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The ultimate unforgivable sin just unleashed a mother's devastating wrath! Watch as pure heartbreak turns into a ruthless quest for justice in After He Let Our Pup Die, where every tear she shed will be paid back in blood. Stream the complete episodes now to witness her ruthless vengeance!
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00:00The first thing the PAC doctor told me when I woke up was that my pup was gone.
00:06The second was that my mate, Zane, our PAC's formidable Gamma Commander, was too busy comforting
00:11another woman to answer the hospital's frantic mind links.
00:15When Zane finally burst through the clinic doors, he brought the freezing stench of the
00:19storm with him.
00:20His eyes were bloodshot.
00:21But he didn't look at me with grief.
00:23He looked at me with pure, unadulterated fury.
00:29A fucking life, Serena!
00:31How could you make a decision like that without a single word?
00:37I slipped in the mud, trying to board up our roof during the storm.
00:41I called out for you through our bond.
00:43He lunged forward, his large, calloused hand gripping my chin, forcing me to meet his furious
00:48gaze.
00:49The doctor said you miscarried, but I know you, Serena.
00:53Serena, you were furious that I gave the sanctuary pass to Quinn.
01:00Did you take Wolfsame?
01:01Did you kill our pup just to spine me?
01:06I flapped his hand away.
01:08You gave her the pass to the human safe zone.
01:11You left me to weather the storm alone while you fixed her roof because she's scared of
01:15thunder.
01:15If the pup survived, we wouldn't have the resources to feed it anyway.
01:22Zane growled, pacing the room like a caged beast.
01:26If you just learn to budget properly, my gamma stipends is more than enough to feed you and
01:31a pup!
01:34Oh, really?
01:35But how would that work, Zane?
01:38You have to save half your stiffage to support Quinn.
01:46Quinn's an Omega.
01:48She's fragile, and she's my dead captain's widow.
01:51He died saving my life on the battlefield.
01:54It is my sworn duty to take care of her.
01:57Why are you always so fucking jell a grieving widow?
02:03I stared down at my flat, aching stomach.
02:06The phantom weight of my pup was a gaping hole in my soul.
02:10Ever since I got pregnant, Quinn had been crying every single day.
02:13She would show up at our porch, tears spilling over her huge, innocent eyes, sobbing about
02:18how she was barren.
02:20How she would never be blessed with a pup.
02:22It didn't take long for Zane to lose his patience.
02:24He started scolding me in front of the entire pack, calling me an insensitive bitch for rubbing
02:29my pregnancy in Quinn's face.
02:31Believe whatever helps you sleep at night, Commander.
02:35The pup is gone.
02:37You win.
02:38Before Zane could snap back, the heavy hospital door creaked open.
02:42Serena, did you really… did you really kill the pup?
02:48Her face as pale as snow.
02:50She gasped out.
02:52It's my fault.
02:53My body is so weak and Zane worries about me too much.
02:56If you were angry, you should have punished me.
02:59Why would you hurt an innocent pup?
03:03Zane rushed to her side, wrapping his strong arms around her waist, catching her before she
03:08could fall.
03:08His eyes were filled with nothing but raw, tender panic.
03:12Even an outsider can see how monstrous this is.
03:14You murdered your own flesh and blood.
03:16And now you're taking it out on Quinn?
03:19Zane, don't yell at her.
03:20It's my fault.
03:21I'm just a burden.
03:23His large hand, rubbing circles on her back, so gentle, so practiced, I watched them.
03:28The agonizing cramps in my uterus flared, but the pain in my chest had entirely disappeared.
03:34There was nothing left but ice.
03:36Serena, Quinn is having a panic attack.
03:39I'm taking her back to the pack house.
03:41You need to cool off and think about what you've done.
03:44He scooped the delicate Omega up in his arms and strode out of the room without a backward
03:49glance.
03:50Silence swallowed the room.
03:54Silence swallowed the room.
03:55A nurse hurried in.
