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Ivy has loved twin Alphas for three years yet stays hidden from the pack’s public eye. As the tribe honors another girl as their destined Luna, she bears all indignities alone and clings to their precious bond. A harsh night crushes all her fantasies. Abandoned and pushed aside for another partner, she wakes up to the bitter truth: she was never their destined mate, merely an embarrassing secret they chose to conceal.
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00:00:05again
00:00:06damien's voice came from above me
00:00:08low
00:00:09horsky
00:00:10burning with the heat of an alpha in rut
00:00:12i had lost count by now
00:00:14three times
00:00:15maybe
00:00:16his arms were braced on either side of my head
00:00:19veins bulging at his temples
00:00:21every thrust hitting me with a force that felt more punishment than pleasure
00:00:26i didn't dare make a sound
00:00:28the patrol guards outside would hear
00:00:30the entire pack would know that the wolfless worthless omega was being used as a painkiller by their alpha
00:00:36nobody knew i was damien's fated mate
00:00:39or rather
00:00:39he refused to let anyone know
00:00:41a nobody from the slums whose wolf had never awakened
00:00:44how could someone that pathetic ever deserve to be the fated mate of the pack's twin alphas
00:00:49so for three years i had been hidden away in the gray sector
00:00:52a rundown district packed with crippled and discarded wolves
00:00:55i was his dirty little secret
00:00:57the third time ended and damien finally got off me
00:01:00i laid there gasping
00:01:02my whole body trembling
00:01:04all i wanted was to close my eyes and sleep
00:01:07then a pair of hands grabbed my waist again
00:01:10turn over
00:01:11it was damien's voice
00:01:12but the hands were wrong
00:01:13the caleds were in different places
00:01:15the ring he always wore on his left hand was missing
00:01:17i was too exhausted
00:01:19my brain was mush
00:01:20i couldn't think straight
00:01:21four five
00:01:22he was rougher than before
00:01:23his fingers dug ug into my waist hard i thought they would break through the skin
00:01:28which felt better
00:01:29he leaned down to my ear
00:01:31his voice dropped to a whisper
00:01:33there was something cruel and mocking in his tone that i had never heard from damien
00:01:39answer me
00:01:42six
00:01:43seven
00:01:44my mind was coming apart
00:01:45every release ripped away what little strength i had left
00:01:49in the haze i turned my head and reached for his mouth
00:01:51i wanted a kiss
00:01:53just one
00:01:54my lips found his
00:01:55but my eyes found him first
00:01:57damien's eyes were gray blue
00:01:58cold and still
00:01:59the eyes staring down at me were blown wide
00:02:02bloodshot
00:02:02with a faint gold sheen of something savage
00:02:04caspin
00:02:05damien's twin brother
00:02:06the one the whole pack
00:02:07called the rabid dog behind his back
00:02:09my blood went cold
00:02:11the scream stuck in my throat
00:02:13because his hand was already on my neck
00:02:15his thumb resting right over my windpipe
00:02:17figured it out
00:02:18caspin grinned at me
00:02:20wearing the same face as damien
00:02:22too late little waste
00:02:23a small sound came from the far corner of the room
00:02:26a wall lamp clicked on
00:02:28damien was sitting in an armchair
00:02:29fully dressed
00:02:30his shirt sleeves rolled up to his forearms
00:02:32a glass of whiskey in his hand
00:02:34he had been here the entire time
00:02:36he had watched his brother take his mate
00:02:38and he looked bored
00:02:39why
00:02:40my voice came out wrecked
00:02:42unrecognizable
00:02:43damien swirled his glass
00:02:44ice clinked against the amber liquid
00:02:46you're my fated mate
00:02:47sure
00:02:48but so what
00:02:49his tone was flat
00:02:50his expression blank
00:02:51you have no wolf
00:02:52no family
00:02:53you can't even shift into a full wolf form
00:02:55what makes you think you deserve the luna title
00:02:57the moon goddess played a sick joke on me
00:03:00he took a sip
00:03:00tying a waste of space to me as my fated mate
00:03:03so i made the best of it
00:03:04your body calms our ferial episodes
00:03:07your blood works as a pain repressor
00:03:09beyond that
00:03:10you have zero value
00:03:12caspin climbed off me and wiped his hands on the sheet
00:03:15basically you're a sedative the two of us share
00:03:18you think you actually deserve the mate title
00:03:22my hands were shaking
00:03:23shaking so badly i couldn't grip the sheets
00:03:26three years
00:03:27three full years
00:03:28i had skipped meals to buy herbs for damien's pain relief tonic
00:03:33i had pricked my own fingers with a sewing meal to feed him my blood for the remedy
00:03:37i had told myself that if i was good enough
00:03:40useful enough
00:03:40he would eventually claim me in front of the pack
00:03:43my mate
00:03:44my alpha
00:03:45i had believed i was his future luna
00:03:49turns out i was never anything more than a tool he was too ashamed to mention
00:03:53next week serena will officially become the pack's luna
00:03:56she's from the blackwell bloodline
00:03:58pure lineage
00:03:59powerful wolf form
00:04:01the entire pack already believes she's my mate
00:04:03damien stood and adjusted his cuffs
00:04:05he said it the same way he would read a memo
00:04:07i won't correct them
00:04:08serena
00:04:10a complete stranger was going to wear the luna crown that should have been mine
00:04:14and i wouldn't even be allowed to sit and watch
00:04:17damien walked to the door and glanced back
00:04:20you will attend the ceremony
00:04:21his eyes swept over my bruised marked body
00:04:24there was no guilt in his gaze
00:04:26no disgust
00:04:28nothing at all
00:04:29you'll kneel in the last row of the gallery
00:04:32with the servants
00:04:33you'll bow to the new luna
00:04:35and if you make a scene
00:04:36or if serena or anyone else finds out you're my mate
00:04:40he didn't finish the sentence
00:04:42he didn't need to
00:04:44caspy had cut in
00:04:45he bent down and patted my sweat-dripped face
00:04:48i'll rip your tongue out myself
00:04:52little waste
00:04:53the door closed
00:04:54the room went dark
00:04:58i curled up on the crumpled sheets
00:05:00every part of me felt crushed
00:05:02the tears wouldn't come
00:05:03not because it didn't hurt
00:05:05because it hurt too much
00:05:07so much that even crying felt pointless
00:05:09i was their fated mate
00:05:10i was supposed to be this pax luna
00:05:12and i couldn't tell a single soul
00:05:14i didn't know how long i lay on that bed
00:05:17my thighs were still sticky
00:05:20the air reeked of two alphas pheromones mixed together
00:05:24so thick it made my stomach turn
00:05:27my phone buzzing woke me up
00:05:29a message from my neighbor in the gray sector
00:05:32five words
00:05:34nana's is not going to make it
00:05:36i jumped off the bed barefoot
00:05:38and ran out the door
00:05:39stepping over the mess on the floor
00:05:40the shack in the gray sector smelled of blood
00:05:43heavy rotten blood
00:05:45nana was curled up on her worn out mat
00:05:47dark blood was seeping from the corners of her mouth
00:05:49and her nostrils her body was seizing
00:05:51jerking and sharp violent spasms
00:05:53nana
00:05:54i dropped to my knees beside her scrambling to wipe the blood away
00:05:57but it kept coming the pack doctor was already packing up his kit ready to leave
00:06:02the wolf spide has reached her bones
00:06:03he barely glanced at her
00:06:05unless you can get alpha blood for the antidote she's done
00:06:08alpha blood
00:06:10my mate
00:06:11my alpha at least in name
00:06:13his blood could save her life
00:06:14but he wouldn't even acknowledge that i existed
00:06:17i closed my eyes and reached for the thin thread of the mate bond between me and damien
00:06:21that bond had worn down to almost nothing after three years of one-heighted draining
00:06:25but it was still there no matter how much he despised me
00:06:28a mate bond was the moon goddess mark
00:06:30as long as both of us were alive it couldn't be broken
00:06:32damien
00:06:33please
00:06:33just one drop of blood
00:06:35nana is dying
00:06:37the link went quiet for two seconds
00:06:39then serena's sugary voice bled through the mind link
00:06:43damien
00:06:43look at this one
00:06:46don't you think the lease neckline is prettier than the last dress
00:06:53and then damien's voice
00:06:56so gentle i almost didn't recognize it
00:06:59they all look beautiful
00:07:02you look beautiful in anything my luna
00:07:04my luna
00:07:05he had never once called me that
00:07:07i was his mate
00:07:09but that title those two words
00:07:11he gave them to a woman who had no faded bond with him at all
00:07:14i screamed through the link
00:07:16damien
00:07:17i'm begging you
00:07:19shut up
00:07:20that wasn't damien
00:07:21it was caspian
00:07:22his consciousness slammed into the link with open disgust
00:07:25using the old woman for sympathy again
00:07:29haven't you embarrassed yourself enough
00:07:31an alpha's mate living in the grey tech tour
00:07:34crying and begging
00:07:35if word gets out
00:07:37how do you think that makes us look
00:07:38it's not an excuse
00:07:40she's really bleeding out
00:07:42enough ivy
00:07:43damien's voice came back
00:07:44colder than the night wind
00:07:46today is serena's dress fitting
00:07:48as the future luna
00:07:50every moment of her day matters more than whatever crisis you've invented
00:07:53stop acting crazy
00:07:55the link was severed from his end
00:07:57the backlash hit me instantly
00:07:59pain exploded inside my skull
00:08:01i grabbed my head and collapsed
00:08:03my ears ringing so loud i couldn't hear anything else
00:08:06by the time i pulled myself off the floor
00:08:09nana had stopped seizing
00:08:10her hand was cold
00:08:12she was looking at me
00:08:13she reached into her shirt with shaking fingers
00:08:16and pulled out an old whistle carved from bone
00:08:18she pressed it into my palm
00:08:20then her lips moved
00:08:21no sound came out
00:08:23just a shape
00:08:24run
00:08:25her hand dropped
00:08:26i held her body as it went stiff
00:08:28i couldn't cry
00:08:29not because i didn't want to
00:08:30the moment the link had been cut
00:08:32it felt as though something inside me had been severed too
00:08:35my tears along with it
00:08:39outside
00:08:39the pack loudbeater was playing serena's recorded message on a loop
00:08:43everyone is welcome to attend my ceremony with damien
00:08:47next week
00:08:48i will officially become the pack's luna
00:08:50luna
00:08:52that seat was supposed to be mine
00:08:54but i didn't even have the right to fight for it
00:08:56fighting required being acknowledged first
00:08:58and i was not even allowed to exist
00:09:00some time passed
00:09:01the door opened
00:09:02cold air rushed in
00:09:04i squinted against it
00:09:05a tall figure stood in the doorway
00:09:07wearing a tattered cloak
00:09:09every nerve in my body went tight
00:09:11i shot to my feet
00:09:12and stood in front of nana's body
00:09:14who are you?
