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Fatal 72 Hours Begging the Alpha Queen's Return - (2026) ✅ FULL EP
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00:00I was the first female alpha in the history of the Silver Moon pack to earn the ultimate mark of
00:04honor.
00:05For 15 years, I bled for my people, yet my mate called me cold.
00:10My pack called me a tyrant.
00:12Even my own parents and my little girl claimed they loved my adopted Omega sister Leah more than me.
00:17So, with only three days left to live, I made a choice.
00:20I would give them everything they ever wanted.
00:23I would hand over my entire life to the perfect woman they all adored.
00:26So why, after learning the truth, did they come back in tears and asking for another chance?
00:32I forced my broken body to stay upright, my eyes fixed on the pack territory beyond.
00:38Beneath my shirt, jagged, blackened veins crawled up my chest.
00:42The silver poison was inching closer to my heart.
00:46It was a parting gift from the rogue ambush on our borders.
00:49The High Priestess had made it painfully clear.
00:52Without the Moon Goddess's purication ritual, I had 78 hours left.
00:55Three days, at most.
00:58But when I dragged my bleeding, battered body to the High Priestess,
01:01I found my entire pack gathered around my adopted sister.
01:05They were fretting over a tiny, superficial silver scratch on her arm.
01:09Footsteps approached from behind.
01:10It was Cain.
01:11Are you alright?
01:12He wore that familiar look of impatient obligation.
01:15I'm fine.
01:17Elder Lawble said you urgently need the purification ritual, but...
01:20But Leah needs it more.
01:22Right?
01:23You have to understand, Alice.
01:26Leah's barely hanging on.
01:27She's an Omega.
01:29You...
01:29You look fine.
01:31Leah.
01:32The stray I had begged my parents to adopt when I was 12.
01:35She was an Omega.
01:36Sweet, fragile, and desperate for protection.
01:38I had loved her like my own flesh and blood, never imagining she would strip me of everything I held
01:42dear.
01:43Of course I looked fine.
01:45No one knew that I was using every ounce of my Alpha Aura to suppress the rotting agony inside me,
01:51just so they wouldn't worry.
01:53I understand.
01:55Since the pack has already voted, let her have the ritual.
01:59I knew you'd see reason.
02:01You've changed lately.
02:02You're not fighting everything the way you used to.
02:04Stubborn, overbearing, I scoffed inwardly.
02:07Ever since Leah arrived, every sacrifice I made for the pack was twisted into Alpha Arrogance and suppressing Omega Females.
02:15That night, I dragged my failing body back to our pack house.
02:20Mother!
02:23Oh, Alice!
02:25You're back.
02:28Leah was lounging in my favorite armchair, draped in the silver fox plote I had gifted her, smiling like she
02:34owned the place.
02:35Ignoring the agonizing stabs in my chest, I walked into my private study and brought out an ancient carved wooden
02:42box.
02:43Leah, this is my grandmother's moon goddess amulet.
02:46I'm giving it to you.
02:48What?
02:49Sister!
02:50Mother! That's your most prized sacred relic!
02:53She was right.
02:54It was the heirloom of the silver moon bloodline.
02:58It's been passed down in my family for generations, but none of that mattered to me anymore.
03:03I'm also transferring my shares of Mother's moonstone mines to you.
03:06They're yours, effective immediately.
03:09Sister!
03:10What are you talking about?
03:12Consider it an early mating gift.
03:15Shock flashed through Leah's eyes, but she quickly masked it with her usual innocent, clueless expression.
03:22I know everything.
03:23It's fine.
03:24You have my blessing.
03:26Cain walked into the room at that exact moment.
03:28He froze, looking tense when he saw us standing so close.
03:32What are you two talking about?
03:34Alice is giving me the moon goddess amulet and her mind shares?
03:38Leah's eyes gleamed with cunning before filling with practiced tears.
03:43She's being far too generous.
03:45Alice, you...
03:45I'm exhausted.
03:47I'm going to bed.
03:51Ella, be a good girl and listen to Aunt Leah.
03:54Okay.
03:56Mama Leah, let's play another game.
03:59Mama Leah.
04:00The words felt like a silver blade plunging straight into my heart.
04:04I retreated to my bedroom and shut the door.
04:07Leaning against the wall, my legs finally gave out, and I collapsed to the floor.
04:11The silver poison was feasting on my life.
04:13Surrendering the purification ritual meant accelerating my own rotting death.
04:17Slowly, I began to pack up my things.
04:19My rare pelts, bone adornments, the raw moonstones.
04:23Soon, they would all belong to Leah.
