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00:00J'ai trouvé mon corps dans le woods.
00:02Il n'y a pas de funeral.
00:03Il n'y a pas de grave.
00:03Il n'y a pas de crôs.
00:04Et c'est la deuxième fois que je m'ai mort pour lui.
00:06Dans mon monde, être blindé est un défect.
00:09Je ne suis pas un homme, je n'ai pas un homme.
00:11Je n'ai pas un homme, le très bas de la peau.
00:13Je n'ai pas de strength.
00:15Je n'ai pas de changement.
00:15Je n'ai pas de healing.
00:17Je n'ai pas de changement.
00:18Il n'y a pas de changement.
00:22Je n'ai pas de changement.
00:23Je n'ai pas de changement.
00:23Mais je n'ai pas de changement.
00:25Je n'ai pas de face.
00:26Je n'ai pas de souffrance.
00:27Jealousy, toxic green, hate, de-oily black.
00:31In my last life, I used it to build a king.
00:34Lucian, a forgotten fifth son.
00:36I picked him.
00:37I made him.
00:38I put him on the throne.
00:39In the day my sister Celeste died,
00:41he grabbed my jaw so hard I heard it crack.
00:45Forced a wolf's vein tincture down my throat.
00:48You blind freak.
00:50You knew I never wanted you.
00:51Celeste should have been mine from the start.
00:53And because of you, she ended up with Marcus.
00:56They tortured her to death.
00:58It was your fault.
01:01I died in agony.
01:03He gave Celeste's corpse a royal burial.
01:06He gave me the woods.
01:08But the hate, his hate, it was so consuming it dragged me right back from the death.
01:13I opened my eyes.
01:15Seventeen again.
01:17Night of the mating battle.
01:19Lucian walked straight past me and took Celeste's hand,
01:21like he was afraid someone might stop him.
01:24The bastard came back too, and he remembered everything.
01:27He is terrified I'll choose him again.
01:29Honestly, I couldn't care less.
01:30I swept my blind gaze across the back of the room.
01:33In a sea of dark, rotten souls of sand.
01:36A soul so pure it growed like liquid gold.
01:39The man in the wheelchair.
01:41The true outfit.
01:42I choose Celeste as my mate.
01:45Lucian's voice cracked through the hall like a whip.
01:47She is my one and only Luna.
01:49He walked toward my sister with eyes full of a tenderness I knew was performance.
01:53The room went silent.
01:54Then the whispers hit me like a wall.
01:56No air in their right mind would want her.
01:58A blind Omega who couldn't even shift?
02:01What a joke.
02:02Why is she even here?
02:04Trash like her should be in the kitchen, not at a mating ball.
02:09I am an Alpha's daughter born blind.
02:11When I came up there to my wolf,
02:13I was a girl who was on teeth and claws.
02:16That is not just weakness.
02:17That is a death sentence.
02:19Being wolf-less, that makes you a joke.
02:22My sister Celeste is the golden child.
02:25Born with a siren song.
02:27A voice that can calm even the most violent Alpha in the world.
02:30The family treats her like a goddess.
02:33They treat me like a mistake they can't take back.
02:36Lucian dropped to one knee in front of her.
02:39Accept my mark, Celeste.
02:41I will make you the most powerful woman alive.
02:44And as he spoke, he threw one look back at me.
02:47Not an apology.
02:48A warning.
02:49He thinks he can take the throne without me this time.
02:52He thinks I was what held him back.
02:54He has no idea what he just threw away.
02:57I didn't awaken the wolf to make my page.
02:59I got something much more dangerous.
03:01The soul line.
03:05Jealousy is toxic for you.
03:07Hate is a bottomless black.
03:09Love is pink.
03:10And the deeper the feeling, the darker it burns.
03:14In my last life, I kept him alive with this.
03:17I spotted assassins before they moved.
03:19I told him who to trust, who to kill.
03:21This time, I am going to let him have exactly what he wanted.
03:25And watch him realize too late that without me, he is nothing.
03:29And I really hope, for his sake, he doesn't end up crawling back to me, begging for a mercy on
03:35the long run.
03:36The moment Lucian's announcement landed, every eye in the room found me.
03:41I'm just a blind girl.
03:42I'm not worthy of a man like Lucian.
03:45Celeste is the perfect match for him.
03:48At least you know your place.
03:49He stepped closer.
03:50An Omega with no wolf?
03:52I wouldn't choose you if you were the last woman breathing.
03:56Not even if you crawl to me on your knees.
03:58My mother, Marilyn, made a sound beside me.
04:01A sharp inhale, like she was about to say something she shouldn't.
04:04I squeezed her hand.
04:05She went quiet.
04:06I swept the room with my soul wide.
04:09Marcus.
04:10Murky charcoal.
04:11Cruel underneath the surface.
04:12The other airs.
04:13Muddy swirls of greed and want.
04:15In my last life, I chose Lucian because his soul looked cleaner than anyone else's in the room.
04:20It was a mask.
04:21I didn't see what was underneath until the day he killed me.
04:24The rotten, pink, purple, black.
04:26We didn't just hate what it was.
04:28We hated him.
04:29I was blind in my last life in more ways than one.
04:32Never again.
04:33Celeste blighted through me.
04:34Face arranged into the perfect picture of a loving older sister.
04:38Don't be sad.
04:39Go ahead.
04:40I'll let you have whoever you want.
04:43Her soul was turning toxic green.
04:45Edge to edge.
04:46Pure jealousy.
04:47Barely holding its shape.
04:49Since no one's going to claim you anyway,
04:51you can always beg me for work.
04:53Celeste will need a personal maid
04:55who sees festmitching floors,
04:57scrubbing floors all a wolfless Omega is good for.
04:59I didn't blink.
05:00I didn't even bother.
05:01None of them were worth the energy.
05:03And then, the sound of wheels.
05:06The chatter died.
05:07Then the room shifted.
05:09Kyle Ravenscroft had arrived.
05:12Uninvited.
05:13Unannounced.
05:14And completely unmoved by the spectacle.
05:16He sat in that wheelchair like a predator at rest.
05:20And then I saw.
05:20My breath caught.
05:22His soul was gold.
05:23Pure.
05:24Shimmering.
05:25Blinding gold.
05:26The mark of the moon goddess herself.
05:29The mark of a true king.
05:31I clenched my fists so hard my nails broke the skin.
05:34Last life, I picked the wrong man.
05:37I defied the moon goddess.
05:39Put a monster on the throne.
05:40And everyone paid for it.
05:42Not this time.
05:44I stood up.
05:45I walked past Lucian without a glance.
05:47Past every arrogant alpha heir in the room.
05:49I stopped in front of Kyle's wheelchair.
05:52I choose him.
05:53The hall went dead silent.
05:55Then it exploded.
05:57Laughter.
05:59The blind girl and the cripple.
06:02Neither of you has a wolf.
06:05You really are a perfect match.
06:10Xayah.
06:11You can't see.
06:13You don't understand.
06:14He's in a wheelchair.
06:16She glanced at the crowd.
06:18Milking every second of it.
06:20I'll pretend I didn't hear that.
06:23Choose again.
06:24And if you truly can't find an alpha willing to have you,
06:28you're welcome to follow our caravan.
06:31Serve Lucian and me.
