Chapter 1

My Alpha husband Orion's first love, Beatrix, suddenly had a depression episode and committed suicide by arson.

In his fury, he brought me—eight months pregnant—to the hunting grounds during the Hunt Festival and made me prey for the werewolves to chase.

"If you hadn't deliberately provoked Beatrix, why would she have had a depression episode and tried to kill herself by setting that fire?"

I was still carrying our child.

Through my tears, I admitted fault and begged him to spare me, promising I would never appear in front of Beatrix again.

But he only shook his head coldly.

"Seraphina, for the child's sake, I won't reject you."

"But the pain you caused Beatrix—I'll make you repay it a hundred, a thousand times over!"

After throwing me into the hunting grounds, he turned and left immediately.

As more and more werewolves chased me like prey, I struggled and screamed in terror.

During my escape, a rush of hot liquid burst from my body.

Three days later, he finally remembered me, the one he'd left in the hunting grounds.

"Seraphina, Beatrix is fine now. As long as you kneel before her and apologize, I'll let you out of the hunting grounds."

What he didn't know was that I had already died in the hunting grounds.

Even the child he had longed for had been flung from my body during my escape and turned into a pile of bloody pulp...