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The Moonstone Broke I Ran
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00:07my best friend stole my future alpha on bonding day she wore my luna gown he followed half-dressed
00:13marked i smiled and gave my blessing because the moment he touched me my grandmother's moonstone
00:18charm shattered she said if it breaks run a catastrophe was averted whoever was closest
00:24got what was meant for me that morning chantelle claimed it was an accident i put on your luna
00:30gown by mistake and ian drank too much he didn't even realize who who he was with
00:35chantelle in my torn gown marks everywhere ian wouldn't look at me
00:42my dad kicked him to the floor ian hugged me caitlin i messed up but we can't ignore what
00:48happened please just let us be happy i'd always said no everyone expected me to explode instead i
00:55smiled so go ahead you two can complete the bond today right here ian breathed out like i'd freed
01:03him caitlin hale you're really letting these two trash wolves get away with this get on my mother
01:11screamed i'd humiliated our family i grabbed both of them and pulled them away before they lost control
01:16they were shaking with rage at the corner of the hallway i reached inside my dress and took out
01:22the moonstone charm my grandma had left me or rather what was left of it it had split clean in
01:28half
01:28the second they saw it all the anger drained from their faces mom dad grandmom's charm broke
01:39now it was in two pieces in my hand
01:43mom grabbed my wrist and hauled me into the elevator
01:46she stared at the broken moonstone then at me this just happened dad's face went from red to gray
01:52his nose trembled no way then it broke when ian hugs me
02:00mom and dad exchanged a look panic on their faces hit me harder than anything upstairs
02:05the moonstone charm was no ordinary keepsake
02:10it was meant to intercept one catastrophe for me just once if it broke something catastrophic had
02:15just been diverted
02:15we're moving now hurry outside my parents kicked for ian's photo stands and took mine
02:21mom told the coordinator every word every photo every image nothing with my name could stay
02:28i pulled out my phone and deleted everything of ian his number his photos his contact info
02:35everything we fled the lodge in a panic that same night my whole family left the city
02:42the reason my whole family panicked that hard was the moonstone charm my grandma wasn't just an old
02:46woman with stories she was the seer the day she died was a bright winter afternoon she was sitting in
02:51the yard in her rock when she called my name caitlin i was eight she took off the moonstone charm
02:57she
02:57had worn her whole life and tied it around my neck she told me to keep it on never take
03:02it off if it ever
03:02broke it meant it had just blocked disaster for me then i had to run immediately away from whoever
03:08was closest when it shattered when the stone breaks it won't be bad luck it'll be ruin i didn't
03:13understand i asked her what kind of ruin she locked eyes with me and rasped three words three pines hollow
03:21three pines hollow just those three words then she leaned back in the chair closed her eyes and passed
03:28away peacefully grandma her funeral was huge not just our pack came important people from six
03:35neighboring territories showed up too that was how much her name still carried afterward i told my
03:40parents everything what grandma had given me what she had said then i asked them what three pines hollow
03:46meant they refused to answer instead they packed our bags and retreated to the city overnight
03:57years later all those buried memories came rushing back what happened between me ian and chantelle
04:03spread all over social media at first everyone dragged chantelle called her trash for sleeping with
04:10her best friend's fiancee but then people found out i hadn't screamed i hadn't fought i handed over the
04:15groom and the entire bonding ceremony without a scene and suddenly they turned on me now i was the
04:20coward the weak one the rumors got uglier by the hour but i didn't care let them talk chantelle stole
04:29my place in the ceremony now she was standing in the luna's place ian's publicly recognized mate
04:34and she loved every second of it she posted non-stop a diamond ring the size of a robin's egg
04:40a two million dollar mating token ian kneeling to fasten an old family anklet around her ankle
04:45a closet after closet of luxury goods every post screamed the same thing she had won and her captions
04:53thanked me thanks caitlin and thanks to the version of me who was brave enough to chase love
05:00she said this time she was getting both money and love i looked at their fake happiness and laughed she
05:05had
05:06no idea what she had taken from me she took everything public bragging about stealing my
05:09ceremony like it was a bold love story overnight she gained half a million followers comments cheered