06:33At least you won't go hungry.
06:35I'm not anyone's servant.
06:37And I'm not astray you take in out of pity.
06:40Kyle hadn't said a word through any of it.
06:42He just pulled his chair forward until he was right in front of me.
06:45He took my hand.
06:46His palm was large and rough.
06:49Thick with calluses.
06:50A kind you only get from yours of hard use.
06:56He took my hand and guided it to his knee.
06:59No flinching.
07:00No excuses.
07:02If he was lying.
07:03He didn't want pity for it.
07:05I left my hand there.
07:06I could feel the heat of him through the fabric and tense, alive.
07:10Then a jolt.
07:11It shot through my fingertips, raced up my arm,
07:14and hit my chest like a beast.
07:16This wasn't the soul line.
07:17It was something else entirely.
07:19My blood was screaming.
07:21I don't have a wolf.
07:22I was never supposed to feel a mate-balled.
07:26But there it was.
07:29Kyle's whole body locked up.
07:31I looked into his soul.
07:33Warm pink threading through shaming gold.
07:35I leaned in close and smiled.
07:38I can fix you next.
07:39Lucian's face went ugly.
07:40The mating ball isn't over.
07:43And you're out here making promises you can't keep?
07:46If you fail to heal him, the Alpha Council will have your head.
07:49Can you actually do it?
07:51I didn't answer right away.
07:52I let my fingers trail slowly along his tensed five.
07:56I can.
07:57But it'll require a very specific kind of contact.
08:01He understood immediately.
08:02The tips of his ears went red.
08:04He turned his head away.
08:06Couldn't quite bring himself to look at me.
08:08In my peripheral vision, Lucian's soul ignited.
08:12A roaring wall of green fire.
08:14Jealousy.
08:15A cold laugh rose in my chest.
08:17Jealous of what?
08:18Except Lucian.
08:19You are the one who poured poison down my throat.
08:22The moment I stepped outside the hall, the world tilted.
08:25The white hot painting detonated behind my eyes.
08:30Like something was being driven through my skull from the inside.
08:33That is the cost.
08:35Every time I used a soul eye on that many people at once, I pressed my freezing fingers to my
08:40temples.
08:41The cold always came after.
08:43After the ball, Lucian got to work.
08:45He pulled up everything from our past life.
08:47Her favorite flowers.
08:49Her secret hiding spots.
08:50Every word she'd been waiting her whole life to hear.
08:54He played her like he'd been practicing for years.
08:57That same day, a mating contract arrived at my door on heavy old parchment.
09:03I accept you as my mate.
09:05I will hold and protect you in this life and the next.
09:08Not even death will part us.
09:10The handwriting was deep and certain.
09:12No hesitation in a single stroke.
09:14It felt exactly like him.
09:16Foth weddings were set for the same morning.
09:18The night before, Celeste walked into my room like she owned it.
09:21She didn't knock.
09:23Her maid tossed something at my feet.
09:25A tattered gray shawl.
09:26A kind worn by the lowest ranking omegas.
09:29A mark of total submission.
09:32You're a blind freak, Zara.
09:38No real alpha will ever claim you, she leaned in, voice honeyed and vicious at the same time.
09:45Lucian and I are being generous.
09:47We're keeping you on as a servant.
09:50But on the day of the ceremony, no carriage for you.
09:53You'll wear that and walk behind the caravan.
09:57Servant's entrance.
09:58Don't embarrass us.
09:59The morning came.
10:00I left the shawl on the floor where it landed.
10:03I put on the dress Kyle had sent instead.
10:06White silk, thousands of diamonds sewn into the fabric.
10:09Small enough to look like starlight.
10:12At the estate gate, two carriages waited.
10:15One was extraordinary.
10:17Draped in thumb-sized pearls.
10:19Built like a throne that happened to have wheels.
10:21The other was a plain standard word.
10:24Nothing remarkable.
10:28Celeste didn't hesitate for a second.
10:30She walked straight to the pearl carriage and stepped inside.
10:34The head guard turned.
10:37His expression didn't waver.
10:39You're in the wrong carriage.
10:41This was commissioned by Alpha Kyle for his Luna and no one else.
10:46He didn't get her time to argue.
10:48Guards took her by the grounds and turned around.
10:50She caught her heel on her skirt and went down hard for his face into the dirt.
10:56Lucien arrived just in time to see it.
11:00Celeste scrambled up and drew herself at him, already crying.
11:06It's Zara!
11:07She planned this!
11:10She can't stand that I'm the one becoming a Luna!
11:13She turned to the crowd gathering around them, eyes whistling.
11:17Please, don't hate her.
11:19She's struggling.
11:21I know we're in love, Lucien.
11:23But I begged you to keep her safe.
11:26I pleaded for months just so she could be our servant and I not starve on the street.
11:32She's a blind Omega.
11:34She should be grateful anyone even bothered to take her in.
11:37To pull a strunt like this on her sister's wedding day?
11:40It's fetic.
11:41The crowd was vicious.
11:42They always are when they smell wetness.
11:45Lucien's soul was drowning in black.
11:47Thick, suffocating, ink dark.
11:50He pulled Celeste against his chest and turned on me.
11:53You're an Omega, Zara.
11:56You have no right to wear white.
11:59Take that dress off right now or I'll shred it off your back myself!
12:04Celeste buried her face in his chest.
12:07But I could see her soul.
12:08She was smirking.
12:11Lucien, you don't have me watching your back this time.
12:14What's coming for you tonight isn't a wedding.
12:18It's a funeral.
12:22Celeste, we foiled like I'd struck her.
12:24How can you curse him like that?
12:26Just because he didn't choose you?
12:28You dare curse an Alpha heir?
12:32Guards, seize her!
12:35The soldiers started moving in.
12:37Think carefully.
12:39You're laying a hand on Alpha Kyle's mate.
12:42Make sure that's a consequence you're ready to live with.
12:45Lucien laughed.
12:46Jagged.
12:46Ugly.
12:47Kyle, the cripple isn't even here.
12:50Probably hiding in his chambers, too embarrassed to show his face.
12:54He's using you for sport, Zara.
12:55Nothing more.
12:56He stepped forward, close enough that his shadow fell over me.
12:59Neil, beg Celeste's forgiveness.
13:03And maybe, maybe, I'll still find a use for you.
13:06Then a voice cut through everything.
13:08Who is threatening my mate?
13:09The crowd split.
13:10Kyle moved through them like they weren't there.
13:12Sharp black suit.
13:14Not a single piece out of his face.
13:15Even seated.
13:16His presence was suffocating.
13:18The moment he appeared, the street went silent.
13:20Beside him, Lucien suddenly looked like a boy wearing his mother's face.
13:26Kyle came straight to me.
13:27He took my hand and folded it inside his large, warm, unhurried.
13:32So he waits for that.
13:34Then he looked up.
13:35Now.
13:36His eyes fixed on Lucien like a blade finding its mark.
13:39Let's try that again.
13:40Who was it that told my mate to move?
13:42The temperature in the street seemed to drop.
13:45No one walked.
13:46No one breathed.
13:47He didn't shout.
13:49Didn't signal his men.
13:50He just watched Lucien the way a predator watches something it has already decided to
13:54deal with later.
13:55I'll remember that.
