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He sacrifices everything for the woman he loves.
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00:00My fated mate sold our daughter to a monster. I found her locked in a cell. 16 years old.
00:06Naked on a wooden plank, arms black with burnt scars, eyes fixed on the ceiling as if her mind
00:10had already fled her body. Her nipples were ripped off. The smell coming from between her legs told
00:16me enough without anyone saying a word. When I reached for her, she pressed herself into the
00:21wall. Don't touch me. My own daughter didn't know my face. Couldn't stand my touch. And every single
00:28person who let this happen, the alpha heir, the luna, and the high alpha himself, they all knew.
00:33They knew. And not one of them lifted a hand to stop it. They thought I was a weak mother.
00:38They
00:39forgot who I was. I'm the war alpha. At the gates of the royal stronghold, I finally came home. A
00:46decade ago, I left my six-year-old daughter behind and marched to war to preserve the peace of our
00:51pack. Now, after all that time, I was back. My eyes swept through the crowd, searching for her. In my
00:57memory, Aurora was still soft and warm, smelling like honeysuckle and warm milk. Every morning,
01:03her small, chubby fists would grab fistfuls of my hair. She should have been 16 now. My chest ached
01:09at the thought of holding her again. High Alpha Aldrich stood on the platform with the pack council
01:13waiting for me. The Greyholt family stood behind him. My mate, Dominic. His mother, Helena. His sister,
01:21Margo. All of them were dressed like this was some grand celebration. I studied every face.
01:26My wolf paced hard inside me. Something was wrong. Aurora wasn't there. Everyone else had come.
01:33Everyone but my daughter. Aldrich started his welcome speech. I cut him off.
01:39Where's my daughter? His smile locked in place. Then I caught it. That flicker in his eyes.
01:44Then I caught it. That flicker in his eyes. My stomach dropped. I'd spent 10 years reading enemy
01:50faces on battlefields. I knew what guilt looked like.
01:53Watch your tongue, Raven A. You're in the presence of the High Alpha now. Show some respect.
01:58Dominic snapped. Dominic. My faded mate. I kept our mate bond intact for Aurora so she could grow up
02:05with her father. The year Aurora was born, he brought his chosen mate into my pack. His own cousin,
02:11Vivian, gave him a daughter too, Celeste. I swallowed all of it. For my daughter, I endured every humiliation,
02:18every betrayal. I gave that man my lands, my warriors, and even my pride. Everything. And people
02:24in this kingdom still thought one word from him would tame me. I asked you a question, Dominic.
02:30Where is my daughter? He opened his mouth, ready to put me in my place, and then a woman came
02:36crashing
02:36out of the crowd. There was dried blood all over her arms and streaked down her neck.
02:40Luna! Praise the moon you're back! Please! They're killing her! You have to save Aurora!
02:49Nettie was Aurora's caretaker. I chose her myself, because the first time she held Aurora,
02:55my baby fell asleep in less than 5 minutes. She was the gentlest she-wolf I had ever met.
03:00Now the woman in front of me was skin and bones. Starved down to nothing, her face so badly beaten,
03:05I almost didn't recognize her. My wolf slammed against my ribs. A growl ripped out of my throat.
03:11That mutt is a traitor! Execute her on the spot! Lucien Volcrest. I was the one who arranged his
03:17match with Aurora. That marriage was the reason his mother, Isolde, became the Luna, and the reason
03:22he became the Alpha Heir. Everything they had came from me and from my daughter. And now he was standing
03:27there, ordering my daughter's caretaker to die. The enforcers closed in on Nettie, bearing their fangs.
03:33Touch her, and I'll rip your fucking arms from their sockets. She belongs to me.
03:38Two-thirds of this kingdom's army was the Ashburn War Pack. My war wolves. If I turned on the crown,
03:44this kingdom would not survive the night. Everybody knew it. The warriors froze.
03:49I said kill her!
03:51Try me.
03:52A pulse of power surged through the pack link. 2,000 wolves stepped forward as one. The warriors
03:58stumbled back.
04:01That's enough. The boy spoke out of turn. Hand the woman over to Ravenna. She is, after all,
04:09our war alpha.
