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00:00Two years as Luna of Silverweight Pack.
00:03Tonight my husband sent me a New Year's gift.
00:05A photo of him in another woman's bed.
00:10Every one of them wants me to shift into a she-wolf and tear this ballroom apart.
00:14That's the Luna they remember.
00:16Bury it.
00:18Last time Matthew got caught, I torched his yacht before the party ended.
00:21They still talk about it.
00:23Tonight I just need to get Ellie upstairs safely.
00:26The rest can wait until midnight is over.
00:28Her breath is warm.
00:31Mine stopped two minutes ago.
00:34She smells like milk and innocence.
00:37The estate downstairs smells like betrayal.
00:43Alice has been like a real mother to me.
00:46Tonight I need her as something more.
00:51Isla, I'm so sorry.
00:53I'll call that bastard right now.
00:55Mom, I'm busy. Pack business.
00:58I'll come back tomorrow to smooth things over.
01:01Tell Isla she handled it well today.
01:03Real Luna now.
01:04Docile.
01:05Tell her to keep it up.
01:06That bastard.
01:08He forgets who holds this family together.
01:10Mom.
01:11I'm not here for justice tonight.
01:13Five years ago you gave half your liver to save my mother.
01:16I've never forgotten.
01:17You asked me to marry him.
01:18To tame him.
01:19I tried everything for two years.
01:21The mate bond isn't enough to change a man with no honor.
01:23I want a divorce.
01:25And full custody of Ellie.
01:27All right.
01:27I'll help you.
01:29Let me handle the elders.
01:30Back then it was Matthew who saw you first.
01:32He begged me to make you his mate.
01:34He did love me once.
01:35Nailed and begged the moon goddess when Ellie was born.
01:37But honor isn't a feeling.
01:38It's a choice he stopped making.
01:41Get me Elder Margaret.
01:42It's a matriarch summons.
01:44Tonight.
01:46Alice was the Luna before me.
01:49She's willing to break the pack herself.
01:58My wolf hasn't howled in two years.
02:01Tonight she just watched the snow fall.
02:04Silent.
02:05Waiting.
02:15Two years of silence.
02:17Tonight my wolf will choose who hears me next.
02:23Lucas.
02:24It's me.
02:25I need your help.
02:26Start the divorce paperwork tonight.
02:28Isla.
02:29I've been waiting.
02:30The documents are ready.
02:32They've always been ready.
02:37Two years I believed the bond would save him.
02:40Tonight I found out someone else was ready to save me first.
02:49Every time he cheats, the number in my account grows.
02:56Tonight he reopened the club I shut down last month.
02:58And he wants me to bring him protection.
03:01For her.
03:03Two years ago a message like this would have made my wolf tear her own throat open.
03:07Tonight I don't even have the strength to be angry.
03:09A year ago I would have smashed this phone and burned that club to the ground.
03:12Tonight I just want him to know I'm too tired to even be angry.
03:15My wolf is curled up somewhere deep inside me.
03:17She's been sleeping for a long time.
03:23Mommy, will daddy like it?
03:26Of course he will, sweetheart.
03:29I love this picture.
03:31But I know it's already a lie.
03:33The scent hit me first.
03:35Musk, rain, and the sweet perfume of another woman.
03:38Daddy!
03:39Daddy!
03:40Missed me already, pup?
03:41It's only been one night.
03:43No matter what we've become, he is still a good father.
03:46That's the cruelest part.
03:53Inside this folder, medical releases, school forms, and one document he will never bother
03:59to read.
03:59I was bracing for you to storm that club last night, but just a delivery guy with condoms.
04:04Isla, that's new.
04:05Isn't this what you wanted?
04:06A Luna who stays quiet and lets her alpha play.
04:09Hey, relax.
04:11You're still the one with the mark.
04:12They're just distractions.
04:13Two years ago, he swore to the moon goddess that I would be the only one carrying his scent.
04:18Now his distractions keep appearing.
04:20One after another, diluting the sanctity of a bond he begged me to accept.
04:24He forgot that vow.
04:25I haven't.
04:28Sign these.
04:29Ellie's advanced schooling, medical releases.
04:32These little administrative things.
04:34You can handle them.
04:37He didn't even glance at the title.
04:40Done.
04:41He thought I would never leave him.
04:44He was wrong.
04:46And then I saw her.
04:48Please, I don't have insurance.
04:49No ID.
04:50No pack number.
04:51Move aside.
04:55Not going to help your old friend?
05:02He didn't even say goodbye to Ellie.
05:04I didn't care what he was doing anymore.
05:06And then the pack's social fleet pushed the headline.
05:16Mommy, can we get ice cream?
05:18Yes, baby.
05:19Let's go.
05:21In the warm afternoon light, everything looked like a post like a postcard.
05:26But everything was already broken.
05:31Ellie?
05:33Mommy?
05:36Ellie, if Mommy and Daddy don't live in the same den anymore, would you want to stay with me?
05:49This was the first time I ever asked for her answer.
05:55I would.
05:57Where Mommy is, is where the pack is.
06:00Daddy's busy a lot.
06:02He smells like other people.
06:03But I have Mommy.
06:04A child's world is simple.
06:06And that simplicity just sliced through every lie I had been living.
06:13Good girl.
06:15Let's not tell Daddy about this, okay?
06:16It's our secret.
06:18Okay.
06:20She deserves a mother who doesn't flinch.
06:22Starting today, that's who I have to be.
06:24Luna, I mean ma'am.
06:26Alpha Robinson asked for the keys to Misswood Manor.
06:28He's giving them to Sienna Ford.
06:30He said she needs a safe place to recover.
06:32Misswood, my river at Manta, my river estate before the mating, part of my dowry.
06:36He picked the one place that would cut the deepest.
06:38Got it.
06:41Territory use tax.
06:43If he's going to park his stray in my house, he can pay tribute.
06:46Not a word of reply.
06:48Just the money.
06:49He thinks silver can silence a Luna's tongue.
