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The Alpha's Widow: I Seduced My Dead Mate's Brother to Survive HD 1080p ASM
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00:00To survive.
00:01Three days after the funeral,
00:04I seduced my late mate's brother at his coffin.
00:07I wore only thin mourning linen,
00:09my back pressed to cold oak.
00:11I needed a child,
00:13one Luna Morrigan would believe
00:15was the last bloodline of her dead eldest son.
00:17I needed to survive.
00:19In fact, I lied.
00:22I trembled because I was just reborn.
00:24In my first life,
00:26Silverstone Pack sent me to Blackstone as a peace bride.
00:29My mate Alistair died three days after our wedding.
00:32He and his father fell in battle,
00:34slain by my own people.
00:36Three months later,
00:38his mother Luna Morrigan gave me poisoned wine in this same hall.
00:42Daughter of the enemy,
00:43a cursed widow.
00:44Your death will break the alliance and spark war.
00:48My soul was trapped,
00:49forced to watch it all.
01:01I stared at Cassian.
01:03For three years,
01:04he drowned Silverstone in blood.
01:06Today,
01:08we remind the world
01:10who rules it!
01:12Today!
01:17Forcing all packs to bow to his rule,
01:20I watched him point a dagger
01:21at his own mother's throat
01:22for a grey-eyed shepherd girl.
01:24As they clashed,
01:25the family locket flew right through my ghostly heart.
01:29Then light swallowed everything.
01:43Candlelight flickered.
01:44If you're the one coming to me...
01:47His fingers sank into my jaw.
01:49Why are you shaking?
01:51I was watching the snow outside.
01:53It's cold.
01:55Fragile thing.
01:56The man above me bit out,
01:58impatient.
02:01Focus.
02:04Cassian.
02:05Then be rougher.
02:07Warm me up.
02:09His breath caught.
02:11He froze for half a heartbeat,
02:13clearly surprised that I dared.
02:17The coffin against my back was cold,
02:20but his palm against my chest was hot.
02:22Then he cupped the back of my head firmly
02:25and kissed me deeper and harder.
02:27I climbed onto his shoulders,
02:29letting my mourning gown slip down one arm.
02:31Then I felt his teeth grazed the pulse point in my throat.
02:35Our ragged breathing filled the hall.
02:39I needed a child.
02:41One Luna Morrigan would believe
02:42was the last bloodline of her dead eldest son.
02:45I needed to survive.
02:49That night after,
02:51I tempted him in every place we met.
02:53Beside Alistair's coffin.
02:56The garden.
02:59In the snow.
03:02My side chamber.
03:04By the bookshelf.
03:06I memorized his scent,
03:08learned when his guard slipped,
03:09and learned to wrap my legs tighter,
03:11driving him to take me with desperate force.
03:14Every time he fell asleep beside me,
03:17I would take out a moonbloom leaf
03:18and press it to my belly.
03:20I'd close my eyes
03:22and pray in silence.
03:24Moon goddess above,
03:26tell me the result.
03:29After a moth,
03:30I opened my eyes
03:31to see the moonbloom leaf
03:33glowing silver in the moonlight.
03:39The poisoned cup arrived
03:41as I sat beside Alistair's coffin.
03:43Luna Morrigan wore morning black
03:45and held the silver cup.
03:47Alistair has been gone three months.
03:49Now it's time you joined him.
03:52The liquid in the cup was clear.
03:54I knew the taste well.
03:55I can't.
03:57I knelt,
03:58my hand moving to my stomach.
04:00I carry his child.
04:02Impossible.
04:03Her hand froze.
04:05Alistair never marked you
04:06before his death.
04:08He marked me.
04:09I looked up,
04:10moving her eyes directly.
04:11Our wedding night.
04:13Don't you remember?
04:15I was gambling.
04:16Gambling that a mother
04:17would choose to believe
04:18her son had left behind blood.
04:20Gambling that she would not
04:21kill her own grandchild right now.
04:23She stared at me for a long time.
04:25Summon the moon priest.
04:27Her voice icy.
04:29Verify.
04:32Priest,
04:32verify whether the child
04:34in her womb
04:35carries my son's blood.
04:37Madam Facilia.
04:41Swear by the moon goddess
04:43and any lie
04:44shall find no shelter
04:45under her gaze.
04:47The priest held the moonbloom leaf,
04:49his gaze cold and piercing.
04:52Witnessed by the moon goddess,
04:54I, Cassilia Silverstone,
04:55swear that the child in my womb
04:57is Blackstone Blood,
04:58Luna Morius' grandchild.
05:00The moonbloom leaf
05:01in the priest's hand
05:02burst into silver light.
05:03The moonbloom tree confirms
05:05it is true.
05:08How conveniently time
05:10this child's arrival is.
05:11I held my breath.
05:12Go.
05:13Rest.