13:57I'm an alpha heir, same as you.
13:59Who the hell do you think you are?
14:01Who the hell do you think you are?
14:03A forgotten fifth son?
14:04Trying to give orders to my mate.
14:07You're not a rival, Lucien.
14:09You're a fit note.
14:10The color drained from Lucien's face.
14:13This isn't over.
14:14Low and mean.
14:15You'll both regret tonight.
14:18I gave you a chance, Zara.
14:21When you come crawling back, and you will, don't expect mercy.
14:25I looked at his soul, muddy for me.
14:28Murky and small.
14:29He genuinely believes he is the chosen one.
14:31He thinks the throne is already his, and that I was just dead weight holding him back.
14:35He has no idea what is waiting for him.
14:37Without me clearing his path, he won't last the season.
14:41He'll be lucky to still be breathing by the time the leaves turn.
14:45Oh, her first night as mates was quiet.
14:47Just the two of us, and the fire crackling low between us.
14:51We shared whiskey, amber, and slow burning on the way down.
14:57I could feel his eyes, heavy and silver warm against my skin.
15:01My pulse wouldn't settle.
15:02Even sitting across from me in that chair, his presence filled the entire room.
15:07You said you could fix my legs.
15:11How?
15:13Help me with something first.
15:16I've never seen this room.
15:19Describe it to me.
15:21Then he started talking.
15:23The fires glow.
15:24The oil paintings.
15:26He told me their textures, not just their subjects.
15:29The velvet curtains.
15:30Deep and heavy.
15:31On the shelf above the nightstand, there's an old book.
15:37The cover is faded.
15:39My hand stilled around the glass.
15:41That shelf was high, nearly at the ceiling.
15:44From a wheelchair, the top of that book was completely out of sight.
15:48There was no way he could know the cover was faded.
15:50I didn't say a word.
15:52I just took another sip and filed that detail away somewhere.
15:55I wouldn't forget it.
15:56I stood up with my glass in hand, then let it slip.
16:01It hit the carpet with a dull thud and rolled toward the sofa.
16:05Kyle's body moved before his mind could stop it.
16:09His chest surged forward.
16:10The muscles in his thighs locked and coiled, dense as iron cables.
16:15For a single, unguarded second, he was about to stand.
16:19Then he caught himself and settled back into the leather as if nothing had happened.
16:23But I felt it.
16:24That reflex was all the confirmation I needed.
16:27I didn't say anything.
16:29Not yet.
16:30There's one more way to be sure.
16:34I stepped in close.
16:36And I straddled his lap.
16:38Kyle stopped breathing.
16:41The heat from his hands soaked straight through the silk.
16:44It burned against my skin like a brand.
16:47My heart was slamming.
16:48I ignored it.
16:51I raised my hand and let my fingertips trace from his jaw down to his chest.
16:56Hard as stone beneath the shirt.
16:58Not the body of a man who hadn't used his legs in seven years.
17:01I looked into his soul.
17:03A storm deep crimson.
17:05Soft pink.
17:06Something more tender than he'd admit.
17:08And threading through both.
17:09A sharp streak of dark green panic.
17:12He knew I was getting close.
17:14I leaned down.
17:20My lips barely grazed the corner of his mouth.
17:23Not a kiss.
17:24A question.
17:25His breathing came apart.
17:27And then I took his hand and pressed his palm flat against my chest.
17:31The silk between us was nothing.
17:33My face was burning.
17:35Because in that moment, his body gave me the most honest answer he had.
17:39His body reacted before his mind could stop it.
17:42I felt the shift in his balance.
17:45The sudden breeze through his thighs.
17:47The instinctive drive upward.
17:49A man who hadn't used his legs in seven years wouldn't move like that.
17:53I pulled back just enough.
17:54Let the smile come slowly.
17:56Your legs are fine.
17:58That much, I know.
17:59Kyle closed his eyes.
18:01His throat moved as he swallowed.
18:03Then he stood up.
18:04One hand stayed at my waist.
18:06The other still pressed against my chest.
18:09He lifted me and I felt just how much of him there was.
18:12Nearly six foot from an all of it muscle.
18:15My whole world was suddenly just him.
18:18How did you know?
18:19I just smiled and gave him something vague enough to pass.
18:22He set me down gently on the edge of the bed.
18:25Then stepped back.
18:27The hand that had touched my chest was shaking.
18:29I'm sorry, I shouldn't have...
18:31Don't.
18:32I'm the one who put your hand there.
18:34He looked at me for a long moment.
18:36A real laugh.
18:38Warm and unguarded.
18:39Like seven years of tension finally giving way.
18:42Seven years.
18:43Seven years fooling everyone.
18:45The whole damn world.
18:48And my blind mate catches me on the very first night.
18:51We didn't go any further that night.
18:52We ended up on the rug in front of the fire.
18:55The bottle of whiskey between us.
18:57And we just...
18:57Talked.
18:59He told me about the night his parents were killed.
19:01They called it a rogue wolf attack.
19:04Everyone knew what it actually was.
19:06The alpha king had ordered it.
19:08He was 15 years old.
19:10Standing at their funeral.
19:11And he made a decision.
19:13He would become the cripple.
19:15Invisible.
19:17Unthreatening.
19:18Off the king's list entirely.
19:20It was the only way to stay alive.
19:22I told him about Lucian.
19:24All of it.
19:25What he was underneath.
19:27I didn't choose you because I had no other options.
19:30I chose you because you were the only one worth choosing.
19:34I watched his soul begin to shift.
19:37The gold bleeding slowly into a deep and glowing wake.
19:41Late into the night, it came back.
19:43The splitting pain behind my temples.
19:46Like an axe working its way through bone.
19:48I tried to keep my hands still.
19:50They were shaking anyway.
19:52Kyle stopped mid-sentence.
19:54Your head.
19:55Before I could deflect, his thumbs were already at my temples.
19:59The pressure.
20:00Exact like he'd mapped the pain before he touched it.
20:03My mother used to get them.
20:04I've known what to do since I was a boy.
20:06The pain didn't ease.
20:08It vanished.
20:09We shared the same bed.
20:10His arm lay heavy and warm across my waist.
20:13My head settled against his chest.
20:15I listened to his heartbeat through my soul lie.
20:18I watched his soul settle.
20:20The gold softly, deepening into a rich and quiet pink.
20:23For the first time in two lifetimes, I felt safe.
20:26Lucian's wedding night was gone apart.
20:28In my last life, a maid tried to spike his wine with wolf's bane.
20:32I caught her before she could get close.
20:34I read the murder in her soul.
20:36Swapped the glasses.
20:37Had her detained before he'd taken a single seat.
20:40This time, I did nothing.
20:42Celeste wouldn't notice.
20:44She wouldn't know a threat if it sat down beside her and introduced itself.
20:47The next morning, Kyle and I arrived at the Alpha King's estate.
20:51No sign of Lucian.
20:53No sign of Celeste.
20:54The corridors were alive with hushed, urgent voices.
20:58The hair was poisoned in his own chambers.
21:00He hasn't woken.
21:01The healers say the dose was enough to drop a grizzly.
21:04I kept my face perfectly still, but underneath it, I was smiling.
21:08Lucian's fall had started.
21:10I missed him.
21:11I wasn't going to stop it.
