Chapter 68. In Honor of Your Bravery

Elizabeth POV

My world splintered around me, each shard of my heart and soul drifting down like fragile snowflakes. That wolf—Beta Skyler—the very one who’d violated me, was here in this hall. He’d lied. In front of every pack representative present, he’d branded me a willing whore, insisting I had slept with him of my own accord. The bile in my throat surged, and I fought to swallow it down.

But worst of all, Alpha believed him. His hard, furious gaze left no doubt: he saw me now as nothing more than an object for his pack’s amusement. I was worth no more than a piece of meat. Humiliation burned my cheeks as every pair of eyes in the room turned to me, appetite for gossip gleaming in their stares.

My hands trembled violently while Alpha shot his furious look from Beta Skyler—Daniel’s brother—to me and back again. That twist of his lips, that cold light in his ey