06:53He has no idea.
06:54I'm not the Luna anymore.
06:56I'm something older.
06:58Something harder.
07:05This is Ellie's third birthday.
07:07Not Sienna's stage.
07:09Ellie, sweetheart.
07:10This is from me.
07:12Let me put it on, okay?
07:13No.
07:18Looks like Ellie doesn't like me much.
07:20I just wanted to make her happy.
07:32Keep your disgusting affairs away from us.
07:35And away from my daughter.
07:37Alpha, I just wanted to bring Ellie a birthday gift.
07:41As you asked.
07:42As you asked.
07:43Three words.
07:44He told her to come.
07:45He sent her to my daughter's birthday.
07:47Did you hurt yourself?
07:48I thought you'd learned some decorum by now.
07:50Looks like I was wrong.
07:52He asked me where my dignity is.
07:54He doesn't know.
07:55Dignity was the last thing I put down for him.
08:01Bloodline Trust.
08:03Matthew's father set it up the day Ellie was born.
08:05Sealed by PAC law.
08:06Never meant to be touched.
08:07A massive sum.
08:09Gone.
08:09The signature was his.
08:12No answer.
08:13That was my first answer.
08:15I'm driving to his office.
08:16Now.
08:17I am the Luna of Silver Lake PAC.
08:18I had every right to be here.
08:21Luna.
08:21The Alpha is busy.
08:22Please.
08:23Let me announce.
08:24Busy.
08:24The word his staff used for what was happening behind that door.
08:28I knew.
08:29I had always known.
08:31She didn't look away.
08:33She wanted me to see her on my husband's throne.
08:37Oh.
08:38Alpha.
08:39She scared me.
08:40Two faces.
08:42Switched in one breath.
08:44She was very good at this.
08:45Why are you here, Ilissa?
08:47Is the house on fire?
08:49The Bloodline Trust is drained.
08:51Did you take it?
08:53I didn't need him to confess.
08:54I already knew the signature.
09:01Alpha.
09:01I'm so sorry.
09:03Without my contract breach fee, you wouldn't have had to touch Ellie's fund.
09:06Don't overreact.
09:07It's compensation for her.
09:08Call it avoiding a challenge from her kin.
09:10Compensation.
09:10With our Dutlisa's safety net shattered.
09:12The other belief that Siren Studio was still mine was about to die too.
09:16Alpha.
09:17The council meeting is starting in five.
09:19Come on.
09:20Stop growling.
09:21I've ordered a spirit gem necklace for you.
09:23It'll be delivered tomorrow.
09:25He didn't notice.
09:26I hadn't been growling.
09:27I hadn't made a sound since I opened the door.
09:30Luna.
09:31The Alpha's gift just arrived from the jeweler.
09:36Storage vault.
09:37Thank you, Ma.
09:37A spirit gem necklace.
09:39A bribe dressed as an apology.
09:40I didn't need it.
09:42I didn't want it.
09:43I wouldn't touch it.
09:44Not this time.
09:45Repeat.
09:46That word hit me like a physical blow.
09:49There had been lunas in this pack before me.
09:51Betrayed.
09:52Silenced.
09:53Replaced.
09:54I was not the first.
09:55But I had a choice they hadn't.
09:57I had Siren Studio.
09:59I had my own ground.
10:00My studio.
10:01My technology.
10:03Three years of partnership with the Velasco Vampire Clan.
10:06Please welcome our special speaker, Miss Sienna Ford.
10:10And Matthew gave my stage to her.
10:13Matthew, what gives you the right to replace my guest speaker?
10:16Sienna is trending.
10:17Her buzz is better than yours.
10:18We're a pack, remember?
10:19Your resources are mine.
10:21Her earnings offset the fund.
10:22My resources are his?
10:24That was his whole world wove.
10:25That was the sentence that ended 20 years of belief.
10:28Hi, everyone.
10:29The technology is really complicated.
10:32The frequency is kind of like the howling algorithm.
10:43My ears!
10:44Is she trying to de-domp us?
10:45Incompetent Omega!
10:47Get her off my frequency range!
10:49She was just nervous.
10:50We'll have her better prepared next time.
10:51He called it vampires, called it incompetence.
10:53I called it the last proof I needed.
10:57Three years.
10:58Three pack partnerships.
11:00Gone in 60 seconds because my husband thought his mistress could stand on my stage.
11:05The damage was done.
11:07And something in me.
11:09Finished.
11:10I'll send the new contracts tomorrow.
11:11Let's get dinner, Eilis.
11:13For two years, I had raged.
11:15I had clawed.
11:16I had howled.
11:17Not anymore.
11:19He didn't notice.
11:20He never did.
11:21Tomorrow, I stop fighting his way.
11:23And start playing mine.
11:28Small accident.
11:30I'll double your loss from the Terry treasury.
11:32He didn't even read past the second line.
11:36All I have to do is whine.
11:38And he'll hand me your studio on a silver platter.
11:41Why cling to the title of Luna when everyone knows you've lost his favor?
11:46Two years of screaming.
11:47And for what?
11:48Yeah.
11:50I did go feral.
11:51But tell me, Omega.
11:52Omega, who gave you the courage to bare your teeth at a Luna?
12:04Isla!
12:12Are you okay?
12:13You used to smash cars.
12:15Now you're attacking my people?
12:16You've become vicious.
12:18And you?
12:19Stealing from your pup's inheritance.
12:21Ruining my event.
12:23What does that make you, Matthew?
12:25Let's see how far you can push me.
12:27I counted the cost.
12:28The contracts.
12:29The bruises.
12:31The years.
12:32Tonight the ledger closes.
12:35Isla.
12:35The paperwork is almost done.
12:37Five days.
12:38Tops.
12:39You and Ellie won't be left without territory.
12:41One more thing.
12:42The old Alpha's memorial.
12:43Would you stand as Luna one last time?
12:45For him?
12:46Okay, Mom.
