Rejected and deemed unworthy, he becomes the unchosen alpha no one believes in. But as his hidden power awakens, he rises to challenge fate and prove his true strength in this intense short drama of destiny, power, and transformation.
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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 am nothing.
00:14I am an omega, the very bottom of the pack, no strength, no shifting, no healing.
00:20A 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 sores of jealousy, toxic green, baked, deep, oily black.
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
00:50vein 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.
01:02It 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, the state, it was so consuming it dragged me right back from the back.
01:17I opened my eyes, 17 again.
01:21Night, the mating bell.
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 of sand.
01:41A soul so pure it glowed like liquid gold.
01:43The man in the wheelchair drew out.
01:46I choose Celeste as my mate.
01:49Lucian's voice cracked through the hall like a whip.
01:52She 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 had a 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.
02:44Accept 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.
02:55He thinks he can take the throne without me this time.
02:57He thinks I was what held him back.
03:00He 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.
03:13Hate is a bottomless black.
03:15Love 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, who to kill, this time.
03:28I am going to let him have exactly what he wanted.
03:31And watch him realize too late that without me, he is nothing.
03:35And I really hope, for his sake, he doesn't end up crawling back to me, begging for a mercy.
03:43The moment Lucian's announcement landed, every eye in the room found me.
03:47I'm just a blind girl.
03:49I'm not worthy of a man like Lucian.
03:51Celelsta is the perfect match for him.
03:54At least you know your place.
03:55He stepped closer.
03:57An Omega with no wolf?
03:58I wouldn't choose you if you were the last woman breathing.
04:02Not even if you crawl 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 rim of my soul out of her.
04:15Marcus, murky 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.
04:31A rotten, purple, purple black.
04:33He didn't just hate what it was.
04:35He hated what it was.
04:36I was blind in my last life in more ways than one.
04:39Never again, Celeste glided toward him.
04:41Face arranged into the perfect picture of a loving older 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, edge to edge.
04:53Pure jealousy.
04:54Barely holding its shape.
04:56Since no one's going to claim you anyway, you can always beg me for work.
05:01Celeste will need a personal maid.
05:02With she has vest-smitchy floors.
05:04Scrubbing floors all a wolf-less 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.
05:15Then 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.
05:34The 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.
05:43I 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.
06:05Lifed up.
06:06From 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.
06:18Xayah.
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.
06:33And 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.
06:50He just rolled 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.
06:59To come do anything you 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.
07:14I left my hand there.
07:15I could feel the heat of him through the fabric and tense.
07:18Alive.
07:19Then 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.
07:27It 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 moment.
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.
07:45I leaned in close and smiled.
07:47I can fix your nights.
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 file.
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 are 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 full 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.
09:34Her 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, 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.
10:06You'll wear that when you walk behind the caravan.
10:08Servant's entrance.
10:09Don't embarrass us.
10:10The morning came.
10:12I 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 gate, 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 work.
10:36Nothing remarkable.
10:39Celeste didn't hesitate for a second.
10:41She walked straight to the pearl carriage and stepped inside.
11:13The head guard turned.
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, eyes whistling.
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.
11:39I pleaded 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 fetic!
11:54The crowd was vicious.
11:55They always are when they smell weakness.
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!
12:12Take that dress off right now, or I'll shred it off your back myself!
12:18Celeste buried her face in his chest, but I could see her soul.
12:22She 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 referred her headstrong.
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.
12:51Think 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.
12:58Lucien laughed.
12:59Jagged.
13:00Ugly.
13:01Kyle?
13:02The cripple isn't even here.
13:04Probably hiding in his chambers, too embarrassed to show his face.
13:07He's using you for sport, Zara.
13:09Nothing more.
13:10He stepped forward, close enough that his shadow fell over me.
13:13Neil, beg 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 split.
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...
13:50His 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 know?
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 it has already decided to deal with later.
14:10I'll remember that.
14:11I'm an alpha heir, same as you.
14:14Who the hell do you think you are?
14:15Who the hell do you think you are?
14:18A forgotten fifth son trying to give orders to my mate.
14:22You're not a rival, Lucien.
14:24You're a Fipnote.
