The Alpha's Cruel Game

The shewolves in Shadow Pack all said I was lucky. Alpha Erwin Keller had doted on me alone for eight years.

However, the same werewolf who swore he would only ever want to be with me gave me two 'gifts' the day I brought him home to meet my mom, Katie Spencer, to discuss our marking ceremony.

The first gift was tying Katie to a chair and having his Beta rip her clothes apart right in front of me.

The second gift was deliberately opening the door and letting my dad, Felix Spencer, who had already lost his wolf spirit, run outside.

There was pouring rain outside. Felix ran to the edge of a cliff and fell over.

Katie was still tied to the chair. She watched Felix die right in front of her.

She snapped the ropes like a mad wolf and jumped off the cliff to die with Felix.

In a single night, I lost both my parents.

I kneeled in a pool of blood and asked Erwin why he did all this.

He pinched my chin and sneered. "Lara, did you really think I loved you? I came for revenge!"

It turned out that during the territorial war ten years ago, his dad died saving mine, and his mom took her own life afterward.

Erwin spent eight years carefully weaving a lie of love. It was all so I could experience what it felt like to lose my entire family.

Later, Erwin kept me trapped by his side and tortured me. I tried to kill myself 99 times. He saved me all 99 times.

He said we would torture each other until we grew old.

What he didn't know was that ten years ago, when his wolf spirit was completely destroyed and he was barely alive, I was the one who begged an Alpha from another pack to place a curse on me so that he could live.

In return, I only had eight years left to live.

Now, I was seven days away from my own impending doom!

Erwin Keller sat on a fur couch. Three young shewolves sat around him.

They were my cousin, Madison Browne, my colleague, Cynthia Tyrell, and my best friend, Mikaela Gaston.

They all had on revealing fur dresses, and they were all smiling as if eager to please him.

"Back already?" Erwin glanced up. "Perfect timing. The game just started."

I dug my fingernails into my palms.

Over the past few months, Erwin had slept with every shewolf close to me just to watch me fall apart.

Now every single one of them was hopelessly in love with him.

"In one minute." Erwin set down his wineglass. His voice was cold. "Whoever makes her cry first becomes my permanent bedmate."

The shewolves' eyes lit up. They ran toward me.

Madison was the first. She lunged forward and slashed my face with a silver blade.

The searing pain spread across my skin, and suddenly I recalled her birthday last year. Madison