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00:02Every unrated young wolf in the Southern Pax Union wanted a taste of my nectar.
00:07At 16, I tricked my father's battle brother into taking his first sip.
00:11That night, he drank every last drop from me.
00:14By dawn, Silvermoon City exploded.
00:17His childhood sweetheart fled with tears.
00:19I moved into the most lavish estate in Silvermoon, became the wife of the North Legion's rising
00:25star.
00:26The woman every she-wolf envied.
00:28Every night, the entire manor reeked of rose nectar and pine, tangled so thick that passing
00:34pack members didn't dare come near.
00:36Each time he rode north with the Legion, I counted the days until his return.
00:41Until this time, he returned from the northern border as a hero, brought back his childhood
00:46sweetheart, and her two-year-old cub, Amber Eyes.
00:50His Amber Eyes, he moved them into our house.
00:53Taught the pup to call him Daddy.
00:54I didn't rage, didn't cry.
00:56I simply handed over the keys to our estate.
00:59The rights to the family properties.
01:01My place is Ironclaw's matriarch.
01:03He thought I'd finally learned to be docile.
01:06That I'd accepted my place as the unloved wife.
01:08What he doesn't know.
01:10While he was busy playing house with his sweetheart and their pup, I was on my knees before the
01:14Alpha King.
01:15Child, you once knelt here begging the Moonbloom's blessing for your mating bond.
01:20Do you understand what price must be paid to strever what the Moon Goddess has granted?
01:24Yes.
01:25To earn your consent, I will go to the Frostlands in the Prince's place.
01:29Bring me the Severance Oskrolt with his signature and yours.
01:33The next full moon after you deliver it, the Moon Goddess will answer your prayer.
01:38My remaining years traded for freedom.
01:41The countdown begins.
01:4221 days.
01:43That is all I have left.
01:4521 days.
01:46Until the Goddess severs our bond.
01:4821 days until I leave this cage and ride north.
01:51Not as a discarded wife, but as a bride to the Lord of the Frost.
01:55He wanted a docile wife.
01:56Never would he get one.
01:58He'll only watch me become a legendary queen.
02:0121 days until the Moon severing right.
02:03Kale returned from the Royal Palace and went straight to Seraphine's bed in the East Wing.
02:08I heard them.
02:09The night was still and my hearing had been trained sharp.
02:12Her moans.
02:13His growls.
02:14They coupled from moonrise to moonset.
02:16They had many such nights.
02:18Once whenever Kale returned to Silvermoon from the border.
02:21Lyra do not disturb me.
02:23Be a good wife.
02:24Be decile.
02:25I would bend every effort to please him, but all I earned was refusal and correction.
02:30Now I finally understood Dossiel was for the unloved.
02:33The loved received companionship, so I learned docility.
02:37Even when my handmaiden Mira rushed to report.
02:40Mistress, today Kale went to the palace.
02:42He's petitioning the Alpha King for a formal title.
02:44For Seraphine.
02:46Let him.
02:46He failed.
02:47Of course, that evening, Seraphine wept in his arms, sorrowful and trembling.
02:53He would continue to fail.
02:54The Alpha King regarded me as his own daughter, so he would never consent to Kale's request.
03:00Not when it humiliated me.
03:01Then, as expected, Kale came seeking my help.
03:05Lyra.
03:05Your petition?
03:06The King refused.
03:07I will ask again.
03:09With military honors with-
03:10I drew a scroll from beneath my pillow and pressed it into his palm.
03:14Give her the title.
03:16My signature marked it.
03:17The Royal Seal marked it.
03:18Formally acknowledge her.
03:20Let her enter the halls.
03:22Attend pack gatherings.
03:23Gain standing in society.
03:25A female raising a bastard cut alone in Silvermoon?
03:28Survival is too harsh.
03:30Kale's expression faltered at my indifference.
03:33Your military honors were bought with years of blood on the northern border.
03:37Do not waste them on household issues.
03:39How did you convince the King?
03:40The King regards me as his daughter.
03:43I asked as a daughter, and he granted it.
03:45Of course, the truth was simpler.
03:47I had offered to sever our mating and take the princess's place as bride to the Lord of the Frost.
03:52That was my price.
