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00:00Perform a soul-severing ritual on me.
00:02You want him to think you're dead?
00:04Yes.
00:08The full moon glared down at the birthing altar.
00:11A contraction ripped through me so hard my spine arched off the stone.
00:15Dominic squeezed my hand.
00:18Almost there, Selina.
00:19My mate, my alpha, bound to me by the moon goddess herself.
00:23The pack priest walked in carrying a silver tray.
00:25I offered my arm for the pain relief.
00:28The needle pierced my skin.
00:30But it wasn't medicine.
00:31The pungent scent hit my nose.
00:33Wolf's vein.
00:33I looked at Dominic.
00:35He wasn't surprised.
00:36He was checking his watch.
00:37Vivian's water just broke.
00:40Delay her for two hours.
00:41Our true heir needs to be born first.
00:43He turned and walked away.
00:45Didn't look back.
00:46I tried to scream.
00:47I wanted my wolf to tear free and lunge after him.
00:50But the wolf's vein was already working.
00:52My wolf was dragged under.
00:54My voice died in my throat.
00:55And my pup halfway into the world stopped moving.
00:58Frozen inside me by her own father's command.
01:00Two pack guards dragged me down into the dungeon beneath the temple.
01:04A place for rogues, war prisoners, and wolves sentenced to death.
01:08Now it held the alpha's fated mate and his unborn child.
01:12A single rune lamp flickered on the wall.
01:15Straw on the floor.
01:16No bed.
01:17I slid down the freezing stone wall, hands clutching my belly.
01:20She was still kicking, faint, frantic.
01:24Mommy's here.
01:25Mommy's here.
01:26Three months ago, Dominic's older brother, Marcus, died in a territorial dispute.
01:38His mate Vivian was carrying a boy.
01:40A pure-blood alpha heir.
01:42The only pup he could inherit.
01:44Mine was a girl.
01:45Girls couldn't inherit.
01:47The moment the ultrasound confirmed it, the entire Blackwood pack abandoned us both.
01:52Heels clicked down the corridor.
01:54Cassandra Blackwood.
01:55Dominic's sister.
01:56The pack beta.
02:02She stood outside the iron bars, twirling a silver dagger.
02:05The blade dragged along the bars, metal screeching.
02:08Selene, don't blame my brother.
02:10Vivian is carrying Marcus's posthumorous son.
02:13A pure-blood alpha heir.
02:15The only pup in our generation who can inherit the alpha title.
02:19It doesn't matter how early you give birth.
02:21You're carrying a girl.
02:23Girls can't inherit.
02:24You know that.
02:25A contraction slammed into me.
02:27The wolf's bane pushed the labor down.
02:29My body fought back.
02:30Two forces tore me apart from the inside.
02:33Get the priest.
02:35The baby is coming.
02:37Please.
02:38The wolf bane will last another three hours.
02:42Vivian has already been taken to the birthing altar.
02:45You'll stay here and wait.
02:46If she starts howling, gag her.
02:49Don't let the noise reach upstairs.
02:51Don't scare Viviana.
02:59I looked down.
03:00My dress was soaked in blood.
03:02All I could see was Dominic's face.
03:03When he turned away, his eyes held no guilt.
03:06Just cold calculation.
03:07I dragged myself to the cell door.
03:09Then I punched the cell door hard.
03:11Again and again.
03:12Until my skin split open.
03:14Somebody!
03:14Help!
03:15I'm in labor!
03:16Save my baby!
03:17Shut up.
03:18If it dies, that's its fate.
03:20A girl with no inheritance rights.
03:22Her death won't affect the pack.
03:24My blood-stained hands slid off the cell door.
03:28I collapsed into a pool of my own blood.
03:30This wasn't fate.
03:32Someone was murdering my child.
03:33Just as my vision began to blur, the heavy door crashed open.
03:38Dr. Holden, the pack doctor.
03:40The moment he saw me, all the colors drained from his face.
03:43Luna?
03:44What are you doing here?
03:46Dominic said you were resting in the Moonstone Lounge.
03:48Fully dilated.
03:49Water broke.
03:50You're losing too much blood.
03:52The wolf of Spain is still suppressing your healing.
03:56Guards!
03:56The Luna is hemorrhaging!
03:58Only echoes answered.
04:00No one came.
04:01He tried his comm stone.
04:02Nothing.
04:03The dungeon's warding runes blocked all signals.
04:06Gritting his teeth, he scooped me up and ran.
04:08An aging beta carrying a bleeding woman up three flights of stone stairs.
04:12Every jolt sending agony through my pelvis.
04:15He burst onto the ground floor.
04:17Ran for the medical wing.
04:18Kicked open the door.
04:20And froze.
04:21He kicked open the door.
04:23And froze.
04:24Everything was gone.
04:25Stripped bare.
04:26Every Moonstone crystal.
04:27Runestone.
04:28Potion.
04:28Gone.
04:29How?
