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The Heartbreaking Betrayal in TOO LATE, ALPHA THE LUNA WALKS AWAY Episode
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00:00Two years as Luna of Silverweight Pack.
00:03Tonight my husband sent me a New Year's gift,
00:05a photo of him in another woman's bed.
00:10Every one of them wants me to shift into a she-wolf
00:12and tear this ballroom apart.
00:14That's the Luna they remember.
00:16Bury it.
00:18Last time Matthew got caught,
00:20I torched his yacht before the party ended.
00:22They still talk about it.
00:23Tonight I just need to get Ellie upstairs safely.
00:26The rest can wait until midnight is over.
00:28Her breath is warm.
00:31Mine stopped two minutes ago.
00:34She smells like milk and innocence.
00:37The estate downstairs smells like betrayal.
00:43Alice has been like a real mother to me.
00:46Tonight I need her as something more.
00:51Isla, I'm so sorry.
00:53I'll call that bastard right now.
00:55Mom, I'm busy. Pack business.
00:58I'll come back tomorrow to smooth things over.
01:01Tell Isla she handled it well today.
01:03Real Luna now.
01:05Docile.
01:05Tell her to keep it up.
01:07That bastard.
01:08He forgets who holds this family together.
01:10Mom,
01:11I'm not here for justice tonight.
01:13Five years ago you gave half your liver to save my mother.
01:16I've never forgotten.
01:17You asked me to marry him,
01:18to tame him.
01:19I tried everything for two years.
01:21The mate bond isn't enough to change a man with no honor.
01:23I want a divorce.
01:25And full custody of Ellie.
01:27All right.
01:28I'll help you.
01:29Let me handle the elders.
01:30Back then it was Matthew who saw you first.
01:32He begged me to make you his mate.
01:34He did love me once.
01:35Nailed and begged the moon goddess when Ellie was born.
01:37But honor isn't a feeling.
01:38It's a choice he stopped making.
01:41Get me Elder Margaret.
01:43It's a matriarch summons.
01:44Tonight.
01:47Alice was the Luna before me.
01:49She's willing to break the pack herself.
01:58My wolf hasn't howled in two years.
02:01Tonight she just watched the snow fall.
02:04Silent.
02:05Waiting.
02:15Two years of silence.
02:17Tonight my wolf will choose who hears me next.
02:23Lucas.
02:24It's me.
02:25I need your help.
02:26Start the divorce paperwork tonight.
02:29Isla.
02:29I've been waiting.
02:31The documents are ready.
02:32They've always been ready.
02:37Two years I believed the bond would save him.
02:41Tonight I found out someone else was ready to save me first.
02:50Every time he cheats.
02:51The number in my account grows.
02:56Tonight he reopened the club I shut down last month.
02:59And he wants me to bring him protection.
03:01For her.
03:03Two years ago a message like this would have made my wolf tear her own throat open.
03:07Tonight I don't even have the strength to be angry.
03:09A year ago I would have smashed this phone and burned that club to the ground.
03:12Tonight I just want him to know I'm too tired to even be angry.
03:15My wolf is curled up somewhere deep inside me.
03:17She's been sleeping for a long time.
03:24Mommy, will daddy like it?
03:26Of course he will sweetheart.
03:29I love this picture.
03:31But I know it's already a lie.
03:33The scent hit me first.
03:35Musk, rain and the sweet perfume of another woman.
03:38Daddy!
03:39Daddy!
03:40Missed me already pup?
03:41It's only been one night.
03:43No matter what we've become.
03:45He is still a good father.
03:46That's the cruelest part.
03:53Inside this folder, medical releases, school forms, and one document he will never bother
03:59to read.
04:00I was bracing for you to storm that club last night, but just a delivery guy with condoms.
04:04Isla, that's new.
04:05Isn't this what you wanted?
04:06A Luna who stays quiet and lets her alpha play.
04:09Hey, relax.
04:11You're still the one with the mark.
04:12They're just distractions.
04:14Two years ago, he swore to the moon goddess that I would be the only one carrying his scent.
04:18Now his distractions keep appearing.
04:20One after another, diluting the sanctity of a bond he begged me to accept.
04:24He forgot that vow.
04:25I haven't.
04:29Sign these.
04:30Ellie's advanced schooling.
04:31Medical releases.
04:32These little administrative things.
04:34You can handle them.
04:37He didn't even glance at the title.
04:40Done.
04:42He thought I would never leave him.
04:44He was wrong.
04:46And then I saw her.
04:48Please, I don't have insurance.
04:50No ID.
04:50No pack number.
04:51Move aside.
04:55Not going to help your old friend?
05:02He didn't even say goodbye to Ellie.
05:04I didn't care what he was doing anymore.
05:06And then the pack's social fleet pushed the headline.
05:16Mommy, can we get ice cream?
05:19Yes, baby.
05:20Let's go.
05:21In the warm afternoon light, everything looked like a post like a postcard.
05:27But everything was already broken.
05:31Ellie?
05:33Mommy?
05:35Ellie.
05:37If Mommy and Daddy don't live in the same den anymore,
05:44would you want to stay with me?
05:49This was the first time I ever asked for her answer.
05:56I would.
05:57Where Mommy is, is where the pack is.
06:00Daddy's busy a lot.
06:02He smells like other people.
06:03But I have Mommy.
06:05A child's world is simple.
06:07And that simplicity just sliced through every lie I had been living.
06:14Good girl.
06:15Let's not tell Daddy about this, okay?
06:17It's our secret.
06:19Okay.
06:20She deserves a mother who doesn't flinch.
06:22Starting today, that's who I have to be.
06:25Luna, I mean ma'am.
06:26Alpha Robinson asked for the keys to Misswood Manor.
06:29He's giving them to Sienna Ford.
06:30He said she needs a safe place to recover.
06:32Misswood.
06:33My river at Manter.
06:34My river estate before the mating.
06:35Part of my dowry.
06:36He picked the one place that would cut the deepest.
06:38Got it.
06:41Territory use tax.
06:43If he's going to park his stray in my house, he can pay tribute.
06:47Not a word of reply.
06:48Just the money.
06:50He thinks silver can silence a lunar's tongue.
06:53He has no idea.
06:55I'm not the lunar anymore.
06:56I'm something older.
06:58Something harder.