00:09:15he didn't answer
00:09:16he looked at the body on the floor
00:09:18then at me
00:09:18then he walked to the corner
00:09:20picked up the shovel
00:09:21leaning against the wall
00:09:22he lifted nana's body onto his shoulder
00:09:24and carried her outside
00:09:25i think i understood what he was going to do
00:09:28he dug a hole in the frozen ground behind the hill
00:09:31filled it in
00:09:31set up a plank of wood as a marker
00:09:34why are you helping me?
00:09:36i asked
00:09:37six months ago
00:09:38in the alley behind the market
00:09:39you saved my life
00:09:41he turned and disappeared dinto the dark
00:09:43i stood in front of the fresh grave
00:09:45gripping the bone whistle nana had left me
00:09:47the sharp edges of the bone had cut into my palm
00:09:49that was when i felt it
00:09:51a tiny flutter deep in my belly
00:09:53something stirring in my blood
00:09:55faint and timid
00:09:56nudging against my skin from the inside
00:09:58i pressed my dirt covered hand against my stomach
00:10:01two
00:10:01two faint heartbeats
00:10:03i was pregnant
00:10:05carrying my alpha's children
00:10:07funny wasn't it?
00:10:09he refused to claim me as his mate
00:10:11but he had left his bloodline growing inside me
00:10:16in the distance
00:10:18the main house was blazing with light
00:10:20a golden countdown sign for the wedding
00:10:22was glowing on the front porch
00:10:24i knew damiathy and casabian would never let these children be born
00:10:28a secret mate they treated as a tool found to be carrying their pups
00:10:32that wasn't just a scandal that would make the entire pack question serena's luna status
00:10:37they would kill these babies
00:10:38the same way they had killed every last shred of my dignity
00:10:41without blinking
00:10:42i had already lost nana
00:10:45i would not lose them too
00:10:46i looked down at the bloodstained bone whistle
00:10:50i thought about the cloaked wolf who had just buried nana for me
00:10:54i raised the whistle to my lips and i blew it with everything i had left
00:11:00the whistle sound didn't carry far
00:11:02the winter wind swallowed it whole
00:11:05nobody came
00:11:06not that night
00:11:08at least
00:11:09three days later
00:11:10the night before the luna coronation
00:11:12two guards dragged me out of my shack in the gray sector
00:11:20and shoved me into the servants changing room in the pack's main house
00:11:24put this on
00:11:26one of them tossed me a gray linen robe
00:11:28tomorrow you stand in the last row of the gallery
00:11:30with the servants
00:11:31you kneel and bow to our new luna
00:11:33no looking up
00:11:34no talking
00:11:35no looking at the alpha
00:11:36i took the rough fabric and said nothing
00:11:38what a joke i was this pack's alpha's fated mate
00:11:41the luna crown should have been on my head
00:11:43instead i would be wearing slave clothes kneeling on the ground watching a woman with no mate bond sit in
00:11:48my seat
00:11:51the door locked behind me i crouched on the floor
00:11:54one hand pressed against my belly without thinking three days in those two heartbeats
00:11:58had grown a little stronger tiny stubborn
00:12:01pushing outward the door swung open
00:12:04not a guard serena
00:12:05she wore an ivory velvet robe
00:12:08her hair loose
00:12:09her feet in satin slippers
00:12:11two personal attendants trailed behind her
00:12:14so you're ivy
00:12:16she tilted her head and looked me over
00:12:18the wolfless waist from the gray sector
00:12:21she sniffed the air and wrinkled her nose
00:12:23you smell disgusting
00:12:25i have no idea why damien even knows someone that pathetic
00:12:29her eyes narrowed
00:12:31studying me
00:12:32i kept my head down
00:12:34i didn't dare speak
00:12:36if she found out i was damien's real mate
00:12:39cassarbin had promised to rip my tongue out
00:12:42serena didn't push further
00:12:44her gaze dropped to my neck
00:12:46where nana's bone whistle hung on a cord
00:12:50that's interesting
00:12:52she reached out without warning and ripped the cord off my neck
00:12:56give it back
00:12:58i jumped to my feet and grabbed for it
00:13:00the slap knocked me back to the ground
00:13:03serena shook out her hand
00:13:04then held the whistle up and studied it
00:13:07she smiled
00:13:07do you know dead man's valley
00:13:09that ravine behind the hill
00:13:12the one full of bones
00:13:14i'm going there tomorrow morning
00:13:16for a purification ritual
00:13:18before the coronation
00:13:20she spun the whistle between her fingers
00:13:25i'll toss this filthy thing down there for you
00:13:29consider it the future luna cleaning up the trash
00:13:32tonight
00:13:33you stay on your knees right here
00:13:35you don't get up until i say so
00:13:37she turned and walked out
00:13:40i stayed kneeling on the cold stone floor
00:13:43blood trickled from the corner of my mouth
00:13:45the next morning
00:13:46i ran to dead man's valley
00:13:48it was a deep ravine cut into the far side of the hill
00:13:50the rock walls on both sides were streaked with old dried blood
00:13:53i dug through the rubble at the mouth of the valley
00:13:55tearing through loose stones and broken bones
00:13:57my fingers were sliced open
00:13:59blood dripped onto the rocks
00:14:01i knew you'd come
00:14:02caspian's voice came from behind me
00:14:04amused
00:14:05entertained
00:14:05before i could turn around
00:14:07something cold wrapped around my ankle
00:14:08a silver laced chain
00:14:09the second the silver touched my skin white
00:14:11smoke hissed up from the contact point
00:14:14the burning pain hit me so hard
00:14:16it felt as though someone had pressed a red
00:14:18hot iron against my bones
00:14:19i screamed and collapsed
00:14:20caspian gripped the other end of the chain
00:14:23and dragged me across the rough stone
00:14:25ground 10 15 feet
00:14:26maybe more the skin on my back
00:14:28my arms and my shins shredded against the rocks
00:14:31k silver dust ground into the open wounds
00:14:34the pain was so intense i couldn't breathe
00:14:36but i kept both hands over my stomach
00:14:38i didn't let go once damien was standing nearby
00:14:41he was dressed for the coronation black suit white shirt
00:14:44without a single wrinkle his mate was being dragged in front of him
00:14:47torn apart by silver chains
00:14:49and his face showed nothing he could have been watching
00:14:51a stray mutt on the roadside
00:14:54ivy
00:14:55he spoke his tone was flat official
00:14:57from this moment i formally sever the mate bond between us
00:15:01you don't deserve to be my mate
00:15:03you don't deserve to be this pax luna
00:15:05you never did
00:15:15again
00:15:17damien's voice came from above me
00:15:19low
00:15:19horsky
00:15:20burning with the heat of an alpha in rut
00:15:23i had lost count by now
00:15:25three times
00:15:26maybe
00:15:27his arms were braced on either side of my head
00:15:30veins bulging at his temples
00:15:32every thrust hitting me with a force that felt more punishment than pleasure
00:15:37i didn't dare make a sound
00:15:39the patrol guards outside would hear
00:15:41the entire pack would know that the wolfless worthless omega was being used as a painkiller by their alpha
00:15:47nobody knew i was damien's fated mate
00:15:49or rather
00:15:50he refused to let anyone know
00:15:52a nobody from the slums whose wolf had never awakened
00:15:55how could someone that pathetic ever deserve to be the fated mate of the pack's twin alphas
00:15:59so for three years i had been hidden away in the gray sector
00:16:03a run-down district packed with crippled and discarded wolves
00:16:06i was his dirty little secret
00:16:07the third time ended and damien finally got off me
00:16:11i laid there gasping
00:16:13my whole body trembling
00:16:15all i wanted was to close my eyes and sleep
00:16:17then a pair of hands grabbed my waist again
00:16:21turn over
00:16:22it was damien's voice
00:16:23but the hands were wrong
00:16:24the kaleds were in different places
00:16:26the ring he always wore on his left hand was missing
00:16:28i was too exhausted
00:16:29my brain was mush
00:16:30i couldn't think straight
00:16:32four
00:16:32five
00:16:32he was rougher than before
00:16:35his fingers dug ug into my waist hard i thought they would break through the skin
00:16:39which felt better
00:16:40he leaned down to my ear
00:16:42his voice dropped to a whisper
00:16:44there was something cruel and mocking in his tone that i had never heard from damien
00:16:48hmm
00:16:50answer me
00:16:53six
00:16:54seven
00:16:54my mind was coming apart
00:16:56every release ripped away what little strength i had left