04:30I checked inventory this afternoon.
04:33Cassandra strolled down the hall.
04:35Two Omega attendants followed behind her.
04:37We moved to the third floor.
04:39Vivian's C-section is high risk.
04:41She needs the best resources.
04:43Her gaze drifted to me, drenched in blood, half dead in Dr. Holden's arms.
04:47She smiled.
04:48I knew that smile.
04:49Six months ago, she'd worn it downtown, linking her arm through mine.
04:53Selena, you're the best Luna I've ever met.
04:56You're more like a real sister to me.
04:58The antique Moonstone necklace I gave her still rested against her collarbone.
05:02It glowed softly in the dim hallway and made her smile look monstrous.
05:06Dr. Holden laid me on a bare stone cot.
05:08He tore open every cabinet and drawer.
05:11Empty.
05:12Not a single herb.
05:13I'm sorry, Luna.
05:15I have nothing.
05:16Relax.
05:17Once Vivian is done, the supplies will be returned.
05:20What's the rush?
05:22Her gaze dropped to my belly.
05:24Besides, you were nothing but a breeding machine from the beginning.
05:28And you couldn't even produce the right product.
05:31Dr. Holden stepped in front of me.
05:33This is murder, Cassandra.
05:35Two lives.
05:36Her smile vanished.
05:38Mothers and pups die in childbirth every day.
05:40Dastedia, hemorrhage, healing failure, perfectly natural causes of death.
05:44No one will say a damn thing.
05:46And this is Blackwood family business.
05:49You're a contract beta doctor.
05:50Know your place.
05:51She snapped at the gods.
05:53Drag him to the third floor.
05:55Vivian needs him.
05:56I'll handle her.
05:57Two guards grabbed Dr. Holden.
05:59He thrashed against them, screaming over his shoulder.
06:01Luna!
06:02Press your stomach!
06:03Shard the wolf hard!
06:05Fight the wolf bond!
06:06The baby still has a heartbeat!
06:08You can still save her!
06:10Cassandra slammed the door, then pulled out a comm.
06:13Stone, Dominic's face appeared in the holographic screen.
06:15Behind him, the birthing altar blazed with light.
06:18Priests moved in and out.
06:20Nurses swarmed around Vivian.
06:22Dominic?
06:23Selina looks like she's about to deliver.
06:26Want to see?
06:27Dominic's eyes shifted to me.
06:28One glance, like I was trashed by the roadside.
06:31Stop messing around, Savina.
06:33Vivian isn't doing well.
06:35The baby's heart rate dropped twice.
06:37Cassandra moved the stone closer, making sure the screen clearly showed my dying form.
06:41But look, she's bleeding a lot.
06:43Doesn't she look like she's dying?
06:44Tell her to wait.
06:45Once Vivian is done, I'll send a priest down.
06:48Cassandra pocketed the stone.
06:49You heard him?
06:50Vivian is the priority.
06:52Marcus's son is the priority.
06:54You were nothing.
06:55I closed my eyes, stopped looking at her.
06:57My hand crept behind my back, fingers finding the tiny raised bump on my left hip.
07:02It looked like a mole.
07:03It wasn't.
07:04A blood seal rune.
07:05My father had carved it into my skin on my wedding day with his own alpha blood.
07:09His voice echoed in my head.
07:11Selina, the waters in the Blackwood family may run deeper than you know.
07:14If the day ever comes when you need help, bite your finger and let one drop of blood
07:18fall on this rune.
07:19No matter where you are, someone will reach you within 30 minutes.
07:22I had laughed and pushed his hand away.
07:24Dad, you're being dramatic.
07:27Dominic treats me so well.
07:28I'm his mate.
07:30The moon goddess chose him for me.
07:32How could he ever hurt me?
07:33My father had been silent for a long time.
07:36Then he only said one thing.
07:38The moon goddess binds the souls, Selina.
07:40But she doesn't bind the heart.
07:42I was such a fool.
07:43Blood welled on my fingertip.
07:45I let it fall on the rune.
07:4930 minutes.
07:50I looked at the blood pooling beneath me.
07:52My baby's heartbeat was still there.
07:54Hold on.
07:54Please hold on.
07:55The wolf's bane suppression broke.
07:57Every contraction that had been held back for hours hit at once.
08:00Like a damn collapsing wave.
08:02After wave.
08:03Faster.
08:03Harder.
08:04I screamed.
08:04The sound ricocheted off stone walls.
08:07An omega attendant rushed in, checked me, and went white.
08:11Fully dilated.
08:12The head's crowning.
08:13Hemorrhage.
08:13We need moonstone crystals.
08:14Healing rooms.
08:15Anything.
08:15Cassandra didn't even step into the room.
08:17Then let them die.
08:18It's just a girl.
08:21Completely useless.
08:23Alive.
08:23She's a waste of space.
08:26Dead.
08:26Changes nothing.
08:28She turned and walked away.
08:29The attendant tried.
