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00:00In my past life, Lyra, the lowborn daughter of a noble pack family, fell into the lake.
00:09My brother Caden pulled her out.
00:12She accused him of assaulting her in the water, demanded he take her as his mate,
00:17said she'd drag the whole thing before the Alpha King and Luna Queen, and have him punished if he refused.
00:23It was the worst possible time.
00:26Caden was right in the middle of his succession process for the Northmark Alpha title.
00:29I was terrified it would derail everything, so I pushed he into it.
00:35He took her as his mate.
00:39Seven months later, she gave birth to twins.
00:42Caden endured the humiliation, raised her two sons, fought rogue wolves on the border, until he came home crippled.
00:49Then she and her sons poisoned him.
00:51He bled from every wound and died in his own filth.
00:54I tried to report it.
00:55My fiancé, Dorian, looped his belt around my throat.
01:00If you report them, Lyra and my two sons die for it.
01:07I opened my eyes.
01:09I was back at the summer gathering.
01:12I saw Lyra fall into the lake.
01:15Sis, someone's drowning! We have to go help!
01:18Don't you dare move!
01:19This was a second chance.
01:21There was no version of this life where I let him walk into that trap.
01:24Sis, why are you crying?
01:26I'm fine. Wind got to me.
01:30Sis, let go of me! Someone's life is at stake!
01:32I said, don't move!
01:35Are you serious right now? Someone's drowning!
01:39Someone will save her, just not you.
01:43I turned to the squat, pockmarked stable hand standing nearby.
01:47Bram, you want to mate or not?
01:50Bram worked the stables at Northmark Manor.
01:52He was built like a barrel.
01:54Face cratered with old scars.
01:56Teeth the color of old bone.
01:57Lazy as the day was long.
02:00Spent his wages at gambling dens and pleasure houses.
02:03Any other servant?
02:04I'd have thrown him out years ago.
02:05But Bram had one thing going for him.
02:08His father.
02:09Old Wreck had carried my father's body off the battlefield with his own back.
02:12Out of a pile of the dead.
02:14That kind of loyalty didn't expire.
02:17So Bram, for all his uselessness,
02:20had a kind of untouchable status in the manor.
02:24Even Caden and I gave him a little room.
02:26We didn't send him on errands lightly.
02:29Today was only because our other two stable hands had fallen sick.
02:32So Bram was driving us to the summer gathering.
02:35Of course I want one, my lady.
02:39Bram.
02:41Today I'm handing you an opportunity.
02:44Go pull that girl out of the water.
02:47But after you get her out, hide in the reeds.
02:50Don't let anyone see you.
02:52Wait until I call for you.
02:55I promise by the end of today,
02:57you'll have yourself a highborn mate for free.
03:00Whatever you say, my lady.
03:04Then go.
03:06Bram hit the water with a splash.
03:08The delay had cost Lyra.
03:10She'd swallowed a lot of water by then,
03:12and was barely conscious.
03:13Everyone follow me, quickly.
03:15My lady fell in the water.
03:17Hide.
03:18Now.
03:18I'll call you when it's time.
03:20Yes, my lady.
03:21Lyra's personal attendant arrived
03:23with a whole group behind her.
03:25At the front,
03:25my fiancé, Dorian,
03:27son of the pack elder.
03:28Caden saved her, didn't he?
03:30Lyra coughed up water and came around.
03:35She looked at the crowd.
03:37Then she pointed straight at Caden and burst into tears,
03:41screaming that he'd assaulted her in the water.
03:43The crowd erupted.
03:46They call Beta Caden a young hero,
03:49fearless against rogues on the border.
03:50And yet here he is,
03:51preying on a helpless girl.
03:52You really can't judge a wolf by his fur.
03:55Exactly.
03:56Attacking a defenseless woman.
03:58What kind of hero does that?
04:00Northmark Pack has always stood for loyalty and honor.
04:02How did they raise someone like this?
04:04I can't believe this is the Caden we all respected.
04:07He's dragged his whole bloodline through the mud.
04:12That's not what happened.
04:13I didn't touch her.
04:14You didn't touch me?
04:16You had your hands all over me in that water.
04:18You did this to me
04:19and now you're going to stand there and deny it?
04:21Caden, you're a Beta warrior.
04:22How could you do something like this?
04:24Dorian, I didn't.
04:25I swear I didn't.
04:26You have to believe me.
04:27Then why would Lyra say this?
04:28She's a daughter of a noble Pack family.
04:30What would she gain by lying?
04:31Why did you humiliate me like this, Caden?
04:33Does a woman's honor mean nothing to you?
04:36Do you think I'd destroy my own reputation just to frame you?
