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00:02I was a slave
00:04Yet every night, I had to take Luna's place
00:06And sleep with the Alpha
00:07On the bed, I begged him to mark me
00:09And make me one of his mates
00:11Please, make me your wife
00:14What are you thinking?
00:17You're nothing but a slave
00:19I close my eyes
00:20Every wolf in the pack knows
00:22Kaylin doesn't just love Lady Vivian
00:24He worships her
00:26So the next morning, I walked straight to the pack matriarch
00:29And kneeled before her
00:30I volunteered to marry her eldest son
00:32Kaylin's dying brother
00:34Firstly shocked, then the pack matriarch's eyes
00:37Filled with tears
00:38After the ghost marriage is done
00:40You'll have to keep Widowsville
00:42For your mate forever
00:44My good child, have you truly thought this through?
00:48I will have no regrets
00:50Alpha Kaylin and Lady Vivian had gone deathly pale
00:53On the full moon night
00:54Kaylin came to Vivian's room again
00:56I watched them through the crack in the door
00:58His voice low and honeyed
01:00Her laugh like silver
01:01Vivian left to wash up
01:03Cheeks ruined with wanting
01:05Before she went, she killed every candle
01:07As always
01:08An hour later, I stepped into the dark
01:11His scent hit me first
01:12And my traitorous body answered
01:14Heart slamming
01:15Skin tight
01:16Why are you so cold?
01:19I was outside
01:20Watching the snow
01:22Truth is, I'd been shivering at the threshold
01:24And a thin slip for an hour
01:26Waiting for her signal
01:27Like a good little ghost
01:30You smelled
01:31A pause
01:32My heart stopped
01:33The tincture
01:34So nice
01:36His mouth found mine in the dark
01:38His hardness reached my soul
01:48Before dawn, I knelt at Vivian's feet and recited him
01:51Every whisper
01:52Every mark blooming purple on my throat
01:55Her expression curdled
01:56Then she walked back into his arms
01:58Kaylin caught her hair around one lazy finger
02:01You've been sneaking out to find yourself another wolf
02:04She swatted him
02:05Pouting prettily
02:06As if she were the one
02:07Vivian was beautiful
02:08And chronically, devastatingly fragile
02:11Kaylin saw her at the spring hunt gathering
02:14He fell instantly
02:15Offered her the first mate rank before the night was over
02:18Perfect together
02:19Everyone said so
02:21As her bonded handmaid, I was genuinely happy for them
02:24Until their bonding night
02:28Three nights in a row
02:30No completed bond
02:31No mating mark
02:32Overnight, Vivian became the pack's favorite joke
02:36Desperate, Vivian invented the switch
02:38Every night
02:39Candles out
02:40Handmade substitutes
02:41Masking tinctures rubbed into my skin
02:44Until I smelled like her ghost
02:46Of all her handmaids
02:47Only I was a viable double
02:49Vivian and I were built from the same blueprint
02:51The same narrow waist
02:53The same pale slope of shoulder and throat
02:55Side by side in daylight
02:57The resemblance was unsettling
02:58In total darkness
03:00With the masking tinctures working through my skin
03:02His wolf couldn't tell the difference
03:04What Vivian hadn't accounted for
03:06I was not fragile
03:08She broke under Kaylin's hands
03:10I did not
03:11What she couldn't endure
03:13I simply survived
03:14Body learning the architecture of his need
03:17Learning to anticipate it
03:19Relax
03:20Only three years
03:21My body will recover
03:23Then I will give you enough gold
03:25To live well outside the mansion
03:27Think about it
03:28My whole family's safety rested in her hands
03:30I had no choice
03:32One hour later
03:33Vivian and Kaylin finally rose
03:35I returned to my quarters briefly
03:37Then went in to lay out the morning meal
03:42Why are you dressed like that?
03:44I didn't know how to answer
03:45I pressed my lips together
03:47Kaylin bit
03:48Hard
03:50Darling you've forgotten
03:51Selina is mute
03:52I nodded quickly
03:53Serving Vivian meant constant proximity to Kaylin
03:56And she was terrified of exposure
03:59So she declared me mute
04:01The entire pack believed it
04:03Your little mute is striking
04:04Sad almost how pretty she is
04:07And what exactly does my alpha mean by that?
04:09Has she caught your eye?
04:11I haven't blamed you for anything yet
04:12And you're already turning on me
04:16Kaylin had pushed too far last night
04:18I'd wept myself
04:19Hoarse
04:20Then bitten him
04:21Hard
04:21He'd walked through silver and hellfire to earn his title
04:25Scars mapping him from throat to hip
04:28He wouldn't care about a few teeth marks
04:30This whole performance was foreplay
04:33I don't know how much time passed
04:35You insolent thing
04:37You dared bite him?
04:38Are you challenging me?
