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The Bride They Sold Away ASD
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00:00sold me to the most vicious lone wolf hunter in pack for five silver coins on the night of our
00:05mating ceremony i sat on the edge of a broken bed fighting my lip i'm a wolfless omega orphan
00:11and kane the pack says he's a curse his parents abandoned him as a pup and never came back they
00:17say he walked into the shadow woods alone at six shift for the first time at 12 and tore apart
00:23a full-grown shadow bear the scar running from his brow to his jaw that bear gave it to him
00:30everyone in the pack fears him i did too i crossed the street when i saw him never spoke a
00:35word to
00:35him it's that i wondered to him never even looked him in the eye i never thought my aunt would
00:40sell
00:41me to him no gifts no feast i wore an old white dress and took shaky steps into his cabin
00:47it smelled
00:48of blood and old fur i didn't think i'd survive tonight all i could hear was my aunt counting her
00:54silver don't blame me ella you're lucky anyone would take you i stood there like a fool not knowing what
01:01to do until the door banged open i gasped his leather coat was slashed open across the ribs
01:09the smell of copper hit me before i could breathe he didn't say a word black bread roasted venison
01:15haunch a bowl of broth still warm eat i was starving and i couldn't remember the last time
01:21i'd had meat i ate like an animal that meal was the first time i'd been full her tunerans use
01:27since my
01:28parents died when he pointed to the bedroom my blood ran cold i crept inside and sat on his ragged
01:34bed
01:35trembling like a leaf in winter kane sat by the hearth and sharpened his knife a hunting blade as long
01:42as my arm the wentstone sang with every stroke scrape scrape scrape each one scraping across my
01:49heart i pressed myself into the corner come here his voice was gravel and broken glass he frowned
01:55then he stood his shadow swallowed me whole i shut my eyes and graced for the blow
02:02i was his he could beat me kill me no one would care but the blow never came instead he
02:09took my cold
02:10hand and pressed something warm into my palm i opened my eyes a thin necklace a pendant of pale
02:18white stone that glowed softly in the firelight his hand calloused cracked still smelling of blood and
02:25steel held mine a necklace for you moonstone the moon goddess's blessing i know this life is hard you
02:33deserve better he pulled his hand back wiped it on his leather coat then muttered and murmured i stared
02:39at the moonstone in my palm tears fell without warning what you don't like it after a long silence
02:45he forced out no i'd just forgotten what it felt like to be wanted after my parents died i stopped
02:51being anyone's treasure i was just extra weight in my aunt's tent every meal was charity my aunt sold me
02:57to the most vicious lone wolf hunter in the pack for five silver that night kane didn't touch me he
03:03made
03:05deep and rough my heart stopped racing sleep came for me my aunt screamed in my dreams my cousins
03:12shoved me around and a shadow bear lunged for my throat i jolted awake gasping strange ceiling strange
03:20smells right my aunt sold me i belong to kane now i wiped the sweat from my forehead pulled myself
03:26together
03:27and went outside quiet the air smelled of blood and animal hides kane no answer i found the kitchen
03:36filthy the stone pots were rusted mice scattered when i moved things i couldn't run couldn't hide so i
03:43rolled up my sleeves and started scrubbing ella i was halfway through when a voice came from outside
03:48i'm here i stepped out of the kitchen he was holding another basket breakfast martha made it black bread
03:54smoked meat broth kane tore into the bread and pushed the rest toward me eat up i can feed you
04:01i
04:01nodded and didn't hold back you can cook right i almost choked i pounded my chest and nodded hard
04:07i'll bring the meat kane said he waited for me to nod again then finished the rest of the bread
04:12and meat
04:12and headed for the door where are you going i called out he turned i was thinking i'd clean the
04:17kitchen
04:17properly so we don't get sick from dirty dishes kane's brow furrowed the cabin is yours do what you want
04:24by the time i'd scrubbed every surface kane was back with a leather sack he looked at the clean
04:28kitchen and blinked flour i'll trade for the rest at the market when he left again i opened the sack
04:34ground flour enough to last weeks i went back to cleaning i dragged kane's dirty clothes into the yard
04:41a mouse ran out of the pile i chased it like a mad woman kane came back with two baskets
04:46on a pole
04:47across his shoulders ella i looked up i bought meat pies come eat i hadn't had a meat pie since
04:54my
04:54parents died kane handed me one soft golden steaming juice ran down my chin i ate two and stopped
05:01everything for the kitchen is in the baskets get it sorted i'm getting firewood i nodded and watched
05:06him walk away then i checked the baskets clay jars of salt a leather flask of oil a slab of
05:13cured meat
05:13raw sugar and a jar of honeyed fruit for me i blinked hard and looked up at the sky i
