Chapter 1 Rejection
Katheryn’s POV:
After the truck stopped, I rolled onto a dead body. But I was too weak to open my eyes.
I had been tortured in prison. My fingernails had been pulled out, and my body was covered with wounds from whipping. My wolf was dormant because they had force-fed wolf poison to me. Therefore, my wounds could not heal.
When the door of the truck opened, there were miserable screams. And then, I heard bodies rubbing against the ground when being dragged away. Suddenly, a pair of hands grabbed me and threw me to the ground. When I hit the hard ground with a thud, my forehead immediately bled, and the blood soon flew into my mouth. Now, I felt like a dead body.
Then, a tall man in a black suit walked toward us and ordered, “Take these female prisoners down for execution.”
After a pause, he reluctantly added, “Leave Katheryn Taylor here.”
His voice sounded familiar. Although I could no longer smell his scent, I still remembered what an affectionate couple we used to be.
He was my Mate Simon Ford, the Alpha of Cold Crow Pack. And we had long gotten engaged.
A glimmer of hope rose in my heart. Since I had been charged with murdering Amy House and gone to jail, I had never seen him. He must have found out the truth and come here to save me!
I tried to stand up but didn’t have any strength. When a soldier walked to me and fiercely kicked my lower abdomen, I gasped in pain. Then, he viciously yelled, “Hurry up and stand up, b*tch!”
The soldier pulled me up and grabbed my neck with his hands to force me to raise my head.
I smelled a bloody smell and stench from myself, so I was too ashamed to face Simon now. But I still slowly opened my eyes.
Simon was handsome as ever, but hatred and disgust distorted his face. When he condescendingly looked at me, the look in his eyes was cold and ruthless. Although he was right before me, I felt he was far away.
I suddenly felt heartbroken and sadly said, “Simon, I didn’t kill anyone.”
He coldly said, “The evidence is solid. Amy was supposed to marry the future Alpha of Night Thunder Pack! How can I explain to them now?”
Hearing this, I knew he was not here to save me. So, I said in a sobbing voice, “You are my Mate! How can you distrust me? How could you allow them to beat and torture me? Don’t you feel heartbroken?”
Simon looked as if he had been slapped when saying through gritted teeth, “You deserve it! Night Thunder is powerful and terrifying. If we don’t catch the murderer, they will destroy our pack.”
“But I didn’t kill anyone!”
“Stop lying, you vicious woman!”
Hearing this, I sobbed. And his reaction became the last straw that crushed me.
I had firmly believed he would stand by my side even if everyone else did not believe me! And the belief had helped me go through those tortures. However, he believed I was the murderer!
“Honey, why are you still talking nonsense with her? She killed my sister! You promised to punish her severely!”
Suddenly, a slim woman with long blond hair came over. Seeing me, she covered her nose and lifted her dress in disgust.
I knew her. She was Lucy House, Amy’s younger sister.
But now, I looked at her in a daze. She had called Simon “honey” and was snuggling in his arms while intimately holding his arm.
What was going on? Why was she here?
I thought of the reason but didn’t want to believe or admit it. When I looked at Simon, his face was cold.
He condescendingly looked at me and harshly said, “I ordered people to pull out her nails and force-feed wolf poison to her. Her wolf will become increasingly weak until it dies!”
Hearing this, I felt like countless knives were stabbing my heart. I looked at him in disbelief because I couldn’t believe my ears. So, it was him that had ordered people to torture me!
“Simon, how can you be so heartless and vicious?”
He replied with his eyes full of disgust, “You are more vicious than me.”
Lucy bitterly looked at me and contemptuously said, “You are jealous and vicious! You killed my sister and caused trouble for our pack, so you deserve those punishments!”
I stretched out my neck and screamed, “No, I didn’t!”
I would never admit the guilty because I had not killed anyone!
“You’re stubborn! But even if you don’t admit it, you will spend the next three years in prison.”
Thinking of the torture in the prison, I shook my head in fear, “No, Simon! I am your Mate and the future Luna! I…”
Hearing my words, Lucy sarcastically smiled. Simon put his arm around her waist and said, “Stop dreaming! I have decided to marry Lucy! She will be the Luna of our pack!”
I was so shocked that I froze. I was terrified of what he was going to say, so I screamed in my mind, “No! My Moon Goddess, please don’t let him do this to me!”
But Simon didn’t stop speaking. He put on a sullen face and maliciously said, “I am the Alpha of Cold Crow Pack. And I reject Katheryn Taylor as my Mate.”
