Phoebe's POV
The meaning behind her words hit me like a sledgehammer, and I felt my world tilt beneath my feet.
These bastards didn't let the women stay in the omega quarters. Instead, they dumped them near the forest to survive on their own after using them. After taking what they wanted and forcing pleasure from these women's broken bodies.
Once they'd satisfied their sick desires and the women fell pregnant, they tossed them aside like garbage.
Perry had warned me about this—how the Valerium Kingdom valued sons over daughters like some twisted tradition.
Now I understood why Jude and the others lived here, pushed to the pack house's outer edges. They had daughters. Cast out with their girls while forced to surrender their sons to warriors for training.
Only younger girls lived in the omega quarters. Their daughters would join them at twelve, and the sick cycle would repeat.
