CHAPTER SIX
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SILVER’S POV
I sat alone in my room, robe damp against my skin, the scent of pine and smoke clinging to me like shame.
It still didn’t feel real.
The way they’d looked at me.
Like I was a stranger. Like I’d done something vile.
Like I had fallen.
The memory replayed over and over—the way Kaiden touched me, the way I felt the bond pull tight like a noose even when I wanted to deny it.
Having a mate was going to ruin a lot of things for me even before I was made Alpha, and to top it all, Kaiden Accus was THE mate, and then… them.
My father’s voice.
My mother’s eyes.
Sterling’s smug, satisfied silence.
I clenched the edge of the vanity table until my knuckles ached.
“Silver.” A knock. Followed by my mother’s voice. Calm. Cold. Controlled.
“Your father wants to speak with you. Now.”
I swallowed hard, forcing my legs to move.
I knew what he wanted to discuss with me.
My future after such an embarrassing moment.
The moment I stepped into his office, I knew.
The atmosphere had changed.
My father wasn’t just disappointed.
He was done.
“Sit,” he said without looking up from the scroll he was reviewing.
I sat on the edge of the leather chair, heart thumping like I was on trial. My mother stood near the window, arms crossed, lips thin.
No one spoke for a moment.
Then—
“I trusted you,” my father said finally, his voice heavy.
“You were raised to carry the weight of this pack. You were raised to protect our name. I didn’t train you to be a woman of loose morals. Silver.”
“I didn’t do anything—”
“You were found in the arms of a male
” My mother cut in sharply, her gaze slicing across the room.
“Half naked. Intimate. With Kaiden Accus, your brother's best friend. What were you thinking, Silver? Compromising your virtue for pleasure?”
I felt sick to my stomach.
No matter what i said, they would never believe me.
They had seen me, and even if Kaiden and I weren't doing anything, from their angle, we had seem intimate.
The Elders saw this also.
“It wasn’t like that,” I said quickly.
“He—he’s my mate. I didn’t know until—”
“You shifted,” Father interrupted.
It was as if Father didn't hear when I mentioned that Kaiden was my mate, or he didn’t believe me and thought it was an excuse to get out of the situation.
“The most sacred moment in a wolf’s life. And your first instinct was to follow a male into the shadows for pleasure?”
I opened my mouth. Then, I closed it.
What could I say? That the bond overrode every rational thought in my body? That I didn’t ask for it? That I didn’t even want Kaiden?
Kaiden hadn't even said anything.
Any normal wolf would declare his mate in front of anyone.
He didn't, and no matter what I say, they won't believe me until Kaiden accepts me as his mate.
I was ruined.
My voice cracked.
“He set me up.”
There. I said it.
Sterling. Kaiden. The whole thing.
I never knew Sterling would go to these lengths just to bring me down.
And my fated mate joined in the setup.
But my father just shook his head.
“We’re not interested in excuses,” Mother said coldly.
I stared at them, throat tightening.
“You think I wanted this? Do you think I would want to have relations with a man just after I shifted? After all my training and hard work to get to where i am now?”
“You compromised your image.” Father said. “And in our world, perception is everything, and you know that.”
“I’m still your daughter,” I said, voice trembling.
“Still the firstborn. Still the strongest—”
“You were,” he said.
“Now, you're a scandal.”
I felt the c***k in my chest widen.
“What does this mean?” I whispered.
He looked at me then, eyes tired.
“It means you are no longer in line to inherit the Alpha title.”
The words hit harder than I thought they would.
Like being stabbed in the chest—but the blade was cold. I couldn’t even feel the blood.
“But… you can’t—”
“I can, and I have.” His voice was steel now. “Sterling will be announced as the new heir soon when the dust is settled. If it were only your mother and I that caught you, it would have been a family matter. But the Elders saw this, i cannot compromise the pack’s image to favour you.”
I blinked, struggling to breathe.
“Sterling? Can't you see that he planned all this? Why is it that he knew where Kaiden and I were? How did he rally you all to follow him to catch us? Can't you see?”
The same Sterling who barely made it to training. Who skipped meetings. Who talked more than he listened.
That Sterling?
“He’s the only other option.” my mother said.
“And you’ve proven you can’t handle the responsibility.”
“I was set up!” I snapped, standing now.
“This is his doing—Kaiden’s, too! Can’t you see that?”
My mother stepped forward, eyes sharp.
“You made yourself easy to discredit, Silver. That is your failure. Not theirs.”
My chest heaved.
“So that’s it? One mistake, and I’m stripped of everything?”
“Not a mistake,” Father said.
“A weakness. Alphas don't have any weakness, especially not s****l weakness.”
Silence fell again.
The kind that screams.
I stared at them. The people who were supposed to be my pillars. My blood. My pack.
And I realized—
I was alone.
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I left the office in silence. Not a single tear. Not a single word.
Outside, I could hear the whispers.
They were already talking.
Already judging.
They were already deciding who I was and what I wasn’t.
It must have already spread, and it was going to keep spreading.
Kaiden’s face flashed in my mind.
I knew he’d do it. I just never thought he'd follow through.
And Sterling...
Of course, he was behind it.
That smug bastard probably drank a toast to my downfall the moment I walked out of the woods.
My throat burned.
Not from tears.
From rage.
I wouldn’t give them the satisfaction of breaking down.
Not yet.
But I promised myself one thing:
They may have taken the title.
They may have turned my name into a stain.
But they would never forget me.
Not when I rise from this.
I won't give up my title so easily.
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