05:15for her then people found out my family had moved they called us cowards and losers i could take the
05:21insults aimed at me but when they mocked my parents i snapped i wrote in chantelle's comments
05:27say what you want about me but leave my family out of it and stop using me for clout
05:31chantelle never replied she just liked every comment that trashed me i shook my head the moon
05:38goddess sees everything we moved half a territory away mom suggested a nearby city but dad insisted on
05:45going hundreds of miles so we went that night i finally asked my parents what grandma meant by ruin
05:51their faces were stiff mom dad when grandma said ruin what exactly did she mean
06:01maybe it's time we tell her dad hesitated you tell her ruin how i asked what kind of ruin
06:10like a wildfire or a landslide do you remember three pines hollow yeah grandma said it right before
06:18she died mom's expression turned uneasy she explained that three pines hollow was a settlement just beyond our
06:23old pack lands hundreds of people lived there then one night every single person was found hanging
06:29the warmth at the table died instantly i was stunned all this time i thought grandma had meant a natural
06:37disaster a flood an earthquake i never imagined something so twisted my parents both looked uneasy
06:43they answered together that place was under a curse we finished dinner but the shock stayed with me
06:48no wonder grandma had given me that moonstone right before she died that little stone had blocked something
06:54huge something monstrous grandma hadn't just read fate for others she had seen mine too just thinking
07:01about three pines hollow made my neck prickle hundreds of people hanging overnight that wasn't
07:06just tragedy that was a nightmare but one question kept digging at me why hadn't the charm broken earlier
07:13why only after ian and chantelle crossed that line together i was still sitting there half in awe of how
07:19terrifyingly sharp she had been when my phone rang an unknown number caitlin are you okay caitlin are you
07:29okay it was ian's smooth voice i hung up immediately and blocked the number not after that night after that
07:35i stopped answering every unknown call i was terrified meanwhile chantelle kept showing off online like
07:43she had won the world luxury cars designer watches gold silver late that night chantelle went live
07:51she was dressed to kill full glam pale fur pack crest jewelry lounging on a couch inside the alpha estate
07:59like she'd been born there people flooded in praising her looks she played the part perfectly she said she was
08:06bored and wanted to spend time with everyone then she showed off a few designer bags and then because of
08:12the
08:12comments she brought me up again some girls are just not cut out for it even if you spoon feed
08:19them they still
08:19can't swallow it she laughed and claimed i'd never truly treated her like a best friend she called it classic
08:25insecure friend behavior then she leaned back and smiled wider she said i was probably hiding somewhere
08:31that my family ran the same night she and ian bonded her whole family ran away that night afraid that
08:38i
08:38would come back as the alpha's wife to take revenge lie after lie listening to her rewrite everything
08:46i kept thinking how the hell had i ever been this blind but while she was busy smearing me people
08:52in
08:52the live stream started noticing something strange wait did her closet just move did anybody else see
08:59that why does it look like something's in there chantelle check behind you
09:06at first she didn't notice the comments then the chat moved so fast the whole screen seemed to scream
09:12at her to turn around and i saw it too the closet behind her was cracked open just a sliver
09:17in that narrow
09:19gap there appeared to be an eye you people are so sick you love trying to freak me out she
09:25insisted
09:25no one else was in the estate that night then as if to prove a point she walked over to
09:29the closet
09:30in her heels grabbed the handle and yanked it open a man in black leather tumbled out upside down and
09:36hit
09:36the floor expensive jewelry spilled around in here don't let it touch me then he looked up not at
09:42chantelle but passed her at something behind her he let out a raw broken scream dropped to his knees
09:49and started prostrating himself slamming his forehead into the floor until blood pooled
09:54chantelle froze for half a second then clutched her chest and screamed for help everything turned
09:59chaotic someone hit the phone the live stream crashed sideways after that i couldn't see what happened
10:04then i thought of what my mom had told me about three pines hollow and a sick feeling twisted in
10:08my
10:08stomach maybe this was the beginning of that ruin because i knew one thing for sure there was something
10:13old and wrong inside the alpha state now the break-in at the alpha state blew up online
10:23ian rushed back to calm chantelle i had been watching the live stream too but exited as soon as ian
10:28appeared
