Chapter 1

I am mated to the Beta triplets of my pack. Every night, I endure the desire of three men.

Everyone in the pack knows I’ve been spoiled rotten by them.

The best food, the best clothes, and I snap at them whenever I want.

Because I am loved and cherished, I act without restraint.

Until a healer named Iris arrives in the pack.

Her previous pack was destroyed, and she comes to Silver Moon Pack with a pup.

Unlike my spoiled and temperamental nature, she is gentle and radiant, and many male wolves are drawn to her.

But she never depends on any of them.

She raises her pup alone and lives her life with ease and strength.

Slowly, my first mate Aiden begins to grow tired of how spoiled I am.

When he leaves, the other two mates are furious for me.

“Aiden, you were the one who chose to leave! Don’t you ever think of coming back to Selene!”

But not long after, my second mate Damon leaves as well.

I look at the only one left, Liam, and my nose stings.

“Liam… do you think I have a bad temper too?”

Liam pats my head.

“Don’t overthink it. They’re the ones who are trash. They don’t know how to cherish you.”

Until I see it with my own eyes.

He shifts into wolf form and follows behind Iris, step by step, so humbly, so desperately, as if begging her to pet him.

I turn and run.

Stumbling all the way, I rush into my Alpha father’s house.

“Father, let me go to the Northern Pack marriage alliance.”

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“Selene, are you insane?!”

My father snaps back to reality, eyes wide.

“That’s the Northern Pack! Other she-wolves pray not to be chosen, and you want to send yourself there?!”

My eyes are red as I clutch my clothes tightly.

The Northern Pack lies at the far north of the werewolf world, a place of extreme cold, ruled by ice wolves.

They are cursed by the Moon Goddess. Their she-wolves are born without wolf nature and cannot form mate bonds.

To continue their bloodline, they must form marriage alliances with other packs every year.

The Northern wolves are not only powerful, but also fiercely loyal to their mates.

Yet no she-wolf willingly goes to that frozen wasteland.

“Did they… do something again?!” my father’s voice turns cold.

He stands up immediately, but I stop him.

“Don’t go! Father, please don’t!”

I rush forward to hold him down, shaking my head desperately.

“Don’t stand up for me anymore…”

When Aiden and Damon left, I had already cried and begged my father.

Because of that, Iris nearly got expelled from the pack. She later moved farther and farther away, but they still never came back to me.

Their cold eyes are still so clear in my mind that I tremble thinking about them.

“Selene, stop using your privilege to bully people. Iris did nothing wrong, yet she almost got driven out because of you.”

“Without your Alpha father, what are you worth?”

“I can’t believe I ever liked a disgusting she-wolf like you.”

That night, I held onto the only one left, Liam, and cried until I blacked out.

But now, even he doesn’t want me anymore.

In silence, my father lets out a heavy sigh.

“Selene, you’re my only daughter. I don’t want you going somewhere that far.”

“But I also can’t bear to see you suffer. Three days from now, there will be a draw. Think it over and come back to tell me, alright?”

I leave my father’s room.

At a glance, I see Liam waiting outside.

He leans against the pillar, holding a small yellow flower, staring at it absentmindedly.

I recognize that flower. He got it from Iris today, wagging his tail like a fool.

When he sees me, he hides the flower and smiles softly.

“Selene?”

I wipe my eyes and walk straight past him without looking back.

“Selene, where are you going?”

I don’t answer.

After a few more steps, I suddenly realize there is no sound behind me.

I turn back abruptly.

Liam has stopped at a distance far away from me.

His brows are slightly furrowed as he carefully protects the small yellow flower in his hand, afraid it will be bent by the wind.

Something in my chest tightens.

I shout at him angrily, almost losing control.

“Liam! Why aren’t you following me?!”

My voice gets louder and louder. The surrounding wolves start to look over.

But he only lifts his eyes slightly, his shadow stretched long under the setting sun.

An unfamiliar panic rises in my chest.

I stomp my foot and, gritting my teeth, start walking toward him.

But the next second, I hear him say.

“Selene, I won’t be able to walk you home anymore.”

He turns and walks toward Iris’s house.