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00:02my husband's mother luna vivian ran away with me she slipped into my room that night undid my stays
00:09and pressed coal coins against my inner thigh her lips grazed my ear we leave tonight keep these on
00:16your body it all started because my husband's father alpha dominic brought home a mother and
00:23daughter the older woman was his mate the younger one the daughter just so happened to be my husband's
00:29mate so that same night vivian crept into my room pack your things we leave tonight
00:38by the next morning the pack house stands hollow my husband's father comes home today he brings
00:46two strangers with him their scents are unfamiliar sharp i stand behind luna vivian eyes lowered my
00:53husband grayson stands across from me but his gaze locks onto the younger girl i'll rip her throat out
01:00i'll not now shut it
01:06she paces and rages beneath my skin her fury so violent i have to clench my fists to keep my
01:11hands from shaking vivian this is siona she is my mate from today forward she will serve as the new
01:19luna of blackmoor pack welcome you must be exhausted from the journey the smile is flawless gracious
01:26warm but i notice her scent gives away nothing not a single fluctuation she is burying her emotions so
01:33deep even a wolf can't sniff them out it's time to let elena go and accept her
01:42something slams into my chest
01:46i won't allow this but i am invisible
01:51alpha dominic wants to replace his luna his son wants to replace his mate right here in the blackmoor
01:58estate how wonderful both the alpha and the future alpha have found their fated mates a true blessing
02:04from the moon goddess this will strengthen the blackmoor bloodline immensely marcus have the kitchen
02:09prepare a feast tonight and open that bottle of chateau margay we've been saving the one from 20
02:15years ago elena don't just stand there go to the vault pull out those jewels and gowns that arrived
02:20last month the cartidia and necklace the dog diasture and let selena and mia each pick a few pieces
02:29i turn toward the vault when i pass grayson he doesn't look at me every atom of his attention
02:35is fixed on mia his scent floods my senses as i walk by pine leather and want raw blazing want
02:41mia's cheeks are flushed pink her lashes trembling her gaze pulling him in like gravity
02:46he wants her she wants him right back so what does that make me nothing apparently and he's nothing
02:53either why won't you leave him i couldn't care less about this pathetic excuse for a mate go find a
03:01real one asterisk sage paces inside me agitated i open the vault's heavy iron door and step inside
03:07my entire value in this pack has been reduced to one thing keeping the pack house running smoothly
03:12and eventually becoming a quiet obedient luna elena stop thinking like that your worth doesn't come from
03:19him walk out of here or better yet go back out there and show them what what happens when they
03:25cross us i move deeper into the vault my fingers trailing over velvet lined jewelry cases and couture
03:32gowns sheathed in garment bags these things are worth more than my birth pack's entire treasury
03:37vivian wants the best i open a case and lift out a cartier necklace dripping with rubies the stones
03:45catch the dim light and throw it back in my eyes like tiny sparks of pain i carry it out
03:49of the
03:49vault the way you carry a piece of hot iron the welcome banquet fills the estate's great hall
03:54every high-ranking member of the pack is there glasses clinking laughter rising but their reactions
04:00aren't uniform vivian glides between them personally filling glasses and passing dishes her smile never
04:06dimming for a single second she looks genuinely happy
04:12i hand the jewelry and gowns off to an omega attendant and slip back to my seat without a word
04:16the steak and roasted vegetables on my plate go untouched selena's husband was a plaque warrior
04:22killed during a rogue siege he was one of my most trusted brothers and mia a young she-wolf with
04:27no one
04:28left in this world having grayson accept her as his mate is the greatest honor blackmore can offer
04:34grayson nods along gazing at mia with something that looks dangerously like tenderness and protectiveness
04:39all tangled together the burn in my chest surges again
04:46my stomach turns inside out
04:50good i can't stand his scent for one more second
04:56later that night i hear footsteps soft ones they stop outside my door my pulse spikes
05:02who's there it's me vivian
05:10i freeze for a second then cross the room and pull the door open
05:14she stands in the corridor moonlight carves her features into something sharp and cold
05:19her eyes glinting like the edge of a blade for a split second i catch a flash of silver deep
05:24in her
05:24pupils her wolf she's stronger than we thought much stronger vivian slips inside and shuts the door
05:31my heart hammers vivian she spins around closes the distance between us in two quick strides and seizes
05:39my wrist her grip is iron shocking and human the kind of strength that doesn't belong to an ordinary she
