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"He rejected her for a weaker wolf. Now, the ultimate predator has come to protect her."
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* Title: The Alpha's Regret Her New Hero
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🔥 Synopsis:
"He rejected her for a weaker wolf. Now, the ultimate predator has come to protect her."
Publicly humiliated and rejected by her fated mate—an arrogant pack Alpha—she is left broken and abandoned. But her suffering catches the eye of a far more powerful, ancient Lycan King who recognizes her true worth. He steps in as her new hero, showering her with absolute power and devotion. Watch the glorious, fast-paced face-slapping karma unfold as her former mate loses his mind from regret, desperately begging for her return, only to be crushed by the terrifying King who claims her as his true Queen.
👉 Drama Details:
* Title: The Alpha's Regret Her New Hero
* Genre: Werewolf Romance, Rejected Mate, Alpha Regret, Face Slapping Drama, Ultimate Payback, Second Chance, Sweet and Steamy
* Format: Full Miniseries (Vertical Drama)
* Status: All Episodes Completed
#TheAlphasRegretHerNewHero #ShortDramaFull #MiniSeries #WebDrama #FullMovie #ReelShort #DramaBox #ShortTV #EnglishSubtitles
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00:00To let my mate focus on his position, I stayed behind in the old estate, caring for his ailing
00:04mother. In this ten years, Kalen returned once a year. He never touched me. He said that if I
00:10were to carry a pup while he was away, there would be no one to look after me, and that
00:14would break
00:14his heart. Every time he left, he cursed himself for his failings, swore on the moon he would come
00:19for me once he had made something of himself. In the eleventh winter, heavy snow blocked the roads.
00:25Kalen sent word that he would be delayed. I was about to bring the news to Lady Maren when I
00:29heard her speaking with my sister-in-law. Mother, you've been faking this illness for
00:33over ten years. How much longer? What else can be done? Kalen's heart has always belonged to that
00:38sworn sister of his. They bonded in secret, behind the pack's back. Their pups are nearly grown. If
00:43we don't keep Elena here, she'll go to the city and destroy everything. Kalen's rank as Alpha of
00:47the Eastern Pack would be finished. Let it be. Keep quiet. Kalen said once his position is secure,
00:52he will make it right with Elena. My eyes burned. Kalen wasn't struggling. He was Alpha of the
00:57Eastern Pack, and he hadn't been keeping his distance to protect me. He had someone else.
01:02I went to the training grounds and found the low-ranking warrior who had watched me for years.
01:06Do you still want me as your mate?
01:09Elena, I will treat you well. Forgive me one month. I march out tonight. This time I'll return
01:14with a deed worth claiming you.
01:18I don't need glory. Just come back safe.
01:21I watched him leave, then walked home. The estate should have been dark.
01:25Mother, you should have gone to bed by now.
01:29A tall figure stood against the candlelight. A familiar voice cut through the wind and snow.
01:34Elena, I'm home.
01:38A year had passed. Kalen carried himself differently now. Steadier, with the quiet authority that comes
01:45with rank. He opened his arms, waiting for me to go to him the way I always had. I didn't.
01:51You haven't eaten, have you? Let me make you something.
01:55What's wrong? A year apart and you're not glad to see me?
01:59Are you angry with me?
02:01Go sit with Mother. I'll call you when the food is ready.
02:03Before I'd learned the truth, I had missed him. Had been a little cross with him, too.
02:07No mate wants to be kept so far away, for so long. But once I understood everything,
02:12I stopped wanting anything. Things became simpler. Better to part quietly than to rage and stay.
02:17I remained silent and cooked in the kitchen. Kalen followed.
02:19Elena, what's happened? Have you heard something?
02:22Out here in the backwoods, we barely see a stranger from one season to the next. What would I have
02:26heard?
02:26Don't worry yourself, Kalen.
02:28Elena, I came back to bring you all to the city. But there's something I need to tell you first.
02:32My chest tightened. I already knew what was coming. After ten years, he had finally run out of patience.
02:38You must be Elena. I'm Cerith. Kalen's sworn sister. And his mate.
02:45These are mine and Kalen's. Go on, call her Auntie Elena.
