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00:07my best friend stole my future alpha on bonding day she wore my luna gown he followed half dressed
00:13marked i smiled and gave my blessing because the moment he touched me my grandmother's moonstone
00:18charm shattered she said if it breaks run a catastrophe was averted whoever was closest
00:24got what was meant for me that morning chantelle claimed it was an accident i put on your luna gown
00:30by mistake and ian drank too much he didn't even realize who who he was with chantelle in my torn
00:36gown marks everywhere ian wouldn't look at me my dad kicked him to the floor ian hugged me caitlin i
00:46messed up but we can't ignore what happened please just let us be happy i'd always said no everyone
00:53expected me to explode instead i smiled so go ahead you two can complete the bond today
01:00right here ian breathed out like i'd freed him caitlin hale you're really letting these two
01:07trash wolves get away with this my mother screamed i'd humiliated our family i grabbed both of them
01:14and pulled them away before they lost control they were shaking with rage at the corner of the hallway
01:20i reached inside my dress and took out the moonstone charm my grandma had left me or rather
01:25what was left of it it had split clean in half the second they saw it all the anger drained
01:31from
01:31their faces mom dad grandmom's charm broke
01:39now it was in two pieces in my hand
01:43mom grabbed my wrist and hauled me into the elevator
01:46she stared at the broken moonstone then at me this just happened dad's face went from red to gray
01:52his fingers trembled no way then it broke when ian hugs me
02:01mom and dad exchanged a look panic on their faces hit me harder than anything upstairs
02:05the moonstone charm was no ordinary keepsake
02:10it was meant to intercept one catastrophe for me just one if it broke something catastrophic had
02:15just been diverted
02:15we're moving now hurry
02:18outside my parents kicked for ian's photo scans and took mine
02:21mom told the coordinator
02:23every word every photo every image
02:27nothing with my name could stay
02:28i pulled out my phone and deleted everything of ian
02:31his number his photos his contact info everything we fled the lodge in a panic
02:38that same night my whole family left the city
02:42the reason my whole family panicked that hard was the moonstone charm
02:45my grandma wasn't just an old woman with stories
02:47she was the seer the day she died was a bright winter afternoon
02:51she was sitting in the yard in her rock when she called my name
02:53caitlin
02:54i was eight she took off the moonstone charm
02:57she had worn her whole life and tied it around my neck
03:00she told me to keep it on never take it off
03:02if it ever broke it meant it had just blocked disaster for me
03:05then i had to run immediately away from whoever was closest when it shattered
03:09when the stone breaks it won't be bad luck it'll be ruin
03:12i didn't understand i asked her what kind of ruin
03:15she locked eyes with me and rasped three words
03:18three pines hollow
03:21three pines hollow
03:22just those three words
03:24then she leaned back in the chair
03:26closed her eyes
03:27and passed away peacefully
03:29grandma
03:30her funeral was huge
03:32not just our pack came
03:33important people from six neighboring territories showed up too
03:37that was how much her name still carried
03:39afterward i told my parents everything
03:41what grandma had given me
03:43what she had said
03:44then i asked them what three pines hollow meant
03:46they refused to answer
03:48instead they packed our bags and retreated to the city overnight
03:57years later all those buried memories came rushing back what happened between me ian and chantelle spread all over social
04:05media at first everyone dragged chantelle called her trash for sleeping with her best friend's fiancee but then people found
04:12out i hadn't screamed i hadn't fought i handed over the groom and the entire bonding ceremony without a scene
04:18and suddenly they turned on me now i was the coward i had the
04:21the weak one the rumors got uglier by the hour but i didn't care let them talk
04:28chantelle stole my place in the ceremony now she was standing in the luna's place ian's publicly recognized mate and
04:34she loved every second of it she posted non-stop a diamond ring the size of a robin's egg a
04:40two million dollar mating token ian kneeling to fasten an old family anklet around her ankle closet after closet of
04:47luxury goods every post screamed the same thing she had won and her captions thanked me
04:53thanks caitlin and thanks to the version of me who was brave enough to chase love
05:00she said this time she was getting both money and love i looked at their fake happiness and laughed