04:40I had no time to defend myself
04:42Vivian had me bound
04:43Dragged to the supply outbuilding
04:45No food
04:46No water
04:47Kaylin had left for the border territories
04:49However long he was gone
04:51I stayed locked up
04:52I was barely breathing
04:53When my sister found a way through
04:55Briar
04:56Had bribed the guard
04:58Slipped a bowl of broth under the door
05:00She was my younger sister
05:01Sister
05:02What did you do to make the lady so angry?
05:04Briar
05:04When will Kaylin be back?
05:06The guard said it tonight
05:07And he's going straight to the lady's room
05:11What else was happening in the mansion?
05:12The alpha-haired his wolf spirit is fading again
05:14The pack healers say there's nothing left to do
05:16They're preparing the rates
05:17Lucian
05:18The elder brother
05:19Cursed since birth
05:20Fading
05:21Never anchored to this world
05:22He's never taken a mate
05:24The matriarch doesn't want him to cross alone
05:26She's looking for someone willing to complete a spirit bond
05:30A spirit bond with a dying alpha heir meant grieving him forever
05:34No high-ranking female would consent
05:36Not even the lower-ranked handmaids
05:38At dusk, they released me
05:40I'd be needed that night
05:41Selina
05:42I was impulsive
05:43I meant to release you hours ago
05:45But things got away from me
05:46Don't hold it against me
05:48Of course not, my lady
05:49My lady
05:51It has been three years
05:52When will I leave the pack mansion?
05:54You want to leave?
05:55Yes
05:55My body hasn't healed
05:56Kaylin still needs you
05:58If you insist on leave
05:59I'll simply use Briar instead
06:00Your sisters
06:01The voice
06:02The build
06:02Close enough
06:03How old is she?
06:04Thirteen or fourteen?
06:05Then
06:07Could Kaylin at least give me a rank?
06:09Reaching for status now?
06:12If I wanted Kaylin to take a new mate
06:14I have a hundred candidates
06:16You would never make that list
06:18Don't bother trying to go through Kaylin directly
06:20You're a convenience to him
06:24Even if you ended up in his quarters permanently
06:27I could have you removed with a single word
06:32But every unmated female is supposed to be matched eventually
06:35Eventually?
06:37Was I supposed to be her substitute?
06:39In bed?
06:40For the rest of my life?
06:42The gatekeeper's son is your age
06:43When you turn sixteen next year
06:45I'll arrange the match
06:46The gatekeeper's son
06:48A man with a child's mind
06:50And fists like hammers
06:52Hitting because it was the only thing he knew
06:54Only by being bound to someone that broken
06:57Would I remain useful
06:58And too far gone to threaten her
07:01Kaylin returned
07:02To find me kneeling
07:04You're home!
07:05You must be exhausted!
07:07This girl broke the crystal chalice from the western alliance
07:09I've had her kneeling
07:11Kaylin stepped over me
07:13Without a glance
07:15What's the status on my brother?
07:17I've asked every unmated female in the pack
07:19A spirit bond sounds like a curse to them
07:21None of the young wolves will agree
07:23What's there to agree about?
07:24Find a female
07:25Threaten someone she loves
07:26And it's done
07:27That kind of coercion would be hard to hide from your mother
07:30Enough gold and fear will find a willing body
07:34And if you handle this well
07:37My mother might finally look at you differently
07:42And
07:42Every time Kaylin came back from the border
07:44He spent the whole night making up for lost time
07:48He was an alpha who'd spent weeks at war
07:50He came home hungry
07:52And he made that hunger my problem
07:55That night
07:56I gave him everything
07:58Pushed past my own limits to match him
08:00Why so eager tonight?
08:02Did you miss me?
08:03I rarely initiated
08:04He noticed
08:06Good girl
08:07Near dawn
08:09I came back to myself in pieces
08:13Trying to run again?
08:17My wolf has always been scent sensitive
08:23I've known about your lady's little switch since the beginning
08:26No wonder
08:27He grew bolder every time
08:29Which meant he never held back
08:31It was all for me
08:33Then why won't you give me a rank?
08:36A rank?
08:37She's the one who brought you here
08:38I'm not going to be the one to claim her handmaid
08:41That would fracture our bond
08:43She was right
08:43A she-wolf
08:45Taken for free
08:46Why give her a title?
08:47What grows in the dark
08:49Stays small
08:52Speechless with joy?
08:52Thank you for your generosities, Alpha
08:55I'm afraid I don't have the kind of luck to deserve it
08:57You've shared my bed for years
08:59Don't get ideas above your station
09:01He didn't like greedy she-wolves
09:03He had others
09:04Bonded females
09:06All with bloodlines
09:07Gifts from allied packs
09:09And yet, since Vivian came
09:11He never touched them
09:13The pack praised him for devotion
09:15And he wore that praise like armor
09:18A handmaid
09:19Born to serve
09:20Was never meant to stand beside him
09:23The colder I became
09:25I was born low
09:27I don't deserve a rank
09:28And I don't belong in your quarters
09:30I only hope you and the lady are devoted to each other until the end
09:33The next morning
09:34Briar heard of Vivian's plan to marry me off to the gatekeeper's son
09:37We served her faithfully
09:38How can she be this cruel?