03:57Where did the gamma go?
03:58Your surgery bill is still short of 20 silver coins.
04:02I laughed.
04:03A dry, scraping sound.
04:06I'm discharging myself, I said, ripping the IV out of my arm.
04:11I'm discharging myself.
04:14Are you crazy?
04:15You just had a DCU to clean out the miscarriage.
04:18You're still bleeding.
04:19You could die.
04:21I'm hard to kill.
04:26I was done.
04:28I didn't want him, and I didn't want this bond anymore.
04:33Zane looked at the papers I slapped onto the cheap, rotting wood of my slum apartment table.
04:38He burst into a harsh, grating laugh that vibrated with his gamma dominance.
04:45A formal mate rejection?
04:47Are you out of your fucking mind, Serena?
04:49You're throwing away our bond over a sanctuary pass?
04:51A bond with you is worse than having no bond at all.
04:54I am done watching Quinn's pathetic act.
04:57I am done being stepped on so you can play the tragic, honorable hero.
05:02Then go do your duty.
05:03Just leave me out of it.
05:07Sign the paper.
05:09I, Serena, reject you, Zane.
05:16I know your hormones are everywhere because of the miscarriage.
05:20You're emotional.
05:22I get it.
05:24I'm gonna try and be patient with you.
05:26He stepped around the table, reaching out to pull me into his chest.
05:30Serena, stop this.
05:32Pack your bags.
05:34Come back to the pack house.
05:35We can talk about the rejection later.
05:37That is your house.
05:39Not mine.
05:41Get out.
05:42If you don't sign it, I'll petition the Alpha to forcibly sever the bond.
05:46Zane rubbed his temples, looking exhausted.
05:49You don't have a job here.
05:50You don't have a clan backing you.
05:54How do you plan to survive without me, Serena?
05:58You'll starve in this neutrals.
06:03Don't worry about me, Commander.
06:05I just secured a permit to open an epithetary stall in the dirt market.
06:09Gathering herbs in the mud is a filthy job, but it'll keep me fed.
06:14Serena!
06:16How could you do manual labor like that?
06:18It's all my fault.
06:19I shouldn't have taken the path to the human zone.
06:21You can beat me.
06:22You can curse me, Serena.
06:24But please don't humiliate Zane like this.
06:28Working in the dirt market ruins his reputation as a gamma.
06:35Look at her, Serena.
06:36Look at how selfless Quinn is.
06:38And look at yourself.
06:40When did you become such a cold-blooded, spiteful bitch?
06:43You'd rather dig in the mud and drag my name through the dirt than come home and act like a
06:47proper mate.
06:48You are unbelievable.
06:49Take your pathetic stray and get the fuck out of my house, Zane.
06:51You're dirtying my floor.
06:52Good.
06:53If you want to act tough, then stay here.
06:54Let's see how long your pride lasts when you're freezing to death.
06:57He wrapped a protective arm around the sobbing Quinn and stormed out,
07:01slamming the rotting door so hard the hinges screamed.
07:04Leave her be, Quinn.
07:06She's just throwing a tantrum.
07:07I walked slowly to the door and slid the heavy iron deadbolt into place.
07:12Crawl back to you?
07:13I'd rather let the rogues tear my throat out.
07:16The neutral zone market smelled of sweat, raw meat, and desperation.
07:20I rented the cheapest open-air spot by the gutters and set up my apothecary stall.
07:24I woke up before dawn to forage in the dangerous outskirts
07:28and stayed up late brewing healing salves and stamina potions.
07:32Because my potions were potent and my prices fair,
07:34my stall quickly became the busiest in the market.
07:37In this harsh world, hard work was my only currency.
07:41Gossip trickled down from the human safe zone.
07:44I heard that Quinn had used my sanctuary pass to get a cushy job in the human textile factory.
07:49She wore a brand new cashmere coat bought by Zane.
07:52But she was too fragile.
