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📝Synopsis: Seven years ago, Lyra was forced by her Alpha father and manipulated by her fated mate Kaelen to take the fall for her adopted sister Selene’s crime, enduring imprisonment in Silvermoon Penitentiary in her place. Promised a future bond upon release, she now survives betrayal, power, and broken loyalty.

✨Genre: Werewolf Romance

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Transcript
00:17Seven years ago, my parents adopted daughter, my younger sister Sonia, a delicate Omega,
00:22got drunk, caused a hit and run, and left blood spilled across the human territory border.
00:27My Alpha father, my Luna mother, and my biological younger sister all came to me with the same patronizing plea.
00:33Selina is an Omega. She's too fragile for prison.
00:36If she goes to Silvermoon Penitentiary, her wolf won't survive it.
00:39Lyra, take her place.
00:41I refused, but on a stormy night, he'll befriended.
00:44My father used absolute Alpha command.
00:47He crushed my will, took control of my mind, and personally delivered me to the prison transport.
00:51My fiancé, my fated mate, Kaylin, the strongest Alpha in the pack, held back his raging wolf era and said
00:56to me,
00:57Lyra, when you get out, we'll complete the mate bond.
01:00Endure these seven years for now.
01:03Seven years later.
01:05Lyra, once you leave Silvermoon Penitentiary, keep your wolf under control and do not look back.
01:11I took the mold-smelling canvas bag from the guard's hand and limped through the iron gates,
01:16dragging the leg that had been ruined by four silver shackles.
01:18A black military SUV waited outside the territory.
01:21The window rolled down revealed Kaylin's sharp, striking face.
01:24Seven years had passed, and he looked exactly the same.
01:26The suffocating pressure of a top-tier Alpha still radiated from me.
01:29Lyra.
01:30Instinctively, I shrunk back before forcing myself in the passenger seat.
01:33In the rearview mirror, I caught sight of my own reflection.
01:35Pale, gaunt, my neck covered in burn scars left by silver weapon.
01:39You've suffered these past seven years.
01:42I'll keep my promise.
01:43Kaylin said.
01:44At the next full moon night, I'll officially mark you and make you my Luna.
01:48He reached over and covered my rough hand with his.
01:50There was no spark, no shiver, no bond.
01:53I looked into his golden-green eyes, where my withered reflection stared back at me and
01:57slowly pulled my hand away.
01:59Even the wolf inside me could not be bothered to whimper.
02:02Okay.
02:04Seven years in Silvermoon Penitentiary.
02:062,557 days soaked in blood and violence.
02:09Long enough to see Kaylin and my family for what they truly were.
02:11They had never loved me, and I no longer wanted to be his mate.
02:14Sensing my indifference, Kaylin let out a low, irritated sound.
02:17Selina knows you're coming back today.
02:19Her trauma response disorder is acting up again.
02:22Your parents and your sister are all at Pack Medical Center calming her down.
02:26I closed my eyes.
02:27The SUV drove into the heart of Crescent Moon Pack territory.
02:31An hour later, we arrived at my home.
02:33Only the Beta Butler and a few Omega Solvents were inside the manor.
02:36They caught the cheap, sour prison smelt clinging to me, and the disgust in their eyes was impossible
02:40to hide.
02:41My parents loved only Selina.
02:43To the servants, I had never been the eldest daughter of this house.
02:46The Beta Butler bowed respectfully to Kaylin first.
02:49Only then did he turn to me.
02:51Miss Lyra, Luna says that now you've returned, you are to stay inside your own scent circle.
02:54Do not wander around and disgrace the pack.
02:56Disgrace.
02:57I had endured seven years of silver burns in Salud's place.
03:01How had I become the shameful one?
03:03But my expectations had died seven years ago.
03:05On that storm-filled night when they used Alpha Command to force my confession.
03:09I understand.
03:10I turned toward the side entrance.
03:12Then Kaylin stiffened, receiving an urgent mind link.
03:15His pupils sharpened into slits.
03:17Lyra, Selen's scent is weakening.
03:20She needs me.
03:21Go rest.
03:22He did not wait for a reply.
03:23He turned at once and disappeared into the night.
03:26I limped back to the storage room that belonged to me and curled up on the narrow wooden bed.
03:33Late that night, drifting between sleep and exhaustion, I heard voices downstairs in the living room.
03:39It was my Beta sister, Chloe.
03:41Alpha father.
03:42Luna mother.
03:43Selina is in terrible shape mentally.
03:45Shouldn't we move Lyra out of the manor?
03:47If Selina catches her scent, she'll have another episode.
03:50My father sighed, but said nothing.
03:51My mother answered first.
03:53She carries our blood.
03:54If we throw her out the moment she gets back from prison, what will the other packs say?
03:57Then what are we supposed to do?
03:58Chloe paced the room, agitation sharp in her voice.
04:01My father finally spoke.
04:03When Selina returns, order Lyra to suppress every trace of her scent.
04:07She is not to appear in front of Selina.
04:09She is not to leave her room for any reason.
04:11My eyes stayed shut, but a burning ache rose behind them.
04:15Then the custom comm device hidden beneath my pillow began to vibrate.
04:19An encrypted message.
04:20Miss Lyra, congratulations.
04:22You have passed the evaluation for the Global Institute for Werewolf and Supernatural Secrecy.
04:26Once you accept the contract, you will depart in ten days, on the night of the full moon, under a
04:31new identity for Sanctum Isle on Dominica Island.
04:34Your pack identity will be permanently erased.
04:36You may not contact any outside wolves for five years.
04:39I did not hesitate.
04:40On the holographic display, I signed my name.
04:44Lyra.
04:45I had passed the Institute's selection process seven years ago.
04:48Before I could take the oath and join, my parents sent me to Silver Moon Penitentiary.
04:52Shortly before my release, I applied again.
04:55As expected, I passed.
04:57Ten days.
04:58If I could endure ten more days, I would sever the pack bond tying me to this frozen family forever.
05:05The next morning, I washed up and pushed open the warped door.
05:09A rich, sugary omega scent flooded the hallway.
05:13Selina was back.
05:14Dressed in a flowing white gown, she sat in the center of the leather sofa like a princess on display.
05:20My alpha father, my luna mother, Chloe, and Kaelin all surrounded her as if she was the center of their
05:26world.
05:27The beta butler set down an elegant cake.
05:30In perfect unison, everyone said,
05:32Happy awakening day, Selina.
05:34Selina smiled sweetly and thanked them all.
05:36Then she lifted her chin.
05:38I just got out of the sterile recovery room.
05:41Did anyone get me something special?
05:42My parents and Chloe each presented expensive gifts.
05:46Kaelin was reaching for his own.
05:49When his sharp gaze found me standing in the shadows.
05:52Lyra, you're awake.
05:54Come here, celebrate with us.
05:56Selina turned toward me, releasing a cloud of innocent pheromones.
05:58Sorry, sis.
06:00My nerve pain flared up yesterday so I couldn't come pick you up.
06:03You're not mad, are you?
06:04Before I could answer, Kaelin spoke for me.
06:07Lyra isn't petty.
06:08She wouldn't blame you.
06:10At that, Selina boldly slipped her arm through his and looked straight at me.
06:14Since it's my awakening day, give me a present too.
06:17She smiled.
06:18I want Kaelin as my mate.
06:20Stealing another wolf's mate was one of the greatest taboons in pack law.
06:24Yet after she said it openly, no one in the room object.
06:27Every wolf there stayed silent.
06:29Their status, their pressure, their authority all pushed toward one thing.
06:32My surrender.
06:33Rage surged through my blood.
06:35I clenched my fists.
06:37And if I say no?
06:39Selina froze for half a second, then switched to French and whimpered dramatically.
06:44I was only joking.
06:45I didn't realize my sister's feral instinct was this savage.
06:49My Luna mother answered her in the same flawless French.
06:52Don't be afraid, Selina.
06:54Lyra spent too long out in the wild.
06:56Her bloodline is beneath yours.
06:58My alpha father released the calming scent of pine.
07:01Blood means nothing.
07:02Your mother and I have only one true daughter.
07:04Chloe joined in without hesitation.
07:06That's right, Selina.
07:07You're my only sister.
07:09I forced down the bitterness rising in my chest and pretended not to understand a word.
07:13And instead, I turned to Kaylin.
07:14What are they saying?
07:16His throat tightened before he answered.
07:19Selina said she was joking.
07:21Everyone just thinks you're being too sensitive.
07:23The room reeked of lies.
07:25What none of them knew was that I had understood every word.
07:28My Luna mother was a world-renowned painter.
