Chapter 3

After hearing this, Maggie thought for a while and decided he made sense.

She immediately began cursing me.

“I almost fell for your trick. You want to escape back to the human city? Keep dreaming!”

“First complete the mate bond with John and have a pup. Only then can you go out to work.”

“Once you return to the human city, bring Dora and me with you. We raised you for all these years, so now it’s time for you to repay us.”

I couldn’t help sneering inwardly.

Repay them?

Didn’t they know how they had raised me?

When I was fifteen, I weighed only sixty pounds and was severely malnourished, which made the contrast between Dora and me painfully obvious.

Even when the other wolf pups couldn’t eat their fill, they at least had their wolves to preserve their strength. Their wounds healed quickly, and they could endure hunger.

But I had nothing.

Even a common cold could last half a month, and winter was even harder to survive.

If the pack’s Healer hadn’t pitied me and secretly slipped me food, I wasn’t sure I would have survived.

I continued acting obedient, wrapping my arm affectionately around Maggie’s and, for the first time ever, acting spoiled with her.

“Okay. I’ll do whatever you say, Maggie.”

“I haven’t been able to come back to the pack for five years. I really missed you.”

Even I felt sick after saying it.

I reached for my phone, but she slapped my hand away.

“What are you doing?”

“You’re not getting your phone back yet. We’ll finish everything first, so you don’t try anything funny.”

I had no choice but to give up and wait for the right moment.

That evening, the Elder from John’s pack arrived.

She had a hunched back and a crooked body, but her eyes were strangely clear.

Dora eagerly led me to stand between John and the Elder.

“Elder, look. This is my sister. Isn’t she beautiful?”

The Elder looked me up and down and said disdainfully:

“She’s all right, but she’s too thin. Her hips are so narrow. How is she supposed to have pups?”

As she spoke, she reached out and squeezed my butt.

Just as I was about to lose control, Maggie slammed her cup onto the table.

“You dare look down on my daughter? My daughter went to college. Is your son good enough for her? The one hundred and eighty thousand dollars we discussed is no longer valid. I want two hundred and eighty thousand!”

“What?”

The Elder was shocked by Maggie’s outrageous demand.

After all, it was already extremely difficult for a pack to produce one hundred and eighty thousand dollars, let alone two hundred and eighty thousand.

John hurriedly stood up and whispered something into the Elder’s ear.

When the Elder raised her head and looked at me again, her expression had changed.

Then she removed the cheap jade bracelet from her wrist and put it on mine.

I forced a smile and accepted it, feeling nauseous as I looked at the ugly faces around the table.

In the end, they eagerly scheduled the Mate Ceremony for the day after tomorrow.

After dinner, I wanted some fresh air, so I walked around the edge of the pack territory.

Because I stayed outside for only half an hour, Maggie slapped me the moment I returned.

“Were you trying to run?”

Dora fanned the flames from the side.

“You left as soon as you finished eating. If you weren’t trying to run, what were you doing?”

I tried to defend myself, but Maggie refused to listen and continued punching and kicking me.

I looked up at them, my eyes filled with hatred.

Maggie grew uneasy under my stare and kicked me again.

Then she tied me up tightly with a hemp rope and violently threw me into a room.