07:53She complained about the cotton dust hurting her throat,
07:56whined about the LAD machines,
07:58took sick leave constantly,
08:00and ruined a massive batch of expensive dyed fabric.
08:03The human boss wanted to fire her,
08:05but Zane used his gamma influence to protect her.
08:08I just smirked,
08:10handed a fresh bottle of wolfbane antidote to a mercenary,
08:13and felt absolutely nothing.
08:15One evening, as I was packing up my crates,
08:18the heavy stomping of combat boots made the ground vibrate.
08:21Several heavily armed market enforcers blocked my stall.
08:25Zane's personal beta guard, Jax, was among them, pacing anxiously, avoiding my eyes.
08:31My stomach dropped.
08:32Before I could speak, the Enforcer captain, wearing a red armband, stepped up.
08:37Serena, we received a tip.
08:40You're accused of smuggling lethal contraband into packed territory.
08:44You must have the wrong person.
08:45I sell healing herbs.
08:47What contraband?
08:48Search it!
08:50Four wolves tore my stall apart.
08:53Less than two minutes later, an Enforcer dragged two heavy wooden crates from under my table,
08:57and smashed them on the ground.
08:59The wood splintered.
09:01Dozens of pure silver daggers coated in refined, weaponized wolf's vein spilled out onto the cobblestones.
09:09That's weaponized wolf bait on those silver blades.
09:13She's selling lethal weapons to rogues.
09:16I dug as now was to.
09:18That's a death sentence.
09:21I stared at the silver daggers, my blood turning to ice.
09:25Those crates weren't mine.
09:27I had been framed.
09:28The crowd parted, and Quinn shrank forward.
09:31Serena, how could you be so stupid?
09:35But her eyes gleamed maliciously as they swept over me.
09:38She cried, making sure her voice carried to everyone.
09:41I told you to stop doing illegal things, but you called me a nosy bitch!
09:49She pulled a crumpled piece of paper from her pocket, waving it as if it burned her fingers.
09:54You said, you said because you lost the pup you wanted to make fast money to buy your way into
09:58the safe zone.
09:59It was the most absurd, sickening lie I had ever heard.
10:02Zane pushed his way to the front.
10:04When his eyes landed on the Wolfsbane coated silver, his face turned the color of ash.
10:09He looked at me.
10:11His-
10:12Serena!
10:14If you needed money, why didn't you come to me?
10:17Why would you shame me in the pack by doing this?
10:19Zane, don't blame her!
10:21She lost her mind after the miscarriage.
10:23I tried to stop her, but she said I didn't understand what it's like to be poor.
10:27He turned to the Enforcer Captain.
10:30Captain.
10:32She has committed a crime.
10:34I am a gamma of this pack.
10:35I will not shield a criminal.
10:37But, please.
10:41Considering she recently suffered a miscarriage and is mentally unstable.
10:48Show her mercy.
10:51I will take her punishment.
10:53I will beg the Alpha.
10:57I'll give up my rank to pay off her sins.
11:02Just don't let them execute her.
11:04In my past life, I would have begged for this kind of protection.
11:08Now, hearing it, knowing he said it only because he completely bought Quinn's bullshit made me want to vomit.
11:14He didn't even ask me if I did it.
11:17He just instantly condemned me, playing the righteous hero who still loved his broken, wicked mate.
11:23Four years as mates, Zane, and you genuinely think I'm the kind of bitch who would smuggle wolf-lice coated
11:29silver just for a quick buck?
11:30I spat, my voice laced with venom.
11:33Zane flinched.
11:34His eyes were completely bloodshot, filled with that sickening, patronizing disappointment.
11:41The contraband is literally sitting in front of you.
11:44Do you want to be executed, Serena?
11:47Is it so fucking hard to just admit you made a mistake?
11:50He grabbed my shoulders, his grip bruising my skin.
11:53Just plead guilty.
11:54Pay the fine.
11:55I'll handle the Alpha.
