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"Oh, come on, Summer, stay put! We can't have you showing yourself like this to our guests," Rhys urged, a trace of frustration creeping into his tone.
"Rhys, it's your big birthday party tonight!" Summer pleaded, trying to reason with him.
"Are you incapable of understanding a simple request, huh?" Rhys grumbled, his tone firm. "Do you want another torture? Or do you want me to lock you in the basement again?" Rhys smirked, which made the cold run down her spine.
Summer shook her head hard.
Her body was already tired from all the torture she had been subjected to over the past two days.
" I’m your husband. My word is the law, Summer!”
"But…I have the right to be there…” Summer protested.
"Say that again!" Rhys screamed. He tugged her hair roughly, causing her to wince.
“Listen here, you bitch....” Rhys whispered threateningly in her ear.
“I can’t have my guests, especially all the Alpha’s pack leaders, seeing you.”
“You’re my disgrace. A worthless barren wife!”
“And because of you, I didn’t get crowned again this year! It’s all your fault!”
“Rhys, there’s still hope. The doc said that I-,”
"Shut the f**k up, Summer!"
"Or else you'll regret it!" Rhys squeezed her chin so tightly that her jaw throbbed in pain.
"Rhys, darling, we should start getting ready," Luna Jocelyn, Rhys' mother, interjected, watching the scene unfold with a cold, contemptuous smile.
"Hold on, Mom..." Rhys released Summer, shoving her hard onto the cool granite floor below.
"Today's your special day," Luna Jocelyn reassured her son with a pat on his shoulder, her eyes full of disdain as she glanced down at Summer.
"Don't let your mood be ruined because of this stupid wench," Luna Jocelyn smiled warmly at her son as she wiped Rhys' sweat from his forehead.
"Mom..."
"Rhys, we don't want to be late for the party starting in half an hour, right?" Luna Jocelyn snapped.
"Okay, Mom… sorry, can you help me give her some medicine? Her wolf is weak right now, and she won't be able to cure herself," Rhys said and walked out of the room at a brisk pace, without looking or feeling sorry for his wife at all.
"Don't worry, darling. I will take care of this b***h," Luna Jocelyn said, turning towards Summer with a grin.
Summer now lay on the floor, hands bound, face bruised, and back bleeding. Luna Jocelyn walked over to her. She then took out a small bottle from the pocket of her fur coat.
She chuckled, "Drink this; Rhys doesn't want you dead yet. “
"I will not be able to take it if you do not untie me, Luna," Summer responded.
"I'll untie you if you promise to behave and not cause any trouble, got it?" Luna Jocelyn said, looking down at Summer's battered face.
Summer nodded silently, unable to speak with her screams trapped in her throat.
Luna Jocelyn said as she untied her, "Honestly, I regret letting my late husband pair my precious son with a shameless woman like you. I think Rhys will have to get rid of you sooner or later," she chuckled before leaving the room.
"Servant! Lock the room, and don't let her out!" Luna Jocelyn ordered before departing, leaving Summer alone in her pain.
The echoes of Luna Jocelyn's heels reverberated in Summer's ears as she lay on the cold floor.
Tears streamed down her face as she slowly rose, made her way to the bed, enduring the ache from Rhys' punishment all over her body.
***
Summer Yversen was the first daughter of the late Beta Alfonzo from his first wife. Her mother passed away right after she was born. Not long after that, Summer's dad met his second mate. Life’s been tough for her ever since, what with her stepmum and stepsisters moving in. Her dad’s gone all cold towards her. He treated Summer like a total outsider and put her stepmother and stepsisters first.
One day, the pack was attacked by The Rogues, when Alpha Reuben was away. And they struggled to defeat the attackers. The situation was critical, so Beta Alfonzo instructed the pack members to go to the other pack.
Summer remembers that night as her eighteenth birthday, but her father left her in the pack alone because he prioritized his stepdaughter to be rescued first. And by midnight, her father never came back for her. That turned out to be the day her father was killed for saving Rhys Glomarian, the only son of Alpha Reuben.
After her father's departure, Alpha Reuben hooked her up with Rhys just as his promise to his Beta.
A year later, Rhys finished up at the Wolf Military Academy, and they got married. And just four months after they tied the knot, Alpha Reuben died under mysterious circumstances.
Since then, the Alpha throne in the Fang Forest Pack has been vacant since the rules say only an Alpha with an heir can be throned.
Rhys always blamed Summer and called her a barren wolf, for after three years of marriage, they never got offspring, as she kept having multiple miscarriages.
***
"Miss Yversen,” a soft knock on the balcony glass door stunned Summer.
"I am here, as per your request."
"Leila? Do you have the key?" Summer whispered behind the glass door.
"Yes."
"The party has started," Leila explained.
"Open now, I need to do something. These guests must know that Rhys has committed a crime against me."
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