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00:00They sent my sister back in a box. Her arms were gone. Her legs were gone.
00:05I killed the messengers who brought the box back with my own hands.
00:09I came north for revenge.
00:16My father gave him to me! I'll kill you!
00:20You're a monster!
00:25So I married the man who killed her.
00:31I was born a cursed princess. Only my sister cared for me.
00:35The night I was born, my shadow tore itself off my body.
00:38It devoured everyone present.
00:40The servants screamed and ran, but they weren't fast enough.
00:43My shadow devoured them all.
00:45The pack shaman rushed in, swept his staff over me once, and my shadow returned to normal.
00:50Everyone called me cursed.
00:51Even my father and mother drew their blades.
00:54Then my sister came.
00:55Elena rushed in.
00:56She pressed her chest against the sword tip and pulled me fully behind her.
01:00She held me.
01:01She is not cursed.
01:03She is my sister.
01:05I swear on my life that I will raise my sister to be the gentlest and kindest wolf in the
01:10history of the pack.
01:11Our parents sheathed their swords in silence and never looked at me.
01:14She carried me back to her room.
01:16I grew up beneath the cold, indifferent stares of the wolf servants.
01:19Even their shadows seemed to reject me.
01:21Only Elena kept crouching down and pulling me into her arms once and once again.
01:25I hated those servants.
01:27More than once I thought about skinning them alive.
01:29But for Elena, I swallowed it.
01:31I played sweet.
01:32Then I turned 15.
01:33The packs to the north had raiding our borders without stop.
01:36My father signed the order.
01:38Elena would be sent north as a treaty mate.
01:40The day the order came, Elena sat me in front of the mirror and brushed my hair one last time.
01:45Elena, please, don't go.
01:47We'll hide.
01:48No one will find us.
01:50Lyra, I'm not going just to stop the wars.
01:53I want to be a bridge.
01:55I want to bring our writing, our medicine, our songs north.
01:58That day, I watched her put on her ceremonial bond dress and step into the carriage.
02:02The wheels ground over the stone path and moved away.
02:05I ran after her.
02:06The carriage disappeared.
02:07Elena, take me with you.
02:09Fold me into your bag.
02:11I'll be small.
02:13Just don't leave me here alone.
02:16Be happy, Elena.
02:17Elena, promise me you'll come back to see me often.
02:20But I never imagined that when I saw Elena again a year later, she can find inside that black box.
02:26A messenger from the northern pack arrived with a small black box.
02:31Inside was my sister.
02:33That was the day I learned a person, after death, can be made to fit inside something the size of
02:38a jewelry chest.
02:38What was left of her had been packed into a coffin, no bigger than a vanity case.
02:43Elena, please hold me.
02:46My hands found only wet flesh.
02:48My mother's cup hit the floor and shattered.
02:50The princess, delicate by nature, she fell gravely ill shortly after arrival.
02:55To prevent the sickness from reaching her heart, the afflicted limbs were removed.
03:00But her strength had already faded beyond saving.
03:02But I could see the bite marks on her severed limbs.
03:05Those were big claw marks on her face.
03:08The kind a large cat leaves.
03:10She hadn't been sick.
03:11I dare not imagine what inhumane torment she endured.
03:14My fingernails dug into the wood of the coffin until splinters drove under the beds.
03:18Then I yanked the silver pin from my hair and moved toward the messenger.
03:22My mother saw it coming and dragged me to a side room.
03:25That night, I stole my father's blade and walked to the messenger's quarters.
03:32I was almost at the door when I heard them laughing inside.
03:36Those southern fools actually believe the illness story.
03:38Our alpha's favorite she-wolf walked that soft little treaty mate right up to the cage herself.
03:42Watched the cage shake all night.
03:43The sound of bones cracking was better than any music.
03:46The black panther must have had its fill.
03:49This little beauty must taste absolute delicious.
03:51The sword shook in my hand.
03:53I sheathed my sword and poisoned the wine to be sent to their room.
03:57The servant carried the wine into the room.
03:59They drained the wine.
04:00They soon slumped to the ground.
04:02Their pupils dilated.
04:03Blood trickling from the corners of their mouths.
04:06If not for heading north to slay the culprits, I would surely flay them alive.
04:09I will personally slay everyone who harmed my sister.
04:12I turned around and walked straight to my father's war hall.
04:15The pack council was already in session.
04:17The elders had run out of patience with the northern pack's arrogance.
04:21Several had already called for war.
04:22I pushed open the doors.