03:54Now only his signature stood between us and freedom.
03:57Cell's eyes trembled.
03:59Moved by my reasonableness.
04:01He stepped forward.
04:02Seeking to kiss me, I pushed him away.
04:04From my drawer, I withdrew the prepared family property inventory.
04:08Your signature is required to formally transfer management to Seraphithine.
04:13Eager to please Seraphine, he signed and sealed without hesitation.
04:17Never noticing that buried in the stack of documents lay the mating bond dissolution agreement.
04:22I had hidden from him.
04:23Once he signed.
04:24Once it was delivered to the moonbloom altar.
04:27On the next full moon when the moon goddess's consent arrived.
04:30He and I would be north and south never to meet again.
04:33Twenty days until the moon severing rite.
04:35I secured Kale's signed documents and went to the palace.
04:39The Luna Queen received me very soon.
04:41With this severance scroll, the alpha king can arrange the moon severing rite for the next full moon in twenty
04:47days.
04:47You, the Luna Queen, hesitated.
04:50Lyra, there is something I think you should know.
04:54The moonbloom priest discovered large quantities of frost moon grass toxin in the calming tea samples you sent last month.
05:00This poison is extracted from the northern wastelands, colorless and tasteless, extremely cold in nature.
05:05If a she-wolf consumes it long term, she will be barren for life.
05:10The words fell softly.
05:12My mind went white.
05:14Frost moon grass toxin, a forbidden substance only the North Legion could access.
05:19In that calming tea, Kale had prepared it himself after every border return.
05:24I had drunk it for three full years.
05:27Thirty-six moon cycles.
05:28How many tears had I shed, believing myself barren, unable to give Kale an heir, unable to make him a
05:35father.
05:35Yet Kale had said it mattered not, when elders urged him to seek other females for bloodline continuation.
05:42I will only raise young with the one I love, and I will touch no other she-wolves.
05:46I had wept at his devotion, believing I was that love.
05:50Now I saw myself the complete fool.
05:52The one he wished to raise young with was not me.
05:55I was of the other she-wolves.
05:57Tears finally spilled.
05:59Unstoppable.
05:59So this was his sworn devotion.
06:02This was the mate I had loved for three years.
06:04I rushed back to the estate, desperate to confront him.
06:08The sitting room was empty.
06:10The study was empty.
06:11Then they must be in the East Wing.
06:13The East Wing maids could not stop my fury.
06:15I burst through the door.
06:16Seraphine's musk scent engulfed me, but the room was empty.
06:20The master accompanies Madame Seraphine on inspection of family holdings.
06:24Rage seized me.
06:25I grabbed every document on her desk to tear them apart.
06:28Then I saw it.
06:30My moon, my blood, my only.
06:32Counting the days until I need not share your shadow.
06:35Every word burned with the heat of faded mates.
06:38From Sale to Seraphine.
06:40From number one, the first day I miss you, to number 523.
06:44My heart flies to thee.
06:46Three years of marriage.
06:48Five 23 letters.
06:49Messengers could scarcely have rested.
06:52Delivering daily.
06:53Every day they corresponded in secret.
06:55Even on nights I believed he belonged only to me.
06:58Only raise young with the one I love.
07:00I whispered his words and I knew.
07:02This love he had performed for three years.
07:05All of it illusion.
07:06Fortunately, the moon bloom tree would sever our bond in 20 days.
07:11End Kale's formal acknowledgement ceremony for Seraphine.
07:15That same day.
07:1610 days until the moon severing rite.
07:18Kale's return to silver moon grew later and later.
07:21Mira told me he spent these days taking Seraphine everywhere.
07:25Pack gatherings from the Alpha King's moon hunt ceremonies.
07:28To the seven clans rotating blood oath banquets.
07:31Even the border military councils.
07:34Restricted to North Legion officers and silver moon officials.
07:37Sale found ways to seat Seraphine among the observers.
07:41I knew what he was doing.
07:42Fastest way to establish her as future matriarch of Ironclaw.
07:46Every step climbed over my spine.
07:48But I did not care.
07:50I continued performing my duties as Ironclaw's current matriarch.
07:54Including visiting Cal's grandmother at her estate.
07:57The moment I entered, I saw Seraphine kneeling beside the old woman's lounge chair.
