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