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The Moonstone Broke I Ran
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00:07my best friend stole my future alpha on bonding day she wore my luna gown he followed half-dressed
00:13marked i smiled and gave my blessing because the moment he touched me my grandmother's
00:18moonstone charm shattered she said if it breaks run a catastrophe was averted whoever was closest
00:24got what was meant for me that morning chantelle claimed it was an accident i put on your luna
00:30gown by mistake and ian drank too much he didn't even realize who who he was with
00:36chantelle in my torn gown marks everywhere ian wouldn't look at me
00:42my dad kicked him to the floor ian hugged me caitlin i messed up but we can't ignore what
00:48happened please just let us be happy i'd always said no everyone expected me to explode instead
00:55i smiled so go ahead you two can complete the bond today right here ian breathed out like i'd freed
01:03him caitlin hale you're really letting these two trash wolves get away with this get on my mother
01:12screamed i'd humiliated our family i grabbed both of them and pulled them away before they lost control
01:17they were shaking with rage at the corner of the hallway i reached inside my dress and took out
01:23the moonstone charm my grandma had left me or rather what was left of it it had split clean in
01:28half
01:28the second they saw it all the anger drained from their faces mom dad grandmom's charm broke
01:39now it was in two pieces in my hand mom grabbed my wrist and hauled me into the elevator
01:47she stared at the broken moonstone then at me this just happened dad's face went from red to gray
01:53his nose trembled no way limit broke when ian hugs me
02:01mom and dad exchanged a look panic on their faces hit me harder than anything upstairs
02:06the moonstone charm was no ordinary keepsake
02:10it was meant to intercept one catastrophe for me just one if it broke something catastrophic had
02:15just been diverted we're moving now hurry outside my parents kicked over ian's photo scans and took
02:21mine mom told the coordinator every word every photo every image nothing with my name could stay
02:29i pulled out my phone and deleted everything of ian his number his photos his contact info
02:35everything we fled the lodge in a panic that same night my whole family left the city
02:42the reason my whole family panicked that hard was the moonstone charm my grandma wasn't just an old
02:47woman with stories she was the seer the day she died was a bright winter afternoon she was sitting in
02:52the yard in her rock when she called my name caitlin i was eight she took off the moonstone charm
02:57she had
02:58worn her whole life and tied it around my neck she told me to keep it on never take it
03:02off if it ever
03:03broke it meant it had just blocked disaster for me then i had to run immediately away from whoever
03:08was closest when it shattered when the stone breaks it won't be bad luck it'll be ruin i didn't
03:13understand i asked her what kind of ruin she locked eyes with me and rasped three words three pines hollow
03:20three pines hollow just those three words then she leaned back in the chair closed her eyes
03:27and passed away peacefully grandma her funeral was huge not just our pack came important people from
03:35six neighboring territories showed up too that was how much her name still carried afterward i told my
03:41parents everything what grandma had given me what she had said then i asked them what three pines hollow
03:46meant they refused to answer instead they packed our bags and retreated to the city overnight
03:57years later all those buried memories came rushing back what happened between me ian and chantelle
04:03spread all over social media at first everyone dragged chantelle called her trash for sleeping with
04:10her best friend's fiance but then people found out i hadn't screamed i hadn't fought i handed over the
04:15groom and the entire bonding ceremony without a scene and suddenly they turned on me now i was the
04:20coward the weak one the rumors got uglier by the hour but i didn't care let them talk chantelle stole
04:29my place in the ceremony now she was standing in the luna's place ian's publicly recognized mate and
04:35she loved every second of it she posted non-stop a diamond ring the size of a robin's egg a
04:40two million
04:41dollar mating token ian kneeling to fasten an old family anklet around her ankle closet after closet
04:47of luxury goods every post screamed the same thing she had won and her captions thanked me thanks
04:54caitlin and thanks to the version of me who was brave enough to chase love
05:00she said this time she was getting both money and love i looked at their fake happiness and laughed
