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Burn It All For Her
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00:00My fated mate sold our daughter to a monster. I found her locked in a cell. 16 years old. Naked
00:06on a wooden plank, arms black with burnt scars, eyes fixed on the ceiling as if her mind had already
00:11fled her body. Her nipples were ripped off. The smell coming from between her legs told me enough without anyone
00:17saying a word. When I reached for her, she pressed herself into the wall.
00:21Don't touch me. My own daughter didn't know my face. Couldn't stand my touch. And every single person who let
00:28this happen, the alpha heir, the luna, and the high alpha himself, they all knew. They knew. And not one
00:34of them lifted a hand to stop it. They thought I was a weak mother. They forgot who I was.
00:40I'm the war alpha.
00:42At the gates of the royal stronghold, I finally came home. A decade ago, I left my 6-year-old
00:48daughter behind and marched to war to preserve the peace of our pack. Now, after all that time, I was
00:53back. My eyes swept through the crowd, searching for her. In my memory, Aurora was still soft and warm, smelling
01:00like honeysuckle and warm milk. Every morning, her small, chubby fists would grab fistfuls of my hair. She should have
01:07been 16 now. My chest ached at the thought of holding her again.
01:10High alpha Aldrich stood on the platform with the pack council waiting for me. The Greyholt family stood behind him.
01:17My mate, Dominic. His mother, Helena. His sister, Margo. All of them were dressed like this was some grand celebration.
01:25I studied every face. My 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. Then I caught
01:45it. That flicker in his eyes. My stomach dropped. I'd spent 10 years reading enemy faces on battlefields. I knew
01:52what guilt looked like.
01:53Watch your tongue, Raven A. You're in the presence of the high alpha now. Show some respect.
01:57Dominic snapped. Dominic. My faded mate. I kept our mate bond intact for Aurora so she could grow up with
02:05her father. The year Aurora was born, he brought his chosen mate into my pack. His own cousin, Vivian, gave
02:12him a daughter too, Celeste. I swallowed all of it.
02:15For my daughter, I endured every humiliation, every betrayal. I gave that man my lands, my warriors, and even my
02:22pride. Everything. And people in this kingdom still thought one word from him would tame me.
02:27I asked you a question, Dominic. Where is my daughter?
02:32He opened his mouth, ready to put me in my place, and then a woman came crashing out of the
02:36crowd. 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!
02:50Nettie was Aurora's caretaker. I chose her myself, because the first time she held Aurora, my baby fell asleep in
02:56less than 5 minutes.
02:57She was the gentlest she-wolf I had ever met. Now the woman in front of me with skin and
03:02bones, starved down to nothing, her face so badly beaten I almost didn't recognize her.
03:07My wolf slammed against my ribs. A growl ripped out of my throat.
03:11That mutt is a traitor! Execute her on the spot!
03:14Lucian Volcrest. I was the one who arranged his match with Aurora.
03:18That marriage was the reason his mother, Isolde, became the Luna, and the reason he became the Alpha Heir.
03:23Everything they had came from me and from my daughter. And now he was standing there, ordering my daughter's caretaker
03:29to die.
03:30The enforcers closed in on Nettie, baring their fangs.
03:34Touch 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.
03:42If I turned on the crown, this 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 stumbled back.
04:01That's enough. The boy spoke out of turn. Hand the woman over to Ravenna. She is, after all, our war
04:10alpha.
04:11I knew exactly what he was doing. Using his son to test me, to see whether I would still lower
04:16my head and fall in line.
04:17I didn't have time for his games. Nettie collapsed at my feet. So weak she could barely get the words
04:23out.
04:23What? Your daughter is dying. She's at Lord Fenwick's estate. If you don't go now, you won't see her again.
04:32Go!
04:33One thought kept pounding in my head. My baby is dying.
04:38Who 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 hard her
04:51nails cut my skin. She was shaking all over.
04:54They remembered the woman who used to give in every time Dominic spoke. They were waiting to see if I'd
04:59do it again.
05:00Alpha, kill me if you want. I don't care. But go now. Please, if you wait much longer, you'll never
05:08see her alive again.
05:10The 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. Choose Dominic
05:20over my own flesh and blood.
05:21Ashworn Woolpack to the Fenwick estate! Anyone who stands in our way, shred them to pieces!
05:28Dominic stepped in front of my horse.
05:30Ravenna, you can't...