04:11I knew exactly what he was doing. Using his son to test me, to see whether I would still lower
04:16my head
04:16and fall in line. I didn't have time for his gains. Nettie collapsed at my feet, so weak she could
04:22barely get the words out. Your daughter is dying. She's at Lord Fenwick's estate. If you don't go now,
04:30you won't see her again. Go! One thought kept pounding in my head. My baby is dying.
04:37Who the hell is Fenwick? He didn't exist when I left.
04:41Enough of this scene, Ravenna. You will return to the Manon with me. Now.
04:45The whole square went dead silent. Every wolf turned to look at me. Nettie grabbed my hand so
04:50hard her nails cut my skin. She was shaking all over. They remembered the woman who used to give
04:56in every time Dominic spoke. They were waiting to see if I'd do it again.
05:00Alpha, kill me if you want. I don't care. But go now. Please, if you wait much longer,
05:07you'll never see her alive again. The goddess is calling her home. Go! Before she's gone forever!
05:14I saw the fear in her eyes. She was afraid I would do what I had always done.
05:19Choose Dominic over my own flesh and blood. Ashworn Wallpack to the Fenwick estate!
05:24Anyone who stands in our way, shred them to pieces!
05:27Dominic stepped in front of my horse. Ravenna, you can't-
05:31My boot smashed into his face. He hit the ground hard, blood pouring out of his nose.
05:37If anything happens to Aurora, every last one of you dies!
05:42Then I tore out of the square, with 2,000 wolves pouring behind me like a breaking wave.
05:47Nettie led me into the High District, to a walled estate tucked behind iron gates.
05:51A servant at the entrance saw her and gave a cold little laugh.
05:54Back again? The Greyholtes don't give a damn about your little slut.
05:58They're the ones who sent her to Lord Fenwick's bed.
06:00He never got to finish. My fist shook his jaw. My wolves flooded through the estate.
06:06Nettie led me around to the back courtyard. The place was falling apart, rotted boards,
06:11a door hanging crooked on its hinges. Before I even touched it, the smell hit me.
06:16Rot. Blood. Something foul enough to turn the air solid.
06:19I shoved the door open.
06:22A girl lay on a wooden plank, covered with nothing but a few filthy rags.
06:26Scars from glowing coals crawled across her chest. Both her nipples had been torn off.
06:31The flesh between her legs was black and rotting. Her eyes were open, fixed on the ceiling, empty.
06:37If her chest hadn't still been rising, I would have thought she was already dead.
06:41Aurora. Aurora!
06:45My whole body started shaking. My hands shook so hard my sword slipped free and clang to the floor.
06:50Nettie dropped beside the bed, crying so hard she could barely breathe.
06:54Baby, your mom is here. She came back. She's taking you away from this nightmare.
06:58Please, just look at her face. You said you missed her, remember?
07:02She's right here beside you. Open your eyes. Please, baby. Don't leave her like this.
07:07Aurora didn't move. She didn't even blink. She just stared at the ceiling like she couldn't hear a single word
07:13we said.
07:14My wolf was howling. The pain struck so hard that blood surged at my throat and poured from my lips.
07:19I couldn't stop it. Every wolf outside heard it.
07:22Alpha! General!
07:24I lifted one hand. Every voice vanished. I dropped to my knees beside the bed and reached for her face.
07:30My fingers were shaking. I hadn't even touched her yet when she flinched and crushed herself against the wall.
07:35No! No more! Please, stay away!
07:38More blood filled my mouth. I forced myself to swallow it down.
07:42Then a voice cut across the courtyard. Old. Arrogant.
07:46Which of you mongrels dare trespass upon my lands?
07:50The second Aurora heard that voice, she started shaking even harder.
07:53Her body jerked. Then she started seizing, spasming all over.
07:57Don't touch me! Help! Mom! Mom! Help!
08:00The second she called for me, I answered.
08:03I reached for her, trying to pull her into my arms.
08:06But the moment I touched her, she shoved herself harder into the wall as though she meant to sink through
08:10the stone itself.
08:11Her empty eyes filled with tears. And she stared at the door, terrified.
08:18Nettie, wrap her in my furs. Keep her warm.
08:20Yeah.
08:20Then I picked up my sword and walked outside.
08:24Fenwick was out in the courtyard, screaming at my wolves.
08:27He had white hair, a swollen gut, and a cluster of young shoewolves gathered around him, dressed in little northern
08:32sheer rags.
