The entire ballroom fell completely silent in a second.

I looked at the twin pups, thinking I must have misheard.

Joe pointed at me and said, “We saw it. It was mommy who threw it away.”

Eva held Helena’s hand.

“Yes, mommy is so bad! It was her! Mommy wants to hurt Helena!”

They spoke the cruelest lies in the sweetest voices. And they spread their arms to protect Helena behind them, as if I were their enemy.

There wouldn’t be a trace of love for them in my heart anymore.

I glanced at Ethan and said, “You can see what’s going on, can’t you? I didn’t do it.”

Before I could finish, Ethan interrupted me.

“Lila. Enough! How old are Joe and Eva? How could they even lie? Besides, what reason would Helena have to frame you? That necklace was a gift from me. She cherishes that necklace a lot! It’s your problem. You did something wrong and refused to apologize. You should pay for what you did.”

Ethan looked at me as if I were the worst werewolf in the world.

“Now, go into that lake and find that necklace. Don’t come home if you can’t find it.”

It was freezing cold at night.

The lake water was icy, and my injuries hadn’t healed yet. How could Ethan do this to me?

But he actually wanted me to find the necklace for Helena. As the Alpha, his words were orders.

I was dragged downstairs by the bodyguards and pushed into the lake. The lake was full of gravel. The wounds on my leg were not healed, and I even saw blood in the water.

The pain made me tremble all over.

I didn’t know how many hours had passed.

My hands were swollen when I finally found the necklace.

When I took it to Ethan, my legs could barely hold me up, but he didn’t even notice. He ran straight to Helena to hand it to her.

I didn’t even have the strength to walk to a chair. I sat down, then lay on the floor, with water plants still stuck in my hair.

Suddenly, I heard Joe and Eva’s voices, but I was too weak to open my eyes.

Eva said, “Joe, mommy looks so painful. Do you think we are wrong?”

Joe replied in a childish voice, “No. Because daddy said we needed to help Helena. Daddy is the Alpha.”

“Okay. No matter what we do, mommy will always forgive us anyway. Let’s go play with Helena now.”

Their voices faded away. My vision blurred, and I fainted.

When I woke up again, I was in a healing room. Only two nurses and I were there. They were cleaning my wounds.

“They say choosing a mate is extremely important. It’s so true. Look at this she-wolf. She is covered in wounds. The wounds on her leg are all infected, and she has such a high fever, but no one has come to see her.”

The other nurse added, “Yeah. Just now, Alpha Ethan came to our healing center with a she-wolf named Helena, I heard. She must be his Luna. I heard that just because her necklace fell into the lake and she cried so hard, her eyes were swollen. He booked an entire floor of VIP healing rooms for her and had our chief healer treat her. Her twin pups were so worried. This kind of mate choice is wiser."

Listening to their words, I finally realized that Ethan had also brought Helena to this healing center.

How ridiculous!

Suddenly, my phone rang. It was a message from Ethan.

“Don’t come home. Stay in healing center and think about what you did wrong.”

It was so obvious who Ethan loved and who he didn’t love.

Even though I was his Luna, his heart wasn’t with me. But I didn’t feel sad at all, not even a bit angry.

My heart was just empty.

All I wanted was to escape this so-called family.

Ethan didn’t come to pick me up even on the day I recovered. He only sent a car to wait at the door.

After I got in, the driver took me to a private club. He said, “Luna, the Alpha is waiting for you inside.”

I felt it was a little strange. Why would Ethan ask me to meet him alone in such a place?

I went in anyway.

When I reached the private room inside, I heard strange sounds. I opened the door and saw Helena with another werewolf.

The werewolf tore off his shirt, while Helena calmly messed up her own hair. She grabbed the werewolf’s claws, and left several scratches on her shoulder.

They drew closer.

Suddenly, the werewolf saw me through the crack of the door. I realized something was wrong and tried to leave.

It was too late. This was a trap.

The werewolf in the private room suddenly pulled the door open. He dragged me in and threw me to the ground.

When I turned around, I saw Ethan and the twin pups standing there, looking shocked.

Helena suddenly burst into loud sobs and threw herself into Ethan’s arms.

“Ethan,” she cried.