04:24Two days left.
04:26I stared at the ghostly pale face reflecting in my mirror.
04:30Alice, if this is the end, then let them remember you as a perfect alpha.
04:36When I stepped out of my room, Ella's laughter drifted in from the yard.
04:41She was curled up in Leah's lap.
04:43The two of them watching the moon marg glow in the early light.
04:47Mama Leah, it's so pretty!
04:51It is.
04:53Almost as pretty as our Ella.
05:01When Ella saw me, her heartbeat skimmed over me for a heartbeat before she looked away again,
05:05turning back to the moss as if I were nothing but a stranger passing through.
05:11Good morning, Ella.
05:14Good morning.
05:15Mama Leah, can we go to the creek and look for silver-scale fish?
05:18Just a second, baby.
05:22Your mother might want to say something to you.
05:25I don't want to listen.
05:26Mother's always busy.
05:28She never plays with me.
05:31Something lodged hard in my throat.
05:34She wasn't wrong.
05:35For years, I had given everything to the pack.
05:38I had given her too little.
05:40Leah, on the other hand, always had time for her.
05:44It's okay.
05:45Go enjoy yourselves.
05:50I watched them run off hand in hand.
05:53The only thing that kept me upright was the tree beside me.
05:57Not just because agony was ripping through my body.
06:01Because what was happening to my heart hurt even more.
06:04In the center of the territory,
06:06Cain was speaking in low voices with several pack members.
06:10The second they saw me coming, they broke apart and scattered.
06:14Cain glanced up at me.
06:16Without changing expression.
06:18You look awful.
06:19If you don't feel well, go lie down.
06:23I'm fine.
06:24I need to talk to you.
06:31About what?
06:32I slid the prepared contract across the table.
06:35I want to make some changes.
06:38Cain took one look at it.
06:40Alice, you're stepping down as Alpha?
06:42Yes.
06:44If something happens to me,
06:45I want Leah to inherit the position.
06:48What?
06:49If something happens to me,
06:51I want Leah to inherit the position.
06:54What?
06:54Cain's voice shook.
06:56His eyes dropped to the contract,
06:58then snapped back to me.
07:00You're giving her your grandmother's moon goddess amulet too?
07:02And your shares in the moonstone mine your mother left you?
07:05Alice, those are family holdings.
07:07They've been passed down for generations.
07:09She suits them better than I do.
07:11Call it my gift for your union.
07:14The air between us turned ice cold.
07:18Cain studied me carefully.
07:21Alice, what exactly are you trying to do?
07:24Nothing.
07:25I'm just tired.
07:26I want to move on.
07:27You knew?
07:29My parents can't even look me in the eye.
07:30The pack's been acting strange around me.
07:32You and Leah reek of each other,
07:33and my daughter calls her mama Leah.
07:35A bitter smile tugged at my lips.
07:37Cain, did you really think I didn't know?
07:41I don't blame either of you.
07:43This is on me too.
07:45I'm too controlling.
07:47Too hard.
07:48Too much of an alpha for anyone's comfort.
07:50Leah is soft.
07:52Gentle.
07:53Easy to love.
07:54She never pushes back.
07:56She fits you better.
07:57And this pack too.
07:59Alice.
08:00This afternoon, I'll go to Elder Laurel.
08:03I'll sever our mate bond and formally hand the succession to Leah.
08:07She'll be this pack's next leader.
08:09Have you lost your mind?
08:11Do you have any idea what you're throwing away?
08:13You spent 15 years fighting for it.
08:17I haven't lost my mind.
08:21Maybe this way everyone gets what they want.
08:24That afternoon, the council convened.
08:27The news spread like wildfire.
08:30Alpha Alice had formally severed her bond with Beta Cain.
08:33She'd then presented her Omega sister to the pack's Elder Council,
08:37and renounced her claim as Alpha.
08:39Alice, you can't be serious.
08:41I am.
08:42I pressed my ceremonial seal into the great Alpha Stone.
08:45My mark sank into the ancient granite,
08:48taking its place among the lineage of Silver Moon leaders.
08:50From this day forward,
08:54Leah's word on pack matters is law.
08:57A tremor of triumph ran through Leah,
08:59but she masked it beautifully,
09:01lowering her head in a show of perfect humility.
09:07Sister, I don't know what to say.
09:14You don't have to say anything.
09:16Just lead them well.
09:18It wasn't until we were on the path back to the pack house
09:21that she finally dropped the act.
09:24Alice,
09:25why are you really doing this?
09:28Because this is what you wanted, isn't it?
09:30My pack,
09:31my parents,
09:32my mate,
09:33even my own daughter.
