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Too late alpha the luna walks away
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00:00Two years as Luna of Silverwake 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.
00:22They 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.
01:07That 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.
01:28I'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.
01:43It's a matriarch summons.
01:44Tonight.
01:47Alice 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.
02:18Tonight 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.
02:41Tonight 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.
02:59And 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.
03:24Mommy, 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, one after another, diluting the sanctity of a bond
04:23he 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, no 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?
05:19Yes, baby.
05:20Let'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,
05:44would you want to stay with me?
05:49This was the first time I ever asked for her answer.
05:56I 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.
06:14Good girl.
06:15Let's not tell daddy about this, okay?
06:17It's our secret.
06:19Okay.
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.
06:47Not a word of reply.
06:48Just the money.
06:50He thinks silver can silence a lunar's tongue.
06:53He has no idea.
06:54I'm not the lunar 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.
07:56Dignity 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.
08:10The 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 lunar of Silver Lake PAC.
08:19I had every right to be here.
08:21Luna.
08:21The Alpha is busy.
08:23Please.
08:23Let me announce.
08:24Busy.
08:25The word his staff used for what was happening behind that door.
08:28I knew.
08:29I had always known.
08:32She didn't look away.
08:33She wanted me to see her on my husband's throne.
08:38Oh.
08:39Alpha.
08:39She scared me.
08:41Two faces.
08:42Switched in one breath.
08:44She was very good at this.
08:46Why are you here, Ilissa?
08:47Is the house on fire?
08:49The Bloodline Trust is drained.
08:52Did you take it?
08:53I didn't need him to confess.
08:55I 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.
09:11With our Dautlisa's safety net shattered.
09:13The 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.
09:28I hadn't made a sound since I opened the door.
09:30Luna, the Alpha's gift just arrived from the jeweler.
09:36Storage vault.
09:37Thank you, Martha.
09:38A spirit gem necklace.
09:39A bribe dressed as an apology.
09:41I 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.
10:02My 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?
10:20Your 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.
10:59Three pack partnerships.
11:00Gone in 60 seconds because my husband thought his mistress could stand on my stage.
11:06The damage was done.
11:07And something in me.
11:09Finished.
11:10I'll send the new contracts tomorrow.
11:12Let's get dinner, Ilis.
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 and start playing mine.
11:28Small accident.
11:30I'll double your loss from the Terry treasury.
11:33He didn't even read past the second line.
11:36All I have to do is whine, and 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, and for what?
11:48Yeah.
11:50I did go feral.
11:51But tell me, Omega.
11:53Who gave you the courage to bare your teeth at a Luna?
12:04Isla!
12:12Are you okay?
12:13You used to smash cars, now you're attacking my people?
12:17You've become vicious.
12:18And you?
12:19Stealing from your pup's inheritance?
12:22Ruining my event?
12:23What does that make you, Matthew?
12:24Let's see how far you can push me.
12:27I counted the cost.
12:28The contracts.
12:30The bruises.
12:31The years.
12:32Tonight the ledger closes.
12:35Isla, the 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.
12:44Would 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.
12:52I owed him one last goodbye.
12:53Ozone and rain.
12:56He's here.
12:57And he's not alone.
13:00Strangers from enemy packs.
13:02That's what we'd become.
13:06Matthew.
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?
13:53Yes, baby.
13:55We'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, you're in my way.
14:31Your pup is in my way too.
14:34The 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.
14:53Sienna Ford.
14:53The Rogue Fight Club photos.
14:55Her 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.
15:02Buy out every headline.
15:0324 hours.
15:04Make her a Perea.
15:05Yes, Luna.
15:14Ellie!
15:16Cold like a physical blow.
15:34Her breath, her wolf, both fading.
15:45Three 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?
15:59I told you.
16:00No one will replace you as Luna.
16:02Why use these filthy, underhanded tricks?
16:05She's pregnant with a pack wolf, Isla.
16:07You know how fragile a pregnant female is.
