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00:30Evelyn, please love me more
00:36I won't let you down
00:38They all begged for my love
00:40They vowed they would never fail me
00:43I never expected that the second I agreed to marry Zane
00:48You made me lose
00:50Look how ugly you are
00:52Never dream of marrying me
00:56You were just a dirty secret
00:58Caden had his men strip me of my clothes and throw me into the deep forest
01:06Then I reborn
01:07The famously powerful Alpha King and Gamma actually enjoyed sharing women
01:11It is well known that they were infatuated with a witch named Sarah
01:15They toyed with her daily, possessing her madly
01:18Until Sarah couldn't take it anymore and ran away forever
01:20When they first met me, I was being bullied by several rogue wolves, barely clothed
01:26Let's see who dares touch her
01:27Their fragrance wafted towards me
01:30They were my mates, I had two mates
01:35That night
01:37They knelt beside my bed, gently caring for me and marking me
01:42Evelyn, marry me
01:44Evelyn, you should have married me
01:45They were all whispering possessively in my ear
01:53But beautiful things never last long
01:56Three months later, I passed by the pack house
02:00She's just a substitute
02:01Don't take it seriously
02:04Hey, Sarah's coming back
02:06But we're already sharing Evelyn now
02:08Forget about that poor Omega
02:11Have you forgotten how painful it was for us when we lost Sarah?
02:15Evelyn was just a bet
02:17Fine
02:17Anyway
02:20I'm the one who won the bet
02:22According to the agreement
02:23The winner gets Sarah all to himself
02:27So, they were pursuing me relentlessly, begging me to marry them
02:31It was just a bet
02:33Whoever wins my heart can mate Sarah Zayn
02:36Zayn happily left to prepare for the mate pairing ceremony
02:41I managed to sob
02:45Kayden overheard and turned
02:51Now
02:53I am back
02:58I want revenge
02:59I am not reconciled
03:03Still here?
03:05You heard all?
03:06He didn't even bother to explain
03:08He looked at me like I was a trash
03:10Whatever happens
03:12I will never hurt you
03:14I will protect you
03:15I will keep you close forever
03:18I didn't have much to say either
03:20I swallowed the sting and turned to leave
03:23A pack Omega stopped me at the door
03:26Miss Evelyn
03:28Nights my chinged guns on the vladders
03:31Nothing from Alpha King's pack house leaves with you
03:34I closed my eyes, reached up and started taking it all off
03:38Piece by piece until I was standing in nothing but a plain white undershirt
03:43The coat, the pins, the jewelry
03:48Enough
03:49What do you think yourself?
03:53Do you think that the things we gave you in the past was for free?
03:57Never!
04:01I think you need to pay me for oral sex right now
04:08You promised me one thing
04:11Does that still stand?
04:13I once had taken an attack for him
04:15He had made his promise in front of the whole pack
04:18Whatever I asked for
04:19As long as it was in his power
04:21He would give it
04:28Zane doesn't want you
04:29Neither do I
04:33Don't think any of this was real
04:35My mate will be Sarah
04:37No one else comes close
04:39I only ask one thing
04:41Let me walk out of here in what I'm wearing
04:43I just wanted to leave with my dignity intact
04:45That was all
04:46That's all you want?
04:48Nothing else?
04:49He had expected screaming
04:51Threats
04:52A scene he could use to justify getting rid of me for good
04:55He didn't know I had lived this before
04:57I stopped wanting anything
05:00Get out
05:00He waved his hand
05:02I stood and pulled open the door without looking back
05:04It was just after December
05:06The snow was still heavy
05:08The cold swallowed me the second I stepped outside
05:11I walked barefoot into it
05:14My feet went numb fast
05:16My face went white
05:17I didn't make a sound
05:19I just moved toward the pack gate
05:21One step at a time
05:23By the time I reached the gates
05:25My feet were red and aching
05:27I crouched down and wrapped my hands around my ankles
05:31Trying to get some warmth back
05:33A convoy of vehicles rolled past
05:35Sarah only came back half a month ago
05:37And already the Beta is sending her the rarest gifts to court her
05:39He really never stopped
05:41Didn't the Beta and the Alpha King both treat that Omega sexoid differently?
05:45Like they actually cared?
