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She was the outcast, the one nobody wanted—until she became "The Unchosen Alpha". After being rejected by her fated mate, she awakens an ancient power that leaves the entire werewolf world in shock. Now, the Alphas who ignored her are begging for her alliance. A thrilling story of fated mates and unexpected destiny.
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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
27:15Nothing
27:15So
27:15I'm
27:15I'm
27:15I'm
27:16I'm
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