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00:03I threw my body into the woods, no funeral, no grave, just crows, and that was the second
00:08time I died for him.
00:09In my world, being blind is a defect.
00:12Without a wolf, I'm not nothing.
00:13I am an omega, the very bottom of the pack, I'm lucky.
00:17No strength, no shifting, no healing.
00:19A normal wolf gets stuck, heals in minutes.
00:23Give me a paper cut, and I'll bleed for days, but I have something no one needs to do.
00:28I don't see faces, I see souls of jealousy, toxic green, hate, deep, oily blackness.
00:34In my last life, I used it to build a king, Lucian, a forgotten fifth son.
00:39I picked him, I made him, I put him on the throne.
00:42In the day my sister Celeste died, he grabbed my jaw so hard I heard it crack, forced a wolf's
00:49vein tincture down my throat.
00:52You blind freak, you knew I never wanted you.
00:55Celeste should have been mine from the start, and because of you, she ended up with Marcus.
01:00They tortured her to death.
01:01It was your fault.
01:05I died in agony.
01:07He gave Celeste's corpse a royal burial.
01:10He gave me the woods.
01:12But the hate, his hate, it was so consuming it dragged me right back to the death.
01:17I opened my eyes, 17 again.
01:21Night plumating hell.
01:23Lucian walked straight past me and took Celeste's hand, like he was afraid someone might stop him.
01:28The bastard came back too, and he remembered everything.
01:31He is terrified I'll choose him again.
01:33Honestly, I couldn't care less.
01:35I swept my blind gaze across the back of the room.
01:38In a sea of dark, rotten souls, I say.
01:40A soul so pure it glowed like liquid gold.
01:43The man in the wheelchair, the true alphabet.
01:46I choose Celeste as my mate.
01:49Lucian's voice cracked through the hall like a whip.
01:51She is my one and only Luna.
01:53He walked toward my sister with eyes full of a tenderness I knew was performance.
01:58The room went silent, then the whispers hit me like a wall.
02:01No heir in their right mind would want her.
02:03A blind Omega who couldn't even shift?
02:05What a joke.
02:07Why is she even here?
02:09Trash like her should be in the kitchen, not at a mating ball.
02:13I am an Alpha's daughter born blind.
02:15When I came at age, my wolf came from the world with my teeth and claws.
02:21That is not just weakness, that is a death sentence.
02:24Being wolf-less, that makes you a joke.
02:27My sister Celeste is the golden child.
02:30Born with a siren song.
02:32A voice that can calm even the most violent Alpha in the world.
02:36The family treats her like a goddess.
02:38They treat me like a mistake they can't take back.
02:41Lucian dropped to one knee in front of her.
02:43Accept my mark Celeste.
02:46I will make you the most powerful woman alive.
02:49And as he spoke, he threw one look back at me.
02:52Not an apology.
02:54A warning.
02:55He thinks he can take the throne without me this time.
02:57He thinks I was what held him back.
02:59He has no idea what he just threw away.
03:02I didn't awaken a wolf in my teenage.
03:04I got something much more dangerous.
03:07The soul line.
03:11Jealousy is toxic green.
03:13Hate is a bottomless black.
03:14Love is pink.
03:16And the deeper the feeling, the darker it burns.
03:19In my last life, I kept him alive with this.
03:22I spotted assassins before they moved.
03:25I told him who to trust.
03:26Who to kill.
03:27This time.
03:28I am going to let him have exactly what he wanted.
03:31And watch him realize too late that without me.
03:33He is nothing.
03:35And I really hope, for his sake, he doesn't end up crawling back to me, begging for a mercy
03:41in the long run.
03:42The moment Lucian's announcement landed, every eye in the room found me.
03:47I'm just a blind girl.
03:48I'm not worthy of a man like Lucian.
03:51Celeste is the perfect match for him.
03:54At least you know your place.
03:55He stepped closer.
03:56An Omega with no wolf?
03:58I wouldn't choose you if you were the last woman breathing.
04:02Not even if you crawled to me on your knees.
04:05My mother Marilyn made a sound beside me.
04:07A sharp inhale, like she was about to say something she shouldn't.
04:10I squeezed her hand.
04:12She went quiet.
04:13I swept the room with my soul alive.
04:15Marcus.
04:16Murky charcoal.
04:17Cruel underneath the surface.