07:30My alpha father had once ruled the business world.
07:33But ever since they brought me back from St. Mary's home, they despised the habits I had picked up surviving
07:38on my own.
07:39Every resource, every ounce of love, they gave it all to Selina.
07:43Ten years ago, when Selina was accepted into Elite Art Academy, the entire pack celebrated her.
07:48What they never knew was that I had been admitted to the most prestigious university in the country.
07:52I had also taught myself French, Italian, and Spanish.
07:55None of it mattered now.
07:56Soon, I would be gone from this territory for good.
07:58I just got out of Silvermoon Penitentiary.
08:00I want some air outside the territory.
08:02You all enjoy the party.
08:03Under their contemptuous stares, I dragged my damaged leg towards the door.
08:07Behind me, their laughter and French mockery tangled together.
08:10Not one of them remembered.
08:12Today was my awakening day, too.
08:13Once I left the territory, I suppressed my wolf aura and took a bus to downtown Seattle.
08:17Because of my prison record, the pack had erased my education and every official file tied to my name.
08:22With a ruined leg and no history, I could only find work at a run-down roadside diner.
08:26It would be enough to survive the next ten days.
08:29The irony was almost funny.
08:31Ever since they brought me back at 15, they had resented me for not being as accomplished as Selina and
08:36cut me off completely.
08:37I had paid for school, food, and survival by working in the human world.
08:42At 11.30 that night, I finished washing the last dish.
08:45When I stepped outside, freezing rain hit my face.
08:48Then another scent cut through the storm.
08:50Cold fur.
08:51Powerful.
08:52A top-tier alpha.
08:54Kalen stepped out of a black SUV and strode straight toward me.
08:57Lyra, why have you been gone so long?
09:00He grabbed my wrist and pulled me to the car.
09:03The rear door was already open.
09:05Lyra, happy awakening day.
09:07The words hit me like a blow.
09:09I stood there, frozen.
09:11Kalen's pack and mine had been alive for generations.
09:13Our territories shared a border, and our families had been bound by an old promise long before either of us
09:19was born.
09:20Even after I went missing in Blackwood Forest at the age of two and was not found again until I
09:24was 15, bruised and scarred, that ancient agreement never changed.
09:30I still remember the first time I saw Kalen after I was brought back.
09:34He stood in the sunlight wearing a white shirt, powerful enough to command submission, yet somehow warm at the same
09:40time.
09:40In that cold territory, he was the only one who never recoiled from the wild scent clinging to me.
09:47He used his alpha pressure to shield me.
09:49He brought me prey and gifts on holidays.
09:51He was the only person in that steel and stone world who had ever been kind to me.
09:56And when he was ambushed by a rival pack and left gravely wounded, I gave him an echidna.
10:01I poured the core of my wolf vitality into him without hesitation.
10:04Yet, in the end, he was also the one who used alpha authority to send me to Silvermoon Penipotentiary with
10:11his own hands.
10:12Lyra, what is it?
10:13Kalen's deep voice pulled me back to the present.
10:16Did you think I forgot your awakenation day?
10:18I answered evenly, thank you.
10:20Then he handed me another beautifully wrapped box.
10:22When I opened it, I found a custom-made red wedding gown for a bonding right.
10:28Do you remember telling me as a child that you wanted to wear a red dress when we completed our
10:32mate bond?
10:33I had it made early.
10:35Do you like it?
10:36Bitterness filled my throat.
10:39Alpha, you remembered wrong.
10:40I don't like wedding dresses.
10:42And I hate red.
10:43The headmistress at St. Mary's home once told me she had found me abandoned outside a bridal shop.
10:48At the time, I had been wearing an expensive red dress.
10:51After I was old enough to remember, every full moon night I would return to bridal shop windows by instinct,
10:57wearing red clothes so my people could follow my scent signature and bring me home.
11:03Kalen's eyes tightened.
11:04Just like he had years ago, he reached over and ruffled my hair.
11:07I'm sorry.
11:08I remembered wrong.
11:09Come on.
11:09I'll take you to dinner.
11:10On the drive back, he kept my hand clasped tightly in his.
11:14Lyra, why is your scent so faint?
11:16Why are you thinner than before?
11:18And your leg, he never finished.
11:20A shrink ringtone cut through the car.
11:23The screen flashed one name, Selina.
11:26The moment he answered, panic flooded his face.
11:28Turn around.
11:29Now, back to the territory.
11:31The whole drive back, he spoke into the comdibeshan non-stop, trying to soothe her.
11:35When we rushed into the manor grounds, I looked up.
11:39Selina stood on the rooftop in a white dress, swaying at the edge.
11:43The moment she caught our scent, Selina looked down at us from above.
11:46Her face was pale as paper.
11:48My sister is back, she whispered.
11:50A worthless Omega like me should step aside now.
11:54Goodbye?
11:55Then she jumped.
11:55The Pac-Manon was only one story high.
11:58The roof was barely 30 feet above the ground.
11:59But when Selina fell, every one of my so-called family moved on instinct.
12:03My father, my mother, Chloe, even Kaylin.
12:05All of them lodged forward in a frenzy to save the weaker wolf.
12:08That night, the scream of ambulance sirens echoed over the territory.
12:13Seven years ago, my parents adopted daughter.
12:16My younger sister, Selina, a delicate Omega.
12:18Got drunk, caused a hit and run, and left blood spilled across the human territory border.
12:23My alpha father, my luna mother, and my biological younger sister all came to me with the same patronizing plea.
12:29Selina is an Omega.
12:30She's too fragile for prison.
12:32If she goes to Silvermoon Penitentiary, her wolf won't survive it.
12:35Lyra, take her place.
12:37I refused, but on a stormy night filled with thunder, my father used absolute alpha command.
12:43He crushed my will, took control of my mind, and personally delivered me to the prison transport.
12:47My fiancé, my fated mate, Kaylin, the strongest alpha in the pack, held back his raging wolf era and said
12:52to me,
12:53Lyra, when you get out, we'll complete the mate bond.
12:56Endure these seven years for now.
13:00Seven years later.
13:01Lyra, once you leave Silvermoon Penitentiary, keep your wolf under control and do not look back.
13:07I took the mold-smelling canvas bag from the guard's hand and limped through the iron gates,
13:12dragging the leg that had been ruined by four silver shackles.
13:14A black military SUV waited outside the territory.
13:17The window rolled down, revealed Kaylin's sharp, striking face.
13:20Seven years had passed, and he looked exactly the same.
13:23The suffocating pressure of a top-tier alpha still radiated from him.
13:25Lyra.
13:26Instinctively, I shrunk back before forcing myself in the passenger seat.
13:29In the rearview mirror, I caught sight of my own reflection.
13:32Pale, gaunt, my neck covered in burn scars left by silver weapon.
13:36You've suffered these past seven years.
13:38I'll keep my promise, Kaylin said.
13:40At the next full moon night, I'll officially mark you and make you my Luna.
13:44He reached over and covered my rough hand with his.
13:46There was no spark, no shiver, no bond.
13:49I looked into his golden-green eyes, where my withered reflection stared back at me,
13:53and slowly pulled my hand away.
13:55Even the wolf inside me could not be bothered to whimper.
13:58Okay.
14:00Seven years in Silvermoon Penitentiary.
14:022,557 days soaked in blood and violence.
14:05Long enough to see Kaylin and my family for what they truly were.
14:08They had never loved me, and I no longer wanted to be his mate.
14:10Sensing my indifference, Kaylin let out a low, irritated sound.
14:13Selina knows you're coming back today.
14:15Her trauma response disorder is acting up again.
14:18Your parents and your sister are all at Pack Medical Center calming her down.
14:22I closed my eyes.
14:23The SUV drove into the heart of Crescent Moon Pack territory.
14:27An hour later, we arrived at my home.
14:29Only the Beta Butler and a few Omega Solvents were inside the manor.
14:32They caught the cheap, sour prison smelt clinging to me,
14:35and the disgust in their eyes was impossible to hide.
14:37My parents loved only Selina.
14:39To the servants, I had never been the eldest daughter of this house.
14:42The Beta Butler bowed respectfully to Kaylin first.
14:45Only then did he turn to me.
14:47Miss Lyra, Luna says that now you've returned,
14:49you are to stay inside your own scent circle.
14:50Do not wander around and disgrace the pack.
14:53Disgrace.
14:53I had endured seven years of silver burns in Selu's place.
14:57How had I become the shameful one?
14:59But my expectations had died seven years ago,
15:02on that storm-filled night when they used Alpha Command to force my confession.
15:06I understand.
15:06I turned toward the side entrance.
