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00:00On my wedding day, my alpha's mistress tried to kill herself.
00:05Before I became Ethan's Luna, I made a deal I could not break.
00:09My lady, are you really not bothered at all?
00:12I didn't care how many mistresses he kept.
00:14He could warm his bed with whoever he wished.
00:16But he had to give me the respect and dignity owed to the Luna of the pack.
00:21That was my only condition.
00:22The price of the Mitchell name being joined with his.
00:25What I didn't expect was that on the very night of our mating ceremony,
00:28his mistress would hang herself, along with a pup she carried in her belly.
00:32So he spent our mating night with his mistress instead.
00:35That was his mistake.
00:36Not the infidelity. I had expected that.
00:38What I had not expected was the public humiliation.
00:41The entire pack, the visiting elders, the royal representatives,
00:45all of them saw the alpha walk out on his Luna before the marking was even complete.
00:50My lady has been terribly wronged on your mating night.
00:54I sat before the mirror, my reflection pale but calm.
00:57The twin ceremonial candles still burned beside the untouched bonding chalice.
01:01Wronged.
01:02My father always said,
01:04In this world, no one had the right to make me suffer.
01:06So I don't endure.
01:08I act.
01:11My handmaiden looked up, confused.
01:13I rose from the chair and walked to the window.
01:15Outside, the moon hung fat and silver over the Caldwell Packhouse,
01:19a house that was supposed to be my home.
01:21Somewhere in that house, Ethan was holding his mistress,
01:23whispering promises he had already broken.
01:26Help me change.
01:28We have a visit to make.
01:31The night wind cut through my thin robe as I walked through the dark corridors.
01:35No one stopped me.
01:36No one even saw me.
01:37The whole packhouse was in an uproar over Kara's suicide attempt.
01:42Servants ran back and forth.
01:43Healers were summoned, and the alpha had disappeared.
01:46I paused at the garden gate.
01:47A tall figure stood beneath the moonlight,
01:50leaning against a marble pillar.
01:52Royal eyes.
01:53I knew him at once.
01:54Prince Ronan, the youngest son of the Lycan King.
01:57He pushed himself off the pillar and walked toward me.
02:00No anxiety.
02:01Only a quiet, dangerous calm.
02:04You shouldn't carry this alone.
02:05His voice low and attractive.
02:07I looked at him silently.
02:09I'm not carrying anything, Your Highness.
02:11I'm about to set it down.
02:12A faint smile touched his lips.
02:13The Mitchell family holds the army's power.
02:16I hold the royal name.
02:18Together, we could rule this kingdom.
02:20A strong alliance.
02:22Absolute power.
02:23You would never be humiliated again.
02:25I don't care about power.
02:26I don't want a throne.
02:27I just want peace.
02:29Prince Ronan's eyes softened.
02:31Then I will respect your choice.
02:32But if he humiliates you again, I will step in.
02:36Not because I seek power over you,
02:38but because no woman should face cruelty alone.
02:41He nodded toward me,
02:42then vanished into the shadow of the trees,
02:44as if he had never been there.
02:46Strangely, my chest felt lighter.
02:48I turned and continued toward Kara's wing.
02:52I reached Kara's wing.
02:54The door was half open,
02:56candlelight spilling out.
02:57I heard her voice first.
02:59My alpha, you promised you wouldn't go back to her tonight.
03:01You promised.
03:02I won't.
03:03She means nothing.
03:04You and our child are everything.
03:10I pushed the door open.
03:12Ethan sat on the edge of the bed.
03:14Kara curled against his chest in a sheer silk robe.
03:17Luna, I'm so sorry you had to see me like this.
03:21I was just so frightened for my pup.
03:24Ethan's head snapped toward me.
03:26Guilt flickered across his face.
03:27What are you doing here?
03:28Go back to your room.
03:30I stepped inside.
03:31The room smelled of her perfume.
03:32I came to check on the woman who interrupted my mating ceremony.
03:36Surely that's a Luna's duty.
03:38To care for the Pax, shall we say, dependents.
03:41You're so kind, Luna.
03:43But I'm fine now.
03:45The alpha has calmed me.
03:46You can go.