12:47I'll be there.
12:48The old Alpha was the only Robinson who called me daughter.
12:51I owed him one last goodbye.
12:54Ozone and rain.
12:55He's here.
12:56And he's not alone.
13:00Strangers from enemy packs.
13:02That's what we'd become.
13:05Matthew.
13:07Today is your father's funeral.
13:10Why bring her here?
13:12Isla is still your Luna.
13:14I know I shouldn't be here.
13:17I'm not worthy.
13:20But I'm pregnant.
13:22He's a Robinson.
13:26Since she's carrying a Robinson pup, it's natural she should pay respects.
13:30For two years, he swore Ellie was his only heir.
13:33Until now.
13:35Auntie.
13:36Let's not disturb the old Alpha's rest.
13:39Alice, I'm not feeling well.
13:40I'm going to take Ellie home.
13:50Mom, are we going home?
13:52Yes, baby.
13:54We're going home.
13:56He thinks home is still his.
13:58He thinks four more days means nothing.
14:01Four days.
14:02And this house he calls mine will no longer be my home.
14:08Three more days until the severance ceremony.
14:11I'm done caring what he leaves to whom.
14:14I'm taking my daughter and walking out of this pack tonight.
14:18Luna!
14:18Luna!
14:20Something's wrong!
14:21Ellie is missing!
14:22That cold running through me, it's not fear.
14:25It's the instinct of a mother catching a predator's scent.
14:29Isla Reed.
14:30You're in my way.
14:31Your pup is in my way too.
14:33The pack doesn't need two heirs.
14:36You both deserve to die.
14:38Sienna.
14:39So she finally crossed that line.
14:43Saving my daughter is instinct.
14:46Destroying Sienna, that's just something I'll do on the way.
14:50Sarah, listen to me once.
14:52Sienna Ford.
14:53The Rogue Fight Club photos.
14:54Her forged lineage papers.
14:56The recordings of her trading pack secrets for favors.
14:58Luna, you-
14:59Release it all.
15:00Pack network, public media.
15:01Buy out every headline.
15:0324 hours.
15:03Make her a Perea.
15:04Yes, Luna.
15:06Luna.
15:07Luna.
15:15Cold like a physical blow.
15:34Her breath.
15:36Her wolf.
15:37Both fading.
15:46Three hours to save my daughter.
15:48Three hours to end Sienna.
15:50The math was clean.
15:52Isla!
15:53It's you!
15:54You leaked everything!
15:57You're trying to destroy her?
15:58I told you.
16:00No one will replace you as Luna.
16:02Luna.
16:03Why use these filthy, underhanded tricks?
16:05She's pregnant with a pack wolf, Isla.
16:07You know how fragile a pregnant female is.
16:09Stress could kill the pup.
16:13He hasn't even asked me why I'm soaking wet.
16:18Matthew.
16:19Do you know that your daughter was kidnapped this afternoon?
16:25She was tied to a sinking boat in Rogue Waters.
16:28She almost drowned.
16:32Is she...
16:33Is she okay?
16:34I'm worried about our daughter too.
16:35I'll get the enforcers to investigate.
16:37But that has nothing to do with Sienna.
16:39She's been with me all afternoon.
16:45Are you sure?
16:49I held the truth in my hand.
16:52His wolf knew.
16:53He chose not to listen.
16:55No.
16:56That's not my voice.
16:58It's fake.
16:59It's all AI generation.
17:02His wolf smelled it.
17:04The lie.
17:05Metal.
17:05Rot.
17:06Wrong.
17:07His wolf howled from inside.
17:09His human put a muzzle on it.
17:11Alpha.
17:12My stomach.
17:13The baby.
17:13She wants us dead so she can keep the inheritance.
17:16Isla.
17:16Are you trying to ruin Sienna because of the baby?
17:19Did you fabricate this?
17:20I searched his eyes for the boy who promised me the world.
17:24I found only a stranger.
17:25Matthew.
17:26You're truly blind.
17:27Your eyes see.
17:29But your wolf is blind.
17:44The rage.
17:46The heartbreak.
17:47The chaos.
17:49They all drained away.
17:52What was left was clarity.
17:54Was clarity.
17:56He didn't ask about the recorder.
17:58He didn't ask who kidnapped our daughter.
18:01Sienna's unborn story mattered more than the truth.
18:06Go ahead.
18:08The weight of the pack.
18:10The expectations.
18:11The failed bond.
18:16Gone.
18:18All of it.
18:19Gone.
18:24My clothes.
18:26Ellie's clothes.
18:27Documents.
18:28Changes.
18:30My parents' photograph.
18:33My violin.
18:40I carry his scent.
18:44I don't need them anymore.
18:49There's no warmth left here.
18:51This territory has turned hostile.
18:53Mommy.
18:54Are we going home?
18:56Yeah, baby.
18:58We're going home.
19:06The plane climbed through the first layer.
19:09Everything below turned to white.
19:11The plane rose higher.
19:14Pack territory vanished beneath the clouds.
19:16No Matthew Robinson.
19:18No Sienna Ford.
19:20No pack politics.
19:22And for the first time,
19:24my wolf is mine.
19:27I am a lone wolf now.
19:31And my wolf.
19:32And my wolf finally breathes.
19:39Alpha.
19:40Our pup almost.
19:43It's okay now.
19:44Rest.
19:47Three days ago,
19:48if I'd scented another woman on him,
19:50I would have thrown his whiskey glass at the wall.
19:52He's waiting for that.
19:55The Isla-la he remembers.
19:57The Isla who still cared enough to break glass for him.
20:01Alpha Robinson.
20:02Sorry to disturb.
20:03Speak.
20:04Miss Reed authorized the liquidation of Miss Wood Manor.
20:06Today, the new owners and neutral merchant clan
20:08are coming for territory inspection.
20:10Who gave her permission to sell pack-adjacent land?
20:12Alpha.
20:12The deed is solely under Illa Reed's name.
