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I Carried the Alpha's Seed,He Begs on His Knees After My Awakening
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I was nothing more than a human-born, yet I had lived for hundreds of thousands of years. All because the Supreme Alpha had gazed into the Moon Goddess's Vision and divined that I was his fated mate. ...
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第1章
I was nothing more than a human-born, yet I had lived for hundreds of thousands of years.
All because the Supreme Alpha had gazed into the Moon Goddess's Vision and divined that I was his fated mate. If he and I were to bond, we would bring forth a prophesied Alpha pup capable of ruling all Six Great Packs.
Fenris Voss brought me from the human world into Shadowfang territory, feeding me his Alpha blood essence each night to keep me ageless and undying.
But conceiving with a human-born was nearly impossible for a wolf of his bloodline. Night after night, for hundreds of thousands of years, he lay with me, and only then did I finally quicken with the prophesied pup.
Fenris was overjoyed. He crowned me Luna Queen on the spot, treating me and the child in my womb as his most precious treasures.
When his own sister accidentally brushed against my belly during a moment of play, he ground her bones to dust and scattered them to the wind. She had been the only princess of the entire Shadowfang bloodline.
To safeguard the pup, Fenris arranged for me to rest and nurture the pregnancy in the Sacred Den.
Cadmus Wilder, drunk and lost, once stumbled past the blood-ward boundary by mistake. Fenris killed him where he stood, then led his Shadowfang wolves into Silvercrest territory and slaughtered until rivers ran red with blood.
To end the war, the Silvercrest Alpha had no choice but to offer the most beautiful she-wolf in all the Six Great Packs, Seraphina Crystalis, as an arranged mate to the Supreme Alpha.
Seraphina, emboldened by her status as the Silvercrest Alpha's daughter, answered to no one. She forced her way past the blood-ward into the Sacred Den with her handmaidens at her back:
"What filthy human-born dares hide in the Sacred Den? Bedding Shadowfang guards and getting herself pregnant?"
"Today, I'll clean house for the Supreme Alpha myself!"
She ordered her handmaidens to hack off my limbs, then tore open my belly with bare hands and ripped the pup from my womb.
As I lay dying, Fenris arrived with the Alphas of the Six Great Packs to witness the birth of their future sovereign.
Seraphina dragged me before him and held up the infant she had tortured to death, her face bright with triumph:
"I discovered a filthy human-born whoring herself out to your Shadowfang guards. This is the bastard she was carrying!"
"I humbly beg the Supreme Alpha to find the wretch who fathered this thing and grind his bones to ash, so the dignity of the Shadowfang Pack remains unsullied!"
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Three full years I had carried the child. The moon itself had turned strange colors, and wolves across every territory had howled without knowing why.
The movements in my womb had grown fiercer by the day, the unborn stirring with signs that its arrival was imminent. Some nights I could feel the pup's wolf already pushing against my skin, restless, eager.
I was lying in the den, preparing for the birth, when a commotion broke out beyond the doors.
"The Supreme Alpha keeps coming here every other day. Today, I'm going to see for myself what precious little secret he's hiding!"
"But, my lady, I've heard that the Abyssal Den is part of the Sacred Den grounds. No one is permitted to enter without leave!"
"That's right, Seraphina. They say that when Cadmus Wilder merely wandered past the blood-ward by accident, the Supreme Alpha executed him on the spot and it sparked the Pack War. Barging in like this... isn't it a bit reckless?"
"Reckless? I am the only she-wolf in all the Six Great Packs worthy of the Supreme Alpha's attention. He would never blame me."
Listening to the noise outside, I frowned. A cold sense of dread settled in my chest.
Fenris guarded me and the child with obsessive devotion.
After the incident where someone had accidentally touched my belly, he had dismissed every last soul from the Sacred Den.
Proud and untamable as he was, he came here himself each day to care for me. He would press his forehead to my swollen stomach and stay there, silent, breathing slow, as though listening for the pup's heartbeat with his own ears. The scent of ancient cedar heartwood and smoldering iron would linger on the furs long after he left.
Cadmus Wilder had once been an honored guest, on friendly terms with the Supreme Alpha.
Yet a single drunken misstep past the blood-ward was enough for Fenris to kill him without hesitation, igniting the war between the Silvercrest and Shadowfang Packs.
Mountains of corpses. Seas of blood.
If those she-wolves outside made it in here, another massacre was all but certain.
I hauled myself out of bed and hurried into the courtyard, hoping to warn them away before it was too late.