08:30But I had no blood left.
08:32No strength.
08:33No wolf.
08:33My muscles wouldn't obey me.
08:35The baby was stuck in the birth canal.
08:36I could feel her heartbeat getting weaker.
08:39Slower fading.
08:40My vision went black.
08:41I am sorry baby.
08:42Mommy tried.
08:43A deafening wolf howl tore through the night.
08:46The entire Blackwood territory shook.
08:48The protective wards flared violently across the walls.
08:51Then shattered.
08:52A booming blast rocked the building.
08:54Centuries of Blackwood enchantments.
08:56Destroyed in seconds.
08:58Moonlight flooded the room.
08:59In that silver light.
09:00Stood a massive man in tactical combat gear.
09:05He ripped off his helmet.
09:07Battle scarred face.
09:09Cold silver eyes.
09:10Eyes that had witnessed countless massacres.
09:12He never flinched.
09:13But the moment they found me.
09:14They turned bloodshot.
09:16Garrett.
09:17My father's head better.
09:18The man who caught me every time I fell learning to walk.
09:21Who shifted into wolf form and slept beside my bed when I was afraid of the dark.
09:25Who stood at the very back of my wedding.
09:27Silent.
09:28Jaw locked.
09:29Eyes red.
09:29Because he already knew.
09:31He crossed the room in one stride and dropped to one knee.
09:34The stone floor cracked under the impact.
09:36Princess.
09:38I am late.
09:40Behind him stood 12 heavily armored warriors.
09:42Silver eyes.
09:43Weapons drawn.
09:44The elite shadow fangard.
09:45Blackwood guards lay unconscious in the hall.
09:48The Omega attendants screamed.
09:49This is Blackwood territory.
09:52Who are you?
09:53How did you get it?
09:53Garrett didn't look at her.
09:54He was already lifting me off the cot.
09:56One arm beneath my knees.
09:58The other cradling my head.
09:59As gently as if I were made of glass.
10:01Blackwood?
10:03Soon.
10:04There won't be a Blackwood.
10:06The shadow fang warriors moved with terrifying efficiency.
10:09From the moment the captain picked me up to the second.
10:11I was loaded into an armored pack ambulance.
10:13Waiting just outside the borders.
10:15Barely four minutes had passed.
10:17Four minutes I had bled in that dungeon for hours.
10:19Begging for help and no one came.
10:21Shadow fang shattered the territory's defenses and extracted me in four minutes.
10:25Inside the medical transport emergency moonstone arrays flared to life.
10:30Bathing my body in pure silver light.
10:32Blood pressure critically low.
10:33Blood loss exceeds the lethal threshold by three times.
10:36Fetal distress is severe.
10:38Heart rate is under 60 and dropping.
10:40We must perform an emergency c-section right now.
10:42But her vitals can't handle surgery.
10:44Do it.
10:45The captain's roar rattled the walls of the ambulance.
10:48Every medic flinched.
10:49He gripped my hand, his knuckles white.
10:51Veins bulging up his forearms.
10:53I'll take full responsibility.
10:55Cut her open.
10:56I squeezed his fingers back.
10:58Using the absolute last shred of my strength.
11:01Garrett.
11:03Garrett.
11:04Save the baby.
11:05Save the baby first.
11:07Garrett.
11:08My father's head beater.
11:09The man who had guarded me since the day I was born.
11:11When I was learning to walk and fell.
11:13He was the one who picked me up.
11:14When I was terrified of the dark.
11:16He shifted into his wolf form and slept beside my bed the entire night.
11:19On the day I got married, he stood at the very back of the crowd.
11:22Completely silent.
11:24His eyes red.
11:24Now he was kneeling beside my stretcher.
11:27His combat armor stained with blackwood blood.
11:29His silver eyes completely bloodshot.
11:31Princess.
11:32Don't speak.
11:33Save your strength.
11:34His voice trembled.
11:35But he gritted out every word like a blood oath.
11:37The alpha is on his way.
11:39He'll be here soon.
11:40You and the pup will be fine.
11:42I swear it on my life.
11:43Before he could finish, the moonstone array above the operating table violently flickered.
11:48The vital sign monitors erupted into a shrill, piercing, uninterrupted scream.
11:54Cardiac arrest.
11:56The luna's heart has stopped.
11:58Push the moonlight essence.
11:59Start the recitation ronins.
12:01Fetal heart rate is plummeting.
12:0370, 50, 30.
12:05Scalpel.
12:06Now.
12:06The medics shoved Garrett out of the way.
12:09He stumbled back into the corner of the ambulance, clenching his fists so hard his claws tore
12:13through his own palms, blood dripping onto the metal floor.
12:16The surgeon sliced open my abdomen with a rune-carved scalpel.
12:19Silver energy flooded the incision, forcibly cauterizing the bleeding.
12:23They were draining the absolute limits of their healing stones just to keep my soul tethered
12:27to my body.
12:28Essence injected.
