My Alpha Husband Chose His Foster Sister

After the explosion, I escaped to a border town and opened a flower shop under a new identity.

Everyone thought I died in that explosion.

For two years, my gravestone has been spotlessly cleaned every single day.

Until today, when a customer walked into my flower shop.

The person who pushed open the door was an old friend of mine.

She stared at me in shock, asking why I hadn't gone back if I was alive.

She also said Kael had been guarding my grave for two years and nearly committed suicide.

Kael was my ex-husband, the Alpha heir of the Dubois pack.

He had a childhood sweetheart.

Her parents died fifteen years ago saving Kael's mother, Luna Raven, during a Rogue attack.

After that, Talia became Kael's foster sister.

After I married Kael, she began targeting me.

The first time, she locked me in a burning building.

I barely escaped by breaking through a window, my entire body covered in burns.

Kael brought in the best specialists, pulled me back from death's door, and helped heal my skin.

The second time, she conspired with several Rogues to ambush me on my way home.

I was beaten within an inch of my life.

Kael rescued me and captured those Rogues, punishing them severely.

She harmed, he rescued.

Over and over again.

Until the last time.

Talia bought a potion from a witch and created a massive explosion.

My entire body was blasted, my lungs critically injured.

As they lifted me onto a stretcher, I used every ounce of strength to beg Kael to report this to the Wolf Council.

He knelt down and gently shook his head.

"Alicia, Talia didn't mean it. Her parents died for my mother."

"For my sake, can you let it go?"

In that moment, my heart died completely.

The next day, I woke up in the hospital, and the first thing I did was call Luna Raven.

I knew she'd never liked me.

My voice was terrifyingly calm. "I agree to divorce Kael."

There was a moment of silence on the other end, then Luna Raven responded decisively:

"Good that you've come to your senses. I'll have someone send over the papers. Just sign them."

Not long after I hung up, a lawyer appeared in my hospital room, mechanically handing me a divorce agreement.

Tears blurred my vision as memories of Kael flooded back uncontrollably.

In our three years of marriage, he'd been considerate and gentle, taking care of everything.

But when it came to anything involving Talia, he never had any boundaries.

The first time we met, Talia locked me in a house engulfed in flames. Later, with burns covering my entire body, it took multiple healers to restore my skin.

Crying, I begged Kael to hold her accountable, but he just held me and said, "Alicia, Talia was just careless. She's not a bad person. I'm just glad you're okay."

From then on, time and again, countless acts of harm were all brushed aside by him.

The lawyer took the signed documents with relief. "Alicia, once the divorce is finalized, I'll deliver it personally."

After he left, I was alone in the hospital room.

Before long, the door was pushed open again.

Talia walked in holding a bouquet of white chrysanthemums, smiling brightly.

I trembled all over, instinctively shrinking back. "What are you doing here?"

She casually tossed the flowers on the floor, her smile radiant yet venomous:

"To send you off personally, of course!"

"The explosion didn't kill you, so I'll have to do it myself."

Then she lunged onto the bed and grabbed my throat in a death grip.

I struggled desperately.

But having just survived severe burns, I was no match for Talia, who trained regularly.

The air in my lungs rapidly depleted, and darkness closed in on my vision.

Just as my consciousness was about to fade, the doctor making rounds burst in, screaming:

"What are you doing! Stop!"

In the chaos, I used my last bit of strength to grab the doctor's hand. "Call... call the Wolf Council..."

Then I blacked out completely.

When I woke up again, Kael's dark face filled my vision.

He was suppressing his anger. "Alicia, why did you report this to the Wolf Council? Talia's been taken away by them!"

My heart felt like a sharp blade had been driven through it, the pain suffocating. "She just tried to strangle me to death!"

Kael frowned.

"I've told you beforeTalia's parents sacrificed themselves for my mother. She's wounded inside but not fundamentally bad. She would never actually want you dead..."

"Not actually want me dead?!"