07:05This is Ellie's third birthday.
07:07Not Sienna's stage.
07:09Ellie, sweetheart.
07:10This is from me.
07:12Let me put it on, okay?
07:14No.
07:18Looks like Ellie doesn't like me much.
07:20I just wanted to make her happy.
07:23I just wanted to make her happy.
07:32Keep your disgusting affairs away from us.
07:36And away from my daughter.
07:38Alpha, I just wanted to bring Ellie a birthday gift.
07:41As you asked.
07:42As you asked.
07:43Three words.
07:44He told her to come.
07:45He sent her to my daughter's birthday.
07:47Did you hurt yourself?
07:48I thought you'd learned some decorum by now.
07:51Looks like I was wrong.
07:52He asked me where my dignity is.
07:55He doesn't know.
07:56Dignity was the last thing I put down for him.
08:02Bloodline Trust.
08:03Matthew's father set it up the day Ellie was born.
08:05Sealed by PAC law.
08:06Never meant to be touched.
08:08A massive sum.
08:09Gone.
08:10The signature was his.
08:12No answer.
08:13That was my first answer.
08:15I'm driving to his office.
08:16Now.
08:17I am the Luna of Silver Lake PAC.
08:19I had every right to be here.
08:21Luna, the Alpha is busy.
08:23Please, let me announce you.
08:24Busy.
08:25The word his staff used for what was happening behind that door.
08:28I knew.
08:30I had always known.
08:32She didn't look away.
08:33She wanted me to see her on my husband's throne.
08:38Oh!
08:39Alpha!
08:39She scared me!
08:41Two faces.
08:42Switched in one breath.
08:44She was very good at this.
08:46Why are you here, Ilissa?
08:47Is the house on fire?
08:49The Bloodline Trust is drained.
08:52Did you take it?
08:53I didn't need him to confess.
08:55I already knew the signature.
09:01Alpha, I'm so sorry.
09:03Without my contract breach fee, you wouldn't have had to touch Ellie's fund.
09:06Don't overreact.
09:07It's compensation for her.
09:08Call it avoiding a challenge from her kin.
09:10Compensation.
09:11With our Dautlisa's safety net shattered.
09:13The other belief that Siren Studio was still mine was about to die too.
09:17Alpha, the council meeting is starting in five.
09:19Come on, stop growling.
09:21I've ordered a spirit gem necklace for you.
09:24It'll be delivered tomorrow.
09:25He didn't notice.
09:26I hadn't been growling.
09:28I hadn't made a sound since I opened the door.
09:30Luna, the Alpha's gift just arrived from the jeweler.
09:36Storage vault.
09:37Thank you, Martha.
09:38A spirit gem necklace.
09:39A bribe dressed as an apology.
09:41I didn't need it.
09:42I didn't want it.
09:43I wouldn't touch it.
09:44Not this time.
09:45Repeat.
09:46That word hit me like a physical blow.
09:49There had been lunas in this pack before me.
09:51Betrayed.
09:52Silenced.
09:53Replaced.
09:54I was not the first.
09:55But I had a choice they hadn't.
09:57I had Siren Studio.
09:59I had my own ground.
10:01My studio.
10:02My technology.
10:03Three years of partnership with the Velasco Vampire Clan.
10:06Please welcome our special speaker, Miss Sienna Ford.
10:10And Matthew gave my stage to her.
10:13Matthew, what gives you the right to replace my guest speaker?
10:16Sienna is trending.
10:17Her buzz is better than yours.
10:19We're a pack, remember?
10:20Your resources are mine.
10:21Her earnings offset the fund.
10:23My resources are his?
10:24That was his whole world wove.
10:26That was the sentence that ended 20 years of belief.
10:28Hi, everyone.
10:29The technology is really complicated.
10:32The frequency is kind of like the howling algorithm.
10:43My ears!
10:44Is she trying to de-domp us?
10:46Incompetent Omega!
10:47Get her off my frequency range!
10:49She was just nervous.
10:50We'll have her better prepared next time.
10:51He called it vampires, called it incompetence.
10:53I called it the last proof I needed.
10:57Three years.
10:59Three pack partnerships.
11:00Gone in 60 seconds because my husband thought his mistress could stand on my stage.
11:06The damage was done, and something in me finished.
11:10I'll send the new contracts tomorrow.
11:12Let's get dinner, Eilis.
11:13For two years, I had raged.
11:15I had clawed.
11:16I had howled.
11:17Not anymore.
11:19He didn't notice.
11:20He never did.
11:22Tomorrow, I stop fighting his way and start playing mine.
11:28Small accident.
11:30I'll double your loss from the Terry treasury.
11:33He didn't even read past the second line.
11:37All I have to do is whine, and he'll hand me your studio on a silver platter.
11:41Why cling to the title of Luna, when everyone knows you've lost his favor?
11:46Two years of screaming, and for what?
11:48Yeah.
11:50I did go feral.
11:51But tell me, Omega.
11:53Who gave you the courage to bare your teeth at a Luna?
12:04Isla!
12:12Are you okay?
12:13You used to smash cars, now you're attacking my people?
12:17You've become vicious.
12:18And you?
12:19Stealing from your pup's inheritance?
12:22Ruining my event?
12:23What does that make you, Matthew?
12:25Let's see how far you can push me.
12:27I counted the cost.
12:28The contracts.
12:30The bruises.
12:31The years.
12:32Tonight the ledger closes.
12:35Isla, the paperwork is almost done.
12:37Five days.
12:38Tops.
12:39You and Ellie won't be left without territory.
12:41One more thing.
12:42The old Alpha's memorial.
12:44Would you stand as Luna one last time?
12:45For him?
12:46Okay, Mom.
12:47I'll be there.
12:48The old Alpha was the only Robinson who called me daughter.
12:52I owed him one last goodbye.
12:54Ozone and rain.
12:56He's here.
12:57And he's not alone.
13:00Strangers from enemy packs.
13:02That's what we'd become.
13:06Matthew.
13:07Today is your father's funeral.
13:10Why bring her here?
13:12Isla is still your Luna.
13:15I know I shouldn't be here.
13:17I'm not worthy.
13:20But I'm pregnant.
13:22He's a Robinson.
13:26Since she's carrying a Robinson pup, it's natural she should pay respects.
13:30For two years, he swore Ellie was his only heir.
