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00:00:05again. Damien's voice came from above me, low, horsky, burning with the heat of an alpha in
00:00:12rut. I had lost count by now. Three times, maybe? His arms were braced on either side of my head,
00:00:19veins bulging at his temples, every thrust hitting me with a force that felt more punishment than
00:00:25pleasure. I didn't dare make a sound. The patrol guards outside would hear. The entire pack would
00:00:32know that the wolf-less, worthless Omega was being used as a painkiller by their alpha.
00:00:36Nobody knew I was Damien's fated mate. Or rather, he refused to let anyone know. A nobody from the
00:00:43slums whose wolf had never awakened. How could someone that pathetic ever deserve to be the
00:00:47fated mate of the pack's twin alphas? So for three years, I had been hidden away in the gray sector,
00:00:52a run-down district packed with crippled and discarded wolves. I was his dirty little secret.
00:00:57The third time ended and Damien finally got off me. I laid there gasping, my whole body trembling.
00:01:04All I wanted was to close my eyes and sleep. Then a pair of hands grabbed my waist again.
00:01:10Turn over. It was Damien's voice. But the hands were wrong. The Khalids were in different places.
00:01:15The ring he always wore on his left hand was missing. I was too exhausted. My brain was mush.
00:01:20I couldn't think straight. Four. Five. He was rougher than before.
00:01:24His fingers dug ug into my waist hard. I thought they would break through the skin.
00:01:28Which felt better?
00:01:30He leaned down to my ear. His voice dropped to a whisper. There was something cruel and
00:01:35mocking in his tone that I had never heard from Damien.
00:01:37Hmm? Answer me.
00:01:42Six. Seven. My mind was coming apart. Every release ripped away what little strength I had left.
00:01:49In the haze I turned my head and reached for his mouth.
00:01:52I wanted a kiss. Just one.
00:01:54My lips found his. But my eyes found him first.
00:01:57Damien's eyes were grey-blue. Cold and still.
00:02:00The eyes staring down at me were blown wide, bloodshot, with a faint gold sheen of something
00:02:04savage.
00:02:05Caspian. Damien's twin brother. The one the whole pack called the rabid dog behind his back.
00:02:09My blood went cold.
00:02:11The scream stuck in my throat because his hand was already on my neck.
00:02:15His thumb resting right over my windpipe.
00:02:17Figured it out?
00:02:19Caspid grinned at me, wearing the same face as Damien.
00:02:22Too late, little waste.
00:02:24A small sound came from the far corner of the room. A wall lamp clicked on. Damien was
00:02:29sitting in an armchair, fully dressed. His shirt sleeves rolled up to his forearms,
00:02:33a glass of whiskey in his hand. He had been here the entire time. He had watched his brother
00:02:37take his mate. And he looked bored.
00:02:39Why?
00:02:40My voice came out wrecked. Unrecognizable.
00:02:43Damien swirled his glass. Ice clinked against the amber liquid.
00:02:46You're my fated mate. Sure. But so what?
00:02:49His tone was flat. His expression blank.
00:02:52You have no wolf. No family. You can't even shift into a full wolf form. What makes you
00:02:56think you deserve the Luna title?
00:02:58The moon goddess played a sick joke on me.
00:03:00He took a sip.
00:03:01Tying a waste of space to me as my fated mate. So I made the best of it. Your body
00:03:05calms
00:03:06our ferial episodes. Your blood works as a pain repressor. Beyond that, you have zero value.
00:03:12Caspian climbed off me and wiped his hands on the sheet.
00:03:15Basically, you're a sedative the two of us share. You think you actually deserve the mate title?
00:03:22My hands were shaking. Shaking so badly I couldn't grip the sheets. Three years. Three full years. I had
00:03:29skipped meals to buy herbs for Damien's pain relief tonic. I had pricked my own fingers with
00:03:34a sewing meal to feed him my blood for the remedy. I had told myself that if I was good
00:03:39enough,
00:03:40useful enough, he would eventually claim me in front of the pack. My mate. My alpha.
00:03:45I had believed I was his future Luna. Turns out I was never anything more than a tool he was
00:03:52too
00:03:52ashamed to mention. Next week, Serena will officially become the pack's Luna. She's from
00:03:57the Blackwell bloodline. Pure lineage. Powerful wolf form. The entire pack already believes she's my
00:04:03mate. Damien stood and adjusted his cuffs. He said it the same way he would read a memo.
00:04:07I won't correct them.
00:04:09Serena. A 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. Damien walked to the door and glanced back.
00:04:20You will attend the ceremony.
00:04:21His eyes swept over my bruised, marked body. There was no guilt in his gaze. No disgust.
00:04:28Nothing at all.
00:04:29You'll kneel in the last row of the gallery with the servants. You'll bow to the new Luna.
00:04:35And if you make a scene, or if Serena or anyone else finds out you're my mate.
00:04:40He didn't finish the sentence. He didn't need to. Caspi had cut in. He bent down and
00:04:46patted my sweat-dripped face. I'll rip your tongue out myself. Little waste.
00:04:53The door closed. The room went dark.
00:04:58I curled up on the crumpled sheets. Every part of me felt crushed. The tears wouldn't come. Not because
00:05:04it didn't hurt. Because it hurt too much. So much that even crying felt pointless. I was their fated
00:05:10mate. I was supposed to be this Pax Luna. And I couldn't tell a single soul. I didn't know how
00:05:15long I lay on that bed. My thighs were still sticky. The air reeked of two alpha's pheromones
00:05:23mixed together. So thick it made my stomach turn. My phone buzzing woke me up. A message from my
00:05:30neighbor in the gray sector. Five words. Nana's is not going to make it. I jumped off the bed
00:05:37barefoot and ran out the door stepping over the mess on the floor. The shack in the gray sector
00:05:42smelled of blood. Heavy, rotten blood. Nana was curled up on her worn out mat. Dark blood
00:05:48was seeping from the corners of her mouth. And her nostrils her body was seizing, jerking
00:05:52and sharp violent spasms. Nana! I dropped to my knees beside her scrambling to wipe the
00:05:57blood away. But it kept coming the pack doctor was already packing up his kit ready to leave.
00:06:02The wolf spide has reached her bones. He barely glanced at her. Unless you can get alpha
00:06:06blood for the antidote, she's done. Alpha blood. My mate. My alpha at least
00:06:12in name. His blood could save her life. But 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. But it was
00:06:26still there. No matter how much he despised me. A mate bond was the moon goddess Mark. As long as
00:06:31both of us were alive it couldn't be broken. Damien, please. Just one drop of blood. Nana is dying.
00:06:37The link went quiet for two seconds. Then Serena's sugary voice bled through the mind link.
00:06:43Damien, look at this one. Don't you think the least neckline is prettier than the last dress?
00:06:53And then Damien's voice. So gentle I almost didn't recognize it.
00:07:00They all look beautiful. You look beautiful in anything, my Luna.
00:07:04My Luna. He had never once called me that. I was his mate. But that title, those two words,
00:07:11he gave them to a woman who had no fated bond with him at all. I screamed through the link.
00:07:16Damien! I'm begging you!
00:07:19Shut up.
00:07:20That wasn't Damien. It was Caspian. His 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? An Alpha's mate living in the gray tech tour,
00:07:34crying and begging. If word gets out, how do you think that makes us look?