15:08Then Kaylin stiffened, receiving an urgent mind link.
15:11His pupils sharpened into slits.
15:13Lyra, Selen's scent is weakening.
15:16She needs me.
15:17Go rest.
15:18He did not wait for a reply.
15:19He turned at once and disappeared into the night.
15:22I limped back to the storage room that belonged to me and curled up on the narrow wooden bed.
15:29Late that night, drifting between sleep and exhaustion,
15:33I heard voices downstairs in the living room.
15:35It was my Beta sister, Chloe.
15:37Alpha father.
15:38Luna mother.
15:39Selina is in terrible shape mentally.
15:41Shouldn't we move Lyra out of the manor?
15:43If Selah catches her scent, she'll have another episode.
15:46My father sighed, but said nothing.
15:48My mother answered first.
15:49She carries our blood.
15:50If we throw her out the moment she gets back from prison, what will the other pack say?
15:53Then what are we supposed to do?
15:54Chloe paced the room, agitation sharp in her voice.
15:57My father finally spoke.
15:58When Selene returns, order Lyra to suppress every trace of her scent.
16:03She is not to appear in front of Selene.
16:06She is not to leave her room for any reason.
16:08My eyes stayed shut, but a burning ache rose behind them.
16:11Then the custom comm device hidden beneath my pillow began to vibrate.
16:15An encrypted message.
16:16Miss Lyra, congratulations.
16:18You have passed the evaluation for the Global Institute for Werewolf and Supernatural Secrecy.
16:22Once you accept the contract, you will depart in ten days, on the night of the full moon,
16:27under a new identity for Sanctum Isle on Dominica Island.
16:30Your pack identity will be permanently erased.
16:32You may not contact any outside wolves for five years.
16:35I did not hesitate.
16:37On the holographic display, I signed my name.
16:40Lyra.
16:40I had passed the Institute's selection process seven years ago.
16:44Before I could take the oath and join, my parents sent me to Silver Moon Penitentiary.
16:49Shortly before my release, I applied again.
16:51As expected, I passed.
16:53Ten days.
16:54If I could endure ten more days, I would sever the pack bond tying me to this frozen family forever.
17:01The next morning, I washed up and pushed open the warped door.
17:06A rich, sugary omega scent flooded the hallway.
17:09Selina was back.
17:11Dressed in a flowing white gown, she sat in the center of the leather sofa like a princess on display.
17:16My alpha father, my luna mother, Chloe, and Kaylin all surrounded her as if she was the center of their
17:22world.
17:23The beta butler set down an elegant cake.
17:26In perfect unison, everyone said,
17:28Happy Awakening Day, Selina.
17:30Selina smiled sweetly and thanked them all.
17:33Then she lifted her chin.
17:34I just got out of the sterile recovery room.
17:37Did anyone get me something special?
17:38My parents and Chloe each presented expensive gifts.
17:42Kaylin was reaching for his own.
17:45When his sharp gaze found me standing in the shadows.
17:48Lyra, you're awake.
17:50Come here.
17:51Celebrate with us.
17:52Selina turned toward me, releasing a cloud of innocent pheromones.
17:55Sorry, sis.
17:56My nerve pain flared up yesterday so I couldn't come pick you up.
17:59You're not mad, are you?
18:01Before I could answer, Kaylin spoke for me.
18:03Lyra isn't petty.
18:04She wouldn't blame you.
18:06At that, Selina boldly slipped her arm through his and looked straight at me.
18:10Since it's my awakening day, give me a present too.
18:14She smiled.
18:14I want Kaylin as my mate.
18:16Stealing another wolf's mate was one of the greatest taboons in pack law.
18:20Yet after she said it openly, no one in the room object.
18:23Every wolf there stayed silent.
18:25Their status, their pressure, their authority all pushed toward one thing.
18:29My surrender.
18:30Rage surged through my blood.
18:31I clenched my fists.
18:33And if I say no?
18:36Selina froze for half a second, then switched to French and whimpered dramatically.
18:40I was only joking.
18:41I didn't realize my sister's feral instinct was this savage.
18:45My Luna mother answered her in the same flawless French.
18:48Don't be afraid, Selina.
18:50Lyra spent too long out in the wild.
18:52Her bloodline is beneath yours.
18:54My alpha father released the calming scent of pine.
18:57Blood means nothing.
18:58Your mother and I have only one true daughter.
19:00Chloe joined in without hesitation.
19:02That's right, Selina.
19:03You're my only sister.
19:05I forced down the bitterness rising in my chest and pretended not to understand a word.
19:09And instead, I turned to Kaylin.
19:10What are they saying?
19:12His throat tightened before he answered.
19:15Selina said she was joking.
19:17Everyone just thinks you're being too sensitive.
19:19The room reeked of lies.
19:21What none of them knew was that I had understood every word.
19:24My Luna mother was a world-renowned painter.
19:27My alpha father had once ruled the business world.
19:29But ever since they brought me back from St. Mary's home, they despised the habits I had picked up surviving
19:34on my own.
19:35Every resource, every ounce of love, they gave it all to Selina.
19:39Ten years ago, when Selina was accepted into Elite Art Academy, the entire pack celebrated her.
19:44What they never knew was that I had been admitted to the most prestigious university in the country.
19:48I had also taught myself French, Italian, and Spanish.
19:51None of it mattered now.
19:52Soon I would be gone from this territory for good.
19:54I just got out of Silvermoon Penitentiary.
19:56I want some air outside the territory.
19:58You all enjoy the party.
19:59Under their contemptuous stares, I dragged my damaged leg towards the door.
20:03Behind me, their laughter and French mockery tangled together.
20:06Not one of them remembered.
20:08Today was my awakening day, too.
20:09Once I left the territory, I suppressed my wolf aura and took a bus to downtown Seattle.
20:14Because of my prison record, the pack had erased my education and every official file tied to my name.
20:18With a ruined leg and no history, I could only find work at a run-down roadside diner.
20:22It would be enough to survive the next ten days.
20:26The irony was almost funny.
20:28Ever since they brought me back at fifteen, they had resented me for not being as accomplished as Selina and
20:32cut me off completely.
20:34I had paid for school, food, and survival by working in the human world.
20:38At eleven-thirty that night, I finished washing the last dish.
20:41When I stepped outside, freezing rain hit my face.
20:44Then another scent cut through the storm.
20:46Cold fur.
20:48Powerful.
20:48A top-tier alpha.
20:50Kalen stepped out of a black SUV and strode straight toward me.
20:53Lyra, why have you been gone so long?
20:56He grabbed my wrist and pulled me to the car.
20:59The rear door was already open.
21:01Lyra, happy awakening day.
21:03The words hit me like a blow.
21:05I stood there, frozen.
21:07Kalen's pack and mine had been allied for generations.
21:10Our territories shared a border,
21:11and our families had been bound by an old promise long before either of us was born.
21:16Even after I went missing in Blackwood Forest at the age of two and was not found again until I
21:20was fifteen,
21:22bruised and scarred,
21:23that ancient agreement never changed.
21:26I still remember the first time I saw Kalen after I was brought back.
21:30He stood in the sunlight wearing a white shirt,
21:32powerful enough to command submission,
21:35yet somehow warm at the same time.
21:37In that cold territory, he was the only one who never recoiled from the wild scent clinging to me.
21:43He used his alpha pressure to shield me.
21:45He brought me prey and gifts on holidays.
21:48He was the only person in that steel and stone world who had ever been kind to me.
21:52And when he was ambushed by a rival pack and left Gravely,
21:55I gave him an echidna.
21:57I poured the core of my wolf vitality into him without hesitation.
22:00Yet, in the end,
22:02he was also the one who used alpha authority to send me to Silvermoon Pennipotentiary with his own hands.
22:08Lyra, what is it?
22:09Kalen's deep voice pulled me back to the present.
22:12Did you think I forgot your awakenation day?
22:14I answered evenly,
22:16Then he handed me another beautifully wrapped box.
22:18When I opened it,
22:19I found a custom-made red wedding gown for a bonding rite.
22:24Do you remember telling me as a child that you wanted to wear a red dress when we completed our
22:28mate bond?
22:29I had it made early.
22:31Do you like it?
22:32Bitterness filled my throat.
22:34Alpha,
22:35you remembered wrong.
22:37I don't like wedding dresses.
22:38And I hate red.
22:39The headmistress at St. Mary's home once told me she had found me abandoned outside a bridal shop.
22:44At the time,
22:45I had been wearing an expensive red dress.
22:47After I was old enough to remember,
22:49every full moon night,
22:50I would return to bridal shop windows by instinct.
