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00:01I burned out my inner wolf to save his life.
00:08He tossed me aside the second Selena, a beta, faked a tear.
00:12It wasn't until my parents' bodies were dumped at our border that I understood.
00:16My fated mate was my executioner.
00:18Something in me died that night.
00:20What came back wanted blood.
00:21Selena screamed.
00:23The jazz stopped.
00:24She hit the marble floor of the Silvermoon Group's penthouse ballroom.
00:27Her white Marsesta gown soaked with wolf beak.
00:28Allora, I know you hate me because Grayson pays attention to me, but disfigure me?
00:33I almost laughed.
00:34I grabbed a glass of Moroto off a passing tray and threw it in her face.
00:39You want to frame me?
00:40At least let me earn it.
00:42Dead quiet.
00:42Then alpha pressure hit my chest.
00:44My lungs emptied.
00:45My knees buckled.
00:47Grayson cut through the crowd.
00:48My fated mate, CEO of the Silvermoon Group.
00:51Head of the most powerful syndicate on the eastern seaboard.
00:54He looked at me like I was dirt on his floor.
00:57What did you do?
00:58Grayson, it hurts so much.
01:01He crouched down.
01:02Wiped the wine off her cheek with his thumb.
01:04Gentle.
01:05Careful.
01:05The exact tenderness I hadn't felt in years.
01:07Three years ago I swallowed a lethal dose of Silver Poison to keep him alive.
01:11It destroyed my inner wolf.
01:12I gave him everything.
01:16Apologize to her.
01:18Pull up the security footage!
01:19She did it to herself!
01:48No wolf.
01:50Energy signature to slip past our sensor grid.
01:52She led them in.
01:54The ballroom erupted.
01:55No!
01:56No!
01:56No!
01:57Those are my parents!
01:58I would never!
01:59I scrambled toward Grayson on my hands and knees.
02:01Grabbed his locks.
02:02Grayson, please!
02:03Look at the crystal!
02:04Someone took it from me!
02:06This is a setup!
02:06He looked down at me like something stuck to his shoe.
02:10His alpha command slammed me face first into the marble.
02:14Take her to the holding cells.
02:15Dawn.
02:16She answers for treason and murder.
02:19By sunrise, the tears for my dead parents hadn't dried.
02:23Few guards hauled me out of the cell and into the tribunal chamber.
02:26Underground.
02:27Beneath Silver Moon headquarters.
02:28The room reeked of damp concrete and the pheromones of wolves who'd already made up their minds.
02:32She murdered her own parents to create chaos and frame me!
02:36The senior council muttered in disgust.
02:38My soothing crystal sat under glass on the evidence table,
02:41the energy signature of my destroyed wolf still clinging to it.
02:45Smoking gun.
02:46A wolf-less omega working with rogues.
02:48Lowest betrayal imaginable.
02:50Grayson, I destroyed my wolf to save your life.
02:53That crystal is the only thing keeping my body from shutting down.
02:56Doesn't that count for anything?
02:57Silence.
02:58He stepped down from the platform.
03:00You have disgraced the Silver Moon name.
03:02As Alpha, I reject you, Alera, as my destined mate.
03:05Mate Bond fractured, white-hot, right through the center of my chest.
03:07I screamed until my throat gave out.
03:09Consciousness faded before the agony did.
03:12Someone from the Enforcement Unit stepped forward,
03:14handed him silver chains dripping with with bone.
03:16Grayson, stop!
03:18He didn't blink.
03:19Grabbed my shoulders.
03:20Shoved me to my knees.
03:21Drove the Silver Hooks into my collarbones himself.
03:25Sub-level Isolation Unit, six years-
03:27Guards dragged my bleeding body down the concrete stairwell.
03:30Reinforced steel door was about to seal.
03:32Selina's face appeared in the observation.
03:34I killed them.
03:38Three words in the dark.
03:39I killed them.
03:40No soothing crystal.
03:41Every second was screaming hell.
03:43Body seizing on freezing concrete.
03:45I gave the guard my only possession.
03:47My father's moon amulet.
03:48Begged him to get it to Grayson.
03:49Some pathetic part of me still believed.
03:51Next day, steel door hissed open.
03:53Not Grayson.
03:54Mr. Ashford says your little trinket makes him sick.
03:56He gave the amulet to Mrs. Selina.
03:58She's wearing it on her wrist right now.
04:00Thinks it's hilarious.
04:02The rebar came down before the heartbreak landed.
04:07The enforcer laughed.
04:08He wrenched my head back by the hair.
04:11And poured diluted wolf bat into my left eye.
04:13The poison ate through my optic nerve.
04:16Vision gone.
04:17For six years, every time I begged for water, they shoved my face in the puddles.
04:20Laughing.
04:21Grayson's orders.
04:22Mud was all I deserved.
04:23In that concrete box, the girl who loved Grayson bled out and died.
04:26What was left was crippled, hollow, and running on venom.
04:30Kept breathing by one thing only, payback.
04:32Sixth year.
04:33Steel door ground open.
04:34Grayson stood in the ward ward.
04:35Tom Ford suit.
04:36Not a hair out of place.
04:37Selina beside him.
04:38Diamond chokler.
04:39He looked at my mangled body.
04:41Pressed two fingers to his nose.
04:42Six years goes by fast.
04:44Quit causing problems for Selina.
04:45I might let you push a mop around the compound.
04:47Consider it mercy.
04:48I grabbed my crutch, metal rod off the ventilation grate, and dragged myself upright.
04:52Before his security could twitch, backhanded Selina across her perfect face.
04:56His eyes flared gold.
04:57Hand around my throat.
04:59Lifted me off the ground.
05:01You suicidal bitch.
05:02You wanna die right here?
05:04I, Allura, reject you.
05:09I, Allura, reject you.
05:17Sign them, before I rip her throat out myself.
05:23Grayson didn't sign.
05:25He tossed the papers.
05:26Scooped up Selina.
05:27Walked out.