I cut him off sharply, three years of fear, grievance, and rage exploding all at once:

"She locked me in a fire! She conspired with Rogues to ambush me! She created an explosion that did this to me, and just now she tried to strangle me!"

"Which time wasn't an attempt on my life? If that doctor hadn't come in, I'd be dead! Don't you understand?!"

Kael sighed and reached out to hold me.

I slapped his hand away.

"Don't touch me! This time I won't back down. I will make sure she faces legal consequences!"

Kael was silent for a moment, then his eyes grew resolute:

"Talia and I grew up together. She's just been spoiled and become willful. I'll strictly discipline, criticize, and punish her."

"But I will never let her be imprisoned by the Wolf Council and have her life ruined!"

Before I could react, his assistant stepped forward and placed a document in front of me.

"Sign this, we'll let bygones be bygones, and things can go back to how they were."

I stared at the glaring words "Settlement Agreement" and felt utterly absurd. "I won't sign it!"

"Talia lost her parents young and has never faced hardship like this. She can't handle a place like prison."

"Alicia, be good."

"I said I won't sign!" I practically shouted.

The next second, the assistant roughly grabbed my arm and twisted it hard!

"Ah!"

Searing pain shot through my entire body.

He forced my hand to sign the settlement, then pressed my finger into ink and stamped it down quickly!

Kael stood nearby, watching quietly.

Drenched in sweat, I looked up at this man I'd loved for years, my voice weak:

"Kael... you're doing this to me for her?"

He turned to his assistant and instructed:

"Call the doctor. Use the best medicine. Get her hand treated and take good care of her."

Kael didn't show up for the next few days, only sending a few messages daily.

[I've been swamped with pack business lately, can't get away.]

[Don't be mad. When you're discharged, I'll take you to the countryside to relax.]

[Does your hand still hurt? Take care of yourself.]

But right after each text arrived, Talia's messages would follow.

All photos of Kael by her side.

Pouring her water, massaging her shoulders, even using that self-defense knife he never let me touch to peel an apple for her.

That night, lying in my hospital bed, I suddenly felt an indescribable pain in my body and heart.

The pain kept me from sleeping. Sensing something, I called Kael.

The phone rang for a long time with no answer.

After I hung up, Talia's message immediately arrived.

[Hehe, guess what we're doing?]

Below was a video. Just the thumbnail radiated an intensely intimate atmosphere.

My hands trembling, I opened it. In the video, Talia was disheveled, flushed, leaning against the headboard.

She suddenly got up and tightly wrapped her arms around Kael's waist from behind, pressing her heated body against his broad back.

"Kael... don't go... I feel terrible... that wine... was too strong..."

"If you leave... something bad will happen to me... please..."

Kael's steps halted abruptly. He looked back at Talia's hazy eyes.

Finally, he gritted his teeth and hung up on my call.

He turned and helped Talia back onto the bed. "I can only stay until morning."

The video then plunged into darkness, with only a low growl and Talia's satisfied soft laughter.

I felt frozen to my core, clutching my phone, stubbornly dialing Kael's number.

All night long, over four hundred calls. Kael didn't answer a single one.

Not until the next day, when dawn broke, did I receive a few words:

[I was handling an emergency pack situation last night.]

I twisted my lips in a sardonic smile.

So his "emergency situation" was having sex with another woman.

The day I was discharged was my birthday.

Kael personally came to pick me up and threw me a birthday party at a restaurant.

The banquet hall was exquisitely decorated, and he stayed by my side the entire time.

After cutting the cake, he gently fastened a custom-made pure gold necklace around my neck.

It drew countless envious looks.

But all I felt was that necklace pressing on my chest like a mountain.

Midway through, I couldn't breathe and got up to go to the restroom.

Just as I reached the hallway corner, Talia blocked my path.

"Well, well, if it isn't tonight's happiest woman, Alicia?"

She leaned against the wall, arms crossed, her face full of mockery.

I didn't want to deal with her and turned to leave, but she quickly stepped forward to block me.