02:48Auntie Elena.
02:49Elena, let me explain.
02:53Elena, let me explain. I was ambushed by rogue wolves on the road to the city. Cerith saved my life.
02:58I only meant to take her in as a sworn sister. But she had no one, no pack, nowhere to
03:02go.
03:02I wanted to give her a home. It was gratitude, nothing more.
03:04If you're hurt, curse me, strike me, I'll bear it.
03:07I only ask that once you come to the city, you and she can find some people.
03:10Going to the city is a good thing. I'm not upset. Mother hasn't recovered in all this time.
03:16Perhaps the city healers will do what ours couldn't.
03:19Really? You forgive me? Elena, start packing tonight. We leave in two days and we'll make it back for Christmas.
03:27Mother doesn't have much. Packing her things won't take long. I'll sort her medicines for the road.
03:31You can all leave at first light.
03:33What do you mean? You're not coming with us?
03:38I met his gaze. My voice stayed level.
03:41Kaylin, if we leave for good, I need to settle the land and the estate first.
03:46Leaving it empty still means taxes to the pack. That's wasteful.
03:50Go ahead and take everyone home for Christmas.
03:53Once I've handled things here, I'll come to you in the spring.
03:56When I had first come to this estate, we lived in a borrowed den with walls that let the wind
04:01through, funding his studies, saving coin, until I had bought this house and these two fields.
04:06It had ended the family's hunger. It had given Kaylin a place to become what he was.
04:11Elena, I'm Alpha of the Eastern Pack now. Silver is not the problem. Give the land to whoever needs it.
04:16Save yourself the trouble.
04:17I earned it with my own hands. I'm not ready to let go.
04:22Trust me. Once it's done, I'll come to you. I won't be long.
04:25Kaylin hesitated.
04:27Kaylin, don't waver. The Council's watching you.
04:29You leave her here and they dig into it and she says the wrong thing. Your seat is gone.
04:34I wasn't slow. I heard exactly what Kareth had just said.
04:38So it wasn't a change of heart that had brought Kaylin back.
04:41If the Pack Council confirmed it, they would report it to the High Alpha.
04:44The High Alpha was a man who made it once and meant it.
04:48If Kaylin wanted to keep his rank, the most important thing was keeping me quiet.
04:52It would be a lie to say that didn't hurt.
04:55Thirteen years.
04:56I had given this mating everything.
04:58Kaylin was Packborn but useless with his hands.
05:00Lady Marin was old and couldn't help.
05:01His brother was worse than useless.
05:03The whole family ran on my back.
05:05I never complained.
05:06I nursed Lady Marin.
05:07I had believed that kind of devotion would hold a mate for life.
05:10I had overestimated what I was worth to him.
05:12I finally understood what they say.
05:14A man who climbs always drops what carried him.
05:17I held back the burn in my eyes.
05:19Kept it from spilling.
05:20So that's what you're worried about?
05:24I can put it in writing.
05:26Whoever asks, I'll say I'm Kaylin's pack sister, his adopted blood kin.
05:31Nothing more.
05:32Lady Marin and Kareth both stared.
05:34After a long silence, Kaylin said, half believing,
05:38You would really do that for me?
05:40I smiled and nodded.
05:42For you, I would do anything.
05:44But to be safe, there's something you need to destroy first.
05:50Kaylin was cautious.
05:51What?
05:51I answered without flinching.
05:53The mating scroll.
05:55Yours and mine.
05:57Out here in the back territories, we hadn't stood on ceremony when we bonded.
06:02A mating scroll.
06:03A shared cup.
06:04That was all it had taken.
06:06No pack record.
06:07No council seal.
06:08So if the scroll was gone, I was no longer Kaylin's mate.
06:12I only had to wait for the warrior to come home.
06:14Then I could be claimed properly.
06:16I expected Kaylin to want this without hesitation.
06:19Instead, he went quiet.
06:22Elena, you once told me that scroll was the most precious thing you owned.
06:27You've given so much for this pack.
06:29For me.
06:30If you burned the last thing you held onto, how much would that cost you?