12:29Heartbeat is faint but back.
12:31Where's the pup?
12:32Found her.
12:33Extract.
12:34Pull her out.
12:35The umbilical cape is wrapped around her neck.
12:37Damn it.
12:38The wolfsbane choked off her oxygen in the womb for too long.
12:40She's out.
12:41She's out.
12:42They pulled a baby from my womb, but she didn't cry.
12:45In the final second, before the darkness swallowed me entirely, I forced my eyes open.
12:50My vision was a massive blur of blinding silver light.
12:53But I saw it.
12:55Through the haze, the doctor held a tiny blood-covered infant in his hands.
12:59She wasn't moving.
13:00She wasn't breathing.
13:00She didn't cry.
13:02The voices faded.
13:03Faded into an abyss of static.
13:05The last thing I heard was Garrett.
13:07A battle-hardened warrior in his forties, covered in 37 scars.
13:11A man who had ripped the throats out of hundreds of rogues, collapsing into the corner of the
13:15ambulance, and silently weeping.
13:17I woke up to the harsh smell of medical bleach, mixed with the crisp, ozone scent of moonstone
13:21crystals.
13:22The princess is awake!
13:24Someone shouted in relief.
13:26Several faces crowded my vision.
13:28Familiar faces.
13:30My father's personal elite guards.
13:32Uncles who had watched me grow up.
13:34Garrett stood closest to the bed.
13:35His jaw was clenched so tight a muscle ticked in his cheek.
13:39His eyes rimmed with red.
13:40Seeing me open my eyes, his lips parted, but no words came out.
13:44He just gave me one stiff, trembling nod.
13:47Where is she?
13:49A figure standing at the foot of my bed slowly turned around.
13:52My father.
13:53My father.
13:53The current alpha of the Shadow Fang Pack.
13:56The absolute ruler of the oldest, most lethal werewolf bloodline on the North American continent.
14:00In the entire werewolf world, his name alone made other alphas bow their heads in submission.
14:06He was 54.
14:07His posture, as straight as a spear.
14:09I had never seen him slouch.
14:11But right now, his hair was completely white.
14:13Overnight he had gone totally grey.
14:15He walked over and sat on the edge of my bed.
14:18He took my hand in his.
14:19His hands were massive, calloused, scarred from decades of war.
14:22These hands had snapped the necks of his enemies and signed treaties that dictated the fates of millions of wolves.
14:28Right now, they were shaking.
14:30Selena.
14:31He choked on my name.
14:32He bowed his head.
14:33In my entire life, I had never seen this man bow his head.
14:36Not when facing the interrogations of the Seven Alpha Council.
14:40Not when executing traitors with his bare hands.
14:43Not even when he stood before my mother's grave for an entire night.
14:46But now, looking at me, he bowed his head.
14:49She's gone, isn't she?
14:52I looked at him, and I knew the answer.
14:54My father nodded.
14:56A single, scalding tear fell from his face onto the back of my hand.
15:01The hemorrhage, placental abtruction, the wolf bait in her bloodstream.
15:05She was deprived of oxygen for too long.
15:08The doctors did everything.
15:09The moonlight essence, the healing stones, the ancient bloodline resurrection rituals.
15:14We couldn't bring her back.
15:16The room fell dead silent.
15:17The only sound was the low, steady hum of the medical crystals.
15:21I closed my eyes.
15:22That tiny life that had lived inside me for nine months.
15:25The pup that kicked my ribs.
15:27The pup that made me run to the bathroom three times a night.
15:30The little wolf who would instantly calm down the second I rubbed my belly and whispered,
15:34Mommy's here.
15:35Gone.
15:36Where is Dominic?
15:37My father lifted his head and wiped his face.
15:40Who?
15:40At the Blackwood Pack.
15:41By Vivian's side.
15:42She gave birth.
15:44A boy.
15:45Pure blood alpha lineage.
15:46The entire Blackwood Pack is throwing a massive celebration for their new heir.
15:50They held the moonlight recognition ceremony.
15:53The old alpha hosted it himself, right before he died.
15:55Not a single person thought of you.
15:57Not a single person asked if you were dead or alive.
16:00I laughed.
16:01My chest heaved as a broken hysterical laugh tore out of my throat.
16:05The mate bond was still pulsing faintly in my chest.
16:09I could feel Dominic's heartbeat.
16:11Steady.
16:12Joyful.
16:13Untroubled.
16:13He was smiling.
16:15He was celebrating.
16:16His fated mate had nearly bled to death in a dungeon.
16:19And his daughter was a corpse.
16:20And he was celebrating.
16:22Good.
16:23That's good.
16:24My father tightened his grip on my hand.
16:26Selena.
16:27Come home with me.
16:29Blackwood Pack doesn't deserve you.
16:33Dad.
16:34I need you to do something for me.
16:36I need you to do something for me.
16:37Anything.
16:38Perform a soul-severing ritual on me.
16:41My father froze.