04:19The other airs.
04:20Muddy swirls of greed and want.
04:22In my last life, I chose Lucian because his soul looked cleaner than anyone else's in the room.
04:27It was a mask.
04:28I didn't see what was underneath until the day he killed me.
04:31The rotten, pink, purple, black.
04:33He didn't just hate what it was.
04:35He hated me.
04:36I was blind in my last life in more ways than one.
04:39Never again.
04:40Celeste glided toward me.
04:41Face arranged into the perfect picture of a loving, wilder sister.
04:45Don't be sad.
04:46Go ahead.
04:47I'll let you have whoever you want.
04:50Her soul was turning toxic green.
04:52Edge to edge.
04:53Pure jealousy.
04:54Barely holding its shape.
04:56Since no one's going to claim you anyway,
04:58you can always beg me for work.
05:01Celeste will need a personal maid.
05:02We see us vest smitchy floors.
05:04Scrubbing floors all a wolfless Omega is good for.
05:06I didn't blink.
05:07I didn't even bother.
05:09None of them were worth the energy.
05:11And then, the sound of wheels.
05:13The chatter died.
05:14Then the room shifted.
05:17Kyle Ravenscroft had arrived.
05:19Uninvited.
05:20Unannounced.
05:21And completely unmoved by the spectacle.
05:24He sat in that wheelchair like a predator at rest.
05:27And then I saw.
05:28My breath caught.
05:29His soul was gold.
05:31Pure.
05:32Shimmering.
05:32Blinding gold.
05:33The mark of the moon goddess herself.
05:36The mark of a true king.
05:38I clenched my fists so hard my nails broke the skin.
05:42Last life, I picked the wrong man.
05:44I defied the moon goddess.
05:46Put a monster on the throne.
05:48And everyone paid for it.
05:50Not this time.
05:52I stood up.
05:53I walked past Lucian without a glance.
05:55Past every arrogant alpha heir in the room.
05:57I stopped in front of Kyle's wheelchair.
06:00I choose him.
06:01The hall went dead silent.
06:03Then it exploded.
06:05Laughter.
06:05From every direction.
06:07All it was.
06:08The blind girl and the cripple.
06:11Neither of you has a wolf.
06:13You really are a perfect match.
06:17Zaya.
06:19You can't see.
06:21You don't understand.
06:22He's in a wheelchair.
06:24She glanced at the crowd.
06:26Milking every second of it.
06:29I'll pretend I didn't hear that.
06:31Choose again.
06:32And if you truly can't find an alpha willing to have you.
06:36You're welcome to follow our caravan.
06:39Serve Lucian and me.
06:41At least you won't go hungry.
06:44I'm not anyone's servant.
06:45And I'm not a stray you take in out of pity.
06:48Kyle hadn't said a word through any of it.
06:51He just pulled his chair forward until he was right in front of me.
06:54He took my hand.
06:55His palm was large and rough.
06:57Thick with calluses.
06:59The kind you only get from yours of hard use.
07:05He took my hand and guided it to his knee.
07:08No flinching.
07:09No excuses.
07:11If he was lying.
07:12He didn't want pity for it.
07:13I left my hand there.
07:15I could feel the heat of him through the fabric and tense.
07:18Alive.
07:18Then a jolt.
07:20It shot through my fingertips.
07:22Raced up my arm.
07:23And hit my chest like a beast.
07:25This wasn't the soul line.
07:26It was something else entirely.
07:29My blood was screaming.
07:30I don't have a wolf.
07:32I was never supposed to feel a mate ball.
07:35But there it was.
07:39Kyle's whole body locked up.
07:40I looked into his soul.
07:42Warm pink threading through shimmering gold.
07:44I leaned in close and smiled.
07:47I can't fix your legs.
07:48Lucian's face went ugly.
07:50The mating ball isn't over.
07:52And you're out here making promises you can't keep?
07:55If you fail to heal him, the Alpha Council will have your head.
07:59Can you actually do it?
08:00I didn't answer right away.
08:02I let my fingers trail slowly along his test five.
08:05I can.
08:07But it'll require a very specific kind of contact.
08:11He understood immediately.
08:12The tips of his ears went red.
08:14He turned his head away.
08:16Couldn't quite bring himself to look at me.
08:18In my peripheral vision, Lucian's soul ignited.