09:35Leah, you've won.
09:36Sister, I just need one thing from you.
09:38Whatever this is between us,
09:40keep it away from Ella.
09:41She's just a child.
09:42Of course.
09:44You don't need to worry about her.
09:46I nodded once and said no more.
09:50I could have showed them the proof.
09:53I could have let the whole pack the snake she truly was.
09:56But if Leah was exiled or executed,
10:00Ella would lose two mothers in a single day.
10:03I would rather let her grow up loved by a lie
10:06than raised in the ruins of hatred and betrayal.
10:10That evening,
10:11I was packing up the last of my belongings
10:13when Elder Laurel entered my room.
10:15She was the old wolf who had watched me grow up.
10:18The only one who knew the entire truth.
10:20My child.
10:24Please burn them.
10:25Inside, the proof was undeniable.
10:27Leah's secret pact with the rogues.
10:29The plans for the silver attack
10:31that almost destroyed us.
10:32The faked prophecies she'd blasphemously claimed
10:34were from the moon goddess.
10:36And the letters,
10:36the ones that proved everything between her and Cain.
10:39But child, with this we could...
10:42Ella still needs a mother.
10:48Even if that mother isn't me.
10:51On the morning of my last day,
10:53I could barely move.
10:55The poison had seeped from my heart into every cell.
10:59A thousand tiny ants chewing away at me with every breath.
11:05I stared at my reflection in the mirror.
11:09Pale, gaunt.
11:11The sharp, fiery light in my eyes had burned out,
11:15leaving nothing but dull embers.
11:18Twenty-four hours left.
11:21Today was the day of Cain and Leah's mating ceremony.
11:25Leah was there, directing the other wolves.
11:28Alice.
11:29I turned.
11:30In my mother's hands was the moonstone crown,
11:33the ancestral relic meant to be passed down to me.
11:35I'm so proud of you, Alice.
11:37We are relieved, Alice.
11:38For years, you've led with force first and everything else second.
11:41Yeah.
11:41Leah brings calm where you bring pressure.
11:43Stepping aside may be this truly selfless thing you've done for this path.
11:45I turned and walked away before they could say another word.
11:49The ceremony began as the full moon rose,
11:51with the entire pack gathered around it.
11:53The alpha showing up at the mating ceremony of her former mate
11:56and the one he had chosen instead.
11:58You actually came.
11:59I said I would.
12:00Congratulations to both of you.
12:02Alice.
12:06Sister, thank you for coming.
12:08Thank you all for coming tonight to witness my mating ceremony with Leah.
12:11And most of all, I want to thank Alice for making this union possible
12:14and for her blessing.
12:16I also want to thank my sister, Alice.
12:19She gave me everything.
12:20A family, her kindness, and now, her mate.
12:23I'm the luckiest she-wolf alive.
12:25I watched them cling to each other at the altar
12:28and felt absolutely nothing but cold.
12:31Mother.
12:33Mama Leah sent me to tell you.
12:35It's time to exchange the mating tokens.
12:38Thank you for telling me.
12:39Mama Leah wants you to stay in the back.
12:41She said you'll ruin her special day.
12:47I want to tell you.
12:49I don't want to hear it!
12:50You ruin everything!
12:51Mama Leah gets sad because of you!
12:53I hate you!
12:54Mama, Mama Leah!
12:57Look at her.
12:58Even her own pups can't stand to breathe her air.
13:00Don't blame the kid.
13:01Alice brings the ice.
13:02Leah actually mothers her.
13:04I hate you.
13:05My flesh and blood.
13:06The pup I had carried for months.
13:08The pup I had nearly died to bring into this world.
13:11And she hated me.
13:12I stood in the middle of my own pack.
13:14Nothing but a ghost crashing a party.
13:16My mate.
13:17My daughter.
13:18My pack.
13:18They all belong to Leah now.
13:20I was the one who didn't belong.
13:22The moon goddess herself must be weeping at such a beautiful bond.
13:25Look how much Ella and the pack adore Leah.
13:27Your mother is right.
13:28The pack isn't blind, Alice.
13:29They chose Leah because she is simply better suited.
13:32In their eyes, I had never been right.
13:34I never would be.
13:36When the ceremony ended, I walked away.
13:40No one noticed.
13:41They were all too busy farnding over the happy couple.
13:44Back at my room, Elder Laurel was waiting for me.
13:49Do me a favor.
13:50Anything, Alpha.
13:52There are recordings in here.
13:55Tomorrow, when the moon rises, play it for the entire pack.
13:59Is this...
