Chapter 25

I gunned the engine of my black sports car, tearing away from Frostline Enterprises like a wolf fleeing a wildfire. My knuckles turned white as I gripped the steering wheel with one hand, using the other to angrily wipe at my face, which still stung from the confrontation. Mother's furious expression and cutting words kept replaying in my head, each syllable cutting deeper than the last. "You've brought shame to the entire Frostfang Pack!" "Do you have any respect for me as your Alpha? As your mother?" Each word was like a silver dagger piercing my heart, reopening old wounds that had never truly healed. I bit down hard on my lower lip, the coppery taste of blood mingling with the bitter taste of rejection. The gas pedal met the floor as I pushed the car harder, desperate to put distance between myself and everything that was suffocating me. I needed to escape it all – the pack mansion that had never felt like home, the mother who had always favored my sister Selene while treating me w