Chapter 9

Alpha Kael pointed directly at Arthur, his voice cutting through the room like a blade,

"The kidney you received wasn't from Chloe—it was from Elena! And Elena's other kidney? It's currently inside Chloe's body! Your precious daughter stole both of Elena's kidneys, and in doing so, stole her life!"

Crash!

Chloe knocked over the bowl of soup on her bedside table. She clutched her abdomen frantically, attempting to redirect her parents' attention,

"Mom, Dad, my stomach hurts! Please call Healer Mara quickly!"

But Vivian, who usually rushed to fulfill Chloe's every whim, stood frozen in place, her face drained of all color. She seemed deaf to Chloe's pleas.

"You're saying Elena is dead? That's impossible! You must be helping her deceive us!"

Vivian's voice grew sharper, as if she'd suddenly found proof to cling to,

"If Elena only had one kidney, why would she agree to donate to Chloe? This must be another one of her manipulative lies! Besides, Chloe donated the kidney to Arthur—I saw the ugly surgical scar on her body with my own eyes! It can't be fake! Elena's body had no scars at all!"

Kael looked at her with something resembling pity,

"Even the weakest omega's healing ability can close a wound completely within days. You should ask your daughter Chloe why, despite all your devoted care, her scar remained so prominent. Unless... she deliberately kept reopening it to maintain the illusion."

Vivian stumbled backward as if struck by lightning. She turned slowly toward Chloe,

"Chloe... is what he's saying true?"

Panic flashed across Chloe's face. She shook her head violently,

"No! It's not true! I would never—"

But Kael threw the stack of evidence documents directly at Arthur and Vivian's feet,

"You want to know why Elena agreed to donate her last kidney even though she was dying? Because she was already terminal! The Wolfsbane had spread to her bone marrow! Even on her deathbed, she tried to fulfill your demands! You wanted the perfect daughter—well, are you satisfied now?"

Arthur slowly sank to his knees, his hands trembling as he gathered the scattered documents from the floor.

The healer who had performed Arthur's kidney transplant five years ago stepped forward, her voice shaking,

"The kidney donor back then wasn't Miss Chloe. She paid me a substantial bribe to falsify the records and keep silent about the true donor's identity."

Her body began to tremble more violently,

"As for the Wolfsbane poisoning in Miss Elena's system—that truly wasn't my doing! Six months ago, Miss Chloe personally injected it into her sister's bloodstream! She initially asked me to administer it, but I refused because I knew how vile such an act would be."

"What did you just say?!"

Both Arthur and Vivian cried out simultaneously, staring at Chloe in horror.

Kael's voice was ice-cold,

"You heard correctly. Elena was poisoned with Wolfsbane six months ago—injected by her beloved sister's own hand. She endured that agony for half a year, slowly dying while you all ignored her suffering!"

His voice cracked with anguish as he clutched his head,

"Why didn't I believe her? Why did I accuse her of lying? I watched her grow weaker every single day, and I convinced myself she was just pretending—trying to manipulate us for attention!"

He suddenly raised his head, pointing an accusing finger at Chloe,

"Five years ago, she kidnapped Elena to steal her kidney and claim credit for the donation! Then she abandoned Elena in the Shadowlands to die! And you all blindly believed every lie that came out of her mouth! You're all accomplices in Elena's murder!"

Faced with overwhelming evidence and witness testimony, Chloe's web of lies finally unraveled completely. There was no way to salvage her deception now.

Arthur's hands shook as he read document after document—bank transfers showing Chloe's bribes, medical records proving Elena was the true donor, testimony from the rogue wolves Chloe had hired to kidnap her sister.

Vivian's wolf let out a keening wail of grief inside her chest—the maternal instinct she'd suppressed for years finally breaking through.

"No... no, this can't be real..."

But the evidence was irrefutable. Every lie Chloe had constructed was crumbling to dust.

And I watched from above, my dead heart feeling nothing as my family's world shattered around them.

Too late. Far, far too late.