04:44Beta Caden used a rescuer's cover to assault an innocent girl.
04:47And now he won't even own it.
04:50Shameless.
04:54You ride your rogue fighting reputation and come back
04:57thinking you can do whatever you want to pack women in the capital?
05:01He ruined her honor.
05:03He has to take responsibility.
05:05If this gets out,
05:06how is she ever supposed to find a mate?
05:07And she's lowborn on top of everything.
05:10Caden,
05:11if you're any kind of wolf,
05:12stand up in front of everyone right now
05:14and come making this right.
05:16Take Lyra as your mate.
05:19I'm telling you,
05:20I didn't do anything to her.
05:21Why won't any of you listen?
05:23Caden,
05:25even now you're going to dig in?
05:26I pulled Caden behind me and shook my head.
05:29This was Dorian and Lyra's trap.
05:31Every piece of it was designed.
05:33He could talk until he was hoarse.
05:35No one here was going to believe him.
05:37Vera,
05:38Northman Pack is your responsibility.
05:39This is Caden's fault.
05:41Set a date,
05:41go to the family with a formal mating request,
05:43and bring Lyra home to the manor properly.
05:45We're not yet mated, Vera.
05:46We're one unit.
05:47My family and yours are bound together.
05:49Everything I'm saying is for Caden's sake
05:51and Northman's sake.
05:52If this escalates,
05:53it damages Caden and Northman Pack's name.
05:55He's right in the middle of his Alpha title succession.
05:57If someone brings this before the Alpha King
05:59and it creates complications,
06:00that's a problem.
06:01The Luna Queen and Alpha Prince's Luna
06:03are arriving soon.
06:04If this blows up and ruins the summer gathering,
06:06the Luna Queen won't be pleased.
06:08Better to handle this quietly.
06:09Everyone walks away happy.
06:11Everyone walks away happy.
06:13He meant him and Lyra walk away happy.
06:15I looked at Dorian with his polished speech
06:17and his fake concern
06:19and felt sick to my stomach.
06:21Last life,
06:22I'd been fooled by that act.
06:24I'd made Caden carry the weight of it.
06:27And it had destroyed us both.
06:30This life,
06:31Caden and I could die right here
06:32before I let him mate Lyra.
06:34Dorian,
06:35hold on.
06:36Let me ask Lyra something first.
06:40I stepped forward.
06:42Lyra,
06:42are you absolutely certain
06:44the one who assaulted you in the water
06:45was my brother, Caden?
06:46I saw him clearly.
06:47It was Caden.
06:49You're saying Caden assaulted you in the water.
06:51Then why is every inch of him completely dry?
06:54The crowd looked at Caden.
06:56Not a drop of water on him.
06:58Confusion spread across their faces.
07:01He probably changed clothes
07:02after he pulled me out.
07:04I blacked out when I got to the bank.
07:06I don't know what happened after that.
07:07But in the water,
07:08I saw him clearly.
07:09Dorian's eyes went sharp.
07:10Vera,
07:12your brother did something wrong.
07:14Instead of making him admit it,
07:15you're interrogating Lyra.
07:16What is your problem?
07:17Is Northmark Pac
07:20trying to bully their way out of this?
07:23Just because they have Pac's strength
07:25and the Alpha King's favor
07:26doesn't mean there are no rules.
07:28We will get justice for Lyra today!
07:31The crowd followed.
07:34Caden has to take responsibility.
07:36Dorian looked around,
07:37confident with the crowd at his back.
07:41Vera,
07:42admit it right now
07:44and send a formal mating request
07:45to her family.
07:46I looked at Dorian,
07:48handsome on the outside
07:49and rotten to the core,
07:51and thought of the look on his face
07:52when he tightened that belt
07:54around my throat in the last life.
07:56My stomach turned.
07:59Dorian,
08:00did you personally see Caden assault Lyra?
08:03He opened his mouth.
08:04Nothing came out.
08:07What are you saying?
08:08That Lyra destroyed her own honor
08:11just to frame your brother?
08:15I thought I knew you.
08:17I was wrong.
08:18Duchess Maren pointed at me.
08:19How long does Northmark Pac
08:20plan to keep bullying people?
08:22You're covering for your brother
08:23even now.
08:25The crowd's mood turned.
08:26They looked ready to spit on me.
08:28We are upsetting Lyra at the Nunn.
08:31Northmark Pac has gone too far.
08:33We all see it now.
08:34We always respected them.
08:36What a mistake that was.
08:38I looked over the crowd.
08:40Has anyone here personally seen
08:42my brother assault Lyra?
08:43Silence.
08:44They looked at each other.
08:45Nobody spoke.
08:46You're absolutely certain it was Caden.