05:46That's old news
05:47Everyone always knew she was just something they used to pass the time
05:50If Sarah hadn't come back
05:51They never would have bothered finishing the game
05:53The voices faded
05:55I felt nothing
05:56Just numb
05:58So everyone had known all along
06:00They both loved Sarah
06:02Only I had been stupid enough to believe it was real
06:05I didn't find out until I was already dying
06:08I don't know how long I crouched there
06:10Then I stood
06:12Wrapped my arms around myself
06:14And walked out past the gates
06:16Outside the wind was worse
06:18My hands and feet had gone completely rigid
06:21At some point my legs gave out and I went down in the snow
06:25Darkness flooding in at the edges
06:27But I made it back to my own family house
06:29Same as last time
06:32One extra layer of clothing
06:34Same stairs
06:35I walked through it without looking at anyone and knocked on the door
06:39No one answered
06:40My eyes burned
06:42I let out a short, bitter sound and knocked harder
06:46The Omega servant inside finally spoke
06:48Low and reluctant
06:50Miss Evelyn
06:52The family can't take you in
06:55Please go
06:55My hand froze in the air
06:57It felt like something small and dense was pressing through my ribs
07:03Spreading out slow
07:04I pulled my hand back
07:05The tears came without permission
07:07In my last life
07:10The moment my family found out the Alpha King had passed me off
07:13They shut the door on me
07:15They were afraid of what my presence would cost them
07:18Afraid of what people would say
07:20So they put me in a vehicle
07:22And drove me to a border outpost to be forgotten
07:25They had me poisoned
07:26I died somewhere
07:28No one would find me
07:29But I still remember
07:30Before I was chosen by Alpha King
07:33My grandmother and my father held my hands with tears in their eyes
07:37Evelyn
07:39If the Alpha King is ever cruel to you
07:41Come home
07:43We'll always be here
07:44They said that
07:45And then they locked the door
07:47I could have gone somewhere else
07:49But I knew they wouldn't let me disappear quietly
07:52The only way to be free was to disappear completely
07:55So I came back
07:56The door opened
07:58My father stared at me with his jaw set
08:01And contempt in every line of his face
08:03Do you have any idea what you've done to this family?
08:08Why didn't you just go?
08:10You got thrown out
08:11Why come back and drag your sisters into this?
08:15Behind him my half-sister's eyes were full of something vicious
08:19My grandmother stepped forward and took my hand with practiced tenderness
08:23Evelyn
08:25Evelyn, this isn't your fault
08:26That the family can't have a daughter like you
08:29Let grandmother send you to the border outpost
08:33We'll tell everyone you passed away
08:35The past stays buried
08:37Doesn't that sound better?
08:38Her voice was gentle
08:40But her eyes held something sharp and ruthless
08:43And underneath it
08:45A sliver of guilt too faint to name
08:47So it wasn't only Caden and Zane who wanted me dead
08:51It was my family too
08:53In the end
08:54I got into the vehicle
08:56I kept my hand wrapped around a small pin the hallway
08:59I didn't let go
09:01Same as last time
09:02The estate manager at the outpost had his orders
09:05And he followed them without hesitation
09:08He locked me in a storage room
09:11Now he stood over me
09:12You really thought you'd survive this?
09:14You humiliated the Alpha King and the Beta
09:19The family can't keep something like you alive
09:22Samey words as last time
09:24I stared down at the floor and tightened my grip on the pin
09:28He moved toward me with a small bottle
09:30I raised my hand without thinking
09:33The pin aimed at his throat
09:35Then the door exploded inward
09:38The estate manager went sideways as the shape moved through the room
09:41A figure in white caught my arm and pulled me upright
09:44Voice calm and even
09:46I heard you make good osmangra cake
09:50Want to come work in my kitchen?