05:45-wolf
05:46elena pack your things we're leaving tonight
05:51my brain wipes out
05:53leave where would we even go away from here somewhere they don't exist
06:00why because there is no why this pack has been rotten to its core for years today isn't the first
06:06time
06:06and it won't be the last how long are you planning to wait until mia carries his pup
06:12until she gives him an heir
06:13you get shoved into the farthest corner of this estate or worse thrown out of the pack entirely
06:19like a stray nobody wants
06:23she's right and you know it
06:25yeah what exactly am i still hoping for vivian releases my wrist and moves to my vanity
06:31she yanks open the drawers and sweeps everything into a black travel bag she's clearly prepared in
06:36advanced diamond studs pearl necklace platinum bracelet all of it in one clean motion
06:41stop standing there like a statue your asset documents the ones from your birth pack where
06:46are they get them everything valuable everything portable leave nothing behind especially the
06:51property deeds company shares and bank account information
06:58i snap awake cross to the bed in three quick strides and pull a locked document case from the hidden
07:03compartment in my nightstand inside is every financial record i brought from my birth pack
07:09vivian takes the case that apartment building on the south side of town the storefront on main street
07:15good liquid assets easy to convert what about the rest locked in the pack's communal vault
07:23foolish girl why would you keep your own assets in someone else's vault never mind too late for that
07:34she hands me the jewelry stuff travel bag go pack your clothes then grab anything else in this room
07:41that's worth money the silver candlesticks she produces a ring of keys and a stack of plastic cards
07:47viviana are though keys to every vault in this pack house authorization cards for every bank account
07:53passcodes for every asset under the blackmore name
07:58i've managed this pack's finances for 20 years i know where every dollar is a hundred times better than
08:05dominic ever will tonight all of it comes with us they'll they'll track us werewolf senses i have sent blockers
08:18by the time they notice we'll be hundreds of miles away
08:27the people i've spent 20 years cultivating weren't cultivated for nothing dominic thinks leading a pack
08:33and barking orders on the battlefield makes him powerful i'm going to teach him that managing the
08:38finances and the inner workings of a plaque is a hell of a lot harder than howling at the moon
08:43this opens the north wing vault the alliance dividends from his last alpha summit are in there
08:48the safe in the east wing basement holds generations of blackmore family antiques and paintings
08:53she pauses and one corner of her mouth curves upward there's a hidden room
09:01i spent three years building it in secret gold bars cash hard currency take all of it
09:11scared are we vivian watches me i meet vivian's gaze and shake my head
09:19scared when grayson looked at that girl i felt the mate bond burn a hole straight through my chest
09:25let it burn burn it all
09:32good girl remember this a she-wolf can only count on two things
09:37the money in her own hands and another she-wolf in the same hell
09:42alphas they crown themselves kings let them sit on their crumpling thrones
09:47we leave and we live better than any of them ever did
09:51those two betas you brought with you can you trust them
09:53rain and grace we grew up together in my birth pack
09:56they're the only people i trust completely
09:58get them in here they need to know what's happening tonight
10:02if we pull this off they come with us free for good
10:06if we don't dominic throws every last one of us into the dungeons
10:10or worse
10:12let them choose for themselves
10:16i'm gonna empty this pack house
10:18then i'm gonna run
10:20will you come with me
10:21not a heartbeat of hesitation
10:24in perfect unison
10:25they tilt their heads
10:26bearing the sides of their necks in the wolf's oath of loyalty
10:33we go where you go elena
10:34good
10:35move fast we have two hours
10:39the night presses in
10:41thick and dark
10:42the entire pack house is sunk in post-banquet stupor
10:45the ghosts of whiskey and red wine still linger in the hallways
10:48seeping from under closed doors
10:50the four of us me
10:51vivian rain and grace
10:53become shadows
10:56we move through that sleeping house like thieves in our own home
10:59because that's exactly what we are
11:01carrying
11:02loading
11:02stripping the place room by room
11:05two hours later
11:06vivian and grace return from their final run
11:08behind them come two more shoewolves
11:10silent
11:11broad-shouldered
11:12vivian's people
11:13cultivated in secret over the years
11:15each one hauls a pair of heavy luggage cases like they weigh nothing
11:18done
11:20thomas has the vehicles waiting on the old back road
11:23two suvs and a cargo van
11:25the other pack members loyal to me have each received 50,000 in severance
11:29they've already scattered
