Jasmin's POV
The truth was a secret I carried alone. Before I became known as an Alpha's daughter, I was simply the unwanted child my father never cherished.
There was a time when he had been everything to me. His smile used to light up whenever he looked at me, as though I held his whole world in my small hands.
Everything shattered the moment my mother refused to bear him another child. A male heir. The son he craved above all else. After that day, his smiles vanished forever.
My mother's death stole away the only warmth I had ever known. What remained was a prison made of gold, where I became nothing but a pawn in his games. He would display me before every visiting Alpha like a prize, their hungry stares devouring me whole, their crude comments slicing through my soul, their disgusting offers crushing whatever dignity I had left. Refusal was never an option. One wrong word to any of them, and my father would have eagerly handed me over to someone far worse.