05:16I stood up,
05:18my legs trembling,
05:19but I steadied myself,
05:21walked calmly
05:22out of the morning hall.
05:24I stepped into
05:25the sunlit corridor.
05:26For the first time,
05:27the air tasted sweet.
05:29Then darkness
05:30crashed over me.
05:31Suffocation seized
05:32my throat.
05:33Cassian pinned me
05:34against a corridor pillar,
05:35his fingers ironed
05:36around my neck.
05:37You calculated me.
05:41Not a question,
05:43but a verdict.
05:45His eyes blazed
05:46with the same fury
05:47I'd seen in my past life.
05:50Three months.
05:52You schemed to approach me.
05:55All for this child.
05:58My back pressed
06:00against the cold pillar.
06:01Yes.
06:02I looked up at him.
06:03He faltered.
06:04Perhaps he had expected denial.
06:07Wait for death.
06:09Oh, fight to live.
06:12Which would you choose?
06:14You expect me
06:16to bow quietly
06:16to my fate.
06:17I cut him off.
06:19You know I was
06:19the Silverstones' sacrifice.
06:21You know I had
06:22nowhere to run.
06:23You know your mother,
06:24Luna Morian.
06:25Once the war between
06:26Blackstone and Silverstone
06:27fully abropes,
06:27she'll kill me
06:28to set a battle banner.
06:29You know nothing.
06:34You think I watch
06:35coldly from the side?
06:37You have no idea
06:38what merciful arrangement
06:39I made for you.
06:40I froze.
06:41Fine.
06:42He stared at me.
06:42Since you deem me
06:43an accomplice,
06:47let me show you
06:48what an accomplice
06:48is capable of.
06:50He seized my wrist,
06:53dragged me down
06:53the corridor.
06:56I fell onto the bed.
06:58His shadow fell over.
06:59He breathed against my ear.
07:01You schemed against me.
07:02Then scheme this
07:03through to the end.
07:04His teeth grazing
07:05my earlobe.
07:08His teeth sank
07:09into my shoulder.
07:13My nails raked
07:14deep furrows
07:15down his back.
07:16He drove into me
07:17like a man unravelling.
07:24That night,
07:25he had no gentleness left.
07:28Yet his hands
07:29held my belly
07:29with desperate tenderness.
07:31Near dawn,
07:32he fell asleep.
07:33In sleep,
07:34he looked almost harmless.
07:35Moonlight poured
07:36through the window,
07:37gilding his lashes,
07:39softening the hard lines
07:40of his face.
07:44I rose quietly.
07:47Where are you going?
07:51Where are you going?
07:52His voice came
07:53from behind me,
07:54sharp and cold.
07:56Luna Moralek
07:57will send someone
07:57to check.
07:58I did not turn.
08:00I can't be found here.
08:03I prepared a death
08:04fall straight for you.
08:06He sat up in bed.
08:07A cabin in the north.
08:08A new name.
08:10His eyes bright
08:10in the darkness.
08:11You could have lived freely.
08:12Not as my brother's widow.
08:14Not as...
08:16Not as the woman
08:16who schemed against me.
08:17I walked over.
08:18His voice was low,
08:20almost hollow.
08:21Cassian.
08:22His eyes bright
08:23in the darkness.
08:24Are you going to planning
08:25to defy your mother,
08:26Luna Moralek?
08:27To set me free?
08:29He looked at me
08:29for a long time.
08:31Come here.
08:32He pulled my hand,
08:33dragged me into his arms.
08:34I plan to hide you away.
08:35His heartbeat was fast,
08:37matching mine.
08:38Make you mine.
08:40And mine alone.
09:07The Blackstone's secret draft.
09:10False death.
09:12New identity.
09:14You will be mine.
09:16Not my brother's widow.
09:17Not Blackstone's young mistress.
09:19Just...
09:20He lowered his head.
09:21Kissed my forehead.
09:23Mine.
09:24Mistress in the dark.
09:29Cassian.
09:31The idea detonated in my skull.
09:40This is your mercy.
09:41What?
09:42False death.
09:43New identity.
09:45Hidden away.
09:46To be your secret mistress.
09:48Cecilia.
09:52Cecilia.
09:53What difference is there
09:54from waiting to die?
09:55I grabbed my clothes,
09:56walked toward the door.
09:57The difference is,
09:58you would live.
09:59His voice chased from behind.
10:01I stopped at the door,
10:02hand on the latch.
10:03Live as your pet
10:05until I die unknown.
10:08I pulled the door open
10:09and walked out.
10:12Morning light stabbed my eyes.
10:20After that day,
10:22Cassian left for battle.
10:25Luna Morrigan never spoke
10:27of the poisoned cup again.
10:38Yet by her silent command,
10:40the servants ignored
10:41all my requests
10:42for daily necessities.
10:46Cold leftovers.
