The Alpha Princess They Destroyed Chapter 07
“This is Ember?” he asked.Â
Then he shook his head and laughed, the sound wild andÂ
broken.Â
“No. That’s not my sister. She was beautiful. How could sheÂ
look like this?”Â
He roared at the firefighters, his voice hoarse and torn raw.Â
A few of them exchanged glances and sighed.Â
They had seen too many scenes like this.Â
It was obvious that the man in the expensive suit kneeling onÂ
the floor was already on the brink of a total breakdown.Â
Still shaking his head, he stumbled to his feet and tried to walkÂ
away.Â
“This isn’t my sister.”Â
A soft crunch sounded beneath his shoe, and he froze asÂ
something on the floor caught the light.Â
He stared for a long moment before bending to pick it up.Â
I recognized it at once, for it was the necklace.Â
When I was twelve, he had personally gone to the chapel in theÂ
pack and gotten it from the priest so it would protect myÂ
health.Â
Now it was coated in ash and soot.Â
He used his fingers to wipe it clean, slowly, carefully.Â
The second he saw what it was, every last trace of denialÂ
shattered.Â
“Ember!”Â
His scream was full of such despair that it echoed through theÂ
entire estate.Â
Even the people outside the villa suddenly fell silent, feelingÂ
breathless and slightly lowering their heads.Â
The Alpha’s cry during its collapse was so desperate and piercingly mournful.Â
Liam suddenly turned around, his eyes vacant, and almost likeÂ
a rolling ball, he crawled to the charred skeleton.Â
He knelt heavily and then reached out his hands, trying to piece together the disfigured bones bit by bit.Â
At the doorway, Zoe’s eyes went wide.Â
She bit down so hard on her lip it nearly bled.Â
Watching the tears pour down his face, she was almost insaneÂ
with jealousy.Â
A dead girl.Â
Why did a dead girl still get to compete with her?Â
Inside the room, his hands trembled harder.Â
The moment he picked up a piece of bone, it crumbled intoÂ
powder in his palm.Â
“No…” He shook his head, shoulders heaving with sobs.Â
“Ember, I can’t put you back together. What do I do? Tell meÂ
what to do!”Â
I stood there and lowered my gaze.Â
“It’s no use.” I whispered. “Dead is dead. Once it’s over. it’sÂ
over.”Â
“Even if you could put it back together, what would it change?”Â
Not long after, the Pack police and forensic team arrived.Â
They pulled the man away, then carefully collected my remains piece by piece.Â
What they could recover was taken to the morgue andÂ
reassembled as best they could.Â
At the police station, an officer handed the exhausted,Â
hollow–faced man a file.Â
“This is the purchase record we found for the gasoline. ItÂ
matches the code on the fuel canister left in the room. TheÂ
buyer was Ember.”Â
Liam shuddered. “That’s impossible…”Â
But the evidence was in front of him.Â
He had no choice but to believe that his sister had taken herÂ
own life.Â
“How did this happen?” he murmured.Â
He couldn’t understand it.Â
She was home now, wasn’t she?Â
Wasn’t all the pain supposed to be over?Â
And besides…Â
It was merely punishment, and she had brought it upon herself. Why couldn’t she bear it?Â
His hand slowly tightened around the purchase record.Â
The paper crumpled and crackled until it was crushed in hisÂ
fist.Â
Just then, the Pack coroner knocked on the door.Â
“We’ve reconstructed as much of the body as possible,” heÂ
said gravely. “But the damage is too severe. There will be no restoration. You should prepare yourselves.”Â
Liam abruptly rose to his feet, disregarding everything, and dashed toward the autopsy room.Â
I followed him and saw my own death.Â
It was a strange feeling.Â
The coroner handed him the preliminary report.Â
“Although the surface tissue was destroyed in the fire, someÂ
of the bones remain intact.”Â
His expression turned more serious.Â
“Especially the kneecaps. Those are among the hardest bonesÂ
in a werewolf’s body. But the victim’s show signs ofÂ
fracturing.”Â
He paused, then added carefully, “In cases like this, oneÂ
common cause is prolonged sexual assault.”Â
Then he looked directly at Liam.Â
“Alpha, forgive me, but as her brother… did you know what the victim had been through?”Â
Holding the autopsy report, Liam couldn’t hear or respond to the forensic doctor’s questions.Â
Because he saw the autopsy report clearly stating, ‘I have ABÂ
blood type.Â
His parents have blood type AB, while he has blood type A.