13:33Until now.
13:35Auntie.
13:36Let's not disturb the old Alpha's rest.
13:39Alice, I'm not feeling well.
13:40I'm going to take Ellie home.
13:50Mom, are we going home?
13:53Yes, baby.
13:55We're going home.
13:56He thinks home is still his.
13:58He thinks four more days means nothing.
14:01Four days.
14:02And this house he calls mine will no longer be my home.
14:08Three more days until the severance ceremony.
14:11I'm done caring what he leaves to whom.
14:14I'm taking my daughter and walking out of this pack tonight.
14:18Luna!
14:19Luna!
14:20Something's wrong!
14:21Ellie is missing!
14:22That cold running through me, it's not fear.
14:25It's the instinct of a mother catching a predator's scent.
14:29Isla Reed, you're in my way.
14:32Your pup is in my way too.
14:34The pack doesn't need two heirs.
14:36You both deserve to die.
14:38Sienna.
14:39So she finally crossed that line.
14:43Saving my daughter is instinct.
14:46Destroying Sienna, that's just something I'll do on the way.
14:50Sarah, listen to me once.
14:53Sienna Ford.
14:53The Rogue Fight Club photos.
14:55Her forged lineage papers.
14:56The recordings of her trading pack secrets for favors.
14:58Luna, you-
14:59Release it all.
15:00Pack network, public media.
15:02Buy out every headline.
15:0324 hours.
15:04Make her a Perea.
15:05Yes, Luna.
15:14Ellie!
15:16Cold like a physical blow.
15:34Her breath.
15:36Her wolf.
15:38Both fading.
15:45Three hours to save my daughter.
15:48Three hours to end Sienna.
15:50The math was clean.
15:52Isla!
15:53It's you!
15:54You leaked everything!
15:57You're trying to destroy her?
15:59I told you.
16:00No one will replace you as Luna.
16:02Why use these filthy, underhanded tricks?
16:06She's pregnant with a pack wolf, Isla.
16:08You know how fragile a pregnant female is.
16:10Stress could kill the pup.
16:13He hasn't even asked me why I'm soaking wet.
16:19Matthew, do you know that your daughter was kidnapped this afternoon?
16:25She was tied to a sinking boat in Rogue Waters.
16:28She almost drowned.
16:32Is she, is she okay?
16:34I'm worried about our daughter too.
16:35I'll get the enforcers to investigate.
16:37But that has nothing to do with Sienna.
16:39She's been with me all afternoon.
16:45Are you sure?
16:49I held the truth in my hand.
16:52His wolf knew.
16:53He chose not to listen.
16:55No.
16:56That's not my voice.
16:58It's fake.
16:59It's all AI generation.
17:02His wolf smelled it.
17:04The lie.
17:05Metal.
17:06Rot.
17:06Wrong.
17:07His wolf howled from inside.
17:09His human put a muzzle on it.
17:11Alpha, my stomach.
17:13The baby.
17:13She wants us dead so she can keep the inheritance.
17:16Isla, are you trying to ruin Sienna because of the baby?
17:19Did you fabricate this?
17:21I searched his eyes for the boy who promised me the world.
17:24I found only a stranger.
17:25Matthew, you're truly blind.
17:27Your eyes see.
17:29But your wolf is blind.
17:44The rage.
17:46The heartbreak.
17:48The chaos.
17:50They all drained away.
17:52What was left was clarity.
17:53It was clarity.
17:56He didn't ask about the recorder.
17:58He didn't ask who kidnapped our daughter.
18:01Sienna's unborn story mattered more than the truth.
18:06Go ahead.
18:08The weight of the pack.
18:10The expectations.
18:12The failed bond.
18:17Gone.
18:18All of it.
18:19Gone.
18:24My clothes.
18:26Ellie's clothes.
18:28Documents.
18:29Changes.
18:30My parents' photograph.
18:33My violin.
18:40I carry his scent.
18:44I don't need them anymore.
18:49There's no warmth left here.
18:51This territory has turned hostile.
18:53Mommy, are we going home?
18:56Yeah, baby.
18:58We're going home.
19:06The plane climbed through the first layer.
19:09Everything below turned to white.
19:11The plane rose higher.
19:14Pack territory vanished beneath the clouds.
19:17No Matthew Robinson.
19:18No Sienna Ford.
19:20No Pack politics.
19:22And for the first time,
19:24my wolf is mine.
19:28I am a lone wolf now.
19:31And my wolf.
19:32And my wolf finally breathes.
19:39Alpha.
19:41Our pup almost.
19:43It's okay now.
19:45Rest.
19:47Three days ago,
19:48if I'd scented another woman on him,
19:50I would have thrown his whiskey glass at the wall.
19:53He's waiting for that.
19:55The Isla-la he remembers.
19:57The Isla who still cared enough
19:59to break glass for him.
20:02Alpha Robinson.
20:03Sorry to disturb.
20:04Speak.
20:04Miss Reed authorized the liquidation of Miss Wood Manor.
20:06Today, the new owners and neutral merchant clan
20:08are coming for territory inspection.
20:10Who gave her permission to sell pack-adjacent land?
20:12Alpha.
20:12The deed is solely under Illa Reed's name.
20:14It's her birthright.
20:15She doesn't need council approval.
20:16Miss Wood Manor wasn't just a house.
20:17It was my dowry.
20:19He moved her into it to humiliate me.
20:20I kept it in my name
20:21because a wolf never sells her birthright.
20:23And now I'm selling it.
20:25He still thinks if he yells loud enough,
20:26I'll turn around.
20:27He still doesn't know.
20:28I'm no longer within range of his voice.
20:30And Alpha's wolf eyes glow for three reasons.
20:33Rage.
20:33Lust.
20:34Awe.
20:34Matthew.
20:35What is it?
20:35Your eyes are glowing.
20:36Sensing his fated mate drifting out of reach.
20:38He doesn't know which one it is.
20:40Or maybe he knows
20:41and refuses to let himself.
20:42It's nothing.
20:43I have a rogue element to deal with.
20:46Sarah.
20:47Where is she?
20:48Alpha.
20:48The Luna took the pup
20:49and left the estate three days ago.
20:51She said she had matters to attend to.
20:53Which safe house?
20:53Which plaque territory?
20:55She didn't say.