"Kael values you so muchthrowing you a party, giving you such an expensive necklace. You must be feeling pretty smug, right?"

"But last time when you reported me to the Wolf Council, didn't he force you to sign a settlement and get me out?"

"Do you know how much Kael can't live without me? We've been through everything together over the years! And yet you still shamelessly cling to him. Tell me, shouldn't I hate you?"

These words were like poisoned blunt knives, repeatedly torturing my already shattered heart.

My face went pale. I just wanted to leave as quickly as possible.

But she wouldn't let it go, suddenly grabbing my hand, her nails digging into my flesh.

"You didn't die last time. Let's see if your luck holds this time!"

As soon as she finished speaking, two burly werewolves emerged from the shadows in the hallway, grabbed me from both sides, and dragged me without question into an empty room on the top floor!

I struggled in terror, but my strength was nothing against them.

Talia's eyes were vicious yet triumphant:

"Alicia, since Kael likes you, I'll destroy you completely! Let's see if he'll still want a mate who's been ruined!"

A sleazy-looking man walked toward the bed with a lecherous grin. I fought desperately, drowning in despair.

Talia even pulled out her phone, ready to record everything!

Just as that disgusting hand was about to touch my clothing, the door was kicked open with a bang!

Kael stormed in like an enraged beast, radiating terrifying violence.

Seeing me on the bed, restrained and disheveled, his eyes blazed with fury.

With one clean shoulder throw, he instantly slammed the man approaching me to the ground. The guy didn't even have time to scream before passing out.

"Alicia!"

He rushed over, released my restraints, and held me tightly in his arms.

"Don't be afraid! I'm here! It's okay now..."

The terror of narrowly escaping and overwhelming grievance burst through my defenses. I broke down crying in his arms.

He scooped me up, carefully wrapping me in his coat, preparing to leave.

As he passed Talia, his steps paused, his eyes cold:

"Talia! I've tolerated your willful behavior before for your parents' sake, but you dare use such despicable methods to hurt my wife!"

"If anything had happened to Alicia today, I would never forgive you!"

Talia was frightened by the undisguised killing intent in his eyes and stepped back, then shrieked as if wounded:

"What are you going to do! Send me to prison?"

"Fine! Kael, if you want my life, I'll give it back to you right now!"

With that, she unexpectedly pulled out a knife and thrust it toward her own chest!

"Talia!"

Kael's face went deathly pale. Almost instinctively, he dropped me and shot toward Talia like lightning!

Caught off guard, I was thrown onto the cold, hard floor. My injuries were aggravated, sending waves of pain through my body.

I struggled to get up, only to see Kael frantically carrying a blood-covered Talia and running out the door.

I walked to the window and watched Kael rush out of the building carrying Talia, jump into his SUV.

The engine roared violently as the vehicle sped away.

Not once did he look back at me.

I collapsed on the cold floor, watching the direction the car disappeared, my heart filled with nothing but endless desolation.

Finally, I steadied myself, slowly stood up, and walked home alone.

Kael had also returned.

He grabbed my wrist, his grip so hard it felt like he'd crush my bones:

"Talia's bleeding internally. You're the only nearby match for her blood type!"

My vision went dark, blood rushing to my head.

"No! Kael, have you lost your mind! Why should I save her?"

But he gripped my arm tightly, his eyes pleading:

"Alicia! Talia tried to kill herself because of what I said. I can't let her die! She's still young! Donating some blood won't hurt you much. I'll get the best doctors to help you recover and make it up to you tenfold later, okay?"

I resisted hysterically, but in the end, he dragged me into the operating room and pressed me onto the surgical table!

"Kael! I hate you!!"

Before the anesthesia took effect, my cries became my last conscious memory.

When I woke up again, it was the next day.

Kael was keeping watch by the bed. Seeing me open my eyes, he immediately came over:

"Alicia, you're awake?"

He pulled out various expensive nutritional supplements, vitamins, and gifts, but I just stared numbly at the ceiling, my eyes vacant.