09:52She lifted her veil as she said it
09:54The face underneath matched the portrait Caden kept locked in his private office
09:58Stunning
10:00Unmistakable
10:01One look and I knew
10:02This was Sarah
10:03The fated mate
10:05Both Zane and Caden
10:06Had built their whole obsession around
10:09In my last life
10:10The poison went down and the body burned
10:12No one came
10:14I had planned to take the estate manager out myself
10:17Start a fire
10:18And let the world think I was dead
10:20But this changed everything
10:22She must have seen something in my face because her expression softened
10:27And before I could speak she draped her outer coat over my shoulders
10:31It's cold
10:33Don't get sick
10:35Most girls from high-ranked families smelled like powder and perfume
10:39She smelled like green wood and clean air
10:42I was still processing it when Zane appeared in the doorway behind her
10:46Dropping his black coat over her shoulders before she could shiver
10:50You matter more than anything
10:52He looked at her with a warmth I had never seen aimed at me
10:56Not once
10:57Everyone said the beta was cold
11:00That the softness he showed me had only ever been strategy
11:04Looking at him now
11:05I could see it
11:07Whatever was in his eyes when he looked at Sarah was something else entirely
11:11He seemed to feel my stare
11:13He turned
11:15His voice was flat
11:16Sarah wants your baking
11:19So you'll go to her estate
11:21You were sent here to die
11:23Which means you were guilty of something
11:26Be grateful you're still breathing
11:28And don't reach for anything more
11:30The warmth he had shown was completely gone
11:33This was the beta I had never been allowed to see
11:36The boy I thought I knew dissolved out of memory and left a dull ache behind
11:41So my real feelings had been a death sentence to him
11:44I pulled the corners of my mouth up slightly
11:47I'm grateful Sarah saved my life
11:50I'll serve her well
11:51And I won't reach for anything else
11:53I moved to follow Sarah to the vehicle
11:56Someone caught my wrist
11:58I looked back into Zane's warning stare
12:00I pulled my wrist free
12:02Voiced flat
12:03You don't have to worry
12:04I won't say anything to Sarah about what happened between us
12:08Everything before this, I'm burying it
12:11As far as I'm concerned, we never met
12:14He didn't speak after that
12:16He just got into the vehicle ahead of me
12:18At Sarah's estate
12:19I followed them inside
12:21And watched the two of them walk side by side through the entrance hall
12:24My chest stayed quiet
12:26After Zane left
12:27He looked back at me once
12:29Something unreadable moving across his face
12:31I didn't look up
12:32Then arms came around me from behind
12:34You're okay
12:35Thank god
12:36Sarah held on to me
12:38And despite everything
12:39Despite the softness of her face and the slender look of her
12:43She was taller than I expected
12:44Close to Zane's height
12:46Her arms were solid
12:48Her voice was lower than I remembered too
12:50I pushed her back gently
12:52Keeping my voice even
12:54Thank you for coming for me
12:56She kept her eyes on me
12:57I'm sorry
12:59You got used to it because of me
13:02That wasn't fair to you
13:03I thought she was drawing a line
13:05A warning dressed up as an apology
13:07But then she said
13:08I'm not going to bond with either of them
13:12I don't want either of them
13:13I didn't understand what she meant
13:15I didn't try to
13:16I just let her set me up in a room and stayed
13:20My family had shut the door
13:22Right now I had no leverage and no choices
13:25I wasn't in a position to say no
13:27Sarah seemed to mean what she said
13:29She never made things hard for me
13:31And whenever Zane or Kayden sent gifts
13:34She turned them away immediately
13:36And then came to find me and explained quietly
13:39I'm not keeping them
13:40I didn't understand why she kept doing that
13:43I just sent her a portion of fresh Osmanthus cake every day
13:48Zane and Kayden showed up at the estate together
13:51In the side kitchen
13:53Zane had his hand around my throat
13:55And his eyes were pure dark fury
13:57What did you say to her?
13:59She just pulled out her brother's copy of the late Alpha's standing order
14:03To dissolve the bonding agreement
14:05Kayden watched from a few steps back and laughed
14:08Low and sharp
14:09Should have finished it properly
14:11Evelyn, I should have gotten rid of you when I had the chance
14:14I hadn't done anything
14:15The pressure on my throat made my vision blur
14:19My back hit the wall, hard and cold
14:22It wasn't me
14:24Something in my expression made Zane's grip loosen slightly
14:28I used it
14:29I swung my open hand and caught him across the face hard enough to snap his head to the side
14:35He felt the heat in his cheek
14:37His eyes went dark
14:39Evelyn
14:40I pressed my hand to my chest and pulled in long, slow breaths
14:45Whatever Zane said after that
14:47I let it pass through me
14:49He yanked me back up by the arm
14:51Go tell Sarah there's nothing between us anymore
14:53Whatever trick you pulled is done
14:56If you don't
14:57I will take apart everything you've built
15:00And your family goes down with you
15:02Kayden hadn't spoken yet
15:04But the intent in his eyes was already building
15:08Two men who use someone else's feelings as a bet chip
15:12And you think you get to accuse me of playing games
15:14I drove the pin into Zane's wrist
15:17He pulled back with a hiss
15:19Kayden moved toward me
15:21Jaw tight
15:21For a second I was ready to take them both down with me if that is what it came to
15:26Then Sarah stepped between us
15:28Same as the outpost
15:30Kayden stopped
15:31His face went complicated
15:33Sarah don't listen to her
15:35Sarah don't listen to her
15:36Whatever you decide
15:37Whether you bond or with me
15:39You'll be protected
15:40You'll have everything
15:42He pushed hard
15:43But Sarah just let out a slow breath
15:46I really can't bond with either of you
15:48Then she reached up and started undoing her coat
15:51Zane had brought guards
15:52I stepped in front of her and grabbed her arms
15:55Even if you don't want them
15:56Don't ruin your own reputation doing it like this
15:59I got my arms around her waist to stop her
16:01And then I felt it
16:03No softness
16:04Solid muscle
16:05Flat and warm
16:06And very clearly
16:07Not what I had been expecting
16:09Sarah wrapped me in close
16:11And murmured into my hair
16:12Easy
16:14Stop touching
16:15My brain went completely blank
16:17Sarah was a man
16:19He looked up at the two stunned alphas in front of him with total calm
16:24Still want to claim me now?