08:48You say he ruined your honor.
08:50What's your proof?
08:53I have proof.
08:53She reached into her clothing
08:55and pulled out a jade pendant.
08:56This!
08:58When I was fighting in the water
09:00I tore it off the person
09:02who attacked me!
09:05The crowd saw it
09:06and the verdict was sealed.
09:08Still have something to say?
09:10That's not mine.
09:11Oh!
09:13Oh!
09:13Oh!
09:15Oh!
09:18Oh!
09:18Oh!
09:18It's a fine piece of jade
09:19but there's no Northmark mark on it.
09:22Lyra says it's my brother's.
09:23Does that make it his?
09:24When we got here
09:24you and Caden were the only two at the scene.
09:26Who else could it belong of?
09:27Duchess Maren.
09:28Lyra says with nothing but her own word
09:29that this belongs to my brother.
09:31I could just as easily say
09:32it belongs to your mate.
09:33Don't you dare drag my mate into this!
09:39Lyra's voice cracked into a wail.
09:42I am a proper-born wolf
09:43of good standing.
09:45I have never stepped outside the bounds
09:47of what's right.
09:48I am not shameless.
09:49I don't degrade myself.
09:51My honor is gone.
09:53Now you're humiliating me on top of it.
09:55I'd rather draw than die!
09:56She broke free from the crowd
09:58and ran toward the water.
09:59Everyone gasped and grabbed for her.
10:01Dorian went white with fury,
10:03pulled back his hand
10:04and slapped me hard across the face.
10:05I didn't think you were capable of this, Vera.
10:08He went to strike again.
10:09Caden caught his arm and locked it.
10:11Dorian!
10:12Touch my sister one more time
10:13and see what I do to your hand.
10:16I said I didn't assault Lyra.
10:17I didn't ruin her honor.
10:19A wolf's word is his bond.
10:21Why is not one of you
10:21willing to take me at mine?
10:24If anyone else insult my sister,
10:26don't expect me to stay quiet.
10:28The crowd's anger spiked higher.
10:30Caden!
10:31You did something disgusting
10:32and you're standing here smug about it.
10:34Do you think PAC law doesn't apply to you?
10:36If you won't admit it,
10:37we'll take this to the Luna Queen herself
10:39and let her judge you!
10:41I pressed my hand to my stinging cheek.
10:43Beneath the pain,
10:44something warm spread through my chest
10:46from Caden's words.
10:47This life,
10:48whatever it cost me,
10:49I was going to protect him.
10:51I looked at Lyra.
10:53Seems like you've already decided
10:54to pour this bucket on my brother
10:55no matter what.
10:59But hear me clearly, Lyra.
11:01You want Caden as your mate?
11:03You're dreaming.
11:05We'd both die before that happens.
11:07She hesitated.
11:08Then something dark crossed her eyes.
11:09You're only standing firm
11:10because no one was there to witness it.
11:12No one can prove your version either.
11:14She turned and threw herself
11:16headfirst into a tree.
11:17The crowd lurched to stop her.
11:19Too slow.
11:20She split her forehead open.
11:21Blood ran down her face.
11:22The crowd's fury hit its peak.
11:27Northmark Pack is killing her!
11:30Her brother did wrong
11:31and she's forcing an innocent girl
11:34to die for it.
11:35What kind of people are they?
11:37Lyra,
11:37this isn't your fault.
11:39Northmark Pack is wrong here.
11:41We'll have our mates bring this
11:42before the Pack Council tomorrow.
11:44If Northmark keeps refusing...
11:46Right!
11:46Northmark Pack.
11:47Vera,
11:49you won't stop until she's dead,
11:50will you?
11:51I see who you really are now, Vera.
11:53I can't mate a woman
11:54with a heart like this.
11:55If Northmark Pack
11:56won't answer for Lyra today,
11:58then our mate-bond agreement
11:59is void.
11:59I'm calling it off.
12:00A woman who can't tell
12:02right from wrong,
12:03mate her
12:04and your Pack
12:04will never have peace.
12:05Better to break it off now.
12:08Dorian was certain
12:08I wouldn't let him do it.
12:10In this world,
12:11a woman whose mate-bond
12:12was broken was done.
12:13The gossip alone
12:14would drown her.
12:15But he didn't know
12:17I'd spent this entire time
12:18setting up for exactly this moment.
12:20You said it,
12:20Dorian,
12:21son of the Pack Elder.
12:22A wolf's word is his bond.
12:23I'm releasing our mate-bond agreement.
12:25Right now.
12:28Someone bring paper
12:28and something to write with.
12:30I want Dorian
12:30to put the dissolution in writing.