00:17:00in the haze i turned my head and reached for his mouth
00:17:02i wanted a kiss
00:17:04just one
00:17:05my lips found his
00:17:06but my eyes found him first
00:17:08damien's eyes were gray blue
00:17:09cold and still
00:17:10the eyes staring down at me were blown wide
00:17:12bloodshot
00:17:13with a faint gold sheen of something savage
00:17:15caspin
00:17:16damien's twin brother
00:17:17the one the whole pack
00:17:18called the rabid dog behind his back
00:17:20my blood went cold
00:17:21the scream stuck in my throat
00:17:24because his hand was already on my neck
00:17:26his thumb resting right over my windpipe
00:17:28figured it out
00:17:29caspin grinned at me
00:17:31wearing the same face as damien
00:17:33too late little waste
00:17:34a small sound came from the far corner of the room
00:17:37a wall lamp clicked on
00:17:38damien was sitting in an armchair
00:17:40fully dressed
00:17:41his shirt sleeves rolled up to his forearms
00:17:43a glass of whiskey in his hand
00:17:45he had been here the entire time
00:17:47he had watched his brother take his mate
00:17:48and he looked bored
00:17:50why
00:17:50my voice came out wrecked
00:17:53unrecognizable
00:17:53damien swirled his glass
00:17:55ice clinked against the amber liquid
00:17:57you're my fated mate
00:17:58sure
00:17:59but so what
00:18:00his tone was flat
00:18:01his expression blank
00:18:02you have no wolf
00:18:03no family
00:18:04you can't even shift into a full wolf form
00:18:06what makes you think you deserve the luna title
00:18:08the moon goddess played a sick joke on me
00:18:10he took a sip
00:18:11tying a waste of space to me as my fated mate
00:18:14so i made the best of it
00:18:15your body calms our ferial episodes
00:18:18your blood works as a pain repressor
00:18:20beyond that
00:18:21you have zero value
00:18:23caspin climbed off me and wiped his hands on the sheet
00:18:26basically you're a sedative the two of us share
00:18:28you think you actually deserve the mate title
00:18:32my hands were shaking
00:18:34shaking so badly i couldn't grip the sheets
00:18:36three years
00:18:37three full years
00:18:39i had skipped meals to buy herbs for damien's pain relief tonic
00:18:43i had pricked my own fingers with a sewing meal to feed him my blood for the remedy
00:18:48i had told myself that if i was good enough
00:18:50useful enough
00:18:51he would eventually claim me in front of the pack
00:18:54my mate
00:18:55my alpha
00:18:56i had believed i was his future luna
00:19:00turns out i was never anything more than a tool he was too ashamed to mention
00:19:04next week serena will officially become the pack's luna
00:19:07she's from the blackwell bloodline
00:19:09pure lineage
00:19:10powerful wolf form
00:19:11the entire pack already believes she's my mate
00:19:14damien stood and adjusted his cuffs
00:19:16he said it the same way he would read a memo
00:19:18i won't correct them
00:19:19serena
00:19:21a complete stranger was going to wear the luna crown that should have been mine
00:19:25and i wouldn't even be allowed to sit and watch
00:19:27damien walked to the door and glanced back
00:19:30you will attend the ceremony
00:19:32his eyes swept over my bruised marked body
00:19:35there was no guilt in his gaze
00:19:37no disgust
00:19:39nothing at all
00:19:40you'll kneel in the last row of the gallery
00:19:42with the servants
00:19:43you'll bow to the new luna
00:19:45and if you make a scene
00:19:47or if serena or anyone else finds out you're my mate
00:19:50he didn't finish the sentence
00:19:52he didn't need to
00:19:55caspy had cut in
00:19:56he bent down and patted my sweat dripped face
00:19:58i'll rip your tongue out myself
00:20:02little waste
00:20:03the door closed
00:20:05the room went dark
00:20:09i curled up on the crumpled sheets
00:20:11every part of me felt crushed
00:20:13the tears wouldn't come
00:20:14not because it didn't hurt
00:20:16because it hurt too much
00:20:17so much that even crying felt pointless
00:20:19i was their fated mate
00:20:21i was supposed to be this pax luna
00:20:23and i couldn't tell a single soul
00:20:25i didn't know how long i lay on that bed
00:20:28my thighs were still sticky
00:20:31the air reeked of two alphas pheromones mixed together
00:20:34so thick it made my stomach turn
00:20:38my phone buzzing woke me up
00:20:40a message from my neighbor in the gray sector
00:20:42five words
00:20:44nana's is not going to make it
00:20:46i jumped off the bed barefoot
00:20:48and ran out the door
00:20:49stepping over the mess on the floor
00:20:51the shack in the gray sector smelled of blood
00:20:54heavy rotten blood
00:20:55nana was curled up on her worn out mat
00:20:58dark blood was seeping from the corners of her mouth
00:21:00and her nostrils her body was seizing
00:21:02jerking and sharp violent spasms
00:21:04nana
00:21:05i dropped to my knees beside her scrambling to wipe the blood away
00:21:08but it kept coming the pack doctor was already packing up his kit ready to leave
00:21:12the wolf spide has reached her bones
00:21:14he barely glanced at her
00:21:16unless you can get alpha blood for the antidote she's done
00:21:19alpha blood
00:21:21my mate
00:21:21my alpha at least in name
00:21:23his blood could save her life
00:21:25but he wouldn't even acknowledge that i existed
00:21:27i closed my eyes and reached for the thin thread of the mate bond between me and damien
00:21:32that bond had worn down to almost nothing after three years of one-hided draining
00:21:35but it was still there
00:21:37no matter how much he despised me
00:21:38a mate bond was the moon goddess mark
00:21:41as long as both of us were alive it couldn't be broken
00:21:43damien
00:21:44please
00:21:44just one drop of blood
00:21:46nana is dying
00:21:47the link went quiet for two seconds
00:21:50then serena's sugary voice bled through the mind link
00:21:53damien
00:21:54look at this one
00:21:57don't you think the lease neckline is prettier than the last dress
00:22:04and then damien's voice
00:22:07so gentle i almost didn't recognize it
00:22:10they all look beautiful
00:22:13you look beautiful in anything my luna
00:22:15my luna
00:22:16he had never once called me that
00:22:18i was his mate
00:22:19but that title those two words
00:22:21he gave them to a woman who had no faded bond with him at all
00:22:24i screamed through the link
00:22:26damien
00:22:28i'm begging you
00:22:29shut up
00:22:31that wasn't damien
00:22:32it was caspian
00:22:33his consciousness slammed into the link with open disgust
00:22:35using the old woman for sympathy again
00:22:40haven't you embarrassed yourself enough
00:22:42an alpha's mate living in the grey tech tour
00:22:45crying and begging
00:22:46if word gets out
00:22:47how do you think that makes us look
00:22:49it's not an excuse
00:22:51she's really bleeding out
00:22:52enough ivy
00:22:54damien's voice came back
00:22:55colder than the night wind
00:22:57today is serena's dress fitting
00:22:59as the future luna
00:23:00every moment of her day matters more than whatever crisis you've invented
00:23:04stop acting crazy
00:23:05the link was severed from his end
00:23:08the backlash hit me instantly
00:23:09pain exploded inside my skull
00:23:12i grabbed my head and collapsed
00:23:14my ears ringing so loud i couldn't hear anything else
00:23:17by the time i pulled myself off the floor
00:23:20nana had stopped seizing
00:23:21her hand was cold
00:23:23she was looking at me
00:23:24she reached into her shirt with shaking fingers
00:23:26and pulled out an old whistle carved from bone
00:23:29she pressed it into my palm
00:23:31then her lips moved
00:23:32no sound came out
00:23:34just a shape
00:23:35run
00:23:35her hand dropped
00:23:37i held her body as it went stiff
00:23:38i couldn't cry
00:23:40not because i didn't want to
00:23:41the moment the link had been cut
00:23:43it felt as though something inside me had been severed too
00:23:46my tears along with it
00:23:49outside
00:23:50the pack loudbeater was playing serena's recorded message on a loop
00:23:54everyone is welcome to attend my ceremony with damien
00:23:58next week
00:23:59i will officially become the pack's luna
00:24:01luna
00:24:02that seat was supposed to be mine
00:24:04but i didn't even have the right to fight for it
00:24:06fighting required being acknowledged first
00:24:08and i was not even allowed to exist
00:24:11some time passed
00:24:12the door opened
00:24:13cold air rushed in
00:24:14i squinted against it
00:24:16a tall figure stood in the doorway
00:24:18wearing a tattered cloak
00:24:19every nerve in my body went tight
00:24:21i shot to my feet
00:24:23and stood in front of nana's body
00:24:25who are you?