14:00My last words.
14:02The pack deserves to hear them.
14:04This one is for my parents, and this one is for Ella.
14:08Give it to her when she comes of age.
14:11Child.
14:13One last thing.
14:14This is the true Alpha Cygnet.
14:16The real symbol of our bloodline.
14:18Keep it safe for Ella.
14:19Tell her.
14:19Tell her mummy will always love her.
14:21With everything arranged, I slumped back in my chair.
14:23I had nothing left to give.
14:25In the distance, the pack howled into the night.
14:28Blessing Cain and Leah's union.
14:29When the sun rose, everything would shatter.
14:32Didnight my pack.
14:33I hope you remember for the rest of your lives
14:35that I loved you all more than I should have.
14:37As the moon slipped below the horizon,
14:40Alice's heart beat its last.
14:42Elder Label sank to her knees.
14:43With Alice's tears streaming down her face,
14:45she pressed a gentle kiss to Alice's cooling hand.
14:48At dawn, Elder Laurel stood alone at the altar.
14:51To the altar.
14:52Now.
14:52The Elder's voice echoed through the pack link,
14:56jarring every woof from their sleep.
14:59What is it, Elder?
15:00It's barely sunrise.
15:01Alpha Alice is dead.
15:04Impossible.
15:04She was at the ceremony last night.
15:05The silver poison claimed her.
15:07Our alpha died hours ago.
15:08What?
15:09This is no time for jokes.
15:10She was perfectly fine.
15:11Cain.
15:12She has been gone for hours.
15:14No.
15:15This has to be another one of her moves.
15:17Leah warned me she was faking her illness lately.
15:20Faking it.
15:21Then perhaps you should see this.
15:25Silverleaf.
15:26A fatal dose.
15:27She's been taking this amount daily for the last three days.
15:31What?
15:31Just so none of you would see her suffer.
15:34She...
15:34Three days ago, the High Priestess told her she had three days to live.
15:39The only chance of a purification ritual that could help
15:43was the one you gave to Leah.
15:48At that same moment, deep within the pack's territory,
15:51the Elder's voice broke into Alice's parents' minds.
15:55What?
15:57Alice surrendered her claim to the Moonstone Mines?
15:59Laurel, are you certain?
16:01Those are the richest mines in our territory.
16:03She signed the contract herself.
16:05Just before the ceremony, she transferred all rights to Leah.
16:12Impossible.
16:13Alice loved her sister, but she would never give away her birthright.
16:17It's not just the mines.
16:18She abdicated her alpha title.
16:20She even returned the Moon Goddess amulet you gifted her.
16:24What?
16:25It is done.
16:26A legal contract.
16:28Sealed by a blood oath.
16:30What in the goddess name was that child thinking?
16:34She seemed so calm last night.
16:37This is wrong.
16:38Alice would never be this impulsive.
16:41Why give everything to Leah?
16:43It's not like her.
16:45Do you think...
16:46seeing Cain and Leah mated...
16:48maybe it pushed her over the edge?
16:51Find her.
16:52I tried.
16:53The house is empty.
16:54She left alone after the ceremony.
16:56I was going to talk to her today.
16:58Tell her not to be too heartbroken.
17:00You have the gall to say that now?
17:02You were always praising Leah.
17:04Always calling Alice too aggressive, too strong.
17:07Well, here you are.
17:08Alice gave her everything.
17:09Are you satisfied now?
17:11How was I supposed to know she'd do this?
17:14I felt sorry for Leah, but Alice is my daughter.
17:17My own flesh and blood.
17:21What good is saying that now?
17:22We have to find her.
17:24They began a frantic search.
17:26They checked the border patrols,
17:28the council chambers,
17:29Alice's favorite sacred tree.
17:31The answer was the same everywhere.
17:35Goodbye.
17:36Don't say such things.
17:37It's the truth.
17:38She came by two days ago,
17:40marked every single weak point in our defenses and on the map.
17:43She gave specific instructions,
17:44and she said she was going to the moon goddess.
17:49Alice.
17:50No.
17:50Alice, no.
17:51She gave everything to Leah.
17:53Could it be?
17:54Don't be ridiculous.
17:56Let's go to Cain's.
17:57She was just there last night, maybe.
17:59Cain rushed to Alice's room.
18:00The moment his fingers brushed against her ice-cold skin,
18:03he recoiled as if burned.
18:05I didn't know.
18:06Why didn't she say anything?
18:07And if she had,
18:08would you have given the chance of a purification ritual back?
18:12If I had known, I would have...
18:14Enough.
18:15She's dead.
18:16What's the point of this now?