12:34Dorian had only meant it
12:35as leverage,
12:36forced me to push Caden
12:37into the mating.
12:38He hadn't actually wanted out.
12:39My answer caught him
12:40completely off guard.
12:41He went still.
12:42Dorian was sharp,
12:43calculating.
12:43He saw the leverage failing
12:44and softened fast.
12:46If you'll just let Caden
12:46take responsibility,
12:47we don't need to dissolve anything.
12:49My brother Caden
12:50is a true wolf
12:51who has done nothing wrong.
12:53Write the dissolution, Dorian.
12:55A servant brought paper
12:56and a writing tool.
12:58Dorian was cornered.
13:00He wrote the dissolution,
13:01then threw it at me
13:02like he was doing me a favor.
13:04Lady Thorne
13:05from the noble Pack family
13:06is here.
13:07Lyra flinched
13:08and drew in on herself.
13:09My stepmother came.
13:10She'll destroy me.
13:12Vera, please.
13:13Just let this go.
13:13The pack ladies
13:14pressed in around me.
13:15Vera, you're a woman too.
13:17You understand
13:17what honor means to us.
13:19If this spreads,
13:20how does Lyra ever find a mate?
13:22And she's lowborn.
13:23Besides,
13:23science.
13:24Just say yes to this mating
13:25and give her a way to survive.
13:27They'd all been taken in
13:28by Lyra's helpless act.
13:30None of them had any idea
13:31what she was capable of
13:32behind closed doors.
13:33I gave a cold smile.
13:35You reap what you sow.
13:37Lyra, I'm not the one
13:38who can help you.
13:39I don't think anyone
13:40can help you today.
13:44Lady Thorne arrived
13:46and ran a flat look
13:47over Lyra,
13:47soaking wet.
13:49What happened?
13:49Everyone talked over each other
13:51to explain.
13:52It was Caden!
13:52The wolf!
13:52Lady Thorne's brow tightened.
13:54Take the second daughter away.
13:56Stop making a scene.
13:57An elder pack matron
13:58stepped forward
13:58and began dragging Lyra out.
14:00Vera!
14:01Caden!
14:02If you won't admit it,
14:03I won't survive this.
14:05Lady Thorne,
14:05today's events
14:06really can't be blamed
14:07on your daughter.
14:08You must speak up for her.
14:10Vera!
14:10Voice flat.
14:11Northmark Pack
14:11may have more battlefield honors
14:13in the Alpha King's favor
14:14than our family,
14:15but we are not easy
14:16to push around.
14:18My daughter has called me
14:19mother for over a decade.
14:20I will get justice for her
14:22from Northmark Pack.
14:23I could see the key person
14:24had arrived.
14:25The ground was ready.
14:26Lady Thorne,
14:28you're Lyra's stepmother.
14:30You're the one
14:30who has authority
14:31over her mating arrangements.
14:33So let me ask you plainly,
14:34right here in front of everyone.
14:36Is it your family's position
14:37that whoever pulled Lyra
14:38out of that water today
14:39is responsible for her
14:40and must take her
14:41as their mate?
14:42It is.
14:42I looked at Lyra.
14:43That's your position too, Lyra?
14:45Lyra bit her lip.
14:45Yes.
14:46No matter who it is,
14:48Lyra will mate
14:49with that person.
14:50Yes or no?
14:50Yes.
14:51And Dorian
14:52and everyone here agrees?
14:53Of course.
14:54A true wolf
14:55owns his actions.
14:56Yes.
14:56Yes.
14:57Everyone heard that.
14:58You're all witnesses.
15:00Lyra,
15:01don't you regret this?
15:02I turned toward
15:03the thick reeds
15:04on the bank
15:04and raised my voice.
15:05Bram,
15:06get out here.
15:08Lyra,
15:08from the noble pack family
15:10is desperate to be
15:12your mate.
15:13The crowd went quiet.
15:15The reeds rustled,
15:17a figure pushed through,
15:18short,
15:18stocky,
15:19face full of craters,
15:20yellow teeth.
15:21He grinned his ugliest grin.
15:23Come in, mate.
15:26Lyra went the color of ash.
15:28That's not who it was.
15:29It was Caden
15:30who pulled me out.
15:31Dorian's expression cracked too.
15:32What are you talking about?
15:33I'm the one who saved you.
15:34No, you're not.
15:35It was Caden.
15:36It was Caden.
15:37That's ridiculous.
15:38My master and my lady
15:39were standing together.
15:40Neither of them
15:41went near the water.
15:42How could they have saved you?
15:44When I pulled you out,
15:45you tore that next
15:45right off my neck.
15:46That's a lie.
15:47Something like that
15:48couldn't belong
15:49to someone like you.