05:29I dragged myself out of the sublevel corridor alone.
05:32I wasn't done.
05:34Silver moon compound.
05:35Lit up.
05:36Board members.
05:37Enforcers.
05:37Allied family heads.
05:39All there for Selina's birthday.
05:40Until I limped in.
05:42Half blind.
05:43Crippled.
05:43Metal rod for a crunch.
05:45Dissolution papers in my fist.
05:47Music died table by table.
05:49Heads turned.
05:50Conversations choked off.
05:52Look at the murderer.
05:53Looks worse than something out of a storm drain.
05:56Sign it, Grayson.
05:58A half blind cripple making demands?
06:01Cute.
06:02My one good eye caught tarnished silver on Selina's wrist.
06:05She stepped out behind him.
06:07Fragile act.
06:08Shaking hands.
06:09Then the light hit her wrist.
06:11My blood went cold.
06:12My father's moon emulet.
06:15Tarnished.
06:15Scratched to hell.
06:17Strapped to her arm like it belonged there.
06:19Where did you get that?
06:22That's mine.
06:24Selina streaked.
06:25Threw herself backward.
06:26She faked a fall against the marble bar top.
06:28A hidden blood capsule burst down her neck.
06:34Allura, stop!
06:35Grayson gave it to me!
06:36Don't hurt me!
06:37Grayson went feral.
06:39Out of the chair.
06:40Loot into my destroyed leg.
06:42Bone gave way.
06:44Wet crack.
06:45Face first into the rug.
06:46Couldn't breathe.
06:50You want out?
06:51Take your garbage.
06:53Get out.
06:57Teach her what happens when she shows up uninvited.
07:00Door shut.
07:01Wolves closed in.
07:03Ribs.
07:03Stilettos.
07:04Steel-toed boots.
07:06Blind eye.
07:06Over and over.
07:08I stopped being a person around the third kick to the skull.
07:11Just a broken thing bleeding into the carpet.
07:13They got bored.
07:15Left.
07:16Silence.
07:18Louboutins on marble.
07:19Selina strolled in.
07:21Perfectly intact.
07:22Wiping fake blood off her neck.
07:24Crouched beside me.
07:25Unbuckled the amulet.
07:27Set it in front of my swollen eye.
07:28Ground it under her wrist.
07:30Zippo from her clutch.
07:31Flicked it.
07:32Yellow flame.
07:33You know, Alara?
07:34Your parents didn't die right away when my rogues hit them.
07:37They had last words.
07:38For you.
07:40My eye blew wide.
07:41She dropped the Zippo onto the vodka-soaked curtains.
07:43Want to know what they said?
07:45She laughed.
07:46The flame swallowed the room.
07:48Want to know what they said?
07:49I stared up from the floor.
07:51Lungs seizing.
07:53Black smoke rolling across the ceiling.
07:56They begged us to tell you they were sorry they couldn't protect you.
08:00Then they told us the truth.
08:02That you were adopted.
08:04Oops.
08:05Did you think you were their real kid?
08:07You're nothing.
08:08A dirty stray from a rogue group home.
08:11No bloodline.
08:12No wolf.
08:13Not a single person on this planet who gives a damn about you.
08:17She blew me a kiss.
08:18Stepped over my body.
08:20Walked out.
08:21Sealed the reinforced doors behind her.
08:22I couldn't move.
08:24Not the bones.
08:25The truth.
08:25It hit harder than any boot or rebar.
08:27My whole life was a lie.
08:29Just a throwaway stray nobody wanted.
08:31Fire ate through the room fast.
08:32The heat was suffocating.
08:33Without my inner wolf, my body couldn't kickstart a basic healing response.
08:37I coughed up blood.
08:38Let my one eye fall shut.
08:40I'm so tired.
08:41Just let it end.
08:42The building shook.
08:43The tempered glass wall on the far side exploded inward.
08:46Shards rained down.
08:47A massive silhouette stepped through the fire without slowing.
08:50He didn't flinch.
08:51Flames licked his boots.
08:52He walked through them like they weren't there.
08:54Alpha Fenwar.
08:55King of the North.
08:56CEO of the Northflad Syndicate.
08:58Most feared name on the continent.
09:00He scooped me off the ground like I weighed nothing.
09:03His alpha aura rolled outward.
09:04The flames choked.
09:06Why?
09:07Why you?
09:08The man who should have torn this world apart to find you sooner.
09:14Sleep now, my queen.
09:16I opened my eye.
09:17No fire.
09:18No concrete walls.
09:19Sheets that cost more than a car.
09:21The room smelled of dark amber and cedarwood.
09:23Top tier alpha.
09:24You're awake.
09:25Fenog stepped out of the shadows.
09:26No tactical gear.
09:27Bare chested.
09:28His powerful build fully visible.
09:30He sat on the edge of my bed.
09:32Wiped the stook off my cheek with his scarred thumb.
09:34Medical team stabilized your fractures.
09:36You're in the Northfin compound, Alara.
09:38No one's touching you here.
09:39Grayson.
09:40The fire.
09:41You want to see your ex?
09:42Look.
09:43Live surveillance feed.
09:45Silver moon territory.
09:46The reception hall was a blacked shell.
09:47Center of the wreckage.
09:48Grayson.
09:49Unhinged.
09:50Suit shredded.
09:50Hands torn open.
09:51Clawing through smoldering debris with bare fingers.
09:53Howling like something inside him had snapped in half.
09:55What remained of the mate bond snapped the second you flatlined in that fire.
09:59He pulled your father's moon amulet out of the ash.
10:02He's been digging through the wreckage ever since.
10:05On screen, Grayson dropped to his knees.
10:07Pressed the blacked amulet to his chest, screaming my name.
10:11Six years ago, I would have given anything to see that in his eyes.
10:14Now it made my stomach turn.
10:15I handed the tablet back.
10:17Cold smile.
10:18Neither.
10:19Let him think I'm dead.