16:26Both of them stood frozen
16:27The fury drained and something ugly took its place
16:34Warrior Asher
16:36Why are you impersonating your own sister?
16:38They had seen the near identical faces
16:40And assumed it was some kind of prank
16:43There has never been a daughter in my family
16:46Anyone who looked would have found that out
16:50Wearing women's clothing is just a preference of mine
16:53I hope neither of you are telling me you've developed a thing for men
16:57Zane's fist tightened slowly
16:59He thought back over the last few days and it sat in his gut like something rotten
17:04Caden's expression stayed perfectly still
17:07He turned and walked out
17:09He didn't want to stay in the room another second
17:11The moment they were both gone Asher looked down at me, amused
17:15Done yet?
17:17Or did you need more time?
17:18I realized my fingers were still curled against him
17:22I'm sorry
17:23I didn't know you addressed
17:25I made my exit fast
17:27I wanted to leave the estate
17:28Leave the whole city
17:29But Asher caught my hand
17:31And his voice when he spoke was easy and direct
17:33I've been stuck out at the border for years
17:35Which means I've aged out of the easy options
17:38What do you think about staying on as a warrior's mate?
17:41We had known each other for less than a week
17:43Where was this coming from?
17:44I didn't get the chance to answer
17:46The kitchen door exploded open again
17:48Both men were back
17:49Faces dark
17:49Caden's eyes locked on me
17:51Cold and direct
17:52She's not bonding with him
17:56Evelyn
17:58Come here
17:59Zane said nothing
18:00His bandaged wrist said it for him
18:03Same as inside the stronghold
18:05Come when called
18:06Go when dismissed
18:07A wolf they could use and discard whenever the mood shifted
18:10What exactly are you two doing right now?
18:14Are you telling me a warrior of this pack can't choose his own mate?
18:19Evelyn
18:20Come back with me
18:22I'll make you a ranked mate inside the stronghold
18:26Our agreement still stands
18:27I'll bond with you
18:29Their fated mate had turned out to be a man
18:31So now they reversed course
18:33And tried to pull me back into the same fire they had thrown me into before
18:36Both of them looked at me now with that warmth I used to fall for
18:40For a second the image wavered
18:42Before everything happened
18:43Two men who had seemed so sure about me
18:46But I knew there was nothing real in any of it
18:48I was just the new prize in a new round of the same game
18:52My voice came out steady and empty
18:55I believe the alpha king and the beta both told me not to reach for anything beyond my place
18:59I haven't forgotten
19:02Both of them went still
19:03The silence stretched between them
19:05And somewhere inside it
19:07Guilt surfaced
19:08They had assumed I would always orbit them
19:10Always react to them
19:11Years of shared history had a weight to it
19:14And they had just started to feel it
19:15I'm sorry
19:16He finally understood
19:17I was not going to trust him again
19:19Not by one degree
19:20Zane moved in close
19:22Please don't
19:23Evelyn
19:25Come with me
19:25Everything I promised you it still counts
19:27I was still working out how to make them leave
19:30When Asher's voice cut through the room
19:32Five years ago you two were ambushed at Silvermore Lodge
19:35A girl saved you
19:36And you've held on to that
19:37Has it occurred to you that the girl might not have been me?
19:41You mean the girl who covered our escape wasn't you?