11:56I will strip myself of my Gamma title to save you from the Silver Block, but you need to submit!
12:04This was Zane, always intoxicating himself with his own profound, sacrificial love, while physically shoving me into a fucking abyss.
12:12I didn't do it!
12:14I snarled, shoving his chest so hard he stumbled back.
12:21I'd rather let them tear my throat out than confess to a lie!
12:26Suddenly, old Madam Clara, the human woman who rented me the stall space, charged forward.
12:31She was brandishing a heavy iron soup ladle like a weapon.
12:34Who the hell are you calling a smuggler?
12:36This girl works herself to the bone before the sun even rises.
12:42She doesn't have time to deal with rogue scum!
12:44Then, Clara paused, her eyes widening.
12:47Wait a damn minute.
12:49I saw you!
12:50You were sneaking around Serena's crates last night.
12:54I thought you were just a jealous friend snooping around.
12:57You planted this shit!
13:03Quinn's face lost every drop of color.
13:05She immediately swayed on her feet, clutching her chest as if she had been shot.
13:11And just like that, the crowd's sympathy swung right back to the frail, trembling Omega.
13:16Weakness was always a weapon.
13:19Zane's expression turned utterly lethal.
13:23Blind you shelving t'history.
13:25Are you, you sign-tud you people?
13:27Stots been spotting the Xurid to Gowen and his be Lunds in a night to Ghent.
13:31Are you trying to give her a fatal heart attack just to escape punishment?
13:38Put the cuffs on her!
13:40Now!
13:43The Enforcer Captain didn't hesitate.
13:45He pulled out a pair of heavy, pure silver handcuffs that burned a werewolf's skin on contact.
13:50Zane turned away, shielding Quinn from the sight, playing the heartbroken mate to perfection.
13:59Take her to the cells. I'll come down to sort it out.
14:02Before the silver could touch my wrists, the deafening screech of heavy tires ripped through the market.
14:11The air instantly grew impossibly thick.
14:14Everyone present immediately dropped to their knees, bearing their necks in submission.
14:19The pure, terrifying dominance of an Alpha aura washed over the street.
14:24Alpha Jackson stepped out of the vehicle, his boots hitting the pavement like thunder.
14:31What in the goddess name is happening to the wolf who just saved our entire pack from a smuggling ring?
14:36Alpha Jackson was the absolute law.
14:38A ruthless, fair leader who valued strength over all else.
14:42Zane scrambled to his feet, instantly snapping a salute, his face coated in cold sweat.
14:48Alpha!
14:50It's an internal dispute.
14:51Serena was caught smuggling silver daggers, and I am enforcing the law!
14:56Smuggling?
14:59Are you a fucking idiot, Zane?
15:02Serena is the one who tipped my personal guard off to this shipment!
15:07Zane blinked, completely, utterly stunned.
15:14She tipped you off?
15:16But there's an eyewitness who saw her-
15:18Gamma, Zane.
15:19If you lack even the basic investigated instincts to see a blatant frame-up, you're not fit to lead my
15:26warriors.
15:28Alpha!
15:29I'm dying hard!
15:30Get the medic!
15:31Alpha!
15:32My...
15:33I'm dying hard!
15:35I'm dying!
15:40Zane reached for her purely on instinct, but Jackson's massive hands swatted him away like a fly.
15:47He nodded to the man's, the pack doctor.
15:50The doctor knelt, gripping Quinn's wrist with brutal efficiency.
15:54He pried open her eyelids as she thrashed and shrieked in panic.
15:58Her pulse is perfectly strong.
16:01Pupils dilating normally.
16:02Her heart is healthier than mine!
16:04This Omega is entirely faking it!
16:06It's a pathetic theatrical performance!
16:10Zane looked as if he had been struck by lightning.
16:12He turned slowly, staring down at Quinn, his mind fracturing in real time.
16:18Quinn?
16:19You told me you had a congenital heart defect.