10:21I want him choking on regret every day of his miserable life.
10:24Dying is too easy for him.
10:26I handed the tablet back, and I turned away from Grayson as he crawled through the ash.
10:30Fenimore tossed the device onto the table.
10:32Sat closer.
10:33His scarred hand brushed a loop of silver hair behind my ear.
10:37Careful.
10:38Gentle.
10:38You said you would have burned the world down to find me sooner.
10:41Why?
10:42We've never crossed paths.
10:43Sadness flared in his golden eyes.
10:46We met twenty years ago, Alara, in the freezing cages of the Blackwood group home.
10:51A feral older kid was beating me nearly to death over a piece of moldy bread.
10:55You were the only one brave enough to throw a rock at his head and drag my bleeding body into
10:58the snow.
10:59My one good eye went wide.
11:01I remembered.
11:02We were both strays.
11:03He vanished into the blizzard one night.
11:04I got adopted by the couple Selina's rogues tore apart.
11:07I swore a blood oath that night.
11:09Promise the moon goddess I'd survive.
11:10Take down the most powerful syndicate on the east coast,
11:12and come back for you.
11:13He cupped my ruined face.
11:15By the time I made it to the top of Northfield,
11:17Grayson had already marked you,
11:18and I was too much of a coward to risk ruining your life.
11:20A tear slit down my scarred cheek,
11:22the most feared name in the werewolf world,
11:24crying over someone as broken blind as me.
11:26You didn't ruin anything.
11:28He tossed me away because I burned out my inner wolf.
11:31I'm broken, Fenric.
11:32I'm empty.
11:33You are not empty,
11:34and you will not stay broken.
11:36He leaned down,
11:38pressed his lips over my blinded left eye.
11:40The moment his skin met my deepest wound,
11:42raw alpha power shot into my bloodstream like an electric charge.
11:46The surge hit like a wave of light.
11:49Fenel wasn't just kissing my scars.
11:50He was channeling raw alpha essence from his own wolf into the wreckage of mine.
11:55Six years of agony vanished,
11:56replaced by searing heat flooding every nerve I had left.
12:01The badly healed bone in my right leg slapped.
12:04Restet.
12:05Perfect alignment.
12:06Silver light blew outward from my chest.
12:08My shattered inner wolf wasn't just healing.
12:11It was evolving.
12:13The wolfbane rotting inside my left eye for six years was forced out through moak,
12:16hissing.
12:17I blinked.
12:18Once.
12:18Twice.
12:19Darkness was gone.
12:20Where a brown iris should have been.
12:22A silver ring.
12:22Burning.
12:23I dropped back into the pillows.
12:24The pitiful omega was gone.
12:26Dead and buried.
12:26What replaced her was ancient and terrifyingly still.
12:28A power that didn't ask for submission.
12:30It simply claimed obedience.
12:31Fenel just smiled.
12:32The Lunan Alpha.
12:33Rarest bloodline in werewolf history.
12:35The trauma didn't destroy you, Allura.
12:37It was just the crucible.
12:38I saw both legs off the bed.
12:40No pain.
12:40No wobble.
12:41Left the crutch against the wall.
12:42And I stood up.
12:43The ground felt different under my feet.
12:45Stronger.
12:46I walked to the mirror.
12:47Silver hair.
12:48Moonlight through the floor to scare windows.
12:50The scars on my collarbones where Grayson's hooks had burned through still there.
12:53But they didn't look like shame anymore.
12:54They looked like what they truly were.
12:56Battle scars.
12:56Something that had crawled out of hell and came back meaner.
12:59Lock down every border.
13:00Freeze all Northling accounts tied to Silvermoon.
13:03Cut their supply chains.
13:04Pull our investors from their sub-dairies.
13:06Full embargo.
13:06I want Grayson's empire strangled until he's on.
13:08But before he spoke, he stepped close.
13:10Tilted my chin up.
13:11Golden eyes asking a question his mouth didn't need to.
13:14His lips pressed to my collar's bone.
13:16Right above the faded scars from Grayson's hooks.
13:18Brief.
13:18Sharp.
13:19A claim mark.
13:19His scent flooded into my bloodstream.
13:21And something deep inside my chest locked into place like a deadbolt sliding home.
13:25Not a soul bond.
13:26Not yet.
13:26But a decligration.
13:27Mine.
13:28Publicly.
13:29Permanently.
13:29As you command, my queen.
13:30Let's burn it down.
13:32He delivered.
13:32With surgical precision.
13:34Slowly choking the life out of Grayson's empire.
13:37Operation center beneath the Northfield compound.
13:39Leather swivel chair.
13:40A glass of Chateau Margais turned slowly between my fingers.
13:43A wall of monitors streamed live feeds from Silvermoon headquarters in Grayson's residence.
13:47My queen.
13:48Embaro's choking them out.
13:49Silvermoon stock was down 80%.
13:51Grayson called an emergency board meeting 20 minutes ago, but doesn't seem too concerned
13:55about the money.
13:56I looked at the main feed.
13:58Grayson.
13:58He hadn't slept in a month.
14:00Bloodshot eyes.
14:02Hollow cheekbones.
14:03His alpha aura flickering.
14:05Unstable eating itself alive the way it does when a severed mate bond starts rotting
14:09through the host.
14:10He wasn't screaming at his financial team.
14:13It's been weeks!
14:14You combed every inch of that wreckage!
14:16How the hell is there not a single bone?
14:18Go back!
14:19Dig until your goddamn hands bleed!
14:22Sir, please.
14:23If we don't secure a bridge loan by close of business tonight, the entire organization
14:26goes under.
14:27We need to-
14:27I don't care about the organization!
14:30Find her!
14:31Find Alara!
14:33Losing his mind over my corpse.
14:35Good.
14:36Office doors swung open.
14:38Selina click-clocked in.
14:39Brand new diamond shoulder.
14:40Not a care in the world.
14:43Grayson!
14:44Babe!
14:44The bank declined my black card.
