Chapter 2

Even if everyone here emptied their pockets, it would still be impossible to come up with 100 billion.

Nikolas collapsed to the floor and tried to touch his face with my hand. "Elianna, are you mad at me? Did I do something to upset you?"

This once formidable figure, Alpha, now showed his most vulnerable side, eliciting sympathy from everyone present.

But I simply withdrew my hands, unfazed. "Stop clinging to me. You're making me sick."

Nikolas stared at me in disbelief, as if he couldn't believe what I had just said.

As I turned to leave, the doctor standing nearby suddenly pushed my 12-year-old mentally retarded sister to the floor and looked at me provocatively. "Elianna, it's one thing to abandon Nikolas. Are you going to abandon even your mentally retarded sister?"

My sister reached out, trying to crawl to my feet, but I let out a cold laugh and kicked her away. "Yes. I will abandon her."

Leanna rushed forward, grabbing my arm tightly. "How could you repay Nikolas like this after everything he's done for you? You left him to face his illness alone and dumped all your troubles on him! Have you forgotten that Nikolas almost got banished from the tribe for trying to make those men accept you?"

Her words made me frown deeply. "Leanna, aren't you just a doctor? What gives you the right to criticize me?"

Leanna became even more agitated when he heard this, and he waved his fingers, almost poking them into my eyes. "You're not worthy of being his Luna! You and your family depend on Nick for support. If it weren't for him, you would be nothing but a whore who sells your body and soul."

The wolf in me was enraged by her and let out an angry roar.

I grabbed Leanna's fingers and bent them forcefully.

Leanna screamed in agony, a heart-wrenching sound that snapped Nikolas out of his daze.

He quickly knocked my hand away, standing protectively in front of Leanna. "Elianna, you've gone too far this time. Leanna was only trying to help me win you back."

I looked at Nikolas and Leanna's clasped hands, my expression growing colder. "If she can't speak properly, I have no problem hitting her. Is there an issue with that?"

Nikolas' friends immediately stepped in, separating the two from me with hostile expressions. "Even if you're Luna, you can't just bully a tribe doctor like that. You'll pay for this!"

With that, they forcefully slammed me to the floor, the impact so strong that I coughed up blood.

"Don't hurt her!" Nikolas intervened, as if he was the one being harmed.

He looked at me helplessly. "Elianna, if you just kneel and apologize to Leanna, this will all be over."

Everyone marveled at his favoritism towards me.

Looking at his hypocritical expression, my face turned cold. "She doesn't deserve my apology."

Leanna had repeatedly taunted me with videos of them having sex, even drugged my food, causing my child to die.

Yet Nikolas protected her, making the tribe think I was going insane.

Until now, he had still maintained the persona of "loving Luna".

"Elianna, I don't want to hurt you." Nikolas knelt painfully, hesitating for a moment before gripping my fingers tightly and snapping them.

Hearing my agonized cries, his hands trembled, yet he didn't stop. "This is what you owe Leanna. As the tribe's leader, I must be fair."

The pain nearly knocked me unconscious, the wolf within me howling in agony.

The people restraining me tightened their grip, nearly suffocating me.

Finally, as my seventh finger broke, a sharp pain pierced my heart.

I felt the wolf within me growing weaker.

Ignoring the physical pain, I pleaded with tears in my eyes, "I'll apologize. My wolf is dying, please spare her."

Nikolas looked at me with disappointment. "Elianna, how can you lie to avoid responsibility?"

With that, he grabbed my eighth finger and snapped it.

The repeated agony left me numb and my wolf lost its vitality.

My face ashen, I looked at Nikolas with growing hatred. "You'd better hope my mother doesn't find out about today, or she won't let any of you off!"

The surrounding crowd laughed disdainfully. "Have you lost your mind? Your mother is just a stray werewolf expelled from the tribe. Even if she came crawling to clean Nikolas' toilets, she wouldn't be worthy."

Leanna covered her mouth, hiding behind Nikolas in feigned terror. "Luna seems possessed by a demon, that's why she's hallucinating. Nikolas, maybe if we kill the demon with the silver sword, she won't break her bond with you."

Hope flickered in Nikolas' eyes, but seeing my weakened state, he hesitated.

After a few minutes of internal struggle, he still asked someone to bring a silver sword.

Reluctantly, he closed his eyes and aimed the sword at my heart. "I'm sorry, Elianna."

The blade tore through my clothes, about to pierce my skin.

Just then, a pair of hands intervened, shielding me.