10:47Thin worn winter clothes.
10:49Time passed.
10:51Day by day.
10:52I needed a new path.
10:53I began appearing
10:54at Luna Morrigan's side.
10:56Morning herbal tea.
10:59Afternoon walks.
11:00Evening dinner.
11:01I did not speak.
11:03Only kept her company.
11:05One week passed.
11:06Two weeks passed.
11:08One day,
11:09she spoke to me.
11:14You are a quiet child.
11:18Quieter than I thought.
11:21All so smarter than I thought.
11:23I was gambling.
11:24Gambling on a grieving mother's need
11:26to fill the void
11:27left by her lost son.
11:28Cecilia.
11:30You are finding a way to live?
11:32My heart raced,
11:33but I only nodded.
11:35Prove your worth to me.
11:39Her eyes hardened into icy slits.
11:44Cassian needs a mate.
11:50Help him pick a suitable one.
11:52I lowered my eyes.
11:58Yes, Lunar Moria.
12:02The day Cassian returned,
12:04I waited for him at the manor gates.
12:06He led a column of blackstone wolf warriors,
12:08a long line of war spoils
12:10trailing behind him.
12:11Cassian, on horseback,
12:13his gaze swept over the crowd,
12:14locked onto mine,
12:15then drifted down
12:16to my faintly rounded belly.
12:18Then he rode past me
12:20without a word.
12:20I stepped forward
12:22to block his path.
12:25Cecilia.
12:26Long time no see.
12:28I have a surprise for you.
12:30Tomorrow.
12:30The back garden.
12:33What surprise?
12:34Come and you'll know.
12:35He straightened,
12:36lips pressed thin,
12:37deigning to nod.
12:38I exhaled.
12:39He had agreed.
12:40Then he pointed
12:41to a carriage behind him.
12:42Find her some work.
12:43I picked her up on the road.
12:45She knows sheep.
12:48I turned.
12:49The carriage curtain lifted.
12:52A grey-eyed girl
12:53looked at me,
12:53timid.
12:54My blood turned to ice.
12:56Aayla.
12:57The shepherd girl
12:58from my first life.
13:01Of course,
13:02Cassius brings back
13:03such a pretty girl.
13:04She must be well arranged.
13:06Cassian's expression
13:06turned playful
13:07as he watched me.
13:08Was this,
13:09his warning not to mistreat Aayla.
13:11She must be his true love
13:12from his past life.
13:13I'll arrange it personally.
13:15How about some simple
13:16banquet service work?
13:21Cassian dropped a
13:22whatever
13:23and left.
13:27The next day,
13:29Cassian came to the back garden.
13:30He wore a deep blue formal coat,
13:33his hair tied back.
13:34He smiled,
13:36striding toward me
13:37with a bouquet of white roses.
13:39He looked at me,
13:40lips curving,
13:41his gaze making my heart skip.
13:43Then he looked past my shoulder.
13:46Then he glanced past my shoulder.
13:48Wolf maidens gathered.
13:50Silk,
13:51gems,
13:52laughter,
13:52all around.
13:54Twelve pairs of eyes
13:55fixed eagerly on him.
13:57His steps faltered.
13:59Then the smile froze on his face.
14:02Luna Morgan stepped out
14:03from the pavilion,
14:05satisfaction rare
14:06on her features.
14:08Well done.
14:10You've made thorough arrangements.
14:12Cassian even got all dressed up.
14:15He's brought gifts
14:16to please the ladies.
14:18Cassian's expression changed.
14:20Excuse us for a moment.
14:22He seized my hand,
14:24dragged me into the shadow
14:25of the corridor pedal,
14:26white rose petals
14:27crushed between his fingers.
14:30This is your carefully prepared surprise.
14:33Bringing me here
14:34to pick a noble mate.
14:38This was Luna Morana's tomorrow.
14:41He stared at me,
14:43eyes burning.
14:44Then he laughed dangerously.
14:46Fine.
14:47Fine.
14:48Fine.
14:49Fine.
14:53Cassian pulled me back
14:54to the garden center,
14:55stopping before the assembled guests.
14:59Mum,
15:01there is already someone
15:02in my heart.
15:03He gripped my hand tightly.
15:05I struggled,
15:06tried to shake him off,
15:08but he would not release.
15:09Do not jest.
15:12No jest.
15:13My heart pounded wildly.
15:16I feared he would speak madness.
15:18I wrenched at his fingers
15:19with all my strength.
15:21His hand finally torn from mine,
15:23his eyes on me.
15:24The one I desire
15:27is her.
15:28All gazes followed
15:29his pointing finger.
15:30To me,
15:31I froze,
15:33screaming inwardly.
15:35Crash behind me,
15:37porcelain shattered.
15:38I turned.
15:39Bowls and plates
15:40scattered across the floor.