22:53Wearing red clothes so my people could follow my scent signature and bring me home.
22:59Kalen's eyes tightened.
23:00Just like he had years ago,
23:01he reached over and ruffled my hair.
23:03I'm sorry.
23:04I remembered wrong.
23:05Come on.
23:06I'll take you to dinner.
23:07On the drive back,
23:08he kept my hand clasped tightly in his.
23:10Lyra,
23:11why is your scent so faint?
23:13Why are you thinner than before?
23:14And your leg,
23:15he never finished.
23:16A shrink ringtone cut through the car.
23:18The screen flashed one name,
23:21Selina.
23:22The moment he answered,
23:23panic flooded his face.
23:25Turn around.
23:25Now,
23:26back to the territory.
23:27The whole drive back,
23:28he spoke into the comdibeshan non-stop,
23:30trying to soothe her.
23:31When we rushed into the manor grounds,
23:33I looked up.
23:35Selina stood on the rooftop in a white dress,
23:38swaying at the edge.
23:39The moment she caught our scent,
23:41Selina looked down at us from above.
23:42Her face was pale as paper.
23:44My sister is back,
23:45she whispered.
23:46A worthless Omega like me
23:48should step aside now.
23:50Goodbye?
23:51Then she jumped.
23:52The Pac-Manon was only one story high.
23:54The roof was barely 30 feet above the ground.
23:56But when Selina fell,
23:57every one of my so-called family moved on instinct.
23:59My father,
24:00my mother,
24:00Chloe,
24:01even Kaylin.
24:02All of them lodged forward in a frenzy
24:03to save the weaker wolf.
24:04That night,
24:05the scream of ambulance sirens
24:07echoed over the territory.
24:09Seven years ago,
24:11my parents adopted daughter.
24:12My younger sister,
24:13Selina,
24:13a delicate Omega,
24:14got drunk,
24:15caused a hit and run,
24:16and left blood spilled
24:17across the human territory border.
24:19My alpha father,
24:20my luna mother,
24:21and my biological younger sister
24:23all came to me
24:24with the same patronizing plea.
24:25Selina is an Omega.
24:26She's too fragile for prison.
24:28If she goes to Silvermoon Penitentiary,
24:30her wolf won't survive it.
24:31Lyra,
24:32take her place.
24:34I refused.
24:34But on a stormy night,
24:36it opened up the thunder.
24:36My father used absolute alpha command.
24:39He crushed my will,
24:40took control of my mind,
24:41and personally delivered me
24:42to the prison transport.
24:43My fiancé,
24:44my fated mate,
24:45Kaylin,
24:45the strongest alpha in the pack,
24:47held back his raging wolf era
24:48and said to me,
24:49Lyra,
24:50when you get out,
24:51we'll complete the mate bond.
24:52Endure these seven years
24:54for now.
24:56Seven years later.
24:57Lyra,
24:58once you leave Silvermoon Penitentiary,
25:00keep your wolf under control
25:01and do not look back.
25:03I took the mold-smelling canvas bag
25:05from the guard's hand
25:06and limped through the iron gates,
25:08dragging the leg
25:09that had been ruined
25:09by four silver shackles.
25:11A black military SUV
25:12waited outside the territory.
25:13The window rolled down
25:14revealed Kaylin's sharp,
25:15striking face.
25:16Seven years had passed,
25:17and he looked exactly the same.
25:19The suffocating pressure
25:20of a top-tier alpha
25:20still radiated from him.
25:22Lyra,
25:22instinctively,
25:23I shrunk back
25:23before forcing myself
25:24in the passenger seat.
25:25In the rearview mirror,
25:26I caught sight of my own reflection.
25:28Pale,
25:28gaunt,
25:29my neck covered in burn scars
25:30left by silver weapon.
25:32You've suffered
25:32these past seven years.
25:34I'll keep my promise,
25:35Kaylin said.
25:36At the next full moon night,
25:38I'll officially mark you
25:39and make you my Luna.
25:40He reached over
25:41and covered my rough hand
25:42with his.
25:43There was no spark,
25:44no shiver,
25:45no bond.
25:45I looked into his golden-green eyes,
25:47where my withered reflection
25:48stared back at me
25:49and slowly pulled my hand away.
25:51Even the wolf inside me
25:53could not be bothered to whimper.
25:54Okay.
25:56Seven years in Silvermoon Penitentiary.
25:582,557 days
26:00soaked in blood and violence.
26:01Long enough to see Kaylin
26:02and my family
26:03for what they truly were.
26:04They had never loved me
26:05and I no longer
26:05wanted to be his mate.
26:06Sensing my indifference,
26:07Kaylin let out
26:07a low, irritated sound.
26:09Selina knows
26:10you're coming back today.
26:11Her trauma response disorder
26:13is acting up again.
26:14Your parents and your sister
26:16are all at
26:16PAC Medical Center
26:17calming her down.
26:18I closed my eyes.
26:19The SUV drove into the heart
26:21of Crescent Moon PAC territory.
26:23An hour later,
26:24we arrived at my home.
26:25Only the Beta Butler
26:26and a few Omega Solvents
26:27were inside the manor.
26:28They caught the cheap,
26:29sour prison smelt
26:30clinging to me
26:31and the disgust in their eyes
26:32was impossible to hide.
26:33My parents loved only Selina.
26:35To the servants,
26:36I had never been
26:37the eldest daughter
26:37of this house.
26:38The Beta Butler
26:39bowed respectfully
26:40to Kaylin first.
26:41Only then
26:42did he turn to me.
26:43Miss Lyra,
26:44Luna says that now
26:44you've returned
26:45you are to stay
26:45inside your own scent circle.
26:47Do not wander around
26:48and disgrace the PAC.
26:49Disgrace.
26:50I had endured
26:51seven years of Silverburns
26:52in Selu's place.
26:53How had I become
26:54the shameful one?
26:55But my expectations
26:56had died seven years ago.
26:58On that storm-filled night
26:59when they used Alpha Command
27:01to force my confession,
27:02I understand.
27:02I turned toward
27:03the side entrance.
27:04Then Kaylin stiffened,
27:06receiving an urgent mind link.
27:07His pupils sharpened
27:08into slits.
27:09Lyra,
27:11Selen's scent is weakening.
27:12She needs me.
27:13Go rest.
27:14He did not wait
27:15for a reply.
27:16He turned at once
27:17and disappeared
27:17into the night.
27:18I limped back
27:19to the storage room
27:20that belonged to me
27:21and curled up
27:22on the narrow wooden bed.
27:25Late that night,
27:26drifting between sleep
27:28and exhaustion,
27:29I heard voices
27:30downstairs in the living room.
27:32It was my beta sister,
27:33Chloe.
27:34Alpha father,
27:34Luna mother.
27:36Selenna is in terrible
27:37shape mentally.
27:38Shouldn't we move
27:38Lyra out of the manor?
27:39If Selenna catches her scent,
27:41she'll have another episode.
27:42My father sighed
27:43but said nothing.
27:44My mother answered first.
27:45She carries our blood.
27:46If we throw her out
27:47the moment she gets back
27:47from prison,
27:48what will the other PACs say?
27:49Then what are we supposed to do?
27:50Chloe paced the room,
27:52agitation sharp in her voice.
27:53My father finally spoke.
27:55When Selenna returns,
27:57order Lyra to suppress
27:58every trace of her scent.
28:00She is not to appear
28:01in front of Selen.
28:02She is not to leave
28:02her room for any reason.
28:04My eyes stayed shut
28:05but a burning ache
28:06rose behind them.
28:08Then the custom comm device
28:09hidden beneath my pillow
28:10began to vibrate.
28:11An encrypted message.
28:12Miss Lyra, congratulations.
28:14You have passed
28:15the evaluation
28:15for the Global Institute
28:16for Werewolf
28:17and Supernatural Secrecy.
28:18Once you accept the contract,
28:20you will depart in ten days
28:21on the night of the full moon
28:23under a new identity
28:24for Sanctum Isle
28:25on Dominica Island.
28:26Your PAC identity
28:27will be permanently erased.
28:28You may not contact
28:29any outside wolves
28:30for five years.
28:31I did not hesitate.
28:33On the holographic display,
28:35I signed my name.
28:36Lyra.
28:37I had passed the Institute
28:38selection process
28:39seven years ago.
28:40Before I could take
28:41the oath and join,
28:42my parents sent me
28:43to Silver Moon Penitentiary.
28:45Shortly before my release,
28:46I applied again.
28:47As expected,
28:48I passed.
28:49Ten days.
