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After My Alpha Framed Me for Bearing a Mongrel Pup, I Became the Lycan King's Mate
Novelix
Completed
At my daughter's eighth birthday party, my Alpha husband publicly accused her of not being his own child. Before I could even get a word out in defense, my adoptive parents slapped me across the face. Meanwhile Liane—the girl my adoptive parents had just claimed as their long-lost biological daughter—was curled up in my husband's arms, her eyes as innocent as if she'd been the one wronged beyond measure. "I'm so sorry, Willa. I only mentioned in passing that Mia doesn't look much like Elias. I never imagined he'd actually go to the werewolf clinic for a bloodline verification…" "And I never imagined Mia really was the pup you'd conceived with some other wolf." Once the news spread, the entire pack was calling me a whore. Even my daughter, Mia, was branded a mongrel. Only later did I discover that the bloodline test had been forged. All of it was a play Elias had staged in collusion with my adoptive parents—simply because they believed I, the adopted lone wolf, had stolen the affection meant for Liane, and deserved to pay for it. I didn't cry. I didn't scream. I calmly dissolved the mate bond with Elias. But what they didn't know was that the moment I turned my back on him, I signed a mate bond with the Lycan King.
Chapters (3)
第1章
At my daughter's eighth birthday party, my Alpha husband publicly accused her of not being his own child.
Before I could even get a word out in defense, my adoptive parents slapped me across the face.
Meanwhile Liane—the girl my adoptive parents had just claimed as their long-lost biological daughter—was curled up in my husband's arms, her eyes as innocent as if she'd been the one wronged beyond measure.
"I'm so sorry, Willa. I only mentioned in passing that Mia doesn't look much like Elias. I never imagined he'd actually go to the werewolf clinic for a bloodline verification…"
"And I never imagined Mia really was the pup you'd conceived with some other wolf."
Once the news spread, the entire pack was calling me a whore. Even my daughter, Mia, was branded a mongrel.
Only later did I discover that the bloodline test had been forged. All of it was a play Elias had staged in collusion with my adoptive parents—simply because they believed I, the adopted lone wolf, had stolen the affection meant for Liane, and deserved to pay for it.
I didn't cry. I didn't scream. I calmly dissolved the mate bond with Elias.
But what they didn't know was that the moment I turned my back on him, I signed a mate bond with the Lycan King.
…
Now I stood outside the door, listening to the conversation between Elias and his closest friend inside.
"You forged the bloodline report through a doctor just to vent Liane's grievances? Publicly branded your mate a cheater, denounced your own pup as a mongrel… Aren't you afraid mother and daughter will leave you for good?"
Elias didn't sound the least bit remorseful.
"What's there to be afraid of? Willa's adoptive parents knew all about the forgery from the start. They even helped me set it up."
"That outsider adopted stray took up twenty-plus years of pack resources and affection that should've been Liane's. Once Liane's resentment settles, I'll just re-sign the mate bond with Willa. Problem solved."
"Willa is soft and docile by nature. She's used to leaning on my Alpha aura. Even with the bond severed, she'll just sit obediently and wait for me to come back."
I clenched my fists until my whole body trembled with rage.
Then I heard Elias give a quiet laugh.
"Fine. I'll just play dumb."
"If anyone finds out the bloodline report was faked, I'll say the doctor made a mistake. Willa won't make a scene—guaranteed."
I braced myself against the wall as a spasm of pain twisted through my chest.
A few hours earlier, Mia had come sobbing home from the pup academy. The uniform she normally treasured was smeared with mud, and one of her knees was scraped raw, weeping blood.
I'd called her teacher at once, but the woman's voice was cold and cutting. She flatly ordered us to file transfer papers.
"Ma'am, do I really need to spell it out? The rumors about your affair with an outsider have spread through the entire werewolf community. Even the pups at school are calling Mia a mongrel. It's affecting the atmosphere of the academy!"
"The other pups' parents have jointly petitioned the elders. We simply cannot keep her here any longer."
When I hung up, I held my trembling daughter close, my chest aching so violently I could barely bear it.
Mia lifted her tear-streaked little face and asked me:
"Mommy… if I really was Daddy's, would he… love me again? Would everyone accept me?"
It was that quiet, humble hope of hers that had made me swallow every last shred of pride and come to Elias, begging him to go with me to the clinic for a retest.
I had never dreamed I'd hear this vicious, self-serving scheme through the door.
To him, forging a public bloodline report and destroying my reputation—and my child's—was nothing more than a trivial affair.