00:07:38It's not an excuse. She's really bleeding out.
00:07:42Enough, Ivy. Damien's voice came back. Colder than the night wind.
00:07:46Today is Serena's dress fitting. As the future Luna, every moment of her day matters more than
00:07:52whatever crisis you've invented. Stop acting crazy. The link was severed from his end. The backlash
00:07:58hit me instantly. Pain exploded inside my skull. I grabbed my head and collapsed. My ears ringing so
00:08:05loud I couldn't hear anything else. By the time I pulled myself off the floor, Nana had stopped
00:08:10seizing. Her hand was cold. She was looking at me. She reached into her shirt with shaking fingers and
00:08:16pulled out an old whistle carved from bone. She pressed it into my palm. Then her lips moved.
00:08:22No sound came out. Just a shape. Run. Her hand dropped. I held her body as it went stiff. I
00:08:28couldn't
00:08:28cry. Not because I didn't want to. The moment the link had been cut, it felt as though something
00:08:33inside me had been severed too. My tears along with it.
00:08:39Outside, the pack loudbeater was playing Serena's recorded message on a loop.
00:08:44Everyone is welcome to attend my ceremony with Damien. Next week, I will officially become
00:08:49the pack's Luna.
00:08:50Luna. That seat was supposed to be mine, but I didn't even have the right to fight for it.
00:08:56Fighting required being acknowledged first, and I was not even allowed to exist. Some time passed,
00:09:01the door opened. Cold air rushed in. I squinted against it. A tall figure stood in the doorway,
00:09:08wearing a tattered cloak. Every nerve in my body went tight. I shot to my feet and stood in front
00:09:13of Nana's body. Who are you? He didn't answer. He looked at the body on the floor. Then at me,
00:09:19then he walked to the corner, picked up the shovel leaning against the wall. He lifted Nana's body onto
00:09:24his shoulder and carried her outside. I think I understood what he was going to do. He dug a hole
00:09:29in the frozen
00:09:30ground behind the hill, filled it in, set up a plank of wood as a marker.
00:09:34Why are you helping me? I asked.
00:09:37Six months ago, in the alley behind the market, you saved my life.
00:09:41He turned and disappeared into the dark. I stood in front of the fresh grave, gripping the bone
00:09:46whistle Nana had left me. The sharp edges of the bone had cut into my palm. That was when I
00:09:51felt it.
00:09:51A tiny flutter deep in my belly. Something stirring in my blood, faint and timid,
00:09:56nudging against my skin from the inside. I pressed my dirt-covered hand against my stomach.
00:10:01Two. Two faint heartbeats. I was pregnant, carrying my Alpha's children.
00:10:07Funny, wasn't it? He refused to claim me as his mate, but he had left his bloodline growing inside me.
00:10:16In the distance, the main house was blazing with light. A golden countdown sign for the wedding
00:10:22was glowing on the front porch. I knew Damiathian Cassaby and would never let these children be
00:10:28born. A secret mate they treated as a tool found to be carrying their pups. That wasn't just a scandal
00:10:33that would make the entire pack question Serena's Luna status. They would kill these babies the same
00:10:39way they had killed every last shred of my dignity without blinking. I had already lost Nana. I would not
00:10:46lose them too. I looked down at the blood-stained bone whistle. I thought about the cloaked wolf who
00:10:52had just buried Nana for me. I raised the whistle to my lips and I blew it with everything I
00:10:58had left.
00:11:00The whistle sound didn't carry far. The winter wind swallowed it whole. Nobody came. Not that night,
00:11:08at least. Three days later, the night before the Luna coronation. Two guards dragged me out of my
00:11:14shack in the gray sector and shoved me into the servants' changing room in the pack's main house.
00:11:24Put this on. One of them tossed me a gray linen robe. Tomorrow you stand in the last row of
00:11:30the
00:11:30gallery with the servants. You kneel and bow to our new Luna. No looking up, no talking,
00:11:35no looking at the Alpha. I took the rough fabric and said nothing. What a joke I was this
00:11:40PAX Alpha's fated mate. The Luna crown should have been on my head. Instead I would be wearing
00:11:44slave clothes kneeling on the ground watching a woman with no mate bond sit in my seat.
00:11:51The door locked behind me I crouched on the floor. One hand pressed against my belly without thinking
00:11:57three days in those two heartbeats. Had grown a little stronger tiny stubborn. Pushing outward the
00:12:03door swung open. Not a guard Serena. She wore an ivory velvet robe, her hair loose, her feet in satin
00:12:10slippers. Two personal attendants trailed behind her. So you're Ivy. She tilted her head and looked
00:12:18me over. The wolfless waist from the gray sector? She sniffed the air and wrinkled her nose.
00:12:24You smell disgusting. I have no idea why Damien even knows someone that pathetic.
00:12:29Her eyes narrowed, studying me. I kept my head down. I didn't dare speak.
00:12:36If she found out I was Damien's real mate, Cacerbin had promised to rip my tongue out.
00:12:42Serena didn't push further. Her gaze dropped to my neck, where 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. The slap knocked me back to the ground. Serena shook out
00:13:04her hand, then held the whistle up and studied it. She smiled. Do you know Dead Man's Valley?
00:13:10That ravine behind the hill? The one full of bones? I'm going there tomorrow morning for a
00:13:17purification ritual before the coronation. She spun the whistle between her fingers.
00:13:25I'll toss this filthy thing down there for you. Consider it the future Luna cleaning up the trash.
00:13:33Tonight, you stay on your knees right here. You don't get up until I say so. She turned and walked
00:13:39out. I stayed kneeling on the cold stone floor. Blood trickled from the corner of my mouth. The next
00:13:46morning, I ran to Dead Man's Valley. It was a deep ravine cut into the far side of the hill.
00:13:50The rock
00:13:51walls on both sides were streaked with old dried blood. I dug through the rubble at the mouth of
00:13:55the valley, tearing through loose stones and broken bones. My fingers were sliced open. Blood dripped
00:14:00onto the rocks.
00:14:01I knew you'd come.
00:14:03Caspian's voice came from behind me, amused, entertained. Before I could turn around,
00:14:07something cold wrapped around my ankle. A silver-laced chain. The second the silver
00:14:10touched my skin white, smoke hissed up from the contact point. The burning pain hit me so hard it
00:14:16felt as though someone had pressed a red, hot iron against my bones I screamed and collapsed.
00:14:21Caspian gripped the other end of the chain, and dragged me across the rough stone. Ground 10-15 feet,
00:14:27maybe more the skin on my back. My arms and my shins shredded against the rocks.
00:14:31K-silver dust ground into the open wounds. The pain was so intense I couldn't breathe,
00:14:36but I kept both hands over my stomach. I didn't let go once Damien was standing nearby.
00:14:41He was dressed for the coronation black suit white shirt, without a single wrinkle his
00:14:45mate was being dragged in front of him torn apart by silver chains. And his face showed nothing he
00:14:51could have been watching, a stray mutt on the roadside.
00:14:54Ivy. He spoke his tone was flat official. From this moment, I formally sever the mate bond between us.
00:15:01You don't deserve to be my mate. You don't deserve to be this Pax Luna. You never did.
00:15:11Pax Luna. You never did.
