Love turns into obsession, betrayal leads to revenge, and secrets change everything in this emotional short drama you won’t stop watching.
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00:00The day after I died, my husband came to my grave, not to mourn.
00:04He drove a silver blade into his own chest, and used his last breath to write a message on my
00:09headstone, in his own blood.
00:13Liana, you will pay for your selfishness.
00:15Then I opened my eyes, three days before the bonding ceremony, back where it all started.
00:21Under the accord, the council gathers at full moon to hear the oracle's decree.
00:25They promised my adoptive sister, Sarah, to Clayton Blackridge, the dying alpha of the Blackridge pack.
00:31And me?
00:32I was assigned to Christian Grey, the stray rogue my father took in, the one who just clawed his way
00:38to becoming alpha of Greycliff.
00:40But on the day of the bonding ceremony, Sarah ran.
00:43She couldn't face giving herself to a man already half in the grave.
00:47She came back, and tried to bond with Christian herself.
00:51I got there in time to stop it.
00:53In her shame and fury, Sarah threw herself off the cliffs.
00:57Eventually, Christian went through with it.
00:59He'd bonded with me.
01:01Everyone said he treated me like a queen.
01:03I believed them, right up until the moment he became high alpha of the five packs, and flayed 27 members
01:10of my pack alive.
01:11Nailed their skeletons to our border posts as a warning.
01:15By the time I died, there was nothing left of me.
01:18And now I'm back.
01:19Christian is standing by the moonwell right now, waiting for me to choose him, just like last time.
01:25But this time, I'm done.
01:27We don't need to wait for the oracle.
01:28I'll go to the Blackridge pack.
01:30I'll take the dying alpha as my mate.
01:36No hesitation.
01:38No grief.
01:39Since she's going, I ask for your blessing to mate with Sarah.
01:44In my last life, he spent this entire week pretending to be desperately in love with me.
01:49So why is he so eager to throw me away this time?
01:52There's only one answer.
01:54He didn't just come back to find me.
01:56He's been reborn too.
02:00Christian Grey, you gave your word before the moonwell.
02:05You swore.
02:06Once you won the alpha challenge and earned the council's recognition, you would bond with Liana.
02:13You would protect this pack.
02:15I looked at my father.
02:16The white in his hair was worse than I remembered.
02:19My mother died young.
02:20He raised me alone.
02:22And when the five-pack accord threatened to send me to Blackridge, to be used as a living lifeline for
02:27a dying alpha, he found another way.
02:30A half-starved rogue pup, freezing to death in the snow on our border.
02:34My father gave Christian a name.
02:36Food.
02:36Training.
02:38The protection of our lands.
02:44He burned the last of Greycliff's political standing to put him on the alpha seat.
02:50At the cost of everything we had left.
02:53Every piece of it.
02:54All of it, to keep me safe.
02:56That kindness got us both killed.
02:58In my last life, Christian threw my father into a dungeon and had his fingernails pulled out, one by one,
03:04every single day.
03:06Revenge for the one time my father stood between him and Sarah.
03:09I stepped forward and studied my father's hands.
03:12Father.
03:13The reality, Christian already has three of the five packs behind him.
03:16The second Clayton dies, he becomes high alpha.
03:19And Greycliff?
03:20Our hunting grounds are half gone.
03:23Our allies have vanished.
03:25The only reason we haven't been swallowed whole is because Christian technically came from our pack.
03:30He's a man who lives for revenge.
03:32Until I have a real plan, I have to play nice.
03:35Alpha Aldrich.
03:36I'm not that orphan boy anymore.
03:39Let's not dig up old things.
03:40I knew that smile.
03:42He was wearing that exact expression when he ordered my 27 pack members skinned alive.
03:49Or is this another act, Liana?
03:53Are you going to play the Mortem again?
03:55Just so you can push Sarah off another cliff.
04:00Relax, Christian.
04:01I'm going to the Black Ridge pack.
04:03I'm not changing my mind.
04:05You better mean that, Liana.
04:07If I find out this is another game, another way to hurt Sarah, I swear I will strip your rank,
04:12cast you out of this pack, and leave you to rot on the dead zones of the border.
04:16Alone.
04:21This is all my fault.
04:22I pitied him.