21:13The carriage had barely rolled to a stop when Celeste appeared at the gates.
21:17She looked like she hadn't slept in days.
21:19Zara!
21:20You poisoned him!
21:23Give me the antidote right now!
21:26I felt the temperature inside the carriage shift.
21:28Kyle went very still beside me.
21:30I placed a hand on his arm.
21:32I've got this.
21:34I leaned in and pressed a quick kiss to his cheek.
21:37Then I stepped out into the morning air.
21:40Antidote?
21:41I don't have one.
21:43Whatever happened to Lucian has nothing to do with me.
21:47Liar!
21:49Then how did you know he'd be dying on his wedding night?
21:52I tilted my head.
21:55That's a serious accusation.
21:57Where's your proof?
21:59Did you catch the killer?
22:01Did you find the poison?
22:02I already knew she hadn't.
22:04The spy Marcus sent was a professional.
22:06Without my soul eye, she was a ghost.
22:09By now she was likely across the border, untouchable.
22:12Celeste stood there, mouth open, nothing coming out.
22:15If you keep causing a scene on my land, my warriors will remove you.
22:22Her eyes dropped to my neck.
22:23She saw the red mark Kyle had left there.
22:26You actually slept with him?
22:29A blind girl and a broken man?
22:31I suppose trash finds its own level.
22:33I suppose trash finds its own level.
22:35I thought about last night, the fire, the whiskey,
22:38the long silence after he finally stood up
22:40and I felt the full weight of him for the first time.
22:42Kyle wasn't broken.
22:44He was 10,000 times the man Lucian would ever be.
22:46I laughed.
22:49What is so funny?
22:51I stopped, looked at her.
22:52We're close enough to it.
22:53I'm laughing at how blind you are.
22:56Lucian is going to die.
22:58And when he goes down, he'll take you with him.
23:01If you want to survive what's coming,
23:04sever the bond now, while you still can.
23:06That was it for her.
23:07She swung at my face, wide, furious,
23:10telegraphed from a mile away.
23:12I shifted my weight and stepped aside.
23:14She hit nothing but air.
23:15The momentum carried her forward and she went down hard,
23:18palms and knees in the dirt.
23:19I looked down at her.
23:20Remember this?
23:22Because the next time you raise a hand to me,
23:24I won't step aside.
23:25She stared up at me from the ground, trembling.
23:28For the first time in her life,
23:29she was actually afraid of me.
23:30The blind girl she used to torment wasn't there anymore.
23:34Someone else had taken her place.
23:36Kyle was waiting when I stepped back into the carriage.
23:39He just watched me with those gray eyes.
23:41And in them, not worry, not pity.
23:43Admiration.
23:44He trusted me to handle my own affairs.
23:46That respect landed heavier than any shield he could have raised.
23:49He turned to his lead guard and spoke low.
23:51No one from Lucian's pack crosses onto my land again.
23:55For any reason.
23:57Ever.
24:00After Celeste was escorted out,
24:02we turned to the business of leaving.
24:04We were heading for Thorn Harbor.
24:05The courtyard filled with people and supplies controlled chaos.
24:09And through all of it,
24:10my soul eye found a single target.
24:12A guard named Vaughn.
24:13His soul was a muddy, treacherous gray.
24:15I leaned close to Kyle's ear.
24:17Who is that man?
24:20Vaughn.
24:21He's been with me since I was 15.
24:23Saved my life twice.
24:24I pulled back and looked at him.
24:26Kyle, do you trust me?
24:28His soul flushed deep, darkening, all at once.
24:31You're my mate.
24:32Of course I do.
24:33He's a traitor.
24:35We changed the route to Thorn Harbor.
24:37And we tell no one.
24:39In my last call,
24:40this was where it ended with Kyle.
24:42Ambushed on the road to the harbor.
24:44Wounds that never healed.
24:45He died defending the city walls.
24:48I finished speaking.
24:49Let my lips brush his cheek.
24:52Kyle's arm came around my waist immediately.
24:54Pulling me in.
24:55Across the yard,
24:56I felt Vaughn watching us.
24:58He clocked how close we were.
25:00He looked away fast.
25:01Kyle pressed his face into the curb of my neck.
25:04His breath was warm against my skin.
25:06Are you trying to fix my legs again?
25:08Because I'm happy to wait until tonight.
25:10Or we could start now.
25:12The next morning,
25:13Vaughn was gone.
25:14Kyle sat beside me at breakfast.
25:16Cutting my steak into careful pieces
25:18without being asked.
25:20You were right.
25:21Vaughn was Marcus's man.
25:23Buried so deep,
25:24I never suspected him once
25:26in seven years.
25:28It took some...
25:30persuasion
25:31to get him to talk.
25:33He looked at me.
25:34How did you know, Zara?
25:36I looked into his soul,
25:37gold and pink.
25:38Wound together.
25:39No suspicion.
25:40No fear.
25:41Lucky guess.
25:42The words were barely out
25:43when the pain hit.
25:45White.
25:45Hot behind both temples at once.
25:47My hand went to my head
25:49before I could stop it.
25:50Kyle didn't say a word.
25:51He just moved his chair
25:52flush against mine.
25:53Un-in-hand kept cutting my food.
25:55The other reached up
25:56and wrapped around the back of my neck.
25:57The pain dissolved.
25:58He has stopped asking
25:59why it happens.
26:00He just makes sure
26:02he is there when it does.
26:03Thorn Harbor.
26:04Kyle's territory.
26:05The land was rough.
26:07Resources thin.
26:08The kind of place
26:09the Alpha Council
26:10never bothered to look at twice.
26:12The wolves here
26:13were loyal to Kyle.
26:15The way wolves are loyal
26:16to someone they've chosen
26:17out of true devotion.
26:19When I went to the market
26:20they called me Luna
26:21and refused my coin.
26:22Every stall,
26:24every vendor.
26:24I had to set the money down
26:26and walk away
26:26before they touch it.
26:28I came back
26:29to the estate breathless
26:30and my maid
26:31watched me come
26:32through the door.
26:34The Luna is blind
26:35but she moves faster
26:36than any soldier
26:37I've trained with.
26:40Kyle heard her.
26:41That night his fingers
26:42found the edges of my eyes.
26:45Zara
26:47is it really just
26:49nothing?
26:50I nodded.
26:51He pulled me in
26:52against his chest
26:53and held me there.
26:55It doesn't matter
26:56I'll be your eyes.
26:57Every sunrise.
26:58Every star.
27:00Whatever you want to see
27:01I'll find the words for it.
27:03I watched his soul
27:04through all of it.
27:05The gold was shifting
27:06becoming something warmer
27:07deeper.
27:08The more time
27:09we spent together
27:09the deeper the gold grew.
27:11every shared meal
27:12every quiet evening
27:13beside him.
27:14It only became richer
27:15but then something strange
27:17started happening.
27:18When I was away from him
27:19even briefly
27:19I got restless
27:20not just missing him
27:21it was physical
27:22a deep pulling ache
27:23I couldn't reason away.
27:24The further I walked
27:25the worse it pulled
27:26until it hurt.
27:27I told myself
27:28it was the intensity
27:29of a new bond
27:30but I knew that wasn't it.
27:31I don't have a wolf.
27:33I was never supposed
27:33to feel this.