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, and you will, don't expect mercy.
14:41I looked at his soul, muddy green.
14:43Murky and small.
14:44He genuinely believes he is the chosen one.
14:46He thinks the throne is already his, and 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, he won't last the season.
14:57He'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, and the fire crackling low between us.
15:07We shared whiskey, amber, and slow burning on the way down.
15:12I could feel his eyes, heavy and silver warm against my skin.
15:16My pulse wouldn't settle.
15:18Even sitting across from me in that chair, his 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.
15:39The fires glow.
15:40The oil paintings.
15:42He told me their textures, not 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, nearly at the ceiling.
16:00From a wheelchair.
16:01The top of that book was completely out of sight.
16:04There was no way he could know the cover was faded.
16:07I didn't say a word.
16:08I just took another sip and filed that detail away somewhere.
16:12I wouldn't forget it.
16:13I stood up with my glass in hand, then let it slip.
16:18It hit the carpet with a dull thud and rolled toward the sofa.
16:22Kyle's body moved before his mind could stop it.
16:25His chest surged forward.
16:27The muscles in his thighs locked and coiled, dense as iron cables.
16:32For a single, unguarded second, he was about to stand.
16:35Then he caught himself and settled back into the leather as if nothing had happened.
16:40But I felt it.
16:41That reflex was all the confirmation I needed.
16:44I didn't say anything.
16:45Not 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 soaked 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 and let my fingertips trace from his jaw down to his chest.
17:13Hard as stone beneath the shirt.
17:15Not the body of a man who hadn't used his legs in seven years.
17:19I looked into his soul.
17:20A storm deep crimson.
17:22Soft pink.
17:23Something more tender than he'd admit.
17:26And threading through both.
17:27A sharp streak of dark green panic.
17:30He knew I was getting close.
17:32I leaned down.
17:38My lips barely grazed the corner of his mouth.
17:41Not a kiss.
17:42A question.
17:43His breathing came apart.
17:44And then I took his hand and pressed his palm flat against my chest.
17:49The silk between us was nothing.
17:51My face was burning.
17:52Because in that moment, his 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.
18:03The sudden brace through his thighs.
18:05The instinctive drive upward.
18:07A man who hadn't used his legs in seven years wouldn't move like that.
18:11I pulled back just enough.
18:12Let the smile come slowly.
18:15Your legs are fine.
18:16That much, I know.
18:18Kyle closed his eyes.
18:19His throat moved as he swallowed.
18:21Then he stood up.
18:23One hand stayed at my waist.
18:25The other still pressed against my chest.
18:27He lifted me and I felt just how much of him there was.
18:30Nearly six foot long.
18:32All of it muscle.
18:34My 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.
18:44Then 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.
18:54And he laughed.
18:55A real laugh.
18:56Warm and unguarded.
18:58Like seven years of tension finally giving way.
19:01Seven years.
19:02Seven years fooling everyone.
19:04The whole damn world.
19:07And my blind mate catches me on the very first night.
19:10We didn't go any further that night.
19:11We ended up on the rug in front of the fire.
19:14The bottle of whiskey between us.
19:16And we just...
19:17Talked.
19:18He told me about the night his parents were killed.
19:20They called it a rogue wolf attack.
19:23Everyone knew what it actually was.
19:26The 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.
19:42I 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.
19:50I 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 lake.
20:01Late into the night, I 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.
20:12Kyle stopped mid-sentence.
20:14Your head.
20:15Before I could deflect, his thumbs were already at my temples.
20:18The pressure.
20:20Exact like he'd mapped the pain before he touched it.
20:23My 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.
20:29We 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.
20:40The gold suffering, deepening into a rich and quiet pink.
20:43For the first time in two lifetimes, I felt safe.
20:46Lucian's wedding ring was wrong and hard.
20:48In my last life, a maid tried to spike his wine with wolf's bane.
20:52I caught her before she could get close.
20:55I read the murder in her soul, swapped the glasses, had her detained before he'd taken a single seat.
21:00This time, I did nothing.
21:03Celeste wouldn't notice.
21:04She wouldn't know a threat if it sat down beside her and introduced itself.