20:56And Alpha.
20:56Her scent is failing from the house.
20:58Ellie's too.
20:59A wolf bond runs on blood.
21:00On vows.
21:01On scent.
21:02Scent doesn't lie.
21:03I made sure every trace would fade.
21:05Ellie's clothes.
21:06My silk robe.
21:06The coat I kept by the door.
21:08I knew he would feel it before he saw it.
21:10But as long as his pride is intact,
21:11he won't admit what his wolf already knows.
21:13Get the hospital to discharge Sienna today.
21:16Clear my evening calendar.
21:18We're attending the PAC Charity Gala tonight.
21:20Alpha.
21:20Are you sure you want to make Miss Ford
21:22the official face of the charity?
21:23The public?
21:24If my Luna wants to hide,
21:25give her something to watch.
21:26Make the announcement tonight.
21:29Every flashbulb is just him
21:31counting the seats I left empty.
21:33He's louder every time.
21:36He's louder because I'm not there.
21:38Right here is the Alpha Robinson board.
21:40Official base of PAC is Luna.
21:41He's putting on a show
21:43for an audience that isn't there.
21:51Mommy, are we there yet?
21:54Almost, baby.
21:56Almost home.
22:00He's putting on a show
22:01for an empty seat.
22:02And me?
22:05I'm already halfway
22:06to where I actually live.
22:13Isla, it's done.
22:15The desolation is legally binding.
22:17He'll see it on his desk
22:18tomorrow morning.
22:19Tomorrow.
22:19He'll finally see
22:20what three days of silence
22:21actually meant.
22:27If she'd come like before,
22:29she'd have driven her car
22:30straight through those doors.
22:31Instead, nothing.
22:33Three years of marriage
22:34and tonight my Luna
22:35didn't even bother to scream.
22:36No scent of ozone.
22:38No rage.
22:39Just a deafening silence.
22:40And that's what's wrong.
22:42Worried your Luna
22:42might cause a scene?
22:44My enforcers are guarding the door.
22:46She won't get within 50 feet.
22:48She dares?
22:49Female shouldn't be spoiled.
22:51Sienna is a sweet thing.
22:52Obedient.
22:53Doesn't have that intense energy
22:55your Luna has.
22:58She used to look at me like this.
23:00Like I was the only thing
23:01in the world worth her claws.
23:03That fire.
23:05She killed it herself.
23:07Long before tonight.
23:16She couldn't live without the bond.
23:19She was enduring it
23:20to prove a point.
23:21That's what I told myself.
23:25Mom, I'm in the middle of a summit.
23:27What's the emergency?
23:28Busy flaunting that stray
23:29while your territory burns?
23:31Get your ass back to the main house.
23:33Now.
23:38The scent of home was gone.
23:40Replaced by cleaning products.
23:45My wolf paced in my mind.
23:47Claws scratching.
23:50Something was wrong.
23:52Something deeper than a fight.
24:00Mom.
24:02What's the emergency calling for?
24:04Matthew.
24:05Do you know where Isla and Ellie are right now?
24:10She's hiding in some hotel with the pup
24:12throwing a tantrum.
24:14Once she realizes she can't survive
24:16without my protection
24:17she'll come crawling back.
24:23Crawling back?
24:25Matthew Robinson.
24:27Do you still think
24:28she's baring her teeth for show?
24:32Open your eyes.
24:33Look.
24:34She's not throwing a tantrum.
24:35She's severing the bond.
24:38What the hell are you still dreaming about?
24:40What the hell are you still dreaming about?
24:52What the hell are you still dreaming about?
24:53What the hell are you still dreaming about?
24:53What the hell are you still dreaming about?
24:53This can't be.
24:56Matthew.
24:58I'm mating you for your soul
25:00not your title.
25:06She doesn't want anything.
25:07She just
25:09doesn't want me.
25:17Do you understand now?
25:22She is not trying to blackmail you.
25:24She is truly done with you.
25:26She doesn't want your rank.
25:28She doesn't want your power.
25:30She only wants to leave, Matthew.
25:33Do you truly not understand?
25:37Who the hell does she think she is?
25:42Taking my daughter
25:43and walking away from the pack
25:45not in this lifetime.
25:57Find them.
25:58Every tracker.
25:59Every satellite.
26:01Turn the entire territory upside down.
26:04Bring Isla and Ellie back to me.
26:06Now.
26:11You still think this is a game of dominance.
26:31You still think this is a game of dominance.
26:33That was the first moment he truly began to doubt himself.
26:38Matthew, that recording is a forgery.
26:40They are framing me.
26:41Our baby.
26:49What if...
26:50What if it was real?
27:02Some truths, once doubt begins,
27:06can never be undone.
27:11Two years I watched him make excuses for her.
27:14Tonight I'll watch him make excuses to himself.
27:18Run it.
27:20Full spectral analysis.
27:21Now.
27:24Stand by, Alpha.
27:25Ten minutes.
27:26He'd never tasted helplessness before.
27:29Two years late to the party.
27:32Forgery probability under 0.1%.
27:34Voice print 100% match to Sienna Ford.
27:37Background matches the abandoned doc's acoustic signature.
27:43Alpha, Miss Ford is awake.
27:45She's very emotional.
27:46She's asking for you.
27:47She says her stomach hurts.
27:49She's worried the stress is hurting the pup.
27:51Every tear she shed was a line.
27:53Every trembling lip was a stage direction.
27:56Alpha, we dug into Miss Ford's medical history.
27:58The pregnancy report is suspicious.
28:00The attending healer received a large, untraceable payment and goal
28:02the day before the report was issued.
28:03And her past.
28:04During your relationship with her,
28:05she was closely involved with multiple rogue males.
28:08There's also a confirmed omega from the shadow pack.
28:10Every time she cried.
28:12Every time she bared her throat.
28:15It was choreography.
28:17And he, the fool,
28:19played his part for two years.
28:26He used to believe he walked into that hospital as a protector.
28:30Tonight, he walked in as a verdict.
28:42Alpha, you're finally here.
28:43I...
28:47The recording is real, Sienna.
28:50What else do you have to say?
28:52No.
28:53That's fake.
28:54Eylee set me up.
28:55She hacked the system.
28:57A setup.
29:01Then what about the fake pregnancy?