16:10Stress could kill the pup.
16:13He hasn't even asked me why I'm soaking wet.
16:19Matthew, do 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, is 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, my stomach.
17:13The baby.
17:13She wants us dead so she can keep the inheritance.
17:16Isla, are you trying to ruin Sienna because of the baby?
17:19Did you fabricate this?
17:21I searched his eyes for the boy who promised me the world.
17:23I found only a stranger.
17:25Matthew, you're truly blind.
17:28Your eyes see.
17:28But your wolf is blind.
17:44The rage.
17:46The heartbreak.
17:48The chaos.
17:50They 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.
18:07Go ahead.
18:08The weight of the pack.
18:10The expectations.
18:12The failed bond.
18:17Gone.
18:18All of it.
18:19Gone.
18:24My clothes.
18:26My 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, are 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.
19:17No Matthew Robinson.
19:18No Sienna Ford.
19:20No pack politics.
19:21And for the first time, my wolf is mine.
19:27I am a lone wolf now.
19:31And my wolf, and my wolf finally breathes.
19:39Alpha.
19:41Our pup almost.
19:43It's okay now.
19:45Rest.
19:47Three days ago, if I'd scented another woman on him, I would have thrown his whiskey glass
19:51at the wall.
19:53He's waiting for that.
19:55The Isla-ler he remembers.
19:57The Isla who still cared enough to break glass for him.
20:01Alpha Robinson.
20:03Sorry to disturb.
20:03Speak.
20:04Miss Reed authorized the liquidation of Miss Wood Manor.
20:06Today, the new owners and neutral merchant clan are 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.
20:16Miss 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 because a wolf never sells her birthright.
20:23And now I'm selling it.
20:25He still thinks if he yells loud enough, I'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.
20:33Rage, lust, awe.
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.
20:40Or maybe he knows and refuses to let himself.
20:42It's nothing.
20:43I have a rogue element to deal with.
20:47Sarah, where is she?
20:48Alpha, the Luna took the pup and left the estate three days ago.
20:51She said she had matters to attend to.
20:53Which safe house?
20:53Which plaque territory?
20:54She didn't say.
20:55And Alpha, her scent is failing from the house.
20:58Ellie's too.
20:59A wolf bond runs on blood, on vows, on scent.
21:02Scent doesn't lie.
21:03I made sure every trace would fade.
21:05Ellie's clothes, my silk robe, the coat I kept by the door.
21:08I knew he would feel it before he saw it.
21:10But as long as his pride is intact, he 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, are you sure you want to make Ms. Ford the official face of the charity?
21:23The public?
21:24If my Luna wants to hide, give her something to watch.
21:26Make the announcement tonight.
21:29Every flashbulb is just him counting 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.
21:40Official face 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, it's done.
22:15The desolation is legally binding.
22:17He'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, she'd have driven her car straight through those doors.
22:31Instead, nothing.
22:33Three years of marriage and 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.
22:58She 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.
23:38The scent of home was gone.
23:40Replaced by cleaning products.
23:45My wolf paced in my mind.
23:47Claws scratching.
23:50Something 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.
24:14Once she realizes she can't survive without my protection,
24:17she'll come crawling back.
24:23Crawling back, Matthew 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.
24:38What the hell are you still dreaming about?
24:53This can't be.
24:56Matthew.
24:58I'm mating you for your soul,
25:00not 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?
25:37Who the hell does she think she is?
25:42Taking my daughter
25:43and walking away from the pack?
25:46Not in this lifetime.
25:57Find them.
25:58Every tracker.
25:59Every satellite.
26:01Turn the entire territory upside down.
26:04Bring Isla and Ellie back to me.
26:05Now.
26:11You still think this is a game of dominance?
26:33That was the first moment
26:35he truly began to doubt himself.
26:38Matthew, that recording is a forgery.
26:40They are framing me.
26:41Our baby.
26:49What if...
26:50What if it was real?