00:15:16Again. Damien's voice came from above me. Low. Horsky. Burning with the heat of an alpha in rut.
00:15:23I had lost count by now. Three times, maybe? His arms were braced on either side of my head,
00:15:30veins bulging at his temples, every thrust hitting me with a force that felt more punishment than pleasure.
00:15:37I didn't dare make a sound. The patrol guards outside would hear. The entire pack would know
00:15:43that the wolfless, worthless Omega was being used as a painkiller by their alpha. Nobody knew I was
00:15:48Damien's fated mate. Or rather, he refused to let anyone know. A nobody from the slums whose wolf had
00:15:54never awakened. How could someone that pathetic ever deserve to be the fated mate of the pack's twin
00:15:59alphas? So for three years, I had been hidden away in the Grey Sector, a rundown district packed with
00:16:04crippled and discarded wolves. I was his dirty little secret. The third time ended and Damien
00:16:09finally got off me. I laid there gasping, my whole body trembling. All I wanted was to close my eyes
00:16:17and sleep. Then a pair of hands grabbed my waist again. Turn over. It was Damien's voice. But the
00:16:23hands were wrong. The Khalids were in different places. The ring he always wore on his left hand
00:16:28was missing. I was too exhausted. My brain was mush. I couldn't think straight. Four. Five. He was rougher than
00:16:34before. His fingers dug ug into my waist hard. I thought they would break through the skin.
00:16:39Which felt better? He leaned down to my ear. His voice dropped to a whisper. There was something
00:16:45cruel and mocking in his tone that I had never heard from Damien. Hmm? Answer me.
00:16:53Six. Seven. My mind was coming apart. Every release ripped away what little strength I had left.
00:17:00In the haze I turned my head and reached for his mouth. I wanted a kiss. Just one. My lips
00:17:05found his.
00:17:06But my eyes found him first. Damien's eyes were gray blue. Cold and still. The eyes staring down
00:17:11at me were blown wide, bloodshot, with a faint gold sheen of something savage. Caspen, Damien's twin
00:17:17brother. The one the whole pack called the rabid dog behind his back. My blood went cold. The scream
00:17:23stuck in my throat because his hand was already on my neck. His thumb resting right over my windpipe.
00:17:28Figured it out? Caspen grinned at me, wearing the same face as Damien. Too late, little waste.
00:17:35A small sound came from the far corner of the room. A wall lamp clicked on. Damien was sitting
00:17:40in an armchair, fully dressed. His shirt sleeves rolled up to his forearms. A glass of whiskey in
00:17:44his hand. He had been here the entire time. He had watched his brother take his mate. And he looked
00:17:49bored. Why? My voice came out wrecked. Unrecognizable. Damien swirled his glass. Ice clinked against the
00:17:56amber liquid. You're my fated mate. Sure. But so what? His tone was flat. His expression blank.
00:18:02You have no wolf. No family. You can't even shift into a full wolf form. What makes you think you
00:18:07deserve the Luna title? The moon goddess played a sick joke on me. He took a sip. Tying a waste
00:18:12of
00:18:12space to me as my fated mate. So I made the best of it. Your body calms our ferial episodes.
00:18:18Your blood
00:18:18works as a pain repressor. Beyond that, you have zero value. Caspen climbed off me and wiped his hands on
00:18:25the sheet. Basically, you're a sedative the two of us share. You think you actually deserve the mate title?
00:18:32My hands were shaking. Shaking so badly I couldn't grip the sheets. Three years. Three full years.
00:18:39I had skipped meals to buy herbs for Damien's pain relief tonic. I had pricked my own fingers with a
00:18:45sewing meal to feed him my blood for the remedy. I had told myself that if I was good enough,
00:18:50useful
00:18:51enough, he would eventually claim me in front of the pack. My mate. My alpha. I had believed I was
00:18:58his future Luna. Turns 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. She's from the Blackwell bloodline.
00:19:09Pure lineage. Powerful wolf form. The entire pack already believes she's my mate.
00:19:14Damien stood and adjusted his cuffs. He said it the same way he would read a memo.
00:19:18I won't correct them. Serena. A complete stranger was going to wear the Luna crown that should have
00:19:24been mine, and I wouldn't even be allowed to sit and watch. Damien walked to the door and glanced
00:19:30back. You will attend the ceremony. His eyes swept over my bruised, marked body. There was no guilt in
00:19:36his gaze. No disgust. Nothing at all. You'll kneel in the last row of the gallery with the servants.
00:19:44You'll bow to the new Luna. And if you make a scene, or if Serena or anyone else finds out
00:19:50you're my mate.
00:19:51He didn't finish the sentence. He didn't need to. Caspi had cut in. He bent down and patted my
00:19:57sweat-dripped face. I'll rip your tongue out myself. Little waste. The door closed. The room went dark.
00:20:09I curled up on the crumpled sheets. Every part of me felt crushed. The tears wouldn't come. Not
00:20:15because it didn't hurt. Because it hurt too much. So much that even crying felt pointless. I was their
00:20:20fated mate. I was supposed to be this Pax Luna. And I couldn't tell a single soul. I didn't know
00:20:26how
00:20:26long I lay on that bed. My thighs were still sticky. The air reeked of two alpha's pheromones mixed
00:20:34together. So thick it made my stomach turn. My phone buzzing woke me up. A message from my
00:20:41neighbor in the gray sector. Five words. Nana's is not going to make it. I jumped off the bed
00:20:48barefoot and ran out the door stepping over the mess on the floor. The shack in the gray sector
00:20:53smelled of blood. Heavy, rotten blood. Nana was curled up on her worn out mat. Dark blood was
00:20:58seeping from the corners of her mouth and her nostrils her body was seizing, jerking and sharp
00:21:03violent spasms. Nana! I 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. The wolfspide
00:21:13has reached her bones. He barely glanced at her. Unless you can get alpha blood for the
00:21:18antidote, she's done. Alpha blood. My mate. My alpha at least in name. His blood could save her
00:21:25life. But he wouldn't even acknowledge that I existed. I closed my eyes and reached for the
00:21:29thin thread of the mate bond between me and Damien. That bond had worn down to almost nothing after
00:21:34three years of one-hided draining. But it was still there. No matter how much he despised me.
00:21:39A mate bond was the moon goddess Mark. As long as both of us were alive it couldn't be broken.
00:21:43Damien, please. Just one drop of blood. Nana is dying. The link went quiet for two seconds.
00:21:50Then Serena's sugary voice bled through the mind link.
00:21:54Damien, look at this one. Don't you think the lease neckline is prettier than the last dress?
00:22:04And then Damien's voice. So gentle I almost didn't recognize it.
00:22:10They all look beautiful. You look beautiful in anything, my Luna.
00:22:15My Luna. He had never once called me that. I was his mate. But that title, those two words,
00:22:22he gave them to a woman who had no faded bond with him at all. I screamed through the link.
00:22:26Damien! I'm begging you! Shut up. That wasn't Damien. It was Caspian.
00:22:33His consciousness slammed into the link with open disgust. Using the old woman for sympathy again?
00:22:40Haven't you embarrassed yourself enough? An Alpha's mate living in the Grey Tech tour,
00:22:45crying and begging. If word gets out, how do you think that makes us look?
00:22:49It's not an excuse. She's really bleeding out.