29:03What about the rogue males, the shadow pack, Omega?
29:06Is that also Eylee's doing?
29:11Sienna, listen carefully.
29:12You will pay for everything.
29:13From tonight, on this territory, you are nothing.
29:15Stripped of all protection.
29:16Banished from Robinson lands.
29:18Pray I don't find more evidence.
29:20If I do, it won't be his exile.
29:21It will be execution.
29:22He thought this was justice.
29:23It was only self-sentencing.
29:26Three years late.
29:27He walked in expecting lavender.
29:30Instead, he learned what silence sounds like
29:32after it stopped being silence.
29:34A den isn't a house.
29:36It isn't money.
29:37It's her and her breathing inside these walls.
29:44The first time in his life, this alpha howled.
29:48And there was no one left to hear it.
29:53Two years.
29:55Two years of sleeping with one eye open of breathing in his storm.
29:58Tonight, the air smells like nothing.
30:01My wolf still doesn't know how to stop looking for him.
30:04For the next blow.
30:06For the footsteps behind me.
30:10Then I saw him.
30:12The old Lucas would have picked me up and spun me around.
30:15Every homecoming.
30:17Every Christmas.
30:18Every victory.
30:20But today, he saw something in me.
30:23And he held back.
30:26He let go before anyone could see me crack.
30:29That's how he's always loved me.
30:31Without ever making me pay for it.
30:34Ellie pup, do you still remember Uncle Lucas?
30:37Little princess, we're heading to the castle.
30:39No bad wolves allowed.
30:42Castle!
30:43Castle!
30:44Castle!
30:44Two years.
30:46And my daughter just remembered how to laugh like that.
30:49The cold of the capital grew distant.
30:52My shoulders, for the first time in two years,
30:56found the back of the seat.
30:59This house breathes a different magic.
31:02An older one.
31:06You're back!
31:08It's so good you're back in the territory.
31:15You've lost weight.
31:16Your wolf feels thin.
31:18Not you look tired.
31:19Not how was the flight.
31:20My wolf.
31:20Only my father would mourn her first.
31:25My precious pup.
31:27My precious, precious pup.
31:31Grandma, you smell like cookies.
31:34Two years.
31:35And my daughter just learned what bloodline love smells like.
31:38Reporting in, Alpha.
31:39Mission accomplished.
31:40The two princesses have been safely delivered across enemy lines.
31:44Awaiting orders, sir.
31:45Always making fun of things.
31:47Get the bags inside.
31:48He carries grief the way he carries luggage.
31:50Without ever letting anyone see it's heavy.
31:53Dad.
31:54Mom, we're home.
31:57Home.
31:58Not the one I left.
32:00The one I was always meant to return to.
32:03Come on.
32:04Mom started preparing for your arrival yesterday.
32:07The whole kitchen smells like a feast.
32:12I had forgotten what it felt like
32:14to let someone guide me inside.
32:18Outside this gate,
32:19the cold of the capital,
32:21the chaos of the Robinson Pack,
32:24the memories I carried for two years.
32:27The gate closes.
32:29The territory remembers.
32:31We are held.
32:33Inside,
32:34my mother there's broth,
32:36my father's silence,
32:38Ellie's laughter,
32:40and,
32:41and,
32:42him.
32:45Sanctuary.
32:46He doesn't know yet.
32:48And I don't know yet.
32:49But something has already begun.
32:52Tomorrow,
32:53the real story begins.
33:06Two years.
33:08This is the first meal
33:09where I don't have to calculate Matthew's mood
33:11before I chew.
33:17Come on,
33:18sweetheart.
33:18Bath time.
33:22I need to take this.
33:23Council retirement matters.
33:26So,
33:28how's the inner wolf?
33:29Getting used to being unbonded?
33:31It's quiet,
33:32but peaceful.
33:34So what now?
33:34Rest for a while.
33:36Let Ellie settle in.
33:37Then,
33:38maybe pick on posing again.
33:39I have some melodies that Matthew
33:40that I couldn't finish there.
33:42Now that's my sister.
33:42Someone is wiping my past clean,
33:44and I let myself be cared for,
33:47for the first time.
33:55Isla,
33:55come help me sort threes.
33:57There are some of your things
33:58from back in the day.
33:59The girl in the photo.
34:02It feels like just yesterday.
34:03You were so radiant back then.
34:06Your music calmed the fiercest wolves.
34:08The girl in the photo.
34:09She had the whole future in her eyes.
34:11If I hadn't gotten sick.
34:14If it weren't for Alice Robinson
34:16and what she did for me.
34:18The forbidden vitality transfer.
34:21I might have died.
34:22Your father and I tried to stop you
34:24from mating Matthew.
34:25Especially Lucas.
34:26He was the first to oppose it.
34:28He said that boy from the Robinson Hamley
34:29smelled wrong.
34:30Too flighty.
34:31His wolf.
34:31Too arrogant.
34:32Not someone who could settle down.
34:34Mom.
34:35Don't say any more.
34:37You've suffered so much.
34:38But you've so my much.
34:40If I had known,
34:41I would have rejected Alice's gift.
34:43The path I chose was my own.
34:45And I have Ellie.
34:47I never regret her.
34:48But you've suffered so much.
34:51If I had known this would make you go through so much pain,
34:53I would have...
34:54Would have what?
34:56His posture was like a wolf strolling into his own territory.
34:59But his eyes finished scanning the room before ours did.
35:03Now you see who really has sharp eyes
35:05and sniff out a scum man's true nature, right?
35:08You're always teasing your sister.
35:11Show some respect.
35:13Ow!
35:14Abuse in the den!
35:15I'm just helping Mom educate you, okay?
35:18You have to listen to good advice.
35:19Especially from your big brother
35:21who has the best nose in the family.
35:25The past is unchangeable.
35:27But at least, we still have each other.
35:33A few days later,
35:35I signed the first lease that truly belonged to me.
35:38I named it Isla.
35:40Not Robinson.
35:42Just me.
35:44Lucas came here every day.
35:46He said he was safeguarding the birth of a future music master.
35:50But what he was doing looked more like something else.
35:55Lucas, you didn't have to.
35:57First cup from the new machine.
35:59Had to get it right.
36:05The only sounds in the room
36:07were the scratch of pen on paper
36:08and the tap of keys.
36:11Quiet.