But the moment I opened the door, a face stared back at me. A face that looked seven-tenths like my own.
A scent hit me before her hand did. White jasmine and fresh snow and something underneath that made my skin prickle, sharp and chemical, like polished silver held too close to bare flesh.
Before I could utter a word, a hand cracked across my cheek.
"Where did this wretched little servant come from, wearing my face in the Supreme Alpha's Abyssal Den? What, are you trying to steal his favor from me?"
第2章
The slap came out of nowhere, so hard my skull rang like a struck bell.
"A human-born with no wolf blood whatsoever. How did you even get into Shadowfang territory?"
"She must have spread her legs for some low-ranking patrol wolf. That would explain the pregnancy."
"Human-born really are pathetic. She thinks that just because she bears a passing resemblance to our Lady Seraphina, she can hide here and seduce the Supreme Alpha?"
It wasn't until I heard their venom that I realized who had barged in and struck me. The woman standing before me was none other than Seraphina Crystalis, the one the Silvercrest Alpha had offered to end the war between the packs all those years ago.
For hundreds of thousands of years, the Supreme Alpha could have had his pick of countless beauties. Instead, he spent every day at my side.
He had never spared a second glance at any woman other than me.
That was why, when he agreed to halt the great war on account of Seraphina, a thread of doubt had wound through my heart.
Now, seeing her in person for the first time, I understood. She bore a resemblance to me.
That was what had stirred his mercy.
At this moment, Seraphina's face was twisted with fury, her blazing gaze threatening to consume me whole. The scent of white jasmine and fresh snow rolled off her in waves, but beneath it was something sharp and chemical, something that made the small wolf inside me flatten itself low and still.
"You wretched human-born. You knew the Supreme Alpha was hopelessly in love with me, so you thought you could use that face of yours to lure him in? A face that only barely resembles mine?"
Her arrogance was suffocating, but since she clearly had no idea who I was, I chose not to hold the slap against her.
Instead, I offered a warning out of kindness.
"The Abyssal Den is not a place any of you should be. The Supreme Alpha is away. Leave now, while you still can. If you stay, no one will be able to help you."
But Seraphina showed no gratitude. She seized my throat and snarled through clenched teeth, her canines just slightly too long, her grip carrying a pureblood's crushing strength:
"The Supreme Alpha adores me beyond measure. There is nowhere in the entire Shadowfang territory I cannot set foot. You, on the other hand, you wretched human-born, putting on airs and trying to shoo me away. You're just afraid I'll expose your little scheme and ruin your chances of seducing him, aren't you?"
"Today I'll show you exactly what happens to vermin who try to steal the Supreme Alpha's affections."
With a flick of her pale wrist, a blast of Silvercrest bloodline power swept toward me like a gale.
The force was immense, howling through the chamber. The guardian wolves chained along the corridor threw themselves against their bonds, snarling, but they could not reach us.
My body was hurled into the air and slammed back down against the stone floor.
I curled around my belly, shielding it with both arms, and looked up at Seraphina through the pain. My voice came out cold and steady.
"Do you really think the Supreme Alpha won't find out what you've done here?"
Seraphina scoffed, utterly unbothered. She didn't even bother lowering her gaze, as if submission were a concept that had never once applied to her.
"I am the Supreme Alpha's one true love, the woman he fell for at first sight. A single glance from me was enough to make him end the great war."
"Everyone across the Six Great Packs knows how deeply he loves me."
"All I'm doing is disciplining a pathetic human-born. Even if he finds out, so what? You think he'd blame me over some insignificant nobody like you?"
The Silvercrest she-wolves in her entourage sneered in agreement.
"Exactly. Everyone across the Six Great Packs and the outer territories knows the Supreme Alpha fell for Lady Seraphina at first sight. What are you? You're not even fit to be compared to her."
"The Supreme Alpha stands above all living things. Of course there are shameless little strays like this human-born crawling around, dreaming of climbing into his bed. My lady, we should make an example of her today. Put her down like the runt she is, and crush those delusions once and for all."
"That's right. Let every shameless wretch out there know that the Supreme Alpha's mate is not a title just anyone can claim."
Every one of them spoke with razor-edged malice, their eyes burning with a hatred so sharp it seemed they wanted to tear me apart where I lay. I could smell it on them, sour and metallic beneath their perfumed scents. The hunger for violence.
I kept my expression grave. "You should go ask the Supreme Alpha himself who I am."
Seraphina lifted her chin, contempt dripping from every pore.
"You, a common human-born who snuck into the Abyssal Den, think you're worthy of me inquiring about your identity?"