00:24:26he didn't answer
00:24:26he looked at the body on the floor
00:24:28then at me
00:24:29then he walked to the corner
00:24:30picked up the shovel leaning against the wall
00:24:32he lifted nana's body onto his shoulder
00:24:35and carried her outside
00:24:36i think i understood what he was going to do
00:24:38he dug a hole in the frozen ground behind the hill
00:24:41filled it in
00:24:42set up a plank of wood as a marker
00:24:45why are you helping me?
00:24:46i asked
00:24:48six months ago
00:24:49in the alley behind the market
00:24:50you saved my life
00:24:51he turned and disappeared dinto the dark
00:24:54i stood in front of the fresh grave
00:24:56gripping the bone whistle nana had left me
00:24:58the sharp edges of the bone had cut into my palm
00:25:00that was when i felt it
00:25:02a tiny flutter deep in my belly
00:25:04something stirring in my blood
00:25:06faint and timid
00:25:07nudging against my skin from the inside
00:25:09i pressed my dirt covered hand against my stomach
00:25:12two
00:25:12two faint heartbeats
00:25:14i was pregnant
00:25:15carrying my alpha's children
00:25:18funny wasn't it?
00:25:20he refused to claim me as his mate
00:25:22but he had left his bloodline growing inside me
00:25:27in the distance
00:25:28the main house was blazing with light
00:25:31a golden countdown sign for the wedding
00:25:33was glowing on the front porch
00:25:35i knew damiathian cassibian would never let these children be born
00:25:39a secret mate they treated as a tool found to be carrying their pups
00:25:43that wasn't just a scandal that would make the entire pack question serena's luna status
00:25:47they would kill these babies
00:25:49the same way they had killed every last shred of my dignity
00:25:52without blinking
00:25:53i had already lost nana
00:25:56i would not lose them too
00:25:57i looked down at the blood-stained bone whistle
00:26:01i thought about the cloaked wolf who had just buried nana for me
00:26:05i raised the whistle to my lips
00:26:06and i blew it with everything i had left
00:26:11the whistle's sound didn't carry far
00:26:13the winter wind swallowed it whole
00:26:16nobody came
00:26:17not that night
00:26:19at least
00:26:19three days later
00:26:21the night before the luna coronation
00:26:23two guards dragged me out of my shack in the gray sector
00:26:31and shoved me into the servants changing room in the pack's main house
00:26:34put this on
00:26:36one of them tossed me a gray linen robe
00:26:39tomorrow you stand in the last row of the gallery
00:26:41with the servants
00:26:42you kneel and bow to our new luna
00:26:44no looking up
00:26:45no talking
00:26:45no looking at the alpha
00:26:47i took the rough fabric and said nothing
00:26:49what a joke i was this pack's alpha's fated mate
00:26:52the luna crown should have been on my head
00:26:54instead i would be wearing slave clothes kneeling on the ground
00:26:57watching a woman with no mate bond sit in my seat
00:27:01the door locked behind me i crouched on the floor
00:27:04one hand pressed against my belly without thinking three days in those two
00:27:09heartbeats
00:27:09had grown a little stronger tiny stubborn
00:27:12pushing outward the door swung open
00:27:15not a guard serena
00:27:16she wore an ivory velvet robe
00:27:19her hair loose
00:27:20her feet in satin slippers
00:27:21two personal attendants trailed behind her
00:27:25so you're ivy
00:27:27she tilted her head and looked me over
00:27:29the wolf-less waist from the gray sector
00:27:31she sniffed the air and wrinkled her nose
00:27:34you smell disgusting
00:27:36i have no idea why damien even knows someone that pathetic
00:27:40her eyes narrowed
00:27:41studying me
00:27:43i kept my head down
00:27:45i didn't dare speak
00:27:47if she found out i was damien's real mate
00:27:50cassarbin had promised to rip my tongue out
00:27:53serena didn't push further
00:27:54her gaze dropped to my neck
00:27:56where nana's bone whistle hung on a cord
00:28:00that's interesting
00:28:03she reached out without warning and ripped the cord off my neck
00:28:07give it back
00:28:09i jumped to my feet and grabbed for it
00:28:11the slap knocked me back to the ground
00:28:13serena shook out her hand
00:28:15then held the whistle up and studied it
00:28:17she smiled
00:28:18do you know dead man's valley
00:28:20that ravine behind the hill
00:28:22the one full of bones
00:28:25i'm going there tomorrow morning
00:28:27for a purification ritual
00:28:29before the coronation
00:28:31she spun the whistle between her fingers
00:28:36i'll toss this filthy thing down there for you
00:28:40consider it the future luna cleaning up the trash
00:28:43tonight
00:28:44you stay on your knees right here
00:28:46you don't get up until i say so
00:28:48she turned and walked out
00:28:51i stayed kneeling on the cold stone floor
00:28:53blood trickled from the corner of my mouth
00:28:56the next morning
00:28:57i ran to dead man's valley
00:28:58it was a deep ravine cut into the far side of the hill
00:29:01the rock walls on both sides were streaked with old dried blood
00:29:04i dug through the rubble at the mouth of the valley
00:29:06tearing through loose stones and broken bones
00:29:08my fingers were sliced open
00:29:10blood dripped onto the rocks
00:29:11i knew you'd come
00:29:13caspian's voice came from behind me
00:29:15amused
00:29:15entertained
00:29:16before i could turn around
00:29:17something cold wrapped around my ankle
00:29:19a silver laced chain
00:29:20the second the silver touched my skin white
00:29:22smoke hissed up from the contact point
00:29:24the burning pain hit me so hard
00:29:26it felt as though someone had pressed a red
00:29:28hot iron against my bones
00:29:30i screamed and collapsed
00:29:31caspian gripped the other end of the chain
00:29:34and dragged me across the rough stone
00:29:36ground 10 15 feet
00:29:37maybe more the skin on my back
00:29:39my arms and my shins shredded against the rocks
00:29:42k silver dust ground into the open wounds
00:29:44the pain was so intense i couldn't breathe
00:29:47but i kept both hands over my stomach
00:29:49i didn't let go once damien was standing nearby
00:29:52he was dressed for the coronation black suit white shirt
00:29:55without a single wrinkle his mate was being dragged in front of him
00:29:58torn apart by silver chains
00:29:59and his face showed nothing he could have been watching
00:30:02a stray mutt on the roadside
00:30:04ivy
00:30:05he spoke his tone was flat official
00:30:08from this moment i formally sever the mate bond between us
00:30:12you don't deserve to be my mate
00:30:14you don't deserve to be this pax luna
00:30:16you never did
00:30:26again
00:30:27damien's voice came from above me
00:30:29low
00:30:30horsky
00:30:31burning with the heat of an alpha in rut
00:30:34i had lost count by now
00:30:36three times
00:30:37maybe
00:30:37his arms were braced on either side of my head
00:30:40veins bulging at his temples
00:30:42every thrust hitting me with a force that felt more punishment than pleasure
00:30:47i didn't dare make a sound
00:30:49the patrol guards outside would hear
00:30:52the entire pack would know that the wolfless worthless omega was being used as a painkiller by their alpha
00:30:58nobody knew i was damien's fated mate
00:31:00or rather he refused to let anyone know
00:31:03a nobody from the slums whose wolf had never awakened
00:31:06how could someone that pathetic ever deserve to be the fated mate of the pack's twin alphas
00:31:10so for three years i had been hidden away in the gray sector
00:31:13a run-down district packed with crippled and discarded wolves
00:31:16i was his dirty little secret
00:31:18the third time ended and damien finally got off me
00:31:22i laid there gasping
00:31:23my whole body trembling
00:31:25all i wanted was to close my eyes and sleep
00:31:28then a pair of hands grabbed my waist again
00:31:32turn over
00:31:32it was damien's voice
00:31:34but the hands were wrong
00:31:35the kaleds were in different places
00:31:36the ring he always wore on his left hand was missing
00:31:39i was too exhausted
00:31:40my brain was mush
00:31:41i couldn't think straight
00:31:42four
00:31:43five
00:31:43he was rougher than before
00:31:45his fingers dug ug into my waist hard
00:31:48i thought they would break through the skin
00:31:50which felt better
00:31:51he leaned down to my ear
00:31:52his voice dropped to a whisper
00:31:54there was something cruel and mocking in his tone
00:31:57that i had never heard from damien
00:31:59hmm
00:32:00answer me
00:32:04six
00:32:04seven
00:32:05my mind was coming apart
00:32:07every release ripped away what little strength i had left
00:32:10in the haze i turned my head and reached for his mouth
00:32:13i wanted a kiss
00:32:14just one
00:32:15my lips found his
00:32:17but my eyes found him first