19:43If it had been Asher
19:44Protecting the pack's leadership would have been part of his duty
19:47But if it wasn't him
19:49Then neither of them had been unknowingly fixated on a man for years
19:53The brief flicker of something like hope showed before they could stop it
19:57Asher confirmed it
19:59Neither of them looked at me again
20:01They exchanged one glance and walked out together
20:04I had seen that look before
20:07Stakes
20:07A score to settle
20:09They didn't know the first thing about caring for someone
20:12They only knew how to compete
20:14How to manipulate
20:15How to turn everything into a game
20:17Thinking that the weight I had carried in my chest since my last life finally broke apart
20:22These two weren't worth the grief
20:24When I turned to say goodbye to Asher
20:27Five years ago
20:29Were you the boy whose father forced him into a dress to perform?
20:33I can't believe you still remembered
20:35The person in front of me slowly matched the memory
20:38A rail-thin boy covered in marks being forced into a costume
20:43Backstage at Silver Moon Lodge
20:45I stepped in
20:47Blocked the knife
20:48When I get out of this I'm going to find you and claim you
20:51Put on the dress
20:52And went out onto that stage
20:54You're a ranked warrior now
20:56That means you got out
20:57So why keep wearing the dress?
21:01The old man's gone
21:03He asked me before he died to be his mate's reflection a few more days
21:08His ghost wanted to see
21:09He told me
21:10His mother had died in labor because of him
21:12His father couldn't kill him but couldn't forgive him either
21:15The face was too much like hers
21:17So from the time he was small he was dressed and trained as the family's daughter
21:21Forced to learn performance, music, painting
21:24Same as five years ago I pressed my hand lightly to his forehead
21:28Asher I told you then and I'll tell you now
21:31You are a good person
21:33You have never not once been anything else
21:36In my last life he made warrior rank and never came back
21:39Thank you
21:41For choosing to come back for me
21:43One sentence and he understood
21:46How could I let my moonlight disappear from this world?
21:50His voice was barely above a whisper
21:52You were mine too
21:53But I heard it and I smiled
21:54What I said before
21:55About claiming you
21:57I was being stupid
22:00Wherever you end up
22:01Bonded or not just stay safe
22:03Asher didn't try to hide how much he didn't want me to go
22:06I was one step too slow
22:09Zane came in fast on horseback and pulled me into his arms
22:14Where are you going?
22:18The ground tilted
22:19When I got my bearings back Caden was there too
22:23Both of them looking at me with that heat I recognized and wanted nothing to do with
22:28I felt Zane's hand at my waist and drove my knife into his arm without pausing
22:32He had been stabbed by me enough times now that he released me on instinct
22:36Asher stepped between us and pulled me behind him
22:39Voice like ice
22:40What are you doing here at this hour?
22:41I'm here for my mate
22:43Evelyn already agreed to bond with me
22:45What I did was wrong
22:46I know that
22:48But if I had known from the start that you were the one at Silvermoon Lodge
22:52I never would have hurt you
22:53You wanna be angry at me?
22:55Fine, yell at me, hit me
22:56Just come back
22:58I went too far before
23:00I shouldn't have made you leave in almost nothing
23:02Come back to the stronghold with me
23:04We can go back to the way things were
23:06Voice full of the kind of sincerity he was very good at
23:09I think the Alpha King and the Beta are confused
23:11I'm a mid-rank wolf's daughter
23:14Five years ago I would have pulled anyone out of that situation
23:17Including a stray
23:20If that's the reason you're both standing here you can let it go
23:23It really doesn't matter to me
23:24I understood them now
23:26They were unpredictable
23:28Performative
23:29Asher had his hand at my back and was moving me toward the estate entrance
23:33The door shut behind us
23:36Solid
23:37And final
23:38From the upper floor I could see Zane and Caden still standing in the snow
23:41Letting it fall on them
23:43Asher came to stand beside me
23:46I'll find a way to get you out of the city
23:48A few days
23:49In the meantime I'll teach you some defense techniques
23:51Sound good?