06:35Let's leave the scroll as it is.
06:37He had seen everything I'd sacrificed.
06:39He had remembered all of it.
06:41And still, year after year, he had left me here while he built a life with someone else.
06:46If he could watch out all of that and stay,
06:48then I had no reason left to hold onto one sheet of parchment.
06:52But I knew him.
06:53He wouldn't simply let me go.
06:57Kaylin, you know how much that scroll means to me.
07:00But for your future, I have to let it go.
07:04Once you take me to the city properly, you can make me a new one.
07:09Wouldn't that be enough?
07:11She's right.
07:12Your position can't afford loose threads.
07:17Burn it.
07:19Elena has done this for you.
07:22Make it up to her later.
07:23Elena.
07:25Hiding this from you.
07:26That was wrong.
07:27But trust me.
07:29I will make this right.
07:31Wait for me.
07:32I will come for you myself with the best claiming gifts I can find.
07:36I'll take you as Kaylin again.
07:37Properly this time.
07:38In that moment, he looked entirely sincere.
07:41I chose not to believe it.
07:43I decided it was only something I was imagining.
07:46I lit both scrolls myself.
07:48The fire took them.
07:49That absurd mating those wasted years.
07:52And with them, the last of what I had held onto for over a decade.
08:00After Kaylin had gone in with Kareth and the children, she dropped the act entirely and sank to her knees
08:04in front of me.
08:08Elena, I failed you.
08:11I hid it from you all these years.
08:16You must hate me.
08:17Her hair had gone fully white.
08:19She was crying without restraint.
08:21I couldn't bring myself to leave her there.
08:23I helped her up.
08:26Mother, I know you love your son too much.
08:29I don't blame you.
08:32The illness was a pretense.
08:34But your body has ought its real troubles.
08:37When you reach the city, listen to the healers.
08:41Elena, how can you be so good?
08:43When I'm gone, who will ever look after me the way you have?
08:48No matter what Kaylin does to you, I will always count you as my own daughter.
08:54I will never let anyone mistreat you.
08:57I understood her helplessness.
08:59I had never held it against her.
09:00But I was done trusting her too.
09:02She was still a mother.
09:03No matter what she said, her heart would always tilt toward her son.
09:06If the day came when she had to choose between Kaylin and me, she would choose him without a second
09:11thought.
09:11Mother, it's fine.
09:13Whoever Kaylin takes as his mate, she'll be half a daughter to you.
09:17You don't owe me anything.
09:20I had barely stepped out of Lady Meryn's room when Kareth was waiting in the yard.
09:24Elena, don't take anything Kaylin says at face value.
09:28The truth is, he never rescued me.
09:31I had thought that Lady Meryn's decade of deception and Kaylin's betrayal were already the worst of it.
09:36I was wrong.
09:37There was still more they had kept from me.
09:39Serith had never saved Kaylin's life.
09:40It was the other way around.
09:42Kaylin had seen her, wanted her, used the blood sister bond as a way in, and destroyed the claiming she
09:47already had.
09:48Calling her his rescuer was Kaylin's strategy.
09:50He knew I was soft, that I always repaid what was owed.
09:53He had spoken to Lady Meryn first and built the story together.
09:56Something designed to make me accept it, to make me give in.
09:59So everything he said about claiming you properly, it's nothing.
10:02Go to the city and you'll be a lesser mate, that's all.
10:05Oh, and his mother.
10:06All that talk about treating you like a daughter, do you believe it?
10:09When it comes down to you or her own grandchildren, who do you think she picks?
10:14Are you done?
10:16The morning they left, I walked the family to the edge of the settlement.
10:19I unclasped the only thing of value I still wore, the Luna Elder's silver clasp, and placed it in Serith's
10:24hand.
10:24That's yours, Elena. Keep it.
10:26I shook my head and pinned it to Kareth's collar myself.
10:30I said,
10:30Everyone in the settlement knows this clasp is the Luna Elder's piece, passed to the maid of the pack's heir.
10:35If I keep wearing it, it draws questions. Better that Serith has it.
10:38Mother, Elena is right. When we're together again, I'll give it back.