36:12Like two wolves sharing the same territory.
36:15When he looks at me,
36:17his gaze is heavy.
36:19I can't read it.
36:21I told myself he is my brother.
36:26Security contract.
36:27I'll be outside.
36:28Mom came to see me again.
36:30There was pride in her eyes.
36:32But there was something else too.
36:33Mom, what brings you here?
36:36My mother is a very steady old Luna.
36:39She only touches a cup like that
36:41when something truly important was at stake.
36:46Isla, there's something I've been thinking about
36:48for a long time.
36:52I feel I should tell you now.
36:58The way my mother sat down
37:00told me everything.
37:02She was about to set down
37:03something she'd been carrying for 20 years.
37:06I know this is hard for you to hear,
37:08but it's time you knew the truth.
37:10Lucas,
37:11he's not your biological brother.
37:14He does not share the Reed bloodline.
37:17What?
37:18He's a foundling.
37:19Adopted.
37:20The healers said we couldn't produce a pup.
37:22The elders were pressuring us for an heir.
37:24We found him at the orphanage
37:25for displaced wolves.
37:27A stubborn little thing.
37:28Eyes full of prickles.
37:29But I knew he needed a pack.
37:31He knew from the start
37:32that you weren't his blood sister.
37:34We told him when you were born,
37:35and he still took the blood oath
37:37to protect you.
37:38Blood oath.
37:39The heaviest vow in the pack.
37:42Heavier than marriage.
37:44And he took it when he was three.
37:46I thought he was being being my brother.
37:49He wasn't.
37:50He was guarding.
37:52If you're hurt, just come back.
37:54My den is yours.
37:57My den is yours.
37:59Not something a brother says.
38:01Something a male wolf
38:03who'd been waiting for me
38:04to come home would say.
38:05He walked in, and he already knew.
38:08In a house of wolves,
38:09secrets have a scent.
38:12I just closed a big deal.
38:14We need to celebrate.
38:15His wolf caught it before he did.
38:17Something was wrong with the air.
38:19What's going on here?
38:20Mom reminiscing again?
38:21Don't make my sister cry.
38:23She's our family's
38:23priority-protected species these days.
38:25She didn't say a word.
38:27But that look.
38:28Rai-9 was her handing him off.
38:32I could see my own reflection in his eyes.
38:34For the first time,
38:35I noticed they didn't look like mine.
38:37They didn't look like my father's.
38:39Has our big composer hit a creative block?
38:41You're furrowing your rouse
38:42like you're about to squash a fly.
38:43What's going on?
38:44Deep in thought, huh?
38:47His wolf was waiting for me to say yes.
38:50My wolf.
38:51I hadn't even fully admitted
38:53I had one listening.
38:58Nothing's more important than food, right?
39:00Come on, artist.
39:01How about treating the hard-working manager
39:02who's been running around for you?
39:04That wasn't the hand that held mine
39:05crossing the street when I was little.
39:07This hand was asking a question.
39:09He wasn't just my manager.
39:10He never was.
39:12Cold fingertips on warm skin.
39:14He didn't close his hand.
39:16He just held it.
39:20All right.
39:25I didn't pull away.
39:28And that was when I realized
39:29I didn't want to.
39:39Come on, artist.
39:40Treat the hard-working manager
39:42who's been running around for you.
39:44When we were kids,
39:46he used to reach out like this
39:47to pull me out of trouble.
39:49This time,
39:50he was asking me
39:51if I wanted to walk in.
39:56My fingers were cold.
39:57His palm was burning.
39:59And something,
40:01and something,
40:03faint but undeniable,
40:05passed between us.
40:06In the days that followed,
40:08the air in the house changed.
40:13Didn't do anything.
40:15Just balance.
40:16He was still Lucas.
40:18But every touch,
40:20casual as it looked,
40:22carried a test.
40:23I didn't push him away.
40:26But I didn't answer,
40:27either.
40:29The bond Matthew tore from me
40:30was still healing.
40:35His thumb had been here.
40:38His thumb,
40:40warm,
40:41barely a second.
40:43Why was I the one replaying it?
40:48He was patient.
40:50A hunter who knew the prize
40:52was worth the wait.
40:53I hadn't said yes.
40:56But something inside me,
40:59quietly,
41:01had stopped saying no.
41:07Lucas no longer played the role of brother.
41:09He was slowly,
41:11patiently,
41:13moving himself
41:14into every corner
41:15of my daily life.
41:18Client gave me two free tickets.
41:21Would have been a waste.
41:23Every excuse he makes is clumsy.
41:25He doesn't care whether I see through them.
41:28And my body
41:29is answering him
41:30without asking me first.
41:32My wolf senses the courtship.
41:35She doesn't lunge forward
41:37to tear everything apart
41:38the way she did with Matthew.
41:41She just
41:43quietly lifts her head
41:45and listens.
41:47My mother's so-called revelation
41:48was never an announcement.
41:49It was a carefully crafted assist.
41:52The mastermind was the man
41:53standing right in front of me.
41:55He no longer wanted to be
41:56just my protector.
41:57He was positioning himself
41:58patiently for a brand new role.
42:00And for the first time in two years,
42:02I thought it might be worth my courage.
42:05Come in.
42:12That scent.
42:14Him.
42:15Came here to hide
42:17in the neutral zone?
42:18Is there something you need,
42:19Alpha Robinson?
42:22Where's Ellie?
42:24I came to see my daughter.
42:26She's at the academy.
42:27Isla, have you had enough?
42:29Playing this little runaway act
42:31amuses you?
42:32Matthew, have you got it wrong?
42:33The Severn agreement is signed.
42:35We have no relationship anymore.
42:36If you want to see Ellie
42:37schedule through the council,
42:39this is my workplace.
42:39You are not welcome here.
42:41Your scent is polluting my studio.
42:43No relationship?
42:44You signed a paper.
42:45Do you really think
42:45you can walk away from me?
42:46We are fated.
42:47Name your price.
42:48What will it take
42:49to bring the child back to the pack?
42:50Don't test my patience.
42:51I can buy this entire building.
42:53He's still reading from a script
42:54written two years ago.
42:55He doesn't know.
42:56The woman he could have bought
42:57is no longer in this room.
42:58Isla, are you done?
43:07Three scents.
43:08Two alphas.