15:50Bram smiled,
15:50wide and slow,
15:51every yellow tooth on display.
15:53The Alpha Prince
15:54gave that to me personally.
15:55About a month ago,
15:56I kept the Alpha Prince's
15:57young heir
15:58from getting hurt
15:59when he fell from a carriage.
16:00The Alpha Prince
16:01unclipped it himself
16:02and gave it to me
16:03as a reward.
16:04I saved you.
16:05That's the truth.
16:06Lyra's face went hollow.
16:07She kept shaking her head.
16:09It wasn't you.
16:10It wasn't you.
16:11It was Caden.
16:12The Alpha Prince's gift
16:13can be verified.
16:14It can't be faked.
16:15Bram serves Northmark Manor.
16:17He wouldn't lie
16:17about something this serious.
16:18But to be thorough,
16:20we should confirm it.
16:22We should check.
16:23The Lunar Queen
16:23and the Alpha Prince's
16:24Luna both expected
16:25around this time.
16:26We could wait
16:26for the Lunar Queen
16:27to decide.
16:27Dorian's expression
16:28went tight.
16:29He could feel
16:30the situation
16:31slipping past him
16:32and there was nothing
16:33he could do about it.
16:34The Lunar Queen
16:35has arrived.
16:36The Alpha Prince's
16:37Luna has arrived.
16:38Everyone dropped
16:39to their knees.
16:40Luna Seraphine
16:40told them to rise,
16:42smiling.
16:42Why is everyone
16:43gathered here
16:44instead of in the garden?
16:46Lady Thorne knelt
16:47and presented
16:47the whole situation
16:48to the Lunar Queen,
16:50begging her to decide.
16:51The Lunar Queen's
16:52expression grew serious.
16:54Vera,
16:54if Caden has feelings
16:56for Lyra,
16:56I can petition
16:57the Alpha King
16:58for a royal mate decree.
17:00Luna Queen,
17:01today is the first time
17:02he's ever laid eyes
17:03on Lyra.
17:03There are no feelings
17:04to speak of.
17:06Caden would never
17:07do something
17:07this dishonorable.
17:08The one who entered
17:09the water
17:09and pulled Lyra out
17:10was our stable hand,
17:11Brahm.
17:12We have physical evidence.
17:14The Lunar Queen
17:15had the pendant
17:16brought forward.
17:17She looked at it
17:18and said,
17:18This is indeed
17:19the Alpha Prince's piece.
17:21About a month ago,
17:21our young Kian
17:22nearly fell from the carriage,
17:23one of Northmark Manor's
17:24stable hand caught him
17:25in time.
17:25The Alpha Prince
17:26gave that pendant
17:27to the stable hand
17:27on the spot
17:28as a reward.
17:28The one who entered
17:29the water today
17:30is also a stable hand
17:31from Northmark.
17:32I imagine it's
17:32the same person.
17:33Luna Queen,
17:34it is the same person.
17:35That pendant
17:36proves Lyra
17:37was rescued by Bram,
17:39not Caden.
17:39But Lyra refuses
17:40to admit it
17:41and keeps insisting
17:42it was my brother.
17:45I respectfully ask
17:46the Lunar Queen
17:47to investigate this thoroughly
17:48and restore Caden's name.
17:52The Lunar Queen
17:53called Bram forward.
17:55Bram,
17:56is there any other evidence?
17:58Yes, Lunar Queen.
18:00When I pulled Lyra
18:01out of the water,
18:02I saw a red crescent
18:04birthmark on her chest.
18:05If Lyra keeps denying it
18:06and keeps accusing my master,
18:07you can verify it.
18:08If the mark isn't there,
18:10I'll accept whatever punishment
18:10is given to me.
18:11The crowd erupted.
18:13Lyra was shaking.
18:14Her eyes were hollow.
18:16Dorian had gone white.
18:18A birthmark can't be faked.
18:20I'm going to get
18:21to the bottom of this.
18:22Take Lyra inside
18:23and have her examined.
18:24Lyra inside
18:25and have her examined.
18:26One of the Lunar Queen's
18:27elder pack matrons
18:28stepped forward
18:28with two attendants.
18:29Lyra, come with us.
18:31Lyra's legs gave out.
18:32She fainted
18:33from sheer terror.
18:34The matron
18:35signaled the attendants.
18:36They carried Lyra inside.
18:38The Lunar Queen
18:39turned to Duchess Meryn.
18:40Go with a few
18:40of the pack ladies.
18:41Be witnesses.
18:44The matron opened
18:45Lyra's wet clothing
18:46in front of them.
18:48between her collarbones.
18:49Clear as anything.
18:50A red crescent birthmark.
18:51It's real.