08:22A roaring wall of green fire.
08:24Jealousy.
08:25A cold laugh rose in my chest.
08:27Jealous of what?
08:28Exception.
08:29You're the one who poured poison down my throat.
08:32The moment I stepped outside the hall, the world tilted.
08:35White hot painting detonated behind my eyes.
08:40Like something was being driven through my skull from the inside.
08:43That is the cost.
08:45Every time I used the soul eye on that many people at once, it cost me.
08:49I pressed my freezing fingers to my temples.
08:51The cold always came after.
08:53After the ball, Lucian got to work.
08:55He pulled up everything from our past life.
08:58Her favorite flowers.
08:59Her secret hiding spots.
09:01Every word she'd been waiting her whole life to hear.
09:04He played her like he'd been practicing for years.
09:07That same day, a mating contract arrived at my door on heavy old parchment.
09:14I accept you as my mate.
09:16I will hold and protect you in this life and the next.
09:19Not even death will part us.
09:20The handwriting was deep and certain.
09:23No hesitation in a single stroke.
09:25It felt exactly like him.
09:27Both weddings were set for the same morning.
09:29The night before, Celeste walked into my room like she owned it.
09:32She didn't knock.
09:33Her maid tossed something at my feet.
09:35A tattered gray shawl.
09:37A kind worn by the lowest ranking omegas.
09:40A mark of total submission.
09:43You're a blind freak, Zara.
09:49No real alpha will ever claim you.
09:51She leaned in.
09:53Voice honeyed and vicious at the same time.
09:56Lucian and I are being generous.
09:59We're keeping you on as a servant.
10:01But on the day of the ceremony,
10:03no carriage for you.
10:05You'll wear that when you walk behind the caravan.
10:08Servant's entrance.
10:09Don't embarrass us.
10:10The morning came.
10:11I left the shawl on the floor where it landed.
10:14I put on the dress Kyle had sent instead.
10:17White silk, thousands of diamonds sewn into the fabric.
10:21Small enough to look like starlight.
10:23At the estate gates, two carriages waited.
10:27One was extraordinary.
10:29Draped in thumb-sized pearls.
10:31Built like a throne that happened to have wheels.
10:33The other was plainly standard word.
10:36Nothing remarkable.
10:39Celeste didn't hesitate for a second.
10:41She walked straight to the pearl carriage and stepped inside.
10:46The head guard turned.
10:48His expression didn't waver.
10:51You're in the wrong carriage.
10:53This was commissioned by Alpha Kyle for his Luna and no one else.
10:58He didn't get her time to argue.
10:59The guards took her by the arms and came to run.
11:01She caught her heel in her skirt and went down hard for his face into the dirt.
11:08Lucien arrived just in time to see it.
11:12Celeste scrambled up and threw herself at him, already crying.
11:18It's Zara!
11:19She planned this!
11:22She can't stand that I'm the one becoming a Luna!
11:26She turned to the crowd gathering around them, eyes blisting.
11:29Please, don't hate her.
11:31She's struggling.
11:33I know we're in love, Lucien.
11:36But I begged you to keep her safe.
11:38I cheated for months just so she could be our servant and I not starve on the street.
11:45She's a blind, Omega.
11:46She should be grateful anyone even bothered to take her in.
11:49To pull a strunt like this on her sister's wedding day?
11:52It's pathetic.
11:54The crowd was vicious.
11:55They always are when they smell witness.
11:58Lucien's soul was drowning in black.
12:00Thick, suffocating, ink dark.
12:02He pulled Celeste against his chest and turned on me.
12:06You're an Omega, Zara.
12:09You have no right to wear white.
12:11Take that dress off right now, or I'll shred it off your back myself!
12:17Celeste buried her face in his chest.
12:20But I could see her soul.
12:21She was smirking.
12:24Lucien, you don't have me watching your back this time.
12:28What's coming for you tonight isn't a wedding.
12:32It's a funeral.
12:35Celeste refurled what had struck her.
12:37How can you curse him like that?
12:39Just because he didn't choose you?
12:41You dare curse an Alpha heir?
12:45Guards!
12:46Seize her!
12:48The soldiers started moving in.
12:50Think carefully.
12:52You're laying a hand on Alpha Kyle's mate.
12:55Make sure that's a consequence you're ready to live with.
12:58Lucien laughed.