16:42The soul-severing ritual.
16:44One of the darkest, most ancient forbidden arts of the Shadowfang bloodline.
16:47It artificially severed a mate bond, forcing the other party to experience the exact physical sensation of their mate dying.
16:54The stopping of the heart.
16:55The shredding of the soul.
16:56The permanent snapping of the bond.
16:58To the person on the receiving end, it felt exactly like their mate had perished.
17:03You want him to think you're dead?
17:05Yes.
17:05The soul-severing ritual took place on the obsidian altar, deep within the Shadowfang's ancestral lands.
17:11Midnight.
17:12A new moon.
17:13Pitch black.
17:14It was the only time we could deceive the moon goddess's gaze.
17:17I lay on the cold stone, surrounded by four of our oldest priests.
17:21Their chanting was deep, guttural, vibrating with the ancient, lost tongue of the first wolves.
17:26My chest pounded violently.
17:28It was done with the heart beat, beating inside me, clear across a thousand miles.
17:32The high priest pressed his palm against my sternum.
17:36The runes flared blinding white.
17:38And then, an invisible silver spike was viciously ripped out of my heart.
17:42A mate bond as a tether woven into the soul.
17:44Severing it felt like two deeply intertwined trees being violently ripped apart by their roots.
17:49I clamped my teeth together, refusing to scream.
17:52In my mind's eye, I saw glowing golden threads.
17:55The physical manifestation of our bond snapping one by one, turning into ash.
17:58When the final thread broke, my chest went completely hollow.
18:02A terrifying, absent emptiness.
18:04Like someone had reached into my ribcage and carved out my heart, leaving nothing but a gaping void.
18:09The ritual was complete.
18:11From this second onward, in Dominic's mind and soul, I was dead.
18:15Meanwhile, a thousand miles away, in the heart of Blackwood Territory, Dominic stood proudly at the main altar, accepting the
18:22congratulatory toasts from his pack members.
18:24Without warning, it felt as if an invisible claw had just plunged into his chest and ripped it open.
18:29The bond snapped.
18:31He crashed to his knees.
18:32His hands desperately clawed at his own chest, his nails digging so deep into his own flesh that blood poured
18:38out over his shirt.
18:39A primal, guttural roar of pure agony exploded from his throat.
18:44Cassandra shoved through the panicked crowd.
18:48Brother, what's wrong?
18:49Dominic convulsed on the marble floor, his claws scraping sickeningly against the stone.
18:54Selena, she's dead.
18:56The bond just broke.
18:58She's dead.
19:00Cassandra's face drained of color for a split second, but only a second.
19:03Brother, calm down.
19:05She was always going to...
19:06Get the fuck away from me!
19:08Dominic backhanded her so hard she went backward, crashing violently into the altar pillars.
19:13He scrambled to his feet, stumbling and sprinting wildly out of the temple.
19:17The dungeon was empty.
19:19There was nothing left but a massive coagulated pool of blood and a soaked pile of straw and the rapidly
19:24fading scent of Selene lingering in the damp air.
19:27Dominic stood frozen in the center of the blood pool.
19:30He stood there for a very, very long time.
19:32Long enough for Cassandra to finally creep into the room and gingerly touch his arm.
19:38Brother.
19:40You locked her in here?
19:43I just told her to wait.
19:46Wait for what?
19:48Wait to die?
19:50Those were two lives!
19:52My mate!
19:53My pup!
19:54Cassandra took a step back.
19:55But she was having a girl!
19:57She was useless to the pack!
19:59The sharp crack of flesh meeting flesh echoed through the dungeon.
20:03Cassandra's head whipped to the side, a bright red handprint instantly welling up on her cheek.
20:08She clutched her face, staring at Dominic in total disbelief.
20:12Dominic glared at her.
20:13If I had been by her side, she wouldn't have died!
20:16If you hadn't taken all the medical supplies, she wouldn't have died!
20:21If I hadn't ordered them to inject her with wolf bait.
20:24He couldn't finish the sentence.
20:26Because the subject of that sentence was pre-syndrome, from start to finish, he made every single decision.
20:32Cassandra was just the executioner.
20:33The person who murdered Selene and their child was him.
20:36I spent the next few weeks recovering in the Shadowfang estate.
20:39My body healed agonizingly slowly.
20:41The wolf's vein residue severely crippled my cellular regeneration.
20:44And the pack doctor estimated it would take three months to completely purge it from my system.
20:49But I wasn't in a hurry.
20:50I had all the time in the world.
20:52My father ate with me and walked with me every day.
20:54Treating me exactly like he did when I was a little girl.
20:57He never brought up the blackwoods.
20:59But I knew his intelligence network never stopped spinning.
21:02Shadowfang's eyes and ears were buried in every major pack in North America.
21:06That was the terrifying power of an ancient bloodline.
21:09Every meeting, every decision.
21:11Every hushed conversation the blackwoods had was transcribed and placed on my desk.