04:23Send me north as a treaty mate.
04:28The northern pack is at full strength.
04:30If we go to war now, the cost will be total.
04:33Packs destroyed on both sides.
04:35More suffering for everyone.
04:36Another treaty mate costs less than that.
04:39Silence.
04:40My father and the elders stared at me.
04:42In the end, they chose the treaty.
04:43You deserve the name of our clan.
04:46Thank you, father.
04:47Why they hadn't gotten up?
04:48The northern wolves cannot adapt to the south.
04:50They fell seriously ill and took to their beds.
04:52I truly feel sorry for them.
04:54A few days later, I put on the ceremonial dress and went north.
04:59The carriage had barely stopped when the escort brought me straight to the Alpha's war tent.
05:04Alpha Cade was stretched out on his throne.
05:10Another southern wolf crawling into our Alpha's tent?
05:14Didn't you see what happened to the last one?
05:17Or are you here to feed my panther again?
05:21The panther came low and fast.
05:23I didn't flinch.
05:24I could do something for my sister with my own hands.
05:26I drove the silver pin into the soft place at the base of its throat.
05:30The panther howled once and dropped, four legs jerking.
05:34You killed him!
05:36My father gave him to me!
05:38I'll kill you!
05:40She pulled a bone-handled blade and came at me.
05:44Nara, enough.
05:46The panther lost.
05:48You forget.
05:49The strong eat the weak.
05:51That's the only law of the pack.
05:54Right then, his amber eyes fixed on me.
05:57What's your name?
05:58Panther blood was sliding down my face.
06:01Liar.
06:03Lyra.
06:05More interesting than your sister.
06:07Tonight you stay.
06:08The torch jumped, lighted the great wolf tattoo across his chest.
06:11Monster!
06:12You're a monster!
06:14Yes, that's right.
06:16So when the servants moved to carry the panther's body out, I stopped them.
06:20Cade made no move to stop me.
06:21He watched me with keen interest.
06:23I walked to it, took my sliver pin, and skinned it clean in a few smooth strokes.
06:28Every one of them who hurt Elena would get this back.
06:31Send the pelt to her.
06:34I rested my hands on his shoulders.
06:36He kissed me, hard.
06:38He didn't notice the silver pin was still in my hand, the tip of it pressing against the back of
06:43his neck.
06:46I was about to exert my strength.
06:49A hand closed over mine.
06:50Why are you still holding this dirty thing?
06:52The dirty knot deserves you.
06:55I'll send you a better one tomorrow.
06:57The candle went out.
06:58My fingertips found the wolf tattoo on his chest.
07:01The silence all around us was so complete that only our heartbeats could be heard.
07:06By morning, Cade had already ordered the pack servants to strip off my southern dress and replace it with a
07:11northern dress.
07:12He gave me no time to ask questions.
07:14Simply lifted me onto the horse and galloped toward the edge of the camp.
07:18It's a gray, wide hollow that smelled of iron and blood and sweat.
07:22Normal wolves would have gagged on that air.
07:25It woke something in me.
07:26The horse stopped.
07:27I saw it.
07:28Inside the cage, one battered man, one hungry brown bear.
07:33I'd heard about this.
07:34The northern alpha was a savage.
07:35That his favorite entertainment was watching his prisoners fight the pack's captive beasts.
07:42A deafening roar burst forth.
07:44Man and bear crashed into each other.
07:47Cade pulled the reins and wrapped his arm around my waist.
07:49How is it, Lyra?
07:50Good way to start the morning?
07:55He'd asked Elena the same question once.
07:57Elena was nothing like me.
07:59She couldn't bear it.
08:00That reaction had disgusted him.
08:02The northern pack believed in one thing.
08:04The strong survive.
08:06Pity was weakness.
08:07Tears were weakness.
08:09Elena fell into Cade's disfavor and was eventually bullied to death by Nara.
08:15The best thing I've seen in the morning.
08:19Look at that.
08:21He's still moving.
08:23The way those bones went.
08:25That's something.
08:28And you're not afraid.
08:30Afraid of what?
08:31This is far more entertaining than those hypocritical shows down in the south.
08:35Something in my blood had always liked the sight of this.
08:38Years ago, a tribe tried to overthrow me.
08:42I did not slaughter them.
08:44Instead, I settled them here.
08:46Living their whole lives just like performers trapped in this pit.
08:50In this territory, you are either outside the cage watching, or inside it, being watched.
08:56What he didn't know was that I was outside the cage too.