08:33He was shouting, his hands roaming freely over their bodies.
08:36Those girls wore the same look Aurora had.
08:39Empty.
08:39Hollowed out.
08:40I looked at them and could almost see my daughter.
08:43Aurora in thin fabric.
08:45Aurora with his hands on her.
08:46Who the hell are you? How dare you bring warriors onto my state?
08:50Do you have any idea who I am?
08:54I am kin to the high alpha.
08:57Dominic Greyholt is my blood.
09:00You touch me and the entire council will have your head.
09:03The grandfather of the alpha heir's mate.
09:06Dominic Greyholt's father-in-law.
09:08They knew.
09:08Every last one of them knew.
09:10He didn't get another word out.
09:12I shifted.
09:13My jaws tore straight through his throat.
09:15I ripped open his chest, his stomach, everything that held that wretched body together.
09:20His guts spilled across the courtyard.
09:22I shredded him until there was nothing left you could even recognize as a man.
09:26Just blood, meat, and a severed head rolling to a stop by my feet.
09:30I shifted back and turned to the others.
09:33Gather what little you have.
09:34We're going to Greyholt Manor.
09:36I left with the girls.
09:37No one else did.
09:38I wrapped Aurora in my war cloak and carried her outside.
09:41She weighed almost nothing.
09:43Her heartbeat trembled against my chest, faint and faltering, as though it might give out at any moment.
09:48We rode hard for Greyholt Manor.
09:50My manor.
09:51The gates were shut.
09:52Two omegas stood outside.
09:54The first one raised his chin.
09:56Lady Elena and Councilman Greyholt ordered you to kneel at this gate until morning for disgracing the pack's honor.
10:01That girl isn't allowed inside.
10:03She belongs to her mate.
10:04You are not bringing her in here.
10:06My daughter's heartbeat was almost gone against my chest.
10:09And these two bastards were telling me to kneel.
10:12My war wolves lined up behind me.
10:14Two thousand of them.
10:15They had held Aurora when she was a baby.
10:17They had chased Aurora through the grass when she ran after butterflies.
10:21They were the men who let her tug on their capes and mess up their hair.
10:24The child who treated two thousand killers like her own family.
10:27And they had stood in that cell and seen what had been done to her.
10:30These wolves did not cry on the battlefield.
10:32Now every eye behind me was red.
10:34Alpha, just give us the word.
10:37Let us rip this place down for our little Luna's justice.
10:43Surround the manor.
10:44Everyone inside dies.
10:48The servants went white and started screaming, pounding on the gates with both fists.
10:52The doors hadn't even opened yet before my wolves tore their heads off.
10:55I looked up at the crest, Greyholt Manor.
10:58Then I drove my boot into it and cracked it clean in two.
11:01I carried Aurora through the gate.
11:03The second I stepped inside, I froze.
11:06Wisteria.
11:06Everywhere.
11:07Thick purple clusters hung from every post, spilling over the old sparring ring.
11:12The pollen hung so thick in the air it stung my eyes.
11:14Aurora was badly allergic to pollen.
11:17One bad attack could close her throat until she couldn't breathe.
11:20She almost died from it the year she was born.
11:22After that, I gave one order, no flowers anywhere on this estate.
11:27Anyone who disobeyed would die.
11:28I pulled my cloak tighter around Aurora, covering her mouth and nose, and moved fast under the
11:33trellis.
11:34If Aurora breathed this in, she could die.
11:36They know that.
11:36How the hell could they do this?
11:38Living in my house, eating my food, wearing my jewelry, and planting the very thing that
11:43could kill my daughter inside her own home.
11:45Cut it all down.
11:46Every last piece.
11:47My wolves moved at once.
11:50Holt!
11:50Lay a finger on these blues, and you'll answer to my brother!
11:54The scream came from across the courtyard.
11:57Margot Greyholt, Dominic's sister.
11:59She stormed toward us.
12:00Gary carved into every line of her face.
12:03Dominic built this garden for his true mate.
12:05This garden cost him a fortune in gold.
12:07Don't you dare ruin it!
12:09His chosen mate.
12:11To make that woman happy, Dominic filled my estate with the one thing that could kill
12:14my daughter.
