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Rejected by her pack and left for dead, she discovers she was never meant to be a follower. "The Unchosen Alpha" is a story of survival and supreme power. Watch as the outcast girl awakens an ancient wolf spirit and returns to claim the throne from the very people who threw her away. A thrilling supernatural journey!
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00:03I threw my body into the woods
00:04No funeral, no grave, just crows
00:07And that was the second time I died for him
00:09In my world, being blind is a defect
00:11Without a wolf, I am nothing
00:13I am an omega, the very bottom of the path
00:16No strength, no shifting, no healing
00:19A normal wolf will stop
00:21Heals in minutes
00:23Give me a paper cut and I'll bleed for days
00:26But I have something no one knows about
00:28I don't see faces, I see souls
00:30Jealousy, toxic green, hate, deep, oily black
00:34In my last life, I used it to build a king
00:37Lucian, 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
00:44He grabbed my jaw so hard I heard it crack
00:49Forced a wolf's vein tincture down my throat
00:52You blind freak, you knew I never wanted you
00:55Celeste should have been mine from the start
00:57And 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
01:11But the hurt, his hate
01:14It was so consuming it dragged me right back to the back
01:17I opened my eyes, seventeen again
01:21Night plumating by
01:22Lucian walked straight past me and took Celeste's hand
01:26Like he was afraid someone might stop him
01:28The bastard came back too
01:29And he remembered everything
01:31He is terrified I'll choose him again
01:32Honestly, I couldn't care less
01:35I swept my blind gaze across the back of the room
01:37In a sea of dark, rotten souls
01:40A soul so pure it glowed like liquid gold
01:43The man in the wheelchair
01:44The true alpha
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
01:56I knew who was performance
01:57The room went silent
01:59Then the whispers hit me like a wall
02:00No heir in their right mind would want her
02:03A blind Omega who couldn't even shift?
02:06What a joke
02:06Why is she even here?
02:09Trash like her should be in the kitchen
02:11Not at a mating ball
02:13I am an alpha's daughter born blind
02:15When I came at age, I'm a wolf
02:20That is not just weakness
02:22That is a death sentence
02:24Being wolf-less
02:25That makes you a joke
02:27My sister Celeste is the golden child
02:29Born with a siren song
02:32A voice that can calm even the most violent alpha in the world
02:35The family treats her like a goddess
02:38They treat me like a mistake they can't take back
02:40Lucian dropped to one knee in front of her
02:44Accept 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, a warning
02:54He 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 cage
03:04I got something much more dangerous
03:07The soul line
03:11Jealousy is toxic green
03:12Hate is a bottomless black
03:14Love is pink
03:16And the deeper the feeling
03:17The darker it burns
03:19In my last life
03:21I kept him alive with this
03:22I spotted assassins before they moved
03:24I told him who to trust
03:26Who to kill
03:27This time
03:28I am going to let him have exactly what he wanted
03:30And watch him realize too late that without me
03:33He is nothing
03:35And I really hope
03:36For his sake
03:37He doesn't end up crawling back to me
03:40Begging for a mercy on the one of my
03:42The moment Lucian's announcement landed
03:45Every eye in the room found me
03:47I'm just a blind girl
03:49I'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
03:59If you were the last woman breathing
04:02Not even if you crawl to me on your knees
04:04My mother Marilyn made a sound beside me
04:07A sharp inhale
04:08Like 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 on
04:15Marcus
04:16Murky charcoal
04:17Cruel underneath the surface
04:18The other airs
04:20Muddy swirls of greed and want
04:22In my last life
04:23I chose Lucian
04:24Because his soul looked cleaner
04:25Than anyone else's in the room
04:27It was a mask
04:28I didn't see what was underneath
04:29Until the day he killed me
04:31A rotten
04:31Pink purple black
04:33We didn't just hate what it was
04:35We hated me
04:35I was blind in my last life
04:37In more ways than one
04:39Never again
04:39Celeste glided toward me
04:41Face arranged into the perfect picture
04:43Of a loving older sister
04:44Don't be sad
04:46Go ahead
04:47I'll let you have whoever you want
04:49Her soul was churning
04:51Toxic 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
05:02Who sees fest smitching floors
05:04Scrubbing floors all a wolfless Omega is good for
05:06I didn't blink
05:07I didn't even bother
05:08None of them were worth the energy
05:10And then
05:11The sound of wheels
05:13The chatter died
05:14Then the room shifted