18:52A mark like that
18:53seen by a man in water.
18:55She'd have to be his mate
18:56whether she wanted it or not.
18:58The matron went further.
19:00She examined Lyra
19:01for proof of her claim.
19:03The group came back out quickly.
19:05Duchess Meryn's face
19:06was cycling through
19:07shades of green and white.
19:08I already knew
19:09what they'd found.
19:10Lyra does have
19:11the red crescent birthmark
19:12on her chest.
19:13And when we examined her further,
19:14she...
19:14she has not been
19:15untouched for some time.
19:16She is also carrying
19:18a secret pregnancy.
19:19The crowd went silent.
19:20Then it exploded.
19:21The tide turned completely.
19:23What a scheme.
19:24She played all of us.
19:26She was sneaking
19:27a secret lover in
19:28while pretending
19:28to be honorable.
19:29Shameless.
19:30And then tried to frame
19:31Caden for it.
19:32Disgusting.
19:33Lady Thorne went stone-faced.
19:35She slapped Lyra
19:36across the face.
19:37Then again...
19:38You have shamed this family.
19:39I have never been
19:40more disgusted.
19:42Lyra was completely broken.
19:44She slid down
19:45to the ground like water
19:46and didn't react at all.
19:48Dorian shrank
19:48into the background
19:49and kept his mouth shut.
19:52Lady Thorne dropped
19:53to her knees
19:53before the Luna Queen.
19:55I failed in raising her.
19:57I accept whatever
19:58punishment you give.
19:59Failed in raising her.
20:00Is that what we're
20:01calling it?
20:02Lyra made her own mess,
20:03got herself with
20:04Childe in secret,
20:05and then tried to use
20:06Caden as a way out.
20:07If Vera hadn't fought back,
20:09Northrink Pack's only heir
20:10would have been
20:11buried alive by this.
20:13Take Lyra to the
20:14Pack Tribunational Cells
20:16and interrogate her.
20:17I want the name
20:17of the secret lover.
20:18The matrons dragged Lyra
20:19into the back room.
20:21From inside came screaming.
20:23But Lyra had a hard core.
20:25No matter what they did,
20:27she refused to give up the name.
20:28Dorian was her only hope.
20:30The Luna Queen
20:31had no choice.
20:32She had Lyra move
20:33to the Pack Tribunal Cells.
20:35That same day,
20:36the matter reached
20:37the Alpha King.
20:38He issued a decree
20:39ordering Lyra's
20:40noble pack family
20:41to answer for it.
20:43The family patriarch
20:44had spent his whole career
20:45being careful,
20:46staying low,
20:47keeping his head down,
20:48undone by a lowborn daughter
20:49who'd dreamed of
20:50climbing beyond her station.
20:52Though,
20:52if you traced it back
20:53far enough,
20:54it was Lady Thorne's
20:55iron-fisted control
20:56of the household
20:56that had left Lyra
20:57with no path
20:58but the one
20:59her own mother had taken.
21:00Use your face
21:01and your body
21:02and hope it gets you somewhere.
21:03That was how she'd ended up
21:04tangled with Dorian
21:05in the first place.
21:06The Alpha King
21:07also sent a rebuke
21:08to Duchess Meryn
21:08for her role
21:09in inflaming things,
21:10ordering her
21:11to keep her mouth
21:11shut going forward.
21:12Duchess Meryn
21:13never showed her face
21:14at another pack
21:14gathering in the capital
21:15for the rest of her life.
21:17Lyra held out
21:17in the tribunal cells.
21:19Three days later,
21:19two pack matrons
21:20came from her family.
21:21They forced a draft
21:22of medicine
21:23down her throat.
21:24An hour later,
21:25she miscarried.
21:25Twins,
21:26Lyra wouldn't stop bleeding.
21:27No one from the tribunal
21:28had been told
21:29to send a healer.
21:30The attitude was,
21:31live or die?
21:32That's on her.
21:32She lived anyway.
21:33Half a month later,
21:34the Luna Queen
21:35came to Northmark Manor
21:36herself to check
21:37on Caden and me.
21:37She took my hand,
21:38sat down,
21:39made small talk
21:40for a bit.
21:40That girl is tough,
21:42as hasn't said a word
21:43in the tribunal cells.
21:44I was thinking
21:45of sending her off
21:46with a cup of poison.
21:47Let Lyra die that easily?
21:49That was letting her off
21:50too light.
21:52I stood and bowed.
21:54Luna Queen,
21:54I have a request.
21:55She smiled.
21:56Vera,
21:57just say it.
21:57Luna Queen,
21:58the Alpha Queen Mother's
21:59birthday is next month.
22:00In her honor,
22:00spare Lyra's life.