12:15Margot saw Aurora in my arms and instantly pressed a handkerchief over her nose.
12:19The disgust in her face, like my daughter, was a rotting piece of trash.
12:23Mother and my brother were perfectly clear.
12:25That brat is banned from these grounds.
12:29She belongs to Fenwick now.
12:31Even if she dies over there, that has nothing to do with us.
12:34You need to get on your knees and apologize to the Alpha here.
12:37She poisoned the here and Salelta, then ran off with her lover.
12:41His grace showed mercy by not punishing her.
12:44But if it were up to me, I would have beaten her to death and fed her body to the
12:48rogues!
12:48I slapped her.
12:49She crashed to the ground, blood and two teeth scattering across the stone.
12:54You hit me?
12:56When Lucien finds out!
12:57I drove my foot into her chest.
12:59She flew backward and slammed into one of the trellis posts.
13:03Blood burst out of her mouth.
13:04And for the first time, fear crawled into her eyes.
13:07I planted my boot on her chest and looked down at her.
13:10This is Ashburn Manor.
13:11I was a damn fool for ever letting your family move in.
13:14Aurora's pollen allergy can kill her.
13:16Everyone in this house knows that.
13:18Your brother planted a whole garden for his chosen mate.
13:21My daughter could die and he didn't care.
13:23I left Aurora with all of you.
13:25Every one of you swore before the moon goddess that you would protect her.
13:28You broke that oath.
13:31Now I'm collecting.
13:32She clawed at my boot, nearly choking.
13:34Mercy, Ravenane!
13:35She wheezed.
13:36Please, it wasn't my choice.
13:39You held me.
13:40You bathed me.
13:41Remember?
13:42I'm your girl.
13:43Your little Margo.
13:45You can't kill me.
13:46You loved me once.
13:48Please!
13:49Something twisted hard in my chest.
13:51On one thing, she wasn't lying.
13:53I did raise her.
13:54After Helena gave birth, she was too weak to care for the baby.
13:58I fed Margo, bathed her, held her when she cried.
14:02She was one year older than Aurora.
14:03The two of them had grown up side by side.
14:06Aurora used to follow her everywhere, always pressing her finest treasures into her hands,
14:11calling her Mar in that small, soft voice.
14:13And Margo stood there and watched them destroy her.
14:16I fed you from my own hand.
14:18I loved you as my own blood.
14:20And in return, you helped them slaughter my child.
14:24Then I put all my weight down one last time.
14:26Crack.
14:27Her begging stopped.
14:28One hand was still clutching my boot.
14:30Her eyes stayed open even after she stopped breathing.
14:34I looked at her for one second.
14:36That face I had watched grow up.
14:37Then I stepped away.
14:39A scream tore across the courtyard.
14:43Margo!
14:45My Margo!
14:46It was Helena, Dominic's mother.
14:48She was here too.
14:49Right then, Aurora moved in Nettie's arms.
14:52Her voice drifted across.
14:54Mom?
14:54I went straight to her.
14:56Nettie had my war cloak wrapped tight around her.
14:58Aurora's eyes were open, still empty.
15:01But this time, she was looking at me.
15:04I knelt beside her.
15:05I was so close, but I could barely smell anything on her.
15:09Just the faintest trace of honeysuckle.
15:11So faint I almost thought I imagined it.
15:14There was no time to think about that.
15:16Helena threw herself over Margo's body.
15:19Margo!
15:20My Margo!
15:21Her screams ripped through the yard.
15:23Then she lifted her head and looked at me.
15:25Ravena, you rat!
15:27You killed her!
15:29I will see you rot in the abyss!
15:31I will bury you and that little rock in the same filth as my daughter!
15:36Inside, Aurora heard Helena's voice.
15:38She pressed herself into Nettie's arms and began to murmur, lost in some waking nightmare.
15:43Grandmother, please.
15:45I didn't steal them.
15:46I just wanted my mother.
15:48The letters were for her.
15:50Only for her.
15:50My blood ran cold.
15:52Grandma!
15:53The pond is so cold, there's ice on it!
15:56I didn't push Mr. Lester in!
15:58She dragged me down with her!
15:59Please let me out!
16:00I can't take it anymore!
16:02My hands started shaking.
16:04Grandma, I didn't drug my sister and the alpha here.