05:31My boot smashed into his face. He hit the ground hard, blood pouring out of his nose.
05:38If 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.
05:55Back again? The Greyholtz don't give a damn about your little slut.
05:58They're the ones who sent her to Lord Fenwick's bed.
06:01He never got to finish. My fist shook his jaw. My wolves flooded through the estate.
06:07Nettie 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. I 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.
06:51Nettie 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.
06:59Please, 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.
07:08Aurora didn't move. She didn't even blink. She just stared at the ceiling like she couldn't hear a single word
07:14we 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.
07:36No. No more. Please. Stay away.
07:39More blood filled my mouth. I forced myself to swallow it down.
07:43Then 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.
07:54Her body jerked. Then she started seizing, spasming all over.
07:58Don't touch me! Help! Mom! Mom! Help!
08:01The 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
08:11the stone itself.
08:12Her empty eyes filled with tears. And she stared at the door, terrified.
08:18Nettie, wrap her in my furs. Keep her warm.
08:21Yeah.
08:21Then I picked up my sword and walked outside.
08:24Fenwick was out in the courtyard, screaming at my wolves.
08:28He had white hair, a swollen gut, and a cluster of young shi wolves gathered around him, dressed in little
08:33northern sheer rags.
08:34He was shouting, his hands roaming freely over their bodies.
08:37Those girls wore the same look Aurora had.
08:39Empty.
08:40Hollowed out.
08:41I looked at them and could almost see my daughter, Aurora in thin fabric, Aurora with his hands on her.
08:47Who the hell are you? How dare you bring warriors onto my state? Do you have any idea who I
08:54am? I am kin to the high alpha. Dominic Greyholt is my blood. You touch me and the entire council
09:03will have your head.
09:32The grandfather of the alpha heir's mate. Dominic Greyholt's father-in-law.
09:34Gather what little you have. We're going to Greyholt Manor.
09:36I left with the girls. No one else did. I wrapped Aurora in my war cloak and carried her outside.
09:42She weighed almost nothing. Her heartbeat trembled against my chest, faint and faltering, as though it might give out at
09:48any moment.
09:48We rode hard for Greyholt Manor. My manor. The gates were shut. Two omegas stood outside. The first one raised
09:56his chin.
09:57Lady Elena and Councilman Greyholt ordered you to kneel at this gate until morning for disgracing the pack's honor.
10:02That girl isn't allowed inside. She belongs to her mate. You are not bringing her in here.
10:07My daughter's heartbeat was almost gone against my chest, and these two bastards were telling me to kneel.
10:13My war wolves lined up behind me. Two thousand of them. They had held Aurora when she was a baby.
10:18They 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.
10:25The 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. Now every eye behind me was red.
10:35Alpha. Just give us the word. Let us rip this place down for our little Luna's justice.
10:43Surround the manor. Everyone inside dies.
10:48The servants went white and started screaming, pounding on the gates with both fists.
10:53The doors hadn't even opened yet before my wolves tore their heads off.
10:56I looked up at the crest. Greyholt Manor.
10:59Then I drove my boot into it and cracked it clean in two.
11:02I carried Aurora through the gate.
11:04The second I stepped inside, I froze.
11:07Wisteria. Everywhere.
11:08Thick purple clusters hung from every post, spilling over the old sparring ring.
11:12The pollen hung so thick in the air it stunned my eyes.
11:15Aurora 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.
11:23After that, I gave one order.
11:25No flowers anywhere on this estate.
11:27Anyone who disobeyed would die.
11:29I pulled my cloak tighter around Aurora, covering her mouth and nose, and moved fast under the trellis.
11:34If Aurora breathed this in, she could die.
11:36They know that.
11:37How the hell could they do this?
11:39Living in my house, eating my food, wearing my jewelry, and planting the very thing that could kill my daughter
11:45inside her own home.
11:46Cut it all down.
11:47Every lost piece.
11:49My wolves moved at once.
11:50Holt!
11:51Lay a finger on these blues and you'll answer to my brother!
11:55The scream came from across the courtyard.
11:57Margot Greyholt.
11:59Dominic's sister.
12:00She stormed toward us.
12:01Carrie carved into every line of her face.
12:03Dominic built this garden for his true mate!
12:06This garden cost him a fortune in gold!
12:08Don't you dare ruin it!
12:10His chosen mate.