23:52But he knew me well enough to understand that wasn't what I needed to hear
23:56And I said yes without hesitating
23:58Every woman I had ever known had been told to be soft and steady and careful
24:02No one had ever asked what I actually wanted
24:05I had read about fighters and wide open borderlands my whole life
24:09And never been allowed to reach for any of them
24:12I wanted to be strong enough to protect myself
24:15To never be at someone else's mercy again
24:17In the days that followed
24:19Caden and Zane seemed to understand they had lost the right to force anything
24:23They didn't come at me directly
24:24But every day they showed up and ran through the same performance they had used before
24:29Rare items kept arriving at the estate
24:31Then they finally ran out of patience and sent my family
24:34My half sister showed up at the gate crying
24:36Half sister the things that happened at the outpost that was father making a terrible mistake
24:42Grandmother found out
24:44She's been sick ever since and she only wants to see you
24:47The tears were convincing
24:48The calculation in her eyes wasn't
24:51I didn't refuse
24:52I smiled
24:57Alright, let's go see grandmother
25:00The snow had stopped
25:02But the streets got unfamiliar fast
25:04And my smile went thin
25:06Asking me to come back
25:07Asking me to think of the family name
25:09But the splinter was already in
25:11It wasn't coming out easily
25:12I had known since my last life exactly what my family was
25:16They could accept me when I brought them something to gain
25:19They could also leave me to die when I stopped being useful
25:22I stopped being easy to manage
25:24So they sent the half sister who looked most like me
25:27I watched the streets get worse and jumped out of the moving vehicle
25:32My half sister came after me with a knife
25:35Before, she might have succeeded
25:37Now I had her wrist
25:38And my other hand at her throat
25:40Grip tightening slowly
25:43It was father's idea
25:44He said if you wouldn't cooperate he'd replace you
25:46I just didn't want to be invisible anymore
25:48She was going for sympathy
25:49Someone else got there first
25:51Caden looked down at her from a few feet away
25:53Expression flat
25:54I asked your family to speak on my behalf
25:57Is this what they call helping?
25:58She went pale and started shaking her head
26:01But Caden didn't want to hear it
26:02He had her removed
26:03Then his attention came back to me
26:06Evelyn, stop making this hard
26:09Are you really done caring about your family?
26:11I moved back before he could
26:14I am
26:15And the Alpha King doesn't wipe out whole families without reason, does he?
26:20I turned and walked away
26:21Everything has consequences
26:23I didn't owe my family anything
26:25Zane had been stationed outside the estate every day
26:28Making sure I couldn't leave quietly
26:30But now, following Caden's lead
26:32He was gone
26:33I looked at the broken down buildings along the road
26:36And headed straight for the city's outer boundary
26:39I had already told Asher
26:41I wouldn't let any exit go to waste
26:43We didn't need to draw this out
26:44Time to go
26:45Everything moved smoothly
26:47I found a vehicle heading for the coast
26:49But something sat wrong in my stomach
26:51We need to move fast
26:53The city's shifting
26:54Asher's estate just got raided
26:56The ruling family doesn't care
26:58Use people up and throw them away
26:59That's what tyrants do
27:00Three years of watching Caden
27:02I knew how much he cared about how the pack saw him
27:05He had never done anything this openly reckless before
27:08I closed my eyes
27:10Then I turned my horse around and rode back
27:15I am very happy with him
27:17I cannot lose him
27:20I will find you and claim you
27:24Evelyn, ready to come home now?
27:26Release, Ashel
27:27Done
27:28I went back into the stronghold
27:31This time Caden outdid everything from those three years
27:35He cleared out the stronghold
27:37He overruled every council member
27:41And announced he would make me his official mate
27:45A permanent bond
27:47Just the two of us
27:48He stayed close every day
27:52Warm and obsessive and relentless
27:54Every Omega who had watched me be humiliated was reassigned
27:58When he found out what my family had tried to do at the outpost
28:01He acted on it immediately
28:03A new attendant helped me prepare one morning
28:06And shook her head in admiration
28:08My lady, the Alpha King loves you so much
28:10Everyone in the whole territory knows it now
28:12He has a chosen one
28:14Her name is Evelyn
28:15One bond, one mate, forever
28:17People are saying it everywhere
28:18Through them I found out what I needed to know
28:21Asher was being held in the pack dungeon
28:23Zane had been confined to his estate
28:26Caden was loudly performing his devotion to the whole kingdom
28:29But I had not forgotten what he looked like
28:32When he told me I was nothing but a bet
28:34A plaything
28:35Not worth the air between us
28:37Every moment of my last life was still in me
28:40So I helped Zane get out
28:42At the bonding ceremony
28:44He came in with a blade raised
28:46His eyes were burning
28:47Aiden dropped every pretense of being a patient older brother
28:51Brother, Evelyn belongs with me
28:53They tore the masks off for the first time
28:55And showed each other the actual hatred underneath
28:57Everyone said they were close
28:59That the bond between them ran deep
29:01No one knew they had always despised each other
29:04So they competed for the same things
29:07Wanted the same people
29:09Just to settle the score
29:11While the stronghold descended into chaos
29:13I stepped behind a dividing screen
29:15Dropped a fire starter
29:17And ran
29:18I already had a mount ready
29:20I had Caden's seal
29:22And I used it to open the dungeon
29:23I came to the dungeon to rescue Asher
29:37Caden was unconscious for two weeks
29:39By the time he came back and gave the order
29:41There was no trace of me or Asher left anywhere in the kingdom
29:45In a village no one had heard of
29:47Asher and I stayed
29:48The people there were mostly fighters he had mustered out from the border
29:52They had helped pull him free
29:54He had shed the dress for good
29:56Dark clothing
29:57Straight backed easy in his own skin
29:59The village women could not stop talking about how handsome he was
30:03And they kept looking between us and nudging each other
30:07Little Evelyn
30:08You two even have the same eyes
30:10Made for each other
30:11The way that boy watches you
30:14His eyes are practically stuck
30:15Why aren't you together yet?
