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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
00:20wall. Don't touch me. My own daughter didn't know my face. Couldn't stand my touch. And every single
00:27person 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
00:38forgot who I was. I'm the war alpha. At the gates of the royal stronghold, I finally came home. A
00:46decade
00:46ago, I left my six-year-old daughter behind and marched to war to preserve the peace of our pack.
00:51Now, 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.
01:38Where'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 fated 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.
02:59Now 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!
03:14Lucien Volcrest. I was the one who arranged his match with Aurora. That marriage was the reason his
03:19mother, Isolde, became the Luna, and the reason he became the Alpha Heir. Everything they had came
03:24from me and from my daughter. And now he was standing there, ordering my daughter's caretaker to die.
03:29The enforcers closed in on Nettie, baring 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.
03:57The warriors stumbled 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 and fall in line. I didn't have time for his games. Nettie collapsed at my feet,
04:21so weak she could barely get the words out. Your daughter is dying. She's at Lord Fenwick's
04:27estate. If you don't go now, you won't see her again. Go!
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
04:51hard 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.
05:21Ashworn Warpac to the Fenwick estate! Anyone who stands in our way, shred them to pieces!
05:28Dominic 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.
05:38If 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.
05:54Back again? The Greyholds don't give a damn about your little slut.
05:58They're the ones you sent her to Lord Fenwick's bed?
06:01He never got to finish. My fist shook his jaw. My wolves flooded through the estate.
06:06Nettie led me around to the back courtyard. The place was falling apart,
06:10rotted boards, a door hanging crooked on its hinges. Before I even touched it,
06:15the smell hit me. Rot. Blood. Something foul enough to turn the air solid.
06:19I shoved the door open. A girl lay on a wooden plank,
06:24covered with nothing but a few filthy rags. Scars from glowing coals crawled across her chest.
06:29Both her nipples had been torn off. The flesh between her legs was black and rotting.
06:34Her eyes were open, fixed on the ceiling, empty. If her chest hadn't still been rising,
06:39I 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 clanged to the
06:50floor. Nettie 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? She's right here beside you.
07:04Open 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
07:13single word we said. My wolf was howling. The pain struck so hard that blood surged at my throat
07:18and poured from my lips. I 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
07:35against the wall. No. No more. Please. Stay away.
07:39More 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. Her body jerked.
07:55Then she started seizing, spasming all over.
07:58Don't touch me! Help! Mom! Mom! Help!
08:01The second she called for me, I answered. I 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
08:10through the stone itself. Her empty eyes filled with tears. And she stared at the door, terrified.
08:18Nettie. Wrap her in my furs. Keep her warm.
08:20Yeah.
08:21Then I picked up my sword and walked outside.
08:24Fenwick was out in the courtyard, screaming at my wolves. He had white hair, a swollen gut,
08:29and a cluster of young shoe wolves gathered around him, dressed in little more than sheer rags.
08:34He was shouting, his hands roaming freely over their bodies. Those girls wore the same look Aurora had.
08:39Empty.
08:40Hollowed out.
08:41I 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? 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
09:02will have your head.
09:04The grandfather of the alpha heir's mate, Dominic Greyholt's father-in-law. They knew. Every last one of them knew.
09:10He didn't get another word out.
09:12I shifted. My jaws tore straight through his throat. I ripped open his chest. His stomach. Everything that held that
09:19wretched body together. His guts spilled across the courtyard.
09:23I shredded him until there was nothing left you could even recognize as a man. Just blood. Meat. And a
09:28severed head rolling to a stop by my feet. I shifted back and turned to the others.
09:33Gather 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.
09:41She 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.
09:56Lady 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.
10:12My 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.
10:24The 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. Now every eye behind me was red.
10:34Alpha. 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.
10:52The doors hadn't even opened yet before my wolves tore their heads off.
10:56I looked up at the crest. Greyholt Manor. Then I drove my boot into it and cracked it clean in
11:01two.
11:01I carried Aurora through the gate. The second I stepped inside, I froze.
11:06Wisteria. Everywhere. Thick 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.
11:15Aurora was badly allergic to pollen. One 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. Anyone 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. They know that. How the hell could they do this?
11:38Living in my house. Eating my food. Wearing my jewelry. And planting the very thing that could kill my daughter
11:44inside her own home.
11:45Cut it all down. Every last piece.
11:48My wolves moved at once.
11:50Holt! Lay a finger on these blues and you'll answer to my brother!
11:55The scream came from across the courtyard.
11:57Margot Greyholt. Dominic's sister.
11:59She stormed toward us.
12:01Curie 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. Don'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.
12:19The 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.
12:34You 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.
12:42His 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!
12:49I slapped her.
12:50She crashed to the ground, blood and two teeth scattering across the stone.
12:54You 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.
13:18Your 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.
13:25Every one of you swore before the moon goddess that you would protect her.
13:29You broke that oath.
13:31Now I'm collecting.
13:32She clawed at my boot, nearly choking.
13:35Mercy, Robinane!
13:36She wheezed.
13:37Please, it wasn't my choice.
13:39You held me.
13:40You bathed me.