21:16Dominic had brought my corpse, a flawlessly forged illusion, created by the soul-severing ritual back to the blackwood manor.
21:23He didn't place the casket in the main hall.
21:25It was shoved into a side morning room.
21:27Vivienne and her son had already moved into the Alpha's master suite.
21:31They were surrounded by wet nurses, guards, and priests around the clock.
21:36Elder Blackwood had issued his final decree before his stroke.
21:40Keep the funeral brief and simple.
21:42Do not bring bad luck to the newborn heir.
21:45Find a random day to bury her coffin in the family cemetery.
21:48She was a lunar, so make the grave look decent.
21:52He dressed it up in polite words, but the translation was clear.
21:56Dispose of the dead woman, quickly.
21:58The living heir is the only future this pack has.
22:02Dominic didn't argue.
22:03He sat in the morning room, guarding the casket.
22:05Three days and three nights.
22:07No food, no water.
22:10Cassandra tried to talk to him,
22:12but he threw her out.
22:14Vivienne eventually walked in, cradling the baby.
22:17Dominic, my condolences.
22:22Selina is with the moon goddess now.
22:24She wouldn't want to see you like this.
22:27Do you know what she was thinking about?
22:29Dominic slowly lifted his head and stared at her.
22:32Right before she died.
22:36She was wondering why her Alpha wasn't with her.
22:40Why everyone was waiting for your baby to be born,
22:42and no one gave a single damn if she lived or died.
22:45Dominic, what is that supposed to mean?
22:47I practically died on that table, too?
22:50Yes.
22:51You went through a lot.
22:52Dominic interrupted, his voice dead.
22:54But she died.
22:56Two corpses.
23:01Just because the pup in her stummy didn't have a dick,
23:04they deserved to die?
23:05As she turned to leave,
23:06she threw one last sentence over her shoulder.
23:09Don't forget Dominic.
23:10My son is the one continuing the Blackwood bloodline now.
23:15Dead people are useless.
23:16The absolute decimation of the Blackwood pack began in the second week.
23:21First, their territorial alliances collapsed.
23:24The Silvercrest pack,
23:26allies with the Blackwoods for three generations,
23:29abruptly terminated their treaties.
23:31When Dominic sent ironboys to negotiate,
23:34the gates were slammed in their faces.
23:36An anonymous dossier was submitted to the Seven Alpha Council.
23:39It detailed the Blackwood pack's use of wolf's bane on their Luna,
23:43her illegal imprisonment,
23:44and the deliberate denial of medical care during labor.
23:47Every single accusation was a heavy felony under pack law.
23:51The council dispatched inquisitors to occupy Blackwood territory for a month.
23:56Panic swept through their subordinate packs,
23:58and one by one they defected,
24:01seeking asylum with rival Alpha families.
24:03Next, their resources were completely severed.
24:07The Blackwoods had monopolized the Moonstone mines for generations.
24:11Suddenly, the neighboring pack upstream dammed the mystical rivers.
24:14Without the spiritual water nourishing the land,
24:18the Moonstone yield plummeted to zero.
24:20Moonstone crystals were the Blackwood pack's entire economy.
24:24When production halted, their trade routes snapped,
24:27and their finances instantly went bankrupt.
24:29In less than a month,
24:31the Blackwoods devolved from a top-three powerhouse
24:34on the East Coast into an isolated, quarantined, bankrupt, starving pack.
24:40Elder Blackwood was so enraged that his inner wolf went rogue.
24:43During a forced shift, his blood vessels ruptured.
24:47He suffered a massive stroke and collapsed.
24:49This time, there was no saving him.
24:52Save the pack, the air, the bloodline.
24:56And then he died.
25:02Almost no one attended his funeral.
25:04Those who did only showed up to sneer.
25:07Dominic stood by the coffin like a stone statue,
25:10completely expressionless.
25:11When the last guest left, he turned to Vivienne.
25:14Take the kid and leave the Blackwood territory.
25:17Vivienne shrieked.
25:19What did you just say?
25:21I'll give you a safe house outside our borders
25:23and enough cash to live comfortably for the rest of your lives.
25:27Get out.
25:27I'm your sister-in-law.
25:29This boy carries Marcus's blood.
25:32The elder named him the sole heir.
25:34Heir to what?
25:34Dominic chuckled.
25:35A dark mocking sound.
25:37A pack that's being liquidated by the council.
25:39A territory that's about to be butchered and divided among our rivals.
25:43Vivienne glared at him, then let out a sharp, cold laugh.
25:47Don't bullshit me, Dominic.
25:49You're not doing this out of guilt for Selina.
25:52You're just terrified.
25:53Terrified of what?
25:55Of those black wolves that stormed the dungeon that night.
25:58You're terrified of whatever monster stack was backing you, Selina.
26:01You know they're coming back.
26:03You're kicking me out so you can wash your hands of us and save your own skin.
26:08She adjusted the baby in her arms and sneered as she walked to the door.