"I am the one closest to the Supreme Alpha's heart. I am the Silvercrest Alpha's most treasured daughter. What are you? You think your status could ever compare to mine?"
She let her gaze drift across the darkened hall, and her voice turned soft, almost idle.
"This Abyssal Den is far too gloomy. It could use a splash of red."
The Silvercrest she-wolves understood instantly. One by one, they shifted their hands into half-claws, long and gleaming, tipped with the faint silver sheen of their bloodline power.
And they lashed into me without mercy.
I was human-born flesh and bone. I had no way to withstand an assault from this many pureblood wolves at once.
I was beaten to the ground, curled into myself, my skin split open in ribbons of blood. The scent of my own blood filled the chamber, night-blooming moonflower and warm amber drowned beneath the copper tide of it.
Through the blinding agony, I locked both hands over my belly and screamed with everything I had left:
"Stop! I am the Luna Queen!"
第3章
At those words, the Silvercrest she-wolves froze mid-strike.
Seraphina stood off to the side, eyes narrowing as she studied me.
"What did you just say? That you're the Luna Queen?"
I met her gaze without flinching. "That's right. If the Supreme Alpha finds out what you've done to me, none of you will walk away from this."
I laid the truth bare, certain that Seraphina would stop.
Instead, they burst out laughing in unison.
"This filthy human-born has lost her mind! She actually thinks she's the Luna Queen?"
"Just because she looks a little like Lady Seraphina, she has the nerve to claim our lady owes everything to her?"
"Everyone across the Six Great Packs knows the Supreme Alpha adores Lady Seraphina and no one else. You're nothing but a wretched human-born who snuck in here, and you dare call yourself the Luna Queen? Do you have a death wish?"
Seraphina's lips curled into a vicious smile.
"I assumed that since you managed to slither into the Abyssal Den using that face of yours to seduce the Supreme Alpha, you'd have at least some cunning. Turns out you're just a brainless fool."
"I've been mated into the Shadowfang Pack for ages, and I've never once heard of a so-called Luna Queen. You're a human-born without a shred of wolf blood. What could possibly qualify you for that title?"
"If you were truly the Luna Queen, why would you be living alone in the Sacred Den, where not a single soul dares to tread?"
With that, Seraphina turned to the other handmaidens and gave the order:
"Cut off this wretch's limbs. Let's see how long that sharp tongue of hers lasts."
The she-wolves drew their silver-edged blades and closed in on me.
None of them knew the real reason the Abyssal Den stood so desolate.
It was because the Supreme Alpha forbade any living creature from coming near.
Even a stray bird that wandered too close would be torn apart, its carcass left as a warning until his fury was spent.
He had kept my identity hidden because he wanted to wait until our pup was born.
Then, before the entire Six Great Packs and all the territories beyond, he would crown me Luna Queen in a grand ceremony under the Blood Moon.
And the reason he was absent today was precisely because he had sensed that this was the day our pup would arrive.
He had gone personally to summon the most powerful Alphas across the Six Great Packs, so they could witness the birth of the Prophesied Alpha.
To welcome the future sovereign of all Six Packs.
And now, every one of those precautions had become the very reasons Seraphina refused to believe me.
Watching them close in, panic seized me. I screamed, "I am the Luna Queen! If you don't believe me, go ask the Supreme Alpha yourself!"
They didn't even pause. Blades rose and fell.
Agony tore through me, bone-deep and blinding, as my limbs were severed one after another.
My whole body convulsed. Every breath came thinner than the last. Somewhere inside me, the faint presence of my wolf, the one Fenris's blood had slowly coaxed awake over centuries, flickered like a candle in a gale and went silent.
Seraphina clapped a hand over her mouth, laughing. "Oh, look at her! No arms, no legs, just that swollen belly. She looks like a turtle pulled into its shell!"
The others doubled over with laughter, clapping and cheering.
I glared at them through a haze of red, my voice raw and shaking. "You will regret this."
Seraphina stepped closer and looked down at me.
"In all the Six Great Packs, no one has ever made me regret a thing."
"But I can certainly teach you what regret feels like."
The moment the words left her lips, she shaped her hand into claws and sliced my belly open.
A fresh wave of agony swallowed me whole.
Through the blur of fading consciousness, I watched Seraphina reach inside me and pull out a blood-soaked infant boy.
He was alive. His tiny fists swung on instinct, batting at Seraphina's arm as if in protest.
Seraphina stared at my son, eyes widening.
"A mongrel born from a human-born, and his life force is this strong?"