10:29that ruin was getting closer i wanted nothing tying me to him my phone lit up sophie my college roommate
10:36messaged me she knew chantelle too sophie said she heard what chantelle did and told me not to be
10:42upset i wasn't heartbroken anymore so i just thanked her i turned sophie down flat then she asked if i
10:49wanted payback that made me pause sophie and chantelle had always been close did i hate chantelle yes but go
10:57near her no she was sleeping beside ian standing in my place i turned sophie down flat she kept pushing
11:05trying too hard i got annoyed and muted her mom dad what is all this are we stocking up for
11:16the apocalypse
11:16cut back on those doom day novels but this time it's not that different we just don't know how
11:23long it's gonna last for the next month staying alive matters more i had to take time off work or
11:28quit
11:28staying alive mattered more and one more thing you're not watching those either they cut off every
11:36way the thing could touch us dad also told me to stop watching chantelle's live streams
11:44i blocked her account dad sat on the balcony smoking staring at red clouds
11:53this time somebody's done for
11:58we shut ourselves in didn't go out once my parents talk about three pines hollow was still vague but if
12:05hundreds of people really hanged themselves in one night what else could it be meanwhile chantelle
12:11and ian lived better than ever luxury stores yachts everything
12:17so the three of us shut ourselves in didn't go out not once until the middle of that month
12:25the haunting took hold at the alpha estate even with chantelle blocked i heard about it
12:29one night chantelle woke to crying it got louder sharper like a blade scraping through dark
12:36she realized it came from her balcony on the fourth floor no one should have gotten there unseen
12:41she looked over a woman in a white dress long black hair curled outside chantelle screamed
12:48servants came running balcony door locked nothing outside no one chantelle can he just warned you
12:55ian's family said chantelle imagined it until the second thing ian's younger brother sleepwalked
13:03that night he dreamed of a girl in white by the pool he tapped her shoulder she laughed high-pitched
13:09and sharp
13:10the sound echoed through the whole state then something dragged him into the pool two fingers
13:18jammed into his eye sockets he screamed guards one incident coincidence two in a row no chance two
13:29incidents in a row no chance chantelle told it all on live stream what happens in the pack stays in
13:36the
13:36pack we don't air any pack and stays will plagues with these go air dirty laundry on the web after
13:42i
13:42listened to one creator break the whole thing down a chill crawled right up my spine a chill crawled up
13:49my
13:49spine just looking at it made me grateful all over again for how far ahead grandma had seen
13:57this was just the beginning worse than three pines hollow i didn't want to imagine
14:05yeah what is it
14:11i sat on the sofa sipping red wine to calm my nerves silently grateful for grandma's foresight all those
14:17years ago then my phone rang yeah what is it so you heard about what's happening at chantelle's place
14:22rights right yeah caitlin what do you think do you think somebody's taking revenge on her what are you
14:27trying to say that i did it because i didn't no no i'm not saying that i just mean maybe
14:31this is
14:31karma caitlin i heard your grandma used to be this famous seer that anyone in your family still know
14:36the old boarding rules no sophie was chantelle's go-between maybe even her spy they could keep
14:41dreaming sophie called not about chantelle at dinner i told my parents your grandma saw this too
14:47dad said grandma saw this too i nearly choked oh my god grandma was unreal this ruin can't be avoided
14:56the moonstone only intercepted it for you once only once as for everyone else they'll have to depend
15:01on their own fate as for that backstabbing friend of yours if they really want a chance have somebody
15:06tell them to go south of the city blackwood ridge there's an old rights keeper that can do anything that
15:10depends on what kind of debt has found their line my dad really was too soft-hearted honestly i had
15:17never
15:17planned to save chantelle but once he said it i nodded then i passed his message to sophie word for
15:23word and told her reflay it to ian's family they moved fast really fast go to blackwood ridge right away
15:37ian's family moved fast they sent people to blackwood ridge and brought the old rights
15:41keeper back that same night we stayed holed up at home like cowards we had just moved into a new
15:48apartment every time we went out we wore masks and avoided neighbors we couldn't be recognized
15:53or tied back to ian's line so far nobody knew we were the family mocked online my parents followed
15:59grandma's rules stay quiet stay hidden at first i thought chantelle might dodge this thing but we were
16:05wrong dead wrong someone in ian's family died the first one to go was ian's father