00:32:18damien's eyes were gray blue
00:32:20cold and still
00:32:21the eyes staring down at me were blown wide
00:32:23bloodshot
00:32:24with a faint gold sheen of something savage
00:32:26caspin
00:32:27damien's twin brother
00:32:28the one the whole pack
00:32:29called the rabid dog behind his back
00:32:31my blood went cold
00:32:32the scream stuck in my throat
00:32:34because his hand was already on my neck
00:32:36his thumb resting right over my windpipe
00:32:39figured it out
00:32:40caspin grinned at me
00:32:41wearing the same face as damien
00:32:43too late little waste
00:32:45a small sound came from the far corner of the room
00:32:48a wall lamp clicked on
00:32:49damien was sitting in an armchair
00:32:51fully dressed
00:32:52his shirt sleeves rolled up to his forearms
00:32:54a glass of whiskey in his hand
00:32:55he had been here the entire time
00:32:57he had watched his brother take his mate
00:32:59and he looked bored
00:33:01why
00:33:01my voice came out wrecked
00:33:04unrecognizable
00:33:04damien swirled his glass
00:33:06ice clinked against the amber liquid
00:33:08you're my fated mate
00:33:09sure
00:33:09but so what
00:33:10his tone was flat
00:33:12his expression blank
00:33:13you have no wolf
00:33:14no family
00:33:15you can't even shift into a full wolf form
00:33:17what makes you think you deserve the luna title
00:33:19the moon goddess played a sick joke on me
00:33:21he took a sip
00:33:22tying a waste of space to me as my fated mate
00:33:25so i made the best of it
00:33:26your body calms our ferial episodes
00:33:28your blood works as a pain repressor
00:33:30beyond that
00:33:32you have zero value
00:33:33caspin climbed off me and wiped his hands on the sheet
00:33:36basically you're a sedative the two of us share
00:33:39you think you actually deserve the mate title
00:33:43my hands were shaking
00:33:44shaking so badly i couldn't grip the sheets
00:33:47three years
00:33:48three full years
00:33:50i had skipped meals to buy herbs for damien's pain relief tonic
00:33:54i had pricked my own fingers with a sewing meal to feed him my blood for the remedy
00:33:59i had told myself that if i was good enough
00:34:01useful enough
00:34:02he would eventually claim me in front of the pack
00:34:05my mate
00:34:06my alpha
00:34:07i had believed i was his future luna
00:34:10turns out i was never anything more than a tool he was too ashamed to mention
00:34:15next week serena will officially become the pack's luna
00:34:18she's from the blackwell bloodline
00:34:20pure lineage
00:34:21powerful wolf form
00:34:22the entire pack already believes she's my mate
00:34:24damien stood and adjusted his cuffs
00:34:26he said it the same way he would read a memo
00:34:29i won't correct them
00:34:30serena
00:34:31a complete stranger was going to wear the luna crown that should have been mine
00:34:35and i wouldn't even be allowed to sit and watch
00:34:38damien walked to the door and glanced back
00:34:41you will attend the ceremony
00:34:42his eyes swept over my bruised marked body
00:34:45there was no guilt in his gaze
00:34:47no disgust
00:34:49nothing at all
00:34:50you'll kneel in the last row of the gallery
00:34:53with the servants
00:34:54you'll bow to the new luna
00:34:56and if you make a scene
00:34:58or if serena or anyone else finds out you're my mate
00:35:01he didn't finish the sentence
00:35:03he didn't need to
00:35:06caspy had cut in
00:35:07he bent down and patted my sweat dripped face
00:35:10i'll rip your tongue out myself
00:35:13little waste
00:35:14the door closed
00:35:16the room went dark
00:35:19i curled up on the crumpled sheets
00:35:21every part of me felt crushed
00:35:23the tears wouldn't come
00:35:25not because it didn't hurt
00:35:26because it hurt too much
00:35:28so much that even crying felt pointless
00:35:30i was their fated mate
00:35:32i was supposed to be this pax luna
00:35:34and i couldn't tell a single soul
00:35:36i didn't know how long i lay on that bed
00:35:38my thighs were still sticky
00:35:41the air reeked of two alphas pheromones mixed together
00:35:45so thick it made my stomach turn
00:35:49my phone buzzing woke me up
00:35:50a message from my neighbor in the gray sector
00:35:53five words
00:35:55nana's is not going to make it
00:35:57i jumped off the bed barefoot
00:35:59and ran out the door
00:36:00stepping over the mess on the floor
00:36:02the shack in the gray sector smelled of blood
00:36:05heavy rotten blood
00:36:06nana was curled up on her worn out mat
00:36:08dark blood was seeping from the corners of her mouth
00:36:11and her nostrils her body was seizing
00:36:13jerking and sharp violent spasms
00:36:15nana
00:36:15i dropped my knees beside her scrambling
00:36:17to wipe the blood away
00:36:19but it kept coming
00:36:20the pack doctor was already packing up his kit
00:36:22ready to leave
00:36:23the wolfspide has reached her bones
00:36:25he barely glanced at her
00:36:27unless you can get alpha blood for the antidote
00:36:29she's done
00:36:30alpha blood
00:36:31my mate
00:36:33my alpha at least in name
00:36:34his blood could save her life
00:36:36but he wouldn't even acknowledge that i existed
00:36:38i closed my eyes and reached for the thin thread of the mate bond
00:36:41between me and damien
00:36:42that bond had worn down to almost nothing
00:36:45after three years of one-heighted draining
00:36:46but it was still there
00:36:47no matter how much he despised me
00:36:49a mate bond was the moon goddess mark
00:36:51as long as both of us were alive
00:36:53it couldn't be broken
00:36:54damien
00:36:54please
00:36:55just one drop of blood
00:36:57nana is dying
00:36:58the link went quiet for two seconds
00:37:01then serena's sugary voice bled through the mind link
00:37:04damien
00:37:05look at this one
00:37:07don't you think the lease neckline is prettier than the last dress
00:37:14and then damien's voice
00:37:17so gentle i almost didn't recognize it
00:37:21they all look beautiful
00:37:23you look beautiful in anything my luna
00:37:26my luna
00:37:27he had never once called me that
00:37:29i was his mate
00:37:30but that title
00:37:31those two words
00:37:32he gave them to a woman who had no faded bond with him at all
00:37:35i screamed through the link
00:37:37damien
00:37:39i'm begging you
00:37:41shut up
00:37:42that wasn't damien
00:37:42it was caspian
00:37:43his consciousness slammed into the link with open disgust
00:37:46using the old woman for sympathy again
00:37:50haven't you embarrassed yourself enough
00:37:52an alpha's mate living in the gray tech tour
00:37:55crying and begging
00:37:57if word gets out
00:37:58how do you think that makes us look
00:38:00it's not an excuse
00:38:01she's really bleeding out
00:38:03enough ivy
00:38:04damien's voice came back
00:38:06colder than the night wind
00:38:07today is serena's dress fitting
00:38:09as the future luna
00:38:11every moment of her day matters more than whatever crisis you've invented
00:38:15stop acting crazy
00:38:16the link was severed from his end
00:38:18the backlash hit me instantly
00:38:20pain exploded inside my skull
00:38:23i grabbed my head and collapsed
00:38:25my ears ringing so loud i couldn't hear anything else
00:38:28by the time i pulled myself off the floor
00:38:30nana had stopped seizing
00:38:32her hand was cold
00:38:33she was looking at me
00:38:35she reached into her shirt with shaking fingers
00:38:37and pulled out an old whistle carved from bone
00:38:40she pressed it into my palm
00:38:41then her lips moved
00:38:43no sound came out
00:38:44just a shape
00:38:45run
00:38:46her hand dropped
00:38:47i held her body as it went stiff
00:38:49i couldn't cry
00:38:50not because i didn't want to
00:38:52the moment the link had been cut
00:38:54it felt as though something inside me had been severed too
00:38:56my tears along with it
00:39:00outside
00:39:01the pack loudbeater was playing serena's recorded message on a loop
00:39:04everyone is welcome to attend my ceremony with damien
00:39:08next week
00:39:09i will officially become the pack's luna
00:39:11luna
00:39:13that seat was supposed to be mine
00:39:15but i didn't even have the right to fight for it
00:39:17fighting required being acknowledged first
00:39:19and i was not even allowed to exist
00:39:21sometime passed
00:39:23the door opened
00:39:24cold air rushed in
00:39:25i squinted
00:39:26i squinted against it
00:39:27a tall figure stood in the doorway
00:39:29wearing a tattered cloak
00:39:30every nerve in my body went tight
00:39:32i shot to my feet
00:39:34and stood in front of nana's body
00:39:35who are you
00:39:36he didn't answer
00:39:37he looked at the body on the floor
00:39:39then at me
00:39:40then he walked to the corner
00:39:41picked up the shovel
00:39:42leaning against the wall
00:39:43he lifted nana's body onto his shoulder