28:50If I could endure
28:51ten more days,
28:52I would sever the PAC bond
28:53tying me to this
28:54frozen family forever.
28:58The next morning,
28:59I washed up
29:00and pushed open
29:01the warped door.
29:02A rich,
29:03sugary Omega scent
29:04flooded the hallway.
29:05Selena was back.
29:07Dressed in a flowing
29:08white gown,
29:09she sat in the center
29:10of the leather sofa
29:11like a princess on display.
29:12My Alpha father,
29:14my Luna mother,
29:15Chloe,
29:15and Kaylin
29:16all surrounded her
29:17as if she was
29:18the center of their world.
29:19The Beta butler
29:21set down an elegant cake.
29:22In perfect unison,
29:24everyone said,
29:25Happy Awakening Day,
29:26Selena.
29:27Selena smiled sweetly
29:28and thanked them all.
29:29Then she lifted her chin.
29:30I just got out
29:31of the sterile recovery room.
29:33Did anyone get me
29:34something special?
29:35My parents and Chloe
29:36each presented
29:37expensive gifts.
29:38Kaylin was reaching
29:40for his own
29:40when his sharp gaze
29:42found me standing
29:43in the shadows.
29:45Lyra,
29:46you're awake.
29:46Come here,
29:47celebrate with us.
29:48Selena turned toward me,
29:49releasing a cloud
29:50of innocent pheromones.
29:51Sorry, sis.
29:52My nerve pain
29:53flared up yesterday
29:54so I couldn't come
29:55pick you up.
29:55You're not mad,
29:56are you?
29:57Before I could answer,
29:58Kaylin spoke for me.
29:59Lyra isn't petty.
30:01She wouldn't blame you.
30:02At that,
30:03Selena boldly slipped
30:04her arm through his
30:05and looked straight at me.
30:06Since it's my
30:07Awakening Day,
30:08give me a present too.
30:10She smiled.
30:11I want Kaylin as my mate.
30:12Stealing another wolf's mate
30:14was one of the greatest
30:15taboons in pack law.
30:16Yet after she said it openly,
30:18no one in the room object.
30:19Every wolf there
30:20stayed silent.
30:21Their status,
30:22their pressure,
30:22their authority
30:23all pushed toward one thing.
30:25My surrender.
30:26Rage surged
30:27through my blood.
30:28I clenched my fists.
30:29And if I say no?
30:32Selena froze
30:33for half a second,
30:34then switched to French
30:35and whimpered dramatically.
30:36I was only joking.
30:38I didn't realize
30:39my sister's feral instinct
30:40was this savage.
30:42My Luna mother
30:42answered her
30:43in the same flawless French.
30:45Don't be afraid, Selena.
30:46Lyra spent too long
30:47out in the wild.
30:48Her bloodline
30:49is beneath yours.
30:50My alpha father
30:51released the calming
30:52scent of pine.
30:53Blood means nothing.
30:54Your mother and I
30:55have only one true daughter.
30:57Chloe joined in
30:57without hesitation.
30:58That's right, Selena.
31:00You're my only sister.
31:01I forced down the bitterness
31:02rising in my chest
31:03and pretended not
31:04to understand a word.
31:05And instead,
31:06I turned to Kaylin.
31:07What are they saying?
31:08His throat tightened
31:09before he answered.
31:11Selena said she was joking.
31:13Everyone just thinks
31:14you're being too sensitive.
31:15The room reeked of lies.
31:17What none of them knew
31:18was that I had understood
31:19every word.
31:20My Luna mother
31:21was a world-renowned painter.
31:23My alpha father
31:24had once ruled
31:24the business world.
31:25But ever since they brought me
31:27back from St. Mary's home,
31:28they despised the habits
31:29I had picked up
31:30surviving on my own.
31:31Every resource,
31:33every ounce of love,
31:34they gave it all to Selene.
31:36Ten years ago,
31:36when Selena was accepted
31:37into Elite Art Academy,
31:39the entire pack celebrated her.
31:40What they never knew
31:41was that I had been admitted
31:42to the most prestigious
31:43university in the country.
31:44I had also taught myself
31:45French, Italian, and Spanish.
31:47None of it mattered now.
31:48Soon, I would be gone
31:49from this territory for good.
31:51I just got out
31:51of Silvermoon Penitentiary.
31:52I want some air
31:53outside the territory.
31:54You all enjoy the party.
31:55Under their contemptuous stairs,
31:57I dragged my damaged leg
31:58towards the door.
31:59Behind me,
31:59their laughter
32:00and French mockery
32:01tangled together.
32:02Not one of them remembered.
32:04Today was my awakening day, too.
32:06Once I left the territory,
32:07I suppressed my wolf aura
32:08and took a bus
32:09to downtown Seattle.
32:10Because of my prison record,
32:11the pack had erased
32:12my education
32:13and every official file
32:14tied to my name.
32:14With a ruined leg
32:15and no history,
32:16I could only find work
32:17at a run-down roadside diner.
32:19It would be enough
32:19to survive the next 10 days.
32:22The irony was almost funny.
32:24Ever since they brought me
32:25back at 15,
32:26they had resented me
32:27for not being as accomplished
32:28as Selena
32:28and cut me off completely.
32:30I had paid for school,
32:31food, and survival
32:32by working in the human world.
32:34At 11.30 that night,
32:35I finished washing
32:36the last dish.
32:37When I stepped outside,
32:39freezing rain hit my face.
32:40Then another scent
32:41cut through the storm.
32:43Cold fur.
32:44Powerful.
32:44A top-tier alpha.
32:46Kaylin stepped out
32:47of a black SUV
32:48and strode straight toward me.
32:50Lyra,
32:50why have you been gone so long?
32:52He grabbed my wrist
32:53and pulled me to the car.
32:55The rear door
32:56was already open.
32:58Lyra,
32:58happy awakening day.
33:00The words hit me like a blow.
33:01I stood there,
33:02frozen.
33:03Kaylin's pack and mine
33:04had been allied
33:05for generations.
33:06Our territories
33:07shared a border
33:07and our families
33:08had been bound
33:09by an old promise
33:10long before
33:11either of us was born.
33:12Even after I went missing
33:13in Blackwood Forest
33:14at the age of two
33:15and was not found again
33:16until I was 15,
33:18bruised and scarred,
33:20that ancient agreement
33:21never changed.
33:22I still remember
33:23the first time
33:24I saw Kaylin
33:25after I was brought back.
33:26He stood in the sunlight
33:27wearing a white shirt,
33:29powerful enough
33:29to command submission,
33:31yet somehow warm
33:32at the same time.
33:33In that cold territory,
33:35he was the only one
33:36who never recoiled
33:37from the wild scent
33:38clinging to me.
33:39He used his alpha pressure
33:40to shield me.
33:41He brought me prey
33:42and gifts on holidays.
33:44He was the only person
33:45in that steel and stone world
33:47who had ever been kind to me.
33:48And when he was ambushed
33:50by a rival pack
33:50and left gravely empty,
33:52I gave him my kidney.
33:53I poured the core
33:54of my wolf vitality
33:55into him without hesitation.
33:57Yet in the end,
33:58he was also the one
33:59who used alpha authority
34:00to send me to silver moon
34:02penipetentiary
34:03with his own hands.
34:04Lyra, what is it?
34:06Kaylin's deep voice
34:07pulled me back
34:07to the present.
34:08Did you think I forgot
34:09your awakenation day?
34:10I answered evenly,
34:11thank you.
34:12Then he handed me
34:13another beautifully wrapped box.
34:14When I opened it,
34:16I found a custom-made
34:17red wedding gown
34:18for a bonding rite.
34:20Do you remember telling me
34:21as a child
34:22that you wanted to wear
34:23a red dress
34:23when we completed
34:24our mate bond?
34:25I had it made early.
34:27Do you like it?
34:29Bitterness filled my throat.
34:30Alpha,
34:31you remembered wrong.
34:33I don't like wedding dresses
34:34and I hate red.
34:36The headmistress
34:36at St. Mary's home
34:37once told me
34:38she had found me abandoned
34:39outside a bridal shop.
34:40At the time,
34:41I had been wearing
34:42an expensive red dress.
34:43After I was old enough
34:44to remember,
34:45every full moon night
34:47I would return
34:47to bridal shop windows
34:48by instinct,
34:50wearing red clothes
34:51so my people
34:52could follow my scent
34:53signature
34:53and bring me home.
34:55Palin's eyes tightened.
34:56Just like he had years ago,
34:58he reached over
34:58and ruffled my hair.
34:59I'm sorry.
35:00I remembered wrong.
35:01Come on.
35:02I'll take you to dinner.