05:05she had no idea what she had taken from me she took everything public bragging about stealing my
05:10ceremony like it was a bold love story overnight she gained half a million followers comments cheered
05:15for her then people found out my family had moved they called us cowards and losers i could take the
05:21insults aimed at me but when they mocked my parents i snapped i wrote in chantelle's comments say
05:27what you want about me but leave my family out of it and stop using me for clout chantelle never
05:32replied
05:33she just liked every comment that trashed me i shook my head the moon goddess sees everything we
05:40moved half a territory away mom suggested a nearby city but dad insisted on going hundreds of miles
05:47so we went that night i finally asked my parents what grandma meant by ruin their faces were stiff
05:53mom dad when grandma said ruin what exactly did she mean
06:01maybe it's time we tell her dad hesitated you tell her ruin how i asked what kind of ruin like
06:10a
06:10wildfire or a landslide do you remember three pines hollow yeah grandma said it right before she died
06:18mom's expression turned uneasy she explained that three pines hollow was a settlement just beyond our old
06:24pack lands hundreds of people lived there then one night every single person was found hanging the
06:30warmth at the table died instantly i was stunned all this time i thought grandma had meant a natural
06:37disaster a flood an earthquake i never imagined something so twisted my parents both looked uneasy
06:43they answered together that place was under a curse we finished dinner but the shock stayed with me
06:49no wonder grandma had given me that moonstone right before she died
06:52that little stone had blocked something huge something monstrous grandma hadn't just read fate
06:58for others she had seen mine too just thinking about three pines hollow made my neck prickle
07:03hundreds of people hanging overnight that wasn't just tragedy that was a nightmare but one question
07:09kept digging at me why hadn't the charm broken earlier why only after ian and chantelle crossed that
07:16line together i was still sitting there half in awe of how terrifyingly sharp she had been
07:21when my phone rang an unknown number caitlin are you okay caitlin are you okay it was ian's smooth voice
07:31i hung up immediately and blocked the number not after that night after that i stopped answering every
07:37unknown call i was terrified meanwhile chantelle kept showing off online like she had won the world luxury
07:45cars designer watches gold silver late that night chantelle went live she was dressed to kill full glam pale
07:55fur pack crest jewelry lounging on a couch inside the alpha estate like she'd been born there people flooded
08:02in praising her looks she played the part perfectly she said she was bored and wanted to spend time with
08:07everyone then she showed off a few designer bags and then because of the comments she brought me up again
08:15some girls are just not cut out for it even if you spoon feed them they still can't swallow it
08:20she laughed and claimed i'd never truly treated her like a best friend she called it classic insecure
08:26friend behavior then she leaned back and smiled wider she said i was probably hiding somewhere that my
08:32family ran the same night she and ian bonded her whole family ran away that night afraid that i would
08:38come back as the alpha's wife to take revenge lie after lie listening to her rewrite everything i kept
08:47thinking how the hell had i ever been this blind but while she was busy smearing me people in the
08:53live
08:53stream started noticing something strange wait did her closet just move did anybody else see that why does it
09:00look like something's in there chantelle check behind you
09:06at first she didn't notice the comments then the chat moved so fast the whole screen seemed to scream at
09:12her to
09:12turn around and i saw it too the closet behind her was cracked open just a sliver in that narrow
09:19gap there
09:20appeared to be an eye you people are so sick you love trying to freak me out she insisted no
09:26one else was in the
09:26estate that night then as if to prove a point she walked over to the closet in her heels grabbed
09:31the handle and yanked it over a man in black leather tumbled out upside down and hit the floor
09:37expensive jewelry spilled around here don't let it touch me then he looked up not at chantelle but
09:44past her at something behind her he let out a raw broken scream dropped to his knees and started prostrating
09:50himself slamming his forehead into the floor until blood pooled chantelle froze for half a second
09:56then clutched her chest and screamed for help everything turned chaotic someone hit the phone
10:00the live stream crashed sideways after that i couldn't see what happened then i thought of what my mom had