00:39:45and carried her outside
00:39:47i think i understood what he was going to do
00:39:49he dug a hole in the frozen ground behind the hill filled it in
00:39:53set up a plank of wood as a marker
00:39:55why are you helping me
00:39:57i asked
00:39:58six months ago
00:39:59in the alley behind the market
00:40:01you saved my life
00:40:02he turned and disappeared dinto the dark
00:40:05i stood in front of the fresh grave
00:40:06gripping the bone whistle nana had left me
00:40:08the sharp edges of the bone had cut into my palm
00:40:11that was when i felt it
00:40:13a tiny flutter deep in my belly
00:40:15something stirring in my blood
00:40:16faint and timid
00:40:18nudging against my skin from the inside
00:40:20i pressed my dirt covered hand against my stomach
00:40:22two
00:40:23two faint heartbeats
00:40:25i was pregnant
00:40:26carrying my alpha's children
00:40:29funny wasn't it
00:40:30he refused to claim me as his mate
00:40:32but he had left his bloodline growing inside me
00:40:37in the distance
00:40:39the main house was blazing with light
00:40:41a golden countdown sign for the wedding
00:40:44was glowing on the front porch
00:40:46i knew damiathian casabian would never let these children be born
00:40:50a secret mate they treated as a tool found to be carrying their pups
00:40:53that wasn't just a scandal that would make the entire pack question serena's luna status
00:40:58they would kill these babies
00:41:00the same way they had killed every last shred of my dignity
00:41:03without blinking
00:41:04i had already lost nana
00:41:06i would not lose them too
00:41:08i looked down at the blood-stained bone whistle
00:41:12i thought about the cloaked wolf who had just buried nana for me
00:41:15i raised the whistle to my lips
00:41:17and i blew it with everything i had left
00:41:22the whistle sound didn't carry far
00:41:24the winter wind swallowed it whole
00:41:26nobody came
00:41:28not that night
00:41:29at least
00:41:30three days later
00:41:31the night before the luna coronation
00:41:34two guards dragged me out of my shack in the gray sector
00:41:41and shoved me into the servants changing room in the pack's main house
00:41:45put this on
00:41:47one of them tossed me a gray linen robe
00:41:50tomorrow you stand in the last row of the gallery
00:41:52with the servants
00:41:53you kneel and bow to our new luna
00:41:54no looking up
00:41:55no talking
00:41:56no looking at the alpha
00:41:57i took the rough fabric and said nothing
00:42:00what a joke i was this pax alpha's fated mate
00:42:02the luna crown should have been on my head
00:42:05instead i would be wearing slave clothes
00:42:07kneeling on the ground
00:42:07watching a woman with no mate bond
00:42:09sit in my seat
00:42:12the door locked behind me
00:42:14i crouched on the floor
00:42:15one hand pressed against my belly
00:42:17without thinking three days in those two heartbeats
00:42:20had grown a little stronger
00:42:22tiny stubborn
00:42:23pushing outward the door swung open
00:42:25not a guard serena
00:42:27she wore an ivory velvet robe
00:42:29her hair loose
00:42:30her feet in satin slippers
00:42:32two personal attendants trailed behind her
00:42:36so you're ivy
00:42:37she tilted her head and looked me over
00:42:40the wolfless waist from the gray sector
00:42:42she sniffed the air and wrinkled her nose
00:42:45you smell disgusting
00:42:47i have no idea why damien even knows someone that pathetic
00:42:50her eyes narrowed
00:42:52studying me
00:42:54i kept my head down
00:42:55i didn't dare speak
00:42:58if she found out i was damien's real mate
00:43:00cassarbin had promised to rip my tongue out
00:43:04serena didn't push further
00:43:05her gaze dropped to my neck
00:43:07where nana's bone whistle hung on a cord
00:43:11that's interesting
00:43:14she reached out without warning and ripped the cord off my neck
00:43:18give it back
00:43:19i jumped to my feet and grabbed for it
00:43:22the slap knocked me back to the ground
00:43:24serena shook out her hand
00:43:26then held the whistle up and studied it
00:43:28she smiled
00:43:29do you know dead man's valley
00:43:31that ravine behind the hill
00:43:33the one full of bones
00:43:35i'm going there tomorrow morning for a purification ritual
00:43:40before the coronation
00:43:41she spun the whistle between her fingers
00:43:47i'll toss this filthy thing down there for you
00:43:51consider it the future luna cleaning up the trash
00:43:54tonight
00:43:54you stay on your knees right here
00:43:57you don't get up until i say so
00:43:59she turned and walked out
00:44:01i stayed kneeling on the cold stone floor
00:44:04blood trickled from the corner of my mouth
00:44:07the next morning
00:44:08i ran to dead man's valley
00:44:09it was a deep ravine cut into the far side of the hill
00:44:12the rock walls on both sides were streaked with old dried blood
00:44:15i dug through the rubble at the mouth of the valley
00:44:17tearing through loose stones and broken bones
00:44:19my fingers were sliced open
00:44:20blood dripped onto the rocks
00:44:22i knew you'd come
00:44:24caspian's voice came from behind me
00:44:26amused
00:44:26entertained
00:44:27before i could turn around
00:44:28something cold wrapped around my ankle
00:44:30a silver laced chain
00:44:31the second the silver touched my skin white
00:44:33smoke hissed up from the contact point
00:44:35the burning pain hit me so hard
00:44:37it felt as though someone had pressed a red
00:44:39hot iron against my bones
00:44:41i screamed and collapsed
00:44:42caspian gripped the other end of the chain
00:44:44and dragged me across the rough stone
00:44:46ground 10-15 feet
00:44:48maybe more the skin on my back
00:44:50my arms and my shins shredded against the rocks
00:44:52k silver dust ground into the open wounds
00:44:55the pain was so intense i couldn't breathe
00:44:57but i kept both hands over my stomach
00:45:00i didn't let go once damien was standing nearby
00:45:02he was dressed for the coronation black suit white shirt
00:45:05without a single wrinkle his mate was being dragged in front of him
00:45:09torn apart by silver chains
00:45:10and his face showed nothing he could have been watching
00:45:13a stray mutt on the roadside
00:45:15ivy
00:45:16he spoke his tone was flat official
00:45:18from this moment i formally sever the mate bond between us
00:45:23you don't deserve to be my mate
00:45:25you don't deserve to be this pax luna
00:45:27you never did
00:45:37again
00:45:38damien's voice came from above me
00:45:40low
00:45:41horsky
00:45:42burning with the heat of an alpha in rut
00:45:45i had lost count by now
00:45:47three times
00:45:48maybe
00:45:48his arms were braced on either side of my head
00:45:51veins bulging at his temples
00:45:53every thrust hitting me with a force that felt more punishment than pleasure
00:45:58i didn't dare make a sound
00:46:00the patrol guards outside would hear
00:46:02the entire pack would know that the wolfless worthless omega was being used as a painkiller by their alpha
00:46:08nobody knew i was damien's faded mate
00:46:11or rather
00:46:12he refused to let anyone know
00:46:14a nobody from the slums whose wolf had never awakened
00:46:16how could someone that pathetic ever deserve to be the fated mate of the pax twin alphas
00:46:21so for three years i had been hidden away in the gray sector
00:46:24a run-down district packed with crippled and discarded wolves
00:46:27i was his dirty little secret
00:46:29the third time ended and damien finally got off me
00:46:33i laid there gasping
00:46:34my whole body trembling
00:46:36all i wanted was to close my eyes and sleep
00:46:39then a pair of hands grabbed my waist again
00:46:42turn over
00:46:43it was damien's voice but the hands were wrong
00:46:46the caleds were in different places
00:46:47the ring he always wore on his left hand was missing
00:46:50i was too exhausted
00:46:51my brain was mush
00:46:52i couldn't think straight
00:46:53four
00:46:53five
00:46:54he was rougher than before
00:46:56his fingers dug ug into my waist hard
00:46:58i thought they would break through the skin
00:47:01which felt better
00:47:02he leaned down to my ear
00:47:03his voice dropped to a whisper
00:47:05there was something cruel and mocking in his tone that i had never heard from damien
00:47:11answer me
00:47:14six
00:47:15seven
00:47:16my mind was coming apart
00:47:18every release ripped away what little strength i had left
00:47:21in the haze i turned my head and reached for his mouth
00:47:24i wanted a kiss
00:47:25just one
00:47:26my lips found his
00:47:27but my eyes found him first
00:47:29damien's eyes were gray blue
00:47:31cold and still
00:47:32the eyes staring down at me were blown wide
00:47:34bloodshot
00:47:34with a faint gold sheen of something savage
00:47:36caspen
00:47:37damien's twin brother