03:49You're still here?
03:51I thought you'd have left by now.
03:53You heard her.
03:54Leave.
03:55I didn't move.
03:57Alpha, the Lycan King himself, will hear of this by morning.
04:00My eyes traveled from his disheveled hair.
04:03Do you understand?
04:05What you've done?
04:10Alpha, the Lycan King himself, will hear of this by morning.
04:14Do you understand?
04:17What you've done?
04:19You wouldn't dare.
04:20You agreed to this mating.
04:22You agreed to look the other way.
04:24I agreed to respect and dignity.
04:27You gave me neither.
04:29A deal broken by one side is no deal at all.
04:33Please don't punish him for my sake.
04:35I'm just an Omega.
04:37Serena, if you threaten her again...
04:40I'm making a promise.
04:41You'll remember this night as the night you lost everything.
04:45I walked out without looking back.
04:46Behind me, I heard Kara's soft weeping and Ethan's soothing whispers.
04:51Let them whisper.
04:52Tomorrow, the real battle would begin.
04:54I spent the rest of our mating night alone in my three-meter-wide bed.
04:58My handmaiden wanted to rage.
04:59I told her to sleep.
05:01Grief for an arrogant man?
05:02Impossible.
05:03She agreed.
05:04I'm turning in, saving my energy for tomorrow.
05:10The next morning, I rose before dawn.
05:12While Ethan was still sleeping off his drunk in Kara's room, I wore no headpiece at all,
05:17putting on a haggard look as a silent sign of my sorrow.
05:21Shall I wake the Alpha?
05:22My handmaiden said.
05:24No.
05:26Let him stay.
05:27I'll go alone.
05:29My lady!
05:30Her eyes widened.
05:31The more alone I appear, the more wronged I seem.
05:34And I have been wronged.
05:35I said seriously.
05:37Let the pack see it.
05:39She nodded in shock.
05:41At the appointed hour, I walked into the great hall without Ethan.
05:45Every eye turned.
05:46The elders frowned.
05:47My aunt, my father's sister, the Luna of the Duke's pack, sat in the place of honor.
05:54I walked straight to her and fell to my knees.
05:57Auntie, please stand up for me.
06:00I don't want this bond anymore.
06:01The hall erupted.
06:03My handmaiden dropped to her knees beside me, weeping.
06:06My lady, please stand up for our young miss.
06:09Last night, his mistress threatened suicide.
06:12The Alpha abandoned our miss to soothe her.
06:14He said she would be nothing but a figurehead.
06:17He would never truly be her mate.
06:22Ethan's mother looked utterly flustered.
06:24This must be a misunderstanding.
06:26Ethan is a good Alpha.
06:28A fine Alpha.
06:30Do you think our family has no one left to stand up for Serena?
06:33This is just a little squabble between a new couple.
06:37A squabble.
06:38The Alpha spent his mating night with a mistress.
06:41Let everyone see his true face.
06:43The pack house erupted into chaos.
06:47Bring the Alpha and that Omeg here.
06:50Now!
06:52Lady Caldwell scrambled to block us.
06:54My aunt didn't wait.
06:55She led her attendants toward the mistress's wing.
06:58When they reached the entrance, they heard Kara's bright laughter.
07:01My Alpha, you promised.
07:03Today belongs only to me.
07:05You won't go pay respects with that woman.
07:07Of course.
07:08Serena Mitchell is a general's daughter.
07:10Rough around the edges, she could never compare to my Kara.
07:15You shameless rat!
07:17Seize that woman!
07:18The two stopped abruptly, and an awkward silence clung in the air.
07:24Servants pinned Kara to the ground.
07:26Lady Caldwell slapped and landed across her face.
07:29Kara's screams filled the wing.
07:31Twenty strokes!
07:33Now!
07:35Blood dripped on her lip.
07:36Ethan tried to intervene, but his mother blocked him.
07:39Fool!
07:40You've humiliated the Lion King's decree!
07:43This pack is ruined!
07:46Every Alpha keeps a mistress.
07:49Serena isn't the boss of me.
07:50My aunt's smile was cold.
07:52Lady Caldwell, your son has no intention of mending his ways.