16:15it happened on the night of his 70th birthday he drowned the marks around the bathroom showed he had
16:21fought back hard and there were scratches all over his face either the alpha patriarch forced his own
16:25face into the toilet and drowned himself or something from inside the toilet reached up grabbed him and
16:30held him there until he died a birthday turned into a funeral ian's whole family fell into panic
16:35that doesn't make sense by the old rules your grandma followed even if the rights keeper couldn't
16:40stop the ruin he should have at least been able to slow it down but it's barely been any time
16:45and
16:45someone's already dead maybe this is just the debt coming due or maybe maybe they never found the
16:52keeper at all caitlin call and ask and remember do not tell them where we are i nodded and called
16:59sophie
17:03hey caitlin what's up that old rights keeper i told you about did you pass the message on or not
17:08huh well um caitlin where are you guys right now the second she said that my whole family went on
17:16alert don't worry about where i am answer my question first i did tell them about the keeper
17:21but chantelle told me that keeper broke from fright what start over tell me exactly what happened
17:30we went to the ridge temple and when we found him from what sophie told me chantelle went straight to
17:39ian with the message the very next day ian sent people up to blackwood ridge to find the old rules
17:43keeper and that same night they brought him back to the estate the man was gaunt skeletal and faded
17:49robes he walked the ground slowly listening to something under the walls then he told them the
17:54truth something the truth is buried deep within these walls and it is far more terrible than you can
18:02imagine the family moved out leaving him toward the house
18:08he covered it in paper wards painted sigils burned bitter herbs the place felt like a coffin
18:18guards heard nothing all night at dawn the family rushed back everything looked the same but the
18:24keeper was gone they searched old gentleman ian found him in the underground cellar curled up against dry
18:33storage bags the flower had turned black the keeper's eyes twitched wildly he kept muttering forgive me
18:40don't come back and he gouged out both his own eyes
18:48grandma's moonstone hadn't saved me it had cut me out of a blood debt caitlyn do you know any other
18:55way
18:55to stop this dad motioned me to hang up i don't know i said i didn't know and ended the
19:00call
19:01dad we have to go right now we can't stay here either we're leaving the province
19:23we left the province in a panic didn't even take our supplies we bought plane tickets and got out
19:34by the time chantelle found our home address all she could do was curse us out to stay alive we
19:40headed straight for the countryside and checked into a hunting lodge
19:45good thing we ran fast they started calling me like lunatics hundreds of numbers but i had set my
19:53phone to auto reject this time the one who died was ian's younger brother found hanged a deep ligature
20:03mark around his neck but police never found a rope no cord no belt no murder weapon now chantelle was
20:12truly terrified ian's family scattered some fled overseas some begged the pack council for protection
20:19everyone tried to get away from ian's bloodline back chantelle and ian brought in more warders more
20:23rights workers day and night dad just said it was useless back then even hundreds of people together
20:29at three pines hollow didn't survive what happened at three pines hollow was bizarre
20:34grandma foreseen total destruction she went there and asked if they had done something
20:38unforgivable crazy old woman get out they denied everything and chased her away calling her a madwoman
20:59that same night a child vanished from three pines hollow the whole village searched they found him
21:05trapped inside a dense black thorn thicket the branches were covered in vicious spikes and black
21:10thorn never grows alone it forms a living cage the boy's cries came from the center they had to chop
21:16the
21:16whole thing down when they pulled him free he was out of his mind a few days later the villagers
21:25begged
21:25grandma for help i cannot save you
21:39a few days after that the whole village was found hanged in their own homes no murder weapon no rope
21:45nothing overnight wiped out later grandma when i said it was done
22:04water give me water go away the people of three pines hollow had ruined a woman who was only passing
22:12through she came through she came asking for water
22:18the whole village tried to trap her the whole village tried to trap her they locked her in an abandoned
22:24barn
22:25starved her broke her her leave the sun brought her food he found her hanging dead rotting her white dress
22:33swaying in the dark her neck stretched too long by then she was no longer in her right mind whatever
22:39they
22:40did had broken her before death i thought three pines hollow was wiped out by hanging ian's brother was