04:23I raised him.
04:25I handed him everything he needed to take power.
04:28And I built a monster.
04:30Liana, I ruined your life.
04:33Dad, going to Black Ridge isn't a death sentence.
04:36It's the only chance we have at a real life.
04:39Because I knew what the alternative looked like.
04:42I'd lived it.
04:44Christian's hands on my father's collar, dragging him to the dungeon.
04:47The bones of 27 of my people hanging on our own border posts.
04:51Me, locked in that east wing, grief-eating me alive until there was nothing left.
04:55I have a secret Christian doesn't know about.
04:57I carry the rarest healing bloodline in Greycliff's history.
05:00It can reverse death itself.
05:02I'm gambling everything on this.
05:04If my bloodline is strong enough to save Clayton Blackridge, then I can save Greycliff.
05:09And this time, I'm going to make Christian Grey pay.
05:14I made my decision, then went straight to the market near the Greycliff border.
05:18Walked straight to the back counter.
05:20There it was.
05:21My mother's moonstone pendant.
05:23Resting on a square of black velvet.
05:25The chain had snapped a few days ago.
05:27I'd left it with the old silversmith to be restrung.
05:29Christian is absolutely spoiling Sierra.
05:31Did you see that white silk gown?
05:33I heard the labor alone cost more than a hunter makes in a full year.
05:35That's nothing.
05:36The lining is northern white deer belly pearl.
05:38And the buttons?
05:39Real moonstone.
05:40In my past life, right before he marked me,
05:43I asked Christian for a nice dress.
05:45It's not exactly a memorable occasion.
05:47No point wasting money.
05:49I scoffed and reached for the pendant.
05:53I want this one.
05:55Give it back!
05:57That's mine!
05:58It belonged to my mother.
06:00I only brought it here to get the chain fixed.
06:03Christian's expression shifted.
06:04He knew exactly what it was.
06:06When my mother was dying, her last words were to him.
06:09She made him swear he would clasp that necklace around my neck on my wedding day.
06:14I want this one, Christian.
06:17Christian, this is the only thing my mother left me.
06:20Your mother has been dead for years, Liana.
06:22How long are you going to keep clinging to the dead?
06:24Or are you still holding on to the idea that if you wear it to the moon well,
06:27I'll remember that old vow and choose you?
06:53I looked up at the two of them, and the memory came before I could stop it.
06:57The day Sarah jumped, Christian had stood at the cliff's edge for the entire night.
07:01When he finally came back the next morning, his hair had gone white from root to tip.
07:05Shock.
07:06Grief.
07:06Like his body had turned on itself.
07:08And yet he had smiled at me so gently.
07:10Brushed the hair from my face.
07:12I know you're grieving for Sarah.
07:14Don't let it destroy you.
07:16For years after that, he was tender.
07:18Patient.
07:19The whole pack talked about how devoted the high alpha was to his wife.
07:23I believed every word of it.
07:25Right up until the day he consolidated power over all five packs.
07:28That was the day he had 27 of my people flayed alive.
07:31Their bones stripped and hung in the moonlight.
07:34Blood everywhere.
07:35I screamed at him, demanding to know why.
07:38Sarah's been alone down there for too long.
07:40She needed company.
07:41Then he locked me in the east wing.
07:43And left me to fall apart until my heart simply stopped.
07:46Before Sarah had gone to Blackridge,
07:48my father had promised to bring her home the moment Clayton died.
07:51She didn't have to jump, but she did.
07:54And Christian used that as justification to destroy everything I had ever loved.
08:02You really do think too high of yourself, Christian.
08:05The man I'm bonding with is Clayton Blackridge.
08:09We still have to look at the dress.
08:10Don't let her ruin it.
08:14Let's go.
08:17You're really going through with this?
08:19Once you cross into Black's territory, there's no coming back.
08:22I've made up my mind, Dad.
08:23I went out to the courtyard to clear my head.
08:26Sarah was already there.
08:29Big day tomorrow, sister.
08:31Just make sure you keep your eyes off someone else's alpha.
08:33What are you so afraid of, Sarah?
08:35That I'll take Christian back?
08:36Or that the Blackridge contract isn't as settled as you think?
08:40Christian is mine!