15:42Who is this girl?
15:44Cassian fell silent.
15:46Aayla only looked at him,
15:48timid.
15:49Cecilia,
15:50you tell me.
15:51Luna Morrigan's voice cut.
15:53A shepherd girl
15:54I brought back.
15:55Cassian spoke suddenly.
15:59Aayla.
16:00Luna Morrigan's expression shifted.
16:02She looked past me,
16:04the girl behind me.
16:05A lowborn woman
16:07who bewitches
16:08Blackstone's future alpha
16:10should die.
16:12I could not tell
16:14which of us she meant.
16:20Aayla is my beloved.
16:23I exhaled.
16:24My heartbeat dropped
16:25from my throat
16:26back to my chest.
16:27He had chosen her.
16:28Just as in the first life,
16:30history was repeating itself,
16:31and I was standing beside.
16:33Luna Morrigan's expression
16:35did not change.
16:36She only waved her hand.
16:38The ball is dismissed.
16:40The twelve wolf maidens
16:42exchanged glances,
16:43then lowered their heads
16:45and withdrew.
16:46Aayla remained standing,
16:47eyes on the shattered porcelain.
16:50You stay.
16:51And you.
16:53She did not look at me.
16:54She looked at Aayla.
16:55The door closed behind us.
16:59Luna Morrigan sat in the master's seat.
17:03Cassian stood.
17:04Aayla knelt.
17:05I stood by the corridor pillar.
17:08Kill her.
17:10Tonight.
17:11Who?
17:12The shepherd girl.
17:14Impossible.
17:17Cassian, you are the future alpha.
17:19Your mate must be the Pax Luna,
17:21not some roadside shepherd girl.
17:23My mate.
17:24I choose myself.
17:26You choose?
17:29Do you choose a mate,
17:31or do you choose rebellion?
17:33Cassian's shoulders tensed.
17:35I knew this stance.
17:37In my first life,
17:38before he pressed the dagger
17:39to her throat,
17:40he had stood just so.
17:45You're obsessed with control.
17:47When will it end?
17:48When you become alpha.
17:50I am alpha now.
17:51You are merely the heir.
17:53Since your father died,
17:55since your brother died,
17:56until I allow it,
17:57you are nothing but Cassian,
17:59my son.
18:00The heir flows.
18:01Aayla's knees trembled.
18:02I looked at her,
18:04remembering myself kneeling
18:05in the morning hall.
18:06We were both chips,
18:07both tools.
18:09I choose the one I desire
18:11as my mate.
18:11She cannot become Luna.
18:14I do not need Luna!
18:16Every alpha needs a Luna.
18:18Otherwise,
18:19the Pax splits,
18:20bleeds,
18:21falls to...
18:21Falls to what?
18:22He cut through her words.
18:23Like father,
18:24like brother,
18:25dying under silverstone blades.
18:27Her expression finally changed.
18:29You hate me,
18:30because you believe
18:31I drove them to their deaths.
18:33Did you not?
18:34They chose the battlefield themselves,
18:36not I.
18:37Cassian looked at her
18:38for a long time.
18:40Then he glanced at me.
18:42He turned,
18:43took Aayla's hand.
18:45She will not die,
18:46unless you kill me first.
18:48Cassian passed by me
18:50without another look.
18:51You saw,
18:53this is the future alpha.
18:55Weak,
18:56bewitched,
18:57taken by...
18:58By what?
18:59She paused.
19:00She only waved her hand,
19:02dismissing me.
19:03As I turned,
19:04I heard her whisper,
19:05By love.
19:08She was waiting,
19:10as was I.
19:12My belly grew rounder.
19:14The moonbloom leaf
19:15glowed in my palm.
19:17The priest pronounced
19:18the child healthy,
19:19the bloodline pure.
19:21But she only nodded,
19:23her eyes on the window
19:24toward Cassian's quarters.
19:27Cecilia,
19:28how long do you think
19:29Aayla will live?
19:30My hand stilled.
19:32Once,
19:32Alistair hated me,
19:33because I forced him
19:34to marry a stranger,
19:36you.
19:37But I was right.
19:39At least this preserved
19:40his bloodline.
19:41Don't you agree?
19:43Now Cassian hates me.
19:45History repeats.
19:48What should I do?
19:49I looked at her.
19:51What do you wish me to do?
19:52She smiled.
19:54The same smile
19:55when she handed me
19:55the poisoned wine before.
19:57She produced
19:58the same silver cup.
20:00I was not surprised.
20:02Aayla must die,
20:03or you join her
20:04after you deliver the child.
20:10I cannot kill an innocent.
20:12Then you are useless.
20:15Useless people
20:16should not consume
20:17Blackstone's resources.
20:18After she left,
20:19the poison cup
20:21remained on the table.
20:22My days returned
20:23to what they had been.
