Chapter 620

Madeline:

Ron had definitely brought his car with him, so after I passed out, they placed me in the back seat.

The two of them sat in the front.

I had assumed that once I blacked out, I would lose consciousness completely, but that was not the case.

I was still somewhat awake.

Aware enough to faintly sense my surroundings.

And in that moment, I realized something obvious.

Of course they had a lot to talk about, especially after seeing my wolf.

“So, are we not going to talk about what we just saw?” Ron was the first to bring it up.

Honestly, I wanted them to know I was awake.

I did not want either of them to say something that would shatter my confidence or make me realize they feared me too.

I wanted to move.

Even a finger would have been enough.

But I could not.

Unfortunately, all I could do was lie there and listen.

“There’s nothing to talk about,” Byron replied calmly. “She’s just a powerful wolf.”

That response did not surprise me.

Byron had always been the kind of person who stayed loyal no matter what.

I had never seen him truly turn against me.

Even when I made the stupidest decisions, he would correct me gently instead of insulting me or making me feel small.

“She’s not just powerful. Her wolf is different,” Ron said more firmly.

“I know,” Byron responded a little too quickly, almost as if he wanted to end the conversation before it went any further.

“You saw them recording her, didn’t you? Those videos are going to spread everywhere.”

That was something I had noticed too.

They were filming me.

Those people would do anything to regain control of the situation.

Maybe they wanted to spread the videos to make others fear me.

Maybe they wanted sympathy.

Either way, I knew they would twist the story to make themselves look innocent.

Even after everything they had done.

They had kidnapped me.

Tortured me.

They had exposed their own children to bloodshed and violence.

They had even kept the body of an alpha’s dead Luna with them.

They had committed countless crimes.

And now, they would use those videos to justify everything by painting me as the monster instead.

“She’s a gray wolf,” Byron whispered.

My entire body tensed at those words.

Just hearing him say it made me painfully aware of what I had become.

“With beautiful purple eyes,” he added softly.

To my surprise, some of the tension inside me eased.

I had expected him to describe me as terrifying or dangerous, not beautiful.

“Did you see how massive she was?” Byron uttered, still sounding stunned. Instead of fear, Byron sounded fascinated by my wolf.

Almost impressed.

And somehow, that mattered more to me than I wanted to admit.

“I always kind of knew she was special,” Ron began.

The fact that he called me special instead of a monster surprised me.

“The

way she carried herself. And

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her intelligence on top of that…” He

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As he finished speaking, I finally managed to breathe again.

What I could never understand was whether I even deserved friends like them.

I had friends before.

Graham and Elgin.

The so-called friends who had known me since childhood, yet never acted like true friends.

Then there were these two.

Their loyalty was unmatched.

Byron was standing beside a monster, risking his rank as an alpha.

And then there was Ron.

His luna’s body had been taken because he chose my side.

“I think she knew, and so did those alphas,” Ron added, pulling me back to a time

when my friends actually cared.

That was before everything changed.

Back when they had nothing worth betraying me for.

But even when I look further into the past, Baxter was the only one who did not leave because he wanted to.

After our night together, he walked away because he was made to believe I mocked him.

Even when I told him I was pregnant, he acted cold in front of others, yet still sent me texts afterward.

Though I never received any of those texts because I was already gone by then.

As for Graham and Elgin, they were easily blackmailed by their families.

What made it worse was that their families had been pressuring them long before they slept with me yet they still those to be with mefor their own fun.

Later, they suddenly remembered their families would never accept me.

“The problem is, we have to go back and answer to her children. Lady Eugenia. Lord Jonah,” Ron uttered.

“I don’t know how they’ll respond to

all these rumors or where we’ll safe place for them,” he added and

my heart skipped a beat