10:06told me about three pines hollow and a sick feeling twisted in my stomach maybe this was the beginning of
10:10that ruin because i knew one thing for sure there was something old and wrong inside the alpha estate
10:16now the break-in at the alpha estate blew up online ian rushed back to calm chantelle i had been
10:26watching
10:26the live stream too but exited as soon as ian appeared that ruin was getting closer i wanted nothing
10:32tying me to him my phone lit up sophie my college roommate messaged me she knew chantelle too sophie said
10:40she heard what chantelle did and told me not to be upset i wasn't heartbroken anymore so i just
10:45thanked her i turned sophie down flat then she asked if i wanted payback that made me pause sophie and
10:53chantelle had always been close did i hate chantelle yes but go near her no she was sleeping beside ian
11:01standing in my place i turned sophie down flat she kept pushing trying too hard i got annoyed and muted
11:08her
11:11mom dad what is all this are we stocking up for the apocalypse cut back on those doomday novels
11:19but this time it's not that different we just don't know how long it's gonna last for the next month
11:25staying alive matters more had to take time off work or quit staying alive mattered more and one more
11:32thing you're not watching those either they cut off every way the thing could touch us
11:38dad also told me to stop watching chantelle's live streams
11:44i blocked her account
11:47dad sat on the balcony smoking staring at red clouds
11:53this time somebody's done for
11:59we shut ourselves in didn't go out once my parents talk about three pines hollow was still vague but if
12:05hundreds of people really hang themselves in one night what else could it be meanwhile chantelle and
12:11ian lived better than ever luxury stores yachts everything was perfect
12:17so the three of us shut ourselves in didn't go out not once
12:23until the middle of that month
12:25the haunting took hold at the alpha estate even with chantelle blocked i heard about it
12:30one night chantelle woke to crying it got louder sharper like a blade scraping through dark
12:36she realized it came from her balcony on the fourth floor no one should have gotten there unseen
12:41she looked over a woman in a white dress long black hair curled up silent
12:46chantelle screamed
12:48servants came running balcony door locked nothing outside no one
12:53chantelle can you just wanged you
12:55ian's family said chantelle imagined it until the second thing
13:00ian's younger brother sleepwalked
13:03that night he dreamed of a girl in white by the pool he tapped her shoulder she laughed high
13:09pitched and sharp the sound echoed through the whole estate when he snapped out of his
13:14then something dragged him into the pool two fingers jammed into his eye sockets he screamed guard
13:22one incident coincidence two in a row no chance two incidents in a row
13:31no chance chantelle told it all on live stream what happens in the pack stays in the pack we don't
13:38air any pack and stays will plagues where they go air dirty laundry on the web after i listened to
13:43one creator break the whole thing down a chill crawled right up my spine a chill crawled up my spine
13:51just looking at it made me grateful all over again for how far ahead grandma had seen
13:57this was just the beginning worse than three pines hollow i didn't want to imagine
14:05yeah what is it
14:11i sat on the sofa sipping red wine to calm my nerves silently grateful for grandma's foresight all those
14:17years ago then my phone rang yeah what is it you heard about what's happening at chantelle's place
14:22rice right right yeah caitlin what do you think do you think somebody's taking revenge on her what
14:27are you trying to say that i did it because i didn't no no i'm not saying that i just
14:30mean
14:31maybe this is karma caitlin i heard your grandma used to be this famous seer that anyone in your family
14:35still know the old boarding rules no sophie was chantelle's go-between maybe even her spy they could
14:41keep dreaming sophie called not about chantelle at dinner i told my parents your grandma saw this
14:47too dad said grandma saw this too i nearly choked oh my god grandma was unreal this ruin can't be
14:55avoided the moonstone only intercepted it for you once only once as for everyone else they'll have to
15:01depend on their own fate as for that backstabbing friend of yours if they really want a chance have
15:06somebody tell them to go south of the city blackwood ridge there's an old rights keeper that can do
15:10anything that depends on what kind of debt has found their line my dad really was too soft-hearted
15:16honestly i had never planned to save chantelle but once he said it i nodded then i passed his message