12:11To make that woman happy, Dominic filled my estate with the one thing that could kill my daughter.
12:16Margot saw Aurora in my arms and instantly pressed a handkerchief over her nose.
12:20The disgust in her face, like my daughter, was a rotting piece of trash.
12:23Mother and my brother were perfectly clear.
12:26That brat is banned from these grounds.
12:30She belongs to Fenwick now.
12:32Even if she dies over there, that has nothing to do with us.
12:35You need to get on your knees and apologize to the Alpha here.
12:38She poisoned the here and Salelta, then ran off with her lover.
12:42His grace showed mercy by not punishing her.
12:44But if it were up to me?
12:46I would have beaten her to death and fed her body to the rogues!
12:49I slapped her.
12:50She crashed to the ground, blood and two teeth scattering across the stone.
12:55You hit me?
12:56When Lucien finds out!
12:58I drove my foot into her chest.
13:00She flew backward and slammed into one of the trellis posts.
13:03Blood burst out of her mouth.
13:05And for the first time, fear crawled into her eyes.
13:08I planted my boot on her chest and looked down at her.
13:11This is Ashburn Manor.
13:12I was a damn fool for ever letting your family move in.
13:15Aurora's pollen allergy can kill her.
13:17Everyone in this house knows that.
13:19Your brother planted a whole garden for his chosen mate.
13:21My daughter could die, and he didn't care.
13:24I left Aurora with all of you.
13:26Every one of you swore before the moon goddess that you would protect her.
13:29You broke that oath.
13:31Now I'm collecting.
13:33She clawed at my boot, nearly choking.
13:35Mercy, Robinane!
13:36She wheezed.
13:37Please, it wasn't my choice.
13:40You held me.
13:41You bathed me.
13:42Remember?
13:43I'm your girl.
13:44Your little Margo.
13:46You can't kill me.
13:47You loved me once.
13:49Please!
13:50Something twisted hard in my chest.
13:52On one thing, she wasn't lying.
13:54I did raise her.
13:55After Helena gave birth, she was too weak to care for the baby.
13:59I fed Margo, bathed her, held her when she cried.
14:02She was one year older than Aurora.
14:04The two of them had grown up side by side.
14:07Aurora used to follow her everywhere, always pressing her finest treasures into her hands,
14:11calling her Mar in that small, soft voice.
14:14And Margo stood there and watched them destroy her.
14:17I fed you from my own hand.
14:19I loved you as my own blood.
14:21And in return, you helped them slaughter my child.
14:25Then I put all my weight down one last time.
14:27Crack.
14:28Her begging stopped.
14:29One hand was still clutching my boot.
14:32Her eyes stayed open even after she stopped breathing.
14:35I looked at her for one second.
14:36That face I had watched grow up.
14:38Then I stepped away.
14:39A scream tore across the courtyard.
14:44Margo!
14:45My Margo!
14:47It was Helena, Dominic's mother.
14:49She was here too.
14:50Right then, Aurora moved in Nettie's arms.
14:53Her voice drifted across.
14:55Mom?
14:55I went straight to her.
14:57Nettie had my war cloak wrapped tight around her.
14:59Aurora's eyes were open, still empty.
15:02But this time, she was looking at me.
15:04I knelt beside her.
15:06I was so close, but I could barely smell anything on her.
15:10Just the faintest trace of honeysuckle.
15:12So faint I almost thought I imagined it.
15:15There was no time to think about that.
15:17Helena threw herself over Margo's body.
15:20Margo!
15:21My Margo!
15:22Her screams ripped through the yard.
15:24Then she lifted her head and looked at me.
15:26Ravena!
15:27You rat!
15:28You killed her!
15:30I will see you rot in the abyss!
15:32I will bury you and that little rock in the same filth as my daughter!
15:37Inside, Aurora heard Helena's voice.
15:39She pressed herself into Nettie's arms and began to murmur, lost in some waking nightmare.
15:44Grandmother, please.
15:46I didn't steal them.
15:47I just wanted my mother.
15:49The letters were for her.
15:50Only for her.
15:51My blood ran cold.
15:53Grandma!
15:53The pond is so cold, there's ice on it!
15:57I didn't push Priscilla's face!
15:59She dragged me down with her!
16:00Please let me out!
16:01I can't take it anymore!
16:03My hands started shaking.
16:05Grandma, I didn't drug my sister and the alpha here.