13:42Remember?
13:42I'm your girl.
13:44You're little Margo.
13:46You can't kill me.
13:47You loved me once.
13:48Please!
13:49Something twisted hard in my chest.
13:51On 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.
13:58I 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.
14:06Aurora 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.
14:16I fed you from my own hand.
14:18I loved you as my own blood.
14:21And 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.
14:29One hand was still clutching my boot.
14:31Her eyes stayed open even after she stopped breathing.
14:34I looked at her for one second.
14:36That face I had watched grow up.
14:38Then I stepped away.
14:39A screen tore across the courtyard.
14:44Margo!
14:45My Margo!
14:46It was Helena, Dominic's mother.
14:48She was here too.
14:50Right then, Aurora moved in Nettie's arms.
14:52Her voice drifted across.
14:54Mom?
14:55I went straight to her.
14:56Nettie 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.
15:14There was no time to think about that.
15:17Helena threw herself over Margo's body.
15:19Margo!
15:20My 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!
15:29I will see you rot in the abyss!
15:32I will bury you and that little rock in the same filth as my daughter!
15:36Inside, Aurora heard Helena's voice.
15:39She pressed herself into Nettie's arms and began to murmur, lost in some waking nightmare.
15:43Grandmother, please.
15:45I didn't steal them.
15:47I just wanted my mother.
15:48The letters were for her.
15:50Only for her.
15:51My blood ran cold.
15:52Grandma!
15:53The pond is so cold, there's ice on it!
15:57I didn't push Miss Celestis!
15:58She dragged me down with her!
16:00Please let me out!
16:01I can't take it anymore!
16:03My hands started shaking.
16:04Grandma, I didn't drug my sister in 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 setup.
16:13It's not like what they said.
16:14You can't make me at first.
16:16The whip was stuffed 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.
16:23What the hell had they done to her all these years?
16:26Ravena!
16:27Go to hell!
16:28Helena 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?
16:39You 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 Greyhill 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.
16:57Mom, 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.
17:05She was terrified.
17:06Terrified I would do what I had always done before, give in for Dominic's sake and accept
17:11Helena'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.
17:19Everything is fine, sweetie.
17:21I'm here.
17:21I 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 one sitting last one of them pay.
17:36Helena was still screaming.
17:38I handed Aurora 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
17:47her voice, not deep enough to end her life.
17:50Helena's eyes flew wide.
17:51She 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
17:59pup.
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.
18:14And how did you repay my mercy?
18:17You beat her with switches.
18:19You 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!
18:26The rage in Helena's eyes finally cracked.
18:29Fear rushed in.
18:30Killing you would be too easy.
18:31I loosened my grip on her clothes.
18:33She crumpled to the ground.
18:35I turned to my war wolves.
18:37From this moment on, Helena Greyhulf is cast out of the pack.
18:41Sever her pack link.
18:43Strike her name from the pack rolls.
18:45She is no longer under Greyhulf protection.
18:48From this second on, she is a rogue.
18:51I 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.
18:58Her mouth opened.
19:00No sound came out.
19:01Fear flooded her face.
19:03Real fear.
19:04Send word to every pack.
19:06No pack, large or small, is allowed to shelter Helena Greyhulf.
19:10If any pack dares grant her shadow or salt, they will face the full fury of 2,000 aspirin blades.
19:18Helena lay there on the ground, blood and tears all over her face.
19:21She wasn't afraid of dying.
19:23She was afraid of what came after this.
19:25Becoming nothing.
19:26No pack.
19:28No one answered her call.
19:30Alive, but alone.
19:32Until the day she died.
19:33I never looked at her again.
19:35I sent wolves to the manor storehouse for herbs.
19:38Aurora needed treatment now.
19:40But when my warriors came back, they brought back nothing.
19:43The 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
19:55hare stronghold.
19:56Aurora clutched my hand.
19:58Mom, it hurts so much.
20:01This is your manor.
20:03Why won't you give me anything for the pain?
20:05The storehouse is full of salves and herbs.
20:07Mom, I'm so cold.
20:09I 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.
20:16I had spent my whole life collecting the best herbs and treatments I could find, better
20:20than what they kept in the high alphas moonhaul.
20:22And my daughter lay rotting without so much as a poultice, while Dominic and Vivian stripped
20:26my stores bare for Celeste.
20:28All warriors to the alpha hare stronghold.
20:33Dominic, Vivian, Celeste.
20:36Every last one of you was going to die today.
20:39I 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.
20:47Don't leave me.
20:48I'm so scared.
20:49Please.
20:51So I held her and hummed softly.
20:53The way I used to when she was small.
20:55Gradually, the shaking eased.
20:57She leaned into me.
20:58The 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.
21:06Garrick Whitmore.
21:08A legendary general, the kind people spoke about the same way they spoke about my father.
21:12He commanded one third of the kingdom's army.
21:14I carried Aurora out of the carriage.
21:17Garrick stood across from me, white-haired, back straight as a blade.
21:20Ashpen's child.
21:22This should be a good day.
21:24You came home victorious.
21:26Listen, 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.
