Chapter 3

After Trevor and I had each chosen our mates, we began to forge our bonds in front of all the White Tiger tribe's shifters.

In the primitive tribe, a male could have multiple secondary partners, but only the female who had truly bonded with him had the right to live in his dwelling.

As for secondary partners, they were no different from mistresses in modern society.

Of course, unlike human society, these secondary partners in the primitive shifter tribe were openly accepted and legitimate, not like secret lovers hidden away.

But if a secondary partner lost the male's favor and was cast aside, it was considered a completely normal occurrence.

In my past life, Trevor had leveraged this fact, daring to openly flirt with other shifters while the possessive and obsessive Snake-shifter was in hibernation.

He had always intended to just have his fun and then find an excuse to dump his secondary partners.

Unfortunately, he totally screwed up.

Males were already incredibly scarce in this world, so how could those shifters, who had finally gotten a chance to be his secondary partners, give up so easily?

So, when the Snake-shifter emerged from her cave after hibernation, she was immediately surrounded by the shifters Trevor had flirted with, all demanding answers.

Trevor's excuse for rejecting them was that the Snake-shifter wouldn't allow him to have secondary partners.

When the Snake-shifter learned that Trevor had been flirting with so many shifters while she was hibernating, she exploded.

After a brutal fight with these secondary partners, she dragged Trevor back to her snake cave, her face grim.

Then, she completely cut off his contact with other shifters. When she entered her breeding cycle, she forced Trevor to cooperate, successfully conceiving and laying clutch after clutch of snake eggs.

Trevor had tried to escape and call for help, but the Snake-shifter never gave him a chance to leave.

It wasn't until the day of the ceremony for the Wolf-shifter to inherit the White Tiger tribe leadership, which required every old, weak, woman, and child in the tribe to attend, that Trevor finally had a chance to leave the cave.

Because the Chief's inheritance ceremony involved a ritualistic offering to the Sky Spirits, the location chosen was the cliff behind the tribe.

He saw me, who had always been second best to him, become the Chief's consort, and he was consumed by jealousy.

Then, while all the shifters were kneeling to worship the Sky Spirits, he rushed at me and violently pushed me off the cliff.

"Alex, you've always been second best to me since we were kids! Why do you get to live a better life than me? Go to hell!"