16:21You told me you were dying-
16:22Quinn's lips trembled.
16:24Zane!
16:24I was just scared!
16:26The doctor is wrong!
16:28Alpha Jackson scoffed.
16:29He snapped his fingers.
16:33That's her!
16:34Shut up!
16:34Shut up!
16:34That's the bitch who paid me 50 silver oins to stash the crates under the apothetory stall!
16:41She promised me more money when the girl was executed!
16:44I still carry her scent on the silver daggers!
16:48Zane snatched the rogue by the throat, smelling the indisputable proof.
16:52The faint, sickeningly sweet scent of Quinn's Omega pheromones coated the contraband daggers.
16:59His entire spine seemed to snap.
17:01He dropped the rogue and stared at his hands.
17:04Why?
17:06I gave you the sanctuary pass.
17:10I let my own pup die to take care of you.
17:16Why would you frame Serena?
17:19Realizing she was trapped, Quinn dropped the fragile act.
17:24Because I hate her!
17:26Why does she get to have you?
17:28Why does she get a pup while I'm stuck as a useless widow?
17:31And don't act like a fucking saint, Zane!
17:34If you actually trusted her, you wouldn't have condemned her without a single question!
17:39You handed her to the wolves yourself!
17:42You're just a stupid, gullible fool!
17:45Every word was a razor blade slicing straight across Zane's throat.
17:50Take her to the dungeons.
17:51Strip her of her widow benefits.
17:59Quinn was dragged away, kicking and screaming obscenities into the night sky.
18:05Then, Alpha Jackson walked right up to Zane.
18:09You are suspended indefinitely, Zane.
18:12Until you figure out how to use your fucking brain, don't let me see you in uniform.
18:21Jackson turned to me, giving me a nod of deep respect, before driving off into the night.
18:26I stood there, feeling the biting winter wind against my cheeks.
18:31I knew everything beforehand.
18:33I knew Quinn would try to frame me, so I tipped the Alpha off hours ago.
18:37It was a trap.
18:39And they both walked right into it.
18:45The crowd dispersed into the shadows, leaving nothing but broken crates, scattered silver daggers, and a shattered man standing in
18:52the mud.
18:53Zane seemed to finally wake from a nightmare.
18:57Serena!
19:00I'm sorry.
19:02Goddess, I am so fucking sorry.
19:05His dirty hands grasped empty air.
19:09I was blinded.
19:10I thought I was protecting you from execution by making you confess.
19:15You are consnow.
19:17You don't mow be the sauntie, and I'm watched off the way.
19:20Come have to meet me, of protectionist friends.
19:25Stop.
19:34Don't touch me, Zane.
19:35You disgust me.
19:42Take it. Take everything.
19:44We can start over. I'll make it right.
19:46I'll go to the Alpha tomorrow and beg for your sanctuary pass back.
19:49We can have another pup, Serena. I swear on my life!
19:54I stared at the crumpled money in his desperate, shaking hands.
19:58Do you remember what you were doing the afternoon I lost the pup, Zane?
20:04I... I... I was fixing Quinn's roof because of the storm.
20:09He froze, his mouth opening and closing.
20:14Yes.
20:16You were fixing another woman's roof.
20:19I spat, leaning down so my face was inches from his.
20:23Can this money buy back my blood? Can it buy back the heartbeat of my pup?
20:28I don't hate your sense of honoree, Zane.
20:31I just pity your fucking stupidity.
20:33Our bond means less than dirt to me now.
20:35I turned away and walked toward the pack's public notice board in the center of the market.
20:40With a silver dagger, I carved my blood onto the wood,
20:44declaring a permanent, spiritual mate rejection.
20:47The magic flared red, then snapped.
20:50The searing pain of a broken bond hit me, but it felt like glorious freedom.
20:55I left Zane kneeling in the dirt, wailing into the night like a dying animal.