00:22:52Enough, Ivy. Damien's voice came back. Colder than the night wind.
00:22:57Today is Serena's dress fitting. As the future Luna, every moment of her day matters more than
00:23:03whatever crisis you've invented. Stop acting crazy. The link was severed from his end.
00:23:08The backlash hit me instantly. Pain exploded inside my skull. I grabbed my head and collapsed.
00:23:14My ears ringing so loud I couldn't hear anything else. By the time I pulled myself off the floor,
00:23:20Nana had stopped seizing. Her hand was cold. She was looking at me. She reached into her
00:23:25shirt with shaking fingers and pulled out an old whistle carved from bone. She pressed it into my
00:23:30palm. Then her lips moved. No sound came out. Just a shape. Run. Her hand dropped. I held her body
00:23:38as
00:23:38it went stiff. I couldn't cry. Not because I didn't want to. The moment the link had been cut,
00:23:43it felt as though something inside me had been severed too. My tears along with it.
00:23:50Outside, the pack loudbeater was playing Serena's recorded message on a loop.
00:23:54Everyone is welcome to attend my ceremony with Damien. Next week, I will officially become
00:24:00the pack's Luna. Luna. That seat was supposed to be mine, but I didn't even have the right to fight
00:24:06for
00:24:06it. Fighting required being acknowledged first, and I was not even allowed to exist. Some time passed.
00:24:12The door opened. Cold air rushed in. I squinted against it. A tall figure stood in the doorway,
00:24:18wearing a tattered cloak. Every nerve in my body went tight. I shot to my feet and stood in front
00:24:24of
00:24:24Nana's body. Who are you? He didn't answer. He looked at the body on the floor. Then at me. Then
00:24:29he
00:24:30walked to the corner, picked up the shovel leaning against the wall. He lifted Nana's body onto his
00:24:34shoulder and carried her outside. I think I understood what he was going to do. He dug a
00:24:39hole in the frozen ground behind the hill, filled it in, set up a plank of wood as a marker.
00:24:45Why are you helping me? I asked. Six months ago, in the alley behind the market,
00:24:50you saved my life. He turned and disappeared into the dark. I stood in front of the fresh grave,
00:24:56gripping the bone whistle Nana had left me. The sharp edges of the bone had cut into my palm.
00:25:00That was when I felt it. A tiny flutter deep in my belly. Something stirring in my blood,
00:25:06faint and timid, nudging against my skin from the inside. I pressed my dirt covered hand against my
00:25:11stomach. Two. Two faint heartbeats. I was pregnant, carrying my Alpha's children. Funny,
00:25:19wasn't it? He refused to claim me as his mate, but he had left his bloodline growing inside me.
00:25:27In the distance, the main house was blazing with light. A golden countdown sign for the wedding
00:25:34was glowing on the front porch. I 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. That wasn't just a scandal
00:25:44that would make the entire pack question Serena's Luna status. They would kill these babies the same
00:25:50way they had killed every last shred of my dignity without blinking. I had already lost Nana. I would
00:25:56not lose them too. I looked down at the bloodstained bone whistle. I thought about the cloaked wolf who
00:26:03had just buried Nana for me. I raised the whistle to my lips and I blew it with everything I
00:26:08had left.
00:26:11The whistle sound didn't carry far. The winter wind swallowed it whole. Nobody came. Not that night,
00:26:19at least. Three days later, the night before the Luna coronation, two guards dragged me out of my shack
00:26:25in the gray sector and shoved me into the servants' changing room in the pack's main house. Put this on.
00:26:36One of them tossed me a gray linen robe. Tomorrow you stand in the last row of the gallery,
00:26:41with the servants. You kneel and bow to our new Luna. No looking up, no talking, no looking at the
00:26:46Alpha. I took the rough fabric and said nothing. What a joke I was this pack's Alpha's fated mate.
00:26:52The Luna crown should've been on my head. Instead I would be wearing slave clothes kneeling on the
00:26:56ground watching a woman with no mate bond sit in my seat. The door locked behind me I crouched on
00:27:04the
00:27:04floor. One hand pressed against my belly without thinking three days in those two heartbeats.
00:27:10Had grown a little stronger, tiny stubborn. Pushing outward the door swung open. Not a guard, Serena.
00:27:16She wore an ivory velvet robe, her hair loose, her feet in satin slippers. Two personal attendants
00:27:23trailed behind her. So you're Ivy. She tilted her head and looked me over. The wolf-less waist from the
00:27:31gray sector? She sniffed the air and wrinkled her nose. You smell disgusting. I have no idea why
00:27:38Damien even knows someone that pathetic. Her eyes narrowed, studying me. I kept my head down. I didn't
00:27:45dare speak. If she found out I was Damien's real mate, Cacerbin had promised to rip my tongue out.
00:27:53Serena didn't push further. Her gaze dropped to my neck, where Nana's bone whistle hung on a cord.
00:28:00That's interesting. She reached out without warning and ripped the cord off my neck.
00:28:07Give it back! I jumped to my feet and grabbed for it. The slap knocked me back to the ground.
00:28:14Serena shook out her hand, then held the whistle up and studied it. She smiled. Do you know Dead Man's
00:28:20Valley? That ravine behind the hill? The one full of bones? I'm going there tomorrow morning for a
00:28:27purification ritual before the coronation. She spun the whistle between her fingers.
00:28:36I'll toss this filthy thing down there for you. Consider it the future Luna cleaning up the trash.
00:28:44Tonight, you stay on your knees right here. You don't get up until I say so. She turned and walked
00:28:49out. I stayed kneeling on the cold stone floor. Blood trickled from the corner of my mouth.
00:28:56The next morning, I ran to Dead Man's Valley. It was a deep ravine cut into the far side of
00:29:01the hill.
00:29:01The rock walls on both sides were streaked with old dried blood. I dug through the rubble at the
00:29:05mouth of the valley, tearing through loose stones and broken bones. My fingers were sliced open.
00:29:10Blood dripped onto the rocks. I knew you'd come.
00:29:13Caspian's voice came from behind me, amused, entertained. Before I could turn around,
00:29:17something cold wrapped around my ankle. A silver-laced chain. The second the silver
00:29:21touched my skin white, smoke hissed up from the contact point. The burning pain hit me so hard
00:29:26it felt as though someone had pressed a red, hot iron against my bones. I screamed and collapsed.
00:29:32Caspian gripped the other end of the chain and dragged me across the rough stone. Ground 10,
00:29:3615 feet. Maybe more the skin on my back. My arms and my shins shredded against the rocks.
00:29:42K-silver dust ground into the open wounds. The pain was so intense I couldn't breathe,
00:29:47but I kept both hands over my stomach. I didn't let go once Damien was standing nearby. He was
00:29:52dressed for the coronation black suit white shirt. Without a single wrinkle his mate was being dragged
00:29:57in front of him torn apart by silver chains. And his face showed nothing he could have been watching.
00:30:02A stray mutt on the roadside. Ivy. He spoke his tone was flat official. From this moment I formally
00:30:10sever the mate bond between us. You don't deserve to be my mate. You don't deserve to be this Pax
00:30:16Luna.
00:30:16You never did.
00:30:26Again. Damien's voice came from above me. Low. Horsky. Burning with the heat of an alpha in rut.
