Chapter 6

My mother chimed in from the side. "Exactly! Lila's inauguration is a great occasion for our Pack. If you dare go out and make a scene, I won't acknowledge you as my daughter anymore! Just stay inside obediently. We'll naturally let you out when the ceremony is over."

For Lila's glamorous ceremony, they locked me and my weak premature baby in a room without even heating, not even giving us a sip of hot water.

Yet Lila enjoyed everything that should have been mine.

The baby beside me suddenly started wailing. I touched his burning forehead, my heart twisting like a knife.

"Kael! Open the door! The baby has a fever! Open the door and save him! I'm begging you!"

I banged on the door hysterically, my fingernails scratching out bloody marks.

The crying finally brought Kael.

"What are you fussing about now? Not letting people sleep in the middle of the night?"

I knelt on the ground holding the baby, begging him without dignity.

"Kael, I'm begging you, please open the door. The baby has a fever, a very high fever. If we don't get a doctor, he'll die!

I promise, I absolutely won't sabotage Lila's ceremony. Please open the door and save the baby, okay?"

Hesitation and conflict flashed in his eyes. "But..."

My mother walked over and said coldly, "Don't believe her! She just wants to trick you into opening the door so she can disrupt Lila's ceremony. Children get fevers all the time. Just give him some fever medicine. How could he die so easily?"

Kael looked at the baby in my arms, a trace of hesitation in his eyes. But thinking of Lila, his expression instantly hardened.

"Elara, that's enough! Stop using the baby as an excuse!"

I laughed, my whole body shaking. "I should stop?"

He didn't understand. "Lila is your sister. Why can't you be more generous instead of making trouble at her important moment?"

Just then, he took a phone call, his face breaking into a smile.

"Mom, Lila's inauguration ceremony is about to start. Let's go."

I looked at the baby in my arms with his flushed face. As if feeling no pain, I desperately broke through the door.

But covered in blood, none of the Pack members passing by dared give me a ride.

I finally ran to the hospital. The doctor shook his head helplessly.

"Why didn't you bring him earlier? The baby was already premature. How could you be so careless as a mother?"

Holding my baby's cold corpse as I returned to the territory, my heart turned to ashes as I set fire to the room.

In the firelight, the drone of a helicopter was particularly harsh. Leon slowly walked toward me.

"I'm sorry. I came too late."