Chapter 159
159 The Fall of Mariana
Third Person POV
“Alpha… what are you doing?”
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Mariana stared at Alpha Henry in disbelief, her voice trembling with pain. “What did I do to deserve this?!”
“You did nothing wrong?”
After she had stolen the credit for saving Aubrey’s life, after she had tricked Aubrey into making an aphrodisiac just to frame her- she still dared to claim she’d done no wrong?
Henry truly could not understand how his past self had been blind enough to trust someone like this.
His eyes glinted cold, and then curved in a faint, mocking smile.
“Then answer me this afterward?”
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why did you put wolfsbane in the pool? Why did you confront Aubrey here
His voice sharpened. “You wanted to push her in and kill her, didn’t you?”
Mariana’s face drained of all color.
The watching werewolves began to murmur with dawning realization. So the alpha was avenging Aubrey.
Their looks toward Mariana turned pointed, almost pitying.
“It’s obvious now. In the alpha’s eyes, Mariana can’t hold a candle to Aubrey.”
“She’s an embarrassment to us betas,” one elegantly drèssed she–wolf said with disdain. “Can’t even outshine an omega who’s never awakened a wolf form.”
“So much for her lady–like reputation,” another scoffed. “Guess it was all an act.”
The words cut deep. Still writhing in the burning pool, Mariana’s mind snapped.
“Shut up! All of you, shut up! How could I be less than that filthy omega?!”
She turned back to Henry, her blistered fingers gripping the pool’s edge. “I didn’t poison the water. You have to believe me, Alpha!”
“It’s all lies from that bitch Aubrey! Pull me out and I’ll explain everything!”
She was certain she’d been careful – no one had been around when she poured in the wolfsbane. Henry had still been in the banquet hall, dancing. He couldn’t possibly have seen her. He must be bluffing. As long as she refused to admit it, she’d be fine.
But Henry only smiled coldly.
Without warning, a suffocating wave of alpha dominance surged from him. Several wolves stumbled back; a few of the weaker ones collapsed entirely
“Murdering your own kind, unrepentant, and daring to show disrespect to my sister…”
He spoke each word like a blow of ice. “As alpha, I hereby strip you, Mariana, of your beta rank. From this
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moment, you are an omega.”
Under the moonlight, the sentence landed like an execution order.
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Mariana’s eyes went wide with terror. She felt the beta power drain from her body strength bleeding away, bones shifting and shrinking, her once–prized physique degrading into that of the lowest rank.
“No!” she screamed. “You can’t do this to me! I risked my life pulling you from the undertow years ago! Without me, you’d be dead!”
“The one who saved me was Aubrey. Not you.”
“No! It was me! It was me!” she shrieked, slapping the water in desperation. “Aubrey lied to you! That filthy omega stole my credit to win your favor! Alpha, she’s deceived you!”
But her words only made Henry’s face grow colder.
His boot struck her without hesitation, sending her plunging back into the wolfsbane–laced water.
“No one touches her without my order,” he said flatly.
Then he turned and walked away.
The crowd instinctively parted to let him pass. Not one of them spared Mariana so much as a glance – not even her own parents.
A daughter who had angered the alpha and been demoted to omega… what value did she have left?
The onlookers, dispersed quickly, leaving only Mariana’s faint groans echoing in the night. Her skin was breaking down in great patches now, and her new omega constitution gave her almost no resistance to the poison.
Moments later, Ulrich emerged from behind a tree, crouching by the pool with a calculating gleam in his
eye.
“Answer my question truthfully, and I might pull you out,” he said.
Barely clinging to consciousness, Mariana nodded weakly.
Ulrich’s voice dropped to a murmur. “What’s Alpha Henry’s real condition? Since returning to the Shadowmoon Pack, has he had a fever? Coughing blood?”
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A faint light sparked in Mariana’s clouded eyes. Of course she knew the alpha had shown all of those symptoms…
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