"What a pity. You're still nothing but human filth. Leaving you here would only taint the Shadowfang Pack's sacred ground. Today, I'll clean house on the Supreme Alpha's behalf."
Terror flooded every fiber of my being. My voice came out barely above a whisper.
"He is the Supreme Alpha's pup. You must not harm him."
Seraphina's brows twisted together, and she fixed me with a look of pure contempt.
"You wretched human-born. To save this bastard, you'd tell a lie that absurd?"
"The Supreme Alpha's power is beyond measure. A human-born body could never carry his offspring."
The other handmaidens chimed in.
"Exactly. The Supreme Alpha's bloodline is so potent that anyone with a weak wolf constitution would be destroyed just from the bonding alone."
"You're a human-born. You don't even have the constitution to bond with him, let alone bear his pup."
"This bastard is obviously the product of some affair with a low-ranking patrol wolf. And you have the audacity to pass it off as the Supreme Alpha's heir? The nerve."
They weren't entirely wrong. The gap between a human-born and a pureblood wolf was vast beyond reckoning.
The Supreme Alpha, above all, was a being no human-born should have been able to touch, let alone conceive a pup with.
That was why he had fed me his Alpha blood essence, day after day.
It kept me ageless and undying, and it tempered my human-born body until the barrier between us slowly dissolved.
Even so, it had taken us hundreds of thousands of years to conceive this pup.
"Everything I've said is true. If anything happens to this pup, no one here will survive the Supreme Alpha's wrath. He will reduce the Six Great Packs to ash and ruin!"
Under the Supreme Alpha's nourishment, my body had long surpassed anything human.
But now, broken and bleeding, I could feel my life draining away with terrifying speed.
I poured every last scrap of strength into those words, praying Seraphina would spare my child.
She only gave a cold, thin smile.
"The harder you beg for this bastard's life, the more I want to kill him."
She raised my son high and hurled him at the ground.
"No!"
The scream ripped from my throat. It changed nothing.
All I could do was watch as my son slammed into the stone.
"He's still alive?"
Seraphina stared at the infant still squirming on the ground, murmuring to herself.
"Let's see just how hard this little mongrel is to kill."
She lifted her foot and brought it down on him.
The impact shook the ground.
The blow carried her full, devastating force.
It cratered the floor beneath him.
Every handmaiden there was certain the pup was dead.
But his tiny hands still moved, waving as though nothing had happened.
"I refuse to believe I can't kill one worthless mongrel!"
Seraphina's composure shattered. She summoned Moonsilver Fire and sent it crashing down on my son.
White-hot flames engulfed him in an instant. The stench of burning silver hit the air, and the scream that left me was not human. It came from somewhere deeper, somewhere the blood-bond had carved open inside me, a place that had no name before this moment and would never close again.
I was close enough to feel the searing heat scorch my skin.
Fear and anguish devoured me from the inside out.
My child was not just the future sovereign of the Six Great Packs.
He was the culmination of hundreds of thousands of years of hope between the Supreme Alpha and me.
Three years I had carried him. My own flesh and blood.
All those years, the Supreme Alpha and I had treasured him more than our own lives.
And this tiny, newborn boy had never even been held. Not once.
He was swallowed by merciless flame before he ever knew what an embrace felt like.
Tears streamed down my face, covering every inch of it.
Seraphina looked at the charred, motionless body and let a smile play across her lips.
"The little mongrel is finally dead."
The other handmaidens beamed.
"A human-born's mongrel, tough as leather. Thank the Moon Goddess Lady Seraphina is so resourceful!"
"Exactly. One look at the pup and you can tell his lowly patrol-wolf father was just as worthless and disgraceful."
"Congratulations, Lady Seraphina, for ridding the Shadowfang Pack of this stain!"
Bathed in their praise, Seraphina lifted her chin and cast a sidelong glance at my dead child, admiring her handiwork.
Satisfaction spread across her face.
"Don't worry, little bastard. I'll find your bastard father soon enough. Your whole wretched family can reunite in death."
The words had barely left her mouth when a howl split the sky above Shadowfang territory. It was not a wolf's howl and not a man's voice. It was something older than both, rolling down from the heavens, shaking the air itself:
"What have you done?"
Hundreds of wolves, shifted and unshifted, descended on the courtyard of the Abyssal Den like a storm breaking.
The Supreme Alpha had arrived.
And with him, hundreds of the most powerful Alphas across the Six Great Packs, every one of them summoned to witness the birth of the Prophesied Alpha.