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The pack rejected him for being weak, completely unaware that his bloodline is the only thing keeping the ancient demons asleep! The terrifying truth exposed in The Unchosen Alpha forces the arrogant wolves to beg on their knees. Watch the complete episodes to see the epic twist!
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00:00I threw my body into the woods. No funeral, no grave, just crows. And that was the second time I
00:05died for him. In my world, being blind is a defect. Without a wolf, I'm an omega. I am an
00:11omega, the very bottom of the pack. No strength, no shifting, no healing. A normal wolf gets stuck. Heals in
00:19minutes. Give me a paper cut, and I'll bleed for days. But I have something no one knows about. I
00:25don't see faces, but I see souls.
00:27Those affect jealousy. Toxic green, heat, de-oily black. In my last life, I used it to build a king.
00:34Lucian, a forgotten fifth son. I picked him. I made him. I put him on the throne.
00:39On the day my sister Celeste died, he grabbed my jaw so hard I heard it crack. Forced a wolf's
00:46vein tincture down my throat.
00:48You blind freak. You knew I never wanted you. Celeste should have been mine from the start. And because of
00:54you, she ended up with Marcus.
00:56They tortured her to death. It was your fault.
01:01I died in agony. He gave Celeste's corpse a royal burial. He gave me the woods.
01:08But the hate, his hate, it was so consuming it dragged me right back to the death.
01:13I opened my eyes. Seventeen again. Night of the mating hell. Lucian walked straight past me and took Celeste's hand,
01:21like he was afraid someone might stop him. The bastard came back too, and he remembered everything.
01:27He is terrified I'll choose him again. Honestly, I couldn't care less. I swept my blind gaze across the back
01:33of the room
01:33in a sea of dark, rotten souls. A soul so pure it glowed like liquid gold.
01:39The man in the wheelchair. The true alpha.
01:42I choose Celeste as my mate. Lucian's voice cracked through the hall like a whip.
01:47She is my one and only Luna. He walked toward my sister with eyes full of a tenderness I knew
01:52was performance.
01:53The room went silent, then the whispers hit me like a wall. No heir in their right mind would want
01:58her.
01:58A blind Omega who couldn't even shift? What a joke. Why is she even here?
02:04Trash like her should be in the kitchen, not at a mating ball.
02:09I am an alpha's daughter born blind. When I came of age, my wolf had a wolf.
02:13A wolf had a teeth and a claw. That is not just weakness. That is a death sentence.
02:19Being wolf-less, that makes you a joke.
02:22My sister Celeste is the golden child. Born with a siren song.
02:27A voice that can calm even the most violent alpha in the world.
02:30The family treats her like a goddess. They treat me like a mistake they can't take back.
02:36Lucian dropped to one knee in front of her.
02:39Accept my mark, Celeste. I will make you the most powerful woman alive.
02:44And as he spoke, he threw one look back at me. Not an apology. A warning.
02:49He thinks he can take the throne without me this time. He thinks I was what held him back.
02:54He has no idea what he just threw away.
02:56I didn't awaken a wolf when I came of age. I got something much more dangerous. The soul line.
03:05Jealousy is toxic green. Hate is a bottomless black.
03:09Love is pink. And the deeper the theme, the darker it burns.
03:14In my last life, I kept him alive with this.
03:16I spotted assassins before they moved. I told him who to trust, who to kill, this time.
03:22I am going to let him have exactly what he wanted, and watch him realize too late that without me,
03:27he is nothing.
03:29And I really hope, for his sake, he doesn't end up calling back to me, begging for a mercy on
03:35the one I have.
03:36The moment Lucian's announcement landed, every eye in the room found me.
03:41I'm just a blind girl. I'm not worthy of a man like Lucian.
03:45Salelsta is the perfect match for him.
03:48At least you know your place.
03:49He stepped closer.
03:50An Omega with no wolf? I wouldn't choose you if you were the last woman breathing.
03:56Not even if you crawl to me on your knees.
03:58My mother Marilyn made a sound beside me. A sharp inhale, like she was about to say something she shouldn't.
04:04I squeezed her hand. She went quiet. I swept the room with my sore life.
04:09Marcus. Murky charcoal. Cruel underneath the surface.
04:12The other airs. Muddy swirls of greed and want.
04:15In my last life, I chose Lucian because his soul looked cleaner than anyone else's in the room.
04:20It was a mask. I didn't see what was underneath until the day he killed me.
04:24A rotten, purple, black.
04:26He didn't just hate what it was. He hated me.
04:29I was blind in my last life in more ways than one.
04:32Never again, Celeste glided toward me.
04:34Face arranged into the perfect picture of a loving older sister.
04:38Don't be sad.
04:39Go ahead. I'll let you have whoever you want.
04:43Her soul was churning. Toxic green. Edge to edge.
04:46Pure jealousy. Barely holding its shape.
04:49Since no one's going to claim you anyway, you can always beg me for work.
04:53Celeste will need a personal maid.
04:55If you see us vest-smitchy floors, scrubbing floors all a wolf-less Omega is good for.
04:59I didn't blink. I didn't even bother.
05:01None of them were worth the energy.
05:03And then, the sound of wheels.
05:06The chatter died.
05:07Then the room shifted.
05:09Kyle Ravenscroft had arrived.
05:12Uninvited.
05:13Unannounced.
05:14And completely unmoved by the spectacle.
05:16He sat in that wheelchair like a predator at rest.
05:19And then I saw.
05:21My breath caught.
05:22His soul was gold.
05:23Pure.
05:24Shimmering.
05:25Blinding gold.
05:26The mark of the moon goddess herself.
05:28The mark of a true king.
05:31I clenched my fists so hard my nails broke the skin.
05:34Last life.
05:35I picked the wrong man.
05:37I defied the moon goddess.
05:39Put a monster on the throne.
05:40And everyone paid for it.
05:42Not this time.
05:44I stood up.
05:45I walked past Lucian without a glance.
05:47Past every arrogant alpha heir in the room.
05:49I stopped in front of Kyle's wheelchair.
05:52I choose him.
05:53The hall went dead silent.
05:55Then it exploded.
05:57Laughter.
05:58From every direction.
05:59All it was.
05:59The blind girl and the cripple.
06:02Neither of you has a wolf.
06:05You really are a perfect match.
06:09Zaya.
06:11You can't see.
06:12You don't understand.
06:14He's in a wheelchair.
06:16She glanced at the crowd.