08:59Wild.
08:59Just better at putting on a disguise.
09:04Elena shouldn't have come here.
09:05It should have been me.
09:06If it had been me and not her,
09:09maybe Cade and I would have been well-matched from the beginning.
09:12Two wolves who understood exactly what the other was.
09:15But Elena was gone.
09:16I pressed closer to him.
09:18Out of his sight, my eyes turned cold, little by little.
09:21The man in the cage was screaming.
09:23What I thinked instead was Elena, locked in iron.
09:27Nara, along with her black panther, killed my sister.
09:31That night, Cade took me across his entire territory on horseback.
09:35Purple flowers banking the hills.
09:37The sun went down.
09:39Wind flattened the long grass.
09:40I spent every second of it thinking about how to use him to cut Nara apart.
09:44The prettiest flowers are the ones watered in pretty woman's blood.
09:48Cade kept me in his tent for days.
09:50Nara came back to the entrance more than once,
09:52and was turned away every time by his guards.
09:55Nara's sister heard of what had happened,
09:57and hurried over from the neighboring tribe.
09:59Though Gaia is a woman,
10:00she is bolder and fiercer than any wolf.
10:03She was nothing like other she-wolves.
10:05She could split a target at distance with a single shot.
10:08She'd face down bear with a blade.
10:10Even the fiercest wolf soldiers stepped aside for her.
10:12She was the one female Cade had ever openly respected.
10:16When Gaia arrived, Cade went to meet the two sisters.
10:19I was still half asleep when I heard about her.
10:21I thought about how much Gaia loved her sister.
10:23So you have a sister too.
10:25One who spoils you like that.
10:27How lucky.
10:28My sister used to spoil me the same way.
10:31She couldn't stand to see me hurting.
10:34But she's not here anymore.
10:36What am I supposed to do?
10:40I've never been quick with emotions.
10:42When the wetness dropped, I was still confused by it.
10:45That's Elena.
10:46I miss her so much it feels like going insane.
10:48I walked out with my skirts dragging.
10:50I ordered the servants to prepare firewood and a cooking rack.
10:54Get the firewood and grill ready.
10:56Bring over the Black Panther's body.
10:58We have guests,
11:00and I intend to give them a proper welcome.
11:02We had a guest.
11:03I would host properly.
11:04Then I had them drag out the Black Panther's body.
11:07Nara came to Cade time and again,
11:09not merely to vie for his favor.
11:11She hoped to retrieve the Black Panther's body
11:13and lay to rest the companion who had grown up beside her.
11:16Someone as cold-blooded and ruthless as her
11:19turns out to be sentimental,
11:20wanting to give her childhood playmate a proper burial.
11:23Please, I just want my panther's body back.
11:26It's just a Black Panther.
11:28Let it go.
11:32It's the companion who grew up with me.
11:34The panther had been dead for days,
11:36but the northern cold had kept it from spoiling.
11:38What are you doing out here?
11:39Burning something in front of my tent.
11:41Move!
11:42Nara,
11:43your sister came all this way.
11:45I wanted to welcome her properly.
11:47I made roasted panther.
11:50Come and try some.
11:52It smells good.
11:56That's my Black Panther!
11:58Even Nara understood.
11:59She looks furious,
12:00her body trembling.
12:02You sick woman.
12:03Did they run out of normal people back home?
12:05They sent you?
12:06You're supposed to be a treaty mate,
12:08not a lunaturk.
12:09What is wrong with you?
12:11Who's making all this noise out here?
12:13Nara ran to him immediately.
12:15Cade,
12:16she killed my Black Panther
12:18and that wasn't enough.
12:20Now she's even roasted it.
12:21Her voice already breaking.
12:23Cade hated tears.
12:25Poor Nara.
12:26Why cry so helplessly?
12:28It's simply loathsome to watch.
12:30Don't you know northern wolves
12:32hate weepy women the most?
12:34You're letting a southern wolf
12:36make you look like this.
12:37That isn't like you.
12:39Gaia stepped out.
12:41Her hair wasn't braided
12:42the way other women wore theirs.
12:44No ornaments.
12:45No trailing leather cord.
12:47You must be Nara's sister.
12:48I made this for you.
12:50It's a welcome gift.
12:51This is the Black Panther
12:52father gave me.
12:53Now she's turned it
12:54into roasted meat.
12:56That panther was the only
12:57relic father left me.
12:59Sister,
12:59make this bitch
13:00die a miserable death.
13:01All living things
13:02have spirits.