00:30:34I had lost count by now. Three times? Maybe? His arms were braced on either side of my head,
00:30:40veins bulging at his temples, every thrust hitting me with a force that felt more punishment than
00:30:46pleasure. I didn't dare make a sound. The patrol guards outside would hear. The entire pack would
00:30:53know that the wolf-less, worthless Omega was being used as a painkiller by their alpha. Nobody knew I
00:30:59was Damien's fated mate. Or rather, he refused to let anyone know. A nobody from the slums whose wolf
00:31:05had never awakened. How could someone that pathetic ever deserve to be the fated mate of the pack's
00:31:09twin alphas? So for three years I had been hidden away in the Grey Sector, a run-down district packed
00:31:15with crippled and discarded wolves. I was his dirty little secret. The third time ended and Damien
00:31:20finally got off me. I laid there gasping, my whole body trembling. All I wanted was to close my eyes
00:31:27and sleep. Then a pair of hands grabbed my waist again. Turn over. It was Damien's voice. But the
00:31:34hands were wrong. The Khalids were in different places. The ring he always wore on his left hand
00:31:38was missing. I was too exhausted. My brain was mush. I couldn't think straight. Four, five. He was
00:31:44rougher than before. His fingers dug ug into my waist hard. I thought they would break through the skin.
00:31:50Which felt better? He leaned down to my ear. His voice dropped to a whisper. There was something
00:31:55cruel and mocking in his tone that I had never heard from Damien. Hmm? Answer me.
00:32:04Six. Seven. My mind was coming apart. Every release ripped away what little strength I had left.
00:32:11In the haze I turned my head and reached for his mouth. I wanted a kiss. Just one. My lips
00:32:16found his,
00:32:17but my eyes found him first. Damien's eyes were gray-blue, cold and still. The eyes staring down at me
00:32:22were blown wide, bloodshot, with a faint gold sheen of something savage. Caspin, Damien's twin brother,
00:32:28the one the whole pack called the rabid dog behind his back. My blood went cold. The scream stuck in
00:32:34my
00:32:34throat because his hand was already on my neck, his thumb resting right over my windpipe.
00:32:39Figured it out? Caspin grinned at me, wearing the same face as Damien. Too late, little waste.
00:32:45A small sound came from the far corner of the room. A wall lamp clicked on. Damien was sitting
00:32:50in an armchair, fully dressed. His shirt sleeves rolled up to his forearms, a glass of whiskey in
00:32:55his hand. He had been here the entire time. He had watched his brother take his mate,
00:32:59and he looked bored. Why? My voice came out wrecked, unrecognizable. Damien swirled his glass.
00:33:06Ice clinked against the amber liquid. You're my fated mate, sure, but so what?
00:33:10His tone was flat, his expression blank. You have no wolf, no family. You can't
00:33:15even shift into a full wolf form. What makes you think you deserve the Luna title?
00:33:19The moon goddess played a sick joke on me. He took a sip. Tying a waste of space to me
00:33:24as my fated mate. So I made the best of it. Your body calms our ferial episodes.
00:33:29Your blood works as a pain repressor. Beyond that, you have zero value.
00:33:34Caspin climbed off me and wiped his hands on the sheet. Basically, you're a sedative the two of us
00:33:39share. You think you actually deserve the mate title?
00:33:43My hands were shaking. Shaking so badly I couldn't grip the sheets. Three years. Three full years.
00:33:50I had skipped meals to buy herbs for Damien's pain relief tonic. I had pricked my own fingers with a
00:33:56sewing meal to feed him my blood for the remedy. I had told myself that if I was good enough,
00:34:01useful
00:34:02enough, he would eventually claim me in front of the pack. My mate. My alpha. I had believed I was
00:34:08his
00:34:09future Luna. Turns 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. She's from the Blackwell bloodline.
00:34:20Pure lineage. Powerful wolf form. The entire pack already believes she's my mate.
00:34:25Damien stood and adjusted his cuffs. He said it the same way he would read a memo.
00:34:29I won't correct them.
00:34:30Serena. A 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. Damien walked to the door and glanced back.
00:34:41You will attend the ceremony. His eyes swept over my bruised, marked body. There was no guilt in his
00:34:47gaze. No disgust. Nothing at all. You'll kneel in the last row of the gallery with the servants.
00:34:54You'll bow to the new Luna. And if you make a scene, or if Serena or anyone else finds out
00:35:00you're my
00:35:01mate. He didn't finish the sentence. He didn't need to. Caspi had cut in. He bent down and patted my
00:35:08sweat-dripped face. I'll rip your tongue out myself. Little waste. The door closed. The room went dark.
00:35:19I curled up on the crumpled sheets. Every part of me felt crushed. The tears wouldn't come. Not because
00:35:26it didn't hurt. Because it hurt too much. So much that even crying felt pointless. I was their fated
00:35:31mate. I was supposed to be this Pax Luna. And I couldn't tell a single soul. I didn't know how
00:35:37long
00:35:37I lay on that bed. My thighs were still sticky. The air reeked of two alphas pheromones mixed together.
00:35:45So thick it made my stomach turn. My phone buzzing woke me up. A message from my neighbor in the
00:35:52gray
00:35:53sector. Five words. Nana's is not going to make it. I jumped off the bed barefoot and ran out the
00:36:00door
00:36:00stepping over the mess on the floor. The shack in the gray sector smelled of blood. Heavy, rotten blood.
00:36:06Nana was curled up on her worn out mat. Dark blood was seeping from the corners of her mouth. And
00:36:11her
00:36:11nostrils her body was seizing, jerking and sharp violent spasms. Nana! I dropped to my knees beside
00:36:17her scrambling to wipe the blood away. But it kept coming the pack doctor was already packing up his kit
00:36:22ready to leave. The wolf spide has reached her bones. He barely glanced at her. Unless you can
00:36:27get alpha blood for the antidote, she's done. Alpha blood. My mate. My alpha at least in name.
00:36:34His blood could save her life. But he wouldn't even acknowledge that I existed. I closed my eyes and
00:36:39reached for the thin thread of the mate bond between me and Damien. That bond had worn down
00:36:44to almost nothing after three years of one-heighted draining. But it was still there, no matter how much
00:36:48he despised me. A mate bond was the moon goddess Mark. As long as both of us were alive, it
00:36:53couldn't
00:36:53be broken. Damien, please. Just one drop of blood. Nana is dying. The link went quiet for two seconds.
00:37:01Then Serena's sugary voice bled through the mind link. Damien, look at this one. Don't you think the
00:37:08police neckline is prettier than the last dress? And then Damien's voice. So gentle I almost didn't
00:37:19recognize it. They all look beautiful. You look beautiful in anything, my Luna. My Luna. He had
00:37:27never once called me that. I was his mate. But that title, those two words, he gave them to a
00:37:33woman who
00:37:34had no fated bond with him at all. I screamed through the link. Damien! I'm begging you!
00:37:41Shut up. That wasn't Damien. It was Caspian. His consciousness slammed into the link with open
00:37:46disgust. Using the old woman for sympathy again? Haven't you embarrassed yourself enough? An Alpha's
00:37:54mate living in the Grey Tektor, crying and begging. If word gets out, how do you think that makes us
00:38:00look?