14:46How am I supposed to get my dress for the Winter Summit?
14:48Handle it.
14:51My mate is dead, Selina.
14:53My empire is collapsing.
14:55And you're throwing a fit over a dress?
14:57But I need to look perfect for you.
14:59I laughed out loud.
15:01Pathetic.
15:01Kale, give Mrs. Selina the spotlight she's been craving.
15:04Override her displays.
15:05Play the file.
15:06Kale cracked his knuckles.
15:08Grinned.
15:09Uploading.
15:11Grayson's office went black.
15:12Then a bank wire receipt filled every screen.
15:14Three million dollars.
15:15A shell account traced to Selina.
15:17Then an audio clip from a prepaid burner.
15:18Yes, I wired the three million.
15:20Just make sure the old couple is torn to pieces.
15:21Leave Alara's soothing crystal at the scene.
15:23I want that bitch to take the floor.
15:26Silence in Grayson's office.
15:28On my monitor, every drop of color drained from Selina's face.
15:31Advisors stumbled backward, putting distance between themselves and her.
15:36Grayson.
15:37Frozen behind his desk.
15:38Eyes moving from the wire receipt to the date stamp to the dollar amount to audio wavelength.
15:42Frequency by frequency.
15:44Matching it to the voice of the woman he'd shielded for six years.
15:47Grayson, it's a deepfake!
15:48Greatfake, someone hacked our servers!
15:50That's not me!
15:52Grayson didn't answer.
15:53His body started to shake.
15:55It hit him all at once.
15:56He had severed his mate bond.
15:58Driven wolf-lied hooks into my colopones with his own hands.
16:00Locked me in an underground cell for six years.
16:02Starved.
16:03Beaten.
16:04Wolf hooks into my colomones with his own hands.
16:06Locked me in a underground cell for six years.
16:08Starved.
16:09Beaten.
16:09All to protect the woman who orchestrated everything.
16:11He doubled over.
16:12Vomited clotted blood onto his desk.
16:14Then he snapped.
16:16He let out a roar that blew out the office windows.
16:18Vaulted the desk.
16:19Seized Selina by the throat.
16:20Lifted her off the ground.
16:21Slammed her into the wall.
16:22The drywall cratered.
16:24Crater.
16:24I shattered her leg!
16:25For you!
16:26I poured poison.
16:27Into her eye because you cried!
16:29I let my mate burn!
16:30Please!
16:31I watched.
16:32Felt nothing.
16:33No pity.
16:34No grief.
16:35Just a loop closing.
16:36Sub-level unit.
16:37Same cell, same restraints.
16:38Break her leg.
16:39No sleep.
16:40I want her begging for death before the week is out.
16:42Selina screamed down the corridor as they dragged her away.
16:45Grayson collapsed.
16:46Curled in on himself.
16:48Weeping in a pool of his own blood.
16:49I pressed the comms key on Kale's console and patched into Grayson's office speakers through
16:54the back door we'd planted weeks ago.
16:56Pathetic, Grayson.
16:57His head jerked up.
16:59Bloodshark eyes searching the ceiling.
17:00The Northfern syndicate requires your presence at the Winter Summit.
17:04Come alone, or your organization gets erased.
17:06Feed killed.
17:07Screens black.
17:09Fenlar stood behind my chair, his thumbs working slow circles into my shoulders.
17:13He's going to lose what's left of his mind when he sees who's sitting next to me.
17:17A week later, Northfond Summit venue.
17:20The conference hall was packed with the most powerful alphas on the continent.
17:24I wasn't down there.
17:25I was standing behind the tinted glass of the private mesomelium, watching the entrance.
17:29Fenwyn was beside me, adjusting the collar of my blood-red Elisage.
17:35Ready to break his mind, my queen?
17:37Been ready for six years.
17:39Brushed steel double doors slid open.
17:41Grayson walked in alone, dark suit hanging off his wasted frame.
17:45His face was hollow and gray, and didn't look like the untouchable CEO of the South anymore.
17:49The other alphas shifted away from him.
17:52Low murmurs, about Silvermoon collapsing.
17:54He ignored all of it.
17:56Walked toward the center of the hall, ready to kneel and beg the head of Northfong to lift the embargo.
18:01Halfway across the polished concrete, he stopped dead.
18:04Head snapped up.
18:05Dull eyes went wide, pulling air through his nose.
18:08He smelled me.
18:09The mate bond had already broken, but it didn't matter.
18:12My scent was seared into his nervous system.
18:14Allura?
18:15Allura!
18:16Where are you?
18:17You're alive!
18:18I know you're alive!
18:19The fire didn't take you!
18:20Silence!
18:21Every wolf in the hall dropped to their knees.
18:24Fenris stepped out from behind the tinted glass partition.
18:27Golden eyes locked and gred ocht on the wrecked alpha below.
18:31You're raising your voice in my house, Grayson?
18:36King Fenlar!
18:37King Fenlar!
18:39Please!
18:40Her scent is here!
18:42I brought her crystal back!
18:43I know the truth!
18:45Just...
18:45Just give her back to me!
18:48Fenlickel laughed.
18:49Low.
18:50Dark.
18:50Even the temperature in the room seemed to drop.
18:53I didn't save your mate, Grayson.
18:55I saved my queen.
18:58I stepped out, blood-red dress trailing across the Maison floor.
19:01Silver hair caught the overhead light, but it was my left eye, the eye Grayson had ordered
19:05filled with wolf on every elite mid-breath that stopped every ner-alpha, burning.
19:10Allura.
19:11He stared at my legs, both whole, planted.
19:14He stared at my face, clear, radiant, not a trace of the broken thing he'd left to rot.
19:19He stared at the authority rolling off me in waves, but what wrecked him, what buckled
19:23his knees before I even gave the order, was the fresh claim mark on my colopane, right
19:28above the faded scars from his hooks.
19:30Fenroy's mating mark.
19:31No.
19:32No, no, no.
19:33Allura, you're my mate.