18:19She chose silence.
18:21She always did.
18:22She was sick and still said nothing.
18:24Cain.
18:25The Alpha is gone,
18:27and still you speak of her that way?
18:28It's just reality.
18:30She always had to be the strong one,
18:31always fighting,
18:32always in control.
18:33This is the price she paid.
18:35Leah, don't blame yourself.
18:36This has nothing to do with you.
18:39I don't want to hear it.
18:40Alice made her own choice.
18:42No one else is to blame.
18:43We need to arrange the funeral.
18:46Have her parents been notified?
18:47The Alpha's last wish was not to tell them.
18:49What?
18:50She said they looked happy last night.
18:52She didn't want to ruin their mood.
18:55Cain was silent for a moment.
18:56Fine.
18:57We'll tell them later.
18:59Leah, go get some rest.
19:01I'll handle this.
19:02Cain, I'm so scared.
19:07I'm here.
19:08I've got you.
19:12Cain, over the last three days,
19:15the Alpha signed over all her assets to Leah.
19:17Her Alpha title,
19:18the Moonstone Mines,
19:20the Moon Goddess Amulet,
19:22everything.
19:23Good.
19:24That saves us a lot of trouble.
19:26I will see to the funeral arrangements.
19:32As no one wept for the Alpha,
19:34this was her final, tragic truth.
19:37On the path,
19:38Alice's mother reached for her daughter
19:40through the pack link.
19:41She was met with a wall of absolute silence.
19:44Still nothing.
19:45Alice would never ignore me.
19:46Stay calm.
19:50I'll link Cain.
19:51The reply came almost instantly.
19:54Charles?
19:55Cain, is Alice with you?
19:58We can't feel her.
20:00The Elder said she signed everything to Leah.
20:02We're worried she might have...
20:04A few seconds of static.
20:06Where are you now?
20:08On our way to your place.
20:10Cain, is she there?
20:12Is she alright?
20:13You should just come quickly.
20:16What happened?
20:17Did something happen to Alice?
20:19Answer me!
20:20You'll see when you get here.
20:22Just come.
20:23Move!
20:24Something's wrong!
20:25My daughter!
20:2630 minutes later,
20:27they skidded to a halt before Cain's place.
20:30No.
20:31It can't be.
20:33They stumbled inside.
20:34In the main hall,
20:35Leah sat in a chair,
20:37her eyes red and swollen.
20:38Cain stood by the window,
20:40his back to them.
20:41Alice?
20:42Where is my daughter?
20:46Charles.
20:46Linda.
20:48Where is she?
20:49Tell us.
20:50In here.
20:51Please accept my condolences.
20:54Condolences?
20:55What do you mean condolences?
20:58The door to the bedroom was open.
21:01Alice was lying peacefully on the bed.
21:03No!
21:05Alice!
21:06My baby!
21:07Wake up!
21:07Mom's here!
21:09Alice.
21:10How?
21:11You were fine last night?
21:14I was wrong.
21:15Everything I said,
21:16I was wrong.
21:17Please wake up and I'll make it right.
21:19I swear it.
21:19What happened?
21:20How could she just...
21:21It was the silver poison
21:22from the rogue attack.
21:23She passed this morning.
21:25Silver poison?
21:25Three days ago,
21:26the high priestess told her
21:27she had 72 hours to live
21:28without the purification ritual.
21:30But the chance
21:31was given to Leah.
21:33It wasn't like that.
21:33I was...
21:34I really was.
21:34I was so sick.
21:35These are the alpha's last words.
21:38Elder Laurel cut her off,
21:39holding out two sealed letters.
21:40The only sounds left
21:41were the rustle of parchment
21:43and the shattering of hearts.
21:44Cain's hands trembled as he read.
21:46The letter detailed everything.
21:49Devastating choices.
21:50The lonely thoughts
21:51that filled her last three days.
21:53My poor brave daughter.
21:54Elder Laurel stepped forward,
21:56holding a memory crystal.
21:58She infused it with moonlight,
21:59Cain, pack members,
22:00all of them,
22:01giving the last purification chance
22:03to Leah without a moment's hesitation.
22:05Then, another memory played.
22:07The plan is working perfectly.
22:08Alice is almost dead.
22:10Soon this pathetic pack will be ours.
22:11I've played the weak, helpless sister
22:12for so long.
22:13It's almost boring.
22:14These fools would believe anything I say.
22:15No, it's fake!
22:16It's all forged!
22:17No one moved.
22:18No one listened.
22:19She activated a communication stone.
22:20Their voices, Leah's and Darian's,
22:22filled the hall.