15:22to sophie word for word and told her reflay it to ian's family they moved fast really fast
15:30go to blackwood ridge right away
15:37ian's family moved fast they sent people to blackwood ridge and brought the old rights keeper
15:42back that same night we stayed holed up at home like cowards we had just moved into a new apartment
15:49every time we went out we wore masks and avoided neighbors we couldn't be recognized or tied back
15:54to ian's line so far nobody knew we were the family mocked online my parents followed grandma's rules
16:00stay quiet stay hidden at first i thought chantelle might dodge this thing
16:05but we were wrong dead wrong someone in ian's family died the first one to go was ian's father
16:15it happened on the night of his 70th birthday he drowned the marks around the bathroom showed
16:21he had fought back hard and there were scratches all over his face either the alpha patriarch forced
16:25his own face into the toilet and drowned himself or something from inside the toilet reached up grabbed
16:30him and held him there until he died a birthday turned into a funeral ian's whole family fell into
16:35panic that doesn't make sense by the old rules your grandma followed even if the rights keeper couldn't
16:40stop the ruin he should have at least been able to slow it down but it's barely been any time
16:45and
16:46someone's already dead maybe this is just the debt coming due or maybe maybe they never found the keeper
16:53at all caitlin call and ask and remember do not tell them where we are i nodded and called sophie
17:03hey caitlin what's up that old rights keeper i told you about did you pass the message on or not
17:09huh huh well um caitlin where are you guys right now the second she said that my whole family went
17:16on alert don't worry about where i am answer my question first i did tell them about the keeper
17:22but chantelle told me that keeper broke from fright what start over tell me exactly what happened
17:30we went to the ridge temple and when we found him
17:36from what sophie told me chantelle went straight to ian with the message the very next day ian sent
17:41people up to blackwood ridge to find the old rules keeper and that same night they brought him back
17:46to the estate the man was gaunt skeletal and faded robes he walked the ground slowly listening to
17:52something under the walls then he told them the truth something the truth is buried deep within
17:58these walls and it is far more terrible than you can imagine the family moved out leaving him toward
18:05the house he covered it in paper wards painted sigils burned bitter herbs the place felt like a coffin
18:18guards heard nothing all night at dawn the family rushed back everything looked the same but the keeper
18:24was gone they searched old gentleman ian found him in the underground cellar curled up against dry
18:33storage bags the flower had turned black the keeper's eyes twitched wildly he kept muttering forgive me
18:40don't come back and gouged out both his own eyes
18:48grandma's moonstone hadn't saved me it had cut me out of a blood debt
18:54caitlin do you know any other way to stop this dad motioned me to hang up i don't know i
19:00said i
19:00didn't know and ended the call dad we have to go right now we can't stay here either we're leaving
19:07the
19:22province
19:23we left the province in a panic didn't even take our supplies
19:29we bought planes and got out
19:34by the time chantelle found our home address all she could do was curse us out to stay alive we
19:40headed
19:40straight for the countryside and checked into a hunting lodge
19:46good thing we ran fast they started calling me like lunatics hundreds of numbers but i had set my phone
19:53to auto reject
19:57this time
19:58this time the one who died was ian's younger brother
20:01found hanged
20:02a deep ligature mark around his neck
20:06but police never found a rope
20:07no cord no belt no murder weapon now chantelle was truly terrified ian's family scattered some
20:16fled overseas some begged the pack council for protection everyone tried to get away from ian's
20:21bloodline back chantelle and ian brought in more warders more rights workers day and night
20:25dad just said it was useless back then even hundreds of people together at three pines hollow didn't
20:31survive what happened at three pines hollow was bizarre grandma foreseen total destruction she went
20:37there and asked if they had done something unforgivable crazy old woman get out they denied
20:44everything and chased her away calling her a mad woman
20:59that same night a child vanished from three pines hollow the whole village searched they found him
21:05trapped inside a dense black thorn thicket the branches were covered in vicious spikes and black