20:24Cold meals,
20:25thin clothes,
20:27the servant's contempt.
20:28This time,
20:29I knew it was
20:30Luna Morrigan's order.
20:31She was forcing me
20:32to move against Aayla.
20:34I could not.
20:35Harming the innocent
20:36was not my way.
20:37Let alone,
20:38Aayla was Cassian's
20:39chosen beloved.
20:40If harm came to Aayla,
20:42in the future
20:43he would make me
20:44pay in blood.
20:44Yet I could not
20:45defy Luna Morrigan.
20:46If I did not
20:47act against Aayla,
20:48she would make
20:49my life unbearable.
20:50What could I do?
20:52Trapped between
20:52the two of them,
20:53I have no path
20:54to survival.
20:55Then,
20:56the thought struck.
20:57Leave this place.
20:58No longer be
20:59the enemy's daughter,
21:00nor the widow
21:01who brought curse
21:02upon the family heir.
21:03But how to escape
21:04the heavily guarded
21:05Blackstone Manor,
21:06I needed the
21:07death false draft.
21:09Cassian had spoken of it.
21:10I infiltrated
21:11Cassian's quarters.
21:16A few maids passed.
21:18I hid behind
21:19a corridor pillar.
21:21Aayla is so fortunate.
21:22Prince Cassian
21:23visits her every night.
21:24I watched Cassian
21:26enter Aayla's chamber.
21:27The lamp burned
21:28for a long while.
21:29Good.
21:30Their world of two.
21:32Time for me.
21:33Study.
21:34Hidden compartment.
21:36Secret chamber.
21:37I searched every place.
21:39At last I found
21:40a plain white porcelain
21:41bottle by his bed.
21:43My hands trembled
21:44as I opened it.
21:45The smell was sharp,
21:46but I could not tell
21:47if it was what I need.
21:49I took out
21:50the moonbloom leaf,
21:51pressed it to the bottle,
21:52closed my eyes.
21:54Moonbloom tree above.
21:55Reveal the truth.
21:56The leaf glowed images.
21:58Flooded in.
21:59Not the draft ingredients.
22:01Cassian.
22:02Standing bathed
22:03in the moonlight.
22:04Leaf in hand.
22:05Eyes closed.
22:06Murmuring.
22:07The vision shifted.
22:09He looked at me.
22:10In the morning hall.
22:11In the study.
22:12In the garden.
22:13His heart racing.
22:14His temperature rising.
22:16His wolf spirit restless.
22:18Not Aayla.
22:19Me.
22:23Every time he entered Aayla's chamber,
22:26he stood at the window,
22:27looking toward my direction.
22:29Every time he said,
22:31my beloved,
22:32his fingers clenched,
22:34as if enduring pain.
22:36The moonbloom leaf does not lie.
22:38You saw.
22:39My eyes flew open.
22:42You came to steal the deathfall strapped?
22:44I stepped back,
22:46my spine hitting the wall.
22:49Uncertain if it was real?
22:51Luna ordered me to kill Aayla or die with her.
22:53He entered.
22:54Closed the door.
22:57Then die.
22:58False death.
22:59I will help you.
23:01Why?
23:02Why help me?
23:03He approached,
23:04hand covering mine on the leaf.
23:06Because I love you.
23:07The moonbloom tree bears witness.
23:09The moonbloom leaf burst into light.
23:11He drew closer,
23:13hands on my shoulders.
23:14The deathfall strapped.
23:15The northern cabin.
23:16New identity.
23:17Freedom.
23:17You still want me as your secret mistress?
23:19Never.
23:19It's only temporary.
23:20Until I'm free of my mother's coercion.
23:22Until she is no longer a threat to you.
23:24One hand tangled in my hair.
23:26The other took the porcelain bottle from my grasp.
23:29The real draft is in a safer place.
23:31In three days,
23:32it is mother's birthday banquet.
23:33I'll slip it to you amid the chaos.
23:37Why help me?
23:38He paused.
23:39Did not turn.
23:40Because you are mine.
23:45The morning of the banquet,
23:46Luna summoned me at the tower.
23:48Cecilia.
23:50You have been restless these days.
23:52I said nothing.
23:54My heart tightened.
23:55Cassian and you.
23:56Did you think I did not know?
23:58My blood turned to ice.
24:00Isla is merely a shield.
24:01He thinks he has won.
24:03But he is only my son.
24:05Luna Morrigan,
24:06I do not understand what misunderstand.
24:07What misunderstanding that my second son fell for his elder brother's widow and got her with child?
24:12I collapsed.
24:13But I clung to hope.
24:15The child in my midst is your grandchild.
24:18Enemy blood.
24:19Bastard born of adultery.
24:22Unfit to taint the family line.
24:23She waved her hand.
24:25Deal with her.
24:28The banquet is in full wish tonight.