08:02Hands folded, the picture of obedience.
08:05Cal stood behind her, palm resting on her shoulder.
08:08Fingers buried in her loose red hair.
08:10The grandmother's clouded amber eyes sharpened at my presence.
08:14You still have the face to come here?
08:16Three years mated to Kale and your belly remains empty.
08:19You wouldn't even let him seek other she-wolves to continue the bloodline.
08:25If not for Seraphine's sensibility, offering to enter the house and bear Ironclaw's heir,
08:32Kale's line would have ended with you, this useless barren she-wolf.
08:36My posture froze.
08:38I looked at Kale.
08:39He only turned away.
08:40His gaze fixed on the dancing flames in the hearth.
08:43Not once did he speak to me.
08:44This was not the first time his grandmother had tormented me over the topic of bearing Young.
08:49But it was the first time he had not stood by my side.
08:52I remained silent for a long moment.
08:54Then, empty of grief or rage.
08:57It is my failing.
08:58There, there, grandmother, don't be angry.
09:00Even if Sister Lyra cannot bear Young, you should calm yourself.
09:05For Kale's sake.
09:07And for your own health's sake.
09:11I lowered my eyes, hiding bitterness, and seated myself farthest from them.
09:15Soon made-served grilled meat.
09:17The traditional morning meal of wolf nobility.
09:20I reached with silver fork for a cut of tenderloin when Kale's furious voice cracked like a whip.
09:25Who prepared silverberry sauce?
09:2720 strips, now!
09:28I looked at Kale instinctively.
09:30Three years mated, and Kale was famous for one thing.
09:34At a moon hunt banquet, he had publicly smashed his plate, removing every dish containing silverberries.
09:40Because I was allergic, the berries swelled my throat, stripped my human form, left me vulnerable in half-wolf shape
09:47before the pack.
09:48For this, Kale became the perfect mate in every she-wolf's eyes.
09:52See how Ironclaw's master loves his wife, the trouble he takes for her.
09:55I opened my mouth to plead for the maids when I heard.
09:58Remember this well.
10:00Serafina cannot consume anything related to silverberries.
10:03If I see you forget again, I'll throw you into the northern mines to feed the snow wolves.
10:08...every fragment of my pride.
10:10So, this rare proof that he cared for me, also an illusion.
10:16Five days until the moon-severing rite, the Luna Queen invited females of all clans to the moon-bloom garden
10:22for pre-ceremony blessings.
10:24Sale had prepared the carriage early.
10:26The Ironclaw crest, Iron Wolf on cold silver, gleamed through morning mist.
10:31I reached for his hands instinctively, but he stepped back.
10:34The carriage is crowded.
10:35Inconvenient.
10:36I froze.
10:37Lyra, it truly is cramped.
10:40You'll have to take the rear carriage, I'm afraid.
10:42I laughed quietly, understanding.
10:44Inconvenient.
10:45Not the space.
10:46Me.
10:46I would crowd his true love.
10:48I climbed the rear carriage alone.
10:50When I got off the rear carriage, I came to the cluster of weighing looks from clan females.
10:55Pity, mockery, rare sparks of sympathy.
10:58Seraphine proudly made her formal debut before the Luna Queen.
11:01It went poorly the Luna Queen's face iced, she demanded Kale.
11:05I am the Luna Queen appointed by the Moongoss's own oracle to wed the Alpha King.
11:10I invited clan dignitaries and their goddess blessed mates.
11:14You dare to bring a Paranol today.
11:18Do you mean to strike my face?
11:21Kale dragged the trembling Seraphine down.
11:23Not a curtsy, but the four-limbed submission posture of wolves showing fealty.
11:28Your grace, Seraphine is my mate.
11:31We love truly.
11:32She is no Parazor.
11:34The Luna Queen laughed coldly, fangs glinting.
11:37Unblessed by the moon, she is no mate.
11:40Ask those gathered.
11:41Who sense bond marks between you?
11:44Forget not.
11:45You stood beneath the moon bloom tree and swore to Lyra.
11:49This one before you is unbonded.
11:51She can only be the Paraman.
11:54Females of all houses spoke.
11:55The Queen speaks truth.
11:58What love, what truth.