20:14It's her birthright.
20:14She doesn't need council approval.
20:15Miss Wood Manor wasn't just a house.
20:17It was my dowry.
20:18He moved her into it to humiliate me.
20:20I kept it in my name
20:21because a wolf never sells her birthright.
20:23And now I'm selling it.
20:24He still thinks if he yells loud enough,
20:26I'll turn around.
20:27He still doesn't know.
20:28I'm no longer within range of his voice.
20:30And Alpha's wolf eyes glow for three reasons.
20:32Rage.
20:33Lust.
20:34Or...
20:34Matthew, what is it?
20:35Your eyes are glowing.
20:36Sensing his fated mate drifting out of reach.
20:38He doesn't know which one it is.
20:39Or maybe he knows
20:40and refuses to let himself.
20:42It's nothing.
20:43I have a rogue element to deal with.
20:46Sarah.
20:47Where is she?
20:48Alpha.
20:48The Luna took the pup
20:49and left the estate three days ago.
20:51She said she had matters to attend to.
20:52Which safe house?
20:53Which plaque territory?
20:54She didn't say.
20:55And Alpha,
20:56her scent is failing from the house.
20:58Ellie's too.
20:58A wolf bond runs on blood,
21:00on vows,
21:01on scent.
21:02Scent doesn't lie.
21:03I made sure every trace would fade.
21:05Ellie's clothes,
21:05my silk robe,
21:06the coat I kept by the door.
21:08I knew he would feel it before he saw it.
21:09But as long as his pride is intact,
21:11he won't admit what his wolf already knows.
21:13Get the hospital to discharge Sienna today.
21:16Clear my evening calendar.
21:17We're attending the PAC Charity Gala tonight.
21:19Alpha,
21:20are you sure you want to make Miss Ford
21:21the official face of the charity?
21:23The public?
21:24If my Luna wants to hide,
21:25give her something to watch.
21:26Make the announcement tonight.
21:29Every flashbulb is just him
21:30counting the seats I left empty.
21:33He's louder every time.
21:36He's louder because I'm not there.
21:38Break hearing to the Alpha Robinson board.
21:39Official base of PAC is Luna.
21:41He's putting on a show.
21:43For an audience that isn't there.
21:51Mommy, are we there yet?
21:54Almost, baby.
21:56Almost home.
22:00He's putting on a show for an empty seat.
22:02And me?
22:05I'm already halfway to where I actually live.
22:13Isla.
22:13It's done.
22:14The desolation is legally binding.
22:16He'll see it on his desk tomorrow morning.
22:18Tomorrow.
22:19He'll finally see what three days of silence actually meant.
22:27If she'd come like before,
22:29she'd have driven her car straight through those doors.
22:31Instead, nothing.
22:32Three years of marriage,
22:34and tonight my Luna didn't even bother to scream.
22:36No scent of ozone.
22:38No rage.
22:39Just a deafening silence.
22:40And that's what's wrong.
22:41Worried your Luna might cause a scene?
22:44Mayan forces are guarding the door.
22:45She won't get within 50 feet.
22:47She dares?
22:49Female shouldn't be spoiled.
22:51Sienna is a sweet thing.
22:52Obedient.
22:53Doesn't have that intense energy your Luna has.
22:57She used to look at me like this.
23:00Like I was the only thing in the world worth her claws.
23:03That fire.
23:05She killed it herself.
23:07Long before tonight.
23:16She couldn't live without the bond.
23:19She was enduring it to prove a point.
23:21That's what I told myself.
23:25Mom, I'm in the middle of a summit.
23:27What's the emergency?
23:28Busy flaunting that stray while your territory burns?
23:31Get your ass back to the main house.
23:33Now.
23:37The scent of home was gone.
23:40Replaced by cleaning products.
23:45My wolf paced in my mind.
23:47Claws scratching.
23:49Something was wrong.
23:52Something deeper than a fight.
24:00Mom.
24:02What's the emergency calling for?
24:04Matthew.
24:05Do you know where Isla and Ellie are right now?
24:10She's hiding in some hotel with the pup throwing a tantrum.
24:13Once she realizes she can't survive without my protection, she'll come crawling back.
24:23Crawling back?
24:25Matthew Robinson.
24:26Do you still think she's baring her teeth for show?
24:32Open your eyes.
24:33Look.
24:34She's not throwing a tantrum.
24:35She's severing the bond.
24:37What the hell are you still dreaming about?
24:53This can't be.
24:56Matthew.
24:57Matthew.
24:58I'm mating you for your soul, not your title.
25:05She doesn't want anything.
25:07She just doesn't want me.
25:17Do you understand now?
25:22She is not trying to blackmail you.
25:24She is truly done with you.
25:26She doesn't want your rank.
25:28She doesn't want your power.
25:30She only wants to leave, Matthew.
25:33Do you truly not understand?
25:36Who the hell does she think she is?
25:41Taking my daughter and walking away from the pack?
25:45Not in this lifetime.
25:57Find them.
25:58Every tracker.
25:59Every satellite.
26:00Turn the entire territory upside down.
26:03Bring Isla and Ellie back to me.
26:05Now.
26:11You still think this is a game of dominance?
26:33That was the first moment he truly began to doubt himself.
26:37Matthew, that recording is a forgery.
26:40They are framing me.
26:41Our baby.
26:48What if...
26:50What if it was real?
27:01Some truths, once doubt begins, can never be undone.
27:10Two years I watched him make excuses for her.
27:14Tonight I'll watch him make excuses to himself.
27:18Run it.
27:19Full spectral analysis.
27:21Now.
27:24Standby, Alpha.
27:25Ten minutes.
27:26He'd never tasted helplessness before.
27:29Two years late to the party.
27:31Forgery probability under 0.1%.
27:34Voice print 100% match to Sienna Ford.
27:37Background matches the abandoned dock's acoustic signature.
27:42Alpha.
27:43Miss Ford is awake.
27:44She's very emotional.