00:47:38the one the whole pack
00:47:40called the rabid dog behind his back
00:47:42my blood went cold
00:47:43the scream stuck in my throat
00:47:45because his hand was already on my neck
00:47:47his thumb resting right over my windpipe
00:47:49figured it out
00:47:51caspen grinned at me
00:47:52wearing the same face as damien
00:47:54too late little waste
00:47:55a small sound came from the far corner of the room
00:47:58a wall lamp clicked on
00:48:00damien was sitting in an armchair
00:48:02fully dressed
00:48:02his shirt sleeves rolled up to his forearms
00:48:05a glass of whiskey in his hand
00:48:06he had been here the entire time
00:48:08he had watched his brother take his mate
00:48:10and he looked bored
00:48:11why
00:48:12my voice came out wrecked
00:48:14unrecognizable
00:48:15damien swirled his glass
00:48:16ice clinked against the amber liquid
00:48:19you're my fated mate
00:48:20sure
00:48:20but so what
00:48:21his tone was flat
00:48:22his expression blank
00:48:24you have no wolf
00:48:25no family
00:48:25you can't even shift into a full wolf form
00:48:28what makes you think you deserve the luna title
00:48:30the moon goddess played a sick joke on me
00:48:32he took a sip
00:48:33tying a waste of space to me
00:48:34as my fated mate
00:48:35so i made the best of it
00:48:37your body calms our ferial episodes
00:48:39your blood works as a pain repressor
00:48:41beyond that
00:48:42you have zero value
00:48:45caspen climbed off me
00:48:46and wiped his hands on the sheet
00:48:47basically you're a sedative
00:48:49the two of us share
00:48:50you think you actually deserve the mate title
00:48:54my hands were shaking
00:48:55shaking so badly
00:48:56i couldn't grip the sheets
00:48:58three years
00:48:59three full years
00:49:00i had skipped meals to buy herbs
00:49:02for damien's pain relief tonic
00:49:05i had pricked my own fingers
00:49:06with a sewing meal
00:49:07to feed him my blood for the remedy
00:49:09i had told myself
00:49:11that if i was good enough
00:49:12useful enough
00:49:13he would eventually claim me
00:49:15in front of the pack
00:49:15my mate
00:49:16my alpha
00:49:18i had believed i was his future luna
00:49:21turns out
00:49:22i was never anything more than a tool
00:49:24he was too ashamed to mention
00:49:25next week
00:49:26serena will officially become the pack's luna
00:49:28she's from the blackwell bloodline
00:49:30pure lineage
00:49:31powerful wolf form
00:49:33the entire pack already believes she's my mate
00:49:35damien stood and adjusted his cuffs
00:49:37he said it the same way he would read a memo
00:49:39i won't correct them
00:49:41serena
00:49:42a complete stranger
00:49:43was going to wear the luna crown
00:49:45that should have been mine
00:49:46and i wouldn't even be allowed to sit and watch
00:49:49damien walked to the door
00:49:51and glanced back
00:49:52you will attend the ceremony
00:49:53his eyes swept over my bruised marked body
00:49:56there was no guilt in his gaze
00:49:58no disgust
00:50:00nothing at all
00:50:01you'll kneel in the last row of the gallery
00:50:04with the servants
00:50:05you'll bow to the new luna
00:50:07and if you make a scene
00:50:09or if serena or anyone else finds out you're my mate
00:50:12he didn't finish the sentence
00:50:14he didn't need to
00:50:16caspy had cut in
00:50:17he bent down and patted my sweat dripped face
00:50:20i'll rip your tongue out myself
00:50:24little waste
00:50:25the door closed
00:50:26the room went dark
00:50:30i curled up on the crumpled sheets
00:50:32every part of me felt crushed
00:50:34the tears wouldn't come
00:50:35not because it didn't hurt
00:50:37because it hurt too much
00:50:39so much that even crying felt pointless
00:50:41i was their fated mate
00:50:42i was supposed to be this pax luna
00:50:45and i couldn't tell a single soul
00:50:47i didn't know how long i lay on that bed
00:50:49my thighs were still sticky
00:50:52the air reeked of two alphas pheromones mixed together
00:50:56so thick it made my stomach turn
00:50:59my phone buzzing woke me up
00:51:01a message from my neighbor in the gray sector
00:51:04five words
00:51:06nana's is not going to make it
00:51:08i jumped off the bed barefoot
00:51:10and ran out the door
00:51:11stepping over the mess on the floor
00:51:13the shack in the gray sector smelled of blood
00:51:15heavy rotten blood
00:51:17nana was curled up on her worn out mat
00:51:19dark blood was seeping from the corners of her mouth
00:51:22and her nostrils her body was seizing
00:51:24jerking and sharp violent spasms
00:51:26nana
00:51:26i dropped my knees beside her scrambling to wipe the blood away
00:51:29but it kept coming
00:51:31the pack doctor was already packing up his kit ready to leave
00:51:34the wolf spied has reached her bones
00:51:36he barely glanced at her
00:51:37unless you can get alpha blood for the antidote she's done
00:51:40alpha blood
00:51:42my mate
00:51:43my alpha at least in name
00:51:45his blood could save her life
00:51:47but he wouldn't even acknowledge that i existed
00:51:49i closed my eyes and reached for the thin thread of the mate bond between me and damien
00:51:53that bond had worn down to almost nothing after three years of one-hided draining
00:51:57but it was still there
00:51:58no matter how much he despised me
00:52:00a mate bond was the moon goddess mark
00:52:02as long as both of us were alive it couldn't be broken
00:52:05damien please
00:52:06just one drop of blood
00:52:07nana is dying
00:52:09the link went quiet for two seconds
00:52:12then serena's sugary voice bled through the mind link
00:52:15damien
00:52:16look at this one
00:52:18don't you think the lease neckline is prettier than the last dress
00:52:25and then damien's voice
00:52:28so gentle i almost didn't recognize it
00:52:32they all look beautiful
00:52:34you look beautiful in anything my luna
00:52:36my luna
00:52:37he had never once called me that
00:52:39i was his mate
00:52:41but that title those two words
00:52:43he gave them to a woman who had no faded bond with him at all
00:52:46i screamed through the link
00:52:48damien
00:52:49i'm begging you
00:52:51shut up
00:52:52that wasn't damien
00:52:53it was caspian
00:52:54his consciousness slammed into the link with open disgust
00:52:57using the old woman for sympathy again
00:53:01haven't you embarrassed yourself enough
00:53:03an alpha's mate living in the gray tech tour
00:53:06crying and begging
00:53:07if word gets out
00:53:09how do you think that makes us look
00:53:11it's not an excuse
00:53:12she's really bleeding out
00:53:14enough ivy
00:53:15damien's voice came back
00:53:17colder than the night wind
00:53:18today is serena's dress fitting
00:53:20as the future luna
00:53:22every moment of her day matters more than whatever crisis you've invented
00:53:25stop acting crazy
00:53:27the link was severed from his end
00:53:29the backlash hit me instantly
00:53:31pain exploded inside my skull
00:53:33i grabbed my head and collapsed
00:53:35my ears ringing so loud i couldn't hear anything else
00:53:39by the time i pulled myself off the floor
00:53:41nana had stopped seizing
00:53:43her hand was cold
00:53:44she was looking at me
00:53:45she reached into her shirt with shaking fingers
00:53:48and pulled out an old whistle carved from bone
00:53:50she pressed it into my palm
00:53:52then her lips moved
00:53:54no sound came out
00:53:55just a shape
00:53:56run
00:53:57her hand dropped
00:53:58i held her body as it went stiff
00:54:00i couldn't cry
00:54:01not because i didn't want to
00:54:03the moment the link had been cut
00:54:04it felt as though something inside me had been severed too
00:54:07my tears along with it
00:54:11outside
00:54:12the pack loudbeater was playing serena's recorded message on a loop
00:54:15everyone is welcome to attend my ceremony with damien
00:54:19next week
00:54:20i will officially become the pack's luna
00:54:22luna
00:54:24that seat was supposed to be mine
00:54:26but i didn't even have the right to fight for it
00:54:28fighting required being acknowledged first
00:54:30and i was not even allowed to exist
00:54:32some time passed
00:54:33the door opened
00:54:34cold air rushed in
00:54:36i squinted against it
00:54:37a tall figure stood in the doorway
00:54:39wearing a tattered cloak
00:54:41every nerve in my body went tight
00:54:43i shot to my feet and stood in front of nana's body
00:54:46who are you
00:54:47he didn't answer
00:54:48he looked at the body on the floor
00:54:50then at me
00:54:51then he walked to the corner
00:54:52picked up the shovel leaning against the wall
00:54:54he lifted nana's body onto his shoulder
00:54:56and carried her outside
00:54:57i think i understood what he was going to do
00:55:00he dug a hole in the frozen ground behind the hill filled it in
00:55:03set up a plank of wood as a marker
00:55:06why are you helping me?