05:17Kyle Ravenscroft had arrived
05:19Uninvited
05:20Unannounced
05:21Unannounced
05:22And completely unmoved
05:23By the spectacle
05:23He sat in that wheelchair
05:25Like a predator at rest
05:27And then I saw
05:28My breath caught
05:29His soul was gold
05:31Pure
05:31Shimmering
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
05:40My nails broke the skin
05:41Last life
05:43I picked the wrong man
05:44I defied the moon goddess
05:46Put a monster on the throne
05:47And everyone paid for it
05:49Not this time
05:52I stood up
05:53I walked past Lucian
05:54Without a glance
05:55Past every arrogant alpha heir in the room
05:57I stopped in front of Kyle's wheelchair
05:59I choose him
06:01The hall went dead silent
06:03Then it exploded
06:04Lifed up
06:05From every direction
06:07All it was
06:08The blind girl and the cripple
06:10Neither of you has a wolf
06:13You really are a perfect match
06:18Xayah
06:19You can't see
06:20You 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
06:30Choose again
06:33And if you truly can't find an alpha
06:35Willing 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
06:50He just rolled his chair forward
06:52Until he was right in front of me
06:54He took my hand
06:55His palm was large and rough
06:57Thick with calluses
06:58A kind of anything you get from others of hard use
07:05He took my hand and guided it to his knee
07:08No flinching
07:09No excuses
07:10If 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 intense
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
07:24This wasn't the soul line
07:26It was something else entirely
07:28My blood was screaming
07:30I don't have a wolf
07:32I was never supposed to feel a mate bond
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
07:46I can fix your necks
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
07:57The Alpha Council will have your head
07:58Can you actually do it?
08:00I didn't answer right away
08:02I let my fingers trail slowly along his test file
08:05I can
08:07But it'll require a very specific kind of contact
08:10He understood immediately
08:12The tips of his ears went red
08:14He turned his head away
08:15Couldn't quite bring himself to look at me
08:18In my peripheral vision
08:20Lucian's soul ignited
08:21A roaring wall of green fire
08:24Jealousy
08:25A cold laugh rose in my chest
08:27Jealous of what?
08:28Exactly, Lucian
08:29You are the one who poured poison down my throat
08:32The moment I stepped outside the hall
08:34The world tilted
08:35White hot pain detonated behind my eyes
08:40Like something was being driven through my skull from the inside
08:43That is the cost
08:44Every time I used the soul eye on that many people at once
08:48I 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
09:04Who played her like he'd been practicing for years
09:07That same day
09:08A 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
09:22No hesitation in a single stroke
09:25It felt exactly like him
09:26Both weddings were set for the same morning
09:29The night before
09:30Celeste walked into my room like she owned it
09:32She didn't knock
09:33Her maid tossed something at my feet
09:36A tattered gray shawl
09:37A kind worn by the lowest ranking omegas
09:40A mark of total submission
09:43You're a blind freak
09:45Zara
09:49No real alpha will ever claim you
09:51She leaned in
09:52Voice 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 and 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
10:20Small enough to look like starlight
10:23At the estate gate, two carriages waited
10:27One was extraordinary
10:28Draped in thumb-sized pearls
10:30Built like a throne that happened to have wheels
10:34The other was primal standard work
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
10:50You're in the wrong carriage
10:53This was commissioned by Alpha Kyle
10:55For his Luna and no one else
10:57He didn't get her time to argue
10:59Guards took her by the arms and turned her up
11:02She caught her heel on her skirt
11:04And went down hard face-faced into the dirt
11:08Lucian arrived just in time to see it
11:12Celeste scrambled up and threw herself at him
11:14Already 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
11:28Eyes glistening
11:29Please, don't hate her
11:31She's struggling
11:33I know we're in love, Lucian
11:36But I begged you to keep her safe
11:38I pleaded for months just so she could be our servant
11:41And 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
11:53The crowd was vicious
11:55They always are when they smell weapons
11:58Lucian'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
12:13Or I'll shred it off your back myself
12:18Celeste buried her face in his chest
12:20But I could see her soul
12:21She was smirking
12:23Lucian
12:24You 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, we furrowed like I'd struck her
12:37How can you curse him like that?