35:03On the drive back,
35:04he kept my hand
35:05clasped tightly in his.
35:07Lyra,
35:07why is your scent so faint?
35:09Why are you thinner than before?
35:10And your leg,
35:11he never finished.
35:13A shrink ringtone
35:14cut through the car.
35:15The screen flashed
35:16one name,
35:17Selina.
35:18The moment he answered,
35:19panic flooded his face.
35:21Turn around.
35:22Now,
35:22back to the territory.
35:23The whole drive back,
35:24he spoke into the
35:25comdibeshan non-stop,
35:26trying to soothe her.
35:27When we rushed
35:28into the manor grounds,
35:29I looked up.
35:32Selina stood on the rooftop
35:33in a white dress,
35:34swaying at the edge.
35:35The moment she caught our scent,
35:37Selina looked down
35:37at us from above.
35:38Her face was pale as paper.
35:40My sister is back,
35:41she whispered.
35:42A worthless Omega like me
35:44should step aside now.
35:46Goodbye?
35:47Then she jumped.
35:48The Pac-Manon was only
35:49one story high.
35:50The roof was barely
35:5130 feet above the ground.
35:52But when Selina fell,
35:53every one of my so-called
35:54family moved on instinct.
35:55My father,
35:56my mother,
35:57Chloe,
35:57even Kaylin.
35:58All of them lodged forward
35:59in a frenzy
35:59to save the weaker wolf.
36:00That night,
36:01the scream of ambulance sirens
36:03echoed over the territory.
36:06Seven years ago,
36:07my parents adopted daughter.
36:08My younger sister,
36:09Selina,
36:10a delicate Omega,
36:11got drunk,
36:11caused a hit and run,
36:12and left blood spilled
36:13across the human territory border.
36:15My alpha father,
36:16my luna mother,
36:17and my biological younger sister
36:19all came to me
36:20with the same patronizing plea.
36:21Selina is an Omega.
36:23She's too fragile for prison.
36:24If she goes to Silvermoon Penitentiary,
36:26her wolf won't survive it.
36:28Lyra,
36:28take her place.
36:30I refused,
36:31but on a stormy night
36:32ago befunder,
36:33my father used
36:34absolute alpha command.
36:35He crushed my will,
36:36took control of my mind,
36:37and personally delivered me
36:38to the prison transport.
36:39My fiancé,
36:40my fated mate,
36:41Kaylin,
36:41the strongest alpha in the pack,
36:43held back his raging wolf era
36:44and said to me,
36:45Lyra,
36:46when you get out,
36:47we'll complete the mate bond.
36:48Endure
36:49these seven years
36:50for now.
36:52Seven years later.
36:53Lyra,
36:54once you leave
36:55Silvermoon Penitentiary,
36:56keep your wolf under control
36:58and do not look back.
36:59I took the mold-smelling canvas bag
37:01from the guard's hand
37:02and limped through the iron gates,
37:04dragging the leg
37:05that had been ruined
37:05by four silver shackles.
37:07A black military SUV
37:08waited outside the territory.
37:10The window rolled down
37:10revealed Kaylin's sharp,
37:12striking face.
37:12Seven years had passed,
37:13and he looked exactly the same.
37:15The suffocating pressure
37:16of a top-tier alpha
37:17still radiated from him.
37:18Lyra,
37:18instinctively,
37:19I shrunk back
37:19before forcing myself
37:20in the passenger seat.
37:21In the rearview mirror,
37:22I caught sight of my own reflection,
37:24pale,
37:25gaunt,
37:25my neck covered in burn scars
37:26left by silver weapon.
37:28You've suffered
37:29these past seven years.
37:30I'll keep my promise,
37:31Kaylin said.
37:32At the next full moon night,
37:34I'll officially mark you
37:35and make you my Luna.
37:36He reached over
37:37and covered my rough hand
37:38with his.
37:39There was no spark,
37:40no shiver,
37:41no bond.
37:42I looked into his
37:42golden-green eyes,
37:43where my withered reflection
37:44stared back at me
37:45and slowly pulled my hand away.
37:47Even the wolf inside me
37:49could not be bothered to whimper.
37:50Okay.
37:52Seven years in Silvermoon Penitentiary,
37:542,557 days soaked in blood and violence,
37:57long enough to see Kaylin and my family
37:59for what they truly were.
38:00They had never loved me,
38:01and I no longer wanted to be his mate.
38:02Sensing my indifference,
38:03Kaylin let out a low,
38:04irritated sound.
38:05Selina knows you're coming back today.
38:07Her trauma response disorder
38:09is acting up again.
38:10Your parents and your sister
38:12are all at Pack Medical Center
38:13calming her down.
38:14I closed my eyes.
38:15The SUV drove into the heart
38:17of Crescent Moon Pack territory.
38:19An hour later,
38:20we arrived at my home.
38:21Only the Beta Butler
38:22and a few Omega Solvents
38:24were inside the manor.
38:25They caught the cheap,
38:26sour prison smelt
38:26clinging to me,
38:27and the disgust in their eyes
38:28was impossible to hide.
38:29My parents loved only Selina.
38:31To the servants,
38:32I had never been
38:33the eldest daughter of this house.
38:35The Beta Butler
38:35bowed respectfully to Kaylin first.
38:37Only then did he turn to me.
38:39Miss Lyra,
38:40Luna says that now you've returned,
38:41you are to stay inside
38:42your own scent circle.
38:43Do not wander around
38:44and disgrace the Pack.
38:45Disgrace.
38:46I had endured seven years
38:47of silver burns
38:48in Selu's place.
38:49How had I become
38:50the shameful one?
38:51But my expectations
38:52had died seven years ago,
38:54on that storm-filled night
38:56when they used Alpha Command
38:57to force my confession.
38:58I understand.
38:59I turned toward
38:59the side entrance.
39:00Then Kaylin stiffened,
39:02receiving an urgent mind link.
39:04His pupils sharpened
39:05into slits.
39:06Lyra,
39:07Selen's scent is weakening.
39:08She needs me.
39:09Go rest.
39:10He did not wait for a reply.
39:12He turned at once
39:13and disappeared into the night.
39:14I limped back
39:15to the storage room
39:16that belonged to me
39:17and curled up
39:18on the narrow wooden bed.
39:21Late that night,
39:23drifting between sleep
39:24and exhaustion,
39:25I heard voices
39:26downstairs in the living room.
39:28It was my beta sister,
39:29Chloe.
39:30Alpha father,
39:30Luna mother.
39:32Selenna is in terrible shape
39:33mentally.
39:34Shouldn't we move Lyra
39:35out of the manor?
39:36If Selenna catches her scent,
39:37she'll have another episode.
39:38My father sighed,
39:39but said nothing.
39:40My mother answered first.
39:41She carries our blood.
39:42If we throw her out
39:43the moment she gets back
39:44from prison,
39:44what will the other pack say?
39:45Then what are we supposed to do?
39:47Chloe paced the room,
39:48agitation sharp in her voice.
39:50My father finally spoke.
39:51When Selen returns,
39:53order Lyra to suppress
39:54every trace of her scent.
39:56She is not to appear
39:57in front of Selen.
39:58She is not to leave
39:58her room for any reason.
40:00My eyes stayed shut,
40:01but a burning ache
40:02rose behind them.
40:04Then the custom comm device
40:05hidden beneath my pillow
40:06began to vibrate.
40:07An encrypted message.
40:08Miss Lyra, congratulations.
40:10You have passed the evaluation
40:11for the Global Institute
40:13for Werewolf
40:13and Supernatural Secrecy.
40:15Once you accept the contract,
40:16you will depart in 10 days
40:17on the night of the full moon
40:19under a new identity
40:20for Sanctum Isle
40:21on Dominica Island.
40:22Your pack identity
40:23will be permanently erased.
40:25You may not contact
40:26any outside wolves
40:26for five years.
40:27I did not hesitate.
40:29On the holographic display,
40:31I signed my name.
40:32Lyra.
40:33I had passed the Institute
40:34selection process
40:35seven years ago
40:36before I could take the oath
40:37and join
40:38my parents sent me
40:39to Silver Moon Penitentiary.
40:41Shortly before my release,
40:42I applied again.
40:44As expected,
40:45I passed.
40:45Ten days.
40:46If I could endure
40:47ten more days,
40:48I would sever the pack bond
40:50tying me to this
40:51frozen family forever.
40:54The next morning,
40:55I washed up
40:56and pushed open
40:57the warped door.
40:58A rich,
40:59sugary Omega scent
41:00flooded the hallway.
41:01Selina was back.