00:38:00It's not an excuse. She's really bleeding out. Enough, Ivy. Damien's voice came back. Colder than
00:38:07the night wind. Today is Serena's dress fitting. As the future Luna, every moment of her day matters
00:38:13more than whatever crisis you've invented. Stop acting crazy. The link was severed from his end.
00:38:19The backlash hit me instantly. Pain exploded inside my skull. I grabbed my head and collapsed. My ears
00:38:26ringing so loud I couldn't hear anything else. By the time I pulled myself off the floor, Nana had
00:38:31stopped seizing. Her hand was cold. She was looking at me. She reached into her shirt with shaking
00:38:37fingers and pulled out an old whistle carved from bone. She pressed it into my palm. Then her lips moved.
00:38:43No sound came out. Just a shape. Run. Her hand dropped. I held her body as it went stiff. I
00:38:50couldn't cry.
00:38:50Not because I didn't want to. The moment the link had been cut, it felt as though something inside me
00:38:56had been severed too. My tears along with it. Outside, the pack loudbeater was playing Serena's
00:39:03recorded message on a loop. Everyone is welcome to attend my ceremony with Damien. Next week,
00:39:09I will officially become the pack's Luna. Luna. That seat was supposed to be mine, but I didn't
00:39:16even have the right to fight for it. Fighting required being acknowledged first, and I was not
00:39:20even allowed to exist. Some time passed. The door opened. Cold air rushed in. I squinted against it.
00:39:27A tall figure stood in the doorway, wearing a tattered cloak. Every nerve in my body went tight. I shot
00:39:33to my
00:39:33feet and stood in front of Nana's body. Who are you? He didn't answer. He looked at the body on
00:39:39the
00:39:39floor, then at me, then he walked to the corner, picked up the shovel leaning against the wall.
00:39:43He lifted Nana's body onto his shoulder and carried her outside. I think I understood what
00:39:48he was going to do. He dug a hole in the frozen ground behind the hill, filled it in,
00:39:53set up a plank of wood as a marker. Why are you helping me? I asked.
00:39:58Six months ago, in the alley behind the market, you saved my life. He turned and disappeared
00:40:04into the dark. I stood in front of the fresh grave, gripping the bone whistle Nana had left me.
00:40:08The sharp edges of the bone had cut into my palm. That was when I felt it. A tiny flutter
00:40:14deep in my
00:40:14belly. Something stirring in my blood, faint and timid, nudging against my skin from the inside.
00:40:20I pressed my dirt-covered hand against my stomach. Two. Two faint heartbeats. I was pregnant,
00:40:26carrying my Alpha's children. Funny, wasn't it? He refused to claim me as his mate,
00:40:32but he had left his bloodline growing inside me.
00:40:37In the distance, the main house was blazing with light. A golden countdown sign for the wedding
00:40:44was glowing on the front porch. I knew Damiathian Cassibian would never let these children be born.
00:40:50A secret mate they treated as a tool found to be carrying their pups. That wasn't just a scandal
00:40:55that would make the entire pack question Serena's Luna status. They would kill these babies, the same way
00:41:01they had killed every last shred of my dignity without blinking. I had already lost Nana. I would
00:41:07not lose them too. I looked down at the blood-stained bone whistle. I thought about the cloaked wolf who
00:41:13had just buried Nana for me. I raised the whistle to my lips and I blew it with everything I
00:41:19had left.
00:41:22The whistle sound didn't carry far. The winter wind swallowed it whole. Nobody came. Not that night,
00:41:29at least. Three days later, the night before the Luna coronation, two guards dragged me out of my shack
00:41:36in the gray sector and shoved me into the servants' changing room in the pack's main house. Put this on.
00:41:47One of them tossed me a gray linen robe. Tomorrow you stand in the last row of the gallery,
00:41:52with the servants. You kneel and bow to our new Luna. No looking up, no talking, no looking at the
00:41:57Alpha. I took the rough fabric and said nothing. What a joke I was this pack's Alpha's fated mate.
00:42:03The Luna crown should have been on my head. Instead I would be wearing slave clothes kneeling on the
00:42:07ground watching a woman with no mate bond sit in my seat. The door locked behind me I crouched on
00:42:15the floor.
00:42:15One hand pressed against my belly without thinking three days in those two heartbeats.
00:42:20Had grown a little stronger, tiny stubborn. Pushing outward the door swung open. Not a guard Serena.
00:42:27She wore an ivory velvet robe, her hair loose, her feet in satin slippers. Two personal attendants
00:42:34trailed behind her. So you're Ivy. She tilted her head and looked me over. The wolfless waist from the
00:42:42gray sector. She sniffed the air and wrinkled her nose. You smell disgusting. I have no idea why Damien
00:42:49even knows someone that pathetic. Her eyes narrowed, studying me. I kept my head down. I didn't dare speak.
00:42:58If she found out I was Damien's real mate, Casserbyn had promised to rip my tongue out.
00:43:04Serena didn't push further. Her gaze dropped to my neck, where Nana's bone whistle hung on a cord.
00:43:11That's interesting. She reached out without warning and ripped the cord off my neck.
00:43:18Give it back! I jumped to my feet and grabbed for it. The slap knocked me back to the ground.
00:43:25Serena shook out her hand, then held the whistle up and studied it. She smiled.
00:43:29Do you know Dead Man's Valley? That ravine behind the hill? The one full of bones? I'm going there
00:43:37tomorrow morning for a purification ritual before the coronation. She spun the whistle between her fingers.
00:43:47I'll toss this filthy thing down there for you. Consider it the future Luna cleaning up the trash.
00:43:54Tonight, you stay on your knees right here. You don't get up until I say so. She turned and walked
00:44:00out.
00:44:01I stayed kneeling on the cold stone floor. Blood trickled from the corner of my mouth. The next morning,
00:44:08I ran to Dead Man's Valley. It was a deep ravine cut into the far side of the hill. The
00:44:12rock walls on
00:44:13both sides were streaked with old dried blood. I dug through the rubble at the mouth of the valley,
00:44:17tearing through loose stones and broken bones. My fingers were sliced open. Blood dripped onto the
00:44:22rocks. I knew you'd come. Caspian's voice came from behind me, amused, entertained. Before I could turn
00:44:28around, something cold wrapped around my ankle. A silver-laced chain. The second the silver touched
00:44:32my skin white. Smoke hissed up from the contact point. The burning pain hit me so hard it felt
00:44:38as though someone had pressed a red, hot iron against my bones. I screamed and collapsed.
00:44:42Caspian gripped the other end of the chain, and dragged me across the rough stone. Ground 10-15 feet,
00:44:48maybe more the skin on my back. My arms and my shins shredded against the rocks. K-silver dust ground
00:44:54into the open wounds. The pain was so intense I couldn't breathe, but I kept both hands over my stomach.
00:45:00I didn't let go once Damien was standing nearby. He was dressed for the coronation black suit white
00:45:05shirt. Without a single wrinkle his mate was being dragged in front of him torn apart by silver chains,
00:45:10and his face showed nothing he could have been watching. A stray mutt on the roadside.
00:45:16Ivy. He spoke his tone was flat official. From this moment I formally sever the mate bond between us.
00:45:23You don't deserve to be my mate. You don't deserve to be this Pax Luna. You never did.
00:45:37Again. Damien's voice came from above me. Low. Horsky. Burning with the heat of an alpha in rut.