05:05she had no idea what she had taken from me she took everything public bragging about stealing my ceremony like
05:10it was a bold love story
05:12overnight she gained half a million followers comments cheered for her then people found out my family had moved they
05:18called us cowards and losers i could take the insults aimed at me
05:22but when they mocked my parents i snapped i wrote in chantelle's comments say what you want about me but
05:28leave my family out of it and stop using me for clout
05:31chantelle never replied she just liked every comment that trashed me
05:36i shook my head the moon goddess sees everything we moved half a territory away
05:42mom suggested a nearby city but dad insisted on going hundreds of miles so we went
05:47that night i finally asked my parents what grandma meant by ruin their faces were stiff
05:53mom dad when grandma said ruin what exactly did she mean
06:01maybe it's time we tell her
06:04dad hesitated you tell her ruin how
06:08i asked what kind of ruin like a wildfire or landslide
06:12do you remember three pines hollow
06:16yeah grandma said it right before she died
06:18mom's expression turned uneasy
06:20she explained that three pines hollow was a settlement just beyond our old pack lands
06:24hundreds of people lived there
06:26then one night every single person was found hanging
06:29the warmth of the table died instantly
06:32i was stunned
06:34all this time i thought grandma had meant a natural disaster
06:37a flood an earthquake i never imagined something so twisted
06:41my parents both looked uneasy they answered together
06:44that place was under a curse
06:46we finished dinner but the shock stayed with me
06:48no wonder grandma had given me that moonstone right before she died
06:52that little stone had blocked something huge
06:54something monstrous
06:56grandma hadn't just read fate for others
06:58she had seen mine too
06:59just thinking about three pines hollow
07:02made my neck prickle
07:03hundreds of people hanging overnight
07:05that wasn't just tragedy
07:07that was a nightmare but one question kept digging at me
07:10why hadn't the charm broken earlier
07:13why only after ian and chantelle crossed that line together
07:16i was still sitting there half in awe of how terrifyingly sharp she had been
07:21when my phone rang an unknown number
07:23caitlin
07:25are you okay caitlin are you okay it was ian's smooth voice
07:30i hung up immediately and blocked the number
07:33not after that night
07:35after that i stopped answering every unknown call
07:38i was terrified
07:40meanwhile chantelle kept showing off online like she had won the world
07:44luxury cars
07:45designer watches
07:47gold
07:48silver
07:49late that night
07:50chantelle went live
07:51she was dressed to kill
07:53full glam
07:54pale fur
07:55pack crest jewelry
07:56lounging on a couch inside the alpha estate
07:59like she'd been born there
08:00people flooded in
08:02praising her looks
08:03she played the part perfectly
08:05she said she was bored and wanted to spend time with everyone
08:08then she showed off a few designer bags
08:11and then because of the comments
08:12she brought me up again
08:15some girls are just not cut out for it
08:17even if you spoon feed them they still can't swallow it
08:20she laughed and claimed i'd never truly treated her like a best friend
08:24she called it classic insecure friend behavior
08:27and she leaned back and smiled wider
08:29she said i was probably hiding somewhere
08:31that my family ran the same night she and ian bonded
08:35her whole family ran away that night
08:37afraid that i would come back as the alpha's wife to take revenge
08:41lie after lie
08:44listening to her rewrite everything i kept thinking
08:47how the hell had i ever been this blind
08:50but while she was busy smearing me people in the live stream started noticing
08:54something strange wait did her closet just move did anybody else see that
08:59why does it look like something's in there
09:01chantelle check behind you
09:06at first she didn't notice the comments
09:08then the chat moved so fast the whole screen seemed to scream at her to turn
09:12around and i saw it too the closet behind her was cracked open
09:16just a sliver in that narrow gap there appeared to be an eye
09:20you people are so sick you love trying to freak me out
09:25she insisted no one else was in the estate that night
09:27then as if to prove a point she walked over to the closet in her heels
09:31grabbed the handle and yanked it over
09:33a man in black leather tumbled out upside down and hit the floor
09:37expensive jewelry spilled around in here
09:40don't let it touch me
09:41then he looked up not at chantelle but past her
09:44at something behind her he let out a raw broken scream
09:47dropped to his knees and started prostrating himself
09:51slamming his forehead into the floor until blood pooled