21:07The next morning, Kyle and I arrived at the Alpha King's estate.
21:12No sign of Lucian.
21:13No sign of Celeste.
21:15The corridors were alive with hushed, urgent voices.
21:18The hair was poisoned in his own chambers.
21:20He hasn't woken.
21:21The healers say the dose was enough to drop a grizzly.
21:25I kept my face perfectly still, but underneath him, I was smiling.
21:29Lucian's fall had started.
21:31And this time, I wasn't going to stop it.
21:34The carriage had barely rolled to a stop when Celeste appeared at the gates.
21:38She looked like she hadn't slept in days.
21:40Zara!
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.
21:52I 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?
22:03I don't have one.
22:05Whatever happened to Lucian has 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.
22:28Without my soul eye, she was a ghost.
22:30By now, she was likely across the border, untouchable.
22:34Celeste stood there, mouth open, nothing coming out.
22:37If you keep causing a scene on my land, my 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?
22:51A 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, the fire, the whiskey.
23:00The long silence after he finally stood up and 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, looked at her.
23:14We're close enough to it.
23:16I'm laughing at how blind you are.
23:18Lucian is going to die.
23:20And when he goes down, he'll take you with him.
23:23If you want to survive what's coming, sever the bond now, while you still can.
23:29That was it for her.
23:30She swung at my face, wide, furious, telegraphed from a mile away.
23:34I shifted my weight and stepped aside.
23:36She hit nothing but air.
23:37The momentum carried her forward and she went down hard, palms and knees in the dirt.
23:42I looked down at her.
23:43Remember this?
23:44Because the next time you raise a hand to me I won't step aside.
23:48She stared up at me from the ground, trembling.
23:50For the first time in her life she was actually afraid of me.
23:53The blind girl she used to torment wasn't there anymore.
23:56Someone else had taken her place.
23:59Kyle was waiting when I stepped back into the carriage.
24:02He just watched me with those gray eyes.
24:04And in them, not worry, not pity.
24:06Admiration, he 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 guard and spoke low.
24:14No one from Lucian's pack crosses onto my land again.
24:18For any reason.
24:20Ever.
24:23After Celeste was escorted out, we turned to the business of leaving.
24:27We were heading for Thorn Harbor.
24:29The courtyard filled with people and supplies controlled chaos.
24:32And through all of it, my soul I found a single target.
24:35A guard named Vaughn.
24:36His soul was a muddy, treacherous gray.
24:39I leaned close to Kyle's ear.
24:41Who is that man?
24:43Vaughn.
24:44He's been with me since I was 15.
24:47Saved my life twice.
24:48I pulled back and looked at Kyle, do you trust me?
24:51His soul flushed deep, dark pink all at once.
24:54You're my mate.
24:55Of course I do.
24:57He's a traitor.
24:58We changed the route to Thorn Harbor.
25:01And we tell no one.
25:03In my last call, this was where it ended with Kyle.
25:06Ambushed on the road to the harbor.
25:08Wounds that never healed.
25:09He died defending the city walls.
25:11I finished speaking.
25:13Let my lips brush his cheek.
25:15Kyle's arm came around my waist immediately, pulling me in.
25:19Across the yard, I felt Vaughn watching us.
25:22He clocked how close we were and looked really fast.
25:25Kyle pressed his face into the curve of my neck.
25:28His breath was warm against my skin.
25:30You 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 in seven years.
25:52It took some...
25:55persuasion 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.
26:07The 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.
26:16He just moved his chair flushed against mine.
26:18Unhand kept cutting my food.
26:20The 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.
26:28Thorn Harbor.
26:29Kyle's territory.
26:30The land was rough.
26:32Resources thin.
26:33The kind of place the Alpha Council never bothered to look at twice.
26:37The wolves here were loyal to Kyle.
26:40The way wolves are loyal to someone they've chosen.
26:43Out of true devotion.
26:44When I went to the market, they called me Luna and refused my coin.
26:48Every 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, but she moves faster than any soldier I've trained with.
27:05Kyle heard her.
27:07That night, his fingers found the edges of my eyes.
27:12Zara, is it really just nothing?
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