00:45:45I had lost count by now. Three times? Maybe? His arms were braced on either side of my head,
00:45:51veins bulging at his temples. Every thrust hitting me with a force that felt more punishment than pleasure.
00:45:58I didn't dare make a sound. The patrol guards outside would hear. The entire pack would know
00:46:04that the wolfless, worthless Omega was being used as a painkiller by their alpha. Nobody knew I was
00:46:10Damien's fated mate. Or rather, he refused to let anyone know. A nobody from the slums whose wolf had
00:46:16never awakened. How could someone that pathetic ever deserve to be the fated mate of the pack's twin alphas?
00:46:21So for three years I had been hidden away in the gray sector. A run-down district packed with
00:46:26crippled and discarded wolves. I was his dirty little secret. The third time ended and Damien finally
00:46:31got off me. I laid there gasping, my whole body trembling. All I wanted was to close my eyes and
00:46:38sleep. Then a pair of hands grabbed my waist again. Turn over. It was Damien's voice. But the hands were
00:46:45wrong. The Khalids were in different places. The ring he always wore on his left hand was missing.
00:46:50I was too exhausted. My brain was mush. I couldn't think straight. Four, five. He was rougher than before.
00:46:56His fingers dug ug into my waist hard. I thought they would break through the skin.
00:47:01Which felt better?
00:47:02He leaned down to my ear. His voice dropped to a whisper. There was something cruel and
00:47:07mocking in his tone that I had never heard from Damien.
00:47:09Hmm? Answer me.
00:47:15Six. Seven. My mind was coming apart. Every release ripped away what little strength I had left.
00:47:21In the haze I turned my head and reached for his mouth. I wanted a kiss. Just one. My lips
00:47:27found his,
00:47:28but my eyes found him first. Damien's eyes were gray-blue, cold and still. The eyes staring down
00:47:33at me were blown wide, bloodshot, with a faint gold sheen of something savage.
00:47:36Caspin, Damien's twin brother. The one the whole pack called the rabid dog behind his back. My blood
00:47:42went cold. The scream stuck in my throat because his hand was already on my neck, his thumb resting
00:47:48right over my windpipe. Figured it out? Caspin grinned at me, wearing the same face as Damien.
00:47:54Too late, little waste. A small sound came from the far corner of the room. A wall lamp clicked on.
00:48:00Damien was sitting in an armchair, fully dressed. His shirt sleeves rolled up to his forearms,
00:48:05a glass of whiskey in his hand. He had been here the entire time. He had watched his brother take
00:48:10his mate, and he looked bored. Why? My voice came out wrecked, unrecognizable. Damien swirled his glass.
00:48:17Ice clinked against the amber liquid. You're my fated mate, sure, but so what?
00:48:21His tone was flat, his expression blank. You have no wolf, no family. You can't
00:48:26even shift into a full wolf form. What makes you think you deserve the Luna title?
00:48:30The moon goddess played a sick joke on me. He took a sip, tying a waste of space to me
00:48:34as
00:48:35my fated mate. So I made the best of it. Your body calms our ferial episodes. Your blood works
00:48:40as a pain repressor. Beyond that, you have zero value. Caspin climbed off me and wiped his hands
00:48:46on the sheet. Basically, you're a sedative the two of us share. You think you actually deserve the mate title?
00:48:54My hands were shaking. Shaking so badly I couldn't grip the sheets. Three years. Three full years.
00:49:01I had skipped meals to buy herbs for Damien's pain relief tonic. I had pricked my own fingers
00:49:06with a sewing meal to feed him my blood for the remedy. I had told myself that if I was
00:49:11good enough,
00:49:12useful enough, he would eventually claim me in front of the pack. My mate. My alpha. I had believed I
00:49:19was
00:49:19his future Luna. Turns out I was never anything more than a tool he was too ashamed to mention.
00:49:26Next week, Serena will officially become the pack's Luna. She's from the Blackwell bloodline.
00:49:31Pure lineage. Powerful wolf form. The entire pack already believes she's my mate.
00:49:35Damien stood and adjusted his cuffs. He said it the same way he would read a memo.
00:49:40I won't correct them. Serena. A complete stranger was going to wear
00:49:44the Luna crown that should have been mine. And I wouldn't even be allowed to sit and watch.
00:49:49Damien walked to the door and glanced back. You will attend the ceremony.
00:49:53His eyes swept over my bruised, marked body. There was no guilt in his gaze. No disgust.
00:50:00Nothing at all. You'll kneel in the last row of the gallery, with the servants.
00:50:05You'll bow to the new Luna. And if you make a scene, or if Serena or anyone else finds out
00:50:11you're my
00:50:11mate. He didn't finish the sentence. He didn't need to.
00:50:16Caspi had cut in. He bent down and patted my sweat-dripped face.
00:50:20I'll rip your tongue out myself. Little waste. The door closed. The room went dark.
00:50:30I curled up on the crumpled sheets. Every part of me felt crushed. The tears wouldn't come. Not
00:50:36because it didn't hurt. Because it hurt too much. So much that even crying felt pointless.
00:50:41I was their fated mate. I was supposed to be this Pax Luna. And I couldn't tell a single soul.
00:50:47I didn't know how long I lay on that bed. My thighs were still sticky.
00:50:52The air reeked of two Alpha's pheromones mixed together. So thick it made my stomach turn.
00:50:59My phone buzzing woke me up. A message from my neighbor in the gray sector.
00:51:04Five words. Nana's is not going to make it.
00:51:08I jumped off the bed barefoot and ran out the door stepping over the mess on the floor.
00:51:13The shack in the gray sector smelled of blood. Heavy, rotten blood. Nana was curled up on her worn
00:51:19out mat. Dark blood was seeping from the corners of her mouth. And her nostrils her body was seizing,
00:51:24jerking, and sharp violent spasms. Nana!
00:51:26I dropped my knees beside her scrambling to wipe the blood away. But it kept coming. The pack doctor
00:51:31was already packing up his kit ready to leave. The wolf spied has reached her bones.
00:51:36He barely glanced at her. Unless you can get alpha blood for the antidote, she's done.
00:51:41Alpha blood. My mate. My alpha, at least in name. His blood could save her life. But he wouldn't
00:51:48even acknowledge that I existed. I closed my eyes and reached for the thin thread of the
00:51:51mate bond between me and Damien. That bond had worn down to almost nothing after three years of
00:51:56one-hided draining. But it was still there, no matter how much he despised me. A mate bond was the
00:52:01moon goddess mark. As long as both of us were alive, it couldn't be broken.
00:52:05Damien, please. Just one drop of blood. Nana is dying.
00:52:09The link went quiet for two seconds. Then Serena's sugary voice bled through the mind link.
00:52:15Damien, look at this one. Don't you think the lease neckline is prettier than the last dress?
00:52:25And then Damien's voice. So gentle, I almost didn't recognize it.
00:52:32They all look beautiful. You look beautiful in anything, my Luna.
00:52:37My Luna. He had never once called me that. I was his mate. But that title, those two words,
00:52:43he gave them to a woman who had no fated bond with him at all. I screamed through the link.
00:52:49Damien! I'm begging you!
00:52:52Shut up.
00:52:52That wasn't Darmian. It was Caspian. His consciousness slammed into the link with open disgust.