27:02Some truths,
27:03once doubt begins,
27:06can never be undone.
27:11Two 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.
27:32Forgery probability under 0.1%.
27:34Voice print 100% match to Sienna Ford.
27:37Background matches the abandoned doc's acoustic signature.
27:42Alpha, Miss 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,
28:01untraceable payment and goal
28:02the day before the report was issued.
28:03And her past.
28:04During your relationship with her,
28:05she was closely involved with multiple rogue males.
28:08There's also a confirmed Omega from the Shadow Pack.
28:10Every time she cried,
28:12every time she bared her throat,
28:15it was choreography.
28:17And he, the fool,
28:19played his part for two years.
28:26He used to believe he walked into that hospital
28:28as a protector.
28:30Tonight, he walked in as a verdict.
28:41Alpha, you're finally here.
28:43I...
28:47The recording is real, Sienna.
28:50What else do you have to say?
28:52No.
28:53That's fake.
28:54Eylee set me up.
28:55She hacked the system.
28:57A setup.
29:00Then what about the fake pregnancy?
29:03What about the rogue males,
29:04the Shadow Pack Omega?
29:05Is that also Eylee's doing?
29:10Sienna, listen carefully.
29:12You will pay for everything.
29:13From tonight, on this territory,
29:15you 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
29:31after 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,
29:46this alpha howled.
29:48And there was no one left to hear it.
29:53Two years.
29:55Two years of sleeping with one eye open
29:57of breathing in his storm.
29:58Tonight, the air smells like nothing.
30:01My wolf still doesn't know
30:02how 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
30:14and spun me around.
30:15Every homecoming.
30:17Every Christmas.
30:18Every victory.
30:20But today,
30:21he saw something in me.
30:23And he held back.
30:26He let go before anyone
30:27could see me crack.
30:29That's how he's always loved me.
30:31Without ever making me pay for it.
30:33Ellie pup,
30:34do you still remember Uncle Lucas?
30:36Little Princess,
30:38we're heading to the castle.
30:39No bad wolves allowed.
30:42Castle!
30:43Castle!
30:44Two years.
30:46And my daughter just remembered
30:47how to laugh like that.
30:49The cold of the capital grew distant.
30:52My shoulders,
30:53for 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.
31:19Not how was the flight.
31:20My wolf.
31:21Only my father would mourn her first.
31:25My precious pup.
31:27My precious,
31:29precious pup.
31:31Grandma,
31:32you smell like cookies.
31:34Two years.
31:35And my daughter just learned
31:36what bloodline love smells like.
31:38Reporting in, Alpha.
31:39Mission accomplished.
31:40The two princesses have been safely delivered
31:42across enemy lines.
31:43Awaiting orders, sir.
31:45Always making fun of things.
31:47Get the bags inside.
31:48He carries grief
31:49the way he carries luggage.
31:50Without ever letting anyone
31:52see it's heavy.
31:53Dad.
31:54Mom, we're home.
31:57Home.
31:58Not the one I left.
31:59The one I was always meant to return to.
32:03Come on.
32:04Mom started preparing
32:05for your arrival yesterday.
32:07The whole kitchen smells like a feast.
32:12I had forgotten what it felt like
32:14to let someone guide me inside.
32:18Outside this gate,
32:19the cold of the Capitol,
32:21the chaos of the Robinson pack,
32:24the memories I carried for two years.
32:27The gate closes.
32:29The territory remembers.
32:31We are held.
32:33Inside,
32:34my mother there's broth,
32:35my father's silence,
32:38Ellie's laughter,
32:40and,
32:40and,
32:43him.
32:45Sanctuary.
32:46He doesn't know yet.
32:48And I don't know yet.
32:49But something has already begun.
32:52Tomorrow,
32:53the real story begins.
33:06Two years.
33:08This is the first meal
33:09where I don't have to calculate
33:10Matthew's mood
33:11before I chew.
33:16Come on, sweetheart.