41:03Dressed in a flowing
41:04white gown,
41:05she sat in the center
41:06of the leather sofa
41:07like a princess on display.
41:09My alpha father,
41:10my luna mother,
41:11Chloe,
41:12and Kaylin
41:12all surrounded her
41:13as if she was
41:14the center of their world.
41:16The beta butler
41:17set down an elegant cake.
41:18In perfect unison,
41:20everyone said,
41:21Happy Awakening Day,
41:22Selina.
41:23Selina smiled sweetly
41:24and thanked them all.
41:25Then she lifted her chin.
41:26I just got out
41:27of the sterile recovery room.
41:29Did anyone get me
41:30something special?
41:31My parents and Chloe
41:32each presented
41:33expensive gifts.
41:35Kaylin was reaching
41:36for his own
41:37when his sharp gaze
41:38found me standing
41:39in the shadows.
41:41Lyra,
41:42you're awake.
41:43Come here.
41:43Celebrate with us.
41:44Selina turned toward me,
41:45releasing a cloud
41:46of innocent pheromones.
41:47Sorry, sis.
41:48My nerve pain
41:49flared up yesterday
41:50so I couldn't come
41:51pick you up.
41:52You're not mad, are you?
41:53Before I could answer,
41:54Kaylin spoke for me.
41:55Lyra isn't petty.
41:57She wouldn't blame you.
41:59At that,
41:59Selina boldly slipped
42:00her arm through his
42:01and looked straight at me.
42:02Since it's my awakening day,
42:04give me a present too.
42:06She smiled.
42:07I want Kaylin as my mate.
42:09Stealing another wolf's mate
42:10was one of the greatest
42:11taboons in pack law.
42:12Yet after she said it openly,
42:14no one in the room object.
42:15Every wolf there
42:16stayed silent.
42:17Their status,
42:18their pressure,
42:19their authority
42:19all pushed toward one thing.
42:21My surrender.
42:22Rage surged
42:23through my blood.
42:24I clenched my fists.
42:25And if I say
42:26no?
42:28Selina froze for half a second,
42:30then switched to French
42:31and whimpered dramatically.
42:32I was only joking.
42:34I didn't realize
42:35my sister's feral instinct
42:37was this savage.
42:38My Luna mother answered her
42:39in the same flawless French.
42:41Don't be afraid, Selina.
42:42Lyra spent too long
42:43out in the wild.
42:44Her bloodline
42:45is beneath yours.
42:46My alpha father
42:47released the calming
42:48scent of pine.
42:49Blood means nothing.
42:51Your mother and I
42:51have only one true daughter.
42:53Chloe joined in
42:54without hesitation.
42:55That's right, Selina.
42:56You're my only sister.
42:57I forced down
42:58the bitterness
42:58rising in my chest
42:59and pretended
43:00not to understand a word.
43:01And instead,
43:02I turned to Kaylin.
43:03What are they saying?
43:04His throat tightened
43:05before he answered.
43:07Selina said she was joking.
43:09Everyone just thinks
43:10you're being too sensitive.
43:11The room reeked of lies.
43:13What none of them knew
43:14was that I had understood
43:15every word.
43:17My Luna mother
43:17was a world-renowned painter.
43:19My alpha father
43:20had once ruled
43:21the business world.
43:22But ever since
43:22they brought me back
43:23from St. Mary's home,
43:24they despised the habits
43:25I had picked up
43:26surviving on my own.
43:28Every resource,
43:29every ounce of love,
43:30they gave it all to Selina.
43:32Ten years ago,
43:32when Selina was accepted
43:33into Elite Art Academy,
43:35the entire pack
43:35celebrated her.
43:36What they never knew
43:37was that I had been admitted
43:38to the most prestivious
43:39university in the country.
43:40I had also taught myself
43:41French, Italian, and Spanish.
43:43None of it mattered now.
43:45Soon, I would be gone
43:45from this territory for good.
43:47I just got out
43:47of Silvermoon Penitentiary.
43:48I want some air
43:49outside the territory.
43:50You all enjoy the party.
43:51Under their contemptuous stairs,
43:53I dragged my damaged leg
43:54towards the door.
43:55Behind me,
43:56their laughter
43:56and French mockery
43:57tangled together.
43:58Not one of them remembered.
44:00Today was my awakening day, too.
44:02Once I left the territory,
44:03I suppressed my wolf aura
44:04and took a bus
44:05to downtown Seattle.
44:06Because of my prison record,
44:07the pack had erased
44:08my education
44:09and every official file
44:10tied to my name.
44:11With a ruined leg
44:11and no history,
44:12I could only find work
44:13at a run-down roadside diner.
44:15It would be enough
44:15to survive the next ten days.
44:18The irony was almost funny.
44:20Ever since they brought me
44:21back at fifteen,
44:22they had resented me
44:23for not being as accomplished
44:24as Selina
44:24and cut me off completely.
44:26I had paid for school,
44:27food,
44:28and survival
44:28by working in the human world.
44:30At eleven-thirty that night,
44:31I finished washing
44:32the last dish.
44:33When I stepped outside,
44:35freezing rain hit my face.
44:37Then another scent
44:38cut through the storm.
44:39Cold fur.
44:40Powerful.
44:41A top-tier alpha.
44:42Kaelin stepped out
44:43of a black SUV
44:44and strode straight toward me.
44:46Lyra,
44:47why have you been gone so long?
44:49He grabbed my wrist
44:50and pulled me to the car.
44:51The rear door was already open.
44:54Lyra,
44:54happy awakening day.
44:56The words hit me like a blow.
44:57I stood there,
44:58frozen.
44:59Kaelin's pack and mine
45:00had been allied for generations.
45:02Our territories shared a border,
45:04and our families
45:05had been bound
45:05by an old promise
45:06long before either of us was born.
45:08Even after I went missing
45:09in Blackwood Forest
45:10at the age of two
45:11and was not found again
45:12until I was fifteen.
45:14Bruised and scarred.
45:16That ancient agreement
45:17never changed.
45:18I still remember
45:19the first time
45:20I saw Kaelin
45:21after I was brought back.
45:22He stood in the sunlight
45:23wearing a white shirt,
45:25powerful enough
45:25to command submission,
45:27yet somehow warm
45:28at the same time.
45:29In that cold territory,
45:31he was the only one
45:32who never recoiled
45:33from the wild scent
45:34clinging to me.
45:35He used his alpha pressure
45:36to shield me.
45:37He brought me prey
45:38and gifts on holidays.
45:40He was the only person
45:41in that steel and stone world
45:43who had ever been kind to me.
45:45And when he was ambushed
45:46by a rival pack
45:47and left greatly wounded,
45:48I gave him an echidna.
45:49I poured the core
45:50of my wolf vitality
45:51into him without hesitation.
45:53Yet, in the end,
45:54he was also the one
45:55who used alpha authority
45:56to send me to silver moon
45:58penipotentiary
45:59with his own hands.
46:00Lyra, what is it?
46:02Kaelin's deep voice
46:03pulled me back
46:03to the present.
46:04Did you think I forgot
46:05your awakening day?
46:06I answered evenly.
46:08Then he handed me
46:09another beautifully wrapped box.
46:11When I opened it,
46:12I found a custom-made
46:13red wedding gown
46:14for a bonding right.
46:16Do you remember
46:17telling me as a child
46:18that you wanted to wear
46:19a red dress
46:19when we completed
46:20our mate bond?
46:21I had it made early.
46:23Do you like it?
46:25Bitterness filled my throat.
46:27Alpha,
46:28you remembered wrong.
46:29I don't like wedding dresses.
46:31And I hate red.
46:32The headmistress
46:33at St. Mary's home
46:33once told me
46:34she had found me
46:35abandoned outside
46:36a bridal shop.
46:36At the time,
46:37I had been wearing
46:38an expensive red dress.
46:39After I was old enough
46:40to remember,
46:41every full moon night
46:43I would return
46:43to bridal shop windows
46:45by instinct,
46:46wearing red clothes
46:47so my people
46:48could follow my scent
46:49signature
46:49and bring me home.
46:51Kaelin's eyes tightened.
46:52Just like he had years ago,
46:54he reached over
46:54and ruffled my hair.
46:55I'm sorry.
46:56I remembered wrong.
46:57Come on.
46:58I'll take you to dinner.
46:59On the drive back,
47:00he kept my hand
47:01clasped tightly in his.
47:02Lyra,
47:03why is your scent so faint?
47:05Why are you thinner than before?
47:07And your leg,
47:07he never finished.
47:09A shrink ringtone
47:10cut through the car.
47:11The screen flashed
47:12one name,
47:13Selina.