09:41That brute would be a slow death
09:43The thought lingered
09:45Then twisted into something darker
09:47If I couldn't escape fate
09:48I would choose it
09:50I will take the spirit bond with Lucian
09:52The matriarch stared
09:54Then broke into astonished relief
09:56She asked my name
09:57My birth date
09:58My bloodline
09:59The pack shaman consulted the moon charts
10:01And looked up, nodding
10:02This female's spirit signature
10:04Aligns with the heirs in a way I have not seen in decades
10:08She was born into hardship
10:09Which means she carries the kind of resilience
10:12That could anchor him
10:13The bond will serve him well in the next life
10:16Kaylin and Vivian arrived quickly once word spread
10:18They walked in together to find me sitting at the matriarch's feet
10:21Working the tension from her ankles
10:23Kaylin's voice came first
10:25Amused, sharp
10:26This is the female who agreed to bond with my brother?
10:29Whoever's handmaid she is
10:30She has a rare heart
10:32Mother, you must reward her well
10:33I turned and faced them
10:35Kaylin went very still
10:36It's me
10:37Alpha Kaylin
10:38Lady Vivian's
10:42You're supposed to be mute
10:43I can speak
10:44My lady simply prefers I don't
10:47Vivian's face turned to chalk
10:48I didn't know your household contained such a loyal soul
10:52But once this bond is sealed
10:53You'll carry his grief for the rest of your days
10:56Are you certain?
10:57I will never regret it
10:58The hand hanging at Kaylin's side curled into a fist
11:01He stared at me like I had become something he didn't recognize
11:04Child, tell me what you want
11:07Silver, land, titles
11:09Anything I can grant is yours
11:11I turned and looked at Vivian
11:13She held her smile together
11:15But she took half a step back
11:16After a long pause, I dropped my eyes
11:19I have a younger sister
11:20Briar
11:21I ask that she be transferred to your personal household matriarch
11:23She's already part of this pack
11:25I'll see to her for the rest of her life
11:28Vivian's smile pulled thin
11:30Mother
11:31Briar came with my dowie pack
11:33She's my bonded household
11:34I'd hate to be ungenerous
11:35But
11:36She's a handmaid
11:37Mother wants her
11:38Give her over
11:39Kaylin's voice cut across hers
11:41Flat and final
11:42The matriarch's expression had gone stone cold
11:45Bring the bond papers
11:48I will find Briar a secure place before I pass
11:52You don't have to worry about her ever again
11:54I hadn't expected the matriarch to think about her entire future
11:58Moved beyond words
12:01Thank you matriarch
12:02I promise to care for Lucian with everything I have
12:05When the matriarch spoke of her eldest son
12:07She couldn't stop the break in her voice
12:09I was pregnant with Lucian during the dark coven war
12:14The fear marked him at birth
12:16He came into the world without breath
12:19Without a wolf spirit
12:21His father had returned victorious that same night
12:24And brought someone with him from the deep forest
12:26A shaman
12:27The shaman's methods were outside anything the pack had seen
12:31He brought Lucian back from the edge of nothing
12:33It should have been a miracle
12:34But the shaman warned them
12:36Pulling a spirit back across that threshold
12:38Was a transgression against the laws of wolf and moon
12:41Lucian could live
12:43But only for thirty years
12:44No more
12:45And so it had been
12:46Lucian had grown up slight
12:47Unable to shift into warrior form
12:50But razor sharp in mind
12:52A natural strategist
12:53A scholar
12:54He'd won council honors young
12:56But the older he got
12:57The weaker his body became
12:59Eventually he stopped leaving his territory altogether
13:02Retreating to a lakeside cabin at the edge of the pack mansion
13:05Since I had agreed to the spirit bond
13:07I was to remain at his side
13:09Word was that he didn't allow anyone to serve him
13:12Just the shaman
13:13Who had stayed all these years
13:14The shaman brought me into the cabin while Lucian was asleep
13:17I looked at his face
13:19His lashes trembled faintly with each shallow breath
13:22He was two years older than Kaylin
13:23Twenty-seven
13:24The brothers looked nothing alike
13:26Kaylin was bronze and hard-edged from years of combat training
13:30Lucian was fine-boned
13:32Pale as snow
13:33Almost startlingly beautiful in a way that made you forget to breathe
13:36I spent the afternoon learning his preferences
13:38When the sun touched the horizon
13:40Lucian finally woke
13:42It was time for his medicine
13:43I'd spent the afternoon learning to brew it from the shaman
13:46So you're the female who plans to bond with my corpse?