16:08I walked in on them together in mother's chamber.
16:11Grandma, I don't have a lover.
16:13It's a set-up.
16:14It's not like what they said.
16:15You can't make me hurt!
16:16The whip was soaked in salt water.
16:18I stood there listening as Aurora begged through one horror after another, and my legs almost
16:22gave out under me.
16:24What the hell had they done to her all these years?
16:27Ravena!
16:28Go to hell!
16:29Helena shrieked, rushing at me with a dagger.
16:31I twisted aside and kicked Helena to the ground.
16:34She clawed her way back up, spitting blood, glaring at me like I wronged her.
16:38You dare defy me?
16:40You dare strike your matriarch?
16:41I am your mate's mother, you ungrateful cur!
16:44You should die to pay for Margaret's life!
16:46I'm the only reason you were allowed to keep the Greyhilled name!
16:49Otherwise, Dominic would sever your mate bond today and throw you out of the pack!
16:54Aurora's voice carried from inside again, raw and terrified.
16:58Mom, save me.
16:59I'm so scared of Grandma.
17:01It hurts.
17:02I don't want to die.
17:03Mom, Mom, you can't die either.
17:06She was terrified.
17:07Terrified I would do what I had always done before, give in for Dominic's sake and accept Helena's terms.
17:12I pulled Aurora Titor against me.
17:14She was so light.
17:1616 years old, and she weighed less than a 10-year-old child.
17:20Everything is fine, sweetie.
17:21I'm here.
17:22I got you.
17:23My voice softened.
17:24No one is ever hurting you again.
17:26You are not going to die.
17:28And neither am I.
17:30The people who hurt you.
17:32Your father, your grandmother, even the ones sitting last one of them pay.
17:36Helena was still screaming.
17:38I handed Aurora back to Nettie.
17:41Then I walked toward her.
17:44I wrenched the dagger from her grip and drew it across her throat, deep enough to steal her voice, not
17:49deep enough to end her life.
17:50Helena's eyes flew wide.
17:52She clutched at her bleeding throat and made these wet.
17:54When I accepted Dominic, you were a withered she-wolf, too frail to even nurse your own pup.
17:59So I raised Margit.
18:01I was the one who put meat in her mouth.
18:03I kept your bloodline alive.
18:05I raised both of you as my own.
18:07The year I went to war, you cried and swore you would protect Aurora.
18:12You swore it before the Moon Goddess.
18:15And how did you repay my mercy?
18:17You beat her with switches.
18:20You held her down in ice water.
18:22You whipped her with leather soaked in salt.
18:25You did that to a six-year-old child!
18:26The rage in Helena's eyes finally cracked.
18:29Fear rushed in.
18:30Killing you would be too easy.
18:32I loosened my grip on her clothes.
18:34She crumpled to the ground.
18:35I turned to my war wolves.
18:37From this moment on, Helena Greyhulf is cast out of the pack.
18:42Sever her pack link.
18:43Strike her name from the pack rolls.
18:46She is no longer under Greyhulf protection.
18:48From this second on, she is a rogue.
18:52I felt her presence in the pack link snap like a thread.
18:55The pain hit her a hundred times harder than anything I could have done by hand.
18:59Her mouth opened.
19:00No sound came out.
19:02Fear flooded her face.
19:04Real fear.
19:05Send word to every pack.
19:06No pack, large or small, is allowed to shelter Helena Greyhulf.
19:11If any pack dares grant her shadow or salt,
19:14they will face the full fury of 2,000 Ashburn blades.
19:18Helena lay there on the ground, blood and tears all over her face.
19:22She wasn't afraid of dying.
19:23She was afraid of what came after this.
19:26Becoming nothing.
19:27No pack.
19:28No one answered her call.
19:30Alive, but alone.
19:32Until the day she died.
19:34I never looked at her again.
19:35I sent wolves to the manor storehouse for herds.
19:39Aurora needed treatment now.
19:40But when my warriors came back, they brought back nothing.
19:44The servants dropped to their knees.
19:45I looked around once, and before I could even speak, one of them blurted it out.
19:49Celeste is about to give birth.
19:51Dominic and Vivian took every bit of herbs from the manor and brought it to the alpha hair stronghold.
19:57Aurora clutched my hand.
19:59Mom, it hurts so much.
20:02This is your manor.
20:03Why won't you give me anything for the pain?