09:54chantelle froze for half a second then clutched her chest and screamed for help
09:58everything turned chaotic someone hit the phone the live stream crashed sideways
10:02after that i couldn't see what happened then i thought of what my mom had told me about
10:06three pines hollow and a sick feeling twisted in my stomach
10:09maybe this was the beginning of that ruin because i knew one thing for sure
10:12there was something old and wrong inside the alpha state now
10:19the break-in at the alpha state blew up online
10:23ian rushed back to calm chantelle i had been watching the live stream too but exited as soon
10:28as ian appeared that ruin was getting closer i wanted nothing tying me to him
10:33my phone lit up sophie my college roommate messaged me she knew chantelle too
10:39sophie said she heard what chantelle did and told me not to be upset
10:43i wasn't heartbroken anymore so i just thanked her i turned sophie down flat
10:48then she asked if i wanted payback that made me pause
10:52sophie and chantelle had always been close did i hate chantelle
10:56yes but go near her no she was sleeping beside ian standing in my place i turned sophie down flat
11:04she kept pushing trying too hard i got annoyed and muted her
11:10mom dad
11:13what is all this are we stocking up for the apocalypse cut back on those doom day novels
11:19but this time it's not that different we just don't know how long it's gonna last
11:24for the next month staying alive matters more i had to take time off work or quit
11:29staying alive mattered more and one more thing you're not watching those either they cut off
11:36every way the thing could touch us dad also told me to stop watching chantelle's live streams
11:44i blocked her account
11:47dad sat on the balcony smoking staring at red clouds
11:53this time somebody's done for
11:58we shut ourselves in didn't go out once my parents talk about three pines hollow was still vague
12:04but if hundreds of people really hang themselves in one night what else could it be meanwhile chantelle
12:11and ian lived better than ever luxury stores yachts everything so the three of us shut ourselves in
12:19didn't go out not once until the middle of that month the haunting took hold at the alpha estate
12:27even with chantelle blocked i heard about it one night chantelle woke to crying it got louder sharper
12:33like a blade scraping through dark she realized it came from her balcony on the fourth floor no one
12:39should have gotten there unseen she looked over a woman in a white dress long black hair curled
12:45up silent chantelle screamed servants came running balcony door locked nothing outside no one
12:53chantelle can ian's family said chantelle imagined it until the second thing
13:00ian's younger brother sleepwalked
13:03that night he dreamed of a girl in white by the pool he tapped her shoulder
13:08she laughed high-pitched and sharp the sound echoed through the whole state
13:13then he snapped out of his arms then something dragged him into the pool
13:17two fingers jammed into his eye sockets he screamed guard
13:21one incident coincidence two in a row no chance two incidents in a row no chance
13:32chantelle told it all on live stream what happens in the pack stays in the pack we don't air in
13:38any
13:38pack and stays will plagues we days go air dirty laundry on the web after i listened to one creator
13:44break the whole thing down a chill crawled right up my spine a chill crawled up my spine
13:51just looking at it made me grateful all over again for how far ahead grandma had seen
13:57this was just the beginning worse than three pines hollow i didn't want to imagine
14:04yeah what is it
14:11i sat on the sofa sipping red wine to calm my nerves silently grateful for grandma's foresight
14:16all those years ago then my phone rang yeah what is it you heard about what's happening
14:21at chantelle's place rice right yeah caitlin what do you think do you think somebody's taking revenge
14:26on her what are you trying to say that i did it because i didn't no no i'm not saying
14:30that i just
14:30mean maybe this is karma caitlin i heard your grandma used to be this famous seer that anyone
14:35in your family still know the old boarding rules no sophie was chantelle's go-between maybe even her spy
14:40they could keep dreaming sophie called not about chantelle at dinner i told my parents your grandma saw
14:47this too dad said grandma saw this too i nearly choked oh my god grandma was unreal this ruin can't
14:55be avoided the moonstone only intercepted it for you once only once as for everyone else they'll have
15:01to depend on their own fate as for that backstabbing friend of yours if they really want a chance have
15:05somebody tell them to go south of the city blackwood ridge there's an old rights keeper that can do