13:49Yes
13:50Get up
13:50He picked up the bowl calmly
13:56I don't want it
13:57What are you going to do about it?
13:59Lucian looked up
14:00A thread of provocation in his gaze
14:02The shaman had told me Lucian was a person of pure instinct
14:05All feeling
14:06No armor
14:07Earned honors at fifteen
14:09And had the makings of something extraordinary ahead of him
14:12Then one evening
14:13A hunting trip
14:14With Kaylin
14:15Ended with Lucian falling off the cliff
14:17And drown in the water
14:19His wolf spirit seizing
14:20And three days of unconsciousness
14:22The matriarch had broken every servant in his household for failing him
14:26And sold the rest
14:27Lucian didn't treat servants like livestock
14:30He'd read too much
14:31And thought too hard to do that
14:34Alpha hair
14:37I genuinely can't force you
14:40But since we're going to be bonded eventually
14:42Perhaps
14:42I look down at the dark liquid
14:45Perhaps I should start exercising a mate's authority now
14:48Either you drink this
14:50Or
14:52Or what?
14:53The shaman had told me Lucian had refused medicine for six months
14:57That was why he was hovering at the edge of nothing
14:59At this rate, he wouldn't survive to spring
15:16When I looked at him again
15:17Vivid color had bloomed across his face
15:20Like dawn breaking over frost
15:22Those butterfly wing lashes were trembling
15:24With outrage
15:25I thought, distantly
15:27Of every arrogant she-wolf
15:29Kaylin had ever teased into furious, helpless blushing
15:32Lucian's expression was painfully similar
15:34A prick of guilt moved through me
15:37I forced my own pulse to slow
15:39Keeping my voice steady
15:40If you won't drink
15:41I'll be forced to do that again
16:00Alpha hair, your color has improved over these past few days
16:03Your skin isn't as cold as it was
16:05That's the medicine working
16:06Medicine is useless
16:08The shaman works hard to brew it
16:10If you pour it out every time, he'll be heartbroken
16:14Watch
16:16Testing the temperature alone takes constant checking to preserve the potency
16:20I've only been doing it a few days and my hands already look like this
16:24He pressed his lips together, said nothing
16:26And drank the rest of the bowl without being asked
16:29After that, he never made me beg him to drink his medicine again
16:35Half a month later, the shaman gave the matriarch his report
16:38Lucian had genuinely improved
16:40No longer at death's edge
16:43Could it be a final surge before the end?
16:46No, it's real healing
16:48This one is responsible
16:50I told you before, her wolf spirit signature is a natural compliment to his
16:54She steadies him
16:56The matriarch looked satisfied
16:58When she turned to me, her eyes were almost tender
17:01How has Selina been caring for you?
17:07She's been taking very good care of me
17:12Alpha Lucian may not know
17:14But when Selina was serving in my household
17:17Her skill at attending to Caelan was quite exceptional as well
17:20Such a good servant
17:23The air went very still
17:25Is that how you speak to your future sister-in-law?
17:29Vivian, you are young
17:31But that is no excuse for ignorance of pack law
17:35Shut up!
17:36Stop embarrassing yourself!
17:39Days later
17:41Did you hear about it?
17:42Vivian had found another substitute
17:44She looked for a maid again?
17:46Not from the pack's own hand-aids
17:47She'd bought a woman from outside
17:49Trained and shaped to match her voice and build exactly
17:51How do you know?
17:52Because Caelan lit every lantern in the room that night
17:55And when he saw what he saw
17:56He beat woman half to death
17:57And threw her at Vivian's feet
17:58Vivian had fainted
17:59And then?
18:00He said if she refused to truly share his bed
18:02He would never come to her rooms again
18:04They're sleeping in separate dens now
18:06Separate dens meant every wolf in the pack
18:08Knew the bond was broken
18:09No mate's devotion
18:11No matriarch's approval
18:13No pups
18:14No wonder Vivian looked like she hadn't slept in a month
18:22He looked fragile in the lake wind
18:25Unsteadying
18:25I went back to get his cloak
18:31Is it you?
18:36Was it always you?
18:40Answer me
18:41You think you can play mute with me again?
18:50Silence won't save you
18:53I don't need your voice to confirm it
18:55One night
18:56And I'd know for certain
18:57Had he lost his mind?
19:00I spent three years with a woman
19:03And she's going to be bonded to my brother
19:06How dare you make fools of us both?
19:09Especially me
19:10Would a rank at my side really be worse than grieving a dead man forever?
19:14Do you actually want to bond with a corpse?
19:19I just want to survive!
19:24If I didn't do this
19:25She'd give me to someone who'd break me
19:29A formal bond
19:30Even a broken one
19:31Would have made me untouchable
19:34Useful to no one
19:37Forced to stay her shadow forever
19:40Before he could recover
19:41I stomped hard on his foot
19:43And ran
19:43I was still stumbling
19:45When I rounded the corner
19:46What took you so long?