22:23Every recorded word,
22:23a confession of treason.
22:25Then came the medical reports
22:26from the high priestess.
22:27Forged documents detailing
22:28Leah's fake silver poisoning,
22:30followed by secret letters
22:31written in Leah's own hand,
22:33plotting every step of the betrayal
22:34and the final blow,
22:35transaction logs,
22:36proof that pack silver
22:37had been paid
22:38to the very rogues
22:39who murdered Alice.
22:40The truth crashed down on
22:41an avalanche of deceit.
22:43You, you killed her.
22:45KILLED HER!
22:45Daddy?
22:46A small voice
22:47made everyone freeze.
22:49What's happening?
22:50Why are you on the floor?
22:51No one answered her.
22:52Where's Mother?
22:53Where did she go this time?
22:55Ella.
22:55She's not here again?
22:57Mama Leah,
22:57can we go play by the creek?
22:58Little one,
22:59your mother,
23:00she's gone to be
23:01with the moon goddess.
23:01Oh, when is she coming back?
23:03She, she isn't sweetie.
23:05I was always mean
23:05to Mama Leah anyway.
23:06Ella.
23:07Mama Leah,
23:07can we go now?
23:08But Leah was already
23:08being hauled to her feet
23:09by the pack guards.
23:10Mommy Leah?
23:11Where are you?
23:12Don't go!
23:13Mama Leah!
23:14She completely ignored
23:15the mother who would
23:15never wake again.
23:16Why are they taking her?
23:17Did Mother do this?
23:18She always wants Mama Leith gone.
23:20No, Ella,
23:20that's not it.
23:20Yes it is!
23:21I hate her!
23:22I hate Mother!
23:22Even now,
23:23with Alice gone from this world,
23:25these were the words
23:26her own daughter screamed.
23:28Alice had known
23:29this would happen.
23:30With her own life,
23:32she had carved
23:33an eternal wound
23:34into all of them
23:34and the most tragic
23:36part of it all.
23:37Her five-year-old daughter
23:38was screaming
23:39for her betrayer
23:40with no idea
23:41she had just lost
23:42a mother who loved
23:42her more than life itself.
23:44With Leah gone,
23:46the silence
23:47in the silver moon pack
23:48was a physical weight
23:49suffocating.
23:51Cain.
23:52The death tenders
23:54are here.
23:55No!
23:55Don't take her!
23:56But he knew
23:57it was useless.
23:58Alice was gone.
23:59Outside,
23:59every document
24:00was another twist
24:01of the knife
24:01in their hearts.
24:02Just ate.
24:03Her finger trembling
24:04on a healer's log.
24:05It was for Alice's birthday.
24:06She told her
24:06she was wounded in a...
24:07We never thought
24:08to ask again.
24:09That was the day
24:09Leah claimed
24:10a sudden illness.
24:11You were both
24:11attending to her.
24:12The Alpha
24:13didn't want to burden you.
24:15What have we got us?
24:17What have we done?
24:20Alice changed her will
24:21three days.
24:22If Leah was ever
24:22found guilty
24:23over the will
24:24would be voided.
24:25All assets would be
24:25automatically transferred
24:26to the pack's
24:27orphaned pup fund.
24:28Cain stared,
24:29the gears turning
24:29in his shattered mind.
24:31For pups who have
24:31lost their parents,
24:32Leah would get nothing.
24:33She had known.
24:34Alice had foreseen
24:35all of it.
24:35She had used her own death
24:36to spring one final,
24:38inescapable trap.
24:39There is also this,
24:40for Ella,
24:41to be opened
24:41when she comes of age,
24:42and a trust
24:43tied to the moonstone mine
24:44that she cannot access
24:46until then.
24:46Mama Leah!
24:47I want my mama Leah!
24:48The five-year-old pup
24:50was still grieving
24:51for her mother's betrayer.
24:52The truth spread
24:53through the pack link
24:54like a sickness.
24:55The official report
24:55from the Silver Moonpacks
24:57investigators confirmed
24:58their worst fears.
24:59Alice had willingly ingested
25:00an overdose of silver leaf.
25:02It wasn't a tragedy,
25:03it was a weapon,
25:03a calculated final act
25:05of revenge.
25:05She hadn't just
25:06colluded with rogues,
25:07she had secretly recorded
25:08her family's every unfair
25:09accusation against Alice.
25:11A venomous snake in our midst.
25:12She's been planning this
25:13since she was a pup.
25:13The funeral was held
25:14three days later.
25:15Delegations from every
25:16allies' pack arrived
25:17to pay their respects.