21:01The great gamma commander, stripped of his rank, stripped of his mate,
21:06left with absolutely nothing but the ashes of his own arrogance.
21:09Two years pass like a blur of blood, sweat, and gold.
21:12Riding the wave of the expanding neutral zone,
21:15I transform my humble apothecary stall into a massive trade guild.
21:18I don't fear the exhaustion, and I don't fear the rogue-infested borders.
21:23Whatever rare herbs or enchanted weapons the market demands, my caravans deliver.
21:28Now I am the undisputed empress of the borderlands.
21:31I wear tailored suits instead of blood-stained jeans,
21:34and alphas from neighboring packs request meetings with me just to secure supply lines.
21:38It is during the grand opening of my newest flagship store that I hear news of Zane again.
21:43I stand behind the floor-to-ceiling glass of my office, directing my staff,
21:48when a shadow catches my eye across the street.
21:51It is a man in a battered, stripped military jacket.
21:54His face is hidden behind a wild, unkempt beard, and his broad shoulders are completely hunched.
22:00He looks absolutely nothing like the arrogant, formidable gamma commander he once was.
22:04He doesn't dare to cross the street.
22:06He just stands in the freezing rain, staring greedily through the glass at my figure.
22:11He looks like a starved, abandoned stray dog, desperate, broken, and pathetic.
22:17I just stand there, meeting his gaze with absolute, chilling indifference.
22:23After a long minute, as if my lack of emotion physically burns him,
22:27he flinches, pulls up his collar, and limps away into the alley.
22:34The next morning, my beta assistant hands me a wrapped package left at the storefront.
22:39Inside sits a crudely carved wooden statue of a wolf pup.
22:43The wood is polished smooth, clearly rubbed by callous thumbs a thousand times over.
22:48Beneath it lies a bank transfer receipt directed to an orphanage under my name,
22:52and a heavily bloodstained letter.
22:54The handwriting is violent, shaky, desperate.
22:58Serena, I joined the border suicide squad.
23:00I hunt the most rabid rogues now.
23:03It's a death sentence, but every time I clear a rogue camp or dismantle a silver trap,
23:07I tell myself I am building karma for the pup we lost.
23:10Quinn confessed to everything to get a lighter sentence.
23:13She admitted she set up the wolf's bane and silver daggers because she was jealous of your pregnancy.
23:18I sat outside the dungeon all night and vomited blood from the regret.
23:22I know you don't want to see me.
23:24I know my redemption means nothing to you.
23:26I carved this pup for the pup we lost.
23:29Throw it away if my scent disgusts you.
23:31I will never disturb you again.
23:33I finish reading the letter.
23:35My heart is a stagnant pool of water.
23:37Not a single ripple.
23:38This self-indulgent guilt trip means absolutely nothing to me.
23:42Even if he gets his throat ripped out by a rogue tomorrow,
23:45it won't bring back the pup he let die.
23:47Nor will it erase the trauma he carved into my soul.
23:50Without a second thought,
23:51I drop the wooden pup and the bloody letter straight into the incinerator bin.
23:55I wipe my hands and walk back out to the trading floor.
23:59Zane's profound love is far too late and entirely too cheap.
24:03Five years later.
24:04The pack territory suffers a devastating earthquake,
24:07collapsing entire sectors of the safe zone.
24:10I sit in the front row of the disaster relief commendation ceremony,
24:14honored as the top civilian sponsor and guild leader.
24:16The crowd erupts into deafening applause when the alpha calls the name of the final recipient.
24:22Rogue hunter and rescue hero, Zane.
24:25The heavy velvet curtains part.
24:27A nurse pushes a wheelchair onto the stage.
24:30It is Zane.
24:31He wears a spotless, unranked military uniform,
24:34his chest heavy with metals.
24:37But beneath his waist,
24:38his pant legs are completely empty.
24:41Zane.
24:42What sustained you for 10 hours as you held up the steel beam to save the pregnant Omega,
24:47and in doing so, you lost both your legs?