15:10anything that depends on what kind of debt has found their line my dad really was too soft-hearted
15:16honestly i had never planned to save chantelle but once he said it i nodded then i passed his
15:21message to sophie word for word and told her reflay it to ian's family they moved fast really fast
15:30go to blackwood ridge right away
15:37ian's family moved fast they sent people to blackwood ridge and brought the old rights keeper
15:42back that same night we stayed holed up at home like cowards we had just moved into a new apartment
15:49every time we went out we wore masks and avoided neighbors we couldn't be recognized or tied back
15:54to ian's line so far nobody knew we were the family mocked online my parents followed grandma's rules
16:00stay quiet stay hidden at first i thought chantelle might dodge this thing but we were wrong dead wrong
16:08someone in ian's family died the first one to go was ian's father
16:15it happened on the night of his 70th birthday he drowned the marks around the bathroom showed
16:21he had fought back hard and there were scratches all over his face either the alpha patriarch forced
16:25his own face into the toilet and drowned himself or something from inside the toilet reached up grabbed
16:30him and held him there until he died a birthday turned into a funeral ian's whole family fell into
16:34panic that doesn't make sense by the old rules your grandma followed even if the rights keeper couldn't
16:40stop the ruin he should have at least been able to slow it down but it's barely been any time
16:45and
16:45someone's already dead maybe this is just the debt coming due or maybe maybe they never found the keeper
16:52at all caitlin call and ask and remember do not tell them where we are i nodded and called sophie
17:03hey caitlin what's up that old rights keeper i told you about did you pass the message on or not
17:08uh huh well um caitlin where are you guys right now the second she said that my whole family went
17:16on alert don't worry about where i am answer my question first i did tell them about the keeper but
17:22chantelle told me that keeper broke from fright what start over tell me exactly what happened
17:30we went to the ridge temple and when we found him
17:36from what sophie told me chantelle went straight to ian with the message the very next day ian sent
17:41people up to blackwood ridge to find the old rules keeper and that same night they brought him back
17:46to the estate the man was gaunt skeletal and faded robes he walked the ground slowly listening to
17:52something under the walls then he told them the truth something the truth is buried deep within
17:58these walls and it is far more terrible than you can imagine the family moved out leaving him toward the
18:05house he covered it in paper wards painted sigils burned bitter herbs the place felt like a coffin
18:18guards heard nothing all night at dawn the family rushed back everything looked the same but the keeper
18:24was gone they searched old gentleman ian found him in the underground cellar curled up against dry
18:33storage bags the flower had turned black the keeper's eyes twitched wildly he kept muttering forgive me
18:40don't come back then he gouged out both his own eyes
18:48grandma's moonstone hadn't saved me it had cut me out of a blood debt
18:54caitlin do you know any other way to stop this dad motioned me to hang up i don't know i
18:59said i
19:00didn't know and ended the call dad we have to go right now we can't stay here either we're leaving
19:07the
19:22province
19:23we left the province in a panic didn't even take our supplies
19:29we bought plane tickets and got out
19:34by the time chantelle found our home address all she could do was curse us out to stay alive we
19:40headed
19:40straight for the countryside and checked into a hunting lodge
19:45good thing we ran fast they started calling me like lunatics hundreds of numbers but i had set my phone
19:53to auto-reject
19:57this time the one who died was ian's younger brother found hanged a deep ligature mark around his neck
20:05but police never found a rope no cord no belt no murder weapon now chantelle was truly terrified
20:13ian's family scattered some fled overseas some begged the pack council for protection everyone
20:19tried to get away from ian's bloodline back chantelle and ian brought in more warders more rights workers
20:24day and night dad just said it was useless back then even hundreds of people together at three pines hollow
20:30didn't survive what happened at three pines hollow was bizarre grandma overseen total destruction she went
20:37there and asked if they had done something unforgivable crazy old woman get out they denied everything and
20:44chased her away calling her a mad woman
20:59that same night a child vanished from three pines hollow the whole village searched they found him