19:34We belong together.
19:35I brought it back.
19:37Pulled it from evidence lockup myself.
19:39Threw Selina in the same cell.
19:40I made it right.
19:41Please!
19:41Your destroyed wolf needs this.
19:43Come back to me!
19:44I looked down at him, on his knees, sobbing over a useless rock.
19:48Felt nothing.
19:49Neil.
19:50Didn't raise my voice.
19:51Didn't shout.
19:52Lunan Alpha bloodline detonated outward from my chest.
19:54Both knees slammed into the concrete.
19:56Sound echoed off the rafters.
19:58The crystal jarred loose from his grip.
20:00Rolled across the floor.
20:01Bounced off the base of the Mia's on stairs.
20:03It was useless now.
20:04Just like him.
20:07Grayson coughed blood, lowering his head in front of me.
20:10The CEO of Silver Moon couldn't lift his chin anymore.
20:13You shattered my leg.
20:15Burned out my eye.
20:17Locked me in a concrete hole for six years, over a stolen rock and the word of a
20:21murderer.
20:22Voice carrying through the dead silent hall.
20:24Every alpha felt it land in their chest.
20:26I leaned against the menesium railing.
20:28Looked down at what was left of Grayson Ashfield.
20:31I don't need a crystal anymore.
20:32And you don't have a mate, Grayson.
20:34You have a queen.
20:35Address me as your superior.
20:37Dead silent in the hall.
20:39The most powerful elites on the continent stared at Grayson Ashfield, former CEO of Silver Moon,
20:45kneeling in his own blood on the concrete.
20:47Grayson didn't see any of them.
20:49Bloodshot eyes locked on my face like it was the only thing left.
20:52Alara, my mate.
20:54He fumbled inside his jacket.
20:55Pulled out a blood-crusted silver chain.
20:57The same silver restraints he'd driven into my collis bones six years ago.
21:01Look what I did for you!
21:03I threw Selina in your cell!
21:05Used this chain on her until she screamed.
21:08I destroyed the woman who did this to you!
21:11Held the bloody metal up like a peace offering, expecting me to fall into his arms.
21:16I avenged you, Alara.
21:18Cleared your name!
21:19I'll sign over half of Silver Moon's holdings.
21:21Have Selina publicly executed.
21:23We can start over.
21:24Please, just come back to me.
21:26I looked down at him.
21:27The man I'd once loved enough to burn my career to ash for.
21:31Not a trace of pity.
21:33You avenged me?
21:35I descended the Miyazan stairs, dress trailing across the concrete.
21:39You think whipping Selina undoes the bones you shattered in my leg?
21:43You think a dark room gives me back six years?
21:46You're not doing this for me.
21:48You tortured Selina because your ego couldn't handle being played by a beta.
21:53Don't dress up wounded pride as love.
21:55I was blind!
21:56I was a monster!
21:58Just give me one chance to-
22:00You had your chance.
22:02You locked it in a concrete box for six years.
22:05Grayson screamed.
22:07Grief and the scent of my mating mark broke what was left of his sanity.
22:10He launched not to hurt me.
22:12Just to reach me.
22:13To drag me away from Fenra.
22:15A drowning man clawing for a rope.
22:17A scarred hand stopped him.
22:19Inhuman speed.
22:20Locked around Grayson's throat.
22:21Fennec lifted the CEO of Silver Moon off the ground with one arm.
22:24Grayson gagged.
22:25Legs swinging.
22:26Face turning purple.
22:27Touch my queen again.
22:29I'll pull your spine out through your chest.
22:32The gap in power was obscene.
22:34Grayson and Alpha who terrorized the eastern sea door dangling like a stray kitten in a fist.
22:39Fenrock.
22:40He opened his hand.
22:41Grayson dropped.
22:42Hit the concrete.
22:43Crumpled.
22:43Blood smeared the floor.
22:45Fenra stepped back behind me.
22:46Grayson wheezed.
22:47Bloodshot eyes lifting to mine.
22:49This isn't a negotiation.
22:51And it isn't a peace summit.
22:52I looked down at him.
22:54Silver Moon's unconditional surrender.
22:56Full delotion of your board.
22:57Every asset.
22:58Every subsidiary.
22:59Every account.
23:00Signed over to Northford.
23:01Then go back to what's left of your operation.
23:04Wait.
23:04Valera.
23:05Why?
23:06Just kill me.
23:07Please.
23:08Dying is a mercy you haven't earned.
23:09I'm gonna shut down every revenue stream you have.
23:12Watch your people walk away one by one.
23:14Take apart everything you built while you stand there.
23:16Then I'm paying Selina a visit.
23:19I turned pressing my palm to Fenrock's chest.
23:21Throw him out.
23:23Three days later.
23:24A convoy of Northfond SUVs pulled up to the gates.
23:28No fight.
23:29Nothing left to fight for.
23:30My lunar alpha aura hit them.
23:32Backed by Fenreg's dominance like an invisible wall and inevitability.
23:36Grayson.
23:37Alone and in the empty courtyard.
23:38Didn't look like a CEO anymore.
23:40His clothes wrinkled and stained.
23:42Hair matted.
23:42He dropped to his knees on the pavement the moment I stepped out of the lead vehicle.
23:46Shaking, bloody hands held up a silver signet ring.
23:48Symbol of his alpha bloodline and silver moon's legacy.
23:51It's yours.
23:52All of it.
23:53I surrender everything.
23:55Just let me stay rogue.
23:57Guard.
23:57Janitor.
23:57I don't care.
23:58Just let me be near you, Alara.
24:00Please.
24:01I walked up to him.
24:02Boots inches from his knees.
24:03Took the ring from his bleeding palms.
24:05Dropped it on the pavement.
24:07Grounded under my feel.
24:08He buried his face in his filthy hands as the last symbol of his family's legacy broke
24:12apart on the concrete.
24:14Fenwick stepped up behind me.
24:15Scarred hand on my lower back.