12:00What love.
12:01Without fating reach, she is outsider.
12:04Indeed, Kale was called the model of fated devotion.
12:07I see now, all falsehood.
12:10Kale's face flushed crimson.
12:12He fled with Seraphine, disgraced.
12:14After the ceremony, the Luna Queen showered me with gifts, moonstone charms, silverberry
12:20preserves, northern furs for warmth, comfort, perhaps, or pity.
12:24The morning after our return to Ironclaw State, Meera fumed at me.
12:28Seraphine's people seized half the Queen's gifts.
12:30Best she ate it all, silverberries included.
12:33Let her be allergic, swell, and suffer.
12:35I watched Meera's indignation and gently patted her hand.
12:39She is not worth the charge of attempted murder.
12:41I went to the East Wing to fulfill my obligation of notice.
12:45My hand rose to knock.
12:46Then I heard Seraphine's weeping voice within.
12:49Kale, you swore to take me as true mate beneath the moonbloom tree.
12:54Why must I remain nameless, unacknowledged?
12:57Kale sighed.
12:59That tone I had never heard from him, soft as melting snow.
13:02Whatever outsiders say, within Ironclone you are my mate.
13:08Always.
13:09Seraphine pressed on.
13:10Then Lyra?
13:11Three years mated?
13:12Did you ever love her?
13:14I held my breath.
13:15Nails bit crescents into my palm, drawing blood.
13:19Kale was silent.
13:21Seraphine, I love you.
13:22Only you.
13:24Years ago, I arranged Liba's drunkenness and my mating with her to establish myself in Silvermoon.
13:29To bring you both here.
13:30Do not be angry.
13:31I drugged her for our future.
13:34Without that knight, how would I have caught the king's eye?
13:38Become North Legion commander in three short years?
13:41My raised hand fell limp.
13:43The wolf tooth bracelet on my wrist struck the door ring.
13:47A sharp cry.
13:48Who is outside?
13:50Kale threw the door open, met my burning eyes.
13:53L-Lyra?
13:54I forced a hideous smile.
13:57The queen's gifts Seraphine took included silver berries.
14:00I came to warn her not to consume them.
14:02Sel reached for my hand, blocking my departure.
14:05Lyra, listen to me.
14:06A pained wail cut him short from within.
14:09A maid's voice rose.
14:10Master!
14:11Madam Seraphine feels unwell.
14:13Please attend her!
14:14His hand withdrew.
14:16I turned and left without looking back.
14:18One more second and I would have lost control.
14:21The wine would have escaped.
14:22My half-wolf foot would have shown my shame.
14:25I bit down until blood filled my mouth.
14:27Eyes crimson.
14:28Even walking away, I felt Kale's panic.
14:31Burning gaze on my spine.
14:33Kale, you disgust me.
14:34To the core.
14:35All these years I blamed myself for that impulsive knight.
14:38Believed I had forced you into marriage.
14:40Now I learned I was your ladder to power.
14:42Your tool to claim Alpha King's attention.
14:45Your key to unlock my late father's Northern Legion connections.
14:49Three years of marriage I had cherished.
14:51Every moment, deception.
14:53Three days until the moon-severing rite.
14:55Late that night, a drunken Kale pushed open my door.
14:58I sat up, pulling the quilt to cover my thin nightgown.
15:01Who permitted you entry?
15:03Kale pressed me down into the bedding.
15:05His face buried in my neck.
15:07His voice rough with irritation.
15:09You are my mate.
15:10Blessed beneath the moon-bloom tree.
15:12We are fated pair.
15:15Why may I not come?
15:16He tried to kiss my jaw.
15:18I turned away, calling loudly for Mir-
15:20Mita!
15:20He is drunk.
15:22Arrange for him to be escorted to his own chamber.
15:24Kale braced himself on one arm.
15:26The other forcing me to face him.
15:28I saw the flush drain from his face.
15:30Who says I wish to return to that chamber?
15:32Then deliver the master to Seraphina's east wing.
15:35Sail flung himself from the bed, standing to glare at me in fury.
15:40Lyra, have you lost your mind?
15:42You would send me to another she-wolf's quarter?
15:45Do you even regard me as mate?
15:47I pulled at the corner of my mouth.