11:31by sunrise this estate will be a hollow shell
11:34i stare at her
11:34and something close to us swells in my chest
11:37this woman who has played the role of gossel luna for 20 years inside these walls
11:41how many secrets has she buried
11:43how many moves has she been calculating while the rest of us saw nothing but a polite smile
11:49let's go
11:49vivian pulls a spray bottle from her coat pocket and miss each of us quick
11:53efficient passes
11:54a bitter herbal smell blooms in the air
11:57scent foster
11:58it'll mask our trail for at least 12 hours
12:00then the six of us pick up our bags and slip through the dark corridors
12:03silent as breath
12:04toward the back door of the estate
12:10the old service road behind the estate is pitch black
12:13thomas stands beside three vehicles two black suvs and a dark cargo van
12:17the van is already packed to the ceiling with boxes and duffel bags
12:20he steps forward when he sees us
12:23his voice barely above a whisper
12:25luna elena everything's ready
12:28vivian nods and hands him a heavy backpack
12:33thomas thank you for everything all these years
12:37don't
12:40after everything you've done for me and my family i'd fight for you
12:43i'd die for you you know that
12:45we pile into the middle suv
12:47vivian and i take the back seat
12:50rain and grace squeeze into the third row
12:52the interior smells of leather cold metal and road dust
12:56vivian lowers her window a few inches and speaks to thomas
12:59her words quick and clipped take the southern route
13:03drive the van to savannah there's a contact waiting for you
13:07once you've offloaded everything take your family and leave the country
13:11don't come back
13:12new passports and ids are in the glove compartment on the passenger side
13:17thank you luna
13:19you take care of yourselves
13:21up front the driver another of vivian's people turns the ignition
13:25the suv rolls forward without a sound sliding into the darkness
13:30i twist around to look through the rear window
13:32the silhouette of the pack house shrinks in the moonlight
13:35that gothic stone manor that has held three years of my life
13:38and everything i once believed would be my forever
13:39now it's just a shape getting smaller
13:42i turn back
13:43my palms are freezing
13:45vivian's hand finds mine and closes around it
13:48don't look back
13:49our new life starts now
13:51i nod and lean my head against her shoulder
13:55deep inside the black mure pack house
13:57a raging thirst drags dominic out of his drunken sleep
14:03vivian
14:05vivian
14:06he reaches through the mind link for vivian nothing
14:09dread hits him like a fist to the sternum
14:13he bolts out of bed barefoot and sprints down the corridor to the luna's quarters
14:17the door is wide open vanity cleared walk-in closet stripped bare
14:22he inhales hard trying to catch a scent trail
14:25but all that remains is a bitter unfamiliar smell
14:28herbal chemical wrong silence
14:32vivian
14:32he tears through the house to the east wing elena's room
14:36same thing
14:37empty
14:38cold
14:39the bed is made
14:40the closet gutted
14:41the nightstand drawers pulled out and left hanging
14:44panic claws up his throat
14:46he takes the stairs three at a time
14:48racing for the underground vault
14:49the keypad rock has been accessed
14:51the vault door hangs open
14:53cash
14:54gold bars
14:55antiques
14:57property deeds
14:58bank authorization cards
15:00every last thing that generations of black murs accumulated
15:03gone
15:04only now standing in this hollow ransacked room
15:07does it finally hit him
15:08that woman
15:09that quiet
15:11obedient luna who smiled and served for 20 years
15:14and his son's silent little wife never raised her voice
15:17they have taken everything
15:19every last scent of the black murpac's wealth
15:21and they have vanished
15:25a howl rips out of his throat
15:28savage
15:28loud enough to crack the pre-dawn silence for miles
15:31his eyes blaze crimson
15:33his nails split through skin
15:34lengthening into claws that gouge the steel doorframe
15:37she's dead
15:38they're both dead
15:40none of us sleep that night
15:41the suv hurtles down back roads for hours
15:44and by the time the sky begins to lighten
15:45thin gray line along the eastern horizon
15:48we pull into a derelict gas station in the middle of nowhere
15:50parked beside the rusted pumps is an unremarkable gray van
15:53a wiry man in a baseball cap leans against it
15:56an unlit cigarette tucked between his fingers
15:58we climb out of the suv and
16:00with the two shoewolves helping
16:03begin transferring everything from the suv's trunk into the van
16:08i have to compact safe that weighs a ton
16:10my arms scream
16:14by the time the first real light touches the sky
16:16the transfer is complete
16:18the two shoewolves approach vivian
16:20no words
16:21they just pull her into a tight embrace
16:23hold on for a long moment
16:25then let go
16:25without a sound
16:26they get back into the now empty suv
16:28and drive off in the opposite direction
16:30each heading toward her own extraction point
16:35vivian hands the original driver a thick envelope
