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My Alpha, My Enemy Ep
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00:00My fated mate is the one who destroyed my entire pack.
00:02Ten years ago, I saved his life.
00:04Now, I am his prisoner.
00:06I am the daughter of the Silvermoon Alpha, yet I have never awakened my wolf form.
00:09My brother has set boundaries for me to protect, forbidding me from stepping outside his territory.
00:14But if this love is destined to be a cage, I'd rather not have it.
00:18After I'd run for near half an hour, I'd ducked into the dense thicket to catch my breath before pressing
00:23onward.
00:23It was then that a whimper reached my ears from not far off,
00:26a primal sound our kind only ever uttered in the throes of unendurable.
00:29Utter agony that I followed the sound through the underbrush
00:32and came upon a young wolf shifter, broken by grievous, mortal wounds.
00:36Who are you? Don't come any closer.
00:38I'm from a small wolf pack nearby, out looking for food.
00:41How did you get hurt?
00:42No sooner had the words left his mouth than a silver arrow suddenly shot out from the pine forest ahead.
00:46It was heading straight for me.
00:48I was so scared that I froze on the spot.
00:51That's when he suddenly lunged forward, chilling completely beneath his body.
00:55The panic surged through me.
00:56I reached for the silver arrow in his shoulder.
00:58Only to be shoved away with the last of his strength.
01:02Run.
01:03They're after me.
01:04Not you.
01:05Don't get caught up in this.
01:06Just then, the shadowy figure caught up.
01:08I grabbed his hand and pulled him along the narrow animal trail.
01:11Following the route I'd memorized from listening to the patrolling wolves chatter,
01:15I ran towards the most remote edge of the territory.
01:17I didn't know how long I ran, but finally, we saw an abandoned hunter's hut.
01:22Hide here for now.
01:24Eat something.
01:25But he would not take the food I offered.
01:28That was when I remembered the map in my pack.
01:30Before I'd fled, I'd secretly copied a topographic map of the land surrounding the silver moon wolf pack territory.
01:35I'd drawn it up for my own escape.
01:37But in that moment, none of that mattered.
01:39I pressed the map straight into his hands.
01:42Follow the route marked on here.
01:43It'll lead you past the nearby wolf packs.
01:45Once you reach no man's land, you can make it back to your own people.
01:48Why are you helping me?
01:50Why does there have to be a reason?
01:52I saved you because the moon goddess is watching over you.
01:55She doesn't intend for you to die here.
01:58The hunters aren't here yet.
02:00Go!
02:01This was my mother's.
02:03Moonstone purifies silver poisoning.
02:05Keep it with you, and it'll slow the spread of the toxin.
02:09If you get into trouble, you can trade it for supplies too.
02:12You got dragged into this because of me.
02:14I'm not leaving you here alone.
02:15Come with me.
02:18They're here for you, not me.
02:20Forget about me.
02:21I'll find a way to survive.
02:22If you don't go now, you'll never get the chance.
02:25Go.
02:27Don't look back.
02:39Jennica!
02:42How did you know where to find me?
02:43Do you have any idea how dangerous it is out here?
02:45How dare you sneak out?
02:47If I hadn't gotten here in time, you would have been taken by rogue wolves.
02:50I'll never do it again.
02:53Come on.
02:53We'll settle this when we get home.
02:55I followed him out of the crumbling cabin.
02:57Before we left, I glanced back at the direction the boy had vanished, praying silently in my heart that the
03:02moon goddess would keep him safe.
03:03I squeezed the half moonstone in my hand.
03:05I had no idea if I would ever see him again, if I would ever get the other half of
03:09the moonstone back.
03:09That longing lasted for ten whole years.
03:12The moonstone pendant around his neck.
03:14It was the exact same one I'd ripped in two with my own hands and pressed into that wolf boy's
03:19palm all those years ago.
03:20Was it him?
03:21The boy from all those years ago?
03:23Was he Ethan?
03:25Alpha of the Dark Flame Pack?
03:26The woman at his side wore a gown embroidered with the intricate Dark Flame clan crest, a mark only those
03:31closest to the alpha were permitted to bear.
03:33She clung to Ethan's arm, looking up at him every few seconds.
03:35She was declaring her status to everyone in the room.
03:38The Dark Flame beta spotted me in the cage.
03:40He ripped the long blade from his waist and charged straight for the cage.
03:43The blade was inches from slamming into the cage when Ethan suddenly lifted his hand and closed it around the
03:47sharpened steel.
03:48Kyle.
03:51Ethan walked straight toward the cage.
03:52He reached for the bars, his hand closing around my jaw, forcing me to lift my head and look at
03:57him.
04:00Fated mate.
04:01The blood debt the silver moon plaque owes us, I will repay it a thousand times over.
04:07Their heir is still at large.
04:10Keeping this princess alive serves a purpose.
04:12I wanted to ask him if he was the wounded boy from all those years ago, but the words died
04:16on my lips.
04:17He was the alpha of the Dark Flame Pack.
04:19The man who destroyed my people.
04:21My enemy.
04:22If you want revenge, take it out on me.
04:25I'm the silver moon princess.
04:27Please, spare the others.
04:29They never had anything to do with the war.
04:32Spare them?
04:33When silver moon allied with three other packs to slaughter the Dark Flame, they cut my father's head off and
04:39hung it from your territory marker for three whole days.
04:41They didn't even leave him a body to bury.
04:43Did silver moon spare anyone back then?
04:45Later, word came from the clan.
04:47To pacify the remaining silver moon loyalists, the Dark Flame elders had made a decision Ethan would bind himself to
04:53me in the sacred fated mating bond.
04:54Ethan refused.
04:55That was also when I learned the truth.
04:58He'd already had a love, a woman he'd been searching for all these years.
05:01She'd gone missing.
05:03So, all these years, I'd been the only one clinging to that memory, that fleeting night in the woods.
05:08On the day of the bonding ceremony, I was locked in a sparse stone chamber deep in the heart of
05:12the manor.
05:13No sacred chants from the clan elders, no full moon hanging high in the sky.
05:16Everything a true mating ceremony was supposed to have, this room had none.
05:20A maid walked in carrying a vial of dark liquid, heading straight for me.
05:24Without warning, she grabbed the back of my neck, holding me completely still.
05:28In the Dark Flame pack, a red birthmark is a mark of ill omen.
05:33It must be covered.
05:34I bowed my head, letting her pour the liquid over the birthmark on my skin.
05:38It was the only thing I had left.
05:40The only thing tying me to the past.
05:43The maid then brought in a crown.
05:44She said the alpha had ordered it prepared for me.
05:47I stared at the crown, my chest filling with endless, hollow bitterness and bitter mockery.
05:51If he hated me so much, why would he have something so precious made for me?
05:55But I had no right to ask.
05:57No right to refuse.
05:59I could only let the maid place the crown on my head.
06:01The maid supported me as I walked forward, step by step.
06:05Molly.
06:10Is that you?
06:13Molly.
06:16That crown was made for Molly.
06:18Who dared put it on her?
06:20Of course.
06:21He'd mistaken me for someone else.
06:23He'd thought I was her.
06:24The woman he'd loved.
06:26The one he'd been searching for.
06:29She made me do it!
06:32She heard it was for Lady Molly, and she threatened me to steal it for her!
06:37He believed her.
06:39Without a single moment of hesitation, he stormed forward, his hand closing around my throat,
06:44lifting me clean off the ground.
06:45I couldn't breathe.
06:47My face burned bright red, my feet kicking desperately in the air, my hands clawing at his arm.
06:51But his grip was like iron, unbreakable.
06:54Silver moon filth.
06:56You think becoming my Luna will make me spare your wretched clansman?
06:59Becoming your mate is the greatest shame of my life.
07:04Even if I die, I will never be the dark flame Luna.
07:08Just like my heart, it had long frozen and shattered.
07:10As the crown fell, searing pain engulfed me.
07:13I didn't know if he felt it, but I saw his hand around my throat tremble slightly,
07:18as if struggling against something inside him.
07:20Suddenly, he fisted his hand in my hair.
07:22His grip was so tight it felt like he would rip my scalp clean from my skull.
07:26The pain was so intense tears threatened to fall, but I bit down hard on my jaw, refusing to beg.
07:31He dragged me like that across the stone floor, and threw me into the silver chamber.
07:35The deepest, most brittle torture chamber in the dark flame dungeons.
07:39Every inch of the room was forged from solid silver.
07:42Torture devices lined the walls, cold metal to humans, utter brutality to werewolves.
07:47Silver sears a wolf's skin and flesh, suppresses our natural healing, and leaves wounds that never fully heal.
07:53The guards bound me to a silver torture rack, silver chains locking around my wrists and ankles.
07:58The second they touched my skin, it burned like pressing my bare flesh to a red-hot iron plate.
08:02The chains quickly tore through my skin, blood seeping out, dripping down my arms and legs onto the silver floor
08:08below.
08:09The bright, cold metal reflected the dark pool of blood gathering beneath me.
08:13Outside the silver chamber, in the master bedroom at the top of the manor, Ethan sat in a chair by
08:18the window.
08:19One hand clenched so tight around the armrest his nails dug deep into the wood, leaving five deep claw marks
08:24in their wake.
08:24His other hand pressed hard against his chest.
08:27His knuckles whitened, veins bulged on his wrists, brows furrowed tight.
08:30Through our fated bond, every ounce of pain I endured in the silver chamber transferred perfectly to him.
08:35When a silver needle pierced my fingertip, his finger twitched.
08:38When silver chains burned my wrist, an eerie red mark appeared on his.
08:42But he didn't call it off.
08:43He just sat there, silently enduring the backlash of the mating bond, holding on through sheer force of will, fueled
08:49by nothing but hatred.
08:50He didn't make a single sound.
08:52No one knew we were fated mates.
08:54That's when Vivian arrived.
08:55She wore an opulent deep red gown, completely out of place in a damp, dark silver chamber.
08:59She walked slowly toward me, lifted her foot, and pressed it down hard on my already mangled hand, the one
09:04the silver needles had pierced through.
09:05She ground her heel into the wound, hard.
09:07My hand curled beneath her foot.
09:09My fingers feeling like they were about to be crushed clean off.
09:12Cold sweat broke out across my entire body.
09:14The pain so intense my vision went black, and I nearly passed out again.
09:17A fallen pack's worthless filth.
09:19A waste who can't even shift into her wolf form.
09:21You dare to covet Ethan?
09:22You dare to compete with me?
09:24Today, I'm gonna show you what true agony is.
09:27You think Ethan's gonna come save you?
09:28He's wishing you'd die in here.
09:30To him, you're nothing.
09:31Not even a cheap replacement.
09:32She let out a cold laugh and turned to leave.
09:34The hem of her deep red gown brushed across my face, carrying a gust of wind on its wake.
09:38She insulted me to my face, and she stole the pack's territory maps, planning to leak our secrets to the
09:47enemy packs.
09:49Treat her... well.
09:52The guard's eyes lit up with cruel, bloodthirsty excitement, and they stepped toward me, one by one.
09:57Their smiles were grotesque, ugly.
09:59One of them had already half-shifted into his wolf form, his claws extending, scraping against the silver floor with
10:04a high-pitched, ear-splitting screech.
10:06They grabbed my dress and ripped it clean off my body.
10:09Wolf's claws raked across my skin, slicing through flesh like butter, blood spilling across the floor.
10:14A spring tore its way out of my throat.
10:18A lull, rumbling wolf howl echoed from outside the door.
10:21Every single guard froze in place, stopping mid-movement.
10:24It was Ethan.
10:24Before the door could even be pushed open, Vivian grabbed a silver needle from the table beside her and drove
10:29it deep into her own arm.
10:31Ethan!
10:32Save me!
10:33She stabbed me with the needle!
10:35She even said Molly's been dead for years, that only she's worthy of being your Luna!
10:39And once again, he believed her.
10:41He turned to me, his eyes blazing with a murderous, all-consuming rage.
10:45This is the great alpha of the Dark Flame Pack?
10:47Are you really this stupid?
10:52Ah!
10:53Ah!
10:57He spun around, grabbing a thin silver needle pen from the table.
11:00It was the sacred tool the Dark Flame Pack used to ink permanent marks into a wolf's skin,
11:04its tip forged from pure silver, capable of leaving a mark that would never fade,
11:07no matter how hard we tried to heal it.
11:09He walked toward me, one hand slamming down on the back of my neck,
11:12his grip so tight I couldn't breathe, pressing my face hard into the cold stone floor.
11:16His other hand held a silver needle pen.
11:18The next second, the needle drove down into my skin.
11:20You're so desperate to mimic Molly, to be my Luna, then I'll give you what you want.
11:27In that moment, I knew I was the biggest joke in the entire world.
11:31The man I'd saved all those years ago had become my tormentor, my enemy.
11:35The pain was so great I nearly blacked out.
11:37I used the last of my strength to force out a few words.
11:40I regret saving you.
11:42What did you say?
11:44Say it again.
11:45I opened my mouth, but no sound came out.
11:48The darkness swallowed me whole.
11:50I passed out.
11:51Not long after, Vivian claimed she'd lost the Dark Flame Pack's territory map.
11:55It was one of the clan's most closely guarded secrets,
11:57a map detailing the layout of the territory's wards.
12:00If it fell into the wrong hands, the entire pack's safety would be at risk,
12:03even leaving us open to attack from rival wolf packs.
12:06That day, I was in my stone chamber,
12:08using warm water to clean the wounds covering my body.
12:10I wanted to wash away the humiliation, the exhaustion.
12:13I just picked up a clean set of clothes when a piece of parchment slipped out from inside,
12:17falling to the floor.
12:18I bent down to pick it up.
12:19It was a map.
12:23This is it!
12:25I knew she stole it!
12:27In that instant, I understood everything.
12:29One of the maids assigned to wait on me had planted the map here, to frame me.
12:33They wanted to destroy me.
12:34But I had no proof.
12:36And in this place, no one would ever believe me.
12:38In this manner, I was the daughter of the fallen Silvermoon Alpha,
12:41the hated child of the enemy.
12:42And Vivian was the woman closest to his heart.
12:45I stared at the parchment in her hand, and my mind flashed back to that night,
12:48ten years ago.
12:49To the map I'd pressed into his hand, with my own two hands,
12:52in that tiny hunter's cabin.
12:53I lunged forward, desperate to make him remember.
12:56My voice came out cracked, trembling, almost too quiet to hear.
12:59That night in the cabin.
13:01The map I gave you.
13:03Do you remember it?
13:05Shock flashed across his face, gone in an instant.
13:08His lips moved, but no sound came out.
13:10I could feel his breath coming fast, ragged, unsteady.
13:14What did you say?
13:15But before he could say another word, Vivian ran to his side.
13:17Ethan, don't believe her lies!
13:20She's just using Molly's name to trick you!
13:23She's the Silvermoon Princess!
13:26She's just trying to use your feelings for Molly to make you spare her!
13:30And he believed her.
13:31Again, the faint warmth in his eyes vanished in an instant.
13:34Replaced by a bone deep, freezing cold that caught right through me, he ripped his hand out of mine.
13:39The force was so great I slammed back into the stone floor again, the back of my head hitting the
13:42hard rock,
13:43my vision going black once more.
13:44Bring me, the Silvermoon Alpha and Luna.
13:47Kill them.
13:48Hang their bodies from the territory marker on the border, for all to see.
13:52Panic surged through me.
13:54Pure, unadulterated terror.
13:56My father and mother were still locked in the dark flame dungeons.
13:58I dropped to my knees, hard, the stone slamming into my kneecaps.
14:02I crawled to his feet, my hands clutching tight to the legs of his pants,
14:06tears streaming down my face as I slapped myself, again and again, hard.
14:09I was wrong! I know I was wrong!
14:12Please spare them!
14:14I'll take every punishment, all of it alone!
14:17I'll never speak out of tone again!
14:19Please, just spare them!
14:21Through the mating bond, he could feel every ounce of my fear, my utter despair, as clear as day.
14:26I felt his breath catch, unsteady.
14:28He stormed forward, his hand closing around my throat again, lifting me off the ground.
14:32I couldn't breathe, my face burning bright red, my consciousness slipping away.
14:36I closed my eyes, waiting for the final blow.
14:39My heart was completely calm.
14:41Maybe this would be better.
14:42No more pain.
14:43No more humiliation.
14:45If I died, I'd finally be free.
14:47But just then, the moonstone I'd hidden against my chest slipped out of my dress, falling to the floor, glowing
14:53with a faint, soft light.
14:54Ethan froze.
14:56His hand fell away from my throat.
14:58I could feel his fingers starting to tremble, uncontrollably.
15:01Vivian panicked.
15:03She scrambled to her feet and grabbed Ethan's arm, hard.
15:05Ethan, kill her!
15:07Kill her now!
15:08Avenge our clansmen!
15:09But he didn't answer.
15:10He just stared at me, unblinking.
15:12Take her away.
15:13Lock her up.
15:14Under heavy guard.
15:16No one is to go near her without my explicit order.
15:19And no one is to harm her.
15:21Ever again.
15:24Then he bent down, picked up the half-moonstone from the floor, and turned to leave.
15:28He left Vivian behind him, screaming and wailing hysterically.
15:31The guards took me away, locking me in a clean, quiet stone chamber.
15:35Someone brought me clean clothes, and a healing salve for the silver burns covering my body.
15:40I had no idea if he'd recognized me, if he'd finally remembered that I was the girl who'd saved his
15:44life all those years ago.
15:45Later, I learned what had happened.
15:47He'd ordered a full investigation into my past, into every single thing that had happened ten years prior.
15:51They'd combed through every old archive in the Silvermoon Manor.
15:54Even tracked down the old craftsmen who'd forged the moonstone pendant for the Silvermoon Alpha's daughter, all those years ago.
15:59This moonstone was one of a kind.
16:00There was no other like it in the world.
16:02He'd also learned that, ten years prior, I had indeed snuck out of the Silvermoon Territory, into the no-man's
16:07land beyond the ward.
16:08And the girl he'd been searching for all these years, Molly, was the girl who'd saved him.
16:12But the cruelest, most devastating truth of all was this.
16:16I was Molly.
16:17And he nearly killed me, with his own two hands.
16:19He ran for my chamber like a man possessed.
16:22The door slammed open with a deafening crash, and there was a stone wall behind it.
16:25He stormed inside, and then dropped to his knees, right in front of me.
16:29His eyes were red, bloodshot.
16:31Swollen shut from crying.
16:32It was the first time I'd ever seen him cry.
16:34He took out two half-moonstones from his pocket, then put them together and showed them to me, but I
16:39didn't even glance at them.
16:40He reached out, like he wanted to grab the hem of my dress.
16:43His hand was shaking so hard he could barely hold on.
16:45Even his voice was broken.
16:47I'm sorry.
16:48It was all my fault.
16:49I'm so sorry.
16:51I stared at him, and not a single ripple stirred in my chest.
16:54All those days, all that torture, all that humiliation, all that pain, had carved deep, unhealing scars into my heart,
16:59into my bones.
17:00How could I ever forgive him, with just a single I'm sorry?
17:03I pulling the hem of my dress out of his grasp.
17:05Don't touch me.
17:07I'm Janik your enemy.
17:08Not Molly.
17:10His hand froze in mid-air.
17:11His lips trembled, like he wanted to say something, but not a single word came out.
17:23Every single day, he sat outside the door of my stone chamber, like a child who'd done something terribly wrong.
17:28He didn't dare come inside, but he refused to leave.
17:31Sometimes, when I woke up in the middle of the night, I could see him through the iron bars of
17:35the window, sitting against the stone wall.
17:37Moonlight fell across the side of his face.
17:39The half piece of moonstone in his hand, glowed with a faint, soft blue-white light.
17:43The other half was clenched tight in the palm of my hand.
17:45Two halves of the same stone, separated by a single door, singing to each other across the distance, like two
17:50stars in the night sky, staring at each other, forever out of reach.
17:53He even cooked for me, himself.
17:55The great alpha of the dark flame pack, standing awkwardly in the kitchen, cutting meat.
17:59His knife skills were terrible.
18:01A perfect cut of venison was hacked into uneven, lumpy chunks, full of nicks and gashes.
18:05Hot oil splattered onto his hand, leaving a red burn in its wake.
18:08A wolf's healing ability would have fixed the wound in an instant, but he still flinched, wiping his hand carelessly
18:12on his sleeve before going back to cutting.
18:14When he set the dishes down in front of me, some were so salty they were bitter, some were completely
18:18bland, and some were just straight up burned, black and charred beyond recognition.
18:21But he still set them down in front of me carefully, his eyes filled with quiet, hopeful anticipation, like a
18:26wolf bringing prey back to his mate, waiting for me to take even just one bite.
18:29He even tended to my wounds himself.
18:31He held the dark flame's special silver burn salve in his hand, spreading it gently over the wounds on my
18:36wrists and ankles.
18:37The blackened burns left by the silver chains were slow to heal.
18:39His movements were so gentle, like he was touching thin ice that would shatter at the slightest pressure.
18:44His rough fingertips spread the salve evenly across my skin, and every time he touched a wound, his brow would
18:49furrow tight,
18:49and he'd whisper apologies over and over again.
18:52It's all my fault. I've made you suffer too much.
18:54He told me everything that had happened in those ten years.
18:57How he'd searched for me, how badly he'd wanted to find me.
19:01He said he'd worn that half of the moonstone against his skin every single day for ten years, never once
19:06taking it off.
19:07He'd held it in his hand every night, rubbing it again and again, until the rough surface of the stone
19:12had been worn smooth and warm under his fingers.
19:14He said that every full moon, he'd shift into his wolf form and run alone across the moors.
19:19Howling up at the moon, begging the moon goddess to help him find Molly.
19:23He called me Molly, he said, because that night, he'd seen the jasmine birthmark on my neck.
19:29He said he'd dreamed of me countless times.
19:32Dreamed of the girl who'd saved him in the grass, the girl who'd ripped her mother's moonstone in two,
19:36pressed half of it into his hand, and smiled at him, saying live.
19:39He said every time he woke up from those dreams, he'd be clutching the moonstone tight in his hand,
19:45the stone warm from his body heat, but the spot beside him was empty.
19:48And his heart was empty, too.
19:51Watching him do all this, I'd be lying if I said my heart didn't stir, even just a little.
19:56But I couldn't forget.
19:58I couldn't forget the cold in his eyes when he threw me into the silver chamber.
20:02I couldn't forget the murderous rage in his eyes when he nearly ordered my parents killed.
20:06I couldn't forget that between us.
20:08There was a blood debt that could never be repaid.
20:11Just when the tension between us had softened, just the tiniest bit, new word arrived.
20:16Vivian had learned the truth.
20:18She'd learned what we really were to each other.
20:21That I was the girl he'd been searching for for ten years, that I was his fated mate.
20:25She couldn't accept it.
20:27For ten years, she'd climbed her way up the ranks of the Dark Flame Pack,
20:31holding herself up as Ethan's future Luna.
20:33And now, a fated mate had appeared out of nowhere.
20:36The very same fallen Alpha's daughter she'd framed and tortured, over and over again.
20:41What she couldn't have, no one else would ever get.
20:44She allied with the pack's elders, and they decided to have me executed.
20:48When Ethan found out, he called the pack with me that very night.
20:52The Dark Flame territory descended into chaos instantly.
20:55The elite warriors sent by the Council of Elders had blocked every single exit from the territory.
21:00He kept me shielded behind his back, one hand gripping his long blade,
21:04the other holding my hand so tight our fingers were laced together, like he'd never let go.
21:09A warrior's blade swung toward me, straight for my throat.
21:13Ethan didn't hesitate for a single second.
21:15He spun around, putting himself between me and the blade.
21:19The steel sliced deep into his arm, but he didn't even pause.
21:23He just looked back at me, his dark gray eyes filled with nothing but fear and worry for me.
21:28Jenica, are you alright?
21:30Then he turned back, and kept fighting.
21:32Through the mating bond, I felt every bit of his pain, clear as day.
21:37But he didn't make a single sound.
21:39He just bit down on his jaw, swinging his blade again and again,
21:43cutting a bloody path through the warriors, carving out a way to freedom for us.
21:47Moonlight fell across his back as he fought, silver light tangled with dark, dripping blood.
21:52The half-moonstone hanging around his neck was stained bright red with blood,
21:56flickering in the dark of the night.
21:58Singing to the other half, pressed tight against my chest.
22:01In that moment, the ice around my heart cracked, just a little more.
22:05We fled to a hidden valley, deep in the mountains.
22:08He said he wanted to live here with me, to make up for every mistake he'd ever made,
22:12to ease every bit of pain he'd put me through, to help me forget the past, and start over.
22:17I didn't answer, but I wasn't as cold to him as I'd been before.
22:21But fate had another cruel, sick joke to play on us.
22:25My brother Dorian wasn't dead.
22:27The night the silver moon pack fell, he'd escaped.
22:30All these years, he'd gathered the remaining silver moon clansmen,
22:34and allied with three other wolf packs who hated the dark flame just as much as he did.
22:39And they were coming.
22:40Ethan knew this was a fight he couldn't outrun.
22:43He looked at me, his eyes filled with guilt and sorrow,
22:46his hand brushing gently through my hair.
22:48Janita, I'm sorry for dragging you into this again.
22:53I promise you, I'll keep you safe.
22:55When this fight is over, we'll come back here.
22:57We'll live here, quiet and peaceful, together.
23:00Wait for me to come home.
23:02I stared at him and said nothing.
23:04I knew he was truly sorry.
23:07I knew he truly wanted to make it up to me.
23:09But some wounds would never heal.
23:12Not in this lifetime.
23:13He left me in the valley, and went back to the dark flame territory alone.
23:18Ethan led the dark flame warriors into battle against Dorian's army.
23:21I had no way of knowing how the war was going, who was winning.
23:25But through the mating bond, I felt the sharp, searing pain of Ethan's wounds, again and again.
23:31The pain slammed into my chest so hard I dropped to my knees, wrapping my arms around myself,
23:35my whole body trembling uncontrollably.
23:37In the end, Ethan won.
23:40He pushed back Dorian's army, and defended the dark flame pack.
23:43But he'd sustained a fatal wound.
23:45The dark flame pack's strength was decimated, too.
23:48Dorian retreated with the remaining silver moon clansmen, to go home and rebuild their pack.
23:53I ran from the valley like a woman possessed.
23:56When I found Ethan, I dropped to my knees beside him, and lifted him gently into my arms.
24:01His blood soaked through my dress, quickly, thick and warm.
24:04He slowly opened his eyes, looking up at me, a soft, relieved smile tugging at the corner of his mouth.
24:11Janika.
24:13You finally forgive me, don't you?
24:16I shook my head, tears streaming down my face.
24:20I haven't forgiven you, I just don't want you to die.
24:24I have so many questions to ask you, so many scores to settle with you.
24:29You can't die like this.
24:31You still owe me.
24:33You haven't paid it back.
24:35He smiled softly, his eyes filled with love, and endless, crushing guilt.
24:39He lifted his hand, trying to brush my cheek, his fingers trembling.
24:44But before he could touch my face, his hand fell limply back down.
24:48I'm so sorry.
24:49Jania, I owe you too much.
24:52If there's a next life, I'll never mistake you for anyone else again.
24:56We could still be fated mates.
24:58Please.
24:59All the strength left my body.
25:02I collapsed over him, my mouth open, but not a single sound came out.
25:06Only silent tears, falling, again and again.
25:09Later, Dorian found me.
25:11He wanted to take me back to the silver moon pack.
25:14He'd brought our mother and father home, safe and sound.
25:18But I refused.
25:19I stayed in that valley, alone.
25:22Every full moon, I look up at the night sky and whisper to the moon, soft and quiet.
25:27Ethan, if there's a next life, let us never meet again.
25:31Ethan, if there's a next life, let us never meet again.
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