06:18Milking every second of it.
06:20I'll pretend I didn't hear that.
06:23Choose again.
06:24And if you truly can't find an alpha willing to have you.
06:27You're welcome to follow our caravan.
06:31Serve Lucian and me.
06:33At least you won't go hungry.
06:35I'm not anyone's servant.
06:37And I'm not a stray you take in out of pity.
06:40Kyle hadn't said a word through any of it.
06:42He just pulled his chair forward until he was right in front of me.
06:45He took my hand.
06:46His palm was large and rough.
06:48Thick with calluses.
06:50The kind you only get from yours of hard use.
06:56He took my hand and guided it to his knee.
06:59No flinching.
07:00No excuses.
07:02If he was lying.
07:03He didn't want pity for it.
07:04I left my hand there.
07:06I could feel the heat of him through the fabric and tents.
07:09Alive.
07:10Then a jolt.
07:11It shot through my fingertips.
07:13Raced up my arm.
07:14And hit my chest at the best.
07:16This wasn't the soul line.
07:17It was something else entirely.
07:19My blood was screaming.
07:21I don't have a wolf.
07:23I was never supposed to feel a mate bond.
07:25But there it was.
07:29Kyle's whole body locked up.
07:31I looked into his soul.
07:33Warm pink threading through shimmering gold.
07:35I leaned in close and smiled.
07:38At six minutes, Lucian's face went ugly.
07:40The mating ball isn't over.
07:43And you're out here making promises you can't keep?
07:46If you fail to heal him, the Alpha Council will have your head.
07:49Can you actually do it?
07:51I didn't answer right away.
07:52I let my fingers trail slowly along his test five.
07:56I can.
07:57But it'll require a very specific kind of contact.
08:01He understood immediately.
08:02The tips of his ears went red.
08:04He turned his head away.
08:06Couldn't quite bring himself to look at me.
08:08In my peripheral vision, Lucian's soul ignited.
08:12A roaring wall of green fire.
08:14Jealousy.
08:15A cold laugh rose in my chest.
08:17Jealous of what?
08:18Exception.
08:19You are the one who poured poison down my throat.
08:22The moment I stepped inside the hall, the world tilted.
08:25White hot pain detonated behind my eyes.
08:30Like something was being driven through my skull from the inside.
08:33That is the cost.
08:34Every time I used the sole eye on that many people at once, I pressed my freezing fingers
08:40to my temples.
08:41The cold always came after.
08:43After the ball, Lucian got to work.
08:45He pulled up everything from our past life.
08:47Her favorite flowers.
08:49Her secret hiding spots.
08:50Every word she'd been waiting her whole life to hear.
08:54I played her like he'd been practicing for years.
08:57That same day, a mating contract arrived at my door on heavy old parchment.
09:03I accept you as my mate.
09:05I will hold and protect you in this life and the next.
09:08Not even death will part us.
09:10The handwriting was deep and certain.
09:12No hesitation in a single stroke.
09:14It felt exactly like him.
09:16Both weddings were set for the same morning.
09:18The night before, Celeste walked into my room like she owned it.
09:22She didn't knock.
09:23Her maid tossed something at my feet.
09:24A tattered gray shawl.
09:26A kind worn by the lowest ranking omegas.
09:29A mark of total submission.
09:32You're a blind freak, Zara.
09:38No real alpha will ever claim you.
09:40She leaned in.
09:42Voice honeyed and vicious at the same time.
09:45Lucian and I are being generous.
09:47We're keeping you on as a servant.
09:50But on the day of the ceremony, no carriage for you.
09:53You'll wear that and walk behind the caravan.
09:57Servant's entrance.
09:58Don't embarrass us.
09:59The morning came.
10:00I left the shawl on the floor where it landed.
10:03I put on the dress Kyle had sent instead.
10:06White silk, thousands of diamonds sewn into the fabric.
10:09Small enough to look like starlight.
10:12At the estate gate, two carriages waited.
10:15One was extraordinary.
10:17Draped in thumb-sized pearls.
10:19Built like a throne that happened to have wheels.
10:22The other was plainly standard work.
10:25Nothing alive.
10:28Celeste didn't hesitate for a second.
10:30She walked straight to the pearl carriage and stepped inside.
10:34The head guard turned.
10:36His expression didn't waver.
10:39You're in the wrong carriage.
10:41This was commissioned by Alpha Kyle for his Luna and no one else.
10:46He didn't get her time to argue.
10:47Guards took her by the arms and went around.
10:50She caught her fear in her skirt and went wrong hard for her face into the dirt.
10:56Lucian arrived just in time to see it.
10:59Celeste scrambled up and threw herself at him, already crying.
11:06It's Zara!
11:07She planned this!
11:10She can't stand that I'm the one becoming a Luna!
11:13She turned to the crowd gathering around them, eyes blistening.
11:17Please, don't hate her.
11:19She's struggling.
11:21I know we're in love, Lucian.
11:23But I begged you to keep her safe.
11:26I pleaded for months just so she could be our servant and I not starve on the street.
11:32She's a blind, Omega.
11:34She should be grateful anyone even bothered to take her in.
11:37To pull a strunt like this on her sister's wedding day?
11:40It's fetic.
11:40The crowd was vicious.
11:42They always are when they smell weakness.
11:45Lucian's soul was drowning in black.
11:47Thick, suffocating, ink dark.
11:50He pulled Celeste against his chest and turned on me.
11:53You're an Omega, Zara.
11:56You have no right to wear white.
11:59Take that dress off right now or I'll shred it off your back myself!
12:04Celeste buried her face in his chest.
12:07But I could see her soul.
12:08She was smirking.
12:11Lucian, you don't have me watching her back this time.
12:15What's coming for you tonight isn't a wedding.
12:18It's a funeral.
12:21It's the rest we foiled like I'd struck her.
12:24How can you curse him like that?
12:26Just because he didn't choose you?
12:28You dare curse an Alpha Heir?
12:32Guards, seize her!
12:35The soldiers started moving in.
12:37Think carefully.
12:39You're laying a hand on Alpha Kyle's mate.
12:42Make sure that's a consequence you're ready to live with.
12:45Lucian laughed.
12:46Jagged.
12:46Ugly.
12:47Kyle?
12:48The cripple isn't even here.
12:50Probably hiding in his chambers, too embarrassed to show his face.
12:54He's using you for sport, Zara.
12:55Nothing more.