16:07I walked in on them together in mother's chamber.
16:11Grandma, I don't have a lover.
16:12It's a setup.
16:13It's not like what they said.
16:14You can't make me hurt!
16:15The whip was stuffed in salt water.
16:17I stood there listening as Aurora begged through one horror after another,
16:20and my legs almost gave out under me.
16:22What the hell had they done to her all these years?
16:25Raveena!
16:26Go to hell!
16:28Helena shrieked, rushing at me with a dagger.
16:30I twisted aside and kicked Helena to the ground.
16:33She clawed her way back up, spitting blood, glaring at me like I wronged her.
16:37You dare defy me?
16:39You dare strike your matriarch?
16:40I am your mate's mother, you ungrateful cur!
16:43You should die to pay for Margaret's life!
16:45I'm the only reason you were allowed to keep the Greyhilled name!
16:48Otherwise, Dominic would sever your mate bond today and throw you out of the pack!
16:53Aurora's voice carried from inside again, raw and terrified.
16:57Mom, save me.
16:58I'm so scared of Grandma.
17:00It hurts.
17:01I don't want to die.
17:02Mom, Mom, you can't die either.
17:04She was terrified.
17:06Terrified I would do what I had always done before,
17:08give in for Dominic's sake and accept Helena's terms.
17:11I pulled Aurora titer against me.
17:13She was so light.
17:1516 years old, and she weighed less than a 10-year-old child.
17:19Everything is fine, sweetie.
17:20I'm here.
17:21I got you.
17:22My voice softened.
17:23No one is ever hurting you again.
17:25You are not going to die.
17:27And neither am I.
17:29The people who hurt you.
17:31Your father, your grandmother, even the one sitting last one of them pay.
17:35Helena was still screaming.
17:37I handed Rora back to Nettie.
17:40Then I walked toward her.
17:43I wrenched the dagger from her grip and drew it across her throat, deep enough to steal her voice, not
17:47deep enough to end her life.
17:49Helena's eyes flew wide.
17:50She clutched at her bleeding throat and made these wet.
17:53When I accepted Dominic, you were a withered she-wolf, too frail to even nurse your own pup.
17:58So I raised Margit.
18:00I was the one who put meat in her mouth.
18:02I kept your bloodline alive.
18:04I raised both of you as my own.
18:06The year I went to war,
18:08you cried and swore you would protect Aurora.
18:11You swore it before the moon goddess.
18:14And how did you repay my mercy?
18:16You beat her with switches.
18:18You held her down in ice water.
18:21You whipped her with leather soaked in salt.
18:24You did that to a six-year-old child!
18:25The rage in Helena's eyes finally cracked.
18:28Fear rushed in.
18:29Killing you would be too easy.
18:31I loosened my grip on her clothes.
18:33She crumpled to the ground.
18:34I turned to my war wolves.
18:36From this moment on, Helena Greyhulf is cast out of the pack.
18:41Sever her pack link.
18:42Strike her name from the pack rolls.
18:44She is no longer under Greyhulf protection.
18:47From this second on, she is a rogue.
18:50I felt her presence in the pack link snap like a thread.
18:54The pain hit her a hundred times harder than anything I could have done by hand.
18:57Her mouth opened.
18:59No sound came out.
19:01Fear flooded her face.
19:03Real fear.
19:04Send word to every pack.
19:05No pack, large or small, is allowed to shelter Helena Greyhulf.
19:10If any pack dares grant her shadow or salt,
19:13they will face the full fury of 2,000 Ashburn blades.
19:17Helena lay there on the ground, blood and tears all over her face.
19:20She wasn't afraid of dying.
19:22She was afraid of what came after this.
19:25Becoming nothing.
19:26No pack.
19:27No one answered her call.
19:29Alive, but alone.
19:31Until the day she died.
19:33I never looked at her again.
19:34I sent wolves to the manor storehouse for herbs.
19:38Aurora needed treatment now.
19:39But when my warriors came back, they brought back nothing.
19:43The servants dropped to their knees.
19:44I looked around once, and before I could even speak, one of them blurted it out.
19:48Celeste is about to give birth.
19:50Dominic and Vivian took every bit of herbs from the manor and brought it to the alpha hair stronghold.
19:55Aurora clutched my hand.
19:57Mom, it hurts so much.