30:18It had been because of the resemblance to Asher
30:20That I had become Caden and Zane's target in the first place
30:23Now that all of it was finally behind me
30:25I wanted peace
30:27Morning training with Asher
30:29And eventually to get out and see the borderlands I had read about my whole life
30:34After saying goodbye to the woman
30:35I turned toward the house and walked straight into Asher's face
30:39My cheeks went hot
30:41Before I could speak he said
30:43Don't listen to her
30:44She talks too much
30:46I don't have feelings for you
30:47You're my sister
30:49There's conflict at the border
30:51I'm going
30:52Take care of yourself
30:53And then he was gone
30:55Voice cold like it had never been warm
30:56Like the tenderness I had seen in him was something I had imagined
30:59I didn't stop him
31:01I just watched him go
31:02And something hollow opened in my chest without warning
31:05I thought about what the woman had said
31:07I let out a quiet
31:08Slightly sad sound
31:11Six months passed
31:12I had no news from outside
31:14Then I went into town for medicine
31:16And found out everything had changed
31:18Six months ago the Alpha King had turned tyrant
31:21Asher had gone back to the capital voluntarily to end the conflict
31:24Caden had chained him to the outer wall of the stronghold for three days in the open before exiling him
31:30to the border
31:31These last six months
31:33Rogue forces had grown stronger than they had been in years
31:36But Caden spent his days in a rage
31:38Locked Zane in the estate
31:40And sent people across the whole territory looking for a girl with Evelyn's face
31:45For reasons no one fully understood
31:47Caden's hatred for Asher had become personal
31:49He cut the border supplies
31:51People were talking on every corner
31:53The rogues are closing in
31:55The Alpha King has lost his mind
31:57And the pack is falling
31:58I sent back the medicine and rode for the border
32:01The fighters who had been with Asher saw me ride in
32:05And the relief in their faces shifted to grief fast
32:08Evelyn, you should say goodbye to him while you can
32:11I gripped my reins
32:13Got off the horse
32:14And walked into the command tent one step at a time
32:19Asher was laid out there
32:20Barely breathing
32:21He was worse
32:24He's basically invincible in a fight
32:27How did this happen?
32:29Since about six months ago he's been coughing blood
32:33Getting weaker
32:35The healers couldn't explain it
32:37He kept going out to fight anyway
32:39Last time he had an episode mid-battle
32:41And took a blade directly to a vital point
32:44The healer said there wasn't much time left
32:46But he kept saying your name
32:48We were just writing the message when you showed up
32:53Asher
32:55I'm here
32:58You said you needed a mate
33:00How are you allowed to go down like this?
