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