Every insult and humiliation Mia and I had endured was just part of a performance he'd staged to please another she-wolf.
Even the adoptive parents who had raised me for twenty years had willingly become accomplices in that performance.
I closed my eyes in anguish.
The sound of the two men chatting and laughing inside was unbearable.
Elias's friend still couldn't bring himself to let it go. He murmured his concerns:
"But Mia… I saw a bunch of pups crowding around her and calling her a mongrel with my own eyes. She ran out of the school gate crying the whole way. Can you really stand to let her suffer like this?"
"What if she finds out the truth when she grows up and refuses to acknowledge you as her father?"
Elias's voice was thick with certainty and arrogance.
"Pups have short memories. A little grievance is nothing."
"Besides, she's my flesh and blood. Werewolf bloodline bonds can't be severed. She won't disown me entirely."
I dug my nails into my palm until they broke skin, but I felt no pain.
The old me would have thrown open the door and confronted him.
But this time, I simply turned around, calm. This mate bond—I would end it. No matter what.
第2章
I packed a few changes of clothes and took Mia back to my adoptive parents' home.
Once, every time I returned, my parents would come smiling to the door before I'd even stepped inside.
But today, my adoptive mother opened the door with undisguised loathing in her eyes.
"What are you doing back here?"
"Mom… I don't have anywhere to stay right now. I was hoping Mia and I could spend the night."
She let out a cold laugh. "This isn't a den for taking in outsider mongrels. Get out."
My chest seized. Mia shrank timidly behind me.
"Grandpa! Grandma!"
Her voice was soft, sweet—the way it had always been when she expected them to scoop her up.
But their faces were like stone.
"Don't call us that. We don't have relatives who drag the Blood Moon Pack's name through the mud."
I stood frozen.
In the space of a few short days, my daughter and I had been stripped of even the right to be considered family.
In my memory, my father used to shift into wolf form and let me ride on his back, telling everyone Willa was his precious treasure. My mother put me first in everything, forever bragging to other wolves about how clever and capable I was.
But the moment their long-lost biological daughter, Liane, was found, all their love for me evaporated overnight.
The pack trade resources I had painstakingly built up over the years were quietly funneled into Liane's name.
At first I comforted myself. Liane had wandered alone for so many years and suffered so much—it was only right to make it up to her.
Only now did I finally understand.
They had always resented me. Resented me for occupying twenty years of the love and resources meant for Liane.
Elias's cold, selfish words still echoed in my ears.
Just to vent Liane's spite, they'd sanctioned that farce of a public denouncement without a moment's hesitation, grinding Mia and me into the dirt.
Testing the waters, I tried:
"What if… that bloodline report was wrong? What if it was forged?"
My adoptive mother's expression froze. Her face hardened.
"You still want to argue in the face of hard evidence?"
My adoptive father chimed in.
"Isn't the clinic's bloodline verification proof enough? Do we have to catch you red-handed with an outsider before you'll admit it?"
A bone-deep chill ran through me.
They knew. They knew all of it was a lie.
And yet here they were, cursing me with the venom of true belief, nailing me to the pillory as the pack's whore.
My adoptive father frowned, his voice dripping with condescension.
"Fine. If you insist on staying here, then tomorrow you'll make a public apology to the entire pack."
"You'll admit to your affair with an outsider. You'll admit Mia is not Elias's biological pup."
"At the same time, you'll step down from the core management of the family enterprise, and every trade share in your name will be transferred unconditionally to Liane."
I could hardly believe what I was hearing.
"What do you want me to admit?"
"Mia is not a mongrel!"
My adoptive mother ignored me completely.
Just then, footsteps came down from upstairs.
Liane appeared, eyes rimmed red, looking as though she'd been through some terrible fright.
"Dad, Mom, please don't be so hard on my sister…"
She turned to me, her tone deliberately gentle.
"Willa, I know how much this hurts you, but our parents aren't young anymore, and our family has to preserve its reputation."
"You can't drag us down just because you had an affair."
Then she looked down at Mia, forcing a hint of pity into her eyes.
"As for whether the pup is really of Elias's blood… Elias is an Alpha. He won't hold it too much against you."
I opened my mouth to say something more, but my parents had already lost their patience.
They ordered the housekeeper to throw my things out the door.
"We raised you for twenty years. We were even willing to leave you a shred of dignity."
"Since you refuse to admit your mistake, then don't ever come back to this house again."