07:57Come, Serena.
07:58We're going to the palace.
08:01I knelt before the Lycan Luna, my voice trembling just enough.
08:05Please, grant me the right to dissolve this bond.
08:08The mistress carries his pup.
08:11For a Luna to enter a pack with the firstborn already in a mistress' belly,
08:15that is an insult my family cannot overlook.
08:20Do you find this mating unsatisfied?
08:23Ethan will cherish his Luna.
08:24I beg mercy.
08:26The mistress has challenged the sacred order.
08:28She cannot keep this pup.
08:30Her voice fell like a blade.
08:33Lylan Luver, that child is my blood!
08:36Shut your mouth!
08:38Please!
08:39I'll banish Kara!
08:41I'll never see her again!
08:43Just let my son live!
08:44The pup was conceived in disrespect of a royal decree.
08:48Its existence is an insult to this court.
08:51The termination medicine will be delivered before nightfall.
08:54This audience is concluded.
08:56Ethan screamed.
08:57Lady Caldwell fainted.
08:59The pup dies tonight.
09:02The Luna's own handmaiden arrived at the packhouse,
09:04carrying termination medicine.
09:06In front of everyone present,
09:08she poured every drop down Mistress Parker's throat.
09:24By the time we returned to the packhouse,
09:28Kara had already begun to bleed.
09:30The pup, a fully formed male, was lost.
09:33When Kara saw Ethan,
09:34she lunged from the bed into his arms.
09:37Luma, they killed our child because I am low-born.
09:41The Luma is heartless!
09:42Then crumpled unconscious,
09:44Ethan's eyes went crimson.
09:46Serena Mitchell, you vicious woman.
09:48You killed my son.
09:50I will make you pay!
09:51He stormed into my wing,
09:53followed by a servant bearing a bowl of dark herbal brew.
09:56You don't deserve to carry my child.
09:59She drank termination medicine.
10:01Now you drink this.
10:02He grabbed my arm and moved to force the brew into my mouth.
10:06Servants fell to their knees.
10:08Lady Caldwell came rushing in.
10:10Then, the sound of heavy boots filled the corridors.
10:13A decree from the Lycan King!
10:15Prince Ronan stood behind the attendant.
10:17He saw the bowl, and his face turned murderous.
10:20He stepped forward and pulled me behind him.
10:22Touch her, and you lose your hand.
10:26By will of the Lycan King,
10:28Alpha Ethan Caldwell has disgraced his Luna
10:30and violated a royally decreed mating.
10:32The bond between Serena Mitchell and Alpha Ethan Caldwell
10:35is hereby dissolved.
10:37From this day forward,
10:39each shall be free to go their own way.
10:41You think you can just walk away?
10:43You had Kara lose our child!
10:45You broke your word.
10:47You spent your mating night with a mistress.
10:49The Mitchell family does not endure humiliation.
10:52No one will take a woman who has walked away from a mating.
10:56Kara was helped into the room.
10:57She clung to Ethan's arm.
10:59My Alpha,
11:01if you make her yours first,
11:04her heart will soften.
11:07You shameless mistress!
11:11Serena Mitchell.
11:13Tonight, we will be a true mated pair.
11:15Once done,
11:16the bond cannot be undone.
11:21At that exact moment,
11:22the great doors burst open.
11:24A squad of warriors poured through.
11:26One man strode in ahead of all the rest.
11:29I ran straight into his arms.
11:31Father!
11:32The tears I had held back finally broke free.
11:35My father wrapped me in his arms.
11:36Serena, you don't have to worry anymore.
11:39I'd like to see anyone
11:41touch a single hair on your head.
11:43I believe I just heard something
11:45about making my daughter his.
11:48The Lycan King's decree grants dissolution.
11:50You plan to force her to stay?
11:52Ethan crumpled.
11:54Kara fainted.
11:54Father raised a hand.
11:55Take Alpha Ethan to the palace gates.
11:57Inform the Lycan King he defied royal decree.
12:01Retrieve Lady Serena's dowry.
12:03We're going home.
12:04The Mitchell family's 180 chests
12:07were carried out.