19:50I smiled
19:51Walked over
19:53And settled the cloak around his shoulders
19:54But he simply brushed my hand away
19:56Somehow he lost balance
19:57And fell
19:58His chest had a severe bruise
20:00Just leave me
20:01I am not your burden
20:06Lucian liked to sit there
20:07Open a book in the shade
20:09Why did you really agree to the spirit bond?
20:13I didn't want to be given to the given to the gatekeeper's son
20:17I thought it would be something like that
20:19What is it to guess that it would be like this?
20:22The shaman pressed a small wooden box into my hands
20:25Should I start calling you mate of the alpha?
20:27Please don't
20:28My future most likely
20:30My future most likely
20:30Was a silent room in a shrine
20:32Grieving him in his name until I followed
20:35With the shaman gone
20:36I took on more responsibility
20:37Including helping Lucian bathe
20:43I watched his ears
20:44And tried not to smile
20:46Had no one ever helped him bathe?
20:48Kaylin had always kept
20:49Half a dozen female attendants for bathing
20:51A younger version of me
20:53Would have died of the blush alone
20:55But I wasn't that innocent girl anymore
20:57There was a phrase I'd found in one of his books
20:59A broken moon
21:01A she-wolf
21:02Who'd been claimed and discarded
21:03The text said that's what I was
21:06What strange things are you reading now?
21:09I tucked it behind my back
21:11I'd memorized a passage
21:13And presented it to him like a prize
21:15Look at you
21:16Impressive
21:17You sound like you're humeering a child
21:21How old are you?
21:23Eighteen
21:24I have almost a decade on you
21:26To me
21:27You are a child
21:29The shaman had introduced new compounds
21:32Performed old rituals at the edge of firelight
21:35Burned offerings
21:36And whispered things I didn't catch
21:38Speak a wish
21:40You do it
21:42I want you to be happy
21:44What does that look like?
21:45Your body heals
21:46You find a mate who deserves you
21:48A pack of your own
21:50A life that finally goes the way it should have
21:53Do you mean that?
21:55Our eyes met
21:56I looked away
21:57Did I mean it?
21:58It didn't matter
21:58What mattered was
22:00The shaman's ritual apparently worked
22:02Because Lucian decided he wanted to leave the cabin
22:04I asked him where he wanted to go
22:07He studied me for a long moment
22:08There's a moon festival gathering tonight
22:10I've heard the town lights the whole river
22:13Festival fires were always burning somewhere
22:15Nothing special
22:16But since coming into Vivienne's household
22:18I hadn't been to a single one
22:20The longing had been sitting quietly in me for years
22:22That night
22:23A young noblewoman arrived
22:25The regent's daughter
22:25They said
22:26Used to getting everything she reached for
22:28In the river of lantern light and moving bodies
22:31She found Lucian in seconds
22:33Loser buys dinner at the finest inn in the city
22:35What do you say?
22:36And she walked straight up and challenged him to a game of darts
22:39I've forgotten who won
22:40I only remember the brightness in her eyes
22:43Lucian turned to look at me
22:45If you'd like to go, I'll wait outside
22:47I hadn't behaved like a servant in front of him in a long time
22:51But there were others watching
22:52She didn't wait
22:53She stepped around me cheerfully
22:55And reached for Lucian's chair
22:56I watched them move into the crowd
22:58And I felt something leave me that I hadn't known was mine to lose
23:01I stood in the cold for a very long time
23:04Then I remembered
23:05Today was my birthday
23:06She was the regent's only daughter
23:08Every door in the wolf world was open to her
23:11When the regent and his mate arrived at the pack mansion to formally propose the match
23:15The matriarch looked more shaken than pleased
23:18Through Briar, I learned the truth
23:20It wasn't love at first sight
23:21She'd fallen for Lucian over a decade ago
23:24Back when he was a young scholar with fire in his eyes and a future everyone could see
23:29She'd been carrying it ever since
23:31Refusing every other offer
23:32Lucian's potential mating became the pack's entire focus
23:36Even the news that Kaylin's quartermate had conceived was forgotten
23:39If the match succeeded, the matriarch would have been overjoyed
23:43But Lucian was already bound by the spirit bond
23:45To take a living mate, the bond had to be dissolved
23:48And so I knew exactly what I had to do
23:50Just as I'd once knelt before the matriarch and volunteered
23:54I came before her again
23:57I'm willing to step aside
23:59I want Lucian to have this
24:02I'd had the shaman check their spirit signatures as well
24:05They aligned perfectly
24:06She was born to rank, polished in every art
24:10And her love for Lucian had outlasted years of silence
24:13If he died, she would grieve him faithfully
24:15There was nothing more I could offer that she couldn't match
24:18So, what do you want in return?
24:22Money?
24:22Is it still about status?