22:01That day,
22:02Lyra said herself
22:02that whoever saved her
22:03would become her mate.
22:04Lady Thorne agreed to it
22:05in front of everyone.
22:06She was pulled out
22:06by our stable hand,
22:07Bram.
22:08So perhaps-
22:08The Luna Queen
22:09tilted her head.
22:09Vera,
22:10even if you want
22:10to give Lyra a way out,
22:12your stable hand
22:13might not want to take her.
22:14What I was giving Lyra
22:15wasn't a way out.
22:16It was a life worse than death.
22:18Why don't I bring Bram in
22:19and ask him in person
22:19if he's willing,
22:21it's a fair arrangement.
22:22Bram gambled and chased women.
22:23Every coin he earned
22:24either vanished
22:25at the gambling den
22:26or got spent
22:26at the pleasure house.
22:27Lyra was stunning.
22:29Skin like cream,
22:30face like a spring blossom.
22:31One of the most striking women
22:32among all the high-born
22:34pack women in the capital.
22:35A woman like that
22:36on any ordinary day.
22:37Bram wouldn't even be allowed
22:38to look at her twice.
22:39She was used goods now,
22:41sure,
22:41but if this moment passed,
22:42a wolf like Bram
22:43would never get another shot
22:44at someone like her.
22:45I was betting he'd say yes.
22:47A servant brought Bram
22:48to the doorway of the main hall.
22:49Bram,
22:50are you still willing
22:51to take Lyra as your mate?
22:53Bram paused,
22:53worked through it,
22:54and decided fast.
22:55Yes, my lady.
22:56I turned to the Luna Queen.
22:58Since that settled Luna Queen,
22:59bring them together.
23:00The Luna Queen smiled.
23:02You asked Vera,
23:03how could I say no?
23:04The night Lyra
23:05walked out of the tribunal cells,
23:07a carriage from her family
23:08dropped her at Bram's door.
23:09No ceremony,
23:10no ceremony talk,
23:11no anything.
23:12They were done with her,
23:13dropping off a problem
23:13they wanted gone.
23:16A month later,
23:17the Alpha King's punishment came down.
23:19Lyra's father was stripped of his rank
23:20and sent to a backwater post.
23:22A nobody position,
23:23in a nobody place,
23:24never permitted to return to the capital.
23:26The day the decree came,
23:27he threw Lady Thorne out of the household.
23:29As for Lyra,
23:29her worst days were just beginning.
23:31Bram was rough and crude,
23:33nothing like Dorian,
23:34who had at least known
23:35how to handle a woman.
23:36The first night,
23:36he worked her
23:37until she couldn't get out of bed.
23:38After that,
23:39he did whatever suited him,
23:40whenever it suited him.
23:41Bram's household was poor,
23:43no servants.
23:43Lyra cooked and washed
23:44and waited on him.
23:45If she didn't do it right,
23:46she got hit,
23:47or screamed at.
23:48Lyra suffered in silence.
23:49It was barely living,
23:50but she refused to die.
23:51She'd already survived
23:52the tribunal cells.
23:53She was young.
23:54She was still beautiful.
23:55As long as she was breathing,
23:57she believed she could find a way back.
23:58Six months later,
24:00Dorian decided things
24:01had quieted down enough
24:02and came back
24:02from the southern territories.
24:04Lyra heard the news
24:05and immediately got word
24:06to his personal attendant.
24:07Dorian, for his part,
24:08had long since
24:09stopped thinking about her.
24:10He wanted nothing more
24:11than to put distance between them.
24:13But she had something on him.
24:14He didn't have a choice.
24:17He planned to see her once,
24:19say what needed to be said,
24:20give her some coin,
24:21and be done with it.
24:22Then Lyra showed up in white,
24:23threw herself against him,
24:24and told him about the twins,
24:26crying with her whole body.
24:27She wasn't the bright,
24:28bold girl he remembered.
24:29There was something different
24:30about her now.
24:31Fragile.
24:32Quietly devastating.
24:33Dorian hesitated.
24:34He didn't leave right away.
24:35Ever since Dorian came back
24:36to the capital,
24:37I'd had people watching
24:38both of them.
24:39When word came
24:39that they were meeting that day,
24:41I'd already had the drug slipped
24:42into both of their drinks.
24:44It took hold.
24:44They ended up tangled together.
24:46I had someone quietly tip off Bram
24:48and bring him there
24:48to catch them.
24:49Dorian and Lyra were caught bare,
24:50in the middle of it,
24:51a set of antlers that size.
24:53Bram wasn't going to swallow it quietly.
24:55He went at Dorian
24:56with everything he had.