13:03You have no respect for life.
13:05That's an insult
13:05to everything we hold sacred.
13:07Someone like you
13:08belongs in the trial cage.
13:09Let the beasts finish you.
13:10I laughed.
13:11All living things
13:12have spirits.
13:13Respect for life.
13:14Then where was Elena's?
13:16I dropped the meat
13:17on the ground.
13:18Gaia, that sounds
13:19rather absurd.
13:20I killed it
13:21because it tried
13:21to eat me.
13:22Should I have knelt down
13:23and begged for mercy
13:24from a Black Panther
13:25that can't even
13:26understand human words?
13:27Since when has the law
13:28of the Wolfpack
13:29become like this?
13:30Well spoken of
13:31the Wolfpack's law.
13:33If that's the case,
13:34then we shall settle this
13:35by the rules of the wolves.
13:36Gaia turned around
13:38and dropped to one knee
13:39before Cade.
13:40I, Gaia,
13:42swear by the souls
13:43of my father and brother
13:44and the honor of my clan.
13:47Layla is cunning
13:48and malicious
13:49who has slain
13:50an auspicious beast.
13:51I hereby straight trial
13:53her to a duel
13:54according to the laws
13:55of the Wolf law.
13:56The sacred trial
13:56meant locking two wolves
13:58and the pack's
13:58most dangerous wild beast
14:00into the trial cage together.
14:02Whoever walked out
14:03was the one
14:03the Moon Goddess
14:04had chosen.
14:06Sacred trial.
14:07They say the Moon Goddess
14:08chooses,
14:09but in truth,
14:10the Northern Wolves
14:11decide everything themselves.
14:13Northern Wolves
14:13usually choose beasts
14:15who are on good terms
14:16with them.
14:16I'd underestimated
14:17Gaia's thick skin.
14:19No wonder she and Nara
14:20are sisters,
14:21but they'd also
14:22underestimated me.
14:23Fine.
14:23I'd take her life
14:24and let Nara feel
14:26what it's like
14:26to lose the sister
14:27who loved her most.
14:29Cade looked down
14:29at Gaia,
14:30kneeling with a straight spine.
14:32Then he moved
14:32his gaze to me.
14:33I hadn't shown
14:34a single trace of fear.
14:36I was still smiling,
14:37daring him.
14:38Granted.
14:38A fanatical smile
14:39spread across Gaia's face.
14:41She thumped her chest
14:42with a fist
14:43and said,
14:43Thank you!
14:44What she failed to see
14:45was the same fanatical glint
14:47on my face.
14:48The ceremony began
14:49immediately,
14:50me and Gaia
14:51to the sacred trial ground.
14:52Deep inside the cage,
14:54a massive black panther
14:55prowled in tight circles.
14:59Gaia's voice
15:00came from beside me.
15:01The one you killed
15:02was his brother,
15:03born the same litter.
15:04She looked at me
15:05once with contempt.
15:06I'm a pack warrior,
15:08not a pampered
15:09alpha's daughter.
15:10You have no idea
15:10what's coming for you,
15:11southern girl.
15:12Gaia walked to the cage
15:13without looking back.
15:14Seeing Gaia approaching,
15:16the black panther
15:16in the cage relaxed
15:18and lay down
15:18on the ground.
15:19They knew each other well.
15:20I stepped in
15:21quietly beside her.
15:22If your own beast kills you,
15:24is that a stain
15:24you can only to death?
15:26He's my friend.
15:27He would never.
15:29Then we walked
15:29into the cage together.
15:31Go on.
15:32Your food is ready.
15:33The panther lifted its head
15:34and looked at me.
15:35Gaia and I both smiled
15:36at the same moment.
15:37Then it lunged.
15:38Not at me.
15:39At Gaia.
15:40She had no time to move.
15:41The panther hit her
15:42full force
15:43and drove her
15:43into the ground.
15:45The crowd went silent.
15:47Gaia was the pack's
15:48greatest female warrior.
15:50No one had expected this.
15:53All creatures can love.
15:54You loved your sister
15:56enough to come
15:56through the night for her.
15:58That panther loved
15:59his brother just as much.
16:01I stared at Gaia,
16:02feeling my mood
16:03suddenly lighten.
16:04She wouldn't know
16:05what I'd done.
16:06While we talked
16:06outside the cage,
16:07I had smeared
16:08the dead black panther's
16:10blood on the back
16:10of her colds.
16:11Her black panther
16:12was blood brother
16:13to the one
16:13that had been killed.
