better ease your pain and heal you? He wanted to use the children to keep you by his side! Even your children would be returned to you! Even though he treated you cruelly, he still cared deeply for you!"
She glared, then whispered in a voice only the two of us could hear. “Fortunately, I replaced the potion with a poison that will paralyze you. You will be paralyzed and become a useless doll, slowly dying. If I killed you outright, Logan would definitely investigate the matter.”
She grinned cruelly.
My father’s chest tightened, filled with despair.
Olivia then stood up, glanced at the maid beside her, and turned to leave. The maid nodded, then announced in a loud voice.
“Mia Klein seduced Alpha Logan into betraying Luna, then seduced the heir to the Alpha Moonstone Pack and members of the Crimson Pack while the guests were still here. She wants to disgrace our pack. This shameless and disgusting whore must be drowned so she doesn't disgrace the pack and tarnish the honor of our Alpha. Drown her!”
One of the maid grabbed my head, submerging me in the water. I couldn't breathe. My chest hurt as water began to fill my lungs.
Was I going to die here?
‘Mia, don't give up! You have to stay alive!’ My wolf screamed in my mind, bringing my chaotic thoughts back to reality.
My eyes opened with determination. I shook my head with all my might, pulling away the maid's hand that was pressing down on my head, then scratching her with my wolf claws until she released her grip.
I tried to climb to the surface. I couldn't die here. I had to get out of this place that was dragging me into the abyss of death.
Suddenly, someone helped pull me up, allowing me to breathe again. I coughed, spitting water from my mouth.
“How dare you try to kill Mia!”
“Madam Freya!” The maids were terrified, then bowed in front of Madam Freya.
One of the maids replied anxiously. “Mia has tarnished the name of our pack. She seduced and slept with the heir to Alpha Moonstone, even though she is Alpha Logan's woman. Luna... Luna asked us to drown her as punishment. That is the punishment that should be given to a shameless adulteress.”
Madam Freya slapped the maid's face. “I raised Mia, I know exactly what she is like. She is not what you accuse her of! You... Go to the barracks to receive your punishment!”
The maids were terrified, then hurried away.
I felt Madam Freya cover me with her coat, hugging me as I shivered from the cold.
“Mia, my dear child... why have you become like this?”
I grabbed Madam Freya's hand and whispered pleadingly, “Madam Freya... ah, Auntie, please let me go. This place will consume me if I stay here any longer.”
“I know, everything will be fine...”
“No, no, nothing has been fine for the past five years. I...”
Madam Freya nodded reassuringly. “It's all my fault for forcing you to become a ‘breeder’ for the sake of the Alpha bloodline. You've suffered so much. But please hang in there. You still have to have a fifth child. I will make sure you get the best care and recover quickly so you can get pregnant again.”
I shivered, not because of the cold from being submerged in the icy pool, but because of Madam Freya’s soft, soothing words, which felt like a knife slicing through my heart.
In the end, Madam Freya was just like her son.
I could only bow my head, numb. I had given up on the people in this pack: Logan and even Madam Freya.
“Mia, do you understand?”
I forced a smile on my face.
“I understand, Madam Freya.”
Madam Freya smiled softly and stroked my hair. “Good girl, stay a little longer, the freedom I promised you, you will get it. I promise.”
Madam Freya escorted me to my room, then angrily called the maids.
“Call Olivia!”
Olivia was summoned immediately. I heard them arguing outside my room. I closed my eyes, ignoring their argument, and waited for the Moonlight Birth Fest to arrive.
But someone pulled me out of bed and choked my neck in the middle of the night.
My eyes opened, my breath almost cut off, then Logan released his grip and dragged me out of bed.
“Just because my mother is back, you complained to her and enjoyed having Olivia whipped in front of the servants? Mia, why are you so cruel! Olivia has always been good to you!”
Logan didn't give me a chance to defend myself and dragged me out of my room.
In the middle of the night, wearing only thin clothes and still shivering from the cold, I was dragged to the main building and forced to kneel in front of Olivia's bed.
“Apologize to Olivia now!”