第3章
It was deep into the night when I left my adoptive parents' estate.
Mia was curled against my chest, her eyes swollen and red, not making a sound.
I lifted my hand and gently stroked her hair, assuming she'd just cried herself into exhaustion, and hurried to find a hotel for the night.
By then, I was already in a wretched state.
"Hello, I'd like to book a suite, please."
I handed over the supplementary card Elias had given me.
The clerk swiped it, then looked up, expressionless.
"I'm sorry, ma'am. This card has been frozen. It can't be used."
My heart plunged. I fished out my own bank card.
Only to discover that the savings on my personal account had also been transferred out.
My fingertips went cold. A wave of nausea rose in me.
Elias didn't just want me to bow my head—he wanted to cut off every retreat.
The clerk's tone was flat.
"Ma'am, will you still be checking in?"
My throat tightened. I quickly called my closest friend.
"Can you lend me a little money? Or book a room for me? I just need somewhere to spend the night with Mia."
She was silent for a couple of seconds, then dropped her voice.
"Willa, it's not that I don't want to help you."
"It's just that my firm is in the middle of a partnership with Elias's company right now. Your name is being dragged through every corner of the territory. If I step in, every deal we have on the table will be terminated by the Alpha unilaterally."
Before she'd even finished, I understood. I hung up in silence.
Watching my own bedraggled reflection ripple across the polished marble floor, I couldn't help finding it darkly funny.
Twenty-some years of living, and in the end I had nothing at all.
The only one who would still stand by me without a moment's hesitation was Mia, right there in my arms.
Then, the next second, Mia's small body swayed against mine.
I pressed a hand to her forehead—and my heart dropped straight into ice water.
She was burning up.
I scrolled through every contact I had, and finally called a wolf I had never wanted to trouble.
After some difficulty, I managed to borrow enough money, and I carried Mia back to the front desk to check in.
The clerk suddenly rolled her eyes at me.
"No wonder all your cards got frozen. So you're the Luna who's been sleeping around with an outsider."
"Oh no, wait—you're not the Luna anymore, are you? The Alpha's already decided to dissolve the mate bond with you."
She looked me up and down, her tone growing more vicious.
"Not enough to have a messy personal life—you had to bring some mongrel of unknown parentage along to embarrass yourself in public."
"Get out of here. Our hotel does not accommodate whores like you!"
Moments later, security shoved us out the door.
Guests all around turned to stare.
Mia was burning with fever, half-conscious, her face pressed into the hollow of my shoulder, murmuring:
"Daddy… don't leave me…"
That single sentence tore my whole heart apart.
I bit down hard, then finally pulled out my phone and dialed Elias's number.
Ten calls in a row. No one picked up.
My fingers trembling, I finally typed out a message and sent it.
*Mia has a fever. Can you please come?*
A long stretch of silence, and then a reply.
*The kid isn't even mine. I don't have time to act out some sob story with you.*
I stared at that cold, cold line.
At that moment, I couldn't even cry out.
In the end, I took Mia to the werewolf clinic alone—and there I saw a familiar figure.
Elias was carefully supporting Liane, walking her into the maternity consultation room.
The werewolf doctor handed a bloodline examination report to Elias, his voice tinged with reproach as he issued his instructions.
"There's bleeding in the first trimester. There's a threat of miscarriage."
"The first few months are critical. As the father, you need to be careful. No mating for now."
Elias instinctively drew Liane closer.
"Does it still hurt?"
Liane gave a small shake of her head.
Elias's brow furrowed. He lowered his voice.
"Don't go home tonight. Come stay with me. I'll take care of you."
Liane bit her lower lip, gave a quiet murmur of assent, and leaned into his chest.
I stood there, feeling the blood in my veins slowly turn to ice.
Years ago, when I was pregnant with Mia, he'd held me just the same way.
The morning sickness had been so bad I couldn't even keep water down.
He'd handed all pack affairs off to another wolf and stayed with me, focused entirely on the pregnancy.
He had held me, that thick Alpha scent wrapping around me, and made me a solemn promise: *"Willa, you and our pup are the most important things in this life."*
Now, the one trampling Mia and me into the dirt was that same man.
I suddenly found it almost funny.
So this was it. However true a person's love ran when they loved you—
that was how cruel they could be when they didn't.
Mia was still burning against my chest.
My phone buzzed.
*Willa, I don't want to drag this out any longer. Meet me at the Moon Goddess Temple in three days. Let's dissolve the mate bond for good.*