16:14Panthers had an extremely
16:16keen sense of smell
16:17and it caught the scent
16:18of its brother's blood
16:19on Gaia.
16:19Yet panthers are not
16:20intelligent enough
16:21and it thought Gaia
16:23had killed its brother.
16:24Rage and hunger
16:25drove the black panther
16:26to turn on its own master.
16:28Nara's screaming
16:29tore through the yard.
16:30She was begging
16:30Cade to open the gate,
16:32save her sister.
16:33Nara's grief
16:34was so real,
16:35it made me want to laugh
16:36until I couldn't breathe.
16:37Don't rush,
16:38Nara.
16:38I'm just getting started.
16:40I want you to beg
16:41for your life.
16:42I want you to find out
16:43there's no way out.
16:44The sacred trial begins.
16:46It cannot be stopped.
16:49After everything was over,
16:51I walked out of the iron cage.
16:54As I lifted my head,
16:56my eyes met Cade's gaze
16:57right away.
16:58I flashed him
16:59an extraordinarily bright smile.
17:01Anyone who saw
17:02what lay inside
17:03the iron cage behind me,
17:04then looked at my smile,
17:06would only find me terrifying.
17:08But Cade wasn't normal.
17:10I used to think,
17:12sometimes,
17:12that if he hadn't let Nara
17:13do what she did to Elena,
17:15things could have been
17:16different between us.
17:17Unfortunately,
17:18there are no what-ifs.
17:19Cade came down to meet me.
17:20His chest was burning hot.
17:22You killed my sister.
17:24You're going to die for it.
17:26I'll make sure of it.
17:28She'd lost her panther.
17:29She'd lost Gaia.
17:30She had nothing left to lose.
17:32She released Cade's captive bear.
17:34Nara came rushing toward me
17:35like a mad woman,
17:36luring the brown bear
17:38straight to me.
17:39The bear came straight for me.
17:41It raised one massive pull.
17:42Cade spun around
17:43and put himself between us.
17:45But he lurched forward.
17:46He dropped to one knee,
17:47fist against the ground,
17:49and held himself there.
17:50The bear didn't stop.
17:51It roared
17:52and prepared to attack again.
17:54He pulled me into his arms
17:55with one hand.
17:56The bear charged.
17:58Met the bear
17:59as it reared up
18:00and drove the spear
18:01in one clean thrust
18:02into matter.
18:05The bear's charge
18:06stopped dead.
18:07Its red eyes spread wide.
18:09Cade held me in his arms
18:10and landed steadily.
18:12Then he went down
18:12into my arms
18:13with his eyes closed.
18:15I half knelt
18:15in the dirt and blood
18:16and held the weight of him.
18:18He was still.
18:19The spear was still dripping
18:20a few paces away.
18:22If I wanted to kill him,
18:23I had never had a better moment.
18:25But something complicated
18:26was filling up my chest
18:27and I couldn't name it cleanly.
18:29It wasn't hate anymore.
18:30It wasn't love either.
18:32Made my head feel like
18:33it was going to split.
18:34I pressed both hands
18:36over my ears.
18:37It's strange.
18:37When I face everything alone,
18:39I fear nothing at all.
18:40But now I hesitate.
18:42And that fills me with fear.
18:43I reached for the spear.
18:45The pack guards
18:46and shamans flooded in.
18:47Pushed me back.
18:48Surrounded Cade.
18:49I ended up outside
18:50the ring of bodies.
18:51Watching.
18:52Two shamans came
18:53to check me for injuries.
18:54Thanks to him,
18:55there wasn't a scratch on me.
18:58A blow like that?
18:59Most men would have died on the spot.
19:01The shaman stopped
19:02what he was doing.
19:03Kneel down on the ground
19:04before me.
19:05The shaman lifted his face.
19:06My lady,
19:08you are carrying
19:09the alpha's child.
19:10Only then did I realize
19:11he was bowing not at me,
19:13but at my belly.
19:14I knocked my fist
19:15against the side of my skull
19:16a few times.
19:17The pain didn't shift.
19:18I looked down
19:19at my own stomach.
19:20There lives a child
19:21who was never meant to exist.
19:23I hit myself
19:23a few times in the stomach.
19:25The shaman lurched
19:25to his feet,
19:26pulling my hands away.
19:28Eventually,
19:28the edges of my vision
19:30went dark.
19:32I woke to a black sky.
19:34The first thing I did
19:35was look at my stomach.