21:10thorn never grows alone it forms a living cage the boy's cries came from the center they had to
21:16chop the whole thing down when they pulled him free he was out of his mind
21:20a few days later the villagers begged grandma for help i cannot save you
21:40a few days after that the whole village was found hanged in their own homes
21:44no murder weapon no rope nothing overnight wiped out
22:04water give me water go away the people of three pines hollow
22:09had ruined a woman who was only passing through she came asking for our water
22:14that was a little too late that the person who visited the lady's son wanted to force her to
22:19go away she refused and tried to run the whole village tried to track her they locked her in an
22:24abandoned
22:25barn when they started her broke her slowly the son brought her food he found her hanging dead rotting her
22:33white dress
22:33swaying in the dark her neck stretched too long by then she was no longer in her right mind whatever
22:40they did had broken her before death i thought three pines hollow was wiped out by hanging ian's brother
22:47was hanged too could this be the same thing my parents hated my guess don't go down that rabbit hole
22:53if your grandmother's charm hadn't blocked this for you the people dying right now wouldn't just
23:01be them
23:07a chill went through me if grandma hadn't left me the moonstone and if
23:12yet hen shantin hadn't stolen ian i would be the one trapped in that estate
23:20shantin had become my stand-in
23:22then the one who ran farthest died ian's uncle overseer hanged i noticed a pattern the farther
23:29they ran the faster the debt found them like something unseen was warning don't leave the estate
23:42could this be karma for stealing someone else's alpha
23:47if i apologize now is it too late she blocked my number wronged you
23:56the cheating was my fault my family's being punished now can you please save me i just shook my head
24:04cheating had only redirected the disaster there was something older underneath it all then ian had a
24:10dream a strange girl took his hand and said she would show him somewhere beautiful we're going
24:15she told him to lift the stone pressing on him he obeyed then to put his hand here and pass
24:20through the waterfall lift the stone he did that's pressing then to climb the mountain he did then to
24:25cross a stream she stepped over first and waved ian said okay and was about to follow
24:37the girl's face twisted she snarled you're awake
24:41chantel dragged ian back from the rooftop edge below was a 10-story drop one more step and he would
24:47have been dead the whole thing was caught on live stream ian finally understood lift the stone meant
24:55throw off the blanket pass through the waterfall don't go over unlock the door climb the mountain meant
25:03take the stairs cross the stream meant jump
25:11i heard about it it scared me numb this ruin could not be avoided chantel had told ian about my
25:19grandmother
25:20so now they were hunting for us more deaths from overseas the farthest runners died fastest
25:28chantel the first to see the woman stayed closest to the estate and was still alive i told my parents
25:34dad said maybe it was a warning not to run i asked if staying closer meant better odds they didn't
25:40answer
25:41i thought for a long time then had sophie pass along what i observed that same night ian and chantel
25:48moved back into the estate more than half a year passed ian's family was wrecked yet somehow ian and
25:55chantel were still alive people said they had escaped the curse they kept living in the mansion
26:00covered in the dead keepers then new updates came both had completely broken down their minds
26:07were gone they couldn't clean couldn't function barely recognized day from night the estate became
26:13a nightmare trash rotting food rats roaches it looked like a giant grave i thought the disaster was
26:20finally over then dad told me something that stopped me cold ian had been the child trapped in
26:28the blackboard thicket at three pines hollow
26:34his parents sent him to a hospital in another province that was why he survived he eventually
26:39came back to himself but forgot his childhood then he was adopted by a good family in his father's line
26:45grandma had seen it on the night three pines hollow fell one person probably slipped through ian's age
26:52matched that boy the death had never ended it had changed houses changed names waited but i still told
26:59myself none of it had anything to do with me anymore then something new happened many people online said they
27:05had all dreamed of the same woman in white every one of them had watched chantel's live streams
27:10i finally understood what grandma meant by ruin the live stream hadn't just shown the horror it had
27:16carried it it turned every viewer into a witness and witnessing opened the door