33:18Bath time.
33:22I need to take this.
33:23Council retirement matters.
33:26So,
33:28how'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,
33:38maybe pick on posing again.
33:39I have some melodies
33:40that Matthew
33:40that I couldn't finish there.
33:41Now that's my sister.
33:42Someone is wiping
33:43my past clean,
33:45and I let myself
33:46be cared for,
33:47for the first time.
33:55Isla,
33:55come help me
33:56sort through ease.
33:57There are some of your things
33:58from back in the day.
33:59The girl in the photo.
34:01It feels like
34:02just yesterday.
34:03You were so radiant
34:05back then.
34:05Your music calmed
34:07the fiercest wolves.
34:08The girl in the photo.
34:09She had the whole future
34:10in her eyes.
34:11If I hadn't gotten sick.
34:13If it weren't for
34:15Alice Robinson
34:15and what she did for me.
34:18The forbidden
34:19vitality transfer.
34:21I might have died.
34:22Your father and I
34:23tried to stop you
34:24from mating Matthew.
34:25Especially Lucas.
34:26He was the first
34:26to oppose it.
34:27He said that boy
34:28from the Robinson Hamley
34:29smelled wrong.
34:30Too flighty.
34:31His wolf.
34:31Too arrogant.
34:32Not someone
34:33who could settle down.
34:34Mom,
34:35don't say anymore.
34:36You've suffered so much.
34:38But you've sowed my much.
34:40If I had known
34:41I would have rejected
34:42Alice's gift.
34:43The path I chose
34:44was my own.
34:45And I have Ellie.
34:47I never regret her.
34:48But you've suffered so much.
34:51If I had known
34:51this would make you
34:52go through so much pain
34:53I would have...
34:54Would have what?
34:56His posture was like
34:57a wolf strolling
34:58into his own territory.
34:59But his eyes finished
35:01scanning the room
35:01before ours did.
35:02Now you see
35:04who really has
35:04sharp eyes
35:05and sniff out
35:05a scumag's
35:06true nature, right?
35:08You're always
35:09teasing your sister.
35:11Show some respect.
35:13Ow!
35:14Abuse in the den!
35:15I'm just helping
35:16Mom educate you, okay?
35:17You have to listen
35:18to good advice.
35:19Especially from
35:20your big brother
35:20who has the best
35:21nose in the family.
35:25The past is unchangeable.
35:27But at least
35:28we still have each other.
35:33A few days later
35:35I signed the first lease
35:36that truly belonged to me.
35:38I named it Isla.
35:40Not Robinson.
35:42Just me.
35:44Lucas came here
35:45every day.
35:46He said he was
35:47safeguarding the birth
35:48of a future music master.
35:50But what he was doing
35:52looked more like
35:52something else.
35:54Lucas,
35:55you didn't have to.
35:57First cup
35:58from the new machine
35:59had to get it
35:59right.
36:05The only sounds
36:06in the room
36:06were the scratch
36:07of pen on paper
36:08and the tap
36:09of keys.
36:11Quiet.
36:12Like two wolves
36:13sharing the same territory.
36:15When he looks at me
36:17his gaze is heavy.
36:19I can't read it.
36:21I told myself
36:22he is my brother.
36:26Security contract.
36:27I'll be outside.
36:27Mom came to see me
36:29again.
36:30There was pride
36:31in her eyes
36:31but there was
36:32something else too.
36:33Mom,
36:34what brings you here?
36:36My mother is a very
36:37steady old Luna.
36:39She only touches
36:40a cup like that
36:41when something
36:42truly important
36:43was at stake.
36:46Isla,
36:47there's something
36:47I've been thinking
36:48about for a long
36:49time.
36:52I feel I should
36:53tell you now.
36:58The way my mother
36:59sat down
37:00told me everything.
37:01She was about to
37:02set down something
37:03she'd been carrying
37:04for twenty years.
37:06I know this is hard
37:07for you to hear
37:08but it's time
37:08you knew the truth.