08:41Go to Blackridge and rot!
08:42That's exactly where you belong!
08:45Let go of me.
08:49It wasn't even a hard wrench, but the moment I broke her grip, she pretended to fall backward.
08:58Help!
08:59Christian came out of nowhere, slammed into me as he lunged past.
09:03Sarah clutched his shirt and sobbed.
09:05I just wanted to say goodbye.
09:07Why would she do this?
09:09Christian's eyes found mine.
09:11They were blazing, that deep.
09:13Are you still this delusional, Liana?
09:15You disgust me!
09:17His heart in my chest.
09:19The force knocked the air out of me and sent me flying backward.
09:22The cold was absolute.
09:24Water flooded my nose, my lungs.
09:28Pull her out.
09:30The future high alpha of the five packs.
09:33And you can't even smell a lie this obvious.
09:38You think the truth matters, Liana?
09:42Do you honestly believe anyone has ever cared about you?
09:44Your mother is dead.
09:46Your father has one foot in the grave.
09:49You have nobody.
09:51How could you say that?
09:52They raised you!
09:52My father treated you like his own blood!
09:54Liana, you need to learn who gives the orders from now on.
09:56If you ever speak to me like that again, I won't hesitate to help Aldric along on his way out.
10:01Don't worry.
10:02By tomorrow, I'll be gone to the Blackridge pack.
10:04You won't have to see me again.
10:06Liana, given everything between us in our last life, I'm willing to go to the High Council.
10:10I can have them cancel the Blackridge assignment.
10:12You don't have to go.
10:14But only if you behave.
10:16Only if you remember your place.
10:17If you do, I might even come see you from time to time.
10:20But you will stay quiet, and you will not lay a finger on Syrah.
10:24Are we clear?
10:26Don't throw your life away just to spite me.
10:29I know you still have feelings for me.
10:31Why else would you be clutching that pendant like your life depends on it?
10:35He reached into his belt and pressed something into my free hand.
10:38A small glass vial.
10:39Feinted death potion.
10:40Take it tomorrow.
10:42Everyone will think you've passed.
10:43Tomorrow night, I'll send someone to bring you out.
10:45I looked down at the vial sitting in my open palm.
10:48Then I opened my fingers.
10:50It hit the surface of the moon well and sank straight to the bottom.
10:55The night of the bonding ceremony.
10:57Moonlight spilled across the territory like a silver flood.
11:00Bone flutes wailed low and mournful.
11:02The leather drums hit deep, steady.
11:05Like a second heartbeat.
11:06Growls rolling through their throats in something older than words.
11:10Then a heavier drumbeat rolled in from the distance.
11:12The Black Ridge escort came onto the grounds.
11:15For Black Wolf guards in two lines, clearing the path.
11:18Behind them, two elders in dark gray pelts.
11:21I stepped out from the shadows and walked toward them.
11:24Why is there another escort?
11:25I already sent my men.
11:30That's not Liana.
11:31Tell me that's not her.
11:32Alpha, it is.
11:33Black Ridge sent word.
11:35Alpha Clayton is too ill to come himself.
11:36She sent the elders and the Moon Temple priests to bring her home.
11:41That's not possible.
11:42She was supposed to take the potion.
11:45No one answered him.
11:47The Black Ridge party turned toward the border, drawing me further and further away from everything I'd once known.
11:54We reached the heart of Black Ridge territory.
11:59He's inside.
12:00I went in alone.
12:02Clayton was half reclined against a pile of dark furs.
12:05Alpha Clayton, I'm Liana.
12:07He looked at me for a long time.
12:09Then he reached out and pressed his palm to my cheek.
12:12His hand was burning with fever.
12:14A faint smile.
12:17Do you consent to a full bond?
12:19My heart skipped a beat.
12:21I do.
12:22Mark me, Alpha.
12:24I tilted my head and bared my throat to him.
12:27My healing bloodline surged and poured everything it had into him.
12:30I held his gaze, trembling, watching for any sign it had worked.
12:34Then the tension left his face all at once.
12:37He laughed and pulled me into his arms.
12:39He tilted my chin up and kissed me.
12:43I walked out of the tent slowly, still collecting myself.
12:48It's Christian Grey.
