The Demon Goddess He Betrayed A Heart's Final SacrificeChapter 1
When I returned to the pack from my travels, all I found of my master was a heap of ruined flesh.
Every bone in his body was gone. His Wolf Core, ripped clean from his chest. My senior pack brothers and sisters were nowhere to be found.
Matron Thornwell sat before his corpse, her aged voice calling out to me.
"Lynara, your master traded his life for every ranked wolf's ascension to Celestial status. You should go report to the Sovereign Grounds too."
Only then did I learn the truth. Fenris Voss, Supreme Alpha of the Realm Council, ruler of all Three Territories, had needed a Wolf Core to graft a werewolf physiology onto his mortal mate. He'd chosen my master. The one with the strongest spiritual affinity. A Moonheart Core, the rarest kind in existence.
In exchange for allowing every ranked wolf of the Dawnveil Pack to receive Celestial Rank, he had ripped every bone and sinew from my master's body and torn the Wolf Core from his living chest.
I've had a flaw for as long as I can remember. I don't cry. I don't laugh. The whole pack called me cold-blooded.
Now, staring at the mangled remains of the man who had saved my life and raised me as his own pup, I was still calm. Somewhere deep below my ribs, in the hollow space where my wolf usually stirred, there was only silence. Not grief. Not rage. Just silence, vast and flat and wrong.
"Matron, did Master agree to this willingly?"
Her eyes reddened instantly.
"Fenris Voss is the last Primordial Alpha in existence. What he says goes. We never had a choice."
I gave a quiet "oh."
"If Master didn't agree to it willingly, then Fenris Voss deserves to die."
The Matron seized my arm, her voice tight with worry. "Lynara, before your master drew his last breath, he told all of you to take care of yourselves. Don't throw your life away picking a fight with a Primordial Alpha."
I pulled my wrist free, lifted my gaze toward the Sovereign Grounds far above the mountain line, and smiled faintly.
"Matron, Master said not to fight a Primordial Alpha. He never said anything about killing one."
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