27:46She's asking for you.
27:47She says her stomach hurts.
27:49She's worried the stress is hurting the pup.
27:51Every tear she shed was a line.
27:53Every trembling lip was a stage direction.
27:56Alpha, we dug into Miss Ford's medical history.
27:58The pregnancy report is suspicious.
27:59The attending healer received a large, untraceable payment and goal the day before the report was issued.
28:03And her past.
28:04During your relationship with her, she was closely involved with multiple rogue males.
28:08There's also a confirmed Omega from the Shadow Pack.
28:10Every time she cried, every time she bared her throat, it was choreography.
28:16And he, the fool, played his part for two years.
28:26He used to believe he walked into that hospital as a protector.
28:30Tonight, he walked in as a verdict.
28:41Alpha, you're finally here.
28:43I...
28:47The recording is real, Sienna.
28:49What else do you have to say?
28:51No.
28:53That's fake.
28:54Eilie set me up.
28:55She hacked the system.
28:56A setup.
29:00Then what about the fake pregnancy?
29:03What about the rogue males, the Shadow Pack Omega?
29:05Is that also Eilie's doing?
29:10Sienna, listen carefully.
29:12You will pay for everything.
29:13From tonight, on this territory, you are nothing.
29:15Stripped of all protection.
29:16Banished from Robinson lands.
29:18Pray I don't find more evidence.
29:20If I do, it won't be his exile.
29:21It will be execution.
29:22He thought this was justice.
29:23It was only self-sentencing.
29:26Three years late.
29:27He walked in expecting lavender.
29:29Instead, he learned what silence sounds like after it stopped being silence.
29:34A den isn't a house.
29:35It isn't money.
29:37It's her and her breathing inside these walls.
29:44The first time in his life, this alpha howled.
29:48And there was no one left to hear it.
29:53Two years.
29:55Two years of sleeping with one eye open of breathing in his storm.
29:58Tonight, the air smells like nothing.
30:01My wolf still doesn't know how to stop looking for him.
30:04For the next blow.
30:05For the footsteps behind me.
30:10Then I saw him.
30:12The old Lucas would have picked me up and spun me around.
30:15Every homecoming.
30:17Every Christmas.
30:18Every victory.
30:20But today, he saw something in me.
30:23And he held back.
30:25He let go before anyone could see me crack.
30:28That's how he's always loved me.
30:31Without ever making me pay for it.
30:34Ellipup, do you still remember Uncle Lucas?
30:36Little princess, we're heading to the castle.
30:39No bad wolves allowed.
30:42Castle!
30:43Castle!
30:44Two years.
30:46And my daughter just remembered how to laugh like that.
30:49The cold of the capital grew distant.
30:52My shoulders, for the first time in two years,
30:56found the back of the seat.
30:58This house breathes a different magic.
31:02An older one.
31:06You're back.
31:07It's so good you're back in the territory.
31:15You've lost weight.
31:16Your wolf feels thin.
31:17Not you look tired.
31:18Not how was the flight.
31:20My wolf.
31:20Only my father would mourn her first.
31:25My precious pup.
31:27My precious, precious pup.
31:31Grandma, you smell like cookies.
31:34Two years.
31:34And my daughter just learned what bloodline love smells like.
31:38Reporting in, Alpha.
31:39Mission accomplished.
31:40The two princesses have been safely delivered across enemy lines.
31:43Awaiting orders, sir.
31:45Always making fun of things.
31:46Get the bags inside.
31:47He carries grief the way he carries luggage.
31:50Without ever letting anyone see it's heavy.
31:53Dad.
31:54Mom, we're home.
31:57Home.
31:57Not the one I left.
31:59The one I was always meant to return to.
32:02Come on.
32:03Mom started preparing for your arrival yesterday.
32:06The whole kitchen smells like a feast.
32:11I had forgotten what it felt like to let someone guide me inside.
32:17Outside this gate, the cold of the capital.
32:21The chaos of the Robinson Pack.
32:23The memories I carried for two years.
32:27The gate closes.
32:29The territory remembers.
32:31We are held.
32:33Inside, my mother there's broth.
32:36My father's silence.
32:37Ellie's laughter.
32:40And...
32:41And...
32:42Him.
32:45Sanctuary.
32:46He doesn't know yet.
32:48And I don't know yet.
32:49But something has already begun.
32:52Tomorrow, the real story begins.
33:06Two years.
33:08This is the first meal where I don't have to calculate Matthew's mood before I chew.
33:16Come on, sweetheart.
33:18Bath time.
33:22I need to take this.
33:23Council retirement matters.
33:27So, how's the inner wolf?
33:29Getting used to being unbonded?
33:31It's quiet.
33:32But peaceful.
33:33So what now?
33:34Rest for a while.
33:35Let Ellie settle in.
33:37Then, maybe pick imposing again.
33:39I have some melodies that Matthew that I couldn't finish there.
33:41Now that's my sister.
33:42Someone is wiping my past clean.
33:45And I let myself be cared for.
33:47For the first time.
33:54Isla, come help me sort through ease.
33:56There are some of your things from back in the day.
33:59The girl in the photo.
34:01It feels like just yesterday.
34:03You were so radiant back then.
34:05Your music calmed the fiercest wolves.
34:08The girl in the photo.
34:09She had the whole future in her eyes.
34:11If I hadn't gotten sick.
34:13If it weren't for Alice Robinson.
34:16And what she did for me.
34:18The forbidden vitality transfer.
34:21I might have died.
34:22Your father and I tried to stop you from mating Matthew.
34:25Especially Lucas.
34:26He was the first to oppose it.
34:27He said that boy from the Robinson Hamley.
34:29Smelled wrong.
34:30Too flighty.
34:31His wolf.
34:31Too arrogant.
34:32Not someone who could settle down.
34:34Mom.
34:35Don't say anymore.
34:36You've suffered so much.
34:38But you've so my much.
34:40If I had known.
34:41I would have rejected Alice's gift.
