bChapter /bb134/b: bTruth /bbUnveiled /b

bChapter /b134: bTruth /bbUnveiled /b

b(/bMarcus ckwood’s POV)

bSophia /bbRivers /bscreamed at me as I walked away bwithout /blooking back. “Marcus ckwood! You betrayed me firstb! /bbYou /bmated another she–wolf, you betrayed me!”

Her voice cracked with desperation and rage. “Elena ckwood’s fate is all because of you! It’s your bfault/bb!/bb” /b

I stopped at my Shadow Moon Alpha’s Phantom Rolls–Royce. My Alpha presencemanded bthe /bair around me as my golden eyes turned deep and cold.

“Silence her,” I ordered my Elite Guards coldly.

As Sophia was gagged by the guards, I carried Elena into the car. Her body felt bso /bfragile in my arms,

breathing shallow from the silver poisoning.

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“Amber, stay behind to handle Sophia’s situation,” L–instructed. “Driver, rush to the hospital immediately.”

The car sped through the night as I held Elena close. Her pale face made my chest tighten with fear I’d never

experienced before.

At the Northern Territory Central Healing Institute emergency healing bay, I carried Elena onto a medical stretcher. Healing staff cleared the way straight to the emergency treatment chamber.

The emergency doors closed in my face, stopping me outside. I staggered back a few steps and sat on a bench, my hands shaking as I stared at those closed doors.

Soon, a pack nurse came out. “Are the patient’s family members here?”

I stood up immediately. “I’m her mate. What’s wrong?”

The nurse’s expression was grave. “The patient has rare Lunar–negative blood type, and we don’t have enough Lunar–negative blood reserves in our blood bank.”

I was suddenly stunned. “What did you say?”

Elena had Lunar–negative blood? But I had seen David ckthorne’s medical records showing he had type B

blood. Neither Richard nor Patricia ckthorne had Lunar–negative blood ording to their pack records.

“We need a donor with the same Lunar–negative blood type,” the nurse continued. “Please contact her family

immediately.”

After a moment of silence, I made a phone call. Fifteen minutester, Amber Stone arrived with a blood donor

who happened to have Lunar–negative blood type.

After the nurse took the donor for transfusion, Amber Stone approached me. “The ckthorne family doesn’t

have Lunar–negative blood, so how could the Luna have…”

I remained silent for a long time before slowly saying, “Perhaps, she’s not the ckthorne family’s child.”

Amber Stone was shocked. “She wasn’t actually the ckthorne family’s daughter?b” /b

b(/bbGod’s /bPOV)

Chapter 134 Truth Unveil

bJust /bas bMarcus /bbckwood’s /bvehicle bdeparted/bb, Hugo /bbAshworth’s /bbcar /bbarrived/b. bThe /bbtwo /bbcars /bbpassed each other /b

bin /bbthe /bbnight/b.

bHugo’s /bbcar /bbstopped /bboutside /bbthe /babandoned bdistillery/b. He only saw Marcus’s Elite bGuards /bcleaning bup /bbthe /b

bscene/bb. /b

bWhen /bbhe /bgot bout /bof the bcar/bb, /bAmber Stone stood by the vehicle. “Young Master Ashworthb, /byou’re tooteb./bb” /b

Hugo’s clenched fist slowly rxed as his gaze fell on some blood stains on the ground. “Whose blood!”

“Our Luna’s,” Amber Stone replied.

His expression darkened. “Who did this?b” /b

“Young Master Ashworth should ask your mother instead,” Amber Stone responded. “I think Lady Ashworth might know something about this.”

After saying this, Amber Stone got into the car. Both vehicles slowly drove away, leaving Hugo standing alone

in the darkness.

At the Ashworth family estate, under the deep night sky, Evelyn Ashworth came downstairs holding her silver Persian cat. She encountered Hugo in the foyer.

She smiled gently. “Hugo, you finally came home? Are you hungry? I’ll have someone prepare ate–night

meal for you.”

He remained unmoved. “Why did you target Elena ckwood?”

Evelyn’s smile stiffened slightly as she put the cat on the sofa. “You came back just for an outsider?”

“Answer me!” Hugo’s tone became heavier.

A pack servant in the kitchen heard themotion and hurried out. The tense atmosphere between mother

and son was palpable.

After a long standoff, Evelyn softened first. “I just locked her up to teach her a lesson.”

“At that abandoned distillery in the outskirts?”

“Yes.”

He gritted his teeth. “Just locked her up?”

Evelyn was confused. “You already have someone you’re interested in, so why bother with other she–wolves‘

affairsb?/bb” /b

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Hugo frowned. “What do you mean I have someone I’m interested in?”

Evelyn was surprised. “Isn’t that so? That Ashworth pack member said you seemed to have taken an interest in a she–wolf recently, someone in your profession.”

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She continued, “Sophia Rivers is also a healer, and she admitted it herself. Could it be false?”

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At these words, Hugo’s expression became meaningful and chillingly cold. After a moment, heughed.

b“/bbIf /bI were interested in her, would I have ignored her for three days?”

Evelyn sat on the sofa, her face extremely pale. “It’s not her?b” /b

Hugo, having guessed the answer, turned to leave.