43:10One of them is suddenly realizing
43:12the other is not
43:13the little brother he thought.
43:15I thought today was just
43:16another ordinary dinner day.
43:18But the storm has already
43:20arrived at my door.
43:25In our world,
43:26a brother standing between
43:27you and your enemy
43:28is not a brother.
43:30It's a territory being redrawn.
43:32Alpha Robinson?
43:33What brings a high and mighty Alpha
43:34to this little neutral territory?
43:36I came to see Isla and my pup.
43:38This is a matter between mates.
43:40Mates?
43:41Are you sleepwalking?
43:43Does my sister still have your mark?
43:47Do you need me to slap
43:49the severance to Kied
43:51across your face?
43:53You are nothing to her now.
43:55Lucas,
43:56out of respect for your being
43:58Isla's kin,
43:59I've been polite.
44:00But my family matters
44:01are none of your business.
44:06Isla is the one
44:07I've watched grow up.
44:08I swore the blood oath
44:09to protect her.
44:10How could you swear
44:11to the moon goddess
44:12you'd take care of her?
44:14And what did you do?
44:17You let some scent-masked rogue
44:19humiliate her.
44:22Ellie nearly drowned
44:23in that freezing water
44:24because of you.
44:25Let me make this clear.
44:27Leave Isla's sight
44:28right now.
44:29Don't ever come near her again.
44:31That was an accident.
44:33Sienna was unstable.
44:34I handled it.
44:36I banished her.
44:41Shut up!
44:43Don't ever mention
44:44that woman's name
44:44in this room!
44:46Lucas Reed!
44:48Who the hell
44:48do you think you are?
44:50You are a beta!
44:51I have every right
44:52to see my daughter.
44:54It's my blood right!
44:56Matthew's blood right
44:57is a lie
44:57about to collapse.
45:22That strike was for
45:23Illa and Ellie.
45:25My sister and niece
45:27are under my protection.
45:29My territory.
45:30My rules.
45:33Show up again
45:35and I will not hold back.
45:37He felt it then.
45:39Not pain.
45:40Something older.
45:42The recognition
45:43of a predator
45:44realizing he's walked
45:45into another beast's den.
45:47The bond is eternal.
45:50She's just punishing me.
45:52She cannot let go.
45:53Not really.
45:57If direct confrontation
45:59won't work
46:00and Lucas stands guard
46:01at the gate
46:02then change direction.
46:07Three years of marriage.
46:09Now he started attacking
46:11through our pup
46:12and today
46:13the siege begins.
46:15Mrs. Reed's orders
46:16return to sender.
46:20He thought this was clever.
46:22He didn't know
46:23three people in that house
46:24were sending
46:24every gift back.
46:30Ellie?
46:31Do you miss Daddy?
46:33Daddy has a new castle
46:35for you.
46:36It's not convenient
46:37for the child.
46:39Please don't call again
46:40Alpha Robinson.
46:42He stopped attacking me.
46:43He started attacking her.
46:46Ellie was the weak link
46:47in their fortress.
46:56I could block his calls.
46:58I could return his gifts.
47:00But the bloodbind hums
47:01between sire and pup.
47:03A wire no gate can stop.
47:05Family only.
47:06Me, my mother Lucas.
47:08No one else picks her up.
47:11Especially not him.
47:17Time to sleep,
47:18little wolf.
47:21Mommy?
47:23Why doesn't Daddy
47:25live with us
47:26in this den?
47:27Why did we send
47:28the big wolf doll back?
47:29He said on the card,
47:30he misses me.
47:32The pup's wolf felt it.
47:33The rejection of
47:34pack structure.
47:35The absence of the Alpha
47:36she was born under.
47:37You have Mama.
47:38You have Grandma.
47:39You have Uncle Lucas.
47:40Our pack is small,
47:41baby,
47:42but it's strong.
47:45But sometimes
47:46the wolf misses Daddy too.
47:48That was the moment I knew.
47:50I couldn't hide anymore.
47:52Blocking him
47:52wasn't the answer.
47:54Silence was being
47:55read as a game.
47:56The tighter I hid,
47:58the tighter he clung,
47:59using the pup's instincts
48:01as a weapon.
48:02So I had to speak.
48:03Not to reconcile.
48:05To mark the final territory.
48:08Isla?
48:09Tomorrow.
48:103 p.m.
48:11Quiet Shores Cafe.
48:13I...
48:14We need to talk.
48:15Just the two of us.
48:16No lawyers.
48:17No enforcers.
48:19Okay.
48:20I'll be there.
48:22Don't be late.
48:23He thought I was breaking.
48:25He thought the Cold War,
48:27the papers,
48:28the move,
48:29were all a tantrum.
48:30A test of his resolve.
48:32He was already
48:33rehearsing the reunion.
48:34Tears,
48:36the sex that would remake
48:39the mating mark.
48:40He was certain.
48:42Fate didn't make mistakes.
48:44He thought tomorrow
48:45was a reunion.
48:47He didn't know
48:48it was a reunict.
48:52Three years as his lunar.
48:54Three months apart.
48:56Today I'm here to bury a marriage
48:58he thinks is still breathing.
49:00His scent arrives
49:01three seconds before he does.
49:03Musk.
49:04Authority.
49:05A cologne designed
49:06to make a lunar's wolf kneel.
49:09Alpha vision.
49:10He's searching
49:11for a wolf shivering
49:12from bond withdrawal.
49:14What he finds
49:15is a lake.
49:15Frozen.
49:16Deep.
49:17Nothing moving underneath.
49:19Isla.
49:20Since Sienna left
49:21I've thought a lot.
49:22I was an idiot.
49:23My wolf was blinded
49:25by my selfishness
49:26and by that rogue's manipulation.
49:29The bond is still there, Isla.
49:31You feel it.
49:33You can't not feel it.
49:34A lone wolf is vulnerable, Isla.
49:36You have no one
49:38to protect your flank right now.
49:39Let me court you again.
49:41Restart the mating cycle.
49:43Give Ellie a complete den.
49:45I'll never make the same mistake.
49:47Matthew.
49:49Your instincts
49:50are completely broken.
49:54There it is.
49:55The first crack.
49:59First.
50:00I'm not here
50:01to hear your confession.
50:02I'm not here
50:03to give you a chance.