27:34That night when he kissed me
27:36his soul shifted
27:36into something
27:37I'd never seen before.
27:39A pink so saturated
27:40and alive.
27:41It looked like
27:41the first day of spring
27:42breaking open
27:43all at once.
27:44The most beautiful thing
27:45I had ever seen.
27:46It didn't last.
27:47The next morning
27:48a piece of encrypted
27:49intelligence arrived.
27:50Lucian is awake
27:51but the damage
27:52is permanent.
27:53Intermittent mania
27:54he has lost control
27:55of his wolf.
27:55A slow smile
27:56touched my lips.
27:57This was just the beginning
27:58of what was coming for him.
27:59But then
28:00the catch.
28:01The Alpha Council
28:01had issued
28:02a mandatory summons.
28:03Marcus was hosting
28:04a banquet.
28:05Every heir was required
28:06to attend.
28:06No exceptions.
28:07Kyle had no choice.
28:08We were going back.
28:10Marcus's estate
28:10reeked of bad intentions
28:12before we even
28:13stepped inside.
28:13I swept the ballroom
28:14with my soul eye
28:15the moment we crossed
28:16the threshold.
28:17Oily green for greed
28:18thick in every corner
28:19of the room.
28:20A deep sickening
28:21crimson for lust.
28:22And underneath all of it
28:23something flat
28:24and purposeful
28:25that made my skin crawl.
28:26I found Kyle's hand
28:27under the table
28:28and held it.
28:29Don't eat.
28:29Don't touch the wine.
28:31And don't leave my side.
28:32Not for a second.
28:33Kyle glanced at me.
28:34As you wish
28:35my Luna.
28:35I couldn't explain.
28:37Not here
28:37but I remembered
28:38this night.
28:39In my last life
28:40this banquet
28:40ended in blood.
28:41Their souls
28:42were a flat
28:43professional grey.
28:44The color of people
28:45who had killed before
28:46and slept just fine after.
28:47Last time
28:48when the blades came out
28:49I didn't think.
28:50I just threw myself
28:51in front of Lucian
28:52and took a poison
28:53silver dagger
28:54to the lips.
28:55Carried that scar
28:55for years.
28:56Once I went
28:57Lucian
28:57was already king
28:58I mentioned it.
28:59He looked at me
28:59with something
29:00close to boredom.
29:02Protecting your mate
29:02is your duty Zara.
29:04You're already Luna.
29:05what more do you want?
29:06I don't make
29:07the same mistakes
29:07twice.
29:08It happened fast.
29:09The three dancers
29:10reached into their silts.
29:11Short blades
29:12jagged
29:13silver
29:13and they lunged.
29:15Kyle moved
29:16before I could blink.
29:17He didn't care
29:18about the secret anymore.
29:20He came half
29:20out of his chair
29:21one arm sweeping
29:22me behind him
29:23and his guards
29:24materialized
29:25from the dark
29:25like they'd been
29:26part of the shadows
29:27all along.
29:28A wall of bodies
29:28between us
29:29and everything.
29:30We were safe.
29:31I looked past them
29:32toward Lucian.
29:33No one moved
29:34to cover me.
29:34The moment
29:35the first blade
29:36flashed
29:36Celeste screamed
29:37and ran.
29:38Straight for the exit
29:39he didn't look backwards.
29:41Lucian was surrounded.
29:43A silver dagger
29:44soaked in
29:44concentrated wolfsbane
29:46buried itself
29:47into his thigh.
29:48Dark blood
29:48hit the floor.
29:49He went down
29:50hard gasping.
29:51Through the screaming
29:52the overturned chairs
29:54the crush of bodies
29:55trying to flee.
29:56His eyes
29:57found mine.
29:58He was begging.
30:00His soul
30:00was a wreck.
30:01Terror
30:01and pain
30:02and underneath
30:03it all.
30:03A dark
30:04green tide
30:05of regret.
30:06I held his face.
30:07Kept my face
30:08completely still.
30:09Didn't move
30:10a single muscle.
30:11I am blind
30:12after all.
30:13I can't see a thing.
30:14I didn't make it
30:15two steps
30:15into the carriage.
30:16The spike
30:17hit the moment
30:17the door closed.
30:18Red hot.
30:19Straight through
30:20the center of my skull.
30:21It was the worst
30:22backlash I'd ever suffered.
30:23I scanned the entire ballroom.
30:25Every soul.
30:26Every shadow.
30:27Every blade
30:28before they struck me.
30:29It cost me everything.
30:30The world went black.
30:32My knees folded.
30:33Kyle caught me
30:34before I hit the floor.
30:36His arms locked
30:36around my waist
30:37like armor.
30:38Pulling me hard
30:39against his chest.
30:40Zara.
30:41I'd never heard that
30:42in his voice before.
30:43Fear.
30:43My head.
30:44was all I could get out.
30:45He didn't wait.
30:46He pulled me in
30:47against him
30:48and pressed both palms
30:49to my temples.
30:50And something happened
30:50that I still can't explain.
30:52It wasn't just pressure.
30:53It wasn't just warmth.
30:54It felt like a hand
30:56reaching through the pain
30:56and pulling it out
30:57from the root.
30:58Gone completely.
30:59In seconds.
31:00I lay against his chest
31:02dazed.
31:02Listening to his heart pound.
31:04Why does his touch do that?
31:05This isn't comfort.
31:06This is something older.
31:08Something that runs deeper
31:09than either of us understands.
31:11And it is starting
31:12to frighten me.
31:13While I recovered
31:14in Kyle's arms.
31:15Each time is learning
31:16what that blade
31:16actually felt like.
31:18The wolf's bane
31:18on those daggers
31:19was pure.
31:20It doesn't just wound.
31:21It destroys whatever
31:22the body would normally feel.
31:23It shredded his body's ability
31:25to heal from the inside out.
31:27In my last life,
31:28I took that blade for him.
31:29I felt the silver
31:30eat into my flesh.
31:31I felt the poison
31:32dissolve everything I had.
31:33I survived it barely.
31:35And he never once
31:36mentioned it again.
31:37He treated my body
31:38like a shield
31:38he was entitled
31:39to stand behind.
31:40This time,
31:41he got to find out
31:42what it actually costs.
31:43The healers couldn't do a thing.
31:45The damage was permanent.
31:46Lucian would never walk again.
31:47The man who spent
31:48his whole life
31:49looking down at everyone
31:50from a great height
31:51is never going to stand again.
31:52The intelligence reports
31:54kept arriving.
31:55One after another,
31:56like a slow collapse.
31:58Lucian confirmed
31:59permanently disabled.
32:00Celeste began her exit strategy
32:02the moment he lost his strife.
32:05She spent months
32:06petitioning the Alpha Council
32:07to dissolve their bond.
32:09Six months later,
32:10the Alpha King
32:11had seen enough.
32:11He stripped Lucian
32:12of his inheritance.
32:14No title.
32:15No claim.
32:16No future.
32:16In the werewolf world,
32:18no one pledges their sword
32:19to a man who can't
32:20lead from a taunt.
32:21In our last life,
32:23Lucian thought
32:24seizing the throne
32:25was simply a matter
32:25of wanting it badly enough.
32:27He had no idea
32:28what was actually
32:29holding him.