12:39Just because he didn't choose you?
12:42You dare curse an Alpha Heir?
12:46Guards! Seize her!
12:48The soldiers started moving in
12:50Think carefully
12:52You're laying a hand on Alpha Kyle's mate
12:56Make sure that's a consequence you're ready to live with
12:58Lucian laughed
12:59Jagged
13:00Ugly
13:01Kyle?
13:02The cripple isn't even here
13:04Probably hiding in his chambers
13:05Too embarrassed to show his face
13:07He's using you for sport, Zara
13:09Nothing more
13:10He stepped forward
13:11Close enough that his shadow fell over me
13:13Kneel
13:13Beg Celeste's forgiveness
13:17And maybe
13:18Maybe
13:18I'll still find a use for you
13:20Then a voice cut through everything
13:21Who is threatening my mate?
13:23The crowd split
13:24Kyle moved through them like they weren't there
13:26Sharp black suit
13:27Not a single piece out of place
13:30Even seated
13:30His presence was suffocating
13:32The moment he appeared
13:33The street went silent
13:34Beside him
13:35Lucian suddenly looked like a boy wearing his mask
13:40Kyle came straight to me
13:42He took my hand and folded it inside his
13:44Large, warm, unhurried
13:46So he waits
13:47Then he looked up
13:50His eyes fixed on Lucian like a blade finding its mark
13:53Let's try that again
13:54Who was it that told my mate to move?
13:57The temperature in the street seemed to drop
13:59No one walked
14:01No one breathed
14:02He didn't shout
14:03Didn't signal his men
14:04He just watched Lucian 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
14:21You're not a rival, Lucian
14:23You're a fit note
14:25The color drained from Lucian's face
14:27This isn't over
14:29Low and mean
14:30You'll both regret tonight
14:33I gave you a chance, Zara
14:36When you come crawling back
14:37And you will
14:39Don't expect mercy
14:40I looked at his soul
14:42Muddy breathing
14:42Murky 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
14:50He has no idea what is waiting for him
14:53Without me clearing his path
14:55He won't last the season
14:56He'll be lucky to still be breathing by the time the leaves turn
15:00Oh, her first night as mates was quiet
15:02Just the two of us
15:03And 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
15:27How?
15:29Help me with something first
15:32I've never seen this room
15:35Describe it to me
15:37Then he started talking
15:38The fires glow
15:40The oil paintings
15:41He 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 hand 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
16:05He could know the cover was faded
16:06I 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
16:31For 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
16:39But I felt it
16:41That reflex was all the confirmation I needed
16:44I didn't say anything
16:45Not 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
17:00Soaked straight through the silk
17:01It burned against my skin
17:03Like a brand
17:04My heart was slamming
17:05I ignored it
17:08I raised my hand
17:09And let my fingertips
17:10Trace from his jaw
17:11Down to his chest
17:13Hard as stone beneath the shirt
17:15Not the body of a man
17:17Who hadn't used his legs
17:18In seven years
17:19I looked into his soul
17:20A storm deep crimson
17:22Soft pink
17:23Something more tender
17:24Than he'd admit
17:25And threading through both
17:27A sharp streak
17:28Of dark green panic
17:29He knew I was getting close
17:32I leaned down
17:38My lips barely grazed the corner of his mouth
17:40Not a kiss
17:42A question
17:43His breathing came apart
17:44And then I took his hand
17:46And pressed his palm
17:47Flat against my chest
17:48The silk between us was nothing
17:50My face was burning
17:52Because in that moment
17:54His body gave me the most honest answer he had
17:57His body reacted before his mind could stop it
18:00I felt the shift in his balance
18:02I felt the shift in his balance
18:03The sudden brace through his thighs
18:04The instinctive drive upward
18:06A man who hadn't used his legs in seven years
18:09Wouldn't move like that
18:10I pulled back just enough
18:12Let the smile come slowly
18:14Your legs are fine
18:16That much I know
18:17Kyle closed his eyes
18:19His throat moved as he swallowed
18:21Then he stood up
18:22One hand stayed at my waist
18:24The other still pressed against my chest
18:27He lifted me
18:28And I felt just how much of him there was
18:30Nearly six foot long
18:32All of it muscle
18:33My whole world was suddenly just him
18:36How did you know?