37:10Lucas,
37:11he's not your
37:12biological brother.
37:14He does not share
37:15the Reed bloodline.
37:17What?
37:18He's a foundling.
37:19Adopted.
37:20The healers said
37:21we couldn't produce
37:21a pup.
37:22The elders were
37:23pressuring us
37:23for an heir.
37:24We found him
37:25at the orphanage
37:25for displaced wolves.
37:27A stubborn little thing.
37:28Eyes full of prickles.
37:29But I knew
37:30he needed a pack.
37:31He knew from the start
37:32that you weren't
37:33his blood sister.
37:34We told him
37:35when you were born
37:35and he still
37:36took the blood oath
37:37to protect you.
37:38Blood oath.
37:39The heaviest vow
37:41in the pack.
37:42Heavier than marriage.
37:43And he took it
37:44when he was three.
37:46I thought he was
37:47being being my brother.
37:48He wasn't.
37:50He was guarding.
37:52If you're hurt,
37:53just come back.
37:54My den is yours.
37:57My den is yours.
37:59Not something
38:00a brother says.
38:01Something a male
38:02wolf who'd been
38:03waiting for me
38:04to come home
38:04would say.
38:05He walked in
38:06and he already knew.
38:08In a house of wolves,
38:09secrets have a scent.
38:12I just closed
38:13a big deal.
38:14We need to celebrate.
38:15His wolf caught it
38:16before he did.
38:17Something was wrong
38:18with 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
38:23priority protected
38:24species these days.
38:25She didn't say a word.
38:27But that look,
38:28Rai-9 was her
38:29handing him off.
38:32I could see
38:33my own reflection
38:33in his eyes.
38:34For the first time,
38:35I noticed they didn't
38:36look like mine.
38:37They didn't look
38:38like my father's.
38:39Has our big composer
38:39hit a creative block?
38:41You're furrowing your
38:42rouse like you're
38:42about to squash a fly.
38:43What's going on?
38:44Deep in thought, huh?
38:46His wolf was waiting
38:48for me to say yes.
38:49My wolf.
38:51I hadn't even
38:52fully admitted
38:53I had one listening.
38:58Nothing's more
38:59important than food,
38:59right?
39:00Come on, artist.
39:01How about treating
39:01the hard-working manager
39:02who's been running
39:03around for you?
39:04That wasn't the hand
39:04that held mine
39:05crossing the street
39:05when I was little.
39:06This hand
39:07was asking a question.
39:09He wasn't just
39:09my manager.
39:10He never was.
39:12Cold fingertips
39:13on warm skin.
39:14He didn't close
39:15his hand.
39:16He just
39:16held it.
39:20All right.
39:25I didn't pull away
39:28and that was
39:28when I realized
39:30I didn't want to.
39:39Come on, artist.
39:41Treat the hard-working
39:41manager who's been
39:42running around for you.
39:44When we were kids,
39:46he used to reach out
39:47like this to pull me
39:48out of trouble.
39:49This time,
39:50he was asking me
39:51if I wanted to walk in.
39:55My fingers were cold.
39:57His palm was burning.
39:59And something,
40:01and something,
40:03faint but undeniable,
40:05passed between us.
40:06In the days that followed,
40:08the air in the house
40:09changed.
40:13Didn't do anything.
40:15Just balance.
40:16He was still Lucas,
40:18but every touch,
40:20casual as it looked,
40:22carried a test.
40:23I didn't push him away.
40:25But I didn't answer,
40:27either.
40:28The bond Matthew
40:30tore from me
40:30was still healing.
40:35His thumb had been here.
40:37His thumb,
40:40warm,
40:41barely a second.
40:42Why was I the one
40:44replaying it?
40:48He was patient.
40:50A hunter who knew
40:51the prize was worth
40:53the wait.
40:53I hadn't said yes.
40:56But something inside me,
40:59quietly,
41:01had stopped saying no.