22:47hanged too could this be the same thing my parents hated my guess don't go down that rabbit hole if
22:54your
22:54grandmother's charm hadn't blocked this for you the people dying right now wouldn't just be them
23:07a chill went through me if grandma hadn't left me the moonstone and if
23:12and yet hen shantin hadn't stolen ian i would be the one trapped in that estate
23:19shantin had become my stand-in then the one who ran farthest died ian's uncle overseer hanged i noticed
23:28a pattern the farther they ran the faster the debt found them like something unseen was warning don't leave
23:41the estate could this be karma for stealing someone else's alpha if i apologize now is it too late she
23:51blocked my number wronged you
23:55the cheating was my fault my family's being punished now can you please save me i just shook my head
24:04cheating had only redirected the disaster there was something older underneath it all then ian had
24:10a dream the strange girl took his hand and said she would show him somewhere beautiful we're going
24:15she told him to lift the stone pressing on him he obeyed then to put his hand here and pass
24:20through
24:20the waterfall if the stone he did that's pressing then to climb the mountain he did then to cross a
24:25stream she stepped over first and waved ian said okay and was about to follow
24:37the girl's face twisted she snarled you're awake chantelle dragged ian back from the rooftop edge
24:43below was a 10-story drop one more step and he would have been dead the whole thing was caught
24:49on
24:50live stream ian finally understood lift the stone meant throw off the blanket pass through the waterfall
24:58don't unlock the door climb the mountain meant take the stairs cross the stream meant jump
25:11i heard about it it scared me numb this ruin could not be avoided chantelle had told ian about my
25:19grandmother so now they were hunting for us more deaths from overseas the farthest runners died
25:26fastest chantelle the first to see the woman stayed closest to the estate and was still alive
25:32i told my parents dad said maybe it was a warning not to run i asked if staying closer meant
25:38better
25:39odds they didn't answer i thought for a long time then had sophie pass along what i observed that same
25:47night ian and chantelle moved back into the estate more than half a year passed ian's family was wrecked
25:53yet somehow ian and chantelle were still alive people said they had escaped the curse they kept living in
25:59the mansion covered in the dead keepers then new updates came both had completely broken down
26:06their minds were gone they couldn't clean couldn't function barely recognized day from night
26:11the estate became a nightmare trash rotting food rats roaches it looked like a giant grave
26:19i thought the disaster was finally over then dad told me something that stopped me cold
26:26ian had been the child trapped in the blackboard thicket at three pines hollow
26:34his parents sent him to a hospital in another province that was why he survived he eventually
26:39came back to himself and forgot his childhood then he was adopted by a good family ian's father's line
26:45grandma had seen it on the night three pines hollow fell one person probably slipped through
26:51ian's age matched that boy the death had never ended it had changed houses changed names waited
26:58but i still told myself none of it had anything to do with me anymore
27:02then something new happened many people online said they had all dreamed of the same woman in white
27:07every one of them had watched chantelle's live streams i finally understood what grandma meant by ruin
27:13the live stream hadn't just shown the horror it had carried it it turned every viewer into a witness
27:19and witnessing open the door
27:27when three pines hollow fell she had not harmed any innocent outsider she still knew who she wanted
27:33but now strangers who only watched through a screen were dreaming of her her restraint was gone
27:39the ruin was still spreading
27:42i scrolled through comments people seeing her on balconies by lakes faceless
27:50i closed the app outside autumn wind acorns falling everything looked peaceful too peaceful
27:56the net was tightening around thousands of eyes
28:02after dinner i helped mom clear dishes she could tell i was still thinking about it i asked if that
28:08thing could travel through live streams through watching how many people would die
28:13mom turned on the faucet with water running she said grandma once said that woman went alive hated
28:20being falsely accused three pines hollow said she was sleeping around but she was only passing through
28:25asking for water i froze she wasn't already like that mom shook her head they terrorized her until
28:35she broke they locked her in the shed by the third day she broke by the fifth she painted herself
28:41i asked what
28:43she was wearing mom shut off the faucet a white dress almost white that night i couldn't sleep
28:50i held the broken moonstone grandma had worn it for 99 years i had worn it for less than 10.