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bEvelyn /bbcalled /bbafter /bbhim/bb. /bb“/bbYou /bdon’t bneed /bbto go /bbthere /bbyourself /bbso /bbte at /bbnight/b. bI’ll /bbhave the /bbpack guards /brelease

bher /bnowb… /b

bHe /bbstopped /bbat /bbthe /bbdoor /bband /bbturned /bback. “bIf /bbshe /bbhad /bbto /bbwait /bbuntil /bbnow/bb, /bbshe /bwould have bdied /bbfrom /bsilver bpoisoning /bblong /bbago/b.b” /b

bHearing /bbthe /bbsound /bof bthe /bbcar /bengine leaving the estate groundsb, /bEvelyn frowned and bcalled /bthe driver. “bWhen /bbyou /bbtook /bthat she–wolf bto /bthe bdistillery/b, you didn’t do anything, right?b” /b

The driver replied, “Lady Ashworth, we didn’t bdo /banything. You said to cooperate with Miss Rivers, so we brought the person there and left. Everything bafter /bthat should have been handled by Miss Rivers.”

Evelyn immediately understood. She had been manipted by a younger

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she–wolf.

The next morning, Elena woke up in the hospital recovery ward to see me resting with my eyes closed beside her bed. I wore only a gray shirt with my jacket draped over the chair back and sleeves rolled iup /i

My head was slightly lowered, my right hand still gently holding the back of her left hand.

When Elena tried to speak, her throat felt itchy and she coughed. Instinctively raising her bandaged right

hand, the pain made her groan.

I woke up and leaned toward her. “What’s wrong? Does the wound still hurt?”

“I’m thirsty

I got up to pour warm water, then pressed the remote to raise the bed head so she could sit up. I brought the cup to her lips.

She supported the cup bottom with her left hand. “I can do it myself.

I didn’t insist.

Jane burst through the door but seeing me there, awkwardly retreated. “I’lle see youterb!/b”

I took the cup and asked, “Are you hungry? What would you like to eat?”

Elena leaned against the pillow, looking out the window. “Anything is fine.”

I pressed my lips together and stood up. “I’ll go make a phone call.”

In a private healing clinic in the outskirts, Sophia’s cries echoed from the end of the corridor. She was

restrained on an operating table where, without anesthesia, the tendons in her right hand were severed by a

rogue healer.

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After fainting and being forcibly awakened, she was tortured until she could barely feel her right hand’s existence or even pain. She stared numbly at the ceiling, only mumbling about wanting to see me.

When the clinic healer brought Amber Stone and me into the room, my face showed no emotion at Sophia’s pitiful state.

Unable to move, tears rolled from her eyes. “Marcus… Marcus, you clearly said you would protect me. Why… you’ve changed?”

With others retreating to the doorway, only Sophia and I remained in the bright operating room. I looked at bthe /bslowly dripping moonlight herb IV, my expression unchanged.

Chapter b134 /bTruth Unveil

b“/bbShould /bbI /bbcontinue /bbprotecting /bbyou /bbwhile /bbyou /bbmit /bbcrimes and /bbattempt /bbmurder/bb?/bb” /b

bShe /bbcontinued /bbher /bbhysterical /bbself/bb–/bbdefense/b. “I bdidn’t kill /banyoneb, /bbit /bwas all ban /bbident/bb!/bb” /b

b“/bbDoes /bbit /bmatterb?/bb” /bbI /blooked down at bthe /bperson on bthe /bboperating /bbtable/b. b“/bbSophia/b, bI /bbknow I /bowed byou for /bten byears /bbof /bbfriendship/b, but I’ve repaid what needed to be repaid.”

I continued, “Even your son Oliver, bI /bhaven’t treated badly. But what about you? What have you done in my

bname/bb?/bb” /b

Iughed coldly, self–mockingly. “I never knew that someone I’d known for ten years was ba /bviper.”

Calling her ba /bviper, Sophiaughed through her btears/b. “bIf /bI weren’t like this, I would have died long ago. You know what kind of person my adoptive father was.”

She continued desperately, “I don’t know what self–sacrifice means; I only know that selfishness protects me.

At least before I met you, I lived in hell on earth.”

“Marcus, I keep thinking, if you had marked me six years ago, would we have been happy? Would I not have

ended up like this today? Marcus, answer me!”

After a long silence, I said calmly, “I should be grateful I didn’t mark you.”

She froze, her face growing paler. “What do you mean?”

“Do you really

love.

She choked, her breathing stopping.

Ismiled. “Six years ago, you epted my grandmother’s ten million because you were pregnant, right?”

Sophia’s body trembled as she stammered, “How did you…”

“Riverside City District Healing Center, you were there six years ago.” My eyes were cold and emotionless.

“You have registration records, ten weeks pregnant, registered for moonlight herb treatments to prevent

miscarriage.”

I continued, “You were pregnant when we hadn’t ended our rtionship and I had never touched you, so who

really betrayed whom?”

If not for Elena mentioning.her cold constitution and my wanting to help regte her body during

hospitalization by visiting the supernatural medicine department, I would never have discovered this. Six years ago, Sophia had registered at the district healing center’s supernatural medicine department with my

name as the emergency contact.

Sophia cried harder. “It’s not like that… I wasn’t willing, Marcus, I was forced!”

“Would someone forced want to prevent miscarriage?” I scoffed, unmoved. “But the answer doesn’t matter

anymore. There’s no more debt or affection between us.”

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