41:07Lucas no longer
41:08played the role of brother.
41:09He was slowly,
41:11patiently,
41:13moving himself
41:14into every corner
41:15of my daily life.
41:18Client gave me
41:19two free tickets.
41:21Would have been a waste.
41:23Every excuse he makes
41:24is clumsy.
41:25He doesn't care
41:26whether I see through them.
41:28And my body
41:29is answering him
41:30without asking me first.
41:32My wolf senses
41:34the courtship.
41:35She doesn't
41:36lunge forward
41:37to tear everything apart
41:38the way she did
41:39with Matthew.
41:41She just
41:43quietly lifts her head
41:45and listens.
41:47My mother's
41:47so-called revelation
41:48was never an announcement.
41:49It was a carefully
41:50crafted assist.
41:52The mastermind
41:53was the man
41:53standing right in front of me.
41:55He no longer
41:55wanted to be
41:56just my protector.
41:57He was positioning himself
41:58patiently
41:59for a brand new role.
42:00And for the first time
42:01in two years,
42:02I thought it might
42:02be worth my courage.
42:05Come in.
42:12That scent.
42:14Him.
42:15Came here to hide
42:16in the neutral zone?
42:18Is there something
42:19you need,
42:19Alpha Robinson?
42:22Where's Ellie?
42:24I came to see my daughter.
42:26She's at the academy.
42:27Isla,
42:28have you had enough?
42:29Playing this little
42:30runaway act
42:31amuses you?
42:32Matthew,
42:32have you got it wrong?
42:33The Severn Agreement
42:34is signed.
42:35We have no relationship
42:35anymore.
42:36If you want to see Ellie
42:37schedule through the council,
42:38this is my workplace.
42:39You are not welcome here.
42:41Your scent is polluting
42:42my studio.
42:42No relationship?
42:44You signed a paper.
42:45Do you really think
42:45you can walk away from me?
42:46We are fated.
42:47Name your price.
42:48What will it take
42:49to bring the child
42:49back to the pack?
42:50Don't test my patience.
42:51I can buy this entire building.
42:53He's still reading
42:53from a script
42:54written two years ago.
42:55He doesn't know.
42:56The woman he could have bought
42:57is no longer in this room.
42:58Isla,
42:59are you done?
43:07Three scents,
43:08two alphas.
43:10One of them
43:11is suddenly realizing
43:12the other is not
43:13the little brother
43:14he thought.
43:15I thought today
43:16was just another
43:17ordinary dinner day.
43:18But the storm
43:19has already arrived
43:20at my door.
43:25In our world,
43:26a brother standing
43:27between you and your enemy
43:28is not a brother.
43:29It's a territory
43:30being redrawn.
43:32Alpha Robinson?
43:33What brings a high
43:34and mighty Alpha
43:34to this little
43:35neutral territory?
43:36I came to see
43:36Isla and my pup.
43:38This is a matter
43:39between mates.
43:40Mates?
43:41Are you sleepwalking?
43:43Does my sister
43:44still have your mark?
43:47Do you need me
43:48to slap the severance
43:50to Kied
43:51across your face?
43:53You are nothing
43:54to her now.
43:55Lucas,
43:56out of respect
43:57for your being
43:58Isla's kin,
43:59I've been polite.
44:00But my family matters
44:01are none of your business.
44:05Isla is the one
44:07I've watched grow up.
44:08I swore the blood oath
44:09to protect her.
44:10How could you swear
44:11to the moon goddess
44:12you'd take care of her?
44:14And what did you do?
44:17You let some
44:18scent-masked rogue
44:19humiliate her.
44:22Ellie nearly drowned
44:23in that freezing water
44:24because of you.
44:25Let me make this clear.
44:27Leave Isla's sight
44:28right now.
44:29Don't ever come
44:30near 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
44:44that woman's name
44:44in this room!
44:46Lucas Reed!
44:47Who the hell
44:48do you think you are?
44:49You are a beta!
