Mighty Female Alpha, Fearless of Betrayal Chapter 08

Mighty Female Alpha, Fearless of Betrayal Chapter 08

He reached for my face. 

I stepped back fast. “Don’t touch me.” 

That smile spread wider, uglier. “One night, Aurora. 

You used to love me. Don’t act like it would be so. 

terrible.” 

“Repeat what you just said.” My voice came out 

flat and precise. “Money. Sex. Threats against an 

Alpha. Ethan, are you aware that extortion carries. 

a mandatory sentence under pack law?” 

He scoffed. “Pack law. You think that matters right. 

now? Half the wolves in this country think you’re a 

monster. They’ll take my word over yours no 

matter what you say. The more you defend 

yourself, the more guilty you look.” 

He was working himself up, voice climbing, chin. 

out, fully committed to the performance. 

I glanced at my guard and gestured toward the 

phone he was holding. The one that had been 

streaming to WolfNet for the past four minutes. 

The guard turned the screen toward Ethan. 

Live viewer count: 1.2 million. 

The comment feed was a wall of scrolling text. 

Ethan’s face went the color of ash. His finger 

came up shaking. “You set me up.” 

“You said the audience only believes what they want to believe.” I tilted my head. “What do you think they want to believe right now?” 

I’d had the evidence for weeks. Photos. 

Recordings. Chat logs. 

But dropping it unilaterally would’ve invited forgery 

claims. Skeptics who’d never believe I hadn’t 

manufactured it. 

Nothing beats watching someone hang 

themselves in real time. 

The stream exploded. 

“Is this real?! He just tried to extort her on camera!” 

“We owe Aurora an apology. We got played 

completely.” 

“Call the council. Now.” 

Ethan’s legs went out from under him. He sat 

down hard on the pavement. 

I looked down at him. 

“You’re done, Ethan. And you did it to yourself.” 

Ethan was charged with defamation and criminal 

extortion. Thirty days‘ detention. 

Vivian, as co–conspirator on the defamation, 

received equal time. 

The baby–switch hex, too extraordinary and too little physical evidence for the council to act on, I kept to myself. Mating infidelity fell outside pack criminal jurisdiction anyway. 

When the sentence was read, Ethan sat at the defendant’s table looking hollowed out. All that planning. All that patience. And it had bought him thirty days. 

Afterward, they were finished in every pack that knew their names, which after WolfNet was all of 

them. 

Our pack voted to exile them both. 

Every time they tried to petition another pack for 

entry, someone recognized them immediately. 

“Aren’t you the ones from the stream? The 

extortion couple? You’re not coming anywhere near our territory.” 

With nowhere left to go, Ethan took Vivian to the Outlands, the stretch of unclaimed territory where exiled wolves ended up. No pack resources. No structure. Pure survival of the fittest.