In the Shadow of Lies
I was five months along, carrying the pup of my fiancé, Ryan Hebert—
a Beta from the Darkmoon Pack.
On the day of our marking ceremony,Ryan abandoned me.
He turned and marked Daisy instead.
She was with pup too.
He declared that the pup growing inside me wasn’t his,
that it was a bastard of unknown origin.
What was even crueler,
in front of the entire pack,
he accused my father of colluding with outsiders,
calling him a traitor to the Darkmoon bloodline.
My father collapsed from a heart attack at the entrance of the banquet hall.
I miscarried on the spot.
Wearing my ceremonial gown,
I knelt in a pool of blood,
begging him to save us.
But he looked at me with nothing but ice in his eyes,
while holding Daisy protectively in his arms.
“Daisy can’t handle stress.
Stay away from her.”
Later, it was my childhood friend, Andrew Rasmussen, who saved me.
He brought in the most skilled wolf healers for my father,
and stayed by my side, night and day.
A week later, my father had another heart attack.
Before he passed, his only wish was for me to be protected.
Andrew knelt by the bedside,
and solemnly swore to my father’s lifeless body
that he would marry me,that he would protect me for the rest of my life.
And I believed him.
After the funeral,
I ended things with Ryan and married Andrew instead.
But five years later,
I overheard a conversation between Ryan and Andrew.
“If Eleanor ever finds out that it was you and me who traded her purity for Daisy’s happiness on the day of the ceremony…
do you think she’d still love you?”
So Andrew’s love was a lie too.
They had always loved Daisy.
And after I finally walked away,
why did the man who destroyed me
lose his mind trying to win me back?