21:05trapped inside a dense black thorn thicket the branches were covered in vicious spikes and black
21:10thorn never grows alone it forms a living cage the boys cries came from the center they had to chop
21:16the
21:16whole thing down when they pulled him free he was out of his mind a few days later the villagers
21:25begged
21:25grandma for help i cannot save you
21:39a few days after that the whole village was found hanged in their own homes
21:43no murder weapon no rope nothing overnight wiped out
21:48later grandma learned everything's done
22:03water give me water go away the people of three pines hollow
22:09had ruined a woman who was only passing through she came asking for our water
22:14the whole village helped to track her they locked her in an abandoned barn
22:25they starved her broke her
22:27after a week the sun brought her food he found her hanging dead rotting her white dress swaying in
22:34the dark her neck stretched too long
22:36by then she was no longer in her right mind whatever they did had broken her before death
22:42i thought three pines hollow was wiped out by hanging ian's brother was hanged too
22:48could this be the same thing my parents hated my guess
22:51don't go down that rabbit hole
22:53if your grandmother's charm hadn't
22:57blocked this for you the people dying right now wouldn't just be them
23:07a chill went through me if grandma hadn't left me the moonstone and if
23:12fanyad hin shantin hadn't stolen ian i would be the one trapped in that estate
23:19shantin had become my stand-in then the one who ran farthest died ian's uncle overseer hanged
23:27i noticed a pattern the farther they ran the faster the debt found them
23:32like something unseen was warning don't leave the estate
23:42could this be karma for stealing someone else's alpha
23:47if i apologize now is it too late she blocked my number wronged you
23:56the cheating was my fault my family's being punished now can you please save me i just shook my head
24:04cheating had only redirected the disaster there was something older underneath it all
24:09then ian had a dream a strange girl took his hand and said she would show him somewhere beautiful
24:15she told him to lift the stone pressing on him he obeyed then to put his hand here and pass
24:20through
24:20the waterfall if the stone he did that's pressing then to climb the mountain he did then to cross a
24:25stream she stepped over first and waved ian said okay and was about to follow
24:37the girl's face twisted she snarled you're awake chantelle dragged ian back from the rooftop edge
24:43below was a 10-story drop one more step and he would have been dead the whole thing was caught
24:49on
24:50live stream ian finally understood lift the stone meant throw off the blanket pass through the waterfall
24:58don't go over unlock the door climb the mountain meant take the stairs cross the stream meant jump
25:11i heard about it it scared me numb this ruin could not be avoided chantelle had told ian about my
25:19grandmother so now they were hunting for us more deaths from overseas the farthest runners died fastest
25:28chantelle the first to see the woman stayed closest to the estate and was still alive
25:32i told my parents dad said maybe it was a warning not to run i asked if staying closer meant
25:38better odds
25:39they didn't answer i thought for a long time then had sophie pass along what i observed
25:46that same night ian and chantelle moved back into the estate more than half a year passed ian's family
25:52was wrecked yet somehow ian and chantelle were still alive people said they had escaped the curse they
25:59kept living in the mansion covered in the dead keepers then new updates came both had completely broken
26:05down their minds were gone they couldn't clean couldn't function barely recognized day from night
26:12the estate became a nightmare trash rotting food rats roaches it looked like a giant grave
26:19i thought the disaster was finally over then dad told me something that stopped me cold
26:26ian had been the child trapped in the blackboard thicket at three pines hollow
26:34his parents sent him to a hospital in another province that was why he survived he eventually came back to
26:39himself but forgot his childhood then he was adopted by a good family in his father's line
26:45grandma had seen it on the night three pines hollow fell one person probably slipped through ian's age matched
26:52that boy the death had never ended it had changed houses changed names waited but i still told myself
26:59none of it had anything to do with me anymore then something new happened many people online said they
27:05had all dreamed of the same woman in white every one of them had watched chantelle's live streams
27:10i finally understood what grandma meant by ruin the live stream hadn't just shown the horror
27:15it had carried it it turned every viewer into a witness and witnessing opened the door