12:09Eight grand coaches
12:10took me back to the Mitchell estate.
12:12Let me go!
12:13You can't treat me like this!
12:14The next morning,
12:16before all the high-ranking warriors,
12:18he was given 30 lashes
12:20witnessed by every pair of eyes.
12:23He was carried back,
12:24covered in wounds.
12:25I will have my revenge.
12:28He ground out.
12:29But before the words left his mouth...
12:31By royal directive,
12:34Ethan is stripped
12:34of one year's management post
12:36and removed from all council duties.
12:40Alpha,
12:41Commander Mitchell has returned.
12:43Everyone is trying
12:43to get close to the Mitchell family.
12:45You threw away the best thing
12:47that ever happened to your pack.
12:49I advance through my own merit.
12:52But as he watched the packhouse fall silent,
12:54not a single visitor,
12:55something in him shifted.
12:57Then came the Lycan King's moon feast.
12:59He entered the palace
13:00and from a distance
13:01watched me arrive with my father,
13:03surrounded by high-ranking lunas
13:05trying to position their sons
13:06as potential mates.
13:07Kara had dressed in jewels
13:09bright enough to rival a luna.
13:11When she spotted me,
13:12a satisfied gleam lit her eyes.
13:14Miss Mitchell,
13:15I hear you have yet
13:16to find a suitable match.
13:17Once I carry Ethan's pup again,
13:19he will make me his luna.
13:21Ethan truly has remarkable nerve,
13:24bringing a mistress
13:25to a royal feast
13:26arranged by the Lywan luna herself.
13:29Has he completely lost his mind?
13:32By the time Ethan pushed
13:34through the crowd,
13:34I quietly leaned toward him.
13:36Your only option
13:37is to tell the Lycan luna
13:38that Kara is your true mate
13:40and make it official
13:41within three days.
13:42Otherwise, you may not
13:43make it out of this palace tonight.
13:48Ethan knelt before the Lycan luna,
13:51cold sweat on his neck.
13:52Kara will be formally recognized
13:53as my luna in three days.
13:56The hall went very still.
13:58The Lycan luna looked at him
13:59with mockery.
14:00How devoted.
14:02Since she is to be your luna,
14:03I will assign a senior handymaid
14:05to guide her
14:06so she does not embarrass herself.
14:08Kara was dizzy with joy.
14:09She only knew that
14:10from this moment forward,
14:11she was going to be luna
14:13of the Hawthorne pack.
14:14The moment they returned
14:15to the pack house,
14:16Kara let out an excited shriek.
14:18Ethan slapped her.
14:19You worthless woman!
14:21Because of you,
14:22the Hawthorne pack
14:22will never hold its head up again!
14:24You can warm a bed,
14:25but do you have the breeding
14:26to be a luna?
14:27The mother-in-law
14:27had not attended the feast.
14:29When the news reached her,
14:30her eyes rolled back
14:31and she collapsed.
14:32She died that night.
14:33Kara got what she wanted,
14:35the title of luna.
14:36But when the Hawthorne pack
14:37hosted a celebration feast,
14:38not a single council official
14:40or high-ranking luna came.
14:42Kara stared at empty seats
14:43and began to cry.
14:45Ethan slammed his fist.
14:46It is because of you!
14:47He stormed out
14:48and drank himself senseless
14:49in a tavern.
14:51The tavern was one
14:52of my family's establishments.
14:54The manager didn't dare move him
14:55and came to tell me instead.
14:59They're here.
15:00When I appeared,
15:01Ethan grabbed my arm.
15:02Serena,
15:03can we start over?
15:05I'll make you my luna.
15:06Kara can be sent far away.
15:08What do you say?
15:09Carry him back.
15:10Collect the tab
15:11from the Hawthorne pack.
15:12But the very next morning,
15:14Ethan appeared
15:15at the Mitchell estate
15:16with a full betrothal party.
15:18He knelt before my father and me.
15:20Serena,
15:21I came to formally court you again.
15:23You already have a mate.
15:25Where do you intend
15:26to put my daughter?
15:27If Commander Mitchell escrees,
15:28I will send her away immediately.
15:30I can make her simply disappear.
