The Silent Wolf: From Broken Mother to Shadow Queen Chapter 07

The Silent Wolf: From Broken Mother to Shadow Queen Chapter 07

“Christine…”

In just a few days, he looked wrecked. Unshaven, hair starting to gray. His eyes were swollen and red, and it was obvious he hadn’t slept in days. He couldn’t even shift into wolf form anymore, running purely on willpower.

He walked closer slowly, reaching out to touch the urn.

I stepped back.

His tears fell instantly.

“The enforcers contacted me. Told me you were here. I’ve already announced a huge bounty. Any wolf who provides a useful lead gets a million.”

“I believe we’ll find those Crimson Thorn Pack traitors soon.”

I only replied with a cold, biting laugh.

“What’s the point of finding them? Will it bring Ellis back?”

“Leave. We don’t need you. Ellis wouldn’t want to see you either.”

“Even without your bounty, I trust the enforcers will catch those traitors.”

Seeing how cold I was, he tried to grab my arm.

But I stepped back again.

His hand froze midair. His wolf let out a pitiful whine.

“What are you saying? Christine, I’m Ellis’s father.”

Father?

The word Ellis used to call out with so much love, and in the end, the very Alpha who should’ve protected him had ignored it with his own two hands.

Remembering the past, my voice shook.

“A father like you is worse than none at all.”

“While he was alive, you wouldn’t spend a cent to save him. Now that he’s dead, you’re suddenly throwing money at a bounty? Playing generous now?”

“When Ellis and I needed you, you weren’t there. Now, we don’t need you anymore.”

With that, I tried to walk past him.

But he dropped to his knees, blocking my path.

“Christine, I was wrong. I deserve to die! I’m sorry to you, and to Ellis. To think I actually believed you were faking his kidnapping.”

“I mistook you for a jealous Omega. That bitch Selka fooled me completely.”

“I swear on the Moon Goddess, I will get justice for you, for our child.”

Seeing no reaction from me, he raised his hand and started slapping himself hard. Again and again.

His wolf howled inside him, self-destructive, breaking apart.

But the sound of him hitting himself only irritated me. Made me angrier.

I hated Dorian. Hated that he always did these pointless things after it was already too late.

“You know what? When our pup died, the Crimson Thorn Pack traitors cut off his finger. The same one you threw into the lake.”

“Why don’t you go find it for him.”

I knew finding a tiny finger in a lake that deep was completely impossible.

I just wanted him to understand how pointless all of it was, and to never bother me again.

But Dorian latched onto those words like a drowning wolf grabbing driftwood.

He sobbed a promise. “I will. I’ll find it. I swear I’ll find it.”

I pretended not to hear him, held the urn tighter, and walked on toward Ellis’s grave.

…

Even though I’d rushed to Millhaven, I’d still brought along Ellis’s favorite clothes and toys.

And the moonstone pendant, the one Dorian gave me years ago when he found out I was pregnant with his pup.

He’d said, “This pendant was given to me by my pack elder. I’ve worn it since I was a kid. Now I’m passing it down to our heir. May the Moon Goddess watch over him.”

Back then, maybe he really had cared about me.

But everything changed after Selka showed up.

Thinking about it, I let out a soft sigh, wiping my tears before they could fall on the pendant and the headstone.

After burying Ellis, I went back to my rented place.

Then I got a call from enforcement.

“We caught the traitors.”