32:30He thought those allies
32:32followed him by choice.
32:33I made sure
32:34they were worthy
32:34long before they
32:35ever pledged themselves.
32:36The traitors he feared
32:38never had the chance
32:39to strike.
32:40I silenced them first
32:41and the commanders
32:42he trusted with his army
32:44were placed there
32:44by my hand,
32:45one by one
32:46paid for in blood.
32:48Without me,
32:49he couldn't have held
32:50a border crossing,
32:51let alone flowing.
32:53Celeste didn't mourn.
32:55She stripped his estate
32:56clean,
32:56jewelry,
32:57gold,
32:58every coin she could find.
33:00Then she was gone.
33:01She went back to Marcus,
33:02but the terms had changed.
33:04He didn't want a Luna
33:05this time.
33:06He took her as a mistress.
33:08I ran into her yesterday,
33:09a high-end perfume shop
33:11near the harbor.
33:12I was holding a bottle,
33:13a rare blend,
33:14when she reached over
33:15and plucked it
33:15straight out of my hand.
33:17I'll take all of these,
33:18she told the clerk.
33:20She was draped in diamonds.
33:21Her soul was the same
33:22toxic green
33:23as always been.
33:24She looked me over.
33:26Oh, Zara,
33:26she said.
33:27Perfume seems a bit
33:28pointless for you,
33:29doesn't it?
33:30She leaned in.
33:32Expensive wine
33:32on her breath.
33:33It's not as if your man
33:34can stand up
33:35to get close enough
33:36to smell it.
33:37A little gasp.
33:38A hand over her mouth,
33:39eyes wide
33:40with performed regret.
33:41That was awful of me.
33:43You don't mind,
33:44do you?
33:45I smiled.
33:46Not at all,
33:47I said.
33:47Take them all.
33:49The clerk looked baffled.
33:50I didn't explain.
33:52There is no point
33:53arguing with a woman
33:54who's already walking
33:55toward her own end.
33:57She just doesn't know
33:58the road she is on yet.
33:59It was late.
34:00Thorn Harbor
34:01was in a hard rain.
34:02My headguard
34:03appeared in the doorway,
34:04his face tight.
34:06Lupien is at the
34:07front gate, Luna.
34:08He has been dragging
34:09himself through the mud
34:10for the better part
34:11of an hour.
34:11He won't leave.
34:13I walked out
34:14to the entrance
34:14and looked through
34:15the iron bars.
34:16He was there,
34:17soaked in the air,
34:19shaking,
34:19loaded and filth
34:20from the road.
34:21When he saw me,
34:22something desperate
34:23ignited in his eyes.
34:25I looked forward
34:26and the guards
34:27broke me back.
34:28He went down
34:29into the frozen mud.
34:30Why?
34:31The word tore out of him
34:32like it had been
34:32caught on someone.
34:34Zara, tell me.
34:35In the last life,
34:37you always knew
34:38what was coming.
34:38I thought if a blind girl
34:40could build a kingdom
34:41for me,
34:41then all I had to do
34:42was take the credit.
34:43So why did I lose everything?
34:45He started screaming,
34:46slamming his fists
34:47against his own
34:48useless legs.
34:49The sound of it
34:50got swallowed up
34:51by the thunder.
34:52When he finally
34:53ran out of breath,
34:54he looked up at me.
34:55He looked small.
34:56The arrogance was gone.
34:58What was left underneath
34:59and it wasn't much.
35:00Zara,
35:01like he said,
35:02quiet now.
35:03His voice doing something
35:04approximating humility.
35:06I made a mistake.
35:08Come back.
35:10Come back.
35:12The Luna title,
35:14it's yours.
35:15Truly,
35:15this time,
35:16we can rebuild.
35:17Together.
35:18Like before.
35:20We can take it all back.
35:21I looked at his soul,
35:23thick,
35:23oily green,
35:24bottomless with it.
35:25He wasn't performing.
35:27He was genuinely
35:27drowning in regret.
35:29That almost made it worse.
35:30Lucian,
35:31you still don't understand
35:32what you had.
35:33I was never your Luna
35:34because you became king.
35:36You were only ever king
35:38because I chose
35:39to stand beside you.
35:40I turned my back on him.
35:42Walked toward the warm lights
35:44of the estate.
35:45Lock the gates.
35:46If he sets foot
35:47on this land again,
35:48you have my permission.
35:49I'm permission to treat him
35:50accordingly.
35:51The iron gates slammed shut.
35:53The sound cut through the rain
35:55like a verdict.
35:56He was still screaming my name
35:58when I walked
35:58through the front door.
36:00I didn't look back.
36:01But that door
36:02was never opening again.
36:04Celeste's death.
36:05The report arrived this morning.
36:07History repeated itself
36:08down to the last detail.
36:10Marcus worked her
36:10until there was nothing
36:11left to fall.
36:12And they carried her body
36:13out of his estate.
36:15Someone noted
36:15the scent still on her.
36:17The propion she'd snatched
36:18from my hands in that shot.
36:20She was wearing it
36:21when she died.
36:22Lucian heard the news
36:23from his room.
36:24He didn't grieve.
36:25He didn't rage.
36:26Good.
36:27She watched me fall
36:28and ran straight
36:28to another man's bed.
36:30I gave up everything
36:31in this life for her.
36:33And that's how
36:34she repays it?
36:35He beat his fists
36:36against the heels
36:37of his chair
36:38until his knuckles bled.
36:39I never should have
36:40poisoned Zara.
36:41I never should have
36:42chosen Celeste over Zara.
36:43I was still holding
36:44the report
36:45when I heard
36:45the bedroom door.
36:46I crumpled the paper
36:48in my fist.
36:48Kyle walked in.
36:50I turned toward the window.
36:52The sun had gone down.
36:53I was just...
36:54Before I could finish,
36:56he reached out
36:57and took the crumpled
36:58note from my hand.
36:59He smoothed it flat
37:00then lifted it
37:01to the light.
37:02Then he lowered it
37:03and looked straight at me.
37:04You're not blind
37:05in the way you let
37:06everyone believe,
37:07are you?
37:09My throat closed.
37:10I couldn't find
37:11a single word.
37:12I looked into his soul.
37:14It was burning.
37:15It was sharp.
37:16It was small.
37:17It was orange.
37:17It was healing.
37:18Don't I deserve the truth?
37:21I marked you.
37:22I made you my mate.
37:23I would have protected you
37:25regardless.
37:26Blind,
37:27wolfless,
37:27it didn't matter.
37:28But for a year,
37:29you let me believe
37:30I understood you.
37:32And I didn't.
37:33The blind girl
37:34and the cripple.
37:36Two people who had made
37:37an art form of being
37:38something they weren't.
37:39Standing in this room
37:40in the dark.
37:41Every mask we'd ever
37:42worn was gone.
37:43He turned for the door
37:44and I felt something
37:46I hadn't felt
37:46in two lifetimes.
37:48Genuine terror.
37:49I threw myself
37:50off the bed
37:51and wrapped my arms
37:51around him.
37:53Held on.
37:54I could feel
37:55the anger in him.
37:56But underneath it,
37:57his soul was already
37:58shifting.
37:59The orange queen
38:00leading towards
38:02something else.
38:02The harder I held on,
38:04the faster it faded.