21:37His warriors tensed as one.
21:39My war wolves braced at my back.
21:41Then 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.
21:56Grandpa Whitmore.
21:57Her voice was worn to nothing.
21:59Whitmore stared at her.
22:01I'm Aurora.
22:04Raven'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.
22:17You said you would look after me for her.
22:20Aurora coughed.
22:21Blood ran from the corner of her mouth.
22:24Baby.
22:24Garrick's face changed.
22:26This is Aurora.
22:29How did this happen?
22:30The Greyholt family told me she was fine.
22:33They said she found someone she loved.
22:34The High Alpha and the Alpha here told me they had let the matter go.
22:37That she left on her own.
22:39How did she end up like this?
22:41They lied to me.
22:42And they lied to you.
22:45Grandpa Whitmore.
22:46I never had a lover.
22:48I caught them.
22:49Celeste and the Alpha Hare.
22:50Rotting like beasts in my mother's own bed.
22:52My father and the High Alpha, they 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.
23:02So they sold me to that monster, Fenwick.
23:06If I hadn't been waiting for mum to come back,
23:09I would have died at that estate already.
23:11Grandpa Whitmore, if you don't believe me,
23:14Celeste 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?
23:30How 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.
23:37They came back fast and leaned into whisper in his ear.
23:40His face darkened.
23:41Then darker.
23:42Then his whole body started shaking.
23:45Those faithless crows!
23:47Why the hell would the High Alpha lie to me?
23:49They told me Lord Fenwick's land was restitution for the Alpha Heel and Celeste
23:52because Aurora had destroyed their bond, so this is the truth!
23:56Fine.
23:57I'll deal with the High Alpha.
23:58I'm going to ask him to his face why he lied to us.
24:00I need to ask that bastard Dominic why he did this to my daughter for ten straight years.
24:05Garrick was silent for a few seconds.
24:07Then he ordered his warriors to clear the way.
24:10Spare the pup.
24:12If he 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.
24:19You're the one who's been holding it together.
24:21No man, not even the High Alpha, shall treat an Ashburn like a dog.
24:25Then he turned and marched off with his warriors.
24:30I walked into the Alpha Heir's stronghold and heard screaming coming from the birthing room.
24:34Two people were standing outside the door.
24:37Dominic and Vivian.
24:38They were both staring at the entrance.
24:41Neither of them saw me.
24:42I stepped up behind Dominic and pressed my dagger into his lower back.
24:46His body went rigid.
24:48But his voice stayed the same as ever, cold, arrogant, like he still thought he owned the air around him.
24:53Ravena, put the weapon down.
24:55This is the Alpha Heir's stronghold, not some place for your insolence.
24:59Vivian turned around.
25:01The second she saw me, tears flooded down her face.
25:05Ravena, what's wrong?
25:07Is this because Dominic came with me to be here for Celeste's labor instead of waiting for you back at
25:12the manor?
25:12It's my fault.
25:13Don't blame him.
25:14Celeste is the Alpha Heir's mate.
25:16She's carrying his first pup.
25:17I was scared something might go wrong, so I asked Dominic to come with me.
25:21If you need someone to blame, let it be me.
25:24Please 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.
25:33Back then, I still loved Dominic.
25:35She was always like this, crying without making a sound.
25:39Letting Dominic think I was the one hurting her.
25:41We fought over her so many times, and every fight shaved away another piece of what I felt for him.
25:46If you have a grudge, take it out on me.
25:49Leave Vivian out of this.
25:50He still couldn't turn around.
25:52The dagger in his back made sure of that.
25:54Dominic, I only have one question.
25:57Why did you do this to Aurora?
25:58Why did you hand her over to Lord Fenwick?
26:00The Greyhelt pack never mistreated Aurora.
26:03Lord Fenwick was personally appointed by the High Alpha.
26:07Aurora wronged Celeste first.
26:09She 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.
26:18Vivian sniffled softly beside him.
26:20Celeste is about to give birth.
26:22You 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.
26:34Don't worry.
26:35I won't cast you out of the pack.
26:37You can stay.
26:38Vivian is not like you.
26:39She knows how to behave.
26:41She doesn't make everything difficult.
26:44Since you're already here, go tell the High Alpha you're agreeing to sever the bond voluntarily.
26:49Aurora moved in my arms.
26:50Aurora!
26:52Vivian jumped.
26:53Ravena, are you out of your mind?
26:55You actually brought Aurora here?
26:57She drugged Celeste and the Alpha here.
26:59The Alpha Heald hates her.
27:00Bringing her here is the same as sending her to die!
27:04I drove the dagger into Dominic's stomach.
27:07He stopped in the middle of the sentence.
27:09Then he looked down at the blade buried in him.
27:11Ravena, you're actually dead.
27:15Why?
27:15Vivian threw herself onto him, her face flushing red.
27:19Ravena, what are you doing?
27:21Do you think Salice stole Aurora's place?
27:23Do 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 Salice 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.
27:39Tell your mother the truth.
27:41Your mother protects this kingdom.
27:43How could she give birth to something as vicious as you?
27:46And you're still lying right to our faces.
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