15:31Woman he had once treasured,
15:33my father let out a cold laugh.
15:36My daughter sharing a mate
15:38with a woman of that background?
15:39Get them out.
15:41Gifts were tossed after him.
15:43Then,
15:44from behind a screen,
15:45Kara emerged,
15:46eyes swollen from crying.
15:48How could he say that?
15:50He wants me dead.
15:52I looked at her steadily.
15:54I brought you here
15:55to hear his words yourself.
15:56Because of you,
15:57his future is finished.
15:59He doesn't love you anymore.
16:00The moment he finds
16:01another highborn Luna,
16:02you will meet exactly that end.
16:05Kara left the Mitchell estate alone.
16:07That night,
16:08Ethan came to her quarters.
16:09I need that jeweled hair mat.
16:11There's a birthday celebration
16:13for the Duke's eldest daughter.
16:14Once I earn his goodwill,
16:15I'll return it tenfold.
16:17Could it be that the Alpha
16:17has taken an interest
16:18in the Duke's daughter?
16:19If she comes to our pack,
16:21it would open every door.
16:23And what happens to me?
16:24You know you are the one
16:25I truly care for.
16:26Once she is settled,
16:27I'll raise you to secondary mate.
16:29As you once said,
16:30once the grain is cooked,
16:32what can she do?
16:33Kara smiled until her eyes grew wet.
16:36She rose.
16:37Let me change into something nicer
16:38and pour us a drink.
16:39She came back
16:40in a beautiful gown
16:41with aged wine.
16:42They drank cup after cup
16:44until he was drunk.
16:45When he woke,
16:46Kara was gone.
16:47The room was swept clean.
16:48On the table
16:49lay a dissolution letter
16:50with his thumbprint.
16:51She had fled.
16:54Then Ethan discovered
16:55what she had slipped
16:56into his wine.
16:57He was weak.
16:58Something fundamental
17:00had been extinguished.
17:02Healers shook their heads.
17:04Whatever was in that brew
17:05is beyond our skill.
17:07We cannot undo this.
17:09Word spread quickly.
17:10The Hawthorne pack's Alpha
17:11was no longer capable
17:13of siring pups.
17:14When the old Alpha
17:15finally returned
17:16from the border,
17:17he found the pack
17:18in disorder.
17:20An indulgent mother
17:22raises a ruined son.
17:24He welcomed a woman
17:24into the pack house
17:25along with two children.
17:27For years,
17:28he had kept an outside mate
17:29near the border.
17:31Today,
17:31I formally take this woman
17:32as my wife
17:33and these two boys
17:34will be the legal heirs
17:35of the family.
17:36First this mabbley mesmon.
17:38I am the heir!
17:39Ethan Caldwell,
17:40you are a discarded piece.
17:42Your brother will inherit.
17:44If you don't know your place,
17:47leave.
17:47Ethan became the pack's outcast,
17:50the city's joke.
17:51He never raised his head again.
17:55As for me,
17:56my life was only beginning.
17:58One afternoon,
17:59I walked in the royal garden.
18:00A familiar figure
18:01stepped from behind
18:02a flowering tree.
18:03I once offered you power,
18:05but you deserve more.
18:07You deserve choice,
18:09respect, loyalty.
18:11If you will let me,
18:13I want to give you all of it.
18:20I would like that.
18:24He smiled
18:25and held out his hand.
18:27I placed mine
18:28in his.
18:31The days that followed
18:33were quiet.
18:34Suitors arrived daily.
18:35My father received them
18:36with polite indifference.
18:38None of them
18:39are worthy of you.
18:40But one afternoon,
18:42my aunt came.
18:44The Lycan Lua
18:45has been asking about you.
18:47She has someone in mind.
18:49Someone of very high standard.
18:51My heart stuttered.
18:54Rena.
18:56That night,
18:57I stood by my window
18:58watching the moon rise.
18:59A figure stood beneath
19:01the old oak tree.
19:02Prince Ronan.
19:03He inclined his head
19:04and melted
19:04back into darkness.
19:06My heart did not
19:07stop racing.
19:08An official summons arrived.