34:43The path I chose was my own.
34:45And I have Ellie.
34:47I never regret her.
34:48But you've suffered so much.
34:50If I had known this would make you go through so much pain.
34:53I would have.
34:54Would have what?
34:56His posture was like a wolf strolling into his own territory.
34:59But his eyes finished scanning the room before ours did.
35:03Now you see who really has sharp eyes and sniff out a scumag's true nature, right?
35:08You're always teasing your sister.
35:11Show some respect.
35:13Ow!
35:14Abuse in the den!
35:15I'm just helping mom educate you, okay?
35:17You have to listen to good advice.
35:19Especially from your big brother.
35:21Who has the best nose in the family.
35:25The past is unchangeable.
35:27But at least, we still have each other.
35:33A few days later, I signed the first lease that truly belonged to me.
35:38I named it Isla.
35:39Not Robinson.
35:42Just me.
35:43Lucas came here every day.
35:46He said he was safeguarding the birth of a future music master.
35:50But what he was doing looked more like something else.
35:54Lucas, you didn't have to.
36:05The only sounds in the room were the scratch of pen on paper and the tap of keys.
36:11Quiet.
36:12Like two wolves sharing the same territory.
36:15When he looks at me, his gaze is heavy.
36:19I can't read it.
36:21I told myself, he is my brother.
36:26Security contract.
36:27I'll be outside.
36:28Mom came to see me again.
36:30There was pride in her eyes.
36:31But there was something else too.
36:33Mom, what brings you here?
36:36My mother is a very steady old Luna.
36:39She only touches a cup like that when something truly important was at stake.
36:46Isla, there's something I've been thinking about for a long time.
36:52I feel I should tell you now.
36:58The way my mother sat down told me everything.
37:01She was about to set down something she'd been carrying for 20 years.
37:05I know this is hard for you to hear, but it's time you knew the truth.
37:10Lucas.
37:11He's not your biological brother.
37:14He does not share the Reed bloodline.
37:17What?
37:17He's a foundling.
37:19Adopted.
37:20The healers said we couldn't produce a pup.
37:22The elders were pressuring us for an heir.
37:24We found him at the orphanage for displaced wolves.
37:27A stubborn little thing.
37:28Eyes full of prickles.
37:29But I knew he needed a pack.
37:31He knew from the start that you weren't his blood sister.
37:34We told him when you were born, and he still took the blood oath to protect you.
37:38Blood oath.
37:39The heaviest vow in the pack.
37:42Heavier than marriage.
37:43And he took it when he was three.
37:46I thought he was being being my brother.
37:48He wasn't.
37:50He was guarding.
37:52If you're hurt, just come back.
37:54My den is yours.
37:57My den is yours.
37:59Not something a brother says.
38:01Something a male wolf who'd been waiting for me to come home would say.
38:05He walked in and he already knew.
38:07In a house of wolves, secrets have a scent.
38:12I just closed a big deal.
38:14We need to celebrate.
38:15His wolf caught it before he did.
38:17Something was wrong with the heir.
38:19What's going on here?
38:20Mom reminiscing again?
38:21Don't make my sister cry.
38:22She's our family's priority protected species these days.
38:25She didn't say a word.
38:26But that look.
38:28Rai-9 was her handing him off.
38:32I could see my own reflection in his eyes.
38:34For the first time, I noticed they didn't look like mine.
38:37They didn't look like my father's.
38:38Has our big composer hit a creative block?
38:41You're furrowing your rows like you're about to squash a fly.
38:43What's going on?
38:44Deep in thought, huh?
38:46His wolf was waiting for me to say yes.
38:49My wolf.
38:51I hadn't even fully admitted I had one listening.
38:58Nothing's more important than food, right?
39:00Come on, artist.
39:01How about treating the hardworking manager who's been running around for you?
39:03That wasn't the hand that held mine crossing the street when I was little.
39:06This hand was asking a question.
39:09He wasn't just my manager.
39:10He never was.
39:12Cold fingertips on warm skin.
39:14He didn't close his hand.
39:16He just held it.
39:20All right.
39:25I didn't pull away.
39:27And that was when I realized
39:29I didn't want to.
39:39Come on, artist.
39:40Treat the hardworking manager who's been running around for you.
39:44When we were kids, he used to reach out like this to pull me out of trouble.
39:49This time, he was asking me if I wanted to walk in.
39:55My fingers were cold.
39:57His palm was burning.
39:59And something, and something, faint but undeniable, passed between us.
40:06In the days that followed, the air in the house changed.
40:13Didn't do anything.
40:15Just balance.
40:16He was still Lucas.
40:18But every touch, casual as it looked, carried a test.
40:22I didn't push him away.
40:25But I didn't answer, either.
40:28The bond Matthew tore from me was still healing.
40:35His thumb had been here.
40:37His thumb, warm, barely a second.
40:42Why was I the one replaying it?
40:48He was patient.
40:50A hunter who knew the prize was worth the wait.
40:53I hadn't said yes.
40:56But something inside me,
40:59quietly,
41:00had stopped saying no.
41:06Lucas no longer played the role of brother.
41:09He was slowly, patiently,
41:12moving himself into every corner of my daily life.
41:18Client gave me two free tickets.
41:21Would have been a waste.
41:23Every excuse he makes is clumsy.
41:25He doesn't care whether I see through them.
41:27And my body is answering him without asking me first.
41:32My wolf senses the courtship.
41:35She doesn't lunge forward to tear everything apart the way she did with Matthew.
41:41She just quietly lifts her head and listens.
41:46My mother's so-called revelation was never an announcement.
41:49It was a carefully crafted assist.
41:52The mastermind was the man standing right in front of me.
41:55He no longer wanted to be just my protector.
41:57He was positioning himself, patiently, for a brand new role.
42:00And for the first time in two years, I thought it might be worth my courage.
42:05Come in.
42:12That scent.
42:14Him.
42:15Came here to hide in the neutral zone?