16:40the man in the baseball cap takes the wheel
16:42and steers us onto a back road with no street lights
16:44heading south
16:46vivian where are we going
16:48ashford
16:49a small town deep in the blue ridge mountains
16:52i bought a house there years ago
16:54with private funds for my birth pack
16:57registered under a false name
16:59no one knows it exists
17:01elena i was sent to blackmore pack
17:03when i was about your age
17:04my mating was a bargaining chip
17:06my father traded me for blackmore's alliance
17:09your mating was your birth pack's attempt
17:11to climb the social ladder
17:12by tying themselves to alpha blood
17:14we're the same you and i
17:16i endured it for 20 years
17:18watched him bring home one she-wolf after another
17:23raised pups he fathered with other women
17:25as if they were my own
17:27stood by while he drained my personal assets
17:29to cover pack debts he'd created
17:31i told myself just hold on
17:33wait until grayson grows up
17:35finds his mate
17:36takes over as alpha
17:37then i'll have survived it
17:39but i didn't expect grayson to turn out exactly like his father
17:42the way he looked at mia i recognized it instantly
17:46that was the same look dominic gave his first mistress 20 years ago
17:50this pack is beyond saving
17:52if you keep enduring your today becomes my yesterday
17:56and my today becomes your tomorrow
17:58i refuse to accept this
18:00why should she-wilves always be the ones to endure
18:03why do alphas get to do whatever they want
18:05if they won't give us a way out
18:07we'll carve one through bone and blood
18:11i look at the silver threads in vivian's hair
18:14and everything clicks into place
18:16this isn't impulse
18:17this isn't panic
18:19she has spent half a lifetime swallowing her rage
18:21and she's bet every ounce of it on this one final play for freedom
18:26viviana
18:27i'm with you
18:28wherever you go
18:29she smiles
18:30a real one
18:33from now on don't call me luna
18:34and don't call me mother-in-law
18:36i have my own name
18:38viviana
18:38you can call me viv
18:41my nose stings
18:42i nod
18:44viv
18:47this is our foundation
18:48it took me years to quietly convert blackmore's tangible assets into these
18:52a dozen property deeds and commercial real estate certificates scattered across the country
18:57two of them in canada
18:58what we have is this
19:02digital assets and offshore accounts all registered under shell companies
19:06legally there's no connection to blackmore pack whatsoever
19:09once we reach ashford and switch to our new identities no one will find us
19:12she slides out one more sheet and hands it to me
19:15a formally printed document
19:16the header
19:18bold and unmistakable
19:19mate rejection declaration
19:23not alpha dominic rejecting her
19:25her
19:26rejecting him
19:27what follows makes my blood run cold
19:29she's listed dominic's offenses one by one
19:3220 years worth
19:34violation of the mate bond
19:36countless affairs with other shoewolves
19:38embezzlement of pack funds
19:40bribery at alliance summits
19:42collusion with rogue factions for illegal treatment
19:45trade
19:45any single one of them is enough for the werewolf council to strip him of his alpha title permanently
19:50i've had a hundred copies made and distributed to different people in different locations
19:54if we're left in peace none of them will ever reach the council's desk
19:58but if dominic sends anyone after us then blackmore pack can wait for the council to order its dissolution
20:05she's a strategist
20:08a general
20:10now we sever our ties to blackmore pack
20:13once we take this step
20:15there's no going back
20:16are you ready
20:19more than ready
20:20more than ready viv
20:47i keep twisting around to check the rear window
20:50scanning for headlights tailing us
20:52vivian though
20:53vivian could be sitting in a first class lounge
20:55she spends most of the ride leaned back with her eyes closed
20:58when she does open them
20:59she uses the time to teach me things she's kept hidden for decades
21:02how to identify useful herbs growing along the roadside
21:05how to mix a field expedient scent blocker
21:07how to navigate by landmarks and find water in the wild
21:10on the morning of the fourth day
21:12interstates coming up ahead
21:14too many cameras on the highway
21:16not our kind of road
21:18vivian nods and hands him a thick envelope
21:21pull over at that abandoned rest area up ahead
21:23we'll switch vehicles
21:25thank you for everything
21:26says nothing more
21:27and does as she asks
21:29we unloaded a rest stop that looks like it's been abandoned for years
21:32cracked concrete
21:35nothing but blind forest stretching in every direction
21:38just the four of us and a pile of luggage in an empty parking lot
21:41viv what now
21:44wait
21:45about an hour passes
21:47an engine growls in the distance
21:49a battered black pickup truck emerges from a narrow forest track
21:52a lean man in a worn leather jacket climbs out and walks straight to vivian
21:57mrs v
21:58vehicle's ready
21:59just like you asked
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