24:53Because...
24:54I have a debt to pay.
24:56I once murdered my own pup with my ignorance.
24:58This time I had to save someone else's pup.
25:01The goddess gave me a chance to pay back the life I owe.
25:03That's all.
25:04After the ceremony, Zane's former beta, Jax,
25:07intercepts me in the VIP hallway.
25:09Jax has red, swollen eyes.
25:12He holds out a small velvet box with trembling hands.
25:17Guildmaster Serena.
25:19Zane asked me to give this to you.
25:24A dark, rusted stain of his own blood mars the golden surface.
25:31He says he has no right to see you.
25:34This was the gift he promised your pup years ago.
25:36It's the only valuable thing he has left in this world.
25:39He also told me to tell you, Quinn was released from prison last month.
25:42She froze to death on the streets outside the safe zone.
25:48Zane says it's karma.
25:51Their karma finally caught up.
25:53I look at the blood-stained metal.
25:55It cost him his legs.
25:57It cost him half his life.
26:02Tell him I don't hate him anymore.
26:04Hating him is a waste of my energy.
26:09I pull a silver pen from my blazer
26:11and scribble a quick line on the back of my business card,
26:14dropping it onto the box.
26:16I turn on my stiletto heels,
26:18my steps echoing sharply against the marble floor.
26:21The note on the card reads,
26:23Mutual non-disturbance is the best ending.
26:26Zane traded his legs for that pregnant wolf's life.
26:29That repays her.
26:30It repays himself.
26:31But regarding me?
26:33I have already moved on and I never look back.
26:36The golden scissors slice cleanly through the red silk ribbon
26:39outside my newly built guild headquarters.
26:41I smile flawlessly,
26:43waving at the pack leaders and human merchants who have gathered to celebrate.
26:46Madam Serena,
26:48the Alpha's office just sent word.
26:52Zane passed away this morning.
26:56My hand holding the scissors pauses,
26:59exactly one second,
27:01completely ignoring the whisper.
27:04Excellent turnout today.
27:06I hand the scissors to an assistant and walk gracefully into the warm,
27:10brilliantly lit banquet hall.
27:12I do not attend his funeral.
27:14A week later,
27:16an enforcer delivers a heavy iron lockbox to my penthouse.
27:19They tell me it is Zane's dying wish.
27:21I miss you so much, I can't breathe.
27:24Serena, I dreamt of our pup.
27:26He called me dad, but when I reached out,
27:28my hands were covered in his blood.
27:30Serena, if only I hadn't given her that pass.
27:33If only you were still by my-
27:34I look at the pile of letters.
27:36There is no grief in my chest.
27:38Only a profound, liberating exhalation of relief.
27:42It's finally over.
27:44The flames roar to life, greedily devouring the paper.
27:48The firelight reflects in my calm, dry eyes.
27:50Ash drifts up into the cold night sky,
27:53disappearing into the falling snow,
27:56leaving absolutely no trace behind.
27:58The following spring,
28:00I visit the border orphanage
28:01and adopt a wolf pup who lost his parents in a rogue attack.
28:04His eyes are as clear as a mountain spring.
28:07I name him Nova.
28:09Not to remember the past,
28:10but to celebrate a supernova of new life.
28:13He will inherit my empire, not a legacy of sorrow.
28:17Mom, dinner is ready.
28:18The board members are waiting to toast you.
28:26I have wealth, absolute power, and a son who adores me.
28:30A sudden blizzard begins to howl around the glass,
28:33looking exactly like the storm from that afternoon
28:36when I lost my first pup and nearly bled out alone.
28:40Back then, I thought the sky was falling.
28:42Now, I know it was just the brutal birth of my freedom.
28:45I'm going to pray the first of the time.
28:45For this, this is the new dream.
28:45I guess I can go back.
28:45On the higher edge of the world.
28:45I have to pray for them.
28:45There are many of you.
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