They called me the useless runt of the pack. Even my own brother was ashamed of me.
My adopted sister stole my room, ripped my thesis to shreds, and tossed aside the last thing my mother left me.
Through it all, my two brothers never once spoke up for me.
Cast out into the storm that night, I was found by the most dangerous Alpha on the continent — Derek in his true form.
For me, he gave up his entire empire. We lived hidden away for fifteen years.
Meanwhile, my sister's fake identity was exposed by the Alpha. The pack learned the truth and threw her out.
Fifteen years later, I returned. Not as the runt, but as the continent's leading scientist.
I'd built a new life. Yet there they were — my brothers, kneeling before me, begging me to come back.
Fifteen years of regret had ravaged them: one wasting away from sickness, the other reduced to a shadow.
But I've moved on. I won't look back.