18:38I just smiled and gave him something vague enough to pass
18:41He set me down gently on the edge of the bed
18:43Then stepped back
18:45The hand that had touched my chest was shaking
18:47I'm sorry I shouldn't have
18:49Don't
18:50I'm the one who put your hand there
18:52He looked at me for a long moment
18:54He laughed
18:55A real laugh
18:56Warm and unguarded
18:57Like seven years of tension finally giving way
19:00Seven years
19:02Seven years fooling everyone
19:04The whole damn world
19:06And my blind mate catches me on the very first night
19:09We didn't go any further that night
19:11We ended up on the rug in front of the fire
19:13The bottle of whiskey between us
19:15And we just
19:16Talked
19:17He told me about the night his parents were killed
19:20They called it a rogue wolf attack
19:23Everyone knew what it actually was
19:25The alpha king had ordered it
19:27He was 15 years old
19:29Standing at their funeral
19:30And he made a decision
19:32He would become the cripple
19:34Invisible
19:36Unthreatening
19:37Off the king's list entirely
19:39It was the only way to stay alive
19:41I told him about Lucian
19:43All of it
19:44What he was underneath
19:46I didn't choose you because I had no other options
19:49I chose you because you were the only one worth choosing
19:54I watched his soul begin to shift
19:56The gold bleeding slowly into a deep and glowing ache
20:01Late into the night
20:02I came back
20:03The splitting pain behind my temples
20:05Like an axe working its way through bone
20:08I tried to keep my hands still
20:10They were shaking anyway
20:11Kyle stopped mid-sentence
20:14Your head
20:14Before I could deflect
20:16His thumbs were already at my temples
20:18The pressure
20:19Exact like he'd mapped the pain before he touched it
20:22My mother used to get them
20:24I've known what to do since I was a boy
20:26The pain didn't ease
20:28It vanished
20:28We shared the same bed
20:30His arm lay heavy and warm across my waist
20:33My head settled against his chest
20:35I listened to his heartbeat through my soul eye
20:38I watched his soul settle
20:39The gold softening
20:41Deepening
20:41Into a rich and quiet pink
20:43For the first time in two lifetimes
20:45I felt safe
20:46Lucian's wedding night was wrong and hard
20:48In my last life
20:49A maid tried to spike his wine with wolf's bane
20:52I caught her before she could get close
20:54I read the murder in her soul
20:56Swapped the glasses
20:57Had her detained before he'd taken a single seat
21:00This time
21:01I did nothing
21:03Celeste wouldn't notice
21:04She wouldn't know a threat
21:05If it sat down beside her
21:06And introduced itself
21:07The next morning
21:09Kyle and I arrived at the Alpha King's estate
21:12No sign of Lucian
21:13No sign of Celeste
21:15The corridors were alive
21:16With hushed
21:17Urgent voices
21:17The hair was poisoned in his own chambers
21:20He hasn't woken
21:21The healers say the dose
21:23Was enough to drop a grizzly
21:24I kept my face perfectly still
21:27But underneath me
21:28I was smiling
21:29Lucian's fall had started
21:30And this time
21:32I wasn't going to stop it
21:33The carriage had barely rolled to a stop
21:36When Celeste appeared at the gates
21:37She looked like she hadn't slept in days
21:39Zara!
21:41You poisoned him!
21:44Give me the antidote right now!
21:47I felt the temperature inside the carriage shift
21:49Kyle went very still beside me
21:51I placed a hand on his arm
21:53I've got this
21:55I leaned in and pressed a quick kiss to his cheek
21:58Then I stepped out into the morning air
22:01Antidote?
22:02I don't have one
22:05Whatever happened to Lucian
22:06Has nothing to do with me
22:08Liar!
22:11Then how did you know he'd be dying on 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 she hadn't
22:25The spy Marcus sent was a professional
22:27Without my soul eye
22:29She was a ghost
22:30By now she was likely across the border
22:32Untouchable
22:34Celeste stood there
22:35Mouth open
22:36Nothing coming out
22:37If you keep causing a scene on my land
22:39My warriors will remove you
22:43Her eyes dropped to my neck
22:45She saw the red mark Kyle had left there
22:48You actually slept with him?
22:50A blind girl and a broken man?