12:59Jagged.
13:00Ugly.
13:01Kyle?
13:01The cripple isn't even here.
13:04Probably hiding in his chambers, too embarrassed to show his face.
13:08He's using you for sport, Zara.
13:09Nothing more.
13:10He stepped forward, close enough that his shadow fell over me.
13:13Neil.
13:14Beg Celeste's forgiveness.
13:17And maybe, maybe, I'll still find a use for you.
13:20Then a voice cut through everything.
13:22Who is threatening my mate?
13:23The crowd spilt.
13:24Kyle moved through them like they weren't there.
13:26Sharp black suit.
13:28Not a single piece out of place.
13:30Even seated.
13:30His presence was suffocating.
13:32The moment he appeared, the street went silent.
13:35Beside him, Lucien suddenly looked like a boy wearing his mask.
13:40Kyle came straight to me.
13:42He took my hand and folded it inside his large, warm, unhurried.
13:48Then he looked up.
13:50His eyes fixed on Lucien like a blade finding its mark.
13:53Let's try that again.
13:55Who was it that told my mate to me?
13:57The temperature in the street seemed to drop.
14:00No one walked.
14:01No one breathed.
14:02He didn't shout.
14:03Didn't signal his men.
14:05He just watched Lucien the way a predator watches something.
14:08It is already decided to deal with later.
14:10I'll remember that.
14:11I'm an alpha heir.
14:13Same as you.
14:14Who the hell do you think you are?
14:15Who the hell do you think you are?
14:17A forgotten fifth son?
14:19Trying to give orders to my mate.
14:22You're not a rival, Lucien.
14:24You're a fit note.
14:25The color drained from Lucien's face.
14:28This isn't over.
14:29Low and mean.
14:30You'll both regret tonight.
14:33I gave you a chance, Zara.
14:35When you come crawling back,
14:38and you will,
14:39don't expect mercy.
14:40I looked at his soul,
14:42muddy green,
14:43murky and small.
14:44He genuinely believes he is the chosen one.
14:46He thinks the throne is already his,
14:48and that I was just dead weight holding him back.
14:51He has no idea what is waiting for him.
14:53Without me clearing his path,
14:55he won't last the season.
14:57He'll be lucky to still be breathing
14:58by the time the leaves turn.
15:00Oh, our first night as mates was quiet.
15:02Just the two of us,
15:04and the fire crackling low between us.
15:06We shared whiskey,
15:08amber and slow burning on the way down.
15:12I could feel his eyes,
15:14heavy and silver warm against my skin.
15:16My pulse wouldn't settle.
15:18Even sitting across from me in that chair,
15:20his presence filled the entire room.
15:22You said you could fix my legs.
15:26How?
15:29Help me with something first.
15:32I've never seen this room.
15:35Describe it to me.
15:37Then he started talking.
15:39The fires glow.
15:40The oil paintings.
15:42He told me their textures,
15:43not just their subjects.
15:45The velvet curtains.
15:46Deep and heavy.
15:47On the shelf above the nightstand,
15:51there's an old book.
15:53The cover is faded.
15:55My hands stilled around the glass.
15:57That shelf was high,
15:58nearly at the ceiling.
16:00From a wheelchair,
16:01the top of that book
16:03was completely out of sight.
16:04There was no way he could know
16:05the cover was faded.
16:07I didn't say a word.
16:08I just took another sip
16:10and filed that detail away somewhere.
16:12I wouldn't forget it.
16:13I stood up with my glass in hand,
16:15then let it slip.
16:18It hit the carpet with a dull thud
16:20and rolled toward the sofa.
16:22Kyle's body moved
16:23before his mind could stop it.
16:25His chest surged forward.
16:27The muscles in his thighs
16:28locked and coiled,
16:30dense as iron cables.
16:32For a single, unguarded second,
16:34he was about to stand.
16:35Then he caught himself
16:36and settled back into the leather
16:38as if nothing had happened.
16:40But I felt it.
16:41That reflex was all the confirmation I needed.
16:44I didn't say anything.
16:46Not yet.
16:47There's one more way to be sure.
16:51I stepped in close.
16:53And I straddled his lap.
16:55Kyle stopped breathing.
16:58The heat from his hands
16:59soaked straight through the silk.
17:01It burned against my skin like a brand.
17:04My heart was slamming.