42:17Is there something you need, Alpha Robinson?
42:22Where's Ellie?
42:24I came to see my daughter.
42:25She's at the academy.
42:27Isla, have you had enough?
42:29Playing this little runaway act amuses you?
42:32Matthew, have you got it wrong?
42:33The Severn Agreement is signed.
42:35We have no relationship anymore.
42:36If you want to see Ellie schedule through the council, this is my workplace.
42:39You are not welcome here.
42:40Your scent is polluting my studio.
42:42No relationship?
42:43You signed a paper.
42:45Do you really think you can walk away from me?
42:46We are fated.
42:47Name your price.
42:48What will it take to bring the child back to the pack?
42:50Don't test my patience.
42:51I can buy this entire building.
42:53He's still reading from a script written two years ago.
42:55He doesn't know.
42:56The woman he could have bought is no longer in this room.
42:58Isla, are you done?
43:07Three cents.
43:08Two alphas.
43:10One of them is suddenly realizing the other is not the little brother, he thought.
43:15I thought today was just another ordinary dinner day, but the storm has already arrived at
43:20my door.
43:25In our world, a brother standing between you and your enemy is not a brother.
43:29It's a territory being redrawn.
43:31Alpha Robinson?
43:32What brings a high and mighty alpha to this little neutral territory?
43:35I came to see Isla and my pup.
43:38This is a matter between mates.
43:40Mates?
43:41Are you sleepwalking?
43:43Does my sister still have your mark?
43:47Do you need me to slap the severance to Kidd across your face?
43:52You are nothing to her now.
43:55Lucas, out of respect for your being Isla's kin, I've been polite.
43:59But my family matters are none of your business.
44:05Isla is the one I've watched grow up.
44:08I swore the blood oath to protect her.
44:10How could you swear to the moon goddess you'd take care of her?
44:14And what did you do?
44:17You let some scent-masked rogue humiliate her.
44:22Ellie nearly drowned in that freezing water because of you.
44:25Let me make this clear.
44:27Leave Isla's sight right now.
44:29Don't ever come near her again.
44:31That was an accident.
44:33Sienna was unstable.
44:34I handled it.
44:36I banished her.
44:41Shut up!
44:42Don't ever mention that woman's name in this room!
44:46Lucas Reed!
44:47Who the hell do you think you are?
44:49You are a beta!
44:51I have every right to see my daughter.
44:53It's my blood right!
44:55Matthew's blood right is a lie about to collapse.
45:22That strike was for Illa and Ellie.
45:25My sister and niece are under my protection.
45:28My territory.
45:30My rules.
45:33Show up again, and I will not hold back.
45:37He felt it then.
45:38Not pain.
45:40Something older.
45:42The recognition of a predator, realizing he's walked into another beast's den.
45:47The bond is eternal.
45:50She's just punishing me.
45:51She cannot let go.
45:53Not really.
45:57If direct confrontation won't work, and Lucas stands guard at the gate, then change direction.
46:07Three years of marriage.
46:09Now he's started attacking through our pup.
46:11And today, the siege begins.
46:15Mrs. Reed's orders.
46:16Return to sender.
46:19He thought this was clever.
46:22He didn't know three people in that house were sending every gift back.
46:30Ellie?
46:31Do you miss Daddy?
46:33Daddy has a new castle for you.
46:36It's not convenient for the child.
46:38Please don't call again, Alpha Robinson.
46:41He stopped attacking me.
46:43He started attacking her.
46:45Ellie was the weak link in their fortress.
46:56I could block his calls.
46:58I could return his gifts.
47:00But the bloodbind hums between sire and pup.
47:02A wire no gate can stop.
47:04Family only.
47:06Me, my mother, Lucas.
47:07No one else picks her up.
47:10Especially not him.
47:17Time to sleep, little wolf.
47:21Mommy?
47:23Why doesn't Daddy live with us in this den?
47:27Why did we send the big wolf doll back?
47:29He said on the card, he misses me.
47:31The pup's wolf felt it.
47:33The rejection of pack's structure.
47:35The absence of the Alpha she was born under.
47:37You have Mama.
47:38You have Grandma.
47:39You have Uncle Lucas.
47:40Our pack is small, baby.
47:42But it's strong.
47:45But sometimes the wolf misses Daddy too.
47:48That was the moment I knew.
47:50I couldn't hide anymore.
47:52Blocking him wasn't the answer.
47:54Silence was being read as a game.
47:55The tighter I hid, the tighter he clung, using the pup's instincts as a weapon.
48:01So I had to speak.
48:03Not to reconcile.
48:05To mark the final territory.
48:07Isla?
48:09Tomorrow.
48:103pm.
48:11Quiet Shores Cafe.
48:13I...
48:13We need to talk.
48:15Just the two of us.
48:16No lawyers.
48:17No enforcers.
48:18Okay.
48:20I'll be there.
48:21Don't be late.
48:23He thought I was breaking.
48:24He thought the Cold War, the papers, the move, were all a tantrum.
48:30A test of his resolve.
48:32He was already rehearsing the reunion.
48:35Tears.
48:36Embrace.
48:37The sex that would remake the mating mark.
48:40He was certain.
48:42Fate didn't make mistakes.
48:44He thought tomorrow was a reunion.
48:46He didn't know it was a reunict.
48:513 years as his Luna.
48:533 months apart.
48:56Today I'm here to bury a marriage he thinks is still breathing.
48:59His scent arrives 3 seconds before he does.
49:03Musk.
49:04Authority.
49:05A cologne designed to make a Luna's wolf kneel.
49:09Alpha vision.
49:10He's searching.
49:11For a wolf shivering from bond withdrawal.
49:13What he finds is a lake.
49:15Frozen.
49:16Deep.
49:17Nothing moving underneath.
49:19Isla.
49:20Since Sienna left I've thought a lot.
49:22I was an idiot.
49:23My wolf was blinded by my selfishness and by that rogue's manipulation.