19:36I set my hand on it
19:37carefully.
19:38I felt nothing.
19:39The shaman was already kneeling
19:41when he saw my eyes open.
19:42My lady,
19:44the moon goddess
19:45has kept the child safe.
19:47He is well.
19:48I went still.
19:49Is Cade awake?
19:51The alpha's injuries
19:52are severe.
19:53That he still breathes
19:54is only because
19:54he was born hard.
19:55As for waking,
19:56that is unlikely.
19:58My lady,
19:59please take care of yourself.
20:00The child in your wrist
20:01is all that remains
20:02of the alpha in this world.
20:03I pulled my hand,
20:05free,
20:05and stood.
20:07Take me to him.
20:09The servant scrambled
20:11after me with a cloak
20:12and boots.
20:14After Elena passed away,
20:15I imagined how it would be
20:17when Cade died.
20:18I hadn't expected
20:18to feel so little.
20:20Maybe everyone was right.
20:21Maybe I was the monster
20:22they'd always said I was.
20:25I sent the guards out,
20:27just the two of us.
20:28Cade,
20:29we have a child.
20:30I held my hand over his face,
20:32fingertips about an inch
20:33from his cheek.
20:34I have no intention
20:35of letting it live.
20:37It was made from hatred.
20:39It doesn't belong
20:40in this world.
20:41You're its father.
20:42So I came here
20:44to let you see it
20:44one last time.
20:46My fingers closed
20:47around the handle
20:48of the blade inside.
20:49I pointed the tip
20:50at my own stomach.
20:51A hand closed
20:52around my wrist.
20:54Put it down.
20:55I pulled back hard.
20:57He reached again
20:58and caught my wrist
20:59a second time.
21:00The blade trembled
21:02between us,
21:03both of us holding on,
21:04neither moving.
21:06Let go of me.
21:07I wrenched my arm free.
21:10The dagger drove down
21:11toward my stomach.
21:12I froze.
21:13The blade cut his palm.
21:16Blood came fast,
21:17soaking down
21:18through the blankets
21:19in a wide,
21:20dark stain.
21:23Keep the child.
21:27Please.
21:28I went rigid.
21:30The blade dropped
21:31from my fingers
21:32and hit the ground.
21:33A long time passed.
21:34Then I felt his head
21:35came to rest
21:35against my shoulder.
21:36He passed out again.
21:38I was shaking.
21:39I thought of Elena.
21:40Elena.
21:40Elena with the claw marks
21:42on her face.
21:42Elena who never did
21:43one unkind thing
21:44in her life.
21:46I reached for the blade.
21:47A shaman shoved
21:48through the tent flap.
21:50The Alpha is unconscious.
21:51I have authority
21:52to act in his absence.
21:54I stood.
21:55I put away the mess
21:56of the last few minutes.
21:58I looked at the shaman
21:59with flat eyes.
22:00He went to his knees.
22:01My lady,
22:03Nara is also carrying
22:04the Alpha's child.
22:09A traitor's bastard
22:10has no right
22:11to be born.
22:11I'll handle it myself
22:13in the Alpha's name.
22:14The shaman's face shifted.
22:16Lead the way.
22:16And don't forget
22:17who holds authority
22:18in this camp right now.
22:21It was the worst crime
22:23a wolf could commit.
22:24She was already
22:25in the dungeon.
22:26When I arrived,
22:27she was singing
22:28something soft to herself.
22:30What do you want?
22:32I want to see Cade.
22:34I came forward
22:35and had her chin
22:36in my hand.
22:37How exactly
22:38do you plan to face him?
22:40How do you think
22:41you deserve
22:42to carry his child?
22:43She flinched.
22:44Her eyes went small
22:45and frightened.
22:46Let go of her face.
22:47The Alpha only needs
22:48one air.
22:49My shadows stretched
22:50across the dungeon floor
22:51and swallowed hers.
22:53She fell to her knees.
22:54In front of me.
22:55I'm sorry.
22:56I know I was wrong.
22:57Please.
22:58Not the baby.
22:59Please.
23:00She lunged forward
23:01and grabbed the hem
23:02of my robe.
23:03She's all I have left.
23:05She kept begging.
23:06I smiled
23:07and tapped the flat
23:08of the blade
23:09against her cheek.
23:11Then tell me
23:12where you went wrong.
23:14She trembled.
23:16I should never have
23:17fought you
23:18for Cade's attention.
23:19Before she finished
23:20the sentence,
23:20I put the blade
23:21into her left shoulder.