38:06My voice came out small.
38:07I pressed my face
38:09against his back
38:09and just held on.
38:11His soul turned pink.
38:12His pride hadn't moved.
38:14He was still standing there,
38:16every muscle
38:16locked against me.
38:18But his heart
38:19had already answered.
38:20I came around
38:21to face him,
38:22pressed my cheek
38:23against his chest
38:24and listened.
38:25His heartbeat
38:26was fast.
38:27Uneven.
38:28His soul was so pink
38:29it was almost blinding.
38:30Kyle.
38:31I steadied my voice
38:33as best I could.
38:35That wasn't the only
38:36thing I lied about.
38:37This was the secret
38:38I'd carried through
38:38two lives
38:39without telling
38:40a single person.
38:40I see souls.
38:42I can read the truth
38:43inside people.
38:45He went completely still.
38:46And I know
38:46what's coming.
38:48The werewolf world
38:49is about to burn.
38:51Thorn Harbor
38:52will be under siege.
38:53I looked up at him.
38:55In my last life,
38:56you died
38:57when the city walls fell.
38:58His breathing changed.
38:59I searched his soul
39:01one last time.
39:02Not a flicker of doubt.
39:03Not a trace of fear.
39:05Only gold
39:06appeared.
39:07Shimmering gold.
39:08Do you believe me?
39:10I asked.
39:10He didn't answer
39:11with words.
39:12He pulled me
39:13into his chest
39:14both arms
39:15no space between us
39:16and buried his face
39:18against my neck.
39:19I believe in you.
39:22That's the only thing
39:23in this world
39:24I'm sure of.
39:25five hours
39:26that is what it took
39:27to dismay.
39:27I'm guilty of fear.
39:29Kyle gave me
39:29the Alpha War seal
39:30and put every warrior
39:31in the pack
39:32under my command.
39:33We didn't just
39:33hold Thorn Harbor.
39:34We took the fight
39:35to the Alpha
39:36King's fortresses.
39:37Then came the first night
39:38of the great siege.
39:39The boss army
39:40hit the valley
39:40by the sea
39:42of black earth
39:43and wall to wall
39:43as far as the
39:44dark of siege.
39:45Kyle sat in his chair
39:47at the edge
39:47of the fortress wall
39:48watching it come.
39:49Then he stood up.
39:50Not in our bedroom.
39:51Not in the dark
39:52where no one could see.
39:53in front of every soul
39:54on that metal field.
39:56He shrugged off
39:56the heavy coat
39:57he'd hidden behind
39:58for seven years
39:59and let it drop.
40:00His bones began
40:00to crack the ship
40:01under the moon.
40:02He transformed.
40:04A massive silver wolf.
40:05He was huge,
40:06larger than any
40:06Alpha in history.
40:08His fur shimmered
40:09like liquid metal
40:09in the dark.
40:10He stood on the
40:11edge of the fortress wall
40:12and he let out a howl
40:13that shook the very cloud.
40:14Every wolf on that field,
40:16ally and enemy alike,
40:17dropped their heads
40:18not from orders,
40:19from something
40:20older than orders.
40:21Seven years
40:21of buried power,
40:22of swallowed rage,
40:24of playing the broken man
40:25while the world
40:25underestimated him.
40:27He snapped his head around
40:28before the echo had died.
40:29That silver gaze
40:30cut straight through the smoke,
40:32through the fire,
40:33through everything between us
40:34and found me.
40:35I felt it the moment
40:36it landed.
40:37Not just a look.
40:38Something that went
40:39all the way down
40:40to the bone.
40:40Like a string
40:41that he taught
40:42over two lifetimes
40:43had finally been released.
40:45Faded Nate Bond.
40:46He had kept his wolf
40:47locked away
40:47for seven years.
40:49The bond
40:49had been sealed with me.
40:51But now his wolf
40:52was falling awake
40:52and everything
40:54that he could
40:54help back him
40:55for at once
40:55shifted back.
40:57Dropped one knee
40:58on the stone,
40:59chest heathen,
41:00hands braced
41:00against the ground,
41:01trembling.
41:02When he looked up
41:03at me,
41:04it was like the first stone.
41:05Like he was seeing
41:06something he'd been
41:07reaching toward
41:08without knowing it.
41:09It's you.
41:10His voice was right.
41:12It was always you.
41:15The moon goddess
41:16didn't give you to me
41:17for your gift.
41:19She gave you to me
41:20because you're mine.
41:22I felt the truth
41:23of it in my own head.
41:24Every piece of it
41:25clicking into grace
41:26all at once.
41:27The jolt when our fingers
41:28first touched
41:29at the meeting ball.
41:30The way his hands
41:31could pull the pain
41:32coming out of my skull.
41:33The suffocating dread
41:34every time he left the room.
41:36I don't have a wolf.
41:37So the bond
41:38had come through quietly.
41:40A whisper
41:41where it should have been born.
41:42But it had always been there.
41:44From the very first moment
41:45when he reached out
41:46and touched his knee,
41:47our blood had already
41:48made his choice.
41:50Take your place
41:51as Alpha King.
41:53The Grand Hall
41:54was in ruins around him,
41:55dust still settling
41:57from the siege.
41:58And Zara
41:59shall be your Luna.
42:01Kyle didn't hesitate.
42:02No.
42:03One word.
42:03It landed in that hall
42:05like a stone
42:05dropped into stone.
42:07I'm issuing two commands.
42:09First,
42:11we are establishing
42:12a dual kingship.
42:15Zara and I rule together
42:17as equals.
42:18The silence cracked.
42:20Impossible!
42:21There has never been
42:22a woman on that throne!
42:24Kyle stepped up
42:25onto the platform.
42:26He looked out
42:27across the council.
42:28Every face,
42:29every objection
42:30with the kind of calm
42:31that has nothing left
42:32to prove.
42:33When Thorn Harbor
42:34was under siege,
42:35Zara stood on the front lines
42:37beside me.
42:38Every wound I took,
42:40she felt.
42:42Every sacrifice I made,
42:44she had already
42:44paid a higher price for.
42:46He brought his hand
42:47down flat on the stone table.
42:49The crack of it echoed.
42:50Without her,
42:51I'd be in an unmarked grave
42:52on the battlefield.
42:54You don't get to erase
42:55what she built
42:56just because she isn't
42:56what you expected!
43:00I am the Alpha King.
43:02And so is she.
43:04Alpha King!
43:05He leaned forward,
43:07voice dropping.
43:08If anyone here
43:08has a problem with that,
43:10step forward now.
43:11No one moved.
43:12I have spent seven years
43:13being underestimated.
43:14I have no patience
43:15left for it.
43:16Not for myself,
43:17and not for her.
43:18The bond had been a river
43:19with no outlet for years.
43:21The night the war ended,
43:22the dam broke.
43:23He marked me.
43:23The moment his teeth
43:24found the back of my neck,
43:26something detonated
43:26beneath my skin.
43:28Not pain,
43:28or not only pain,
43:30something that felt like
43:31being struck by lightning
43:32from the inside.
43:33My bones began to shift.
43:34I screamed.
43:35Kyle didn't let go.
43:37He pulled me harder
43:37against his chest
43:38and held on,
43:39his soul blazing gold
43:40in my sight.