33:04Asher has been through worse than this since he was small
33:08Even what his father put him through didn't break him
33:11The coughing blood
33:13The weakness
33:14That's because he went to the Eclipse Pack
33:15And paid with his lifetime for something
33:18I asked him what he got
33:20He wouldn't say
33:22But that same day
33:23He left the border for the first time
33:25And went straight
33:26To an outpost at the edge of the territory
33:30Word was
33:31You almost died there
33:33I stood very still
33:34Everyone knew about the Eclipse Pack
33:36A reclusive wolf clan who could reverse fate and bend time
33:40The cost was always the same in your life
33:42Now I knew why I had come back
33:44At some point the fighter left
33:46My tears came down and my vision blurred
33:49Asher
33:50You absolute idiot
33:55In my last life I loved the wrong people
33:58And I paid for it the way I deserved
34:00This life I felt everything fully
34:02And I didn't regret a single choice I made
34:05But now I regretted stepping in that night at Silvermoon Lodge
34:08If we had never crossed paths
34:10He would have been fine
34:12He would have made warrior rank without owing anything to anyone
34:15He would have had a full clean life instead
34:18Because of me all of it changed
34:21Another tear fell and fingers caught it
34:24Asher's lip curved slightly
34:26What are you crying for if not for you
34:29I would have died back then
34:33I don't regret it
34:37I just
34:38He stopped
34:39I really wanted to claim you
34:42I wanted to take you to the border and show you everything
34:47All of it
34:52I guess I can't anymore
34:54His voice was rough and full of want
34:57But he still managed to smile
34:59When you find someone be smart about it
35:01He needs to at least
35:04He needs to love you more than I did
35:06That's the only way he deserves you
35:09Another wave hit and I couldn't hold it
35:11Tell me where they are
35:13Please
35:14What happened to him was my fault
35:16He shouldn't have to carry it
35:18He closed his mouth and kept it shut
35:21No matter how many ways I asked
35:23I asked every fighter close to him
35:26No one told me anything useful
35:28In the end I found red ceremonial clothing
35:31And I brought it back
35:32We held the bonding ritual right there
35:35Asher
35:37I'm yours
35:38Even now with no time left
35:40The tent was filled with red
35:42Asher leaned against the frame
35:44And the light in his eyes was scattered and bright like something broken
35:48And beautiful at the same time
35:51Evelyn
35:52I'm so glad
35:54I'm so glad
36:22The forces attacked again
36:23The fighters who had nothing left stood in their gear
36:26Quiet and certain
36:27Ready to fight one last time for the pack they belonged to
36:30The fighter who had told me everything offered to take me and Asher somewhere safe
36:35I shook my head
36:36I want to stay at the border with him
36:38That day I put on Asher's battle armor
36:41And picked up his sword and used everything he had taught me to go out onto that field
36:46The first kill
36:47Blood everywhere
36:48I didn't freeze
36:50Because I knew he was right there beside me
36:52I could protect myself
36:54And I could protect everything he had cared about
36:56I wore Asher's helmet with the mask down and they thought I was him
37:00The legend of a warrior who couldn't be killed unnerved them and they wanted out
37:04I wore that mask and signed the agreement
37:07After the battle
37:08Caden tried to pin the charge of betrayal on Asher's name
37:11He had the fighters who had been with Asher hunted down and destroyed
37:14His rule got darker by the week
37:17For half a year we scattered and moved
37:19Caden unable to find me or Asher grew more brutal
37:23He taxed and squeezed the pack into misery
37:25Using the search as an excuse for everything
37:28The fighters who had followed Asher found me eventually
37:31They looked exhausted
37:32And they looked like they were asking for something they weren't sure I could give
37:36My lady, every wolf in this territory knows what kind of man Asher was
37:40Caden is not fit to lead
37:43We're asking you to put on the mask
37:45Use his name
37:46Call the fighters together and take the stronghold
37:48I put my hand over the pendant at my chest
37:51I put on the mask
37:53This time under his name
37:56The people lined both sides of the road
37:58Caden stood on the stronghold wall
38:00Fury and something else tangled together in his face
38:05Asher, you stole my mate
38:07And now you have the nerve to on my territory
38:10Our eyes met from a distance
38:12He could always read me in a way that other people couldn't
38:16Evelyn, you came back
38:18Get in here, we'll finish the ceremony
38:49You'll be my only mate forever, please
38:49And take in the fighters inside
38:51The arrow hadn't killed him
38:54I found a member of the ruling bloodline with a clean record and helped him take the seat
38:59Under Asher's name
39:00I became the pack's commander
39:02If Asher had lived, it would have been his
39:04Now it was his regardless
39:06He had earned it
39:08The new alpha was declared in front of the whole pack
39:11The old one was dealt with in the open
39:13Giving the pack somewhere to put its grief and anger
39:16Zane had been let out of confinement
39:19Not long after the new alpha took power
39:21He walked out of the capital and was never found again
39:24I applied to the station at the border permanently
39:27And left the capital with the fighters who had been Asher's family
39:31Time passed
39:32I rode across open grassland with the pendant at my chest catching the light
39:37Asher appeared in front of me
39:38So, what does it feel like being a warrior?
39:43I laughed and rode toward him
39:45He drifted the way things drifted in the wind
39:48The neighbor lady was right, you know
39:50We really did look like we were meant for each other
39:53Next life
39:55We do it right
39:56Deal
39:57I closed my eyes
39:58One tear disappeared into my hair
40:01Deal
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