20:00This is your manor.
20:02Why won't you give me anything for the pain?
20:04The storehouse is full of salves and herbs.
20:07Mom, I'm so cold.
20:08I don't want the goddess to take me.
20:11If I'm gone, who will be left to love you?
20:14Those remedies were mine.
20:15I had spent my whole life collecting the best herbs and treatments I could find, better than what they kept
20:20in the high alphas moonhaul.
20:21And my daughter lay rotting without so much as a poultice, while Dominic and Vivian stripped my stores bare for
20:27Celeste.
20:27All warriors, to the alpha hair stronghold.
20:32Dominic, Vivian, Celeste.
20:35Every last one of you is going to die today.
20:38I tried to settle Aurora onto the blankets inside the carriage.
20:42The second I moved, she grabbed my hand again.
20:45Mom, don't leave me.
20:46Don't leave me.
20:47I'm so scared.
20:49Please.
20:50So I held her and hummed softly, the way I used to when she was small.
20:54Gradually, the shaking eased.
20:56She leaned into me.
20:58The carriage reached the alpha heir's stronghold.
21:00Alpha, there's an army outside the estate.
21:03The one leading them is General Garrick Whitmore.
21:06Garrick Whitmore, a legendary general, the kind people spoke about the same way they spoke about my father.
21:11He commanded one third of the kingdom's army.
21:14I carried Aurora out of the carriage.
21:16Garrick stood across from me, white-haired, back straight as a blade.
21:20Ashpen's child, this should be a good day.
21:23You came home victorious.
21:25Listen, go home.
21:27Had it been anyone else standing in my path, they would already be dead.
21:31But General Whitmore once saved my father's life.
21:34So I walked toward him with Aurora in my arms.
21:36His warriors tensed as one.
21:38My war wolves braced at my back.
21:41Then Aurora moved.
21:42She turned to look at Garrick and held out a hand to him, bearing her face and arms.
21:47She was deathly pale.
21:49Fresh wounds crossed over old ones.
21:51Silver burns had branded themselves into the skin alongside the lash marks.
21:55Grandpa Whitmore.
21:57Her voice was worn to nothing.
21:58Whitmore stared at her.
22:00I'm Aurora.
22:03Raven's daughter.
22:04The day mum left for war, you held me and watched her go.
22:09You told me my mum was a guardian.
22:12That because of her, everyone else got to live in peace.
22:16You said you would look after me for her.
22:19Aurora coughed.
22:20Blood ran from the corner of her mouth.
22:23Baby.
22:24Garrick's face changed.
22:25This is Aurora.
22:28How did this happen?
22:30The Greyholt family told me she was fine.
22:32They said she found someone she loved.
22:34The high alpha and the alpha here told me they had let the matter go.
22:36That she left on her own.
22:38How did she end up like this?
22:40They lied to me.
22:41And they lied to you.
22:44Grandpa Whitmore.
22:45I never had a lover.
22:47I caught them.
22:48Celeste and the alpha hair.
22:50Rutting like beasts in my mother's own bed.
22:52My father and the high alpha.
22:54They tried to break me.
22:55They demanded I sign away my honour for their sins.
22:58But I am my mother's daughter.
23:00I would not bow.
23:02So they sold me to that monster, Fenwick.
23:05If I hadn't been waiting for mum to come back, I would have died at that estate already.
23:11Grandpa Whitmore, if you don't believe me, Celeste is giving birth today.
23:16She hasn't even been mated to the alpha heel for six moon cycles.
23:20How could she be having a full-grown pup?
23:23That hit me all at once.
23:25Aurora had been locked in Fenwick's cell.
23:27How did she know Celeste was giving birth today?
23:30How did she know when their mate bond was made?
23:32I didn't have time to think it through.
23:34Garrick had already sent people to check.
23:36They came back fast and leaned into whisper in his ear.
23:39His face darkened.
23:41Then darker.
23:42Then his whole body started shaking.
23:44Those faithless crows!
23:46Why the hell would the high alpha lie to me?
23:48They told me Lord Fenwick's land was restitution for the alpha heir and Celeste
23:51because Aurora had destroyed their bond, so this is the truth!
23:55Fine.
23:56I'll deal with the high alpha.
23:57I'm going to ask him to his face why he lied to us.
23:59I need to ask that bastard Dominic why he did this to my daughter for ten straight years.
24:04Garrick was silent for a few seconds.
24:06Then he ordered his warriors to clear the way.
24:09Spare the pup.
24:11If you can't give me an answer, then whatever you choose to do after that, I won't stop you.
24:16This kingdom was built by the Ashburn family.
24:18You're the one who's been holding it together.
24:21No man, not even the high alpha, shall treat an Ashburn like a dog.
24:24Then he turned and marched off with his warriors.
24:29I walked into the alpha heir's stronghold and heard screaming coming from the birthing room.
24:34Two people were standing outside the door.
24:36Dominic and Vivian.
24:38They were both staring at the entrance.
24:40Neither of them saw me.
24:42I stepped up behind Dominic and pressed my dagger into his lower back.
24:45His body went rigid.
24:47But his voice stayed the same as ever, cold, arrogant, like he still thought he owned the air around him.
24:52Ravena, put the weapon down.
24:54This is the alpha heir's stronghold, not some place for your insolence.
24:58Vivian turned around.
25:00The second she saw me, tears flooded down her face.
25:04Ravena, what's wrong?
25:06Is this because Dominic came with me to be here for Celeste's labor instead of waiting for you back at
25:11the manor?
25:11It's my fault.
25:12Don't blame him.
25:13Celeste is the alpha heir's mate.
25:15She's carrying his first pup.
25:17I was scared something might go wrong, so I asked Dominic to come with me.
25:20If you need someone to blame, let it be me.
25:23Please don't let this hurt your bond.
25:25I hadn't even opened my mouth yet, and somehow she had already turned herself into the victim.
25:30I remembered the year she moved in.
25:32Back then, I still loved Dominic.
25:34She was always like this, crying without making a sound, letting Dominic think I was the one hurting her.
25:40We fought over her so many times, and every fight shaved away another piece of what I felt for him.
25:45If you have a grudge, take it out on me.
25:48Leave Vivian out of this.
25:49He still couldn't turn around.
25:51The dagger in his back made sure of that.
25:53Dominic, I only have one question.
25:56Why did you do this to Aurora?
25:57Why did you hand her over to Lord Fenwick?
25:59The Greyhelt Pack never mistreated Aurora.
26:02Lord Fenwick was personally appointed by the High Alpha.
26:06Aurora wronged Celeste first.
26:08She cheated, dragged the Greyhelt name through the dirt, and disgraced this family.
26:12She climbed into Lord Fenwick's bed all on her own.
26:15That was her choice.
26:17Vivian sniffled softly beside him.
26:19Celeste is about to give birth.
26:21You humiliated the Alpha Hare at the city gates today.
26:24For Celeste, for her child, and to give the Alpha Hare an explanation.
26:28I need you to sever our mate bond willingly.
26:31Vivian will become my only mate.
26:33Don't worry.
26:34I won't cast you out of the pack.
26:36You can stay.
26:37Vivian is not like you.
26:38She knows how to behave.
26:40She doesn't make everything difficult.
26:43Since you're already here, go tell the High Alpha you're agreeing to sever the bond voluntarily.
26:48Aurora moved in my arms.
26:50Aurora!
26:50Vivian jumped.
26:52Ravena, are you out of your mind?
26:54You actually brought Aurora here?
26:56She drugged Celeste and the Alpha here.
26:58The Alpha Heald hates her.
26:59Bringing her here is the same as sending her to die!
27:03I drove the dagger into Dominic's stomach.
27:06He stopped in the middle of the sentence.
27:08Then he looked down at the blade buried in him.
27:11Ravena, you're actually dead.
27:14Why?
27:14Vivian threw herself onto him, her face flushing red.
27:18Ravena, what are you doing?
27:20Do you think Celeste stole Aurora's place?
27:22Do you think we drove Aurora away?
27:24Even if we'd wanted to, we never would have dared touch her!
27:27Go ask anyone at the manor what kind of life Celeste and I had all these years under Aurora's rule!
27:33Dominic pulled her behind him, shielding her with his body, then looked at Aurora with open disgust.
27:38Tell your mother the truth.
27:40Your mother protects this kingdom.
27:42How could she give birth to something as vicious as you?
27:45And you're still lying right to our faces.
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