27:27when three pines hollow fell she'd not harmed any innocent outsider she still knew who she wanted but now
27:34strangers who only watched through a screen were dreaming of her her restraint was gone the ruin was
27:40still spreading i scrolled through comments people seeing her on balconies by lakes faceless
27:50i closed the app outside autumn wind acorns falling everything looked peaceful too peaceful the net was
27:58tightening around thousands of eyes after dinner i helped mom clear dishes she could tell i was still
28:06thinking about it i asked if that thing could travel through live streams through watching how many
28:11people would die mom turned on the faucet with water running she said grandma once said that woman
28:18went alive hated being falsely accused three pines hollow said she was sleeping around but she was only
28:25passing through asking for water i froze she wasn't already like that mom shook her head they terrorized
28:35her until she broke they locked her in the shed by the third day she broke by the fifth she
28:41hanged herself
28:42i asked what she was wearing mom shut off the faucet a white dress almost white that night i couldn't
28:50sleep
28:51i held the broken moonstone grandma had worn it for 99 years i had worn it for less than 10
28:57it blocked one
28:58disaster then it broke for the first time i regretted not asking grandma one more question what was that
29:04woman's name that night i dreamed of grandma she sat in her rocking chair the yellow dog lay at her
29:10feet
29:11i crouched by her knees she called my name i asked what happened to the woman from three pines hollow
29:19grandma didn't answer she touched my head and said you just live well
29:29i woke up with a damp pillow
29:34next morning dad said he was going to town for supplies i went with him
29:41on the way he told me mom wanted to take me back home for a visit
29:44not now after things settle grandma's grave needed fresh soil also before she died she left a box under
29:50her bed they never touched it mom thought it was meant for me i didn't ask anything else
29:56in town dad bought oranges i stayed in the truck then my phone buzzed sophie we hadn't talked in a
30:03long
30:03time she asked if i had heard about ian and chantelle i typed yeah she sent a long message
30:11two nights ago during a shift change ian climbed onto a third floor balcony saying
30:16once i cross the stream i'll be home an orderly grabbed him but couldn't hold him
30:21he jumped he didn't die but both legs were broken
30:25chantelle was completely gone she didn't recognize anyone every day she hugged ian's suit jacket
30:31repeating
30:33it wasn't me i wasn't the one who locked you up
30:38don't come for me sophie's last message if i hadn't given her that ceremony would the one in
30:45the hospital be me i locked the screen outside dad looked old half his hair had gone white
30:52since grandma's warning if the charm breaks leave immediately they had spent their lives running from
30:58hometown to city to another province to this little town beyond any pack land they had done nothing wrong
31:06grandma saw it coming they believed her and used everything to keep me alive ian died with the
31:12first snow of winter sophie sent the news post-op infection multiple organ failure chantelle was
31:19sent back to her family still the same if not controlled she hit people and screamed no one dared
31:25live in the estate now listed for sale for six months no buyers people said you could hear crying from
31:32inside at night i deleted the screenshot winter came the oak tree was bare this little town was
31:39quiet no one knew we had escaped such a large disaster the hashtag about the woman in white was
31:45scrubbed from trending not because it ended but because it was too strange and dangerous under the
31:50silence the dreams still happened five springs passed people forgot only we were still alive hiding like
31:58survivors on stolen time eventually we stepped out the air felt clean i was tired not from surviving one
32:05terrible thing but from half a life tied to prophecy i wanted to see the ocean my parents nodded i
32:13took a
32:13train east the ocean opened up waves rolled in endless the wind was wet and salty i stood at the
32:20shore my whole
32:21life i had lived inside prophecy dragged by invisible ropes what was on the other side of the sea the
32:28waves
32:28answered nothing maybe the other side was just another sea and the far shore every chained person
32:34longs for is not a place it is learning to live with the water already inside you under the open
32:40moon
32:40with no bond and no pack i let out a slow breath for the first time in five years i
32:47was not waiting for
32:47the next prophecy
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