24:58In the brawl,
24:58someone landed two hard kicks
25:00right between Dorian's legs.
25:01Dorian screamed
25:02and blacked out on the spot.
25:03Pack healers cycled through,
25:05one after another.
25:06They all came out shaking their heads.
25:07Nothing they could do.
25:09Dorian would never have pups.
25:10Pack elder Dorian Sr.
25:12had only one son.
25:13His bloodline was finished.
25:14The pack elder was furious.
25:16He wanted the person
25:16who'd done it quietly dealt with.
25:18But when he pressed
25:18Dorian's attendant for details,
25:20he found out about Lyra.
25:22Found out Dorian had been behind
25:23the whole scheme at the gathering.
25:24Found out the twins Lyra lost
25:26in the tribunal cells
25:27were Dorian's cold sweat.
25:30The pack elder buried the story
25:32and brought in private healers
25:34from all over the capital.
25:35What he didn't know,
25:36the one who'd thrown those kicks
25:37had been training for 30 years
25:39and had put everything behind them.
25:41No healer in the world
25:42was fixing that.
25:43Word spread across the capital
25:44that the pack elder's son,
25:45the great Dorian,
25:46couldn't perform.
25:47Northmark Manor
25:48helped that word travel,
25:49of course.
25:50Dorian,
25:50who had always been sharp
25:51and polished
25:52and insufferably sure of himself,
25:54was eaten alive by it.
25:55Every person he'd ever outshone
25:57lined up to get their shots in.
25:58One day,
25:59Dorian broke.
26:00He set a fire in his room
26:01and burned himself to death inside it.
26:03On the other side of the city,
26:04Bram dragged Lyra home
26:05after catching her
26:06and beat her
26:07until she couldn't leave her bed
26:08for two weeks.
26:09His crowd set up gambling games,
26:10the kind he never knew
26:11how to walk away from.
26:12After one session,
26:14Bram lost Lyra
26:15to a thug named Wade.
26:16Wade had his fun with her
26:17for two months.
26:18When the novelty wore off,
26:19he put a price on it.
26:20Lyra refused
26:21with everything she had.
26:22Wade just smiled
26:23and put a compulsion drug
26:24in her food.
26:24When it took hold,
26:25Lyra was the one begging.
26:27After that,
26:27Wade's place
26:28had a steady rotation of men
26:29coming and going every day,
26:31sometimes one or two,
26:32sometimes five or six.
26:34Lyra sank lower
26:35than the lowest
26:35back alley wolf
26:36in the capital.
26:37My brother,
26:38Caden,
26:38ran into Princess Kala
26:39at a tavern,
26:40dressed as a man,
26:41sharp-eyed and full of fire.
26:42He took her
26:43for a fellow young wolf.
26:44Without knowing who she was,
26:46he went out with her
26:46more than once.
26:47They fell for each other.
26:48When he found out the truth,
26:50he petitioned the Alpha King
26:51to take her as his mate.
26:52He brought Kala
26:53back to the northern border
26:54with him,
26:54said they were going to see
26:55the wide sky
26:56and the open land together.
26:58As for me,
26:58the Alpha Prince's Luna
27:00had noticed me
27:01the day of the summer gathering.
27:02A year later,
27:03the Alpha Prince
27:03took the throne.
27:04His Luna was crowned
27:05Luna Queen.
27:06She personally asked
27:07on behalf of her
27:08full-blooded brother,
27:09the new royal consort Arryn,
27:11to take me as his mate.
27:12Arryn was brilliant
27:13and trained
27:14and striking in a way
27:16that made it hard
27:16to look at him directly.
27:18At last month's
27:18mid-autumn night gathering,
27:20he'd reached up
27:21and broken off
27:22a sprig of sweet osmanthus
27:23and handed it to me.
27:24When he passed it over,
27:25our eyes met.
27:26I stood there
27:26for a second,
27:27completely still.
27:28I still go red
27:29thinking about it,
27:30but I said yes.
27:31The new Luna Queen
27:32smiled and leaned in close
27:33and called me
27:34sister.
27:34Not long after,
27:35the pack council
27:36went through a full sweep.
27:37Pack Elder Dorian Sr.
27:39was found guilty
27:40of corruption
27:40and embezzlement
27:41of pack resources.
27:42He was stripped
27:42of his title
27:43and the whole family
27:44was banished
27:45to the far southern borderlands.
27:46Northmark Pack's
27:47star was rising.
27:48Our name carried
27:49more weight
27:49than it ever had.
27:50Everyone who had
27:51crushed us in the last life
27:52had fallen into the mud.
27:53This life,
27:54the next,
27:54they were never
27:55getting back up.
27:56The next,
27:56was born.
27:57The next,
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