Synopsis：On the night of my very first shift at eighteen, my two older brothers brought home a twelve-year-old orphaned Omega. My Alpha brother snatched away the rare healing herbs I’d spent all my savings on—meant to ease the agony of my first transformation—and handed them all to her instead. “You’re strong enough,” he growled. “You don’t need something this precious.” My Beta brother, seething, jabbed a finger at the door. “Get out. Don’t come back.” I said nothing, just picked up the bag I’d already packed and walked away. They assumed it was a childish tantrum, that I’d return in a few days. Relieved to be rid of me, they took the orphan girl on an overseas trip to the Caribbean islands I’d always dreamed of seeing. Many days later, when they finally came back to the pack, they were stunned to learn I had accepted the neighboring pack’s Head Healer offer—a position that required fifteen years of secluded herbal research. For those fifteen years, I could never come home. That night, they shattered.