15:49Do you ever regard me as mate?
15:52Lyra, I know granting Seraphina title displeases you.
15:55I only-
15:56I only wish to give you a young.
15:59Give me a young?
16:00So Seraphine is avatar of the fertility goddess?
16:04Thanks to her blessing I, who never conceived, may now bear fruit?
16:08Or perhaps she is a miracle healer, able to purge three years of frost moon grass toxin from my blood?
16:13The drugging laid bare in mockery.
16:15Kale froze, reaching as if to grasp me.
16:19Lyra, I-
16:19Master!
16:20Madam Seraphine feels unwell.
16:22Please attend her!
16:23A maid's voice cut through from beyond the door.
16:26Sail loosened his hand, standing silent.
16:29Go!
16:30I lowered the bed curtains, separating myself from him.
16:33Sail did not move.
16:34He only watched me for a long while.
16:36The voice outside continued.
16:38Master! Master!
16:40Sail finally turned.
16:41As he left.
16:43Do not dwell on it.
16:44I will still treat you well.
16:45Liars speak devotion so easily.
16:48Performing depth for whom to witness.
16:50Disgusting.
16:51The following days, I had Mira inventory all my personal property.
16:55I would take nothing belonging to Ironclaw.
16:57Leave nothing of myself behind.
17:00If we do, Munister, we sever it clean.
17:02Three hours until the moon severing right.
17:04The estate was hung with silver, white silk, and moonbloom branches.
17:09Decorations reserved for true mating ceremonies.
17:11Seraphine had insisted.
17:13Seal had granted it.
17:14Mira entered, interrupting my gaze through the window.
17:17Madam.
17:18All your personal assets have been inventrated and packed.
17:21She helped me remove the Ironclaw-crested cloak before the mirror, dressing me in gowns
17:26from my maiden days.
17:27Beautiful.
17:28You look as you did then.
17:30The door opened.
17:31Sail stood in mating rights attire, a groom's finery.
17:34Yet his face carried something like sorrow.
17:38Soon I go to swear with Seraphine beneath the moonbloom tree.
17:42Have you nothing to say to me?
17:44May your bond hold firm.
17:46May you bear many young.
17:48Kale's eyes dimmed after silence.
17:50Rest assured, I will still treat you well.
17:53I said nothing.
17:54Rose pushed past him toward the door.
17:56Kale, I never wanted your charity, especially not built on lies.
18:01Three hours until Alpha King's envoy arrives.
18:04The incense of the moonbloom herb filled the estate to purification for ritual space.
18:09One hour until the moon's severing right.
18:12I stood in the main hall.
18:13Pity, mockery, schadenfreude.
18:15I smiled at them all.
18:16Thirty minutes until the moon's severing right.
18:19Kale took Seraphine's hand.
18:22The pair advanced toward the temporary altar in the estate gardens, surrounded by guests.
18:27He paused passing me, eyes holding something I did not understand.
18:31Would not understand.
18:33I only watched coldly as the pair prepared their vows.
18:36Swear to the moon goddess.
18:37Swear to the path.
18:39Swear to...
18:40Decree from the Alpha King.
18:41Silver armored guards burst through, escorting moonbloom priest Eldrin in moon white ritual robes.
18:48Moonbloom priest Eldrin spoke calmly.
18:51I trust my arrival does not interrupt your...
18:55Celebration?
18:58Priest, you jest.
19:00What business brings the Alpha King's decree?
19:04Today is Kale's joyous occasion.
19:07The king surely brings honors.
19:09Obvious, is it not?
19:11The king himself approved this second mate.
19:14He comes to add blessing.
19:15Ah, but if so, Lady Lyra will be thoroughly shamed.
19:19First the king's approval for Seraphine, now wedding day honors.
19:23She'll have no standing left in Silvermoon nobility.
19:25Shhh, Lyra might hear.
19:27I felt their pity, mocking eyes.
19:29My face remained serene.
19:31I stepped before Eldrin, kneeling to receive the decree.
19:34Then was roughly pulled aside.
19:36Kale's grandmother surged forward, fawning smile for Eldrin, venomous glare for me.
19:42Move aside!
19:43This must be the king's blessing for Kale and Seraphine.