12:56He stepped forward, close enough that his shadow fell over me.
12:59Neil, beg Celeste's forgiveness.
13:03And maybe, maybe, I'll still find a use for you.
13:06Then a voice cut through everything.
13:08Who is threatening my mate?
13:09The crowd spilt.
13:10Kyle moved through them like they weren't there.
13:12Sharp black suit.
13:13Not a single piece out of his place.
13:15Even seated.
13:16His presence was suffocating.
13:18The moment he appeared, the street went silent.
13:20Beside him, Lucian suddenly looked at the boy wearing his mask.
13:26Kyle came straight to me.
13:27He took my hand and folded it inside his large, warm, unhurried.
13:32So he raised my hand.
13:34Then he looked up.
13:35Now.
13:36His eyes fixed on Lucian like a blade finding its mark.
13:39Let's try that again.
13:40Who was it that told my mate to know it?
13:43The temperature in the street seemed to drop.
13:45No one walked.
13:46No one breathed.
13:48He didn't shout.
13:49Didn't signal his men.
13:50He just watched Lucian the way a predator watches something it has already decided to deal with later.
13:55I'll remember that.
13:57I'm an alpha heir, same as you.
13:59Who the hell do you think you are?
14:00Who the hell do you think you are?
14:03A forgotten fifth son trying to give orders to my mate.
14:07You're not a rival, Lucian.
14:09You're a fit note.
14:11The color drained from Lucian's face.
14:13This isn't over.
14:14Low and mean.
14:15You'll both regret tonight.
14:18I gave you a chance, Zara.
14:20When you come crawling back, and you will, don't expect mercy.
14:25I looked at his soul, muddy green, murky and small.
14:29He genuinely believes he is the chosen one.
14:31He thinks the throne is already his, and that I was just dead weight holding him back.
14:35He has no idea what is waiting for him.
14:38Without me clearing his path, he won't last the season.
14:41He'll be lucky to still be breathing by the time the leaves turn.
14:44Oh, her first night as mates was quiet.
14:47Just the two of us, and the fire crackling low between us.
14:51We shared whiskey, amber and slow burning on the way down.
14:57I could feel his eyes, heavy and silver warm against my skin.
15:01My pulse wouldn't settle.
15:02Even sitting across from me in that chair, his presence filled the entire room.
15:07You said you could fix my legs.
15:11How?
15:13Help me with something first.
15:16I've never seen this room.
15:19Describe it to me.
15:21Then he started talking.
15:23The fires glow.
15:24The oil paintings.
15:26He told me their textures, not just their subjects.
15:29The velvet curtains.
15:30Deep and heavy.
15:31On the shelf above the nightstand, there's an old book.
15:37The cover is faded.
15:39My hand stilled around the glass.
15:41That shelf was high, nearly at the ceiling.
15:44From a wheelchair, the top of that book was completely out of sight.
15:48There was no way he could know the cover was faded.
15:50I didn't say a word.
15:52I just took another sip and filed that detail away somewhere.
15:55I wouldn't forget it.
15:57I stood up with my glass in hand, then let it slip.
16:01It hit the carpet with a dull thud and rolled toward the sofa.
16:05Kyle's body moved before his mind could stop it.
16:08His chest surged forward.
16:10The muscles in his thighs locked and coiled, dense as iron cables.
16:15For a single, unguarded second, he was about to stand.
16:19Then he caught himself and settled back into the leather as if nothing had happened.
16:23But I felt it.
16:24That reflex was all the confirmation I needed.
16:27I didn't say anything.
16:29Not yet.
16:30But there's one more way to be sure.
16:34I stepped in close.
16:36And I straddled his lap.
16:38Kyle stopped breathing.
16:41The heat from his hands soaked straight through the silk.
16:44It burned against my skin like a brand.
16:47My heart was slamming.
16:48I ignored it.
16:51I raised my hand and let my fingertips trace from his jaw down to his chest.
16:56Hard as stone beneath the shirt.
16:58Not the body of a man who hadn't used his legs in seven years.
17:01I looked into his soul.
17:03A storm deep crimson.
17:05Soft pink.
17:06Something more tender than he'd admit.
17:08And threading through both.
17:09A sharp streak of dark green panic.
17:12He knew I was getting close.
17:14I leaned down.
17:20My lips barely grazed the corner of his mouth.
17:23Not a kiss.
17:24A question.
17:25His breathing came apart.
17:27And then I took his hand and pressed his palm flat against my chest.
17:31The silk between us was nothing.
17:33My face was burning.
17:35Because in that moment, his body gave me the most honest answer he had.
17:39His body reacted before his mind could stop it.
17:42I felt the shift in his balance.
17:45The sudden brace through his thighs.
17:47The instinctive drive upward.
17:49A man who hadn't used his legs in seven years wouldn't move like that.
17:53I pulled back just enough.
17:54Let the smile come slowly.
17:56Your legs are fine.
17:58That much, I know.
17:59Kyle closed his eyes.
18:01His throat moved as he swallowed.
18:03Then he stood up.
18:04One hand stayed at my waist.
18:06The other still pressed against my chest.
18:09He lifted me and I felt just how much of him there was.
18:12Nearly six foot long.
18:14All of it muscle.
18:15My whole world was suddenly just him.
18:17How did you know?
18:19I just smiled and gave him something vague enough to pass.
18:22He set me down gently on the edge of the bed.
18:25Then stepped back.
18:26The hand that had touched my chest was shaking.
18:29I'm sorry, I shouldn't have.
18:31Don't.
18:31I'm the one who put your hand there.
18:33He looked at me for a long moment.
18:35He laughed.
18:36A real laugh.
18:38Warm and unguarded.
18:39Like seven years of tension finally giving way.
18:42Seven years.
18:43Seven years fooling everyone.
18:45The whole damn world.
18:48And my blind mate catches me on the very first night.
18:51We didn't go any further that night.
18:52We ended up on the rug in front of the fire.
18:55The bottle of whiskey between us.
18:56And we just talked.
18:59He told me about the night his parents were killed.
19:01They called it a rogue wolf attack.
19:04Everyone knew what it actually was.
19:06The alpha king had ordered it.
19:08He was 15 years old.
19:10Standing at their funeral.
19:11And he made a decision.
19:13He would become the cripple.
19:15Invisible.
19:17Unthreatening.
19:18Off the king's list entirely.
19:20It was the only way to stay alive.
19:22I told him about Lucian.
19:24All of it.