47:14The moment he answered,
47:15panic flooded his face.
47:17Turn around.
47:18Now,
47:18back to the territory.
47:19The whole drive back,
47:20he spoke into the
47:21comdibeshan nonstop,
47:23trying to soothe her.
47:24When we rushed
47:24into the manor grounds,
47:25I looked up.
47:28Selina stood on the rooftop
47:29in a white dress,
47:30swaying at the edge.
47:31The moment she caught our scent,
47:33Selina looked down
47:34at us from above.
47:35Her face was pale as paper.
47:36My sister is back,
47:38she whispered.
47:38A worthless Omega like me
47:40should step aside now.
47:42Goodbye?
47:43Then she jumped.
47:44The Pac-Manon
47:45was only one story high.
47:46The roof was barely
47:47thirty feet above the ground.
47:48But when Selina fell,
47:49every one of my
47:50so-called family
47:51moved on instinct.
47:52My father,
47:52my mother,
47:53Chloe,
47:53even Kaylin.
47:54All of them lodged forward
47:55in a frenzy
47:55to save the weaker wolf.
47:57That night,
47:57the scream of ambulance sirens
47:59echoed over the territory.
48:02Seven years ago,
48:03my parents adopted daughter.
48:04My younger sister,
48:05Selina,
48:06a delicate Omega,
48:07got drunk,
48:08caused a hit and run,
48:09and left blood spilled
48:10across the human territory border.
48:11My Alpha father,
48:13my Luna mother,
48:13and my biological younger sister
48:15all came to me
48:16with the same patronizing plea.
48:18Selina is an Omega.
48:19She's too fragile for prison.
48:20If she goes to Silvermoon Penitentiary,
48:22her wolf won't survive it.
48:24Lyra,
48:24take her place.
48:26I refused.
48:27But on a stormy night
48:28rope of thunder,
48:29my father used
48:30absolute Alpha command.
48:31He crushed my will,
48:32took control of my mind,
48:33and personally delivered me
48:34to the prison transport.
48:36My fiancé,
48:36my fated mate,
48:37Kaylin,
48:38the strongest Alpha in the pack,
48:39held back his raging wolf era
48:40and said to me,
48:41Lyra,
48:42when you get out,
48:43we'll complete the mate bond.
48:44Endure
48:45these seven years
48:46for now.
48:48Seven years later.
48:50Lyra,
48:51once you leave
48:51Silvermoon Penitentiary,
48:53keep your wolf under control
48:54and do not look back.
48:55I took the mold-smelling canvas bag
48:57from the guard's hand
48:58and limped through the iron gates,
49:00dragging the leg
49:01that had been ruined
49:02by four silver shackles.
49:03A black military SUV
49:04waited outside the territory.
49:06The window rolled down
49:07revealed Kaylin's
49:07sharp, striking face.
49:09Seven years had passed
49:10and he looked exactly the same.
49:11The suffocating pressure
49:12of a top-tier Alpha
49:13still radiated from him.
49:14Lyra,
49:14instinctively,
49:15I shrunk back
49:15before forcing myself
49:16in the passenger seat.
49:18In the rearview mirror,
49:19I caught sight of my own reflection.
49:20Pale,
49:21gaunt,
49:21my neck covered in burn scars
49:23left by silver weapon.
49:24You've suffered
49:25these past seven years.
49:26I'll keep my promise,
49:28Kaylin said.
49:29At the next full moon night,
49:30I'll officially mark you
49:31and make you my Luna.
49:32He reached over
49:33and covered my rough hand
49:34with his.
49:35There was no spark,
49:36no shiver,
49:37no bond.
49:38I looked into his
49:38golden green eyes
49:39where my withered reflection
49:41stared back at me
49:42and slowly pulled my hand away.
49:44Even the wolf inside me
49:45could not be bothered to whimper.
49:47Okay.
49:48Seven years
49:49in Silvermoon Penitentiary,
49:512,557 days
49:52soaked in blood and violence,
49:53long enough to see Kaylin
49:55and my family
49:55for what they truly were.
49:56They had never loved me
49:57and I no longer
49:58wanted to be his mate.
49:59Sensing my indifference,
49:59Kaylin let out
50:00a low, irritated sound.
50:01Selina knows
50:02you're coming back today.
50:03Her trauma response disorder
50:05is acting up again.
50:06Your parents and your sister
50:08are all at
50:08PAC Medical Center
50:09calming her down.
50:10I closed my eyes.
50:12The SUV drove
50:13into the heart
50:13of Crescent Moon
50:14PAC territory.
50:15An hour later,
50:16we arrived at my home.
50:18Only the Beta Butler
50:18and a few Omega Solvents
50:20were inside the manor.
50:21They caught the cheap,
50:22sour prison smelt
50:23clinging to me
50:23and the disgust
50:24in their eyes
50:25was impossible to hide.
50:26My parents loved only Selina.
50:27To the servants,
50:28I had never been
50:29the eldest daughter
50:30of this house.
50:31The Beta Butler
50:31bowed respectfully
50:32to Kaylin first.
50:34Only then
50:34did he turn to me.
50:35Miss Lyra,
50:36Luna says that
50:36now you've returned,
50:37you are to stay
50:38inside your own
50:38scent circle.
50:39Do not wander around
50:40and disgrace the PAC.
50:41Disgrace.
50:42I had endured
50:43seven years of
50:44Silverburns
50:44in Selu's place.
50:45How had I become
50:46the shameful one?
50:47But my expectations
50:48had died seven years ago.
50:50On that storm-filled night
50:52when they used Alpha Command
50:53to force my confession,
50:54I understand.
50:55I turned toward
50:55the side entrance.
50:57Then Kaylin stiffened,
50:58receiving an urgent mind link.
51:00His pupils sharpened
51:01into slits.
51:02Lyra,
51:03Selen's scent is weakening.
51:05She needs me.
51:05Go rest.
51:06He did not wait
51:07for a reply.
51:08He turned at once
51:09and disappeared
51:10into the night.
51:10I limped back
51:11to the storage room
51:12that belonged to me
51:13and curled up
51:15on the narrow wooden bed.
51:17Late that night,
51:19drifting between sleep
51:20and exhaustion,
51:21I heard voices
51:22downstairs in the living room.
51:24It was my beta sister,
51:25Chloe.
51:26Alpha father,
51:27Luna mother.
51:28Selenna is in terrible
51:29shape mentally.
51:30Shouldn't we move Lyra
51:31out of the manor?
51:32If Selah catches her scent,
51:33she'll have another episode.
51:35My father sighed
51:35but said nothing.
51:36My mother answered first.
51:37She carries our blood.
51:38If we throw her out
51:39the moment she gets back
51:40from prison,
51:40what will the other PACs say?
51:41Then what are we
51:42supposed to do?
51:43Chloe paced the room,
51:44agitation sharp in her voice.
51:46My father finally spoke.
51:47When Selene returns,
51:49order Lyra
51:50to suppress every trace
51:51of her scent.
51:52She is not to appear
51:53in front of Selene.
51:54She is not to leave
51:55her room for any reason.
51:56My eyes stayed shut
51:57but a burning ache
51:59rose behind them.
52:00Then the custom
52:01comm device
52:01hidden beneath my pillow
52:02began to vibrate.
52:03An encrypted message.
52:05Miss Lyra,
52:05congratulations.
52:06You have passed
52:07the evaluation
52:08for the Global Institute
52:09for Werewolf
52:09and Supernatural Secrecy.
52:11Once you accept
52:12the contract,
52:12you will depart
52:13in ten days
52:14on the night
52:14of the full moon
52:15under a new identity
52:16for Sanctum Isle
52:17on Dominica Island.
52:18Your PAC identity
52:19will be permanently erased.
52:21You may not contact
52:22any outside wolves
52:23for five years.
52:23I did not hesitate.
52:25On the holographic display,
52:27I signed my name.
52:28Lyra.
52:29I had passed
52:30the Institute's
52:31selection process
52:31seven years ago.
52:32Before I could take
52:33the oath and join,
52:34my parents sent me
52:35to Silvermoon Penitentiary.
52:37Shortly before my release,
52:39I applied again.
52:40As expected,
52:41I passed.
52:42Ten days.
52:42If I could endure
52:43ten more days,
52:44I would sever the PAC bond
52:46tying me to this
52:47frozen family forever.
52:54to be the MOC.
52:54You may not have
52:54to be the
52:54house in some
52:55animals.
52:55let's do it
52:55Those who have
52:55the
52:55You may not have
52:55You may not have
52:55The wing will be
52:55the wings.
52:55They will be

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