25:18They didn't just mourn an alpha,
25:19they mourned the leader
25:20who had held their borders
25:21for 15 years.
25:22The wolf who walked
25:23into her own death
25:23with her head held hard.
25:25Cain stood before her remains
25:26in a black cloak.
25:27When is Mama Leah coming back?
25:29Ella, this is for your mom.
25:31She's...
25:32I know, but I want Mama Leah!
25:33A ripple of shared pain
25:35and pity moved through the crowd.
25:36The child, Leah's poison
25:38had creeped deep into her heart.
25:39My daughter!
25:40I was young!
25:41I'm so sorry!
25:43I'm so sorry, baby!
25:44No amount of tears
25:45could pull back
25:46a soul already given to her.
25:47After the ceremony,
25:48Elder Laurel
25:49ended Alice's last wish.
25:50Her ashes were low to rest
25:51on a hero that faced
25:52the city moon.
25:53Her gravestone was simple,
25:55hatched with only
25:55a few powerful words.
25:57A month passed.
25:58Every morning,
25:59Cain made the pilgrimage
26:00to Alice's grave.
26:01Daddy,
26:01why do we always
26:02have to come here?
26:04Because the person
26:05who loved you most
26:05is resting here.
26:06But she never played with me.
26:08Mama Leah said
26:09the people who really love you
26:10always stay with you.
26:12The words were a fresh wound.
26:13How could he explain
26:14to a five-year-old
26:14that the wolf who stayed
26:15was a monster?
26:16Leah's sentence was exile.
26:18At her trial,
26:18she tried to claim
26:19Alice had framed her.
26:21Alice's parents sold
26:22everything they owned
26:23and moved to the far south.
26:24They couldn't bear to stay
26:26where every shadow
26:26held a memory
26:27of the daughter
26:27they had failed.
26:29Before they left,
26:30her mother stood
26:30before the grave,
26:31pressing her forehead
26:32to the cold stone.
26:33I promise
26:33I will only love you.
26:35Only you.
26:36The moonstone mind shares
26:37were distributed
26:38according to Alice's will,
26:39a portion for every
26:40member of the pack.
26:41During the ceremony,
26:42one piece of moonstone
26:43was set aside.
26:44It was one Alice
26:45had carved herself.
26:46Five years passed.
26:47Ella, now ten.
26:49Daddy,
26:49why don't I remember Mama?
26:51Your mother,
26:52she was a very busy
26:53alpha, sweetheart.
26:54Oh,
26:55then why is she
26:56always smiling at me?
26:57Because she loved you
26:58more than anything.
26:59But Mama Leah said,
27:00That night,
27:01Ella dreamed of a she-wolf
27:03with a kind face.
27:05The wolf whispered
27:06in her ear,
27:06Mommy loves you.
27:08Always.
27:11She woke to a
27:12tear-soaked pillow.
27:14On the day she came of age,
27:16the pack elder
27:16gave her the letter.
27:17It spoke of the
27:18overwhelming joy
27:19Alice felt the moment
27:20Ella was born,
27:20of the fierce pride
27:21she had hearing
27:22her daughter's
27:23first tiny howl,
27:24of a hundred small
27:25warm moments
27:25that Leah's poison
27:26had stolen from her memory.
27:28The last lines
27:28shattered her.
27:29My dearest Ella,
27:30by the time you read this,
27:32I will be long gone.
27:33I don't know
27:34if you will remember me,
27:36or if you will hate me,
27:38but I need you to know
27:39that there was never
27:40a moment I didn't love you.
27:42Everything I did,
27:43I did to give you
27:44a better life.
27:45Forgive me for being
27:45selfish enough
27:46to leave you this way.
27:47If there had been
27:48any other choice,
27:49I would have burned
27:49the world down
27:50to watch you grow up.
27:51Love,
27:52your mummy.
27:53Ella cried
27:54until the sun rose.
27:55The next day,
27:56she went to the grave.
27:57I'm sorry, mummy.
27:57I'm so, so sorry.
27:58But some words
27:59come too late
28:00and some love
28:01is only understood
28:01once it is lost forever.
28:03In the end,
28:04everyone got what they wanted.
28:05The pack got the perfect
28:06obedient alpha
28:07they they craved
28:07and Annelie got her peace.
28:09The only cost was her life.
28:10Two decades had passed.
28:13At 25,
28:14she was the youngest alpha
28:15in the pack's long history.
28:17The moonfall ceremony
28:18is about to begin.
28:19It was the most sacred
28:20ritual of the year,
28:22honoring the ancestors
28:23who had bled for their land.
