Chapter 2

My heart felt heavy, as if a huge stone were pressing down on it, and my fingertips were a little numb.

Sure enough, he said the same thing as in my previous life.

But I refused to give up, and I tried to find an excuse not to go.

“But I have something to do…”

Before I could finish, Ethan frowned, his tone filled with displeasure, and the first thing he brought up was our friendship of more than ten years.

“Audrey, what do you mean by that?”

“When have you ever missed one of my birthday gatherings before?”

“Are we still friends or not?”

My face stayed calm, but deep down, I was shocked.

In my previous life, I had been tricked into the council room by his sweet words, and then my legs had been broken alive with silver nails.

Holding back the pain churning in my chest, I pretended not to notice the stiffness in his tone and kept testing him.

“I have to be there?”

Ethan’s tone was forceful, leaving no room for discussion.

“Whether you still want me as your friend of more than ten years is up to you!”

I always remembered how, in my previous life, after he learned my legs were broken, he unilaterally cut off contact with me.

He had even turned away without hesitation after I was mocked and shoved down by Maya’s lackeys, just like today.

I could not understand why growing up with him for more than ten years had earned me such carefully planned scheming.

Fortunately, I had come back to life.

In my previous life, I swallowed all that loss, but in this life, I would never repeat the same mistakes.

But plans could not keep up with change, and just as I reached the intersection, a car came speeding toward me like it had gone mad, moving so fast that I had no time to dodge.

I instinctively closed my eyes, thinking I could not escape this disaster and that coming back to life was nothing more than a cruel joke fate had played on me.

In the next instant, a force yanked me backward.

After stumbling until I steadied myself, I had not yet recovered from the shock when I looked up and met a pair of deep black eyes.

It was Luke.

My body instinctively felt sick, and I almost threw up.

In my previous life, I had been like a homeless stray dog after my legs were broken, and he had protected me.

But he was also the one who had not hesitated to give false testimony when I was accused of using wolfsbane to murder my packmates, personally destroying my future.

“Are you okay?”

His gentle voice made Luke seem very kind.

But this time, because I had not been deceived, I saw his completely cold eyes with my own eyes.

I remembered when I was accused in my previous life of using wolfsbane to murder my packmates, and I tried to take the evidence to the elders to demand justice.

It was he who, as my mate, announced in front of the entire Pack that I was guilty.

An Alpha’s word was a command.

If he said I had used wolfsbane to murder my packmates, then I had used wolfsbane to murder my packmates.

No one questioned it, and no one argued.

Otherwise, why would Luke, who supposedly loved me so much, personally declare me guilty?

The betrayal from the werewolf closest to me saddled me with a terrible reputation I could never wash clean.

After that, I lost all hope and was prepared to spend the rest of my life like that, but then my tendons were torn apart by werewolves with silver blades, and Luke locked me in his basement.

I became completely useless, a person who could only depend on him.

In this life, I would not only get away from these two evil werewolves, but I would also take revenge.