00:55:08i asked
00:55:09six months ago
00:55:10in the alley behind the market
00:55:12you saved my life
00:55:13he turned and disappeared into the dark
00:55:15i stood in front of the fresh grave
00:55:17gripping the bone whistle nana had left me
00:55:19the sharp edges of the bone had cut into my palm
00:55:22that was when i felt it
00:55:23a tiny flutter deep in my belly
00:55:25something stirring in my blood
00:55:27faint and timid
00:55:28nudging against my skin from the inside
00:55:31i pressed my dirt covered hand against my stomach
00:55:33two
00:55:34two faint heartbeats
00:55:36i was pregnant
00:55:37carrying my alpha's children
00:55:40funny wasn't it?
00:55:41he refused to claim me as his mate
00:55:43but he had left his bloodline growing inside me
00:55:48in the distance
00:55:50the main house was blazing with light
00:55:52a golden countdown sign for the wedding
00:55:54was glowing on the front porch
00:55:57i knew damiathian casabian would never let these children be born
00:56:00a secret mate they treated as a tool found to be carrying their pups
00:56:04that wasn't just a scandal that would make the entire pack question serena's luna status
00:56:09they would kill these babies
00:56:11the same way they had killed every last shred of my dignity
00:56:14without blinking
00:56:14i had already lost nana
00:56:17i would not lose them too
00:56:19i looked down at the blood-stained bone whistle
00:56:22i thought about the cloaked wolf who had just buried nana for me
00:56:25i raised the whistle to my lips
00:56:28and i blew it with everything i had left
00:56:33the whistle's sound didn't carry far
00:56:35the winter wind swallowed it whole
00:56:37nobody came
00:56:38not that night
00:56:40at least
00:56:41three days later
00:56:42the night before the luna coronation
00:56:44two guards dragged me out of my shack in the gray sector
00:56:52and shoved me into the servants changing room in the pack's main house
00:56:56put this on
00:56:58one of them tossed me a gray linen robe
00:57:00tomorrow you stand in the last row of the gallery
00:57:02with the servants
00:57:03you kneel and bow to our new luna
00:57:05no looking up
00:57:06no talking
00:57:07no looking at the alpha
00:57:08i took the rough fabric and said nothing
00:57:11what a joke i was this pax alpha's faded mate
00:57:13the luna crown should have been on my head
00:57:15instead i would be wearing slave clothes
00:57:17kneeling on the ground
00:57:18watching a woman with no mate bond
00:57:20sit in my seat
00:57:23the door locked behind me
00:57:25i crouched on the floor
00:57:26one hand pressed against my belly
00:57:28without thinking three days in those two heartbeats
00:57:31had grown a little stronger
00:57:33tiny stubborn
00:57:34pushing outward the door swung open
00:57:36not a guard serena
00:57:38she wore an ivory velvet robe
00:57:40her hair loose
00:57:41her feet in satin slippers
00:57:43two personal attendants trailed behind her
00:57:47so you're ivy
00:57:48she tilted her head and looked me over
00:57:50the wolf-less waist from the gray sector
00:57:53she sniffed the air and wrinkled her nose
00:57:56you smell disgusting
00:57:58i have no idea why damien even knows someone that pathetic
00:58:01her eyes narrowed
00:58:03studying me
00:58:04i kept my head down
00:58:06i didn't dare speak
00:58:08if she found out i was damien's real mate
00:58:11cassarbin had promised to rip my tongue out
00:58:14serena didn't push further
00:58:16her gaze dropped to my neck
00:58:18where nana's bone whistle hung on a cord
00:58:22that's interesting
00:58:24she reached out without warning and ripped the cord off my neck
00:58:29give it back
00:58:30i jumped to my feet and grabbed for it
00:58:33the slap knocked me back to the ground
00:58:35serena shook out her hand
00:58:37then held the whistle up and studied it
00:58:39she smiled
00:58:39do you know dead man's valley
00:58:42that ravine behind the hill
00:58:44the one full of bones
00:58:46i'm going there tomorrow morning for a purification ritual
00:58:50before the coronation
00:58:52she spun the whistle between her fingers
00:58:57i'll toss this filthy thing down there for you
00:59:01consider it the future luna cleaning up the trash
00:59:04tonight
00:59:05you stay on your knees right here
00:59:08you don't get up until i say so
00:59:09she turned and walked out
00:59:12i stayed kneeling on the cold stone floor
00:59:15blood trickled from the corner of my mouth
00:59:17the next morning
00:59:18i ran to dead man's valley
00:59:20it was a deep ravine cut into the far side of the hill
00:59:22the rock walls on both sides were streaked with old dried blood
00:59:25i dug through the rubble at the mouth of the valley
00:59:27tearing through loose stones and broken bones
00:59:30my fingers were sliced open
00:59:31blood dripped onto the rocks
00:59:33i knew you'd come
00:59:34caspian's voice came from behind me
00:59:36amused
00:59:37entertained
00:59:38before i could turn around
00:59:39something cold wrapped around my ankle
00:59:40a silver laced chain
00:59:41the second the silver touched my skin white
00:59:44smoke hissed up from the contact point
00:59:46the burning pain hit me so hard
00:59:48it felt as though someone had pressed a red
00:59:50hot iron against my bones
00:59:51i screamed and collapsed
00:59:53caspian gripped the other end of the chain
00:59:55and dragged me across the rough stone
00:59:57ground 10 15 feet
00:59:59maybe more the skin on my back
01:00:00my arms and my shins shredded against the rocks
01:00:03k silver dust ground into the open wounds
01:00:06the pain was so intense i couldn't breathe
01:00:08but i kept both hands over my stomach
01:00:10i didn't let go once damien was standing nearby
01:00:13he was dressed for the coronation black suit white shirt
01:00:16without a single wrinkle his mate was being dragged in front of him
01:00:19torn apart by silver chains
01:00:21and his face showed nothing he could have been watching
01:00:24a stray mutt on the roadside
01:00:26ivy
01:00:27he spoke his tone was flat official
01:00:29from this moment i formally sever the mate bond between us
01:00:34you don't deserve to be my mate
01:00:35you don't deserve to be this pax luna
01:00:37you never did
01:00:39I don't know.