12:49He's broken through the gates.
12:51He's saying Alpha Clayton is dead, that the bonding is void.
12:53He's here to take Greyclicks people back.
12:56I smoothed my clothes and walked toward it.
12:59Christian was already in the yard, a squad of armed guards behind him.
13:03The moment he saw me, his eyes went straight to my throat.
13:07The fresh mark, dark and unmistakable.
13:09Liana.
13:11How dare you?
13:12How dare I what?
13:13The High Council has handed Greycliff over to me.
13:16Your father's too old.
13:17Everything in that pack is mine now.
13:19You're standing on Clayton's land.
13:21What's the plan, Christian?
13:22Dragging an Alpha's mate off his own territory?
13:25Enough with the act.
13:26He won't make it through the night.
13:28Come with me now and I'll let the bond go.
13:30I'll sort it with the Council when we're back.
13:31Sort what?
13:32That I chose Clayton over you?
13:33There's nothing to sort.
13:36You think you're worth choosing?
13:38Take her now!
13:41The guards closed in.
13:43Hands seized my wrists and wrenched them back.
13:46A black feathered arrow split the air.
13:49The whole yard went still.
13:51Clayton was walking toward us.
13:53Who's taking my mate?
13:54Every guard Christian had brought dropped to their knees.
13:57You brought armed men onto my land.
13:59Are you trying to die here?
14:02Christian's face had gone the color of ash.
14:04The High Council of Me authority over Greycliff.
14:06I'm reclaiming what belongs to my pack.
14:08You only become High Alpha if I'm dead.
14:10Do I look dead to you?
14:12Right, baby?
14:14Right.
14:16You heard her.
14:18Now take your people and get off my land.
14:21Let's go.
14:22He turned and stumbled toward the gate.
14:25His guards dragged the wounded man out behind him.
14:28Silence settled over the courtyard.
14:31I saved your life.
14:33You owe me.
14:34Name it.
14:36A partnership.
14:37Help me bring him down.
14:39He looked at me.
14:40Then he laughed.
14:42Low, quiet, and pulled me closer.
14:44For you?
14:46Absolutely.
14:49Clayton kept his word.
14:51But honestly, just being alive was already making Christian's life hell.
14:54I leaned back on the first sofa and listened to the Blackridge Scouts report.
14:58Just as I thought.
15:00In my past life, Christian traded Greycliff's prime hunting grounds for political favors.
15:05He used my father's name to strongarm smaller tribes into lopsided deals,
15:09swallowing their land one by one.
15:11And through it all, he would always tell me.
15:14Liana, it's all for show.
15:16In my heart, you're the only one.
15:18Like a fool, I believed him.
15:21I believed him when he went through our ceremony but refused to mark me.
15:24Refused to make the bond real.
15:26I believed him when he eventually took Freya, the Snow Ridge Alpha's daughter, as his legal mate.
15:32I believed him right up until I realized I wasn't even his mate in the eyes of the law.
15:36Just his shadow.
15:37But this life, it's Sarah standing beside him.
15:40I wanted to see what he'd choose.
15:42Power?
15:43Or the woman he'd spent his last life desperate to get back.
15:47A maid came in with tea.
15:50Liana.
15:51Sarah threw another fit this morning.
15:53Shredded that white star pipe Christian brought back from the east.
15:56Did she?
15:57In my past life, I swallowed everything.
16:01Stayed quiet.
16:02Kept my head down.
16:03Sarah wasn't built like that.
16:05She wasn't going to let him share power with another woman without a fight.
16:08Sure enough, the walls of the Greycliff Longhouse were shaking.
16:12Sarah's voice hit a pitch that could shatter glass.
16:14You told me we didn't need council registration.
16:17You said we didn't need a claiming mark.
16:19That as long as you believed I was your mate, that was enough.
16:22And now Freya is coming here for an official bonding ceremony?
16:26What does that make me, Christian?
16:29Some kept woman you've got stashed in the Alpha Lodge?
16:35Sarah, stop.
16:36This is about securing our position.
16:38When did you get so unreasonable?
16:40Unreasonable?
16:41Did you think I was Liana?
16:43That I'd just sit here and take it?
16:45Enough!
16:46Oh, enough?