49:29The bond is still there, Isla.
49:31You feel it.
49:32You can't not feel it.
49:34A lone wolf is vulnerable, Isla.
49:36You have no one to protect your flank right now.
49:39Let me court you again.
49:41Restart the mating cycle.
49:43Give Ellie a complete den.
49:45I'll never make the same mistake.
49:47Matthew.
49:48Your instincts are completely broken.
49:53There it is.
49:54The first crack.
49:59First.
50:00I'm not here to hear your confession.
50:02I'm not here to give you a chance.
50:04I'm here to officially notify you.
50:06The bond.
50:06The title.
50:07The marriage.
50:07All of it is over.
50:09Second.
50:10My life is good now.
50:11My wolf is healthy.
50:12Without you Ellie and I are stronger.
50:15Third.
50:15Who told you I have no one to protect you?
50:18I have no one to protect my flank.
50:19Cedar.
50:20Steel.
50:21A forest after winter rain.
50:23His cologne suddenly smells like a cheap spray can.
50:27He doesn't sit.
50:28He stands.
50:30Guarding, guarding my blind spot.
50:32The posture of a mate.
50:35Are you done talking?
50:40Lucas.
50:41You.
50:42The two of you.
50:44Your siblings.
50:45Pack kin.
50:46This is against the natural law.
50:57His hand lands on my shoulder.
50:59Let him think it.
51:00The truth will hurt more when it arrives.
51:05Brother and sister.
51:07Matthew, who told you we share the same bloodline?
51:10I was a foundling.
51:11The reeds took me in.
51:13I was the childhood partner prepared for Isla from the beginning.
51:16I've watched her grow up.
51:18Protected her.
51:20Waited for her.
51:20My blood is clean.
51:22My lineage is separate.
51:24From the start to the end, I've only had eyes for her.
51:26So now she has a protector.
51:29She has a main waiting.
51:31It's me.
51:32Understand?
51:38And for the first time, I didn't pull away.
51:46He vanished.
51:48No calls.
51:49No messages.
51:50I should have felt relief.
51:52I felt something closer to warning.
52:05Uncle Lucas.
52:13Ellie.
52:14Daddy's here to take you home.
52:21I don't want to.
52:23I want Uncle.
52:24And Mommy.
52:25Be good.
52:26I'm your daddy.
52:27Come to me.
52:29Matthew, back off.
52:31You're scaring the pup.
52:32Ellie.
52:33Look closely.
52:34He is a bad wolf who wants to take your mommy away.
52:37He is trying to steal your pack.
52:40Isla.
52:41Step aside.
52:42I need my daughter to see this man for who he really is.
52:45A usurper.
52:45Daddy's bad.
52:47I hate Daddy.
52:49You yelled at Uncle Lucas.
52:50You scared Ellie.
52:52You're a bad daddy.
52:53I don't want to go with you.
52:54I like Uncle.
52:55Uncle tells me stories.
52:57Uncle plays with me.
52:58He never yells.
53:00He smells safe.
53:07Some truths a child needs to speak out loud.
53:10He used to be the alpha of our pack.
53:13Now he's a rogue in his own story.
53:21Three years of marriage.
53:23One year of betrayal.
53:25And tonight, the proudest alpha I ever knew walks alone into the edge of the world.
53:30He never came back.
53:33And tonight, I finally understand why.
53:36The chaos is gone.
53:37The challenges, the affairs, the constant fight for dominance faded into the background, like pages turning in an ancient history
53:45book.
53:46I don't need a title anymore.
53:49I'm just composer Issa Reid.
53:52Invitations came, one after another.
53:54But I chose carefully.
53:57Only the projects that respected the music itself.
54:01Not my past.
54:03Not my former title as Luna.
54:13He filled the hollow space without a word.
54:16Not a father.
54:18Not a father.
54:19Not yet.
54:20Not yet.
54:20Something steadier.
54:21Uncle Lucas?
54:22The dark water?
54:24He released his calming pheromones.
54:27Warm.
54:27Cedar.
54:28Earth.
54:29And her small wolf inside started to breathe again.
54:32By morning, she smelled like his pack.
54:36And Grace and Robert finally let go.
54:43He never asks if I need rest.
54:46He just makes rest possible.
54:49Cedar.
54:49Earth.
54:51His scent.
54:55And for the first time in three years, my wolf lifted her head and sniffed the air.
55:03Uncle Lucas is cooking.
55:08You're back?
55:09Go wash your hands.
55:10Dinner's ready.
55:11Try my cooking tonight.
55:12I hunted the ingredients myself.
55:14Slow down, pup.
55:18When did you learn to cook?
55:20Back when I first went abroad.
55:21Figured it out.
55:22Wolf needs to know how to feed his pack.
55:24He didn't say my pack.
55:25He said his pack.
55:26But that bowl of soup was placed in front of me.
55:32Go look at your scores.
55:33I've got this.
55:37This isn't the safety of being locked in a cage.
55:40This is the safety of holding up a home together.
55:44Isla, I thought you should know.
55:46Matthew has formally obligated his position as CEO.
55:48He transferred all of his remaining personal assets and the rights to the Robinson Territory Trust to Ellie.
55:52He signed it all over.
55:53And him?
55:54He's gone to them guardians to watch the roguelands.
55:56To serve without rank.
55:57He asked me to say he hopes you and Ellie live well.
55:59He won't disturb your pack again.
56:02The alpha who once refused to look back.
56:05Now walks alone at the edge of the world.
56:09Thank you, Alice.
56:11Please take care of yourself.
56:16Something wrong?
56:17Matthew left.
56:18He gave everything to Ellie.
56:20Went to the borders.
56:21She deserves it.
56:23What about you?
56:24What do you want to do next?
56:25Three years ago, I thought love was fireworks.
56:28Tonight I finally understand.
56:30It's a kitchen at dusk.
56:31For now, this is enough.
56:34The future is long.
56:35And we have all the time in the world.
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