19:25What he was underneath.
19:27I didn't choose you because I had no other options.
19:30I chose you because you were the only one worth choosing.
19:34I watched his soul begin to shift.
19:37The gold bleeding slowly into a deep and glowing wake.
19:41Late into the night, it came back.
19:43The splitting pain behind my temples.
19:46Like an axe working its way through bone.
19:48I tried to keep my hands still.
19:50They were shaking anyway.
19:52Kyle stopped mid-sentence.
19:54Your head.
19:55Before I could deflect, his thumbs were already at my temples.
19:59The pressure.
20:00Exact like he'd mapped the pain before he touched it.
20:03My mother used to get them.
20:04I've known what to do since I was a boy.
20:06The pain didn't ease.
20:08It vanished.
20:09We shared the same bed.
20:10His arm lay heavy and warm across my waist.
20:13My head settled against his chest.
20:15I listened to his heartbeat through my soul eye.
20:18I watched his soul settle.
20:19The gold softening, deepening into a rich and quiet pink.
20:23For the first time in two lifetimes, I felt safe.
20:26Lucian's wedding night was not in the heart.
20:28In my last life, a maid tried to spike his wine with wolf's bane.
20:31I caught her before she could get close.
20:34I read the murder in her soul, swapped the glasses, had her detained before he'd taken a single seat.
20:40This time, I did nothing with her.
20:42Celeste wouldn't notice.
20:43She wouldn't know a threat if it sat down beside her and introduced itself.
20:47The next morning, Kyle and I arrived at the Alpha King's estate.
20:51No sign of Lucian.
20:53No sign of Celeste.
20:54The corridors were alive with hushed, urgent voices.
20:57The hair was poisoned in his own chambers.
21:00He hasn't woken.
21:01The healers say the dose was enough to drop a grizzly.
21:04I kept my face perfectly still, but underneath it, I was smiling.
21:08Lucian's fall had started.
21:10I missed him.
21:11I wasn't going to stop it.
21:13The carriage had barely rolled to a stop when Celeste appeared at the gates.
21:17She looked like she hadn't slept in days.
21:19Zara!
21:20You poisoned him!
21:23Give me the antidote right now!
21:26I felt the temperature inside the carriage shift.
21:29Kyle went very still beside me.
21:30I placed a hand on his arm.
21:32I've got this.
21:34I leaned in and pressed a quick kiss to his cheek.
21:37Then I stepped out into the morning air.
21:40Antidote?
21:41I don't have one.
21:43Whatever happened to Lucian has nothing to do with me.
21:47Liar!
21:49Then how did you know he'd be dying on his wedding night?
21:52I tilted my head.
21:55That's a serious accusation.
21:57Where's your proof?
21:59Did you catch the killer?
22:01Did you find the poison?
22:02I already knew she hadn't.
22:04The spy Marcus sent was a professional.
22:06Without my soul eye, she was a ghost.
22:09By now she was likely across the border, untouchable.
22:12Celeste stood there, mouth open, nothing coming out.
22:15If you keep causing a scene on my land, my warriors will remove you.
22:22Her eyes dropped to my neck.
22:23She saw the red mark Kyle had left there.
22:26You actually slept with him?
22:29A blind girl and a broken man?
22:31I suppose trash finds its own level.
22:33I suppose trash finds its own level.
22:35I thought about last night, the fire, the whiskey, the long silence after he finally stood up and I felt
22:40the full weight of him for the first time.
22:42Kyle wasn't broken.
22:43He was ten thousand times the man Lucian would ever be.
22:46I laughed.
23:15What is so funny?
23:17She went down hard, palms and knees in the dirt.
23:19I looked down at you.
23:20Remember this?
23:22Because the next time you raise a hand to me I won't step aside.
23:25She stared up at me from the ground, trembling.
23:27For the first time in her life she was actually afraid of me.
23:30The blind girl she used to torment wasn't there anymore.
23:34Someone else had taken her place.
23:36Kyle was waiting when I stepped back into the carriage.
23:39He just watched me with those gray eyes.
23:41And in them, not worry, not pity.
23:43Admiration, he trusted me to handle my own affairs.
23:46That respect landed heavier than any shield he could have raised.
23:49He turned to his lead god and spoke low.
23:51No one from Lucian's pack crosses onto my land again.
23:55For any reason.
23:57Ever.
24:00After Celeste was escorted out, we turned to the business of leaving.
24:04We were heading for Thorn Harbor.
24:05The courtyard filled with people and supplies controlled chaos.
24:09And through all of it, my soul eye found a single target.
24:12A guard named Vaughn.
24:13His soul was a muddy, treacherous gray.
24:15I leaned close to Kyle's ear.
24:17Who is that man?
24:20Vaughn.
24:21He's been with me since I was fifteen.
24:23Saved my life twice.
24:25I pulled back and looked at him.
24:26Kyle, do you trust me?
24:28His soul flushed deep, dark with you all at once.
24:31You're my mate.
24:32Of course I do.
24:33He's a traitor.
24:35We change the route to Thorn Harbor.
24:37And we tell no one.
24:39And my last call.
24:40This was where it ended with Kyle.
24:42Ambushed on the road to the harbor.
24:44Wounds that never healed.
24:45He died defending the city walls.
24:48I finished speaking.
24:49Let my lips brush his cheek.
24:51Kyle's arm came around my waist immediately.
24:54Pulling me in.
24:55Across the yard, I felt Vaughn watching us.
24:58He clocked how close we were.
25:00He looked away fast.
25:01Kyle pressed his face into the curb of my neck.
25:03His breath was warm against my skin.
25:05Are you trying to fix my legs again?
25:08Because I'm happy to wait until tonight.
25:10Or we could start now.
25:11The next morning, Vaughn was gone.
25:14Kyle sat beside me at breakfast.
25:16Cutting my steak into careful pieces without being asked.
25:20You were right.
25:21Vaughn was Marcus' man.
25:23Buried so deep, I never suspected him once in seven years.
25:28It took some...
25:30Persuasion to get him to talk.
25:33He looked at me.
25:34How did you know, Zara?
25:36I looked into his soul, gold and pink.
25:38Wound together.
25:39No suspicion.
25:40No fear.
25:41Lucky guess.
25:42The words were barely out when the pain hit.
25:44White.
25:45Hot behind both temples at once.
25:47My hand went to my head before I could stop it.
25:50Kyle didn't say a word.