That day, while Kael went out to buy me porridge, the recovered Talia snuck into my room. "Well, well, if it isn't my lifesaver?"

"Alicia, you're so patheticunconscious for so long! Nearly all the blood in your body was transfused to me. Thanks to you, I survived."

I felt nothing but disgust and said hoarsely, "Get out."

She glared at me viciously. "A blood bank acting all high and mighty!"

With that, she stormed out angrily.

Shortly after, Kael burst into the room, immediately accusing me: "Alicia! Why did you bribe a nurse to poison Talia's medication?!"

I was baffled. "What?"

"Talia said! You hate that I forced you to save her, so you bribed a nurse to add poison to her medicine, causing her to have a severe toxic reaction. She just barely survived the emergency room!"

His tone was stern, filled with unquestionable accusation.

"I didn't!"

Finally unable to take it anymore, I sat up abruptly, tears streaming down my face as I screamed:

"Kael! I've had enough! Really had enough! You always only believe her! Always favor her! I was nearly killed by her! I'm covered in injuries!"

"And you?! Besides forcing me to sign settlements, forcing me to donate blood, forcing me toward death, what have you ever done for me?!"

"Your love makes me sick! Absolutely sick!"

Kael froze.

The door opened, and Talia leaned against the frame, her voice tearful:

"Kael, you promised me! You said you'd hand her over to me for three days!"

Kael looked at the weak Talia, intense struggle flashing in his eyes, but ultimately he agreed.

"These three days, you cannot endanger Alicia's life. That's the bottom line!"

"Don't worry, I just want to teach her a lesson. I won't kill her." Talia immediately promised.

I looked at him in disbelief. Kael was actually voluntarily handing me over to be tortured, just to appease Talia?!

"Kael! You dare!!"

I tried to get out of bed in terror.

Talia waved her hand, and two burly men in work clothes entered, unceremoniously dragging my weakened body from the hospital bed.

"Kael! Save me! No! I don't want to go!"

I cried out desperately, reaching toward him.

But he just clenched his fists, stood in place, closed his eyes, and remained unmoved.

For the next three days, I was held by Talia in a remote abandoned factory. She used every method to torture me.

Whipping, sleep deprivation, forcing me to consume vomitshe exhausted every means to humiliate my body and dignity.

Not until I was tortured to the brink of death did she stop and have someone dump me like garbage back at the emergency room.

I don't know how long I was unconscious. When I woke up, the doctor breathed a sigh of relief. "You're finally awake! We almost lost you! You need to notify your family to come."

He returned my phone. As soon as the screen lit up, I saw an encrypted message from Luna Raven: "The divorce is finalized. Leave Kael quickly."

Thinking of Kael's obsessive personality, I dialed Luna Raven's private number and pleaded hoarsely, "Please help me forge a death certificate and use an unclaimed female corpse to replace me."

"If I suddenly disappear, Kael will definitely use every resource to search the world for me. Rather than endless entanglement, better to let him think I'm deada clean break. Also, I need you to find me a witch. I need to sever the mate bond with Kael."

Raven was silent for a moment, then finally relented. "Follow my people. I'll handle the rest."

Under Raven's arrangement, I left through the back door and headed straight to the airport.

Meanwhile, Kael stared at his watch.

The moment the three days were up, he immediately called Talia, his tone urgent: "Three days are up! Where's Alicia? I warned youno fatalities!"

Talia's voice was aggrieved. "You miss her that much? Don't worry, I sent her back to the hospital."

Kael immediately drove over. Just as he reached the operating room door, the light went out.

The doctor removed his mask and shook his head heavily. "Sir, I'm sorry for your loss. The patient was tortured beyond recognition, injuries too severe. We did everything we could."

Then a gurney covered with a white sheet was wheeled out.

Boom!

Kael felt a roaring in his ears, his mind instantly blank.

He violently pulled back a corner of the white sheet.

"No!!!"