05:20organized
05:20the kitchen kane came back with firewood and a basket of wild greens and eggs cook it all i eat
05:27a lot i nodded i could do that i hung the stone pot over the fire chopped cured meat and
05:33wild greens
05:33into the broth then i cracked eggs onto a hot flat stone slicked with pork fat they sizzled and turned
05:40gold at the edges kane looked at the stew the black bread the fried eggs his eyes brightened sit eat
05:47i waited for him to pick up his knife and fork then i picked up mine eat i looked at
05:51him he dug in i ate
05:53slowly keeping my eyes down ella tomorrow you're coming into the woods with me i froze me yeah i can't
06:01bring enough meat on my own winter's coming hunting was men's work pack females sometimes came along to
06:08carry and dress the kill but i'd never done any of it i don't know how i'll teach you i
06:13looked up at his
06:13scarred face the firelight made it worse but his eyes were steady no disgust no impatience okay
06:21before dawn kane shook me awake wear this a deer hide coat thick warm i hadn't seen it before i
06:29put it on
06:30and followed him into the mist the shadow woods were dark trees blocked the sky kane walked ahead
06:36i stepped where he stepped after a meal's time he stopped and crouched what do you smell he looked
06:42at me i breathed deep earth rotting leaves water far off and something else faint musky i smell something
06:48the corner of kane's mouth twipped deer your nose is better than you think don't be scared stay behind
06:53me we followed the trail kane stopped every few steps to listen then we saw it he exploded forward the
06:59shadow deer tried to run kane was already on it his blade sliced its throat i stood frozen legs like
07:05water kane turned face wet with blood and waved me over come i walked to the dying animal you need
07:12to
07:12learn this in case i'm not around you need to eat i crouched and watched his hands skin comes off
07:17first
07:17keep it clean gut it fast or the meat sours we carried the meat down the mountain together one half
07:23each
07:23my shoulder screamed i didn't complain kane looked back at me good job it was the first time anyone had
07:29praised me since my parents died ella i turned kane pulled a leather pouch from his chest and shoved
07:35it into my hands from now on you hold the silver but i male hunts female keeps the house that's
07:43how it
07:43works i weighed the pouch in my hand heavy nice ella yeah let me mark you i went quiet i
07:53was scared i
07:53didn't know what it would feel like but kane had been good to me where would i go if i
07:57left him i had
07:58nowhere no one being marked carrying his pup that was my fate i nodded i thought marking was just a
08:06bite
08:07but kane brought new furs and honey mead we stood in the yard under the moon swore ourselves to each
08:13other and drank from the same cup then he led me inside the fire was low he pulled the strap
08:19of my
08:19dress down the fabric fell to my feet i crossed my arms over my chest he took my wrists and
08:25gently
08:25pulled my hands away you're shaking i'm cold no you're not his hands slid around my waist rough palms
08:33against bare skin he pulled me into him and kissed me hungry desperate like a man who'd never been
08:40allowed to want something he tore his shirt off i touched the scars on his chest then my hands went
08:45to his trousers fubbled with the ties when i got them undone he pulled me against him skin to skin
08:51i gasped
08:52he laid me down on the fresh furs and came over me last chance he said voice wrecked tell me
08:58no i touched
08:59his scarred face don't stop he didn't when he bit down on the back of my neck i cried out
09:07he held me
09:08steady whispered it would be over soon afterward i lay shaking i asked for water he brought it to my
09:14lips i stared at him like he'd grown wings when i lay back down the mark on my neck was
09:20still warm
09:20every wolf would know i belonged to kane kane belonged to me i smiled to the dark kane didn't
09:27talk much he hunted he brought me silver he did the heavy work when i said something he answered
09:35we talked about building another room about digging a cellar for meat and grain
09:40i like that i looked at my clothes they were getting tight maybe i should eat less
09:45it was martha good woman he's hunting oh no his parents are back what his mother she's vicious and
09:54they've got a young man with them must be kane's brother my mind went blank they'd been gone for
09:59over a decade ma pa this is the place it's so run down i walked outside three figures two old
10:07one
10:08young the old ones had greedy eyes the young one looked disgusted your kane's mate ella i'm his mother
10:14get us water and cook something the best room it's for alan he needs a place to bed his bride
10:20margaret
10:20kane's mother let her eyes roam over the cabin over me she didn't bother hiding her disgust where's
10:25that ungrateful son of mine just then kane came around the corner with firewood pack members trailed
10:29behind him hoping for a show kane stared at the three strangers who are you your mother the old
10:35man bared his teeth ungrateful wilt the pack gossip stirred that's really noah the alpha came