10:41Elena, what I give you belongs to you.
10:43In my heart, you are the only true mate this family has had.
10:46When you come to the city, I will get it back for you.
10:49Foster brother, that pendant was my grandmother's.
10:51The only thing she left me.
10:53Could you return it?
10:55Elena, I'm not used to you calling me that.
10:57When there's no one listening, call me what you always have.
11:03Better to be careful. We can't hand anyone a thread to pull.
11:07Fine. Once I've claimed you properly, you can go back to it.
11:12Let me keep the pendant for now. It was your gift to me. It's what we have between us.
11:16I never understood that.
11:17He used to resent the pendant, said a grown male wearing something like that, looked ridiculous.
11:21Now that I was willing to take it back, he had found reasons to keep it.
11:24Foster brother, Christmas is almost here. I'll be alone, and I'd like something to hold on to.
11:29When I come to the city, I'll make you another.
11:32Kaylin gave it up without warmth, pressing the pendant and a folded stack of silver notes into my hands.
11:37At the last moment, he turned back. He gripped my hand once.
11:40Stay home and wait. When spring opens the roads, I'll come for you myself.
11:44There's one more thing I haven't told you yet.
11:46Alright.
11:46I watched them go, then walked back inside.
11:48I reached to the top of the cabinet and took down the pack I had already prepared.
11:54I left the silver notes on the table. Then I turned north and didn't look back.
11:58The warrior I had promised myself to was somewhere in that direction.
12:01I meant to be claimed before Kaylin ever came to collect me.
12:04When that day came, I would be someone else's.
12:06There would be nothing left to untangle, nothing left to demand of me.
12:10Winter roads are slow, I had little silver, and I was too careful with it to hire a cart.
12:13I walked when I could, stopped to take work in whatever town would have me,
12:17and moved on again when I'd saved enough.
12:18By the time the cold began to ease, I was close to the northern border.
12:22Elena, the border war is over. The northern campaign won.
12:25Once they've processed the captured forces, they'll be heading back through the territory.
12:28You'll see your promised mate before long.
12:30Your mate is a hero of this pack. Call it a gift from me.
12:32Hire a cart. Go meet him at the border city.
12:35Hired a cart, and arrived before the soldiers did.
12:38With what little silver I had left, I found the city watch captain and pressed it into his hand.
12:44Captain, my promised mate's name is Aldrich.
12:46When he arrives, please tell him I'm waiting in the second house east of the city gate.
12:52You're Aldrich's promised mate?
12:56He smiled a little awkwardly.
12:58Keep it. Just put in a word for me if you ever get the chance.
13:03I had no idea what he meant.
13:04Aldrich was a low-ranking warrior.
13:06What good would a word from him do?
13:08The captain had probably mistaken him for someone else.
13:10Still, silver saved was silver saved.
13:13Waiting wasn't easy.
13:14I knew what Aldrich felt for me.
13:15He had shown it for years.
13:17But I had been made it before.
13:18I wasn't sure whether he had said yes out of true wanting,
13:21or out of something that would fade.
13:23Then again, I thought it through, and it settled.
13:26If he had changed his mind, I would manage on my own.
13:28I had two hands and enough stubbornness.
13:30I wouldn't starve.
13:31Once I was at peace with that, everything felt lighter.
13:36I started cutting fabric for a claiming dress.
13:38The best material I could find.
13:39Useful if things went well.
13:41A small pleasure for myself if they didn't.
13:43The first time I was claimed, there had been no wedding at all.
13:45The pack had nothing.
13:46No wedding dress.
13:47No feast.
13:48When I'd finally had coin to spare, the first thing I did was return two full jugs to that neighbor.
13:52She had held my hands and cried,
13:53Elena, a girl like you, why did you stay in that pack?
13:55You've suffered so much.
13:57You're strong and you're lovely.
13:58You could have had an elder son and it wouldn't have been reaching.
14:00Why tie yourself to a scholar who can't lift his own pack and grind your life away?
14:04That's your bias speaking.
14:05I trust him.
14:06He won't fail me.
14:07You are such a fool.
14:08Now I understood.
14:09She was the one who had seen clearly.
