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