44:51I have every right
44:52to see my daughter.
44:54It's my blood right!
44:56Matthew's blood right
44:57is a lie
44:57about to collapse.
45:22That strike was for
45:23Illa and Ellie.
45:25My sister and niece
45:27are under my protection.
45:28My territory.
45:30My rules.
45:33Show up again
45:34and I will not hold back.
45:37He felt it then.
45:38Not pain.
45:40Something older.
45:42The recognition
45:43of a predator
45:43realizing he's walked
45:45into another beast's den.
45:47The bond is eternal.
45:50She's just punishing me.
45:52She cannot let go.
45:53Not really.
45:57If direct confrontation
45:59won't work
46:00and Lucas stands guard
46:01at the gate
46:02then change direction.
46:07Three years of marriage.
46:09Now he started attacking
46:11through our pup.
46:12And today
46:12the siege begins.
46:15Mrs. Reed's orders.
46:16Return to sender.
46:20He thought this was clever.
46:22He didn't know
46:23three people in that house
46:24were sending
46:24every gift back.
46:30Ellie?
46:31Do you miss Daddy?
46:33Daddy has a new castle
46:35for you.
46:36It's not convenient
46:37for the child.
46:38Please don't call again
46:40Alpha Robinson.
46:41He stopped attacking me.
46:44He started attacking her.
46:46Ellie was the weak link
46:47in their fortress.
46:56I could block his calls.
46:58I could return his gifts.
47:00But the bloodbind hums
47:01between sire and pup.
47:02A wire no gate can stop.
47:04Family only.
47:06Me, my mother Lucas.
47:08No 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
47:26in this den?
47:27Why did we send
47:28the big wolf doll back?
47:29He said on the card,
47:30he misses me.
47:31The pup's wolf felt it.
47:33The rejection of pack's structure.
47:35The absence of the Alpha
47:36she 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
47:46the wolf misses Daddy too.
47:48That was the moment I knew.
47:50I couldn't hide anymore.
47:52Blocking him
47:52wasn't the answer.
47:54Silence was being read
47:55as a game.
47:56The tighter I hid,
47:58the tighter he clung,
47:59using the pup's instincts
48:01as a weapon.
48:01So I had to speak.
48:03Not to reconcile.
48:04To mark the final territory.
48:08Isla?
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.
48:19Okay.
48:20I'll be there.
48:22Don't be late.
48:23He thought I was breaking.
48:25He thought the Cold War,
48:27the papers,
48:28the move,
48:29were all a tantrum.
48:30A test of his resolve.
48:32He was already rehearsing
48:34the reunion.
48:35Tears.
48:36Embrace.
48:37The sex that would remake
48:39the mating mark.
48:40He was certain.
48:42Fate didn't make mistakes.
48:44He thought tomorrow
48:45was a reunion.
48:47He didn't know
48:48it was a reunict.
48:51Three years as his Luna.
48:54Three months apart.
48:56Today I'm here
48:57to bury a marriage
48:58he thinks is still breathing.
48:59His scent arrives
49:01three seconds
49:02before he does.
49:03Musk.
49:04Authority.
49:05A cologne designed
49:06to make a Luna's wolf kneel.
49:09Alpha vision.
49:10He's searching
49:11for a wolf
49:12shivering from bond withdrawal.
49:13What he finds
49:15is a lake.
49:16Frozen.
49:16Deep.
49:17Nothing moving underneath.
49:19Isla.
49:20Since Sienna left
49:21I've thought a lot.
49:22I was an idiot.
49:23My wolf was blinded
49:25by my selfishness
49:26and by that rogue's
49:27manipulation.
49:29The bond is still there
49:30Isla.
49:31You feel it.
49:32You can't not feel it.
49:34A lone wolf
49:35is vulnerable Isla.
49:36You have no one
49:37to protect your flank
49:38right now.
49:39Let me court you again.
49:41Restart the mating cycle.