43:41Steady as a thick star,
43:43an anchor in the middle
43:44of everything coming apart.
43:45Something that had been
43:46waiting under my skin
43:47for 17 years
43:48was finally waking up.
43:49It was never missing.
43:50It was just too powerful
43:51to surface on its own.
43:53It needed something
43:53equally matched
43:54to call it out.
43:55I shifted.
43:56White.
43:56Pure.
43:57Absolute white.
43:58A wolf larger than
43:59any female
43:59in recorded history.
44:00Her coat caught the moonlight
44:02the way fresh snow
44:03catches it from within.
44:04Kyle's silver wolf
44:05circled me,
44:06haunts twice,
44:07three times.
44:08Then he stopped,
44:10pressed his massive head
44:11against my neck,
44:12and let out a sound
44:13so low and so full
44:14it barely qualified
44:15as a sound at all.
44:17The elders hadn't moved
44:18in the old legends.
44:20The white wolf
44:21is the living avatar
44:22of the moon goddess.
44:23She hadn't walked
44:24the earth in 500 years.
44:26I had never been broken.
44:27My wolf had never been missing.
44:29She was just waiting
44:30for the one person
44:31strong enough
44:32to bring her home.
44:33Kyle shifted back.
44:34He pulled me into his lap
44:36and held me there,
44:37both of us still
44:38catching our breath.
44:39The soul.
44:40As I looked at it,
44:41I had no words.
44:43Golden pink,
44:44woven together
44:45so completely,
44:46they'd become a single color
44:47that didn't exist
44:49anywhere else.
44:50I knew,
44:51said into my hair,
44:52from the moment
44:53you chose me
44:53at the ball.
44:55I didn't know
44:56what you were.
44:58But I knew
44:59you were something
44:59the world hadn't seen before.
45:02You were just waiting
45:03for someone
45:04to finally find you.
45:05I never let myself
45:06dream this far
45:07in my last life.
45:08I was too busy
45:09holding someone else
45:10to ever look up
45:11for myself.
45:12Now I sat at the highest seat
45:13in the council hall.
45:15Kyle beside me.
45:16Every elephant
45:17in the open heads.
45:19The intelligence network
45:20was mine.
45:21The land rights
45:22were mine
45:22to grant or revoke
45:23the power I had spent
45:24a lifetime building
45:25for someone else.
45:26It was finally
45:27in my own hands
45:28and then they brought
45:29in Lushin.
45:31He dragged himself
45:32across the stone floor
45:33on his hands.
45:34He reached my boots
45:35and stretched out
45:36one trembling hand
45:37toward the hung of my robes.
45:39A guard stepped forward.
45:41His sword flashed.
45:42The blade stopped
45:43an inch from Lushin's fingers.
45:45Lushin didn't even register.
45:46He just started
45:47to be over.
45:49This isn't right.
45:50That seat belongs to me.
45:52You were my instrument, Zara.
45:55I promised to make you
45:56my Luna.
45:56Why isn't that enough for you?
45:58Get down.
45:59Help me up there.
46:00That's where I'm supposed to be.
46:02I looked at him
46:03for a long moment.
46:04I remembered the last line.
46:06The rebel wolves
46:06had us surrounded.
46:08He didn't reach for me.
46:09He didn't hesitate.
46:10He turned and ran.
46:12And when they caught him anyway,
46:13he offered me up
46:14to buy himself another day.
46:15And at the very end,
46:17he was the one
46:18who forced the wolf's bane
46:19down my throat.
46:20He was the one
46:21who gave Celeste
46:21my title and my burial.
46:23He threw my body
46:24to the pros.
46:25And now he was
46:26on the floor of my hall,
46:28demanding I come down
46:29and handed our back to him.
46:30I looked at his soul.
46:31There was nothing left
46:33to hold him.
46:35The guards pinned him
46:36to the stone.
46:37He thrashed.
46:37He tried to bite.
46:38He screamed
46:39until his voice cracked.
46:41They forced his jaw open
46:42and I poured
46:43the wolf's bane myself.
46:44A quick death
46:45would have been mercy
46:46and I had none left
46:47to give him.
46:48This was something else.
46:50A slow,
46:51total erasure.
46:52First,
46:53the taste would go,
46:54then the smell of air,
46:55then the light,
46:56fading at the edges,
46:57dimming inward,
46:59then sound,
46:59then touch,
47:00then nothing at all.
47:01A living body
47:03with no world
47:03left inside it,
47:04trapped in the dark
47:05he had always carried,
47:06with nothing for company
47:07but his own guilt.
47:08It took a week.
47:10The guard came to me
47:11on a quiet morning
47:11and delivered the news
47:13without ceremony.
47:14Lucian was dead,
47:15died in total silence,
47:17total darkness,
47:18without a single sensation
47:20to mark the end.
47:21What should we do
47:22with the body?
47:23I didn't look up
47:23for my work.
47:24Take it outside
47:25the territory.
47:26No retts.
47:28No marker.
47:28Leave nothing.
47:30I gave his remains
47:31exactly what he gave mine,
47:33down to the last detail.
47:35The account was closed.
47:36The fire had burned down
47:38to embers.
47:39The room was almost quiet.
47:42Kyle's arms came around
47:44my waist from behind.
47:45His breath was warm
47:47and even against my neck.
47:51You went to see him today?
47:53I did.
47:55I watched a monster
47:56reach the end he earned.
47:58I leaned back into him.
47:59Are you jealous
48:00of a dead man, Kyle?
48:02A low sound in his chest.
48:04Not quite a laugh.
48:04He reached up slowly
48:05and found the knot
48:06of the silk blindfold
48:07I still wore in public.
48:09Worked it loose.
48:10Let it fall.
48:11The moonlight came
48:12through the window.
48:13Neither of us
48:14spoke for a while.
48:15Then he took my hand
48:16and guided it to his chest.
48:18Pressed it flat
48:18right above his heart.
48:19Zara, tell me
48:20what color it is.
48:21I laughed, soft,
48:22surprised by it.
48:23I closed my eyes
48:24and turned everything
48:25I had toward him.
48:26This man,
48:27who gave me his trust
48:28before I deserved it.
48:29Who stood up
48:30in front of an army
48:30to unmake seven years
48:32of his own
48:32carefully constructed lie.
48:34Who fought his way
48:34to a throne he didn't want.
48:36Just so I could stand
48:37beside him on equal ground.
48:39His soul.
48:39I don't have the words for it.
48:41Even now,
48:42a pillar of gold,
48:43deep and unwavering.
48:44And running through
48:45the heart of it.
48:45A tide of pink
48:46so rich and so dark
48:48it looked like
48:48the last light of a sunset
48:49seen through clear water.
48:50the kind of color time
48:52can't bleach.
48:53It's the most beautiful
48:53thing I've ever seen.
48:56And I've seen
48:56a lot of ugly things.
48:58His arms tightened
48:59around me.
49:01Describe it.
49:02I want to hear it.
49:03I turned in his arms,
49:04found his chest,
49:06pressed my lips
49:06to the place
49:07above his heart
49:08and held them there.
49:09I don't think
49:09any language
49:10has the right words for it.
49:11I looked up at him
49:12and I have the rest
49:13of my life to try.
49:14To be continued...
49:15To be continued...
49:16...
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