23:24She screamed.
23:25Wrong answer.
23:27Try again.
23:28I pulled the blade
23:29free.
23:29She was crying so hard.
23:31I should never
23:31have sent my panther
23:32at you.
23:33The blade went
23:34into her right shoulder.
23:35Still wrong.
23:39I should never
23:40have released
23:41the bear.
23:41Pushed through
23:42the pain
23:42to try again.
23:43The blade went
23:44into her left thigh.
23:45Last chance.
23:46I rested the tip
23:47against her right thigh
23:48and waited.
23:49She looked at
23:50her bleeding limbs.
23:51Something moved
23:52in her fate.
23:54I should never
23:54have done
23:55what I did
23:55to the princess
23:56who came before you.
23:57I kept the blade
23:58still.
23:59She knew
23:59she'd gotten it right.
24:00I put her
24:01in the cage.
24:01I walked my panther
24:02in.
24:03I deserve to die
24:03for it.
24:05I'll do anything.
24:06Any punishment.
24:07Just not the baby.
24:08Please.
24:09The blade came
24:09away from her thigh.
24:10Nara let out a breath.
24:12Then I drove it
24:13into her stomach.
24:13She coughed blood
24:14and...
24:15You liar.
24:17You absolute monster.
24:20Forgiving you
24:20is Elena's business
24:22not my...
24:22All I'm here to do
24:23is send you to her.
24:26Blood spread
24:27across the dungeon floor.
24:28Nara curled
24:28onto her side.
24:29Both hands pressed
24:30to her stomach.
24:30She couldn't speak anymore.
24:32Then, slowly,
24:32she started to cry
24:33and then she started to laugh.
24:36You came here
24:38for revenge.
24:39You never loved him.
24:41Clear expression
24:41she had left.
24:43Yes.
24:44Every single one
24:45of you is going
24:46to pay for what
24:47you did to my sister.
24:48He won't forgive you
24:50for this.
24:51She pushed herself
24:52off the floor
24:53with the last
24:54of whatever she had.
24:55She didn't come at me.
24:56She moved
24:57toward the dungeon door.
24:58I turned.
24:59She collapsed
24:59into the arms
25:00of the man
25:01standing in the dark
25:02at the entrance.
25:03She doesn't love you.
25:04Kill her.
25:05Kill them both.
25:07Nara's voice
25:07was gone to nothing.
25:09She gripped his clothes
25:09with both hands.
25:10Save me.
25:12Save our baby.
25:13Cade looked down
25:14at her hands on him.
25:16Then Cade peeled
25:17her hands off.
25:17Lies.
25:18He stepped back.
25:19He didn't catch her.
25:22Did you think
25:23she was telling
25:24the truth
25:25when she said
25:25she loved you?
25:26She used you.
25:27She's laughing at you.
25:29He was furious.
25:30Her words had reached
25:31something real.
25:32Cade didn't look
25:32at her body
25:33for more than a moment.
25:37What are you doing
25:38down here?
25:39You'll catch something.
25:41He pressed his forehead
25:42to my shoulder.
25:43I stood still
25:43inside his arms.
25:45He took me back
25:45to the tent.
25:46He never mentioned
25:47anything from the dungeon.
25:48In the weeks that followed,
25:50he kept me beside him
25:51for everything.
25:52The loyal elders.
25:53The sharp-eyed
25:53pack council members.
25:55Cade had executed
25:56them on my advice.
25:57Good wolves cut.
25:58Bad ones stayed.
25:59Then Cade stopped
26:00asking questions
26:01about me entirely.
26:02I knew he'd heard
26:03everything in that dungeon.
26:04But I didn't explain myself.
26:06I didn't deny anything.
26:07I accepted everything
26:08he gave.
26:09And gave him exactly
26:10what he wanted back.
26:11I stopped trying
26:12to end the pregnancy.
26:13The child was still
26:14useful for now.
26:15Every night,
26:15Cade pressed his ear
26:16to my stomach and listened.
26:18He pulled me close
26:18afterward and said
26:19this child would be
26:20his only heir.
26:21Said I was the only
26:22she-wolf he'd ever take.
26:23Said the pup would
26:24rule after him.
26:25I laughed with him
26:26at those moments.
26:27He never knew
26:27that every night
26:28I laid in his arms.
26:29I dreamed of Elena.
26:31Elena's small body
26:32in that small box.
26:33Elena in the cage
26:34while Nara's
26:35Black Panther
26:35was let in on a chain.