14:11The day I slipped away from the settlement, I had nearly walked into Kaylin's sister-in-law.
14:17It was that neighbor who spotted her first.
14:19She held the woman back, then sent her husband to pass me word.
14:22Move.
14:23Now.
14:24Elena, that pack was never worthy of you.
14:27Go.
14:28Live freely.
14:30Stop letting them keep you caged.
14:33I'll deal with your sister-in-law.
14:35They won't know you're gone for a while.
14:37I never found out what she said to buy me the time, but it had worked.
14:41For an entire month, no one had come looking.
14:43People, though, have a way of undoing themselves.
14:45On the third day, a cart stopped outside my door.
14:48I thought it was Aldrich.
14:50I ran out.
14:51It wasn't.
14:52Kaylin stood there, dust on his shoulders.
14:54Elena.
14:54His voice worn down to gravel.
14:58Kaylin said, Elena, you have no idea how long I've been looking for you.
15:02He was across the yard in a few strides, his hand locking around my wrist hard enough to grind.
15:06Kaylin said, Elena, you promised me.
15:09Why did you leave?
15:10Why come all the way out here?
15:11I spent half a month preparing.
15:13I rode to the settlement myself to bring you home, and the house was empty.
15:16I said, do you know how frightened I was?
15:18I stopped pulling against his grip.
15:20Alpha Kaylin, why waste your concern on me?
15:22The mating scroll is ash.
15:24I'm not your pack anymore.
15:25Where I go, whether I live or die, none of that is your matter.
15:29Kaylin's jaw tightened.
15:31Elena, I know you're hurting.
15:32But this kind of recklessness doesn't suit you.
15:34You told me you would come to the city.
15:36You gave me your word.
15:37How can you break it like this?
15:39Something in me gave up trying to stay composed.
15:42I said, when we were claimed, you gave me your word too.
15:45You swore on the moon you would never take another mate.
15:48You broke that one first.
15:49So between the two of us, I'd say we're even.
15:55Kaylin saw that I meant it.
15:57His eyes went red at the edges.
15:59He pulled me close until there was almost no space between us.
16:02Thirteen years.
16:03You think that just...
16:05Cancels?
16:06Elena, I know I've wronged you.
16:08Let me make it right.
16:09Come back with me.
16:10I'll give you equal standing.
16:12You won't be beneath Kerith in anything.
16:14I promise.
16:15I couldn't stop a short, dry sound from escaping.
16:18Kaylin took it for pride over the title and frowned.
16:21Elena, equal standing is the best I can do right now.
16:24Cerith, what she did for me, what she did for you.
16:27Are you still going to use that story?
16:29I cut him off.
16:30Kaylin, your apology has no effort in it at all.
16:33Kaylin went still.
16:34His eyes shifted.
16:35What do you mean by that?
16:39I watched the change move across his face and I took it apart, piece by piece.
16:43Terith already told me everything.
16:45There were no rogue wolves.
16:47There was no rescue.
16:48You saw her.
16:49Wanted her.
16:50And used the sworn sister bond to get close.
16:52You destroyed the claiming she already had and took her for yourself.
16:55Calling her your rescuer.
16:57That was cover.
16:58Nothing more.
16:59Kaylin's face went pale.
17:00He opened his mouth.
17:01Nothing came out.
17:02I was done wasting time.
17:03I moved to see him out.
17:04He found his voice.
17:06Elena, listen to me.
17:07Kerith is possessive.
17:08She said all of that to drive a wedge between us.
17:11You know how it is.
17:12No mate wants to share.
17:13I cut him off.
17:14I felt nothing in my chest anymore.
17:16It had all gone numb.
17:17You understand that.
17:19Which is why you kept me out here for 10 years.
17:21Alone.
17:22While your mother faked an illness to hold me in place.
17:24Isn't that right?
17:28I said, if you care about her so much, stop chasing me.
17:31You'll hurt me and you'll hurt her.
17:33I wrenched my wrist free and stepped back.
17:35The Elena who existed before is gone.
17:37She died the day she found out the truth.
17:39Who I am now has no connection to you.
17:42To Kaylin.