24:30Let us stoke the flames further.
24:32Fire spread beyond the tower we knew.
24:34I fell to the tower floor, watching her turn to leave.
24:37I shielded my belly.
24:39My child was only three months.
24:40The door burst open.
24:42Cassian stood in the doorway, blood stricken his face.
24:45Not his.
24:46Behind him lay two fallen warriors.
24:48God.
24:48He seized and dragged me through burning corridors.
24:51Heat lit in our backs.
24:52Wooden beams crashed over my head.
24:56The death falls drost.
24:58Drink it now.
25:00I'll carry you out and bury you on the edge of the manor.
25:02Wait three days.
25:03I'll come dig you up.
25:05He pressed a porcelain bottle into my hand.
25:07My hand shook around the bottom.
25:08Why should I trust you?
25:10You may not too.
25:11But you have no choice.
25:14Luna knows everything.
25:16She knows Isla is a fraud.
25:18Knows the child is mine.
25:19Knows...
25:20Knows he paused.
25:22Knows I love you.
25:24The bottle burned in my palm.
25:26Drink.
25:27Or die.
25:29Fire swallowed the tower.
25:31Cassian's palm burned hot.
25:32The bottle in my hand felt cold.
25:34I pulled the stopper.
25:35The smell was sharp.
25:36I tilted my head back and drank it all.
25:38The liquid scorched my throat.
25:40Bitterness flooded my mouth.
25:41Then numbness spread from my tongue to my lens.
25:44My vision blurred.
25:45His face swam amid the firelight.
25:47Lie down.
25:48He pressed me onto the burning floor.
25:49Hold your breath.
25:50Three days.
25:51I will come for you.
25:52He bent to press one last kiss to my forehead.
25:55You are mine.
25:55Darkness swallowed my consciousness.
25:57I heard beams crash.
25:59His footsteps fade.
26:00And Luna Morgan's cold laughter beyond the fire.
26:06Darkness.
26:07Suffocation.
26:08The weight of earth pressed my chest.
26:09I opened my eyes and my mouth to scream.
26:12But I couldn't.
26:14I clawed upward into my fingertips touching cold air.
26:19A hand seized me.
26:20The sword closed behind him.
26:22Moonlight blinded.
26:23Cassian knelt at the grave's edge.
26:25Mud caked.
26:26Eyes bloodshot.
26:27Behind him stretched the northern border wasteland.
26:29I looked down at my belly.
26:31The swell remained.
26:32Trembling.
26:33I touched it and felt a faint flutter.
26:35The child lived.
26:36Cassian.
26:37Don't speak.
26:39He lifted me onto the horse's back.
26:41Luna believes you dead.
26:42Wrapped me in his cloak.
26:43Now you are a dead woman.
26:45The horse galloped north.
26:46I looked back.
26:50Blackstone Manor left behind us.
26:53The northern cabin.
26:55A new identity.
26:57Freedom.
26:59I leaned against his back and smelled blood.
27:01To get me out.
27:02Why are you wounded?
27:03Why are you wounded?
27:03How many had he killed?
27:04It did matter.
27:05But I was too tired.
27:07It doesn't matter.
27:09The horse stopped before dawn.
27:11A wooden cabin.
27:12Embers dying in the hearth.
27:14He placed me on the bed.
27:15Turned to tend his wounds.
27:18Cassian.
27:19Is this prison?
27:21Or freedom?
27:23Both.
27:23Then laughed.
27:24The door locked.
27:26The cabin was more comfortable than expected.
27:29Hearth.
27:29Blankets.
27:30And stored food.
27:31Beyond the window lay a frozen wasteland.
27:34Wolf howls.
27:36Echoing through the night.
27:37Cassian came every three days.
27:39Brought medicine.
27:40Food.
27:41And books.
27:42He never touched me.
27:43Only sat by the hearth.
27:45Watching my belly grow rounder by the day.
27:48A name for the child.
27:49Not yet chosen.
27:53If a boy.
27:54Perhaps.
27:56Not yours.
27:57His eyes darkened.
27:58Like the moon hidden by clouds.
28:01I know.
28:02He rose.
28:03Walked to the door.
28:04Luna is purging dissenters.
28:06I must return.
28:08How long?
28:09Until she no longer suspects.
28:11Or until her suspicion costs nothing.
28:14He left.
28:16I counted days.
28:18Seven.
28:19Fourteen.
28:20Twenty-one.
28:22The food dwindled.
28:23The medicine ran out.
28:25One snowy night.
28:27Pain flared in my belly.
28:29The lock clicked open from outside.
28:32It was not Cassian who entered.
28:34A border wanderer.
28:36Drawn by the cabin's smoke.
28:38He saw me.
28:39Then my belly.
28:40His eyes were greed.
28:42Silver wolf blood glowed in the dark.
28:45My pupils turning silver.