16:48Who swore I was his only one?
16:50Freya isn't even through the door yet, and you're already looking for ways to push me out!
16:54An alliance with Snow Ridge is the only way to lock down the northern hunting grounds.
16:58Once I've consolidated power before the council...
17:02And then what?
17:03She moves in and I pack my things?
17:05Clear out of the Alpha Lobs to make room for her?
17:09Answer me!
17:10Who told me I'd be the only mistress of Greycliff?
17:13Who said this whole life was for me?
17:18Sarah, Blackridge is the most critical piece of the puzzle.
17:22I have to do this.
17:23You have to?
17:24And what am I, optional?
17:26You know you're everything to me!
17:30Why do you think I've been covering for you all this time?
17:32You killed Liana's mother.
17:34You poisoned Aldrich and kept him bedridden.
17:37I buried all of it.
17:39For you.
17:40You didn't do it for me.
17:42You did it for yourself.
17:44You're a coward, Christian.
17:47You spent years playing the loyal lapdog to Liana in Greycliff, and you hated every second of it.
17:53That's why when I went after her mother, when I poisoned her father, did you try to stop me?
17:59Not once.
18:02But look at you now.
18:04After all that, she still chose a dying man over you.
18:10You're going to the Northern Watchtower tomorrow.
18:13You'll stay with the patrol units until you remember who you are and who I am.
18:18Don't come back until you do.
18:24Two weeks later, Christian went through with it.
18:27He and Freya exchanged vows before the elders.
18:30But I knew Sarah wasn't done.
18:33Freya had been in the Alpha Lodge for three days.
18:36Sarah, she slit her wrists.
18:37The message arrived in the dead of night.
18:41Sarah had slit her wrists.
18:43Christian didn't even change out of his formal suit.
18:45He rode to the border alone.
18:47The guard said when he kicked in the tower door.
18:51He found her slumped by a small window.
18:54Bandages already soaked through.
18:55Sarah!
18:57Sarah.
19:00Why are you even here?
19:06I was wrong.
19:08I never should have left you here alone.
19:10Sarah's tears broke, and she collapsed into his arms.
19:13Three days later, she walked back into the Great Cliff Alpha Lodge like she owned it.
19:18Freya wasn't the type to be pushed aside.
19:20The very next day, Snow Ridge issued a public declaration.
19:23Freya was the only recognized maid of Christian Grey.
19:27And Sarah's private ceremony meant nothing.
19:29Sarah didn't take it quietly.
19:31She laced Christian's wine with a heat-inducing wolf's bane tincture and triggered his rut by force.
19:40Caught between two women at war, Christian withered.
19:43He looked hollowed out.
19:44It dragged on for nearly two weeks.
19:47Then Freya received an anonymous letter.
19:49Clear, detailed, and impossible to dismiss.
19:52The person who had actually dragged a half-frozen Christian out of the icy river all those years ago.
19:57It was Lyanna.
19:59Sarah had been living on a stolen debt for years.
20:03That night, Freya brought the evidence to Christian.
20:06Who actually pulled you out of that frozen river?
20:09Tell me the truth.
20:10She laid it all on the stone table.
20:12The old pack doctor's signed confession.
20:14The original herbal prescriptions.
20:16And the piece of fabric I had torn from my own sleeve to bandage his wounds.
20:20The blood on it long since turned black.
20:23Christian started shaking.
20:24Get Sarah in here!
20:26Now!
20:26Sarah was dragged in.
20:28She looked at the old wolf kneeling on the floor.
20:30Then at the cloth.
20:32And went pale.
20:33Christian grabbed her jaw.
20:34It was Lyanna.
20:36Lyanna saved my life.
20:37Why did you lie?
20:43Fine, it was her!
20:44But who spent the years after that making her life a nightmare?
20:47That was you!
20:48Christian!
20:49Don't pretend you didn't know.
20:51You just didn't want to admit it.
20:52Because if you did, how could you justify any of it?
20:59Shut up!
21:01Now you see her for what she is.
21:03Something in Sarah's face changed.
21:05Before anyone could move, she pulled a dagger from the folds of her dress.
21:11Christian lunged and caught her as she fell.
21:13Sarah stood staring at her own hands and started to laugh.