28:25They say you are just like her.
28:27Your mother.
28:28Do you believe that to be true?
28:30I can never be her.
28:32Why?
28:32Because in 29 years,
28:34she taught this pack
28:35the meaning of sacrifice.
28:37And it took me 18 years
28:38just to learn the meaning of regret.
28:40After the ceremony,
28:41Ella walked alone
28:42to the gravesite on the hill.
28:43It was the anniversary.
28:45She came every year.
28:46The grave was already blanketed
28:47in moonflowers from Cain,
28:49from the pack,
28:49and from strangers.
28:51Over the years,
28:51the orphaned pop fund
28:52Alice established
28:53had saved countless lives.
28:56Hey, Mom.
28:57I'm back.
28:58The pack is strong.
28:59You would be proud.
29:00We're an example
29:01for the other territories now,
29:02just like you wanted.
29:03Father,
29:04he never took another mate.
29:06He says his one great betrayal
29:07was enough for a lifetime.
29:09He won't dishonor
29:09your memory with another.
29:10Grandma and Grandpa
29:11passed away in the South.
29:12Their last message was for you.
29:13That they always loved you.
29:15They just understood too late.
29:16And Leah,
29:17Ella's voice dropped.
29:18Her mind finally shattered
29:19under the weight
29:20of her own venom.
29:21That is repentance.
29:22The hillside was silent.
29:23A sanctuary of memory.
29:25Mom,
29:25my biggest regret.
29:26It's still those words.
29:28I hate you.
29:29I've spent 20 years
29:30trying to take them back.
29:30Every time I see your face
29:31in my memory,
29:32that last look,
29:33I would tear the world of Pups
29:33to go back to that moment.
29:34Elder Laurel said
29:35you tried to mind-link me at the end.
29:36What were you trying to say?
29:37Was it I love you
29:38or be a good pup?
29:39I'll never know.
29:39She pulled a small silver locket
29:41from under her tunic.
29:42Inside,
29:42protected by glass.
29:43It's the most precious thing I own.
29:45She stared at it,
29:46lost in the endless maze
29:47of what-ifs.
29:48What if she hadn't listened?
29:49What if she had seen the truth
29:50in her mother's eyes?
29:51What if she had just said,
29:52I love you too?
29:53Far below,
29:54Kane's silhouette appeared
29:55at the bottom of the hill.
29:56She's been up there a long time.
29:57Let her.
29:58He dreamt.
29:59This is her time with Alice.
30:00You are not going up?
30:01No.
30:02I don't have the right
30:02to stand before her grave.
30:03Every night,
30:04he dreamed of Alice.
30:05Dreamed that she was alive.
30:06And every morning,
30:07he woke up to the same
30:08unforgiving truth.
30:09Do I know you?
30:10My name is Moon Shadow
30:11from the Northern Pack.
30:12Ten years ago,
30:13the Silver Moon Pup Fund
30:14saved me after my parents
30:15were killed.
30:16Your pack raised me.
30:16I came to thank your mother.
30:18She's always listening.
30:19Alpha Alice,
30:20thank you.
30:20Because of you,
30:21I'm alive.
30:21Because of you,
30:21I will watch my own pups grow.
30:23Ella had seen it so many times.
30:25Every wolf saved by the fund
30:26knew her mother's name.
30:27Her mother's death
30:28hadn't just purchased
30:29their regret.
30:30It had purchased
30:31a future for generations.
30:32Mom,
30:33you once asked
30:33if we would remember you.
30:34The answer is yes.
30:35Every single day
30:36for the rest of our lives.
30:38Ella unfolded the letters,
30:40the ones her mother
30:40had left her.
30:41My darling Ella,
30:42you called Leah Mama
30:43again today.
30:44It broke my heart,
30:45but I don't blame you.
30:46You are too small
30:47to know the truth
30:48from a lie.
30:48I never blamed you,
30:49not for a single second,
30:50because loving you
30:51was the greatest happiness
30:52of my life.
30:53On the back of the final page,
30:55a few words were scrawled
30:56in a rushed, shaky hand.
30:58If there is a next life,
30:59I still want to be your mother.
31:00Below the hill,
31:01the Silver Moon Pack
31:02thrived.
31:03Life went on,
31:04but in the heart
31:04of every wolf
31:05there remained
31:05a permanent hollow space,
31:07a space named
31:08Alice.
31:08Moonlight bathed
31:09to the headstone,
31:10a silver silent benediction.
31:12Perhaps she was saying,
31:13I forgive you,
31:14I will always love you,
31:15because love
31:16had never left at all.
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