19:10The Lycan Luna
19:11requested my presence
19:12for afternoon tea.
19:14Serena Mitchell,
19:15I have watched you
19:16since you were a girl.
19:18You have your mother's fire.
19:22My son speaks highly of you.
19:24Ronan is not a man
19:26who offers praise lightly.
19:29I told you once
19:30I would step in
19:30if he humiliated you again.
19:32But you did not need me.
19:34You handled everything yourself.
19:35You were magnificent.
19:37He bowed and walked away
19:38before I could respond.
19:40I felt something shift
19:41deep in my chest.
19:42Not power.
19:43Hope.
19:43Soon after,
19:44Ronan formally requested
19:45permission from my father
19:46to court me.
19:48My father found me
19:49in the library.
19:51He knelt, Serena.
19:52a prince knelt
19:54on my doorstep.
19:55I told him yes.
19:57Is this what you want?
19:58Yes.
20:00It is what I want.
20:04Ronan came that afternoon.
20:06You were like the sun.
20:11Bright and impossible
20:13to look away from.
20:17Ronan kissed me.
20:19He kissed me
20:20like I was
20:21something precious.
20:23Weeks passed.
20:25The Capitol buzzed
20:26with news of our courtship.
20:28Border skirmishes
20:29have erupted.
20:30I have to go.
20:34I will be here
20:35when you return.
20:38He kissed my forehead.
20:41Wait for me.
20:42The days that followed
20:43were long.
20:44Ronan's name
20:45appearing in dispatches
20:46as the Lion of the North.
20:47But in the Capitol,
20:48other stories spread.
20:49The Hawthorne pack
20:50had crumbled.
20:51Ethan's father
20:52returned from the border,
20:53took one look
20:54at the mess.
20:54You are a disgrace.
20:57Your brother
20:57will inherit.
21:00Ethan was seen
21:01begging in taverns.
21:03His eyes hollow.
21:05No one gave him coin.
21:07Kara had disappeared
21:08completely.
21:09Neither mattered anymore.
21:10They had destroyed
21:10each other.
21:12Months passed.
21:13Winter turned to spring.
21:15Every day I watched
21:16the palace gates,
21:17waiting.
21:17Then one morning,
21:18the army had returned.
21:22Ronan rode at the
21:23head of the column.
21:24Armor scarred,
21:25face thinner,
21:25but eyes bright.
21:26When he saw me
21:27in the crowd,
21:28he dismounted
21:28and walked straight
21:29to me,
21:30ignoring every protocol.
21:33I kept my promise.
21:35You did.
21:36I saw what happened
21:37to the Hawthorne pack
21:37while I was gone.
21:39Ethan and Kara
21:39have nothing now.
21:40They lost everything
21:41because they chose
21:42greed and betrayal.
21:45They made their own grave.
21:46I don't want that
21:47for us.
21:48I don't want power
21:49for power's sake.
21:50I want to build
21:51something that lasts.
21:52A pack.
21:53A territory.
21:55A future where
21:56Lunas have real authority,
21:57not just titles.
21:59He looked into my eyes.
22:01Will you help me?
22:06Yes.
22:07Together.
22:12The Lycan King granted Ronan
22:14a new territory
22:14on the eastern border.
22:16We moved there
22:16within a month.
22:17I built laws and schools.
22:19Together,
22:20we created something
22:21the capital had never seen.
22:23A pack where Luna and Alpha
22:25ruled as equals.
22:26Where Omegas had rights.
22:28Where mistresses could not be
22:29discarded like broken tools.
22:31Years later,
22:32the Lycan King himself
22:33visited our territory.
22:34He walked through the markets,
22:37training grounds,
22:38the halls of justice.
22:39Then he turned to Ronan and me.
22:43You have built
22:45what I could not.
22:47Strength without cruelty.
22:49Order without oppression.
22:51You will have a seat
22:53on the royal council.
22:54My place is here.
22:57With her.
23:00The capital still told stories
23:02of Serena Mitchell.
23:03Two people who chose each other
23:04and chose to build
23:05a better world.
23:06Love is not about power.
23:08It is about what you build with it.
23:10We built something
23:11that will last forever.
23:12Ever.
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