26:11She paused to spit out one final insult.
26:14You weren't so scared when you ordered the price to inject wolf bark into her veins.
26:19Dominic stood alone in the empty morning hall.
26:21He didn't say a word, because she was absolutely right.
26:24I sat in the study of the Shadowfang estate, flipping through the latest intelligence reports.
26:30My father walked in holding a cup of tea.
26:32The council has ruled to strip the black hoods of two-thirds of their territory.
26:37The core sector they have left won't survive six months.
26:41I closed the file.
26:43Faster than I predicted.
26:45My father sat down, staying quiet for a moment.
26:49Selina, is it enough?
26:51I looked up.
26:52I don't pity.
26:53My father clarified.
26:54I just don't want you trapped in this darkness.
26:56Vengeance is a double-edged blade.
26:58Hold it too long and it'll slice your own hand.
27:00I stood up and walked to the window.
27:02Beyond the glass stretched the vast, jagged mountains of the Shadowfang ancestral lands.
27:06The moonlight spilled over the pine forests, turning the world into an ocean of silver.
27:10I stepped out of the darkness the second my daughter died.
27:14Right now, I'm just collecting a debt.
27:17My father looked at me, his eyes full of complex sorrow.
27:20You've changed.
27:21You used to smile so much.
27:23Now, even your smiles look hollow.
27:26I didn't turn around.
27:27Some people take a lifetime to grow up.
27:29Some people just need one betrayal.
27:32My father didn't argue.
27:33He set the teacup down and quietly left the room.
27:36My phone buzzed.
27:37Arshamudzi, it was Dominic.
27:39More accurately, it was him calling the old comms and frequency, Dead Selene.
27:44Shadowfang's texts and witches had kept the line open and routed it to my secure device.
27:48I didn't say a word.
27:50His rasky, broken voice bled through the speaker.
27:53Selene, I know you can't hear me, but I don't know who else to talk to anymore.
27:59He sounded like he had been swallowing glass.
28:00The background was dead silent.
28:02He was probably sitting in the morning hall again.
28:04The pack is finished.
28:04The territory is gone.
28:05Our allies ran and the council report drops next week.
28:08They're probably going to strip my alpha title.
28:10My father is dead.
28:11Vivienne left.
28:13Cass hates me.
28:14It's just me left.
28:15I'm the only one left in the whole territory.
28:18A long, suffocating silence.
28:21I keep thinking.
28:22If I hadn't let them inject you with Wolf Vein that night, would you still be alive?
28:26If I had just left you half of the Moonstone Crystals, would your wolf have healed you?
28:29If I wasn't so damn greedy, wanting the perfect air, wanting the alpha seat, wanting absolute control over everything, would
28:35you still be here?
28:37Would you still be rubbing your belly, laughing and telling she was kicking again?
28:42Another silence.
28:43Then, a microscopic, muffled sob.
28:47But there are no ifs.
28:48You're dead.
28:49Our pup is dead.
28:50And I did it.
28:52I could live a thousand lifetimes and never pay off this debt.
28:56The line clicked dead.
28:58I sat in the moonlight, gripping the phone.
29:01Outside, the wind tore through the pine trees, rustling the branches.
29:06After a very long time, I put the phone down on the desk.
29:09The black screen reflected my face.
29:12Totally blank.
29:13Not a single tear.
29:15Three months later, my body was entirely healed.
29:17The wolf bay was purged from my veins.
29:19My cellular regeneration was operating at maximum capacity.
29:23And my wolf had finally woken up.
29:25She was quieter than before.
29:27But vastly more lethal.
29:29My father was waiting for me in the study.
29:31On the mahogany desk lay a single document.
29:33The official transfer of the Shadowfan Alpha title.
29:36Are you ready?
29:37I'm ready.
29:38He nodded, sliding the papers towards me.
29:42Sign this, and you are the next Alpha of the Shadowfang pack.
29:45The apex predator of the seven ancient bloodlines of North America.
29:49Are you absolutely certain?
29:51Once you walk this path, there is no turning back.
29:53I picked up the pen and signed my name without a fraction of hesitation.
29:57The second the ink dried, a terrifying surge of raw power exploded from the floorboards,
30:01rocketing up my spine and flooding every cell in my body.
30:04The Shadowfang bloodline was acknowledging me.
30:06The earth of our ancestral lands was answering me.
30:09Outside the window, massive, thousand-year-old pine trees violently trembled in unison,
30:13emitting a low, groaning hum, as if bowing to their new Alpha.
30:16My father looked at me, his eyes slightly red, but he smiled.
30:20You look just like your mother.
30:21From that day on, I officially took over the Shadowfang empire.
30:25To the outside world, I was the new Alpha, operating under the alias Silver.
30:29No one knew Silver was Selina.
30:31No one knew the discarded, murdered Luna of the Blackwood pack was actually the reigning queen
30:35of North America's deadliest werewolf syndicate.