17:06I ignored it.
17:08I raised my hand
17:09and let my fingertips trace
17:10from his jaw down to his chest.
17:13Hard as stone beneath the shirt.
17:15Not the body of a man
17:16who hadn't used his legs in seven years.
17:18I looked into his soul.
17:20A storm deep crimson.
17:22Soft pink.
17:23Something more tender than he'd admit.
17:25And threading through both.
17:27A sharp streak of dark green panic.
17:30He knew I was getting close.
17:32I leaned down.
17:37My lips barely grazed
17:39the corner of his mouth.
17:41Not a kiss.
17:42A question.
17:43His breathing came apart.
17:45And then I took his hand
17:46and pressed his palm
17:47flat against my chest.
17:49The silk between us was nothing.
17:51My face was burning.
17:52Because in that moment
17:53his body gave me
17:55the most honest answer he had.
17:57His body reacted
17:58before his mind could stop it.
18:00I felt the shift in his balance.
18:03The sudden brace
18:04through his thighs.
18:05The instinctive drive upward.
18:06A man who hadn't used his legs
18:08in seven years
18:09wouldn't move like that.
18:11I pulled back just enough.
18:13Let the smile come slowly.
18:14Your legs are fine.
18:16That much, I know.
18:17Kyle closed his eyes.
18:19His throat moved
18:20as he swallowed.
18:21Then he stood up.
18:22One hand stayed at my waist.
18:24The other still pressed
18:26against my chest.
18:27He lifted me
18:28and I felt just how much
18:29of him there was.
18:30Nearly six foot long.
18:32All of it muscle.
18:34My whole world
18:35was suddenly just him.
18:36How did you know?
18:38I just smiled
18:39and gave him something
18:39vague enough to pass.
18:41He set me down gently
18:42on the edge of the bed.
18:44Then stepped back.
18:45The hand that had touched
18:46my chest was shaking.
18:47I'm sorry,
18:48I shouldn't have...
18:49Don't.
18:50I'm the one
18:51who put your hand there.
18:52He looked at me
18:53for a long moment.
18:54He laughed.
18:55A real laugh.
18:56Warm and unguarded.
18:57Like seven years
18:59of tension
18:59finally giving way.
19:01Seven years.
19:02Seven years
19:03fooling everyone.
19:04The whole damn world.
19:06And my blind mate
19:08catches me
19:08on the very first night.
19:10We didn't go
19:10any further that night.
19:11We ended up
19:12on the rug
19:12in front of the fire.
19:14The bottle of whiskey
19:15between us
19:15and we just
19:16talked.
19:17He told me
19:18about the night
19:19his parents were killed.
19:20They called it
19:21a rogue wolf attack.
19:23Everyone knew
19:24what it actually was.
19:25The alpha king
19:26had ordered it.
19:27He was 15 years old.
19:29Standing at their funeral.
19:31And he made a decision.
19:32He would become
19:33the cripple.
19:34Invisible.
19:36Unthreatening.
19:37Off the king's list
19:38entirely.
19:39It was the only way
19:40to stay alive.
19:42I told him about Lucian.
19:43All of it.
19:44What he was underneath.
19:46I didn't choose you
19:48because I had
19:48no other options.
19:50I chose you
19:51because you were
19:51the only one
19:52worth choosing.
19:54I watched his soul
19:55begin to shift.
19:56The gold bleeding
19:57slowly into a deep
19:59and glowing ache.
20:01Late into the night
20:02he came back.
20:03The splitting pain
20:04behind my temples
20:05like an axe
20:06working its way
20:07through bone.
20:08I tried to keep
20:09my hands still.
20:10They were shaking anyway.
20:12Kyle stopped
20:13mid-sentence.
20:14Your head.
20:15Before I could deflect
20:16his thumbs were already
20:17at my temples.
20:19The pressure.
20:19exact like he'd
20:21mapped the pain
20:21before he touched it.
20:23My mother used
20:23to get them.
20:24I've known what to do
20:25since I was a boy.
20:26The pain didn't ease.
20:28It vanished.
20:29We shared the same bed.
20:30His arm lay heavy
20:31and warm across my waist.
20:33My head settled
20:34against his chest.
20:35I listened to his
20:36heartbeat through
20:37my soul lie.
20:38I watched his soul
20:39settle.
20:40The gold softening
20:41deepening
20:41into a rich
20:42and quiet pink.
20:43For the first time
20:44in two lifetimes
20:45I felt safe.
20:46Lucian's wedding
20:47night was
20:47small and hard.
20:48In my last life
20:49a maid tried to
20:50spike his wine
20:51with wolf's bane.
20:52I caught her
20:53before she could
20:54get close.
20:55I read the murder
20:56in her soul.
20:56Swapped the glasses.
20:58Had her detained
20:59before he'd taken
20:59a single seat.
21:01This time
21:01I did nothing.
21:03Celeste wouldn't notice.
21:04She wouldn't know
21:05a threat
21:05if it sat down
21:06beside her
21:06and introduced itself.
21:08The next morning
21:09Kyle and I arrived
21:10at the Alpha King's
21:11estate.
21:12No sign of Lucian.
21:13No sign of Celeste.
21:15The corridors
21:15were alive
21:16with hushed
21:16urgent voices.
21:18The hair was poisoned
21:19in his own chambers.
21:20He hasn't woken.
21:21The healers say
21:22the dose was enough
21:23to drop a grizzly.
21:25I kept my face
21:26perfectly still
21:27but underneath me
21:28I was smiling.
21:29Lucian's fall
21:30had started
21:30and this time
21:31I wasn't going
21:32to stop it.
21:34The carriage
21:34had barely rolled
21:35to a stop
21:36when Celeste
21:36appeared at the gates.
21:38She looked like
21:38she hadn't slept
21:39in days.
21:40Laura!
21:41You poisoned him!
21:44Give me the antidote
21:45right now!
21:47I felt the temperature
21:48inside the carriage shift.
21:49Kyle went very still
21:51beside me.
21:51I placed a hand
21:52on his arm.
21:53I've got this.
21:55I leaned in
21:56and pressed a quick kiss
21:57to his cheek.
21:58Then I stepped out
21:59into the morning air.
22:01Antidote?
22:02I don't have one.
22:05Whatever happened
22:06to Lucian
22:06has nothing to do
22:07with me.
22:08Liar!
22:11Then how did you know
22:12he'd be dying
22:12on his wedding night?
22:14I tilted my head.
22:16That's a serious accusation.
22:18Where's your proof?
22:20Did you catch the killer?
22:22Did you find the poison?
22:24I already knew
22:24she hadn't.
22:25The spy Marcus sent
22:26was a professional.
22:28Without my soul eye,
22:29she was a ghost.
22:30By now,
22:31she was likely
22:31across the border,
22:33untouchable.
22:34Celeste stood there,
22:35mouth open,
22:36nothing coming out.
22:37If you keep causing
22:38a scene on my land,
22:40my warriors
22:41will remove you.
22:43Her eyes dropped
22:45to my neck.
22:45She saw the red mark
22:46Kyle had left there.
22:48You actually slept
22:49with him?
22:50A blind girl
22:52and a broken man?
22:53I suppose trash
22:54finds its own level.
22:55I suppose trash
22:56finds its own level.
22:57I thought about last night,
22:58the fire,
22:59the whiskey,
23:00the long silence
23:01after he finally stood up
23:02and I felt the full weight
23:03of him for the first time.
23:04Kyle wasn't broken.
23:05He was 10,000 times
23:07the man Lucian
23:08would ever be.
23:08I laughed.
23:12What is so funny?
23:13I stopped,
23:13looked at her.
23:14We're close enough to it.
23:15I'm laughing
23:16at how blind you are.
23:18Lucian is going to die
23:20and when he goes down,
23:22he'll take you with him.
23:23If you want to survive
23:25what's coming,
23:26sever the bond now
23:27while you still can.
23:29That was it for her.
23:30She swung at my face,
23:32wide, furious,
23:33telegraphed from a mile away.
23:34I shifted my weight
23:35and stepped aside.
23:36She hit nothing but air.
23:38The momentum carried her forward
23:39and she went down hard,
23:40palms and knees in the dirt.
23:42I looked down at her.
23:42Remember this?
23:44Because the next time
23:45you raise a hand to me
23:46I won't step aside.
23:48She stared up at me
23:49from the ground,
23:50trembling.
23:50For the first time in her life
23:51she was actually afraid of me.
23:53The blind girl
23:54she used to torment
23:55wasn't there anymore.
23:56Someone else
23:57had taken her place.
23:59Kyle was waiting
24:00when I stepped back
24:01into the carriage.
24:02He just watched me
24:02with those gray eyes
24:03and in them,
24:04not worry,
24:05not pity,
24:06admiration.
24:07He trusted me
24:07to handle my own affairs.
24:09That respect landed heavier
24:10than any shield
24:11he could have raised.
24:12He turned to his lead guide
24:13and spoke low.
24:14No one from Lucian's pack
24:16crosses onto my land again.
24:18For any reason.
24:20Ever.
24:23After Celeste
24:24was escorted out,
24:25we turned to the business
24:26of leaving.
24:27We were heading
24:27for Thorn Harbor.
24:28The courtyard filled
24:29with people
24:30and supplies
24:31controlled chaos.
24:32And through all of it,
24:33my soul eye
24:34found a single target.
24:35A guard named Vaughn.
24:36His soul was a muddy,
24:38treacherous gray.
24:39I leaned close
24:40to Kyle's ear.
24:41Who is that man?
24:43Vaughn.
24:44He's been with me
24:45since I was 15.
24:47Saved my life twice.
24:48I pulled back
24:49and looked at him.
24:50Kyle,
24:50do you trust me?
24:51His soul flushed
24:52deep dark pink
24:53all at once.
24:54You're my mate.
24:55Of course I do.
24:56He's a traitor.
24:58We changed the route
24:59to Thorn Harbor.
25:01And we tell no one.
25:03In my last time,
25:04this was where
25:04it ended with Kyle.
25:06Ambushed on the road
25:07to the harbor.
25:08Wounds that never healed.
25:09He died defending
25:10the city walls.
25:11I finished speaking.
25:13Let my lips brush his cheek.
25:15Kyle's arm came around
25:16my waist immediately.
25:18Pulling me in.
25:19Across the yard
25:20I felt Vaughn watching us.
25:22He clocked how close we were
25:23and looked really fast.
25:24Kyle pressed his face
25:26into the curve of my neck.
25:27His breath was warm
25:28against my skin.
25:29Are you trying to fix
25:30my legs again?
25:32Because I'm happy
25:32to wait until tonight.
25:34Or we could start now.
25:36The next morning,
25:37Vaughn was gone.
25:38Kyle sat beside me
25:39at breakfast,
25:40cutting my steak
25:41into careful pieces
25:42without being asked.
25:44You were right.
25:45Vaughn was Marcus' man.
25:47Buried so deep
25:48I never suspected him once
25:50in seven years.
25:52It took some
25:55persuasion
25:55to get him to talk.
25:57He looked at me.
25:58How did you know, Zara?
26:00I looked into his soul
26:01gold and pink.
26:02Wound together.
26:03No suspicion.
26:04No fear.
26:05Lucky guess.
26:07The words were barely out
26:08when the pain hit.
26:09White.
26:10Hot behind both temples
26:11at once.
26:12My hand went to my head
26:13before I could stop it.
26:14Kyle didn't say a word.
26:16He just moved his chair
26:17flushed against mine.
26:18Un-in-hand
26:18kept cutting my food.
26:19The other reached up
26:20and wrapped around
26:21the back of my neck.
26:22The pain dissolved.
26:23He has stopped asking
26:24why it happens.
26:25He just makes sure
26:26he is there when it does.
26:28Thorn Harbor.
26:29Kyle's territory.
26:30The land was rough.
26:32Resources thin.
26:33The kind of place
26:34the Alpha Council
26:35never bothered
26:36to look at twice.
26:37The wolves here
26:38were loyal to Kyle.
26:40The way wolves
26:41are loyal to someone
26:42they've chosen.
26:42Out of true devotion.
26:44When I went to the market,
26:45they called me Luna
26:46and refused my coin.
26:48Every stall,
26:48every vendor.
26:49I had to set the money down
26:51and walk away
26:52before they touch it.
26:53I came back
26:54to the estate breathless
26:55and my maid
26:56watched me come
26:57through the door.
26:59The Luna is blind,
27:01but she moves faster
27:02than any soldier
27:02I've trained with.
27:05Kyle heard her.
27:07That night,
27:07his fingers
27:08found the edges
27:08of my eyes.
27:11Zara,
27:12is it really just
27:14nothing?
27:15Is it really just
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