Chapter 7
News of Mina’s hospitalization reached the Silverclaw Matriarch sooner than expected.
On the fourth day after she was rescued from the Shadowfang Mountains, Alaric’s grandmother arrived at the infirmary in person.
The moment Mina saw her, her first instinct was to rush into the older woman’s embrace. She hadn’t planned to cry. But the moment she felt the warmth of the only person who had ever truly protected her, the tears came, unbidden and relentless.
For the first few days in the mountains, she had clung to the hope that Alaric would come for her. But as days turned into weeks, that hope turned to despair.
Alone in the mist–choked forest, haunted by the whispers of the dead, the face she saw most often wasn’t Alaric’s. It was the woman holding her now–the one who had saved her once
before.
She remembered it vividly. The night her parents died, it was the Matriarch who had cradled her shaking body, whispering reassurances over and over again.
Now, as she looked at Mina’s frail body, the Matriarch’s kind expression hardened into something sharp, something lethal. Her fury filled the room like a winter storm.
“What have they done to my little moon?” she hissed, her eyes blazing with the full weight of her authority.
She turned sharply to the healers. “You’ve been giving her these treatments?” she
demanded. “Do you intend to kill her? Who authorized this?!”
Zane, the Silverclaw Pack’s head healer and Rachel’s older brother, barely concealed his disdain as he stepped forward. “Matriarch, I am the most experienced healer here. My diagnosis is flawless.”
His voice was smooth, practiced, but even he couldn’t hide the tension creeping into his frame as the Matriarch’s cold gaze settled on him.
“Mina is simply… delicate. She’s exaggerating her condition. If anything, she’s playing up
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her injuries for sympathy.” He smirked slightly, as if entertained by the notion. “She always was a bit dramatic, wasn’t she?”
The Matriarch didn’t hesitate. The crack of her cane striking his shin echoed through the room, followed by his sharp cry of pain.
Zane staggered back, clutching his leg, all pretense of arrogance vanishing as he scrambled to regain his composure.
The door swung open violently. Rachel strode in, her expression carefully crafted into one
of concern. “Matriarch, why are you so angry?” she asked sweetly.
Then, turning to Mina, she added with a carefully measured sigh, “Did you tell her something about me?”
She lowered her gaze, but the venom in her eyes was unmistakable. “Mina has always
hated me,” Rachel murmured, just loud enough for Alaric to hear as he entered behind her.
“And now, it seems that hatred extends to my brother as well. But…”
*Slap.*
The impact of the Matriarch’s strike sent Rachel’s head snapping to the side.
“You know what you are?” the Matriarch continued, her voice filled with utter contempt.
The Matriarch’s voice was ice and steel. “Do you take me for a fool?” she asked, her tone
dangerously quiet.
“You know how much Silverclaw money was spent to buy your brother’s rank?”
She took a step closer, the weight of her presence suffocating. “Alaric might be blind to what
you truly are, but I am not.”
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She raised her cane again, and this time Rachel flinched. But before the blow could land,
Alaric stepped forward, catching her as she collapsed against him, her body wracked with
trembling sobs.
“Alaric,” she whimpered, pressing her tear–streaked face into his chest. “I don’t know what
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‘Mina told her, but if it’s too much for her to have me here, I’ll leave. I never wanted to come
between you two.”
“Please,” Rachel pleaded, her voice fragile. “Just tell her not to be so cruel.”
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