10:41the elders came they confirmed it take us in be a good son and give us silver to find alan
10:49a mate you
10:50don't want your brother dying alone do you i tugged kane's sleeve he squeezed my hand back you're not
10:56giving it to his brother for a bride silver he nearly died for i stepped forward not your place
11:01sister-in-law alan curled his lip parents are still alive you don't get a say margaret lunged at me
11:07kane caught her wrist kane you'd raise a hand to your own mother he let go i'm gonna die my
11:15son
11:16has a mate now and i'm dead to him kane looked at her then at me you've been gone for
11:23years why are
11:24you back margaret stood up dry-eyed we came home to be with you and this cabin we built it
11:28we're
11:28staying the cabin is yours but we split the belongings what i bought with my own hands comes
11:32with me margaret's eyes no clean she orderly you can't take the furniture what will we use not my
11:37problem have mercy i gave him life and now he wants to leave us with nothing keep the furniture
11:41but my hunting kit comes with me my clothes my furs and i'm severing the bond margaret screamed
11:46the bond alan screamed good good i wanted to cry my home the one i'd scrubbed and mended with my
11:54own
11:54hands gone but kane's silver was still in my pocket we signed the papers pressed our thumbs to the ink
11:59at dusk i carried our clothes he carried the baskets the higher we climbed the heavier my feet
12:04became i stopped and looked down at the cabin i looked at kane and burst into tears kane wiped my
12:10face don't cry we still have silver the cabin was theirs anyway we only borrowed it and alan is poison
12:14letting go of those scraps saves us from worse the debt coluptors can't touch us now he looked down at
12:18the valley we go deeper into the shadow woods find another pack we've got hands we've got feet we'll
12:24make a life i wanted to believe him we'll find someone to take us in kane said no one wanted
12:29to take
12:30us in everyone was afraid of being connected to the debt we ended up at the elder's old cottage
12:34200 copper a month i cleaned it until it shone one bed bare walls we'll use your kitchen buy our
12:40own
12:41grain eat with us fine we ate simple black bread smoked meat broth kane didn't complain i'll hunt
12:48tomorrow trade for grain you can roast something when i get back we'll save silver build our own place
12:53still have silver your parents will never leave us alone your parents are greedy parasites
12:56they'll never let you go eat your bread i snuggled into him that night his hands wandered to my hip
13:01i pushed them away what are you doing we're guests scenting a den that isn't yours was an insult
13:07kane sighed and let his hands rest on my hip sleep i bit my lip so i wouldn't laugh the
13:14next morning
13:15kane went into the woods the other pack women helped me with the kitchen fire you're easy to talk to
13:20but kane scares the piss out of us he's not so bad but they didn't call him cruel good thing
13:25he severed the
13:25bond alan would have bled him dry i'd resented kane for giving up the house now i understood we were
13:32young we had hands we'd build again the debt collectors found alan within a week they stripped
13:38the cabin sold the hunting grounds and the reindeer left him 50 gold short due by winter solstice the
13:45women told me the story in whispers yemeosihal menrian i kept my face straight kane warrowed silver from
13:52every house in the pack they gave it to him one wild boar from kane brought the whole pack running
13:58to
13:58help build two log cabins 12 men two days kane laughed when i asked what he wanted for lunch kane
14:06and i
14:06made it through the cold full belly full belly warm bed he wanted a pup i wanted a pup maybe
14:13next year
14:14the winter was mild when the snow melted the pack started north i stayed close to camp i gathered
14:21wild greens and berries dried some salted others come winter again they'd go into the stew pot pain
14:28hunted every day he brought home silver he gave it all to me the coin jar grew heavy one day
14:39kane came
14:40back from the mountains with a graver expression than usual what's wrong something big came from
14:46the south he put down his hunting knife and sat at the table the tracks are a full circle larger
14:50than
14:51a shadow bears it's not like an ordinary beast my heart tightened then don't go can't not go if that
14:57thing keeps moving north it'll cross the packs migration route more than just our family will
15:02suffer he was quiet for a moment then looked up at me ella tomorrow you're coming with me me you
15:10don't have to fight it head on but i need a helper someone to watch my back to keep it
15:15from lunging at
15:15my flank you trust me kane looked at me didn't say a word the next morning before dawn we went
15:24into the
15:24shadow woods kane suddenly stopped and crouched down to look at tracks on the ground bigger than
15:30two fists put together mountain lion he said under his breath he turned to me scared i gripped my knife
15:36handle yes good you should be we followed the tracks for some time kane raised his hand for me to
15:43stop he