00:52:57Using the old woman for sympathy again? Haven't you embarrassed yourself enough? An alpha's mate
00:53:05living in the gray tech tour, crying and begging. If word gets out, how do you think that makes us
00:53:10look?
00:53:11It's not an excuse. She's really bleeding out.
00:53:14Enough, Ivy. Damien's voice came back. Colder than the night wind.
00:53:19Today is Serena's dress fitting. As the future Luna, every moment of her day matters more than
00:53:24whatever crisis you've invented. Stop acting crazy.
00:53:27The link was severed from his end. The backlash hit me instantly.
00:53:31Pain exploded inside my skull. I grabbed my head and collapsed. My ears ringing so
00:53:37loud I couldn't hear anything else. By the time I pulled myself off the floor,
00:53:41Nana had stopped seizing. Her hand was cold. She was looking at me.
00:53:45She reached into her shirt with shaking fingers and pulled out an old whistle carved from bone.
00:53:51She pressed it into my palm. Then her lips moved. No sound came out. Just a shape. Run.
00:53:57Her hand dropped. I held her body as it went stiff. I couldn't cry. Not because I didn't want to.
00:54:03The moment the link had been cut, it felt as though something inside me had been severed too. My tears
00:54:08along with it.
00:54:11Outside, the pack loudbeater was playing Serena's recorded message on a loop.
00:54:16Everyone is welcome to attend my ceremony with Damien. Next week, I will officially become the pack's Luna.
00:54:23Luna. That seat was supposed to be mine. But I didn't even have the right to fight for it.
00:54:28Fighting required being acknowledged first. And I was not even allowed to exist.
00:54:32Some time passed. The door opened. Cold air rushed in. I squinted against it.
00:54:37A tall figure stood in the doorway, wearing a tattered cloak. Every nerve in my body went tight.
00:54:43I shot to my feet and stood in front of Nana's body. Who are you? He didn't answer. He looked
00:54:49at
00:54:49the body on the floor. Then at me. Then he walked to the corner, picked up the shovel leaning against
00:54:53the wall. He lifted Nana's body onto his shoulder and carried her outside. I think I understood what
00:54:59he was going to do. He dug a hole in the frozen ground behind the hill, filled it in,
00:55:03and set up a plank of wood as a marker. Why are you helping me? I asked.
00:55:09Six months ago, in the alley behind the market, you saved my life.
00:55:13He turned and disappeared into the dark. I stood in front of the fresh grave,
00:55:17gripping the bone whistle Nana had left me. The sharp edges of the bone had cut into my palm.
00:55:22That was when I felt it. A tiny flutter deep in my belly. Something stirring in my blood,
00:55:27faint and timid, nudging against my skin from the inside. I pressed my dirt-covered hand against my
00:55:33stomach. Two. Two faint heartbeats. I was pregnant, carrying my Alpha's children.
00:55:40Funny, wasn't it? He refused to claim me as his mate, but he had left his bloodline growing inside me.
00:55:48In the distance, the main house was blazing with light. A golden countdown sign for the wedding
00:55:55was glowing on the front porch. I knew Damiathian Casabian would never let these children be born.
00:56:01A 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 the same way they had killed every last shred of my dignity without
00:56:14blinking. I had already lost Nana. I would not lose them too. I looked down at the bloodstained bone
00:56:21whistle. I thought about the cloaked wolf who had just buried Nana for me. I raised the whistle to
00:56:27my lips and I blew it with everything I had left. The whistle sound didn't carry far. The winter wind
00:56:36swallowed it whole. Nobody came. Not that night, at least. Three days later, the night before the
00:56:43Luna coronation, two 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.
00:56:56One of them tossed me a gray linen robe. Tomorrow you stand in the last row of the gallery,
00:57:02with the servants. You kneel and bow to our new Luna. No looking up, no talking, no looking at the
00:57:08Alpha. I took the rough fabric and said nothing. What a joke I was this pack's Alpha's fated mate.
00:57:13The Luna crown should have been on my head. Instead I would be wearing slave clothes kneeling
00:57:18on the ground watching a woman with no mate bond sit in my seat. The door locked behind me I
00:57:25crouched
00:57:25on the floor. One hand pressed against my belly without thinking three days in those two heartbeats.
00:57:31Had grown a little stronger tiny stubborn. Pushing outward the door swung open. Not a guard Serena.
00:57:38She wore an ivory velvet robe, her hair loose, her feet in satin slippers. Two personal attendants
00:57:45trailed behind her. So you're Ivy. She tilted her head and looked me over. The wolf-less waist from
00:57:52the gray sector? She sniffed the air and wrinkled her nose. You smell disgusting. I have no idea why
00:57:59Damien even knows someone that pathetic. Her eyes narrowed, studying me. I kept my head down. I didn't
00:58:07dare speak. If she found out I was Damien's real mate, Cacerbin had promised to rip my tongue out.
00:58:14Serena didn't push further. Her gaze dropped to my neck, where Nana's bone whistle hung on a cord.
00:58:22That's interesting. She reached out without warning and ripped the cord off my neck.
00:58:29Give it back! I jumped to my feet and grabbed for it. The slap knocked me back to the ground.
00:58:35Serena shook
00:58:36out her hand, then held the whistle up and studied it. She smiled. Do you know Dead Man's Valley? That
00:58:42ravine
00:58:43behind the hill? The one full of bones? I'm going there tomorrow morning for a purification ritual
00:58:50before the coronation. She spun the whistle between her fingers.
00:58:57I'll toss this filthy thing down there for you. Consider it the future Luna cleaning up the trash.
00:59:04Tonight, you stay on your knees right here. You don't get up until I say so. She turned and walked
00:59:11out. I stayed kneeling on the cold stone floor. Blood trickled from the corner of my mouth. The
00:59:18next morning, I ran to Dead Man's Valley. It was a deep ravine cut into the far side of the
00:59:22hill.
00:59:23The rock walls on both sides were streaked with old dried blood. I dug through the rubble at the
00:59:27mouth of the valley, tearing through loose stones and broken bones. My fingers were sliced open.
00:59:31Blood dripped onto the rocks. I knew you'd come. Caspian's voice came from behind me, amused,
00:59:37entertained. Before I could turn around, something cold wrapped around my ankle. A silver-laced chain.
00:59:42The second the silver touched my skin white, smoke hissed up from the contact point. The burning pain
00:59:47hit me so hard it felt as though someone had pressed a red, hot iron against my bones. I screamed
00:59:52and
00:59:52collapsed. Caspian gripped the other end of the chain, and dragged me across the rough stone.
00:59:57Ground 10-15 feet, maybe more the skin on my back. My arms and my shins shredded against the rocks.
01:00:04K-silver dust ground into the open wounds. The pain was so intense I couldn't breathe,
01:00:08but I kept both hands over my stomach. I didn't let go once Damien was standing nearby. He was dressed
01:00:14for the coronation black suit white shirt. Without a single wrinkle his mate was being dragged in front
01:00:19of him torn apart by silver chains, and his face showed nothing he could've been watching. A stray
01:00:24mutt on the roadside. Ivy. He spoke his tone was flat official. From this moment,
01:00:31I formally sever the mate bond between us. You don't deserve to be my mate. You don't deserve to be
01:00:36this
01:00:37PAX LUNA. You never did.