I chewed my fingertips in anxiety, trying to rember if he had seen my back.
It was sothing I did when I was anxious and scared.
The slap ca unexpectedly.
First, my hand was smacked off, and then a slap was thrown on my face.
Because of how weak I was from my assault, I fell to the floor.
"You idiot!" Luna Maria scread. "My daughter does not chew her fingertips like a goat! If you want to act like her, you better do it wisely."
I could feel the blood in between my legs begin to drip down my leg, and my face seed dizzy.
"Stand up!" She ordered .
As I struggled, I fell on the floor again.
Everything seed blurry.
"She is such a clumsy fool!" Luna Maria snapped. "Look at her! She can't even stand on her two legs. She will give the excuse that it was because she was raped! As if she is the first person to be raped!"
I looked up and saw the anger in Alpha Bale's eyes.
No, I couldn't let him be angry with .
I would sha and disappoint him. I wanted to prove that I was not useless and that I was more than a slave. I was his daughter.
I wanted to make him proud of .
So I placed my hand on the wall, and with all my strength, even though my head was spinning and my heart was racing, I got up to my feet.
Then I looked down at my hands in sha. "No, he did not see the marks on my back."
There was silence.
"It's good he didn't see it." My father warned. "If he had, then it would have been all your fault. It is your fault that you're a latent wolf. You can't heal! If you could heal, then none of this would happen."
I choked down on the tears gathering in my eyes.
"Make sure he does not see those marks on your back!" He warned . "Urma said they have a week to disappear. So you better do sothing smart about it!"
I nodded hastily.
Then soone ca in, and my father turned to see them.
I saw Luna Maria looking out through the window.
I knew she was grieving for the loss of her son.
I walked up to her and touched her shoulder.
"Your majesty. I am so sorry for your loss." I said. "I can't understand the pain you're feeling. Abel didn't deserve that."
She froze, and then she turned to face .
Her face was written with complete shock, and then it screwed up in rage.
She flung my hand off her shoulder.
"Don't touch , you prostitute!" She scread.
I was taken aback.
I only ant to tell her how sorry I was. Why was she so angry?
"What is it?" I heard my father ask from behind.
"This bastard of yours just told why Xaden was furious when he left the room." She said. "She isn't a virgin."
I gasped.
"She has been sleeping around with n in the pack. Sothing my daughter, who she has been an impostor of, would never do!" She scread.
"That's not true." I managed to speak up.
But then the slap ca against my face.
It was my father who hit ; he had never hit once in my life.
But Luna Maria had just lied, and he had believed her bluntly.
She had lied because I told her that I was sorry for the loss of her son.
Was it guilt? She had always been so bad to , and now I was being kind to her.
I felt my head spin. "You can't even close your legs! And you're here crying that he raped you!"
This was from my father.
I began to weep.
Then, a shadow was in the doorway.
"What's going on here?"
It was Xaden.
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