15:43started taking off his clothes leather coat dropped them piece by piece on the ground
15:49then he changed his body lunged forward hands hitting the ground and turning into claws dark
15:56gray fur pushed out through his skin a massive wolf stood before me twice as big as an ordinary gray
16:01wolf fangs gleaming white a roar came from the bushes the mountain tyan burst out lunging straight at kane
16:09the two beasts crashed together kane didn't let go but the lion's jaws were heading straight for his
16:15throat i didn't think i ran out short blade raised i stabbed at the mountain lion's side the blade sank
16:23into flesh i was thrown through the air my back slamming into a tree trunk stars burst in my vision
16:28but i didn't let go of the knife was still in my hand kane bit through its throat the lion
16:34twished a few times then went still kane let go he was soaked in blood the wildness of the wolf
16:41was
16:41still glowing in his amber eyes he walked over lowered his head and touched my palm with me
16:49are you hurt his voice was harsky as he shifted back to human form i shook my head
16:54tears wouldn't stop falling he pulled me into his arms and held me tight you helped a lot
17:00his voice was muffled above my head without you i might not have made it
17:04the morning light fell across kane's bare back the wounds were still seeping blood but they were
17:09already beginning to close that day we carried the mountain lion's hide and meet home kane kept the
17:15best piece said he'd make me a cloak why because it's your first kill he shrugged wolf rule the pelt
17:21belongs to the hunter but you killed it kane shook his head not without your blade he paused you're
17:28braver than i thought i looked down my ears burned that night i sat beside him helping scrape and cut
17:34firelight moved across his face the long scar looked less scary in the flicker kane yeah from now on
17:40let's hunt together more often okay end of march i started feeling off tired no strength kane came home
17:48i told him he got excited on the spot stay here i'm getting the healer the healer came sure enough
17:56pup two months along good for you ella pop out a male pup in your set kane's silver will be
18:01yours
18:02you'll run the house i smiled and nodded didn't tell them kane already handed me a silver that i already
18:07ran everything kane got nervous after i got pregnant came home early did all the heavy grunt work i stayed
18:13careful but i wasn't going to sit around doing nothing women aren't that fragile that day i took
18:18a basket to pick wild berries near camp was craving honeyed fruit someone pushed me down a grassy slope
18:24i screamed i saw who it was kane's mother margaret eyes mean as a snake why should alan suffer while
18:34you
18:34live easy you think you deserve a pup pain twisted through me i couldn't even scream someone reached out
18:42for her to stay a pack kid saw me ran back to camp they carried me home someone else went
18:48for the
18:48healer i watched the healer sirp shake his head and sigh kane walked in dark as a storm ella his
18:55hands
18:55had blood on them my tears away gentle ella i know don't think too much take your medicine sleep our
19:02pup's
19:03justice the father goes and gets it kane didn't leave sat by the bed until i cried myself out took
19:08his
19:09hunting knife and went to his parents place everyone heard the place when they couldn't scream anymore
19:15kane came out kane those are your parents he didn't answer just picked up an axe and started swinging
19:22when the house was a pile of rubble he left his parents were alive but not really i woke up
19:28again
19:28candlelight ella does it hurt i tried to tell him about the pup tried to say how much it hurt
19:34everywhere
19:35hurt but i opened my mouth and nothing came out food's ready eat some sleep some more i'm going
19:41to find him a place somewhere peaceful when kane turned to go i grabbed him i want to come then
19:47come
19:47he found a good place by the river tiny little grave my poor little pup his dad and i wanted
19:53him so bad
19:54word spread about margaret pushing me the elder was furious stripped noah and margaret from the pack rolls
20:00that's when they finally got scared cried and begged one morning after the rain stopped kane
20:06helped me into the cart where are we going somewhere no one knows us somewhere we can eat whatever we
20:11want wear whatever we want somewhere everyone learns i'm not someone to mess with i'm scared don't be
20:17i'll protect you anyone hurts you i kill them we headed south i'd never traveled before everything was
20:23strange and new but then i thought about the pup i lost and couldn't help sighing kane held my hand
20:29quiet letting me know he was there i tried to smile at him just ended up leaning into him crying
20:34i
20:35knew time would fix it but right then i was still broken kane i'll get better just give me time
20:41okay
20:42whatever i wanted to eat kane bought it we didn't rush whenever we found a pretty view kane stopped so
20:48we could look at it together my eyes went hot i just screamed half the weight in my chest broke
20:55apart
20:55with those screams we stopped at a town called redford flat everywhere rented a little courtyard