20:05The storehouse is full of salves and herbs.
20:08Mom, I'm so cold.
20:09I don't want the goddess to take me.
20:12If I'm gone, who will be left to love you?
20:15Those remedies were mine.
20:16I had spent my whole life collecting the best herbs and treatments I could find, better than what they kept
20:21in the high alphas moonhaul.
20:22And my daughter lay rotting without so much as a poultice, while Dominic and Vivian stripped my stores bare for
20:28Celeste.
20:28All warriors, to the alpha hair stronghold.
20:33Dominic, Vivian, Celeste.
20:36Every last one of you was going to die today.
20:40I tried to settle Aurora onto the blankets inside the carriage.
20:43The second I moved, she grabbed my hand again.
20:46Mom, don't leave me.
20:47Don't leave me.
20:48I'm so scared.
20:50Please.
20:51So I held her and hummed softly, the way I used to when she was small.
20:55Gradually, the shaking eased.
20:57She leaned into me.
20:59The carriage reached the alpha heir's stronghold.
21:01Alpha, there's an army outside the estate.
21:04The one leading them is General Garrick Whitmore.
21:07Garrick Whitmore, a legendary general, the kind people spoke about the same way they spoke about my father.
21:13He commanded one third of the kingdom's army.
21:15I carried Aurora out of the carriage.
21:17Garrick stood across from me, white-haired, back straight as a blade.
21:21Ashburn's child, this should be a good day.
21:25You came home victorious.
21:26Listen, go home.
21:28Had it been anyone else standing in my path, they would already be dead.
21:32But General Whitmore once saved my father's life.
21:35So I walked toward him with Aurora in my arms.
21:38His warriors tensed as one.
21:39My warwolves braced at my back.
21:42Then Aurora moved.
21:43She turned to look at Garrick and held out a hand to him, bearing her face and arms.
21:48She was deathly pale.
21:50Fresh wounds crossed over old ones.
21:52Silver burns had branded themselves into the skin alongside the lash marks.
21:57Grandpa Whitmore.
21:58Her voice was worn to nothing.
22:00Whitmore stared at her.
22:01I'm Aurora.
22:04Ravena's daughter.
22:05The day mum left for war, you held me and watched her go.
22:10You told me my mum was a guardian.
22:13That because of her, everyone else got to live in peace.
22:18You said you would look after me for her.
22:20Aurora coughed.
22:22Blood ran from the corner of her mouth.
22:24Baby.
22:25Garrick's face changed.
22:27This is Aurora.
22:30How did this happen?
22:31The Greyholt family told me she was fine.
22:33They said she found someone she loved.
22:35The high alpha and the alpha here told me they had let the matter go.
22:38That she left on her own.
22:39How did she end up like this?
22:41They lied to me.
22:43And they lied to you.
22:45Grandpa Whitmore.
22:46I never had a lover.
22:48I caught them.
22:49Celeste and the alpha hair.
22:51Rotting like beasts in my mother's own bed.
22:53My father and the high alpha.
22:55They tried to break me.
22:56They demanded I sign away my honour for their sins.
22:59But I am my mother's daughter.
23:01I would not bow.
23:03So they sold me to that monster, Fenwick.
23:06If I hadn't been waiting for mum to come back, I would have died at that estate already.
23:12Grandpa Whitmore, if you don't believe me, Celeste is giving birth today.
23:17She hasn't even been mated to the alpha heel for six moon cycles.
23:21How could she be having a full grown pup?
23:24That hit me all at once.
23:26Aurora had been locked in Fenwick's cell.
23:28How did she know Celeste was giving birth today?
23:31How did she know when their mate bond was made?
23:33I didn't have time to think it through.
23:35Garrick had already sent people to check.
23:38They came back fast and leaned into whisper in his ear.
23:40His face darkened.
23:42Then darker.
23:43Then his whole body started shaking.
23:46Those faithless crows!
23:48Why the hell would the high alpha lie to me?
23:50They told me Lord Fenwick's land was restitution for the alpha heir and Celeste
23:53because Aurora had destroyed their bond so this is the truth!
23:56Fine.
23:57I'll deal with the high alpha.
23:59I'm gonna ask him to his face why he lied to us.
24:01I need to ask that bastard Dominic why he did this to my daughter for ten straight years.
24:06Garrick was silent for a few seconds.
24:08Then he ordered his warriors to clear the way.
24:10Spare the pup.
24:12If you can't give me an answer, then whatever you choose to do after that, I won't stop you.
24:17This kingdom was built by the Ashburn family.
24:20You're the one who's been holding it together.
24:22No man, not even the high alpha, shall treat an Ashburn like a dog.
24:25Then he turned and marched off with his warriors.
24:31I walked into the alpha heir's stronghold and heard screaming coming from the birthing room.
24:35Two people were standing outside the door.
24:38Dominic and Vivian.
24:39They were both staring at the entrance.
24:41Neither of them saw me.
24:43I stepped up behind Dominic and pressed my dagger into his lower back.
24:47His body went rigid.
24:48But his voice stayed the same as ever, cold, arrogant, like he still thought he owned the heir around him.
24:53Ravena, put the weapon down.
24:56This is the alpha heir's stronghold, not some place for your insolence.
25:00Vivian turned around.
25:01The second she saw me, tears flooded down her face.
25:06Ravena, what's wrong?
25:08Is this because Dominic came with me to be here for Celeste's labor instead of waiting for you back at
25:12the manor?
25:13It's my fault.
25:14Don't blame him.
25:14Celeste is the alpha heir's mate.
25:16She's carrying his first pup.
25:18I was scared something might go wrong, so I asked Dominic to come with me.
25:22If you need someone to blame, let it be me.
25:25Please don't let this hurt your bond.
25:26I hadn't even opened my mouth yet, and somehow she had already turned herself into the victim.
25:31I remembered the year she moved in.
25:34Back then, I still loved Dominic.
25:36She was always like this, crying without making a sound, letting Dominic think I was the one hurting her.
25:42We fought over her so many times, and every fight shaved away another piece of what I felt for him.
25:47If you have a grudge, take it out on me.
25:49Leave Vivian out of this.
25:51He still couldn't turn around.
25:52The dagger in his back made sure of that.
25:55Dominic, I only have one question.
25:57Why did you do this to Aurora?
25:59Why did you hand her over to Lord Fenwick?
26:01The Greyhull pack never mistreated Aurora.
26:04Lord Fenwick was personally appointed by the High Alpha.
26:07Aurora wronged Celeste first.
26:10She cheated, dragged the Greyhull name through the dirt, and disgraced this family.
26:14She climbed into Lord Fenwick's bed all on her own.
26:17That was her choice.
26:19Vivian sniffled softly beside him.
26:21Celeste is about to give birth.
26:23You humiliated the Alpha Hare at the city gates today.
26:25For Celeste, for her child, and to give the Alpha Hare an explanation.
26:29I need you to sever our mate bond willingly.
26:32Vivian will become my only mate.
26:35Don't worry, I won't cast you out of the pack.
26:37You can stay.
26:38Vivian is not like you.
26:40She knows how to behave.
26:42She doesn't make everything difficult.
26:44Since you're already here, go tell the High Alpha you're agreeing to sever the bond voluntarily.
26:50Aurora moved in my arms.
26:52Aurora!
26:52Vivian jumped.
26:54Ravena, are you out of your mind?
26:56You actually brought Aurora here?
26:57She drugged Celeste and the Alpha here.
26:59The Alpha Heald hates her.
27:01Bringing her here is the same as sending her to die!
27:05I drove the dagger into Dominic's stomach.
27:08He stopped in the middle of the sentence.
27:10Then he looked down at the blade buried in him.
27:12Ravena, you're actually dead.
27:15Why?
27:16Vivian threw herself onto him, her face flushing red.
27:19Ravena, what are you doing?
27:21Do you think Celeste stole Aurora's place?
27:24Do you think we drove Aurora away?
27:25Even if we'd wanted to, we never would have dared touch her!
27:28Go ask anyone at the manor what kind of life Celeste and I had all these years under Aurora's
27:34rule!
27:34Dominic pulled her behind him, shielding her with his body, then looked at Aurora with
27:39open disgust.
27:40Tell your mother the truth.
27:42Your mother protects this kingdom.
27:44How could she give birth to something as vicious as you?
27:47And you're still lying right to our faces.
27:49How could she give birth to something as vicious as you?
27:49How could she give birth to something as vicious as you?
27:49How could she give birth to something as you?
27:49How could she give birth to something as you?
27:50How could she give birth to something as you?
27:50How could she give birth to something as you?
27:50How could she give birth to something as you?
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