24:17Possessive.
24:18Deliberate.
24:18Every defeated wolf in the courtyard got the message.
24:21I don't want your company, Grayson.
24:23I'm the queen of Northband.
24:25Your empire is dust to me.
24:27I stepped over his kneeling body.
24:29Access codes.
24:30Two months since I crawled out of this place.
24:32Returning as a queen, I felt different.
24:34The smell was the same damp concrete, old blood, wolf bone.
24:37But this time I wasn't the prey.
24:39Scream if you need to tear her apart.
24:41I'll clean up the blood.
24:43Won't take long.
24:45I went down the stairs alone, my boots clicking against wet concrete, echoing like a death
24:49clomb.
24:50End of the corridor.
24:51Same cell.
24:52Same walls.
24:53The same cell where I'd rotted for six years.
24:55A figure chained to the wall.
24:56Grayson.
24:57Grayson, please.
24:58I'm sorry.
24:59It hurts.
25:00The silver is burning my bones.
25:02I stepped into the light.
25:04Selina's eyes went wide, frozen.
25:06She stared at my healed face.
25:07The aura radiating off me, forced her face into the concrete floor.
25:12You're dead.
25:13I watched you burn.
25:14I raised my hand.
25:15The reinforced steel door ronde.
25:16It's lock shattering under the force of my loon and power.
25:19I stepped into her cell.
25:22You stole my wolf, my parents, and six years of my life, Selina.
25:27Let's see how much of yours I can take in one night.
25:30No, Alara, please.
25:32Sister.
25:32Her face was caked in grime and festering burns.
25:35The wolf's bane restraints Grayson had locked onto her were eating into her skin.
25:40Don't call me sister.
25:42I drove the silver blade through her right thigh.
25:44Selina screamed, raw, shredded, not human eyes rolling back as toxic silver hit her bloodstream.
25:49That's for my leg.
25:52You poured wolfbine into my eye and left me in the dark for six years.
25:55It's only fair you get the same view.
25:57I pulled the blade away.
25:58Her left eye was a ruined, milky white mess.
26:00Perfect mirror of what mine used to look like.
26:03She sagged in the restraints.
26:04Broken.
26:05Disfigured.
26:05The beta who had pupleted an entire organization gone.
26:08What was left barely looked like a person.
26:10Tell me, just kill me, please.
26:11Kill you?
26:12Too quick.
26:13The Northfern medical team will keep you alive indefinitely.
26:15This cell until you die of old age.
26:17Blind.
26:17Crippled.
26:18Alone with the ghosts of my parents.
26:19I turned.
26:20Walked out.
26:21The reinforced steel door sealed shut behind me.
26:23I stepped out of the sublevel corridor.
26:25Afternoon sun cut hard across the empty courtyard.
26:28Grayson was still on his knees on the pavement exactly where I'd left him.
26:32Shaking like a sick dog.
26:33Eyes flat and voiclent.
26:34Trash taking care of my queen?
26:36She'll rot in the dark.
26:37I walked up to Grayson.
26:40Allora.
26:41I deserve to die.
26:42Let Fenrock do it.
26:43I want the last thing I see to be your face.
26:45Dying is a mercy you haven't earned.
26:47You took everything.
26:48My family.
26:48My wolf.
26:49My dignity.
26:50My home.
26:50Now I'm taking yours.
26:51I turned to Fenrock.
26:53Single nod.
26:53Fenrock stepped forward.
26:54Claws out.
26:55Fast.
26:56Brutal.
26:56Surgical.
26:56With only two strikes, he severed the tendians in Grayson's arms and legs before anyone hit
27:00the pavement face first screaming.
27:02A raw shredded sound that didn't stop.
27:04Permanently crippled.
27:05You are no longer an alpha.
27:06No longer a werewolf.
27:08Stripped of your rank.
27:08Your assets.
27:09Your name.
27:10Expelled from every syndicate territory on the continent.
27:12You will survive in the margins of the human world as a crippled nameless rogue.
27:15Until you starve, freeze or simply stop mattering.
27:18Get him out of here.
27:18Elia please don't leave me.
27:20Deep breath.
27:21Clean air.
27:21No smoke.
27:22No blood.
27:22No concrete walls.
27:23The chains were off.
27:24Fenlon tilted my face toward his.
27:26Golden eyes steady and warm for the first time since I'd known him.
27:29Ready to go home, my queen?
27:30I smiled.
27:31Silver eye catching sunlight.
27:32Yeah.
27:33Let's go home.
27:34Northfield's home territory was nothing like the south.
27:36A sleek hyzeria in the heart of the city.
27:38Tinted glass, gunmetal steel, low profile of every other building.
27:40From the outside, it looked like a billionaire's tech headquarters.
27:43But inside, you felt the ancient alpha territory soak through empty of the central building.
27:46Fenwicker's SUV pulled up under the portico of the central building.
27:49Northfield personnel lined both sides of the walkway.
27:51Enforcers, analysts, coordinators dropping to a knee as their alpha stepped out.
27:54Fenwicker didn't look at any of them.
27:56He came around to my side, opened the door, and held out his scarred hand.
27:59Welcome to your empire, my queen.
28:08Not everyone was ready to kneel.
28:10Fenwick walked me through the main corridor toward the executive boardroom.
28:13A cluster of older, battle-scarred senior council members stood blocking the entrance.
28:17Old guard.
28:18Wolves who'd fought alongside Fenwick's father and believed that earned them permanent seats
28:22at the table.
28:22Elder Thorn was massive, with a gray beard and a missing ear.
28:25He looked me up and down, his lip curling in disgust.
28:27My king.
28:28Word is you dismantled Silver Moon.
28:31Congratulations.
28:32But why'd you drag their trash back with you?
28:33A rejected baron Omega from the south has no business sitting at the head of Northfan.
28:37Fenwick went studded.
28:38A snar built in his chest.
28:40His claws slid out, one twitch from taking Thorn's head off.
28:43I got this.