24:24The matriarch squeezed my hands and asked what I wanted in return
24:28I pressed the gold I'd saved over two years into her palm
24:31I asked to be released from the pack's bond records
24:35I want to be a free wolf
24:38Child
24:40You could ask me for so much more
24:42I held the bow and didn't move
24:44Tears fell, one by one, onto the stone
24:47Take me with you, okay?
24:50Outside the pack pao shim
24:51Life was uncertain and hard
24:53Inside, with the matriarch's protection
24:56You would be safe
24:57Stay, serve well, don't make enemies
25:01The rest would come
25:04Briar wept and pressed gold into my hands anyway
25:07On the morning I left, many of the other handmaids came to see me off
25:11The shaman also walked towards me in the crowd
25:14May your ancestors guide your path
25:19Padded my shoulder
25:20And then walked towards the crowd
25:24I turned around and walked towards the door
25:26But in the crowd, I saw Karen also there
25:30Kaylin grabbed me to the corner
25:31He caged me against the wall
25:33And looked at me like he wanted to devour me
25:36Say the word and I'll take you as a formal mate
25:41Serve me like you used to
25:43And I'll give you rank above the others
25:45I stared at him for a long time
25:53Don't look at me like that
25:56What?
25:57You think Lucian's gonna come running after you?
25:59You're deluding yourself
26:02He's probably not even thinking of you
26:04Once his body improved, he didn't need you anymore
26:07You were useful and now you're spare
26:08And don't expect him to remember you in a year
26:11He didn't even come to see you off
26:13That tells you exactly where you rank to him
26:17Something in my chest seized
26:18The truth was, Lucian and I had been in a cold war for weeks
26:22It had started on the way home from the festival
26:24If I was happy
26:28Yes, the warmth vanished from Lucian's face
26:31Happy about the fireworks?
26:33No, watching you walk with her
26:35You look like you belong together
26:36My wish is starting to work
26:38That made me happy
26:38You see me with another female and that's what makes you happy?
26:41She's extraordinary
26:42She might become the Pax Future First Luna
26:44Of course I'm happy
26:45Selina
26:47I didn't know you could be so heartless
26:49My parents had died years ago in the household where I was born into service
26:53I had no home to return to
26:54I'd planned to head south
26:56Find a city where no one knew my name
26:58But the second Kaylin's and Vivian's faces floated up behind my eyes
27:03I was on my feet
27:04Booking passage on the first river ferry south
27:07Before I'd finished the thought
27:10Property deeds
27:12Golds, a house, a plot of land
27:14Somewhere in the south
27:16I tried to remember when the shaman had touched my bag
27:19He'd had his hands on it during the send-off
27:21But where had he gotten it?
27:23The ferry listed suddenly
27:24I nearly went over the rail
27:28I scrambled upright
27:29And found boots surrounding me on three sides
27:32Then I was bound
27:33Carried ashore
27:34And pushed into a carriage
27:37When the blindfold came down
27:44Vivian, smiling
27:46I couldn't stop the bitter laugh from escaping
27:48Briar had been right
27:49For all the years I'd served her
27:51And this was still where we ended up
27:53They brought out women with strong hands to deal with me
27:56The blows were professional and thorough
27:58She'd grown thinner since I last saw her
28:01The delicate elegance that had once made her untouchable
28:04Now just made her look breakable
28:06What it didn't do was protect her inside the pack
28:10I used your body as a convenience
28:12And you had the nerve to find your own way out
28:15Ungrateful
28:16Traitorous
28:17Have you forgotten what you swore?
28:20Loyal service
28:22Always
28:22Loyal service
28:24She wasn't wrong
28:25But loyalty is a two-way bond
28:27And she had never honored her half
28:29Waited for the anger to burn out so I could leave
28:32I overestimated her capacity for mercy
28:34The first day
28:35I knew the hitting
28:36Look at me
28:38The second day
28:39She used silver-tipped needles on my hand
28:43The third day
28:44She locked me in the holding den beneath the estate
28:46I found my parents' remains there
28:48For a moment
28:49Just one
28:50I genuinely wanted to stop fighting
28:52The young guard outside pulled me up
28:54Before I could follow the thought all the way
28:56Delina!
28:57Come back!
28:57Please!
28:58You saved me!
28:59Do I know you?
29:01Years ago
29:02A bracelet went missing in the ladies' rooms
29:04They were going to use me as the culprit
29:06You figured out who really took it
29:08And you bought me enough time to prove it
29:10I kept all my fingers because of you
29:12You're one of the kindest people I've ever known
29:14Why is she doing this to you?
29:17Because I wasn't loyal enough
29:19What's happening at the pack mansion?
29:22The alpha-haired
29:23Is he truly going to bond with the regent's daughter?
29:26The matriarch is frantic
29:27The whole bonding is off
29:29The regent's family pulled their daughter out
29:31The night his wolf spirit nearly went dark completely
29:33She agreed to cancel it?