19:45Do not disgrace us here!
19:47Her whisper carried.
19:48Kale's face darkened.
19:50He reached for me.
19:51I evaded.
19:51Grandmother, Lyra is my first mate.
19:53How could she disgrace us?
19:54Such words shame me.
19:56Whatever comes, Lyra remains Ironclaw's first lady.
19:58Shock rippled through the hall.
20:00Especially Seraphine.
20:02What do you mean?
20:03You said I was the mate you wanted!
20:05Lyra was only a convenience!
20:08Guests beyond heard clearly.
20:09What? I misheard?
20:11Kale never loved Lady Lyra.
20:12Only the parasite.
20:14This is ridiculous.
20:16Seraphine flung her bouquet to the floor.
20:18Lyra, hear me well.
20:20Kale never loved you.
20:22Never!
20:22He married you from necessity.
20:24Even your mating night, he spent it writing to me!
20:28Silence!
20:31Lyra, listen.
20:32I can explain.
20:34She is mad.
20:35Her words are false.
20:36I love you.
20:37I truly love you.
20:38I looked at his face and felt only irony.
20:41Three years married.
20:42Three years I loved him truly.
20:44In return, five twenty-three nights of secret letters.
20:47Poison in my tea made barren before his grandmother's contempt.
20:51Now I woke.
20:53Now I chose not to love.
20:54Yet he spoke of love.
20:56I laughed.
20:57Ironic.
20:58Absolute.
20:58Belated devotion.
21:00How cheap.
21:00I smoothed my disheveled hair.
21:02Nelt slow and certain before Eldrin.
21:04Priest.
21:05Read the decree.
21:07Eldrin nodded, opening the moonstone casket, withdrawing the gold-sealed scroll.
21:11All knelt to hear.
21:13Only Kale remained frozen standing.
21:15Some foreboding gripped him.
21:16As though something precious would slip away.
21:19Wait!
21:20Kale's voice cut through.
21:22All turned to stare-shock confusion.
21:24His grandmother seized his ritual garment, whispering urgently.
21:28Whatever it is, wait until the priest finishes.
21:31Kale opened his mouth.
21:33Met Eldrin's displeased gaze.
21:35Kale, you repeatedly interrupt Alpha King's decree.
21:38Do you question the king's proxy of the moon goddess's will?
21:42The threat woke him.
21:43He knelt silent.
21:44Eldrin cleared his throat, unrolled the gold-sealed scroll.
21:48By the moon goddess's name, the Alpha King decrees.
21:51The king's ward Lyra Silverstone and Kale Ironclex Moonbloom Blessed Bond is formally severed at the consent of the moon
21:57goddess.
21:58Henceforth, each may wed where they will.
22:02So ends the decree.
22:05Eldrin's voice fell.
22:06Kale and his grandmother cried out together.
22:08Priest, have you misread?
22:11How could the king permit Lyra to sever our moon bonding?
22:14This must be error.
22:16His grandmother followed.
22:17Lyra is Kale's mate, blessed beneath the moonbloom tree.
22:20How can severance be so casual?
22:22Eldrin ignored them.
22:23Congratulations, Miss Lyra.
22:25You may return home today.
22:28I received the gold-sealed scroll with both hands, my truest smile in days.
22:34Priest Eldrin, my thanks.
22:36Eldrin sighed, his gaze fond.
22:37No need. I watched you grow from cub, child.
22:41The king grieves for you, too.
22:43Then all remembered who I was.
22:45Beyond Kale Ironclaw's first mate, I was Silverstone's daughter, only child of the late North Legion commander.
22:52When my parents fell, the Alpha King and Luna Queen raised me among their own.
22:56Before marriage, few noble females.
22:58But the princesses in Silvermoon ranked above me, married to Kale.
23:02His careful construction made my first a tribute Kale Ironclaw's wife, erasing my old fame as the pearl of Silvermoon.
23:10Eldrin departed soon after.
23:12The festive estate fell silent.
23:14Guests exchanged glances, then withdrew as one.
23:17The royal carriage arrived.
23:18With twenty moon guards to transport my belongings.
23:22As I left, Kale seized my sleeve.
23:25Lyra!
23:27Did you petition the king for this severance?
23:29I don't know.
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