26:36I dreamed Elena
26:37pulling me into her arms.
26:39I woke up every morning
26:40in Cade's arms.
26:41Four months into
26:42the pregnancy,
26:43I told him I wanted
26:44to see the Broken
26:44Moon Cliffs alone.
26:46Just us.
26:46He agreed.
26:47The pack council
26:48went frantic.
26:49They came to him
26:50one after another
26:50and begged him
26:51not to go.
26:52The Broken Moon Cliffs
26:53were wild wolf territory.
26:55Cade was a tyrant
26:56and I was the she-wolf
26:57who'd enchanted him.
26:59The loyal wolves.
27:00Gone.
27:01We went to
27:01the Broken Moon Cliffs.
27:03Do you think
27:03we'll die out here?
27:06Not a chance.
27:07I still have to watch
27:08our pup grow up.
27:09He wasn't wrong
27:10to feel invincible.
27:16The Broken Moon Cliffs
27:17were dangerous
27:18for ordinary wolves.
27:19Not for Cade.
27:20His body was built
27:21for exactly this.
27:26And beyond the body,
27:27his mind worked faster
27:28than anyone I'd seen.
27:31Cade came once,
27:32found the line
27:33in the first hour.
27:34We stood at the highest point
27:35in the Northern Territory.
27:37Wind snapped through
27:38my loose hair
27:39and the hem of his furs.
27:40He was half a step
27:41from the edge.
27:42I was close enough
27:43to push him.
27:44I didn't.
27:44I waited.
27:45We left the cliffs
27:46without me touching him.
27:51Cade had taken a blade
27:52from inside his coat
27:53and set it on the ground.
27:55Lyra,
27:56you couldn't do it
27:58because you love me.
28:00He wasn't slow.
28:01Nara's words
28:02in the dungeon
28:02had gone in.
28:03The elders warning him
28:05had gone in.
28:06He'd been watching me
28:07the whole time.
28:08Yes,
28:09I love you.
28:10And I hate you.
28:14I've wanted to kill you
28:15since the beginning.
28:16Not just at the cliffs.
28:18Every night.
28:20You let your guard down
28:22too fast.
28:23You were looking
28:23for a reason to trust me.
28:25The words had barely
28:26left my mouth.
28:27Wolf howls went up
28:28from every direction.
28:30You win, Lyra.
28:32Then we end it together,
28:34Cade.
28:35He lifted me
28:36onto the saddle.
28:37Then he struck
28:38the horse's neck
28:39hard once.
28:40That horse
28:41had grown up with him.
28:42It bolted forward
28:43with me and didn't stop.
28:44In the same breath,
28:45the wolf packs reached us.
28:47Cade turned to meet them.
28:48He moved through them
28:49on foot,
28:50fighting wolf after wolf,
28:51pulling each one away
28:53from the direction
28:53the horse had gone.
29:04Locking the path
29:05back to me
29:05with his own body.
29:09I know you love me.
29:11I know you hate me too.
29:13Lyra,
29:15stay alive.
29:16That's your punishment.
29:17Live with all of it.
29:19The horse ran
29:20through the open
29:21northern dark
29:22toward the pack's territory.
29:23The silver pin
29:25he'd carved for me
29:25by hand came free
29:27and landed in my palm.
29:29I stared at it.
29:30He'd made this for me,
29:31himself.
29:32You thought sending me away
29:33meant I'd protect
29:34your child?
29:35I never loved you, Cade.
29:36I only have one heart.
29:38I gave it to Elena
29:39a long time ago
29:40and I'm not getting it back.
29:41I turned the pin
29:42in my hand
29:42and pressed the tip
29:43against my stomach.
29:44I didn't hesitate.
29:46After Cade died,
29:46the northern territory
29:48tore itself open.
29:49Every splinter pack,
29:50every rival branch,
29:52every wolf
29:52who'd been waiting
29:53for the alpha to fall
29:54came forward at once.
29:55They fought each other
29:56over the throne.
29:57No one had time
29:58to think about
29:58how the alpha had died.
29:59The north would be
30:00too busy bleeding
30:01to threaten our packs
30:02for years.
30:03I rode south
30:03through the cold.
30:04I brought more
30:05than myself home.
30:06I brought four limbs.
30:07In the months
30:08I'd spent in the north,
30:09I took what they
30:10had taken from her.
30:11Four limbs
30:11to make her whole again.
30:13I laid my hand
30:14on her coffin
30:14and patted it gently.
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