17:42To your pack.
17:44Out of whatever feeling I once had, I won't say a single word against you.
17:47I'm only asking you to leave.
17:49My promised mate is returning with the army.
17:52I don't want him to misread this.
17:54Kaylin's spine went rigid.
17:55He looked up at me.
17:56He said, promised mate?
17:58Who?
17:58What's his name?
17:59I said, a low-ranking warrior.
18:01No one you'd know.
18:03Please go.
18:03Kaylin's expression curdled.
18:05Elena, have you lost your mind?
18:07You'd pass up an alpha of the eastern pack for some common soldier with a border stipend?
18:15He said, he could be dead by next season.
18:17And even if he's not, what does he earn?
18:20You'd go back to going hungry.
18:22You're not young anymore.
18:23Do you really want that kind of life again?
18:25I looked at him steadily.
18:27I wasn't afraid of hardship when I chose you.
18:30I'm not afraid of it now.
18:32Don't speak about my promised mate like that.
18:35He may not have your rank, but what he feels for me is real.
18:39Unlike you.
18:40Kaylin opened his mouth, then stopped.
18:42A long pause, then more controlled.
18:45Elena, you've misread all of this.
18:47I never stopped carrying you.
18:49He seemed to decide that words weren't enough and cut himself off.
18:52Come back with me.
18:53I'll show you.
18:54Give me the chance.
18:55The border campaign's war alpha, General Vayne.
18:58He and I go back.
19:00I'll speak to him.
19:01As long as that warrior is reasonable, I'll find him a proper match myself.
19:04I'll cover the claiming gifts.
19:09I had always been slow to anger.
19:11This was one of the few times I wasn't.
19:14Staring at Kaylin, I struggled to contain my fury as I questioned him,
19:19asking if he had lost his mind.
19:21He didn't put it plainly, but I understood perfectly.
19:24He intended to use his status as the alpha of the Eastern Pack to pressure Aldrick into stepping aside.
19:29Aldrick was just a foot soldier, with no standing to resist an alpha of the Eastern Pack.
19:35In desperation, I grabbed the sword from Kaylin's side.
19:38I pressed the blade firmly against my own throat,
19:40warning him that if he dared to go near Aldrick, I would end my life right then and there.
19:47I told Kaylin that my life was not worth much, but if a pack alpha drove a free woman to
19:52her death,
19:52his own fate would not be better.
19:54Kaylin had always thought of me as cautious, and someone who valued her own life.
19:59He had never imagined I would resort to threatening my own life.
20:03He froze instantly, his voice dropping low as he urged me to put down the sword,
20:07saying we could talk things through.
20:09I didn't move an inch, firmly telling him there was nothing to talk about.
20:13If he didn't want me dead, he had to write down his promise immediately.
20:17The promise was simple.
20:18From that day on, if anything happened to me or my betrothed, Aldrick,
20:23he would be held fully responsible.
20:26Kaylin had spent years in pack politics,
20:28and would never willingly leave evidence that could be used against him.
20:31But as he looked at the sword pressed to my throat, his tone remained steady.
20:35He agreed to write it down, but said he had come in a hurry and had nothing to write with,
20:40asking me to go inside to find him ink and parchment.
20:43I didn't think ahead, turning toward the house at once.
20:46But the moment my back was to him, he moved.
20:50He snatched the sword from my hand, didn't even glance at me.
20:53He ordered his escort to hold me while he went to find General Vane.
20:57His men reacted quickly, seizing me before I could respond.
21:01I couldn't even utter a curse.
21:03Just then, a deep, calm, and resonant voice came from beyond the gate.
21:08The voice asked Alpha Kaylin why he was there,
21:11and mentioned that he had heard his name, wondering if something was wrong.
21:17I didn't recognize that voice.
21:19But moments later, I heard Kaylin's tone shift to one of deference as he greeted the man,
21:24addressing him as General Vane and saying what perfect timing his arrival was.
21:28He added that it was nothing urgent, just a small favor he wanted to ask of General Vane.
21:33Only then did I realize that the man before me was General Vane, the War Alpha of the Northern Territory.