21:01place cleaned it up brought our things in started feeling like home that night we roasted venison
21:09the neighbor's kids smelled it and started crying for meat kane and i looked at each other and laughed
21:15he cut meat for me i cut meat for him kane had the horse and he was strong easy to
21:20find work paid
21:21pretty well life was comfortable molly from next door her son tommy with her i rubbed tommy's head
21:26went and got him a piece of honey candy thanks going to spoil him lord foster on the west side
21:31is
21:31throwing a party needs scrubbers 50 copper a day let me check with my husband but if i went who'd
21:37cook
21:37for kane let him stay a while tommy was good quiet i wiped his hands did my sewing he sat
21:46next to me
21:46playing with little wooden blocks kane had made look ella good job if my pup had lived in two or
21:52find a blay weary two or three years he'd be this sweet this good you're good too what am i
21:57good at
21:58sewing i rubbed his head then came footsteps outside
22:03kane's home tommy smiled everyone was scared of kane even the kids but not tommy he liked him
22:10kane came into the yard you're hurt no boar blood go get your dad we're roasting boar tonight
22:19dad kane says come help when no one was looking he pinched my cheek too roast plenty tonight
22:28you're getting too thin tommy's dad came neighbors came by asking if we were selling the meat
22:35i looked at kane four's not that big keep it my mate's been sick needs the nutrition
22:43next time i go out maybe i'll bag a bigger one that's huge anyone who helped kane gave them about
22:51half a pound tommy stayed for dinner after dinner we walked tommy home later i asked kane what about
23:00making him our god john kane thought about it for a long time let's wait and see then i told
23:06him
23:06about lord foster's party 50 copper a day you want to do it then do it if it's too hard
23:12quit i can
23:14support you i looked at kane and smiled molly and i started working parties regular kane didn't bring
23:20home much at first then three silver then
23:25then 10 one month he brought home 50 the place we were renting went up for sale 27 silver we
23:32talked
23:32it over and bought it our own place fixed up the roof one day i made a pot of stew
23:39the whole street
23:40smelled it everyone came asking i gave out the bowls seeing them praise it gave me an idea you want
23:47to sell stew on the street i nodded i'm not afraid of work but keeping busy helps keeps
23:54me from thinking too much that pain never went away not talking about it didn't mean forgetting
23:59then do it but don't do it alone ask molly i told molly she said yes on the spot
24:08only thing is i don't have a single copper every coin goes straight to the mother-in-law molly i
24:14know
24:14i'll pay you wages a few days of free work won't kill me knock on wood your stew business is
24:20going to
24:20make it i can feel it kane had a wooden pushcart built bought firewood me and him sat up nights
24:28doing the math how much to sell and molly's wages kane looked up in the candlelight
24:40ella let's learn to read
24:43i was shocked read you go ahead you're the one win out in the world kane shook his head both
24:54of us
24:54i'll teach you reading arthur mithman kane said then doing business won't be such a struggle won't
25:01take all night just to add things up he was right and he wanted me to learn too my heart
25:09could have burst
25:09how many men would do that my stew stand opened business was good then someone opened another
25:15stand across the street taking our customer molly cursed them out don't be mad molly now it's just
25:22right we made money not too tired ella you're too sensible not sensible kane made good money anyway
25:29the stew stand was mine whatever it made was extra kept me busy
25:34kept me from remembering my stew business went from a cart to a storefront in a year when we moved
25:40to a bigger place tommy cried his eyes out you can visit you'll see me tommy shook his head it's
25:50not
25:50the same it wasn't but he adjusted not long after we moved i started feeling off again i knew the
25:56signs
25:57told kane he called a doctor sure enough pregnant kane laid his hand on my belly gentle after a long
26:05moment he said let's buy two servants an older woman for cleaning a young maid for you kane bought
26:12things we didn't need rattles wooden horses little bows and arrows i could tell he wanted a boy
26:21what if it's a girl i asked girls are fine blossoms before fruit a few girls first then i'll be
26:31a father
26:32in law with endless roasted pig feet i sat in my comfortable chair sewing soft baby clothes the room
26:40was quiet warm safe the master's home kane hurried in his eyes went soft when he saw me
26:50did the pup give you trouble today i put down my sewing showed him my belly not today he was
26:58good
27:00kane crouched down put his palm flat on my belly the pup moved
27:07he kicked i looked at him my eyes full of joy kane smiled too he leaned down and pressed his
27:17ear to my belly
27:21the heartbeat came through the sound of new life
27:25the heartbeat came through the sound of new life
27:26the heartbeat came through the sound of new life
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