“It’s all her. She planned this to hurt me! She wouldn’t believe we were just friends. She even had me drink the Wolfsbane Lust Potion! She said that she needed to watch me be ruined by another werewolf.”

She wiped her tears and showed Ethan the scratches on her shoulder.

“You came just in time, or I would have…”

I interrupted her.

“I didn’t do any of this! Ethan, your driver brought me here just now. He said you were waiting for me here. I had no idea…”

At that moment, the driver walked in immediately.

“Luna, why do you lie to our Alpha? It was you who insisted I drive you here! You said the Alpha would soon be here to watch a good show. Now you’re framing me for this, are you?”

The werewolf in the room knelt before Ethan and pointed at me, “That’s right! You told me to sleep with this she-wolf. If I had known she was the Alpha’s friend, how could I have dared to do this? Wouldn’t I be asking for death?”

Ethan looked at me. He didn’t believe me. Then I could tell he was disappointed.

“Even if you were jealous, you shouldn’t have done something so disgusting to Helena. You know what it’s like to be drugged! You know the harm it does! You still chose to use the same trick on Helena… She is still an innocent werewolf. You’re too cruel.”

I couldn’t say a word. Even if I told him the truth, he wouldn’t have listen.

He stared at me and said, “I’ll teach you a lesson today. You harm others, and you will be punished in the end.”

He called over the werewolf kneeling nearby, “You. I’ll give you a chance to make it up to Helena.”

I was in shock. “What are you going to do, Ethan? You can’t treat me like this!”

“I’m not as awful as you, using those cheap tricks.” Then he ordered the werewolf, “Stand up and slap her face. Hard. Don’t stop until I say so.”

The werewolf climbed to his feet. He glanced at Ethan. Ethan was serious about it.

Then, the werewolf raised his hand and began slapping me.

I lost count of how many times he had slapped me, but my face was swollen. Blood was coming down from the corner of my mouth, mixing with my tears.

My cheekbones hurt so bad, I couldn’t even move them.

The pain was mine alone.

None of these werewolves in the room cared. Not my Alpha, my twin pups. They all watched me being slapped, but none of them stopped it.

Ethan held Helena in his arms and said, “Let’s go to the healing center. They have the antidote for you. You will be fine.”

But Helena wouldn’t let the moment go. She clung to Ethan’s neck and kissed him. She leaned over to Ethan and whispered in his ear, “No, I only need you.”

Helena pressed her lips to his. Ethan looked surprised. I saw him start to push her away, but in the end, he gave in.

With his strength, he could have pushed her off. He just didn’t want to.

Finally, Ethan gave in to his lusts. He lifted Helena and carried her to the private room, closing the door behind them. Their sounds of their intimacy drifted through the door.

Ethan and Helena…

I touched my face. It needed treatment immediately. The pain was almost unbearable.

From the corner of my eye, I saw Joe and Eva whispering to each other. They were even speaking in Italian.

At home, they would sometimes use Italian to keep me from understanding what they were saying.

“Great,” Joe said. “Helena told me to put that potion in daddy’s coffee. It worked! They kissed!”

Eva nodded. “Helena said this way, we’ll have smart little siblings soon.”

I froze, staring at them in shock.

I had secretly learned Italian because I knew they loved speaking it, so I could understand them when they used it. But I had never imagined this.

Helena was drugged with the Wolfsbane Lust Potion. Helena had the pups put the potion into Ethan’s coffee.

Helena had manipulated these young twin pups.

Joe and Eva must have sensed something went wrong. They came over.

“Mommy, don’t be sad. We believe it wasn’t you!”

“About the necklace last time, we’re sorry. We were wrong.”

Their apology was so practiced, so insincere.

I even wanted to laugh.

“It’s fine,” I said. “I’m not angry at all.”

These twin pups were not worth a single bit of my energy.

They stood in front of me and switched back to Italian.

“Mommy is so stupid. She fell for it again!”

“She loves us so much, she’ll never get mad! Remember? Helena always says mommy is like our dog.”

“Right. Mommy is our dog! Helena is so nice, she teaches us many things.”

I watched them saying this, but I didn’t say a word.

So this was how Helena taught them.

Italian, with its beautiful tones, sounded so ugly coming from both of them.

And there was one more thing, Helena still had no idea these twin pups were her own.

If she knew Joe and Eva were her biological pups, would she still treat them this way?