21:17Freya didn't survive.
21:19Three days later, white wolf flags from Snow Ridge lined every inch of the Great Cliff border.
21:24The Snow Ridge Alpha stood before the High Council and demanded justice for his daughter.
21:28Within a month, the Council stripped Christian of all protection.
21:31He never got to taste what it meant to be High Alpha.
21:34He was kicked from the Council seat before he ever sat in it.
21:37Back in Blackridge, Clayton wrapped his arms around me from behind.
21:40Satisfied?
21:41We're just getting started.
21:45The Council handed down their judgment.
21:47For Freya's murder, Sarah was sentenced to exile.
21:50Christian, stripped of his title and protection, was banished from Great Cliff alongside her.
21:56Hard labor at the Northern Watchtower.
21:58I went to watch them be taken away.
22:00Sarah moved in heavy iron chains, stumbling under the weight.
22:04Christian followed behind her, hair matted, eyes sunken.
22:08Liana.
22:11This is your fault.
22:15You chose every single bit of this yourself.
22:22And what about you?
22:24You're just hiding behind Clayton.
22:27Enjoy the North.
22:28You two deserve each other.
22:30You bitch!
22:33The chain snapped him back and he snuck.
22:36A Blackridge guard drove a boot into the back of his knee.
22:39He hit the frozen ground hard.
22:41You think Clayton will protect you forever?
22:44I'll be waiting.
22:48Take them.
22:49The guards hauled the chains and dragged them toward the gate.
22:52I watched until they were nothing but two shapes dissolving into the distance.
22:56The reports came back from the trail one by one after that.
22:59They fought over scraps of rotten meat the guards threw them.
23:02In one fight, Sarah bit off half of Christian's ear.
23:05Crossing the Blackwater River, she shoved him into the rapids.
23:09He hit the rocks.
23:10His right leg never healed right.
23:12In the mountain caves one night, Sarah lost her mind entirely.
23:16She used a sharp stone to carve lines across his face while screaming my name.
23:19Screaming that I had come to take my revenge.
23:21The guards said she'd broken.
23:23Then the council sent investigators to Greycliff to look into my father's illness.
23:27They found traces of a slow-acting poison.
23:30Sarah had been killing him for months.
23:32The council issued a final decree.
23:34Exile wasn't enough.
23:36Both of them were banished from the five packs forever.
23:39Stripped of their wolf spirits and cast into the barren wastes.
23:42No pack.
23:43No protection.
23:44No mercy.
23:46Left to tear each other apart until the wilderness finished what they'd started.
23:51I stepped into the Greycliff longhouse.
23:53My father was resting against a pile of furs by the hearth.
23:57The pack healer was crouched by the fire grinding herds.
24:00And gave me a small nod as I passed.
24:02My father reached a hand out toward me.
24:04The moment I took it, I couldn't hold it anymore.
24:08Clayton stood in the doorway and watched us in silence.
24:11My father looked up at him and smiled.
24:13Later, the three of us shared a quiet meal.
24:16Afterward, Clayton walked me outside.
24:19The moon hung low and full over the trees.
24:26Clayton, our deal is done.
24:28His arms closed tighter, chin resting on top of my head.
24:31So, you're the maid I chose for myself.
24:35Liana, you stepped into my world.
24:37You're not leaving it.
24:40It was only later that I found out the truth.
24:43The council hadn't simply assigned a Greycliff daughter to Clayton.
24:46He had gone to them himself.
24:48He had asked for me specifically.
24:50It finally made sense.
24:52Greycliff was a pack in decline.
24:54There was no political reason for an alpha like Clayton to choose us.
24:57He didn't want the alliance.
24:59He wanted me.
25:01We've met before.
25:03A long time ago.
25:04The memory came all at once.
25:06The day I pulled Christian from the river.
25:09I'd poured everything into saving him.
25:11And collapsed in the snow afterward, too spent to move.
25:14A figure crouching beside me in the dark.
25:17The cloak.
25:19That was you?
25:20He reached up and traced his thumb gently along my cheekbone.
25:24And nodded.
25:25This isn't the end, Liana.
25:26This is where our mate bond truly begins.
25:30The sun sank behind the mountains.
25:32The sky bleeding violet and gold.
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