25:51He just moved his chair flush against mine.
25:53Un-in-hand kept cutting my food.
25:55The other reached up and wrapped around the back of my neck.
25:57The pain dissolved.
25:58He has stopped asking why it happens.
26:01He just makes sure he is there when it does.
26:03Thorn Harbor.
26:04Kyle's territory.
26:05The land was rough.
26:07Resources thin.
26:08The kind of place the Alpha Council never bothered to look at twice.
26:12The wolves here were loyal to Kyle.
26:15The way wolves are loyal to someone they've chosen.
26:17Out of true devotion.
26:19When I went to the market, they called me Luna and refused my coin.
26:22Every stall.
26:23Every vendor.
26:24I had to set the money down and walk away before they'd touch it.
26:28I came back to the estate breathless.
26:30And my maid watched me come through the door.
26:34The Luna is blind.
26:35But she moves faster than any soldier I've trained with.
26:40Kyle heard her.
26:41That night his fingers found the edges of my eyes.
26:45Zara.
26:47Is it really just nothing?
26:50I nodded.
26:51He pulled me in against his chest and held me there.
26:55It doesn't matter.
26:56I'll be your eyes.
26:57Every sunrise.
26:58Every star.
27:00Whatever you want to see, I'll find the words for it.
27:03I watched his soul through all of it.
27:05The gold was shifting.
27:06Becoming something warmer, deeper.
27:08The more time we spent together, the deeper the gold grew.
27:11Every shared meal.
27:12Every quiet evening beside him.
27:14It only became richer.
27:15But then something strange started happening.
27:18When I was away from him, even briefly, I got restless.
27:20Not just missing him.
27:21It was physical.
27:22A deep, pulling ache I couldn't reason away.
27:24The further I walked, the worse it pulled.
27:26Until it hurt.
27:27I told myself it was the intensity of a new bond.
27:30But I knew that wasn't it.
27:31I don't have a wolf.
27:32I was never supposed to feel this.
27:34That night when he kissed me, his soul shifted into something I'd never seen before.
27:38A pink so saturated and alive.
27:40It looked like the first day of spring breaking open all at once.
27:43The most beautiful thing I had ever seen.
27:46It didn't last.
27:47The next morning, a piece of encrypted intelligence arrived.
27:50Lucian is awake, but the damage is permanent.
27:53Intermittent mania.
27:54He has lost control of his wolf.
27:55A slow smile touched my lips.
27:57This was just the beginning of what was coming for him.
27:59But then, the catch.
28:00The Alpha Council had issued a mandatory summons.
28:03Marcus was hosting a banquet.
28:05Every heir was required to attend.
28:06No exceptions.
28:07Kyle had no choice.
28:09We were going back.
28:09Marcus' estate reeked of bad intentions before we even stepped inside.
28:13I swept the ballroom with my soul-eye the moment we crossed the threshold.
28:17Oily green for greed.
28:18Thick in every corner of the room.
28:20A deep, sickening crimson for lust.
28:22And underneath all of it, something flat and purposeful that made my skin crawl.
28:26I found Kyle's hand under the table and held it.
28:28Don't eat.
28:29Don't touch the wine.
28:30And don't leave my side.
28:32Not for a second.
28:33Kyle glanced at me.
28:34As you wish, my Luna.
28:35I couldn't explain.
28:37Not here.
28:37But I remembered this night.
28:39In my last life, this banquet ended in blood.
28:41Their souls were a flat, professional gray.
28:44The color of people who had killed before and slept just fine after.
28:47Last time, when the blades came out, I didn't think.
28:50I just threw myself in front of Lucian and took a poison silver dagger to the lips.
28:54Carried that scar for years.
28:56Monsei, when Lucian was already king, I mentioned it.
28:59He looked at me with something close to boredom.
29:02Protecting your mate is your duty, Zara.
29:04You're already Luna.
29:05What more do you want?
29:06I don't make the same mistakes twice.
29:08It happened fast.
29:09The three dancers reached into their silks.
29:11Short blades.
29:12Jagged.
29:13Silver.
29:14And they lunged.
29:15Kyle moved before I could blink.
29:17He didn't care about the secret anymore.
29:19He came half out of his chair.
29:21One arm sweeping me behind him.
29:23And his guards materialized from the dark.
29:25Like they'd been part of the shadows all along.
29:28A wall of bodies between us and everything.
29:30We were safe.
29:31I looked past them toward Lucian.
29:33No one moved to cover me.
29:34The moment the first blade flashed, Celeste screamed and rang.
29:38Straight for the exit, he didn't look backwards.
29:41Lucian was surrounded.
29:42A silver dagger, soaked in concentrated wolfsbane, buried itself into his thigh.
29:48Dark blood hit the floor.
29:49He went down hard, gasping.
29:51Through the screaming, the overturned chairs, the crush of bodies trying to flee.
29:56His eyes found mine.
29:58He was begging.
29:59His soul was a wreck.
30:01Terror and pain and underneath it all.
30:04A dark green tide of regret.
30:06I held his face.
30:07Kept my face completely still.
30:09Didn't move a single muscle.
30:11I am blind after all.
30:12I can't see a thing.
30:14I didn't make it two steps into the carriage.
30:16The spike hit the moment the door closed.
30:18Red hot.
30:19Straight through the center of my skull.
30:21It was the worst backlash I'd ever suffered.
30:23I scanned the entire ballroom.
30:25Every soul.
30:26Every shadow.
30:27Every blade before they struck me.
30:29It cost me everything.
30:30The world went black.
30:32My knees folded.
30:33Kyle caught me before I hit the floor.
30:36His arms locked around my waist like armor.
30:38Pulling me hard against his chest.
30:40Zara.
30:41I'd never heard that in his voice before.
30:43Fear.
30:43My head.
30:44It was all I could get out.
30:45He didn't wait.
30:46He pulled me in against him and pressed both palms to my temples.
30:50And something happened that I still can't explain.
30:52It wasn't just pressure.
30:53It wasn't just warmth.
30:54It felt like a hand reaching through the pain and pulling it out from the root.
30:58Gone completely.
30:59In seconds.
31:00I lay against his chest, dazed.
31:02Listening to his heart pound.
31:04Why does his touch do that?
31:05This isn't comfort.
31:06This is something older.
31:08Something that runs deeper than either of us understands.
31:11And it is starting to frighten me.
31:13While I recovered in Kyle's arms,
31:15reaching as learning what that blade actually felt like.