29:36She's never been this close to real death before
29:38They say she ran
29:39Selene
29:40Please stop thinking about them
29:42Think about yourself
29:43You have to survive long enough to be rescued
29:45Will you let me help you?
29:46Please help me bury my parents
29:48Is there anything else I can do for you after that?
29:50I need you to find a small wooden box
29:52You buried my parents
29:54I'll carry that gratitude into whatever comes next
29:57On the fifth evening
29:59Vivian returned
30:00She examined her nails
30:02As if nothing else mattered
30:03I could barely hold my head up
30:05You're still alive
30:07Heaven must want you to suffer longer
30:09Begging me to stop?
30:11Don't bother
30:12I wasn't begging
30:14I was cursing her
30:15Quietly
30:16Steadily
30:17The rope around my neck tightened
30:19I let out a slow breath
30:20Finally
30:21A clean ending
30:22It pulled taut
30:23Tighter
30:24Until the air was gone
30:26Then
30:26It went slack
30:27A second
30:29Cruelty
30:30Another method
30:31Noise poured in from every direction
30:33Someone was calling my name
30:34Someone was in the water
30:36Selene
30:37Selene
30:42I'm sorry
30:43I'm sorry
30:45Please don't leave me
30:47I was lifted
30:48Carried
30:49Fast
30:50Too fast
30:51And then I hid a cold chest
30:53And stayed there
30:54Whoever held me dropped to their knees
30:56Their arms locked around me like I might disappear
31:01Lucian
31:02Where are you?
31:04I am here
31:04I am here
31:06I thought I had lost you
31:08Selene
31:09I'm so sorry
31:11I should have found you sooner
31:15Lucian brought me back to the lakeside cabin
31:18The shaman had prepared a medicinal bath
31:20Something old
31:21Something meant for deep wounds
31:22Lucian washed me himself
31:24Every new injury he found
31:26Made the skin around his eyes darken
31:29Deeper
31:29Redder
31:30In the blur between waking and sleep
31:32I felt like I was drifting
31:34Held up by careful hands in warm water
31:37Rocking
31:38Gently
31:39The last thing I remembered
31:41Was a soft bed rising up to catch me
31:44And my arms closing around it
31:46I slept
31:47For a very long time
31:56Where's Lucian?
31:58He kept watch over you for days
32:00I added something to his tea
32:01He's out
32:02Is he having an episode?
32:04His wolf spirit?
32:05He's been destroying himself since you left
32:07His wolf didn't want to be steady
32:09I couldn't do much
32:10You were the only person keeping him anchored
32:12That was never me
32:13Don't cry
32:14He's alive
32:15And he won't die before 30
32:17I made sure of that much
32:20What happens at 30?
32:21Does the bond snap?
32:22He was always going to die early
32:24You know this
32:25If he weren't fated for early death
32:27You two would never have found each other
32:28I sat very still
32:30Something inside me was splitting apart
32:33Lucian woke to find me staring into nothing
32:37What's wrong?
32:38His voice came out rough with sleep
32:40I wiped my face
32:41Said nothing
32:42My fingers rested against his throat
32:45Feeling his pulse
32:46I'm going to kiss you
32:48Say yes or no
32:51You were a lot less polite the first time
32:58His mouth was cold
32:59And his breath against mine
33:01Was like a thread of warmth in a blizzard
33:04Brief and so easy to lose
33:08Lucian
33:09I love you
33:14I love you too
33:20I never expected to fall in love with someone within such short life
33:27Neither did I
33:29Then the shaman came back
33:31He returned three nights later
33:32Moving with purpose
33:34And sat across from us
33:36I've been doing a great deal of thinking
33:38That's usually ominous
33:40The curse on you
33:41The life debt your father made with the witch clan
33:44It was sealed with sacrifice
33:45Specifically the sacrifice of a wolf spirit
33:49Sacrifice can be answered with sacrifice
33:51Or with something equal and opposite
33:54A bond freely chosen
33:56A mating bond
33:57A true one
33:58Not a spirit bond with a corpse
34:00A living, breathing, voluntary mating bond
34:03Freely given, both sides willing
34:05Under the full moon
34:06If the bond takes hold
34:09The original sacrifice is fulfilled differently
34:12Life for life
34:14But instead of taking
34:16It gives
34:17The curse breaks
34:19Has this worked before?
34:20I believe it will
34:24Yes
34:26The next few days passed in controlled chaos
34:29The matriarch convened a pack circle
34:31Vivian's crimes had not gone unnoticed
34:34The poisoning of Kaylin's quartermate
34:35And the unborn pup had been confirmed
34:37By pack law, that was grounds for exile
34:40Vivian was removed
34:41Quietly
34:42Finally
34:43The regent's daughter came to the cabin one more time
34:46He told me at the festival, you know
34:48The night we went to dinner
34:49What to say?