22:53I suppose trash finds its own level
22:55I suppose trash finds its own level
22:57I thought about last night
22:58The fire, the whiskey
22:59The long silence after he finally stood up
23:02And I felt the full weight of him for the first time
23:04Kyle wasn't broken
23:06He was ten thousand times the man Lucian would 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 at how blind you are
23:17Lucian is going to die
23:20And when he goes down
23:22He'll take you with him
23:23If you want to survive what's coming
23:25Sever the bond now
23:27While you still can
23:29That was it for her
23:30She swung at my face
23:31Wide, furious
23:33Telegraphed from a mile away
23:34I shifted my weight and stepped aside
23:36She hit nothing but air
23:37The 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 you raise a hand to me
23:47I won't step aside
23:48She stared up at me from the ground
23:49Trembling
23:50For the first time in her life
23:51She was actually afraid of me
23:53The blind girl she used to torment
23:55Wasn't there anymore
23:56Someone else had taken her place
23:59Kyle was waiting when I stepped back into the carriage
24:01He just watched me with those gray eyes
24:03And in them
24:04Not worry
24:05Not pity
24:06Admiration
24:07He trusted me to handle my own affairs
24:09That respect landed heavier than any shield he could have raised
24:12He turned to his lead god
24:13And spoke low
24:14No one from Lucian's pack crosses onto my land again
24:17For any reason
24:20Ever
24:23After Celeste was escorted out
24:25He turned to the business of leaving
24:27We were heading for Thorn Harbor
24:28The courtyard filled with people and supplies
24:31Controlled chaos
24:32And through all of it
24:33My soul I found a single target
24:35A guard named Vaughn
24:36His soul was a muddy treacherous gray
24:38I leaned close to Kyle's ear
24:40Who is that man?
24:43Vaughn
24:44He's been with me since I was 15
24:46Saved my life twice
24:48I pulled back and looked at him
24:49Kyle do you trust me?
24:51His soul flushed deep dark pink all at once
24:54You're my mate
24:55Of course I do
24:56He's a traitor
24:58We change the route to Thorn Harbor
25:01And we tell no one
25:02And my last time
25:03This was where it ended with Kyle
25:06Ambushed on the road to the harbor
25:07Wounds that never healed
25:09He died defending the city walls
25:11I finished speaking
25:13I let my lips brush his cheek
25:15Kyle's arm came around my waist immediately
25:17Pulling me in
25:19Across the yard I felt Vaughn watching us
25:22He clocked how close we were
25:23And looked really fast
25:25Kyle pressed his face into the curb of my neck
25:27His breath was warm against my skin
25:29Are you trying to fix my legs again?
25:32Because I'm happy to wait until tonight
25:34Or we could start now
25:36The next morning Vaughn was gone
25:38Kyle sat beside me at breakfast
25:40Cutting my steak into careful pieces without being asked
25:43You were right
25:45Vaughn was Marcus' man
25:48Buried so deep I never suspected him once
25:50In seven years
25:52It took some...
25:54Persuasion to get him to talk
25:57He looked at me
25:58How did you know, Zara?
26:00I looked into his soul gold and pink
26:02Wound together
26:03No suspicion
26:04No fear
26:05Lucky guess
26:06The words were barely out when the pain hit
26:09White
26:10Hot behind both temples at once
26:12My hand went to my head before I could stop it
26:14Kyle didn't say a word
26:15He just moved his chair flushed against mine
26:18Un in hand kept cutting my food
26:19The other reached up and wrapped around the back of my neck
26:22The pain dissolved
26:23He has stopped asking why it happens
26:25He just makes sure he is there when it does
26:27Thorn Harbor
26:28Kyle's territory
26:30The land was rough
26:31Resources thin
26:33The kind of place the Alpha Council never bothered to look at twice
26:37The wolves here were loyal to Kyle
26:39The way wolves are loyal to someone they've chosen
26:42Out of true devotion
26:44When I went to the market
26:45They called me Luna and refused my coin
26:47Every stall, every vendor
26:49I had to set the money down and walk away before they touch it
26:53I came back to the estate breathless
26:55And my maid watched me come through the door
26:59The Luna is blind
27:00But she moves faster than any soldier I've trained with
27:05Kyle heard her
27:06That night his fingers found the edges of my eyes
27:11Zara
27:12Is it really just
27:14Nothing
27:15that night I want to come through the plane
27:15But it is still
27:15Nothing
27:15Nothing
27:15Nothing
27:15Nothing
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