31:18The wolf's bane on those daggers was pure.
31:20It doesn't just wound.
31:21It destroys whatever the body would normally heal.
31:23It shredded his body's ability to heal from the inside out.
31:27In my last life, I took that blade from him.
31:29I felt the silver eat into my flesh.
31:31I felt the poison dissolve everything I had.
31:33I survived it barely.
31:35And he never once mentioned it again.
31:37He treated my body like a shield he was entitled to stand behind.
31:40This time he got to find out what it actually costs.
31:43The healers couldn't do a thing.
31:45The damage was permanent.
31:46Lucian would never walk again.
31:47The man who spent his whole life looking down at everyone from a great height
31:51was never going to stand again.
31:52The intelligence reports kept arriving.
31:55One after another, like a slow collapse.
31:58Lucian confirmed permanently disabled.
32:01Celeste began her exit strategy the moment he lost his stride.
32:04She spent months petitioning the Alpha Council to dissolve their bond.
32:09Six months later, the Alpha King had seen enough.
32:11He stripped Lucian of his inheritance.
32:13No title.
32:15No claim.
32:15No future.
32:16In the werewolf world,
32:18no one pledges their sword to a man who can't leave from a plant.
32:21In our last life, Lucian thought seizing the throne was simply a matter of wanting it badly enough.
32:27He had no idea what was actually holding him.
32:30He thought those allies followed him by choice.
32:33I made sure they were worthy long before they ever pledged themselves.
32:37The traitors he feared never had the chance to strike.
32:40I silenced them first.
32:41And the commanders he trusted with his army were placed there by my hand.
32:45One by one paid for in blood.
32:47Without me, he couldn't have held a border crossing, let alone throwing.
32:53Celeste didn't mind.
32:55She stripped his estate clean, jewelry, gold, every coin she could find.
33:00Then she was gone.
33:01She went back to Marcus.
33:02But the terms had changed.
33:04He didn't want a Luna this time.
33:06He took her as a mistress.
33:07I ran into her yesterday.
33:09A high-end perfume shop near the harbor.
33:11I was holding a bottle, a rare blend, when she reached over and plucked it straight out of my hand.
33:17I'll take all of these, she told the clerk.
33:19She was draped in diamonds.
33:21Her soul was the same toxic green as always been.
33:24She looked me over.
33:25Oh, Zara, she said.
33:27Perfume seems a bit pointless for you, doesn't it?
33:30She leaned in.
33:31Expensive wine on her breath.
33:33It's not as if your man can stand up to get close enough to smell it.
33:37A little gasp.
33:38A hand over her mouth, eyes wide with performed regret.
33:41That was awful of me.
33:43You don't mind, do you?
33:45I smiled.
33:46Not at all, I said.
33:47Take them all.
33:49The clerk looked baffled.
33:50I didn't explain.
33:52There is no point arguing with a woman who's already walking toward her own end.
33:56She just doesn't know the road she is on yet.
33:59It was late.
34:00Thorn Harbor was in a hard rain.
34:02My headguard appeared in the doorway, his face tight.
34:06Lupin is at the front gate, Luna.
34:07He has been dragging himself through the mud for the better part of an hour.
34:11He won't leave.
34:13I walked out to the entrance and looked through the iron bars.
34:16He was there, soaked to me.
34:18Shaking, loaded in filth from the road.
34:21When he saw me, something desperate ignited in his eyes.
34:25The lurch tore, and the guards pulled from him.
34:28He went down into the crazy mud.
34:30Why?
34:31The word tore out of him like it had been caught on someone.
34:34Zara, tell me.
34:35In the last life, you always knew what was coming.
34:38I thought if a blind girl could build a kingdom for me, then all I had to do was take
34:42the credit.
34:43So why did I lose everything?
34:45He started screaming, slamming his fists against his own useless legs.
34:49The sound of it got swallowed up by the thunder.
34:52When he finally ran out of breath, he looked up at me.
34:55He looked small.
34:56The arrogance was gone.
34:58What was left underneath wasn't much.
35:00Zara.
35:01Like he said, quiet enough.
35:03His voice doing something approximating humility.
35:06I made a mistake.
35:08Come back.
35:10Come back.
35:12The luna title, it's yours.
35:14Truly, this time, we can rebuild.
35:17Together.
35:18Like before.
35:20We can take it all back.
35:21I looked at his soul.
35:23Thick, oily green.
35:24Bottomless with it.
35:25He wasn't performing.
35:27He was genuinely drowning in regret.
35:29That almost made it worse.
35:30Lucian, you still don't understand what you had.
35:33I was never your luna because you became king.
35:36You were only ever king because I chose to stand beside you.
35:40I turned my back on him.
35:42Walked toward the warm lights of the estate.
35:45Lock the gates.
35:46If he sets foot on this land again, you have my permission.
35:49I'm permission to treat him accordingly.
35:51The iron gates slammed shut.
35:53The sound cut through the rain like a verdict.
35:56He was still screaming my name when I walked through the front door.
35:59I didn't look back.
36:01That door was never opening again.
36:03Celeste's day.
36:04The report arrived this morning.
36:07History repeated itself down to the last attack.
36:09Marcus worked her until there was nothing left to walk.
36:12And they carried her body out of his estate.
36:15Someone noted the scent still on me.
36:17It broke me and she'd snatched it from my hands in that shot.
36:20She was wearing it when she died.
36:22Lucian heard the news from his room.
36:24He didn't breathe.
36:25He didn't rage.
36:26Good.
36:27She watched me fall and ran straight to another man's bed.
36:30I gave up everything in this life for her.
36:33And that's how she repays it?
36:35He beat his fists against the wheels of his chair until his knuckles bled.
36:39I never should have poisoned Zara.
36:41I never should have chosen Celeste over Zara.
36:43I was still holding the report when I heard the bedroom door.
36:46I crumpled the paper in my fist.
36:48Kyle walked in.
36:50I turned toward the window.
36:52The sun had gone down.
36:53I was just...
36:54Before I could finish, he reached out and took the crumpled note from my hand.
36:59He smoothed it flat.
37:00Then lifted it to the light.
37:02Then he lowered it and looked straight at me.
37:04You're not blind in the way you let everyone believe, are you?
37:09My throat closed.
37:10I couldn't find a single word.
37:12I looked into his soul.
37:14It was burning.
37:15A sharp, casserole orange came here.
37:18Don't I deserve the truth?