49:43Give Ellie
49:44a complete den.
49:45I'll never make
49:46the same mistake.
49:47Matthew.
49:48Your instincts
49:49are completely broken.
49:53There it is.
49:54The first crack.
49:59First.
50:00I'm not here
50:01to hear your confession.
50:02I'm not here
50:03to give you a chance.
50:04I'm here to officially
50:05notify you.
50:06The bond.
50:06The title.
50:07The marriage.
50:08All of it is over.
50:09Second.
50:10My life is good now.
50:11My wolf is healthy.
50:12Without you
50:13Ellie and I
50:13are stronger.
50:15Third.
50:16Who told you
50:16I have no one
50:17to protect my flank?
50:19Cedar.
50:20Steel.
50:21A forest
50:22after winter rain.
50:23His cologne
50:24suddenly
50:25smells like
50:26a cheap spray can.
50:27He doesn't sit.
50:28He stands.
50:30Guarding,
50:31guarding my blind spot.
50:32The posture
50:33of a mate.
50:35Are you done talking?
50:40Lucas.
50:41You.
50:42The two of you.
50:44Your siblings.
50:46Pack kin.
50:47This is against
50:48the natural law.
50:57His hand lands on my shoulder.
50:59Let him think it.
51:00The truth will hurt more
51:01when it arrives.
51:06Brother and sister.
51:07Matthew,
51:08who told you
51:08we share the same bloodline?
51:10I was a foundling.
51:11The reeds took me in.
51:13I was the childhood partner
51:14prepared for Isla
51:15from the beginning.
51:16I've watched her grow up.
51:18Protected her.
51:20Waited for her.
51:21My blood is clean.
51:22My lineage is separate.
51:24From the start to the end,
51:25I've only had eyes for her.
51:27So now,
51:28she has a protector.
51:29She has a main waiting.
51:31It's me.
51:32Understand?
51:33The rest of her.
51:34The rest of her.
51:34The rest of her.
51:38And for the first time,
51:40I didn't pull away.
51:46He vanished.
51:48No calls.
51:49No messages.
51:50I should have felt relief.
51:53I felt something closer
51:54to warning.
52:01I felt something closer
52:06Uncle Lucas!
52:14Ellie, daddy's here to take you home.
52:21I don't want to. I want uncle and mommy.
52:25Be good! I'm your daddy! Come to me!
52:29Matthew, back off. You're scaring the pup.
52:32Ellie, look closely.
52:34He is a bad wolf who wants to take your mommy away.
52:38He is trying to steal your pack.
52:40Izala, step aside.
52:42I need my daughter to see this man for who he really is, a usurper.
52:46Daddy's bad. I hate daddy.
52:49You yelled at Uncle Lucas. You scared Ellie.
52:52You're a bad daddy. I don't want to go with you.
52:54I like uncle. Uncle tells me stories.
52:57Uncle plays with me. He 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, one 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.
53:32And tonight, I finally understand why.
53:36The chaos is gone.
53:38The 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 Reed.
53:52Invitations came, one after another.
53:54But I chose carefully.
53:58Only 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.
54:17Not a father.
54:18Not yet.
54:20Something steadier.
54:21Uncle Lucas?
54:23The dark water?
54:24He released his calming pheromones.
54:27Warm.
54:28Cedar.
54:28Earth.
54:29And her small wolf inside started to breathe again.
54:33By 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.
54:48Cedar.
54:49Earth.
54:51His scent.
54:56And 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.
55:15Hi, pup.
55:19When 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.
55:23He didn't say my pack.
55:25He said his pack.
55:27But 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.
55:44Isola, I thought you should know.
55:46Matthew has formally obligated his position as CEO.
55:49He 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, now walks alone at the edge of the world.
56:09Thank you, Alice.
56:11Please take care of yourself.
56:16Something wrong?
56:17Matthew left.
56:19He 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.
56:31As for now, this is enough.
56:34The future is long, and we have all the time in the world.
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