27:27when three pines hollow fell she'd not harmed any innocent outsider she still knew who she wanted
27:33but now strangers who only watched through a screen were dreaming of her
27:37her restraint was gone the ruin was still spreading i scrolled through comments people seeing her on
27:45balconies by lakes faceless
27:49i closed the app outside autumn wind acorns falling everything looked peaceful too peaceful the net was
27:57tightening around thousands of eyes
28:02after dinner i helped mom clear dishes she could tell i was still thinking about it i asked if that
28:08thing could travel through live streams through watching how many people would die
28:13mom turned on the faucet with water running she said grandma once said that woman went alive hated
28:20being falsely accused three pines hollow said she was sleeping around but she was only passing through
28:25asking for water i froze she wasn't already like that mom shook her head they terrorized her until she broke
28:35they locked her in the shed by the third day she broke by the fifth she hated herself i asked
28:43what she was
28:43wearing mom shut off the faucet a white dress almost white that night i couldn't sleep i held the broken
28:52moonstone grandma had worn it for 99 years i had worn it for less than 10 it blocked one disaster
28:58then it broke for the first time i regretted not asking grandma one more question what was that
29:04woman's name that night i dreamed of grandma she sat in her rocking chair the yellow dog lay at her
29:10feet
29:10i crouched by her knees she called my name i asked what happened to the woman from three pines hollow
29:18grandma didn't answer she touched my head and said you just live well
29:29i woke up with a damp pillow
29:34next morning dad said he was going to town for supplies i went with him
29:40on the way he told me mom wanted to take me back home for a visit
29:43not now after things settle grandma's grave needed fresh soil also before she died she left a box
29:50under her bed they never touched it mom thought it was meant for me i didn't ask anything else
29:55in town dad bought oranges i stayed in the truck then my phone buzzed sophie we hadn't talked in a
30:03long
30:03time she asked if i had heard about ian and chantelle i typed yeah she sent a long message
30:11two nights ago during a shift change ian climbed onto a third floor balcony saying
30:16once i cross the stream i'll be home an orderly grabbed him but couldn't hold him he jumped he
30:22didn't die but both legs were broken chantelle was completely gone she didn't recognize anyone
30:28every day she hugged ian's suit jacket repeating
30:33it wasn't me i wasn't the one who locked you up don't come for me sophie's last message
30:42if i hadn't given her that ceremony would the one in the hospital be me i locked the screen
30:48outside dad looked old half his hair had gone white since grandma's warning if the charm breaks
30:54leave immediately they had spent their lives running from hometown to city to another province
31:00to this little town beyond any pack land they had done nothing wrong grandma saw it coming
31:08they believed her and used everything to keep me alive ian died with the first snow of winter
31:14sophie sent the news post-op infection multiple organ failure chantelle was sent back to her family
31:20still the same if not controlled she hit people and screamed no one dared live in the estate now
31:26listed for sale for six months no buyers people said you could hear crying from inside at night
31:33i deleted the screenshot winter came the oak tree was there this little town was quiet no one knew
31:40we had escaped such a large disaster the hashtag about the woman in white was scrubbed from trending
31:45not because it ended but because it was too strange and dangerous under the silence the dreams still
31:52happened five springs passed people forgot only we were still alive hiding like survivors on stolen time
32:00eventually we stepped out the air felt clean i was tired not from surviving one terrible thing but from
32:07half a life tied to prophecy i wanted to see the ocean my parents nodded i took a train east
32:13the ocean opened up
32:15waves rolled in endless the wind was wet and salty i stood at the shore my whole life i had
32:22lived
32:22inside prophecy dragged by invisible ropes what was on the other side of the sea the waves answered
32:28nothing maybe the other side was just another sea and the far shore every chained person longs for is
32:35not a place it is learning to live with the water already inside you under the open moon with no
32:41bond and no
32:41pack i let out a slow breath i let out a slow breath for the first time in five years
32:46i was not waiting
32:47for the next prophecy
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