37:21I marked you.
37:22I made you my mate.
37:24I would have protected you regardless.
37:26Blind, wolfless, it didn't matter.
37:28But for a year, you let me believe I understood you.
37:32And I didn't.
37:33The blind girl in the cripple.
37:35Two people who had made an art form of being something they weren't.
37:39Standing in this room in the dark.
37:41Every mask we'd ever worn was gone.
37:43He turned for the door.
37:45And I felt something I hadn't felt in two lifetimes.
37:48Genuine terror.
37:49I threw myself off the bed and wrapped my arms around him.
37:53Held on.
37:54I could feel the anger in him.
37:56But underneath it, his soul was already shifting.
37:59The orange coon, bleeding towards something else.
38:02The harder I held on,
38:04The faster it faded.
38:06My voice came out small.
38:07I pressed my face against his back and just held on.
38:11His soul turned pink.
38:12His pride hadn't moved.
38:14He was still standing there.
38:16Every muscle locked against me.
38:18But his heart had already answered.
38:20I came around to face him.
38:22Pressed my cheek against his chest and listened.
38:25His heartbeat was fast.
38:27Uneven.
38:28His soul was so pink it was almost blinding.
38:30Kyle.
38:31I steadied my voice as best I could.
38:35That wasn't the only thing I lied about.
38:37This was the secret I'd carried through two lives without telling a single person.
38:40I see souls.
38:42I can read the truth inside people.
38:44He went completely still.
38:46And I know what's coming.
38:48The werewolf world is about to burn.
38:51Thorn Harbor will be under siege.
38:53I looked up at him.
38:55In my last life, you died when the city walls fell.
38:58His breathing changed.
38:59I searched his soul one last time.
39:02Not a flicker of doubt.
39:03Not a trace of fear.
39:05Only gold peered his time.
39:07Shimmering gold.
39:08Do you believe me?
39:09I asked.
39:10He didn't answer with words.
39:12He pulled me into his chest.
39:14Both arms, no space between us.
39:16And buried his face against my neck.
39:19I believe in you.
39:22That's the only thing in this world I'm sure of.
39:25Five hours.
39:26That is what it took to dismay.
39:28Kyle gave me the Alpha War seal and put every warrior in the pack under my command.
39:33We didn't just hold Thorn Harbor.
39:34We took the fight to the Alpha Games for ourselves.
39:36Then came the first night of the Great Siege.
39:39The Vos Army hit the valley.
39:41The sea of blackbird and wall to wall.
39:44As far as the dark of siege.
39:45Kyle sat in his chair at the edge of the fortress wall.
39:48Watching it come.
39:49Then he stood up.
39:50Not in our bedroom.
39:51Not in the dark where no one could see.
39:53The front of every soul on that night.
39:55He shrugged off the heavy coat he'd hidden behind for seven years and let it drop.
40:00His bones began to crack the ship and move no more.
40:02He transformed.
40:04A massive silver wolf.
40:05He was huge, larger than any Alpha in history.
40:08His fur shimmered like liquid metal in the dark.
40:10He stood on the edge of the fortress wall.
40:12And he let out a howl that shook the very cloud.
40:14Every wolf on that field.
40:16Ally and enemy alike.
40:17Dropped their heads not from orders.
40:19From something older than orders.
40:21Seven years of buried power.
40:22Of swallowed rage.
40:24Of playing the broken man while the world underestimated him.
40:27He snapped his head around before the echo died.
40:29That silver gaze cut straight through the smoke.
40:32Through the fire.
40:32Through everything between us and found me.
40:35I felt at the moment it landed.
40:37Not just a look.
40:38Something that went all the way down to the bubble.
40:40Like a string that had taught over two lifetimes had finally been released.
40:44A faded napalm.
40:46He had kept his wolf locked away for seven years.
40:49The bond had been sealed with me.
40:51But now his wolf was fully awake.
40:53And everything that he could help back him for at once.
40:56He shifted back.
40:57Dropped one knee on the stone.
40:59Chest heathen.
41:00Hands braced against the ground.
41:01Trembling.
41:02When he looked up at me.
41:04It was like the first time.
41:06Like he was seeing something he'd been reaching toward without knowing it.
41:09It's you.
41:10His voice was right.
41:12It was always you.
41:15The moon goddess didn't give you to me for your gift.
41:19She gave you to me because you're mine.
41:22I felt the truth of it in my own hair.
41:24Every piece of it clicking into Chris all at once.
41:27The jolt when our fingers first touched at the meeting wall.
41:30The way his hands could pull the pain came out of my skull.
41:33The suffocating dread every time he left the room.
41:36I don't have a wolf.
41:37So the bond had come through quietly.
41:40A whisper where it should have been born.
41:42But it had always been there.
41:43From the very first moment when he reached out and touched his knee.
41:47Our blood had already made it.
41:50Take your place as Alpha King.
41:53The Grand Hall was in ruins around him.
41:55Dust still settling from the siege.
41:57And Zahra shall be your Luna.
42:00Kyle didn't hesitate.
42:02No.
42:02One word.
42:03It landed in that hall like a stone dropped into stone.
42:07I'm issuing two commands.
42:09First, we are establishing a dual kingship.
42:14Zahra and I rule together.
42:17As equals.
42:18The silence cracked.
42:20Impossible!
42:21There has never been a woman on that throne!
42:24Kyle stepped up onto the platform.
42:26He looked out across the council.
42:28Every face, every objection.
42:30With the kind of calm that has nothing left to prove.
42:33When Thorn Harbor was under siege,
42:35Zahra stood on the front lines beside me.
42:38Every wound I took,
42:40she felt.
42:42Every sacrifice I made,
42:43she had already paid a higher price for.
42:46He brought his hand down flat on the stone table.
42:49The crack of it echoed.
42:50Without her,
42:51I'd be in an unmarked grave on the battlefield.
42:54You don't get to erase what she built
42:56just because she isn't what you expected.
43:00I am the Alpha King.
43:02And so is she.
43:04Alpha King!
43:05He leaned forward,
43:06voice dropping.
43:07If anyone here has a problem with that,
43:10step forward now.
43:11No one moved.
43:12I have spent seven years being underestimated.
43:14I have no patience left for it.
43:16Not for myself,
43:17and not for her.
43:18The bond had been a river with no outlet for years.
43:20The night the war ended,
43:22the dam broke.
43:22He marked me.
43:23The moment his teeth found the back of my neck,
43:26something detonated beneath my skin.