28:57it blocked
28:57one disaster then it broke for the first time i regretted not asking grandma one more question
29:03what was that woman's name that night i dreamed of grandma she sat in her rocking chair the yellow
29:09dog lay at her feet i crouched by her knees she called my name i asked what happened to the
29:16woman from
29:17three pines hollow grandma didn't answer she touched my head and said you just live well
29:29i woke up with a damp pillow
29:34next morning dad said he was going to town for supplies i went with him
29:40on the way he told me mom wanted to take me back home for a visit
29:43not now after things settle grandma's grave needed fresh soil also before she died she left a box
29:50under her bed they never touched it mom thought it was meant for me i didn't ask anything else
29:55in town dad bought oranges i stayed in the truck then my phone buzzed sophie we hadn't talked in a
30:03long
30:03time she asked if i had heard about ian and chantelle i typed yeah she sent a long message two
30:11nights ago
30:12during a shift change ian climbed onto a third floor balcony saying once i cross the stream i'll be
30:18home an orderly grabbed him but couldn't hold him he jumped he didn't die but both legs were broken
30:25chantelle was completely gone she didn't recognize anyone every day she hugged ian's suit jacket repeating
30:33it wasn't me i wasn't the one who locked you up don't come for me sophie's last message
30:42if i hadn't given her that ceremony would the one in the hospital be me i locked the screen
30:48outside dad looked old half his hair had gone white since grandma's warning if the charm breaks
30:54leave immediately they had spent their lives running from hometown to city to another province
31:00to this little town beyond any packland they had done nothing wrong grandma saw it coming
31:08they believed her and used everything to keep me alive ian died with the first snow of winter
31:14sophie sent the news post-op infection multiple organ failure chantelle was sent back to her family
31:20still the same if not controlled she hit people and screamed no one dared live in the estate now
31:26listed for sale for six months no buyers people said you could hear crying from inside at night
31:33i deleted the screenshot winter came the oak tree was there this little town was quiet no one knew we
31:40had escaped such a large disaster the hashtag about the woman in white was scrubbed from trending
31:45not because it ended but because it was too strange and dangerous under the silence the dreams still
31:52happened five springs passed people forgot only we were still alive hiding like survivors on stolen time
32:00eventually we stepped out the air felt clean i was tired not from surviving one terrible thing but from
32:07half a life tied to prophecy i wanted to see the ocean my parents nodded i took a train east
32:13the ocean
32:14opened up waves rolled in endless the wind was wet and salty i stood at the shore my whole life
32:21i had
32:22lived inside prophecy dragged by invisible ropes what was on the other side of the sea the waves answered
32:28nothing maybe the other side was just another sea and the far shore every chained person longs for is
32:35not a place it is learning to live with the water already inside me under the open moon with no
32:41bond and no
32:41pack i let out a slow breath for the first time in five years i was not waiting for the
32:47next prophecy
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