28:48Big fortune.
28:50He raised his hunting knife.
28:52For my baby.
28:53I seized the fire toms.
28:55The struggle was weak.
28:57He fell.
28:58Blood soaked the floor red.
29:00I dragged his corpse outside.
29:02Then returned to find the pain worsening.
29:04I pressed moonbloom leaf to my belly.
29:07Closed my eyes.
29:08Prayed.
29:09The leaf glowed.
29:11The pain eased.
29:12By dawn.
29:13I made a decision.
29:15I packed my belongings.
29:17Took all the medicine.
29:18And walked north.
29:19Three days later.
29:20I reached a border town.
29:22A mixed land.
29:23Where wolves traded with other races.
29:26I hung out my sign.
29:27Healer.
29:28I had studied medicine.
29:30And my skills are peerless.
29:33But no one came for treatment.
29:35Until a blood soaked wolf warrior.
29:38Collapsed at my door.
29:42He collapsed at the clinic door.
29:44I dragged him inside and cut open his armor.
29:47Wounds covered his body.
29:48The deadliest lay at the back of his skull.
29:51Blunt force trauma.
29:53A depressed fracture.
29:55I spent the night in surgery.
29:57He woke up three days later.
29:59Blue eyes empty.
30:03Who are you?
30:05Healer.
30:06Who am I?
30:08I froze amnesia.
30:10Retrograde memory loss from skull damage.
30:12I do not know.
30:14Only that you collapsed at my door.
30:17He looked down at his hands.
30:19Large, rough, warrior's hands.
30:22He tried to make a fist.
30:24I am a warrior.
30:26It would seem so.
30:27He was silent for a long time.
30:29Then looked at me.
30:31Eyes suddenly soft.
30:32You saved me.
30:34Yes.
30:35Why?
30:36Because you collapsed at my door.
30:38He laughed.
30:40That pure, simple laugh made me freeze.
30:44I will repay you with my life.
30:47He reached out, gently touched my rounded belly.
30:50He stayed, not as patient as guard.
30:53He said he would repay, so he never left my side.
30:57I treated patience.
30:58He stood at the door like a statue.
31:01Someone tried to cheat on payment.
31:03One look from him, and they paid obediently.
31:07Nights, I studied herbs.
31:09He sat by the hearth, polishing an old sword.
31:13A name for the child?
31:14He asked suddenly.
31:15No.
31:18Why?
31:20Not yet chosen.
31:25He set down the sword and came to my side.
31:28He knelt, his eyes level with mine.
31:31The gesture made my heart skip.
31:32Cassian never knelt.
31:34He always looked down.
31:35May I suggest one?
31:36He asked.
31:38For temporary use.
31:42Go ahead.
31:43He placed his hand gently on my belly.
31:45The child moved.
31:46Kicked his palm.
31:47He laughed.
31:49Star.
31:49Little star for temporary use.
31:52I turned away, afraid he would see my tears.
31:56Leah.
31:56You may call me by this new name from now on.
31:59He smiled and thought for a while.
32:01Liam.
32:02After yours.
32:05Blackstone Manor.
32:07Cassian stood in a pool of blood.
32:09Luna Morrigan was locked in the town.
32:11No!
32:11Descenting elders were hanged at the gates.
32:13He had spent three months purging all opposition in blood.
32:16He entered the study.
32:17A map hung on the wall.
32:19The border town circled in red.
32:21Found her?
32:22He asked the shadow.
32:23No, Alpha.
32:24The north is too vast.
32:26She may have...
32:27Continue searching.
32:29He sat.
32:30Fingers tapping the desk.
32:32My brother's death.
32:33What did the investigation find?
32:35He said suddenly.
32:37The shadow was silent.
32:38Speak.
32:39The battlefield that year.
32:41Traces of a third party.
32:43Not Silverstone.
32:45Not Blackstone.
32:46Someone did not want the air to come back.
32:49Cassian's fingers stopped.
32:50Continue the investigation.
32:52After the door closed, he took out a plain white porcelain bottle.
32:56Inside lay a moon-bloom leaf carved with a name.
32:59Cecilia.
33:01You are mine.
33:02He said to the empty room.
33:04Dead or not.
33:06The border town's winter passed.
33:08Liam learned to identify herbs.
33:09To brew medicines.
33:10To gently massage my shoulders when I grew tired.
33:13You had nightmares again last night.
33:15Calling a name.
33:18What name?
33:20Cassian.
33:22Somewhat familiar to me.
33:24My hand stilled.
33:25Was he your husband?
33:26Was he your husband?
33:27He asked concernily.
33:28No.
33:30Did he hurt you?
33:31I looked at him.
33:32This man had lost his memory.
33:34Yet he showed such fatherly tenderness toward my baby.
33:37If I told him the whole truth, would he leave?
33:39Would he lock me away like Cassian?