34:51He talked about you for three hours straight without realizing it
34:54I'm sorry I was slow to understand
34:56Her expression unreadable
34:58I didn't know what to say
35:00She stepped forward and squeezed my hand once
35:02Don't let him die
35:04Then she was gone
35:10Kaylin came to the cabin the night before the ritual
35:12He stood in the doorway
35:14And for the first time in the years I've known him
35:16He looked genuinely lost
35:19My brother
35:21He's going to be alright?
35:23The shaman believes so
35:26I never saw you
35:27Do you know?
35:29For three years
35:31I've actually never given you a proper look
35:34For whatever it's worth, I'm sorry
35:36I thought about everything I could say
35:39What I said was
35:42Take care of yourself, Kaylin
35:45He nodded
35:46Turned
35:47Walked away
35:48It wasn't forgiveness
35:49Not yet
35:52But it was the beginning
35:54The full moon rose over the lake like a white flame
35:57The shaman built the circle at the water's edge
35:59Silver dust
36:00Wolf herbs
36:01Old fire
36:02Lucian stood at the center
36:03He'd refused the chair tonight
36:05He was standing on his own
36:07In the moonlight
36:08And the sight of him
36:09Pale and slight
36:10And stubbornly
36:12Impossibly upright
36:13Hit me somewhere
36:14I didn't have words for
36:16The shaman's voice rose over the water
36:18Speaking old words in the witch clan's tongue
36:21The language of the curse
36:22That had been turned tonight
36:24Into something else
36:25He looked at me with those moth-wing lashes
36:27And that expression that always meant
36:29He'd run out of arguments
36:30And was trying not to show how much he felt
36:32Selene
36:34You don't have to
36:35I know
36:38I might still
36:40I know that too
36:42And what are you doing?
36:45Choosing
36:46The shaman's voice peaked
36:48The circle ignited
36:49Not fire exactly
36:51Something older
36:52Silver blue
36:53Rising from the water's surface
36:55I felt the pull of it in my chest
36:57Not pain
36:58Not fear
36:59Something more like
37:00Recognition
37:01Lucian's hand tightened on mine
37:03And I felt the moment it happened
37:05A snap
37:06Deep in the core of me
37:07Like a lock giving way
37:09Like something that had been held closed for thirty years finally opening
37:13Lucian made a sound I'd never heard from him before
37:16Not pain
37:17The opposite of pain
37:18He dropped to his knees in the silver circle
37:21And his wolf
37:22His wolf spirit
37:23Which I had never seen
37:25Which he had never been able to fully call
37:27Tore out of him with a howl that shook the lake
37:30White
37:30Enormous
37:31Blazing like a comet above the water
37:34He threw his head back and howled again
37:36The sound broke over the forest
37:38Over the pack mansion
37:40Over every territory for miles
37:42And from far away
37:44From every direction at once
37:45Howls began to answer
37:47The shaman wept
37:49I didn't realize it until I saw his shoulders shaking
37:51Lucian's wolf settled around him like a second skin
37:54The color returned to his face
37:56Not the brief flush of fever
37:58But real warmth
37:59Steady
38:00And permanent
38:01He touched his own hands like he was checking they were real
38:04Then he looked at me
38:05And his eyes
38:06Those beautiful
38:07Exhausted
38:08Fighting to stay open eyes
38:10Were the clearest I'd ever seen them
38:14Selena
38:15Just my name
38:16The way he said it cracked something open in me
38:19I pressed my face against his chest
38:22And stayed there for a long long time
38:24His heartbeat was strong
38:26Steady
38:27Warm
38:27Not borrowed time
38:30Just him
38:32The matriarch came to the lake the next morning
38:35She took one look at Lucian
38:36Standing in the early light
38:38No chair
38:39No shawl
38:40Real color in his face
38:41And she sat down on the nearest bench
38:43And didn't move for several minutes
38:45How?
38:46Thanks to Selena
38:47Who sacrificed herself willingly
38:50She was a good girl
38:51The shaman explained what had happened
38:54Then she reached out and drew me to sit beside her
38:57As she'd done before
38:58What do you want?
39:01I once hoped my sister would be safe
39:03And that I could be free
39:04But now
39:05All I want is for Lucian to return as leader
39:08Safe and happy
39:11It happened at the next full moon
39:13Briar stood beside me
39:17It's already more than enough
39:18You have a thread
39:19Right there
39:20Hold
39:22Briar
39:23What?
39:26Thank you
39:31Lucian was waiting at the lake's edge
39:33He'd learned to stand like he meant it
39:35May your life together be filled with love
39:39Laughter and happiness
39:40May your home always be warm
39:43And your hearts always full
39:45I had survived every single thing
39:48And I was here
39:49Free
39:50Loved
39:51His mate
39:52And mine
39:58Selena
39:59I'm not going to die
40:06I'm not going to die
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