I Was Just a Living Incubator to My Alpha

I was once the pack's strongest beta. I broke my wolf saving my mate, Alpha Damon. I lost my hearing. I lost our mind link.

But Damon never treated me like I was broken. He learned sign language for me. He made sure the whole pack respected me as their Luna.

Our daughter was sweet and perfect. She always showed me how much she loved me.

Then one day, it happened. My hearing returned. The mind link snapped back into place.

I was so excited. I wanted to tell Damon and Lily at the full moon ceremony.

Instead, I heard them. Lily, my precious daughter, talking to Damon on our link.

"Daddy, the cripple is still carrying my brother. When can we bring Momma Elara home? I want her to be our real Luna!"

That’s when I knew. My daughter. The son in my womb. They were never mine. They belonged to Elara.

Elara was a half-breed omega. She couldn't carry an Alpha’s pups. I was just a surrogate. A living incubator.

Damon fed me poison to make me barren. Then he used black magic to implant his lover's child inside me.

I trembled. Tears streamed down my face.

Damon betrayed me. I would burn his entire world to ash. Then, I would vanish from his life forever.

The pack’s Full Moon Festival was in full swing.

I cradled my six-month belly, joy filling my heart.

Five years. A world of dead silence. It was finally over tonight. The curse was broken. My hearing was back. Even the mind link worked again.

My mate, Alpha Damon, didn’t know. Our daughter, Lily, didn’t know either.

I couldn’t wait to see the surprise on their faces. My mind flashed back five years. He was cradling my blood-soaked body. He swore to the Moon Goddess he would never leave me.

My eyes found them across the crowd.

Damon signed to me tenderly, his eyes overflowing with love. "My love, you look beautiful tonight."

A familiar ache of love tightened my chest. Even when I was “the deaf one,” he never forgot to praise me. This was the man I loved with my whole soul.

The next second, a voice stabbed through me.

“Daddy, the cripple is still carrying my brother. When can we bring Momma Elara home?”

Lily’s childish voice came through the mind link. It was sharp, clear, and filled with a venom far beyond her years.

“I’m sick of this deaf-mute monster. She’s a total embarrassment in front of the other pups. She can't even use the mind link. How can a worthless creature like her be our Luna?”

The words hit me like stones. Cripple. Deaf-mute monster. Worthless.

Was this really my daughter?

My blood ran cold. An invisible hand gripped my throat.

“Lily…”

This was the daughter I carried for ten months. The daughter I nearly died giving birth to after my injuries.

Across the way, he stroked Lily's head, a doting smile on his face.

But the words