21:39General Vane smiled and readily agreed to help,
21:42but asked Alpha Kaylin to wait a moment while he finished a piece of business first.
21:46Kaylin stepped back toward the gate quickly,
21:48respectfully saying he was willing to wait and telling General Vane to take his time.
21:53General Vane then dismounted from his horse and pointed directly at my door.
21:57He said that as it happened, his business was right there.
22:01Kaylin stopped abruptly, looking stunned.
22:04General Vane looked at him without further explanation,
22:07only stating that he had come to negotiate a claiming.
22:10Kaylin froze completely, unconsciously stepping in front of the gate.
22:14He tried to persuade General Vane, saying that his mate bond was well known,
22:18his children were nearly grown, and such a thing would be inappropriate.
22:23General Vane laughed heartily, shook his head, and told Kaylin he had misunderstood.
22:28This claiming was not for himself, but on behalf of his sworn son,
22:33who had been injured and couldn't come in person.
22:35I was just as confused as Kaylin,
22:38even starting to wonder if General Vane had come to the wrong house.
22:41General Vane himself looked a little uncertain as he walked past Kaylin into the yard.
22:45His escort, not wanting to get into trouble, let me go.
22:50Born in the north, General Vane was straightforward and didn't notice anything amiss.
22:55He looked straight at me and asked if I was Elena.
22:58I nodded slowly.
22:59He immediately looked satisfied, confirming he had come to the right place.
23:03He told me that his sworn son was my betrothed, Aldrich.
23:10Upon hearing General Vane's words, my thoughts went sideways.
23:14Aldrich was just a low-ranking soldier.
23:16How had he ended up as General Vane's sworn son?
23:19I rubbed the back of my neck and explained to General Vane that I thought there must be a mistake.
23:24My betrothed was indeed named Aldrich, but he could never be General Vane's sworn son.
23:29I even wondered if there might be two people with the same name.
23:33General Vane seemed less confident as he described his sworn son's features.
23:37Born in the eastern settlement of the Southern Territory, with a small mark near the corner
23:41of his left eye.
23:43He asked if these features matched my betrothed.
23:46He added that if it would help, he would have his sworn son carried over for me to confirm
23:50in person.
23:51I stopped him quickly, telling him there was no need, that every detail he described matched
23:56Aldrich perfectly.
23:57I begged him not to move the injured Aldrich, saying that since he was hurt, I would go to
24:02see him myself.
24:04With that, I walked toward the gate, distracted.
24:07But Kalen, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly reached out and grabbed my arm,
24:12stopping me in my tracks.
24:16Kalen stood in front of me, turning to General Vane and saying there was something he should
24:20know first.
24:21He told General Vane that I was his pack sister, that he had raised me, and that he had never
24:26heard me mention the name Aldrich once.
24:29He added that if Aldrich and I had made promises to each other without the family's knowledge,
24:33their bond could not be recognized.
24:36Then he lowered his voice, leaned close to me, and warned me not to say anything foolish.
24:42He said that Aldrich was now General Vane's sworn son, and if General Vane found out I
24:47had been mated before, I would not only lose this claiming, but also ruin Aldrich's reputation.
24:54Those words hit home.
24:55Aldrich had only just found his footing in the north.
24:58If I cost him everything because of my past, I would never forgive myself.
25:01I was still trying to figure out how to respond when General Vane's expression shifted.
25:06He told Kalen firmly that his approval no longer mattered, because it was not I who had
25:11come to them, but they who had sought me out.
25:15General Vane then spoke of Aldrich's deeds, saying that in this campaign, Aldrich had charged
25:20into the thickest of the fighting.
25:22He had taken out the enemy's left flank and brought back the enemy commander's banner,
25:26earning the first honor of the war.
25:28Yet he had refused all rewards from the High Alpha, every single coin.
25:33Instead, he used his achievement to petition the Moon Council for a decree, a recognized claiming
25:39with me.
25:41General Vane finally warned Kalen that if his family dared to object, they would be opposing
25:45the High Alpha's own ruling.
25:48I stood there for a long time, never having imagined that Aldrich would fight so fiercely
25:53for me.
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