43:28Not pain,
43:28or not only pain,
43:30something that felt like being struck by lightning from the inside.
43:33My bones began to shift.
43:34I screamed.
43:35Kyle didn't let go.
43:36He pulled me harder against his chest and held on,
43:39his soul blazing gold in my sight.
43:41Steady as a thick star,
43:43an anchor in the middle of everything coming apart.
43:45Something that had been waiting under my skin for 17 years was finally waking up.
43:49It was never missing.
43:50It was just too powerful to sort my sound zone.
43:53It needed something equally matched to call it out.
43:55I shifted.
43:56White.
43:56Pure.
43:57Absolute white.
43:58A wolf larger than any female in recorded history.
44:00Her coat caught the moonlight the way fresh snow catches it from within.
44:04Kyle's silver wolf circled me up,
44:06once twice,
44:07three times.
44:08Then he stopped.
44:10Pressed his massive head against my neck,
44:12and let out a sound so low and so full,
44:14it barely qualified as a sound at all.
44:17The elders hadn't moved,
44:19in the old legends.
44:20The white wolf is the living avatar of the moon goddess.
44:23She hadn't walked the earth in 500 years.
44:26I had never been broken.
44:27My wolf had never been missing.
44:29She was just waiting for the one person strong enough to bring her home.
44:33Kyle shifted back.
44:34He pulled me into his lap and held me there,
44:37both of us still catching our breath.
44:39His soul.
44:40As I looked at it,
44:41I had no words.
44:43Gold and pink,
44:44woven together so completely,
44:46they'd become a single color,
44:47that didn't exist anywhere else.
44:50I knew,
44:51said into my hair,
44:52from the moment you chose me at the ball,
44:55I didn't know what you were.
44:58But I knew you were something the world hadn't seen before.
45:02You were just waiting for someone to finally find you.
45:05I never let myself dream this far in my last life.
45:08I was too busy holding someone else to ever look up for myself.
45:12Now I sat at the highest seat in the council hall.
45:15Kyle beside me.
45:16Every elf would make up their heads.
45:18The intelligence network was mine.
45:21The land rights were mine to grant or revoke.
45:23The power I had spent a lifetime building for someone else.
45:26It was finally in my own hands.
45:28The queens.
45:28And then they brought in Lushin.
45:31He dragged himself across the stone floor on his hands.
45:34He reached my boots,
45:35and stretched out one trembling hand toward the hem of my robes.
45:39A guard stepped forward.
45:41His sword flashed.
45:42The blade stopped an inch from Lushin's fingers.
45:45Lushin didn't even register it.
45:46He just started sitting there.
45:48This isn't right.
45:50That seat belongs to me.
45:52You were my instrument, Zara.
45:55I promised to make you my Luna.
45:57Why isn't that enough for you?
45:58Get down.
45:59Help me up there.
46:00That's where I'm supposed to be.
46:02I looked at him for a long moment.
46:04I remembered the last line.
46:05The rebel wolves had us surrounded.
46:08He didn't reach for me.
46:09He didn't hesitate.
46:10He turned and ran.
46:12And when they caught him anyway,
46:13he offered me up to buy himself another day.
46:15And at the very end,
46:17he was the one who forced the wolf's vein down my throat.
46:20He was the one who gave Celeste my title and my burial.
46:23He threw my body to the crows.
46:25And now he was on the floor of my hall,
46:27demanding I come down and hand it all back to him.
46:30I looked at his soul.
46:31There was nothing left to me.
46:34Hold him.
46:35The guards pinned him to the stone.
46:37He crashed.
46:37He tried to bite.
46:38He screamed until his voice cracked.
46:40They forced his jaw open,
46:42and I poured the wolf's vein myself.
46:44A quick death would have been mercy,
46:46and I had none left to give him.
46:48This was something else.
46:50A slow, total erasure.
46:52First, the taste would go.
46:54Then the smell of air.
46:55Then the light, fading at the edges,
46:57dimming inward.
46:58Then sound.
46:59Then touch.
47:00Then nothing at all.
47:02A living body with no world left inside it,
47:04trapped in the dark he had always carried,
47:06with nothing for company but his own guilt.
47:08It took a week.
47:09The guard came to me on a quiet morning
47:11and delivered the news without ceremony.
47:14Lucian was dead.
47:15Died in total silence.
47:17Total darkness.
47:18Without a single sensation to mark the end.
47:21What should we do with the body?
47:23I didn't look up for my work.
47:24Take it outside the territory.
47:26No retz.
47:27No marker.
47:28Leave nothing.
47:30I gave his remains exactly what he gave mine.
47:33Down to the last detail.
47:35The account was closed.
47:37The fire had burned down to embers.
47:39The room was almost quiet.
47:42Kyle's arms came around my waist from behind.
47:45His breath was warm and even against my neck.
47:51You went to see him today?
47:53I did.
47:55I watched a monster reach the end he earned.
47:58I leaned back into him.
47:59Are you jealous of a dead man, Kyle?
48:02A low sound in his chest.
48:03Not quite a laugh.
48:04He reached up slowly and found the knot of the silk blindfold I still wore in public.
48:09Worked it loose.
48:10Let it fall.
48:11The moonlight came through the window.
48:13Neither of us spoke for a while.
48:15Then he took my hand and guided it to his chest.
48:18Pressed it flat right above his heart.
48:19Zara, tell me what color it is.
48:21I laughed, soft, surprised by it.
48:23I closed my eyes and turned everything I had toward him.
48:26This man, who gave me his trust before I deserved it.
48:29Who stood up in front of an army to unmake seven years of his own carefully constructed lie.
48:34Who fought his way to a throne he didn't want.
48:36Just so I could stand beside him on equal ground.
48:39His soul.
48:39I don't have the words for it.
48:41Even now, a pillar of gold, deep and unwavering.
48:44And running through the heart of it.
48:45A tide of pink so rich and so dark it looked like the last light of a sunset seen through
48:50clear water.
48:50The kind of color time can't bleach.
48:53It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
48:56And I've seen a lot of ugly things.
48:58His arms tightened around me.
49:01Describe it.
49:02I want to hear it.
49:03I turned in his arms.
49:04Found his chest.
49:05Pressed my lips to the place above his heart and held them there.
49:09I don't think any language has the right words for it.
49:11I looked up at him.
49:12I have the rest of my life to try.
49:15I have the rest of my life to try.
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