Branded a Traitor, My Alpha Went Mad

As my body was pulled from the desolate marsh, Kian, the Alpha I had been mated to for ten years, was in the middle of his Mating Ceremony with his Beta, Sienna.

My rotting corpse was mangled beyond recognition by layers of different wolfsbane poisons, my very bones stained black by the toxin's deep penetration.

Even the pack's eldest healer retched at the sight of it.

But, Kian, seemingly unfazed by the gruesome discovery, exchanged vows with Sienna before the Moon Altar.

They received the blessings of the entire pack, while no one remembered me, even though I had only been missing for three months.

It wasn't until my brother Ronan, the pack's Head Enforcer, began his investigation and found a shattered moonstone deep within my skeletal remains.

"Ronan... if anyone can hear this... the Rogue Alpha has infiltrated..."

The fragmented, static-laced voice that emanated from it made my brother freeze.

When the truth was finally revealed, I was proven to be not the traitor who eloped with a Rogue Alpha, but the hero who died protecting the pack.

And as for that Alpha who always looked down on me? He completely lost his mind.

As my body was pulled from the desolate marsh, Kian, the Alpha I had been mated to for ten years, was in the middle of his Mating Ceremony with his Beta, Sienna.

My rotting corpse was mangled beyond recognition by layers of different wolfsbane poisons, my very bones stained black by the toxin's deep penetration.

Even the pack's eldest healer retched at the sight of it.

But, Kian, seemingly unfazed by the gruesome discovery, exchanged vows with Sienna before the Moon Altar.

They received the blessings of the entire pack, while no one remembered me, even though I had only been missing for three months.

It wasn't until my brother Ronan, the pack's Head Enforcer, began his investigation and found a shattered moonstone deep within my skeletal remains.

"Ronan... if anyone can hear this... the Rogue Alpha has infiltrated..."

The fragmented, static-laced voice that emanated from it made my brother freeze.

When the truth was finally revealed, I was proven to be not the traitor who eloped with a Rogue Alpha, but the hero who died protecting the pack.

And as for that Alpha who always looked down on me? He completely lost his mind.

...

Ronan's body trembled violently at the sound of that familiar voice.

A hardened enforcer whose hands were made for guns and blades, he now found he couldn't even grip the tiny moonstone.

He desperately searched the fragmented message for more clues.

The moonstone flickered with a faint, pale light, but the voice was garbled and indistinct.

There was nothing else.

"No, it can't be her."

Ronan stared fixedly at the indescribable mass of rotten flesh on the autopsy table.

Her once slender, long fingers were now just ten bloody stumps.

The nails, along with the bones beneath, had been ripped out.

The body was swollen and deformed, the flesh