30:38I stopped paying attention to the Blackies' collapse.
30:41I didn't need to anymore.
30:43Dominic had liquidated the last scraps of their territory and formally disbanded the pack.
30:49A dynasty that had ruled for five generations completely ceased to exist in three months.
30:56He lived alone in the crumbling of the pagina.
31:00The council allowed him to keep the house as a final sliver of mercy for a former Alpha.
31:06He only did two things every day.
31:09Drink.
31:10And sit in front of my gravestone.
31:13Sometimes he talked.
31:14Sometimes he just stared.
31:18Garrett's intelligence reports noted that he had lost nearly 30 pounds.
31:22His hair was mostly white and his mental state was completely shattered.
31:27The backlash of the severed mate bond was slowly rotting him from the inside out.
31:32Insomnia, auditory hallucinations, the inability to shift into his wolf form, uncontrollable
31:38violent outbursts, he took symptoms of an Alpha whose mate had been ripped from his soul.
31:44A mild case could survive for a few years.
31:46A severe case wouldn't last a year.
31:48Dominic was the most severe case possible, because our bond didn't break through natural death.
31:54It was violently amputated by a dark magic.
31:57The room was infinitely deeper.
31:59The rot was infinitely faster.
32:01Princess, should we intervene?
32:04At this rate of decay, he has six months, max.
32:08No intervention.
32:11This is his debt to pay.
32:13Month six.
32:15A freezing late autumn night.
32:17I had just finished signing off on the day's operations and stood by the study window,
32:22staring out at the mountain ridges.
32:25Princess.
32:27He went to your grave again.
32:29He goes every day.
32:32Tonight is different.
32:35He brought a silver dagger.
32:37A silver dagger.
32:39To Ewolf, that wasn't a weapon.
32:41It was an execution tool.
32:44If silver pierced the heart, the healing factor was instantly neutralized.
32:48Death was absolute.
32:49It was the only foolproof method of suicide for our kind.
32:54What is he doing?
32:56Sitting in front of the headstone, holding the blade.
32:58He hasn't moved yet.
33:00It looks like he's hesitating.
33:03Or waiting for something.
33:05I looked up at the sky.
33:07Tonight was a full moon.
33:08Exactly nine months ago, under a full moon,
33:11I lay on the birthing altar while he casually ordered them to pump wolfsbane into my veins.
33:16Nine months.
33:17The exact time it took to carry a child to term.
33:21Get the car ready.
33:26Princess?
33:27I'm going to see him.
33:29One last time.
33:30And then, this is completely finished.
33:33The cemetery at midnight.
33:35The Blackwood family graveyard was situated on a sloping hill at the edge of the old territory.
33:40Surrounded by pines, the moonlight bled through the branches, scattering silver shards across the grass.
33:47I stood deep in the shadows, watching Dominic.
33:51He was sitting in front of my gravestone.
33:53He was so emaciated.
33:55He barely looked human.
33:56His cheekbones jutted sharply against his gaunt face.
33:59His eye sockets were sunken hollows.
34:02He wasn't even forty, but he looked like an old man.
34:05He gripped the silver dagger, the blade glinting with a lethal icy white glare.
34:09The doctor says my wolf is dying.
34:14The bond rot has hit the terminal stage.
34:20I can't shift anymore.
34:23My healing is gone.
34:26I'm no better than a human now.
34:28No.
34:30I'm worse than a human.
34:33Humans don't have nightmares every single night, of their mates screaming their name in a pool of blood.
34:39He raised the dagger, staring at his own pathetic reflection in the polished silver.
34:44I thought about a lot of ways to die.
34:46But a wolf should die by silver.
34:48The most dignified thing I'll ever do is die like a werewolf.
34:52He pressed the tip against his chest, right over his heart.
34:56Savine, I'm coming.
34:59Let me be a dog in my next life.
35:01You can kick me, you can curse me.
35:03Just please, don't let me.
35:06He squeezed his eyes shut, his hands shaking as he prepared to thrust the blade.
35:10I kicked a pebble.
35:11A sharp clack echoed loudly in the dead, silent graveyard.
35:14Dominic's eyes snapped open.
35:16The tip of the blade had just pierced his skin, a thin line of blood trickling down his shirt.
35:21Who's there?
35:22He scrambled up, turning toward the sound.
35:24The moonlight shifted, illuminating my face.
35:27He saw me.
35:28The silver dagger slipped from his trembling fingers, burying itself into the dirt.
35:33You.
35:34His lips quivered uncontrollably.
35:37He looked like a man whose sanity had just snapped.
35:40It's me.
35:42I'm not dead.
35:44Surprised?
35:45He stood absolutely paralyzed.
35:47Bolted to the earth, his eyes flooded with tears.
35:50He lunged forward, trying to pull me into his arms.
35:53Garrett instantly stepped in front of me, planting a massive hand on Dominic's chest and giving him a slight shove.
35:59Dominic staggered backward like a dