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Chosen Wrong
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00:00Back to the moment the moon goddess marked me as his. Damien's hand was around my throat,
00:04just like before. Same fury, same cold gold eyes. Why would the moon goddess choose you as my Luna?
00:09I looked up at him, calm. Don't worry, I'll break the bond myself. Don't play games with me. The
00:16moon goddess only pairs a wolf once. Break the bond and that's it, no second mate. Ever. Unless,
00:22you're planning to crawl to that freak from the snowfield pack? The snowfield pack. They were new,
00:26but no one called them small anymore. In the span of a few years they had risen from nothing,
00:31expanding fast and ruthlessly across the northern tundra, until every established pack had been
00:35forced to take notice. Their alpha was a man named Ethan, and a story that followed his name was one
00:40wolves told in lowered voices. On the day he came of age, the moon goddess had given him nothing,
00:45no bond, no Luna, no mate, abandoned, people said, passed over, broken. Now his pack had arrived at
00:51our territory without warning, bearing gifts no one could ignore, and a single request. They wanted a
00:55mate for their alpha. The problem was simple, the snowfield territory was exactly what its name
01:00promised. Ice, wind, endless white. No wolf raised in the warmth of the forest wanted to go there.
01:05I looked at Damien's face, that easy contempt, like I was something he'd already dismissed.
01:09The pain of it moved through me sharp and familiar, stealing the air from my lungs. I let myself feel
01:14it. Then I let it go. Just wait, I'll make sure you end up with Sophia. I went deep into
01:20the forest,
01:21past the place where the trees stopped letting in light. The witch found me before I found her. She
01:25listened to what I wanted. I can break the bond between you and Damien, but the pain will be
01:30unlike anything you've felt before. Bad enough to make you wish you hadn't survived it. Nothing
01:33could hurt more than staying. Please, help me. The witch was quiet for a long moment. Then she
01:39reached into the folds of her cloak and produced a ring. One drop of blood from each wolf you love
01:44most,
01:45yours and his. When the ring has both, the bond will break. The wolf I loved most was Damien. The
01:51wolf
01:51Damien loved most was Sophia. If I hurt Sophia to get her blood, Damien might actually kill me.
01:56I rode back to the pack anyway. I found Damien and held the ring out before he could speak.
02:00All you have to do is give me a drop of your blood and Sophia's. Then the bond.
02:08He knocked it out of my hand. I watched it arc through the air and disappear into the lake.
02:11Are you ever going to stop? Heart's blood? Seriously, Iris? Why not just ask us both to
02:16die and be done with it? And why would the witch need Sophia's blood? The bond is between us.
02:21Try harder if you're gonna lie to my face. Something inside my chest went very cold.
02:25My hands dropped to my sides. I couldn't feel them anymore. Because the ring needs blood from
02:29whoever each of us loves most. I love you. You love Sophia. What a ridiculous excuse.
02:35Damien didn't believe a word of it. I stopped trying to make him. I turned and jumped into the lake.
02:39The cold hit me like a wall. I forced my eyes open underwater and searched the dark,
02:43rocky bottom until my fingers closed around something small and hard. The ring. Before
02:47I could surface on my own, hands grabbed me, strong, furious, and hauled me up onto the bank.
02:52Damien was soaked. His chest was heaving. What is wrong with you? Are you actually insane?
02:58The thing that always confused me. The way he moved like he cared. Like I was something worth saving.
03:03Every time, it made me wonder. Every time, Sophia existed, and the wondering stopped. I opened my hand.
03:08The ring sat in my palm, still cold from the lake. I started to cry. I wasn't sure if it
03:13was the pain
03:13or the relief. Maybe both. Damien looked at me like I was something he couldn't solve. Then he
03:17turned and walked away. That left me with only one option. I went to find Sophia. Sophia and I had
03:22never made sense together. Not in this life. Not in the last one. She was prettier than me. Sharper than
03:27me. Easier to love than me. When we walked into a room together, every eye found her first.
03:32Nobody ever had to think about it. When I came to her room, she didn't look up.
03:35I can make you Damien's Luna. But I need something from you first.
03:39That got her attention.
03:41What? Your blood. You might as well just ask to kill me. I'm not trying to hurt you.
03:48Damien, I have a bond. If I break it, he's free. You'd be free to be with him properly.
03:53No bond between us and the wave.
03:54She finally looked at me. Her eyes were sharp.
03:56Why would you do that? Everyone in this pack knows you've been in love with Damien since
04:01we were children. So why would you just... give him up? Give him to me?
04:08I didn't have a good answer. Fine. I'll call the healer. Don't try anything stupid.
04:13The healer came. The needle was ready. The door came off its hinges. Damien. He took in the scene
04:17in half a second and his face did something I'd never seen before. He shoved the healer out of
04:22the way. Pulled off his jacket and wrapped it around Sophia's shoulders in one motion.
04:26Sophia.
04:26His voice had dropped to something almost unrecognizable.
04:30Are you okay? Did she hurt you?
04:32Sophia's eyes went glassy. She put one hand against his chest and pushed gently.
04:36You shouldn't have come.
04:39How could I not come?
04:40You actually believed her? You could have died, Sophia. Do you understand that?
04:45If it meant being with you, it would have been worth trying.
04:50One tear slid from the corner of her eye. Just one. It was enough. Damien pulled her into his arms.
04:55Held her the way you hold something you thought you'd lost. I had never seen him love someone
04:59before. Not like this. Not with his whole body. I was still standing in the corner. I hadn't moved.
05:04Then Damien looked at me. He crossed the room and shoved me. Hard. My back hit the pillar and I
05:08went down. He crouched down and grabbed the front of my shirt.
05:11You wanna come after someone? Come after me. Leave Sophia out of it.
05:15I knew that voice. I knew those words. He used to say them to other people. Anyone who came for
05:19me.
05:20Anyone who got too close. He'd step in front of me and say exactly this.
05:23Now I was the other people. I blinked back the tears. Pried his fingers off my shirt one by one.
05:28Why won't you believe me? Just once. The witch told me how to do this.
05:34It has to be Sophia's blood because the ring needs blood from whoever each of us loves most.
05:39That's the rule, not mine. How am I supposed to believe anything you say?
05:43The bond is between us. So why does Sophia have anything to do with it? Stop. I'm done listening.
05:50I exhaled. Pressed my fist against my side. There was nothing left to say that he would hear.
05:55I looked up. Sophia was watching me from across the room. And she was smiling.
05:59She'd done it on purpose. Called him here. Knowing exactly what would happen. And I had trusted her.
06:03I wouldn't make that mistake again. I moved. I was across the room before anyone could react.
06:08Knife out. Blade at Sophia's throat.
06:10Iris. She is your sister. Put it down.
06:13No. You hate me that much.
06:16I didn't answer her. I pulled the bloodied needle from my pocket and threw it to Damien.
06:20Your blood. Give me your blood and I'll let her go.
06:24He looked at me for one long moment. Then he exposed his chest.
06:28Fine. Remember what you promised.
06:32Dark red moved slowly through the hollow tube. I turned away. I couldn't watch it.
06:36Once the bond broke. He would have everything he wanted. And we would have nothing left between us
06:41at all. Let her go now.
06:43I looked away. Picked up the needle from the table. Pressed it to Sophia's chest and pushed.
06:48Iris. I am your sister. Damien help me. Stop. Touch her again and I will never. Do you hear me?
06:57Never. Be with you. Not in this life. Not in any life.
07:02The blood hit the ring. I let Sophia go. Added Damien's blood.
07:05He was already at her side. Sophia. Are you okay? Let me see.
07:11She was crying quietly against his chest. Then she looked at me over his shoulder.
07:15Why are you doing this to me? Damien turned. His claws were out.
07:18He drove them into my chest. The pain was enormous. Blood came. More than Sophia's had.
07:23Enough that I felt it moving down my ribs. Soaking through my shirt.
07:26He didn't look at me. Not once. You deserve that.
07:28He turned back to the healer. Sophia first.
07:31Every cut. Every mark. I don't want her to carry a single scar.
07:35I made it out of the room. That was as far as I got. The pain hit without warning.
07:39Not from the wound. But from somewhere deeper. Somewhere the witch had warned me about.
07:43I felt something dark rise in my throat and I couldn't stop it. Black blood. The bond breaking.
07:47The ground disappeared. I hit the lake before I understood what had happened.
07:51The cold swallowed me whole. I tried to scream and couldn't.
07:53The water took the sound before it left my throat. I felt my body stopping.
07:57Felt the edges of everything going soft and dark. Then something caught my wrist.
08:01Hard. Certain. Like it had no intention of letting go.
08:03He pulled me up from the bottom of the lake like I weighed nothing.
08:06I had never seen him before. He was taller than Damien.
08:09Broader. The kind of build that came from years of surviving somewhere brutal.
08:12A long scar ran down the center of his chest. Pale and old.
08:15His hair was the color of moonlight.
08:17How did you let this happen? If I hadn't come. You would have died down there. Do you understand that?
08:26When you came. Thank you.
08:29He stared at me. Something moved across his face that I didn't have a name for.
08:33Then he seemed to make a decision.
08:35Ethan. My name is Ethan.
08:38Ethan stayed. I don't know if I asked him to or if he simply decided.
08:42Either way. He was there when I woke. And the day after. And the day after that.
08:45Until the wound closed and the bond sickness passed. And I could breathe without it hurting.
08:49On the morning I finally felt like myself again.
08:52Damien came. He brought a thermos of soup.
08:54My favorite. The kind I only ever wanted when I was sick.
08:57He sat beside the bed and picked up the spoon the way he used to.
09:00Back when things between us were different.
09:02I didn't open my mouth. He set the spoon down.
09:04The bond is broken. I was wrong about you.
09:07Sophia hasn't gotten out of bed since that day.
09:09She's still shaken. Now that you're better.
09:11Go apologize to her.
09:13And if I don't.
09:15Then you're not welcome in this pack anymore.
09:19The snowfield alpha is looking for a luna.
09:22If you won't apologize. Go be his.
09:24We've both been left behind by the moon goddess.
09:26We'd make a perfect pair.
09:28Something shifted in my chest. Not breaking.
09:30Something quieter than that.
09:31The last small thing I've been holding on to.
09:33Finally letting go.
09:34Alright I'll go.
09:36Damien. Damien.
09:38Are you even listening to me?
09:40What is wrong with you?
09:42He blinked.
09:42Came back.
09:43He'd been thinking about Iris.
09:44The way she'd looked this morning.
09:46Thinner than before.
09:47He'd done that.
09:48He pushed the thought down and pressed his lips to the top of Sophia's hair.
09:51When Iris comes to apologize.
09:53Give her some of your medicine.
09:54For the wound.
09:55Why should I?
09:56That's mine.
09:57You're the older sister.
09:59And once you're my luna.
10:00You'll have all the medicine you could ever want.
10:02This is nothing.
10:04Fine.
10:05Just this once.
10:06They waited.
10:07The afternoon went.
10:08The light changed.
10:09The room got dark.
10:10Iris didn't come.
10:11Sophia was crying by the time Damien called for Jack.
10:13Jack!
10:14She never respected me.
10:16Not once.
10:17Not ever.
10:19Go get Iris.
10:20Bring her here.
10:21If she won't come willingly, drag her.
10:24Jack didn't move.
10:26Is there a problem?
10:28Alpha.
10:29Iris left this morning.
10:31She went with the snowfield pack.
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