50:04I'm here to officially notify you.
50:06The bond,
50:07the title,
50:07the marriage,
50:08all of it is over.
50:09Second.
50:10My life is good now.
50:11My wolf is healthy.
50:12Without you
50:13Ellie and I
50:13are stronger.
50:15Third.
50:16Who told you
50:17I have no one
50:17to protect my flank?
50:19Cedar.
50:20Steel.
50:21A forest
50:22after winter rain.
50:23His cologne
50:24suddenly
50:25smells like
50:26a cheap spray can.
50:27He doesn't sit.
50:29He stands.
50:30Guarding,
50:31guarding my blind spot.
50:32The posture
50:33of a mate.
50:35Are you done talking?
50:40Lucas.
50:42The two of you.
50:44The two of you.
50:44Your siblings.
50:46Pac-kin.
50:47This is against
50:48the natural law.
50:57His hand lands
50:58on my shoulder.
50:59Let him think it.
51:00The truth will hurt more
51:01when it arrives.
51:06Brother and sister.
51:07Matthew,
51:08who told you
51:08we share the same bloodline?
51:10I was a foundling.
51:11The reeds took me in.
51:13I was the childhood partner
51:14prepared for Isla
51:15from the beginning.
51:16I've watched her grow up.
51:18Protected her.
51:20Waited for her.
51:21My blood is clean.
51:22My lineage is separate.
51:24From the start
51:24to the end,
51:25I've only had eyes
51:26for her.
51:27So now,
51:28she has a protector.
51:29She has a main waiting.
51:31It's me.
51:32Understand?
51:38And for the first time,
51:40I didn't pull away.
51:46He vanished.
51:48No calls.
51:49No messages.
51:50I should have felt relief.
51:53I felt something
51:54closer to warning.
52:06Uncle Lucas.
52:13Ellie,
52:15Daddy's here
52:15to take you home.
52:21I don't want to.
52:23I want Uncle
52:24and Mommy.
52:25Be good!
52:26I'm your Daddy!
52:27Come to me!
52:30Matthew,
52:30back off.
52:31You're scaring the pup.
52:32Ellie,
52:33look closely.
52:34He is a bad wolf
52:36who wants to take
52:37your mommy away.
52:38He is trying
52:39to steal your pack.
52:40Isla!
52:41Step aside!
52:42I need my daughter
52:43to see this man
52:44for who he really is,
52:45a usurper!
52:46Daddy's bad!
52:47I hate Daddy!
52:49You yelled
52:50at Uncle Lucas!
52:51You scared Ellie!
52:52You're a bad Daddy!
52:53I don't want to go with you!
52:54I like Uncle.
52:55Uncle tells me stories.
52:57Uncle plays with me.
52:58He never yells.
53:00He smells safe.
53:07Some truths
53:08a child needs
53:09to speak out loud.
53:11He used to be
53:12the alpha
53:12of our pack.
53:13Now he's a rogue
53:14in his own story.
53:21Three years of marriage.
53:23One year of betrayal.
53:25And tonight,
53:26the proudest alpha
53:27I ever knew
53:28walks alone
53:29into the edge
53:30of the world.
53:30He never came back.
53:32And tonight,
53:34I finally understand why.
53:36The chaos is gone.
53:38The challenges,
53:39the affairs,
53:40the constant fight
53:40for dominance
53:41faded into the background,
53:43like pages turning
53:44in an ancient history book.
53:46I don't need
53:48a title anymore.
53:49I'm just composer
53:50Issa Reed.
53:52Invitations came,
53:53one after another.
53:55But I chose carefully.
53:58Only the projects
53:59that respected
54:00the music itself.
54:02Not my past.
54:04Not my former title
54:05as Luna.
54:10Me, me, let me.
54:13He filled the hollow space
54:15without a word.
54:17Not a father.
54:18Not yet.
54:20Something steadier.
54:21Uncle Lucas?
54:23The dark water?
54:24He released
54:25his calming pheromones.
54:27Warm, cedar, earth.
54:29And her small wolf inside
54:31started to breathe again.
54:33By morning,
54:34she smelled like his pack.
54:36And Grace and Robert
54:37finally let go.
54:43He never asks
54:45if I need rest.
54:46He just makes rest possible.
54:49Cedar.
54:49Earth.
54:51His scent.
54:56And for the first time
54:57in three years,
54:59my wolf lifted her head
55:01and sniffed the air.
55:03Uncle Lucas is cooking.
55:08You're back?
55:09Go wash your hands.
55:10Dinner's ready.
55:11Try my cooking tonight.
55:12I hunted the ingredients myself.
55:14Slow down, pup.
55:15Hi, pup.
55:19When did you learn to cook?
55:20Back when I first went abroad.
55:22Figured it out.
55:22Wolf needs to know
55:23how to feed his pack.
55:24He didn't say my pack.
55:25He said his pack.
55:26But that bowl of soup
55:28was placed in front of me.
55:32Go look at your scores.
55:33I've got this.
55:37This isn't the safety
55:38of being locked in a cage.
55:41This is the safety
55:42of holding up a home together.
55:44Isla,
55:45I thought you should know.
55:46Matthew has formally obligated
55:47his position as CEO.
55:49He transferred all of his
55:49remaining personal assets
55:50and the rights to the
55:51Robinson Territory Trust to Ellie.
55:52He signed it all over.
55:53And him?
55:54He's gone to them guardians
55:55to watch the roguelands.
55:56To serve without rank.
55:57He asked me to say
55:58he hopes you and Ellie live well.
55:59He won't disturb your pack again.
56:02The alpha who once refused
56:04to look back
56:05now walks alone
56:06at the edge of the world.
56:09Thank you, Alice.
56:11Please take care of yourself.
56:16Something wrong?
56:18Matthew left.
56:19He gave everything to Ellie.
56:20Went to the borders.
56:21She deserves it.
56:23What about you?
56:24What do you want to do next?
56:26Three years ago,
56:27I thought love was fireworks.
56:28Tonight,
56:29I finally understand.
56:30It's a kitchen at dusk.
56:31For now,
56:32this is enough.
56:34The future is long
56:35and we have all the time
56:37in the world.
56:37The future is long and we have all the time.
56:37The future is long and we have all the time.
56:37The future is long and we have all the time.
56:38The future is long and we have all the time.
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