33:40He is the past.
33:43Unimportant.
33:44Liam looked at me long.
33:46Then reached out, gently wiped my tear.
33:48I will protect you and Little Star.
33:50No matter what the past holds, your future is with me.
33:54He kissed my forehead.
33:55Like a family.
33:57I closed my eyes.
33:58Outside, a black horse halted at the corner.
34:01Its rider cloaked in blackstone pack hues.
34:04I smelled it.
34:05Black cedar.
34:06Blood.
34:07And Cassian.
34:07I pushed Liam away.
34:09Seized the moonbloom leaf.
34:11It glowed in my palm.
34:12Warning.
34:12We must leave.
34:14I told Liam.
34:15Out the back door.
34:16Why?
34:18Just go.
34:22The door burst open.
34:23Cassian stood in the doorway.
34:25Thinner than three months passed.
34:26Colder.
34:27He looked at me.
34:28At my belly.
34:28Then at Liam.
34:29You found a new guard.
34:31A replacement, eh?
34:32He is not.
34:33Liam stepped before me without hesitation.
34:35Cassian's gaze shifted from ice to scrutiny.
34:38He stared at Liam's face.
34:40An aged, battle-worn mirror.
34:42My brother.
34:42Liam frowned.
34:43What are you calling me?
34:44Cassian stepped forward.
34:46Alistair.
34:47Alistair Blackstone!
34:48Liam shook his head.
34:50You are familiar, but I do not remember.
34:52Impossible!
34:53I saw you die!
34:55Speak.
34:56Who are you?
34:57Why wear his face?
34:59Cassian!
34:59He has lost his memory!
35:01He remembers nothing!
35:03Cassian looked at me.
35:04Too much in his gaze, anger, pain, and fear.
35:08You defend him!
35:11He flung Liam to the ground, then came toward me.
35:14Very well.
35:16An amnesiac.
35:17Taking my woman.
35:18Keeping my child.
35:20Your child.
35:21Liam spoke suddenly.
35:22What child?
35:23He turned to look at me.
35:25My wife.
35:26Naturally my child.
35:27How could you speak so to your brother's wife, Cassian?
35:30You are...
35:31Yes.
35:31I remember now.
35:33I am Alistair Blackstone.
35:34Your husband.
35:35You may not recall our wedding night.
35:37Cassian's face changed into pale.
35:39Alistair turned to Cassian.
35:40The battlefield last year.
35:42Third party signs.
35:44Delayed reinforcements.
35:46Cassian, was it you?
35:51Silence.
35:53Long silence.
35:57You deliberately delayed the rescue, because I was the heir, because...
36:01Because I hated you from birth.
36:04You had everything.
36:05I had nothing.
36:06Even her.
36:07Alistair looked at me, at the swollen belly.
36:09How long was I absent?
36:13Seven months.
36:14Not to me.
36:15To my belly.
36:16His hand trembled as he touched.
36:18Cassian laughed.
36:19Touching.
36:21But she is mine.
36:22The child is mine.
36:24She is my wife.
36:27So is the child.
36:28The brothers faced each other.
36:30They're two wolves in confrontation.
36:32I refuse.
36:33But the whole room shook.
36:34His wolf spirit awakening.
36:36Blackstone packs alpha power.
36:38You have no right, brother.
36:40You were absent seven years.
36:43The pack is mine.
36:44The army is mine.
36:45She...
36:46I'm not anyone's.
36:48I spoke.
36:49They both looked at me.
36:50I stood.
36:52Belly heavy.
36:53But spine straight.
36:54The moon-bloom leaf blowed in my palm.
36:57You fight for the pack.
36:58For power.
36:59For me.
37:00But no one ever asked what I want.
37:02I stepped further.
37:03Silver wolf blood boiled long so fast in my veins.
37:09Cecilia.
37:11Do not touch me.
37:15Silver light burst.
37:16My pupils turn of pure silver.
37:19Hair moving without wind.
37:21The moon-bloom tree pattern emerging in my umbrella.
37:24This is the power of the silver stone pure blood.
37:28This is the power of the silver stone pure blood.
37:28You thought me as a sacrifice upon an accessory.
37:31But I am silver wolf.
37:33I can heal, can sense, can make warriors of two packs lay down their blades on the battlefield,
37:39or drive them to slaughter each other.
37:42I raised my hand, light gathered.
37:45Alistair, you were absent seven months, but your duty remains.
37:50Return and be alpha, but not for me, for the pack.
37:54Cassian, your love is far too heavy.
37:56Heavy enough to break me.
37:58I want no cage, not even a gilded one.
38:01The light creaked and receded.
38:04I returned to normal, but something had changed forever.
38:09I choose neither.
38:11I choose myself.
38:13And the child.
38:14I choose myself.
38:16I choose myself.
38:17I choose myself.
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