28:44I didn't need a king to fight my battles.
28:46Not anymore.
28:47Not the broken girl from the south.
28:49I stepped in front of Fenmon.
28:52Garbage?
28:55You reek of another alpha's leftovers, girl.
28:58Northfarned respects power.
29:00We answer to the man who built this organization.
29:02We don't answer to some broken toy from the-
29:05He didn't get to finish.
29:06I didn't hit him.
29:07Didn't raise a hand.
29:09Just opened my left eye.
29:10The silver light of the Lunan Alpha detonated from my iris.
29:14Crushing dominance slammed down on every wolf in the boardroom.
29:17Reinforced glass panels along the corridor wall spider webbed.
29:21Thorn choked.
29:22Eyes rolling.
29:23Legs buckling.
29:24Hit the floor, hands and knees.
29:26Gasping.
29:26He couldn't lift his skull an inch.
29:28Behind him, the remaining five council members dropped.
29:30Shaking so hard their teeth chapped.
29:31I am not an Omega.
29:33And I am no one's leftovers.
29:36I walked toward Thorn.
29:37Boots clicking on concrete stopped in front of his face as he lay pressed flat to the floor.
29:42A position he probably hadn't been in since the day he was born.
29:45The Northfarned King answers to the North, but the North answers to its Lunar Queen.
29:49Clear, Elder?
29:50Y-yes, my queen.
29:52Forgive me.
29:53Please.
29:54I pulled the arrow back.
29:56Let them breathe.
29:57When I turned, Fenwag was leaning against the boardroom table.
30:00Arms folded.
30:01A smirk.
30:02He loved it when I was terrifying.
30:03Anyone else?
30:05Every wolf in the room pressed their forehead to the floor.
30:08Long live the Lunar Queen.
30:10Hundreds of miles away.
30:12Temperatures in the single digits.
30:13Winter storms were rolling in fast.
30:15Grayson, just Grayson now.
30:16No title, no owl, nothing.
30:17Dragged his crippled body along the shoulder of a dead county road in rural upstate.
30:20Sooch fingers blackened and split from frostbite.
30:23Pink smears on the frozen asphalt every time he pulled himself forward.
30:26Every inch was agony.
30:28Fenrud had severed his tendons clean.
30:30Couldn't stand.
30:31Couldn't walk.
30:31Could only crawl.
30:32Already dead, but still moving.
30:34Hilara, I'm sorry.
30:36I'm so sorry.
30:38Hallucinating.
30:39Hunger and hypothermia eating away at his mind.
30:43Seeing my face in the snow drifts along the road.
30:46Hearing me set a bowl of hot soup on his desk during late nights at the office.
30:50Back when I still thought he was worth saving.
30:54Then a filthy boot came down on his bleeding hand.
30:56Grinding his fingers into the ice-covered pavement.
30:59Grayson screamed with missing up through matted hair.
31:01Five massive scarred rogue wolves stood over him.
31:03Ferals.
31:04The kind of wolves mainstream syndicates pretended didn't exist.
31:07The kind that survived on the fringes of human society doing things nobody talked about.
31:11Well, well, well.
31:13Look what the storm dragged in.
31:15The big bad Alpha Granson.
31:17CEO of Silvermoon.
31:19King of the eastern seaboard.
31:20He recognized them.
31:22Five years ago, he'd ordered these men beaten and expelled for skimming from Silvermoon's accounts.
31:26He sat behind his desk watching the security feed while Enforced broke their ribs one by one.
31:30I remember you in that corner office, laughing while your boys worked us over.
31:33Please, don't.
31:34I have nothing left.
31:35We know.
31:36Word travels fast out here.
31:38Northland's king cut your strings and threw you out with the trash.
31:41We don't want your money, Grayson.
31:43We just want to hear you scream.
31:45Deep beneath the abandoned Silvermoon compound.
31:48Sub-level isolation unit.
31:50Pitch black.
31:51Grayson?
31:51Is someone there?
31:52Selina's voice.
31:53Wrecked.
31:54Sand proper.
31:54It bounced off the concrete walls and came...
31:55Body was a mess.
31:56Frustering burns.
31:57Crusted blood.
31:57Skin peeling where the wolf vein restraints gnawed into her collar bops around the clock.
32:01Every breath a fresh jolt of agony.
32:03Her destroyed left eye leaked black fluid.
32:05The gash in her thigh throbbed with a toxic pulse that never let up.
32:09Please.
32:09Wolf bait venom frestered in the wounds.
32:11Somebody let me out.
32:12I can't.
32:13I can't do the dark.
32:14Please.
32:16Nobody answered.
32:18Security had abandoned the compound days ago.
32:20She was alone.
32:22Why did you do it, Selina?
32:25She went rigid.
32:26The voice sounded exactly like Aliyah's mother.
32:28The woman she had paid to have torn apart six years ago.
32:31You had our bodies dragged 200 meters.
32:34Planted the crystal to frame our daughter.
32:36No!
32:37Stay away from me!
32:41Total darkness.
32:43A guilty mind doing what guilty minds do.
32:46Filling the black with things that weren't there.
32:48She screamed until something in her throat tore.
32:51Doubled over and reversed bile onto the concrete.
32:53There's no way out.
32:54She wasn't going to die today, wasn't going to die tomorrow.
32:57She was gonna live in this pitch black box for decades.
32:59Blind, crippled.
33:00Locked in a cage with the ghosts of the people she'd murdered.
33:03Not a single soul who cared enough to check if she was still breathing.
33:06Back at the North Vaughan compound,
33:08the weight I'd been carrying for six years finally came off.
33:10Floor to ceiling windows in the master fweef.
33:13Snow was falling over the tree line beyond the perimeter.
33:15But something quiet and behind me now, Grayson sat in my chest.
33:18My fingers drift up without thinking.
33:20Brushed the faint jagged scar on my soul.
33:23Fennah came in behind me.
33:28You won, my queen.
33:31So why is your heart still racing?
33:33My lunar bloodline healed the physical damage, Fenric.
33:36But the hole in my soul is still there.
33:38Grayson broke the bond.
33:39Left a gap I can't close on my own.
33:41Are you sure you want that?
33:43You're the head of North Vand.
33:45You deserve a mate who isn't carrying someone else's wreckage inside her chest.
33:49The words cost me everything.
33:50Eyes squeezed shut.
33:52Terrified he'd finally see how fractured I really was underneath.
33:55He turned me around.
33:56Gently.
33:56No rush.
33:57Not disappointed.
33:58Golden eyes stubble.
33:59Burning with something old and fierce and tender.
34:02Alara, look at me.
34:03Grayson didn't leave a void in your soul.
34:05He just cleared the space that was always mine.
34:07My breath caught.
34:08His aura wrapped around me.
34:10Not the crushing kind.
34:11The other kind.
34:12Warm.
34:13Solid.
34:14I'm not going anywhere.
34:15I told you when I pulled you out of that fire.
34:17I've been yours since we were starving kids in that group home.
34:19I don't care about the scars on your soul.
34:21I'll write over every one of them with my own mark.
34:23You're not broken, Alara.
34:24You were just waiting for the right person to show up.
34:27He dropped to one knee.
34:28From his jacket pocket, a ring.
34:30Black titanium band.
34:31Single deep red diamond.
34:33Custom cut.
34:33Nothing flashy.
34:34Nothing wasted.
34:35My mark is already on your skin.
34:36But I want more than that.
34:38I want your choice.
34:39Be my true mate.
34:39Not because I claimed you.
34:40Not because the moon goddess arranged it.
34:42But because you're choosing me.
34:43My heart melted.
34:44Yes.
34:45Yes.
34:46Dropped into his arms, crying so hard I couldn't breathe.
34:49Undone by a love so steady and real, it didn't feel like it could possibly be meant for someone like
34:53me.
34:53Fenruck's fangs broke the skin at my colishome.
34:56Same spot.
34:56Deeper this time.
34:57Warmth flooded my chest.
34:59Not just a claim anymore.
35:00A soul bond.
35:01The old void filled in, completely, instantly, as if it had never been empty at all.
35:11The broken bond was gone.
35:13I was whole.
35:15Two weeks later.
35:17Winter solstice.
35:18The grand atrium of the North Van compound transformed.
35:20Silver, deep crimson, ice-white arrangements catching light from every angle.
35:23Floor-de-clearing windows framed the snow-covered hills outside.
35:25Every seat was filled.
35:26Standing room only along the back walls.
35:28I stood at the top of the central staircase.
35:29Gown shirmering like liquid moonlight.
35:31Fenbor at the front of the hall.
35:32Black fitted suit.
35:33No tie.
35:33The kind of man entire empires either followed or ran from.
35:36When I started down the aisle, the room went silent.
35:38Not the polite kind.
35:39The kind where nobody breathed.
35:40Elder Thorne stepped forward.
35:41Slim velvet case.
35:42He opened it.
35:43A black diamond collar necklace set in dark titanium.
35:46Designed to sit high on the collarbone.
35:47Exactly where the faded scars from Grayson's hooks still marked my skin.
35:50Old wounds covered by something new.
35:51Something mine.
35:52By the power of the moon goddess and the blood of the North,
35:54we present to you Ellara, the lunar alpha.
35:56The undisputed queen of Northwarren.
35:58Fingers lingering on the clasp will a half second longer than necessary.
36:01Private.
36:02Deliberate.
36:03Said more than any ceremony ever could.
36:05Then he kissed me.
36:06Not gentle.
36:07Not ceremonial.
36:08The kind of kiss that made a thousand wolves lose their minds.
36:11The hall detonated.
36:11Applause.
36:12Howling.
36:13Stamping feet.
36:14Sound bouncing off every glass panel and steel beam until the walls hummed.
36:18I looked out at the sea of wolves on their feet.
36:21Bowing.
36:22Roaring my name.
36:24Ellara is not just a survivor anymore.
36:27She is a legend.
36:29Far from the North, a winter storm was tearing across rural Montana.
36:33Grayson lay broken in bloody snow on the shoulder of a dead county road.
36:36The rogues had taken their time.
36:37Limbs wrecked, mangled by rusted blades and feral teeth.
36:40They'd left him barely breathing, letting the wind chill do the rest.
36:43Feral howls across the frozen fields.
36:46Celebration.
36:47Grayson coughed out black blood.
36:49Couldn't feel his legs.
36:50Couldn't feel his hands.
36:50The only thing left, the hollow screaming emptiness in his chest where our maitert bond used to live.
36:55Vision bled to black.
36:57His last thought was the one that would follow him into hell.
36:59He had thrown away his only true love for a murderer.
37:02The alpha who sacrificed his mate died nameless and frozen in the middle of nowhere.
37:06Six months later.
37:07North foreign compound.
37:09Buzzing.
37:10A leather chariot of the executive boardroom.
37:12White cashmere bethrow over my shoulders.
37:15Live feed of new recruits running drills on the training field outside.
37:17But I wasn't sitting alone.
37:20Fennec.
37:20Kneeling in front of me.
37:22Scarred hands resting on my rounded stomach.
37:24The entire organization is losing their minds.
37:27The lunar bloodline is strong.
37:29Inside me.
37:30Two tiny heartbeats drumming in tandem.
37:33Twins.
37:33A boy and a girl.
37:35Fennec stood.
37:35Pulled me up.
37:36Like we had all the time in the world now.
37:38His aura wrapped around me.
37:39Warm.
37:40I closed my eyes.
37:40I let myself feel it.
37:41Warm.
37:41All of it.
37:42The nightmare was over.
37:43The broken girl who'd rotted in a concrete box beneath Silvermoon was gone.
37:46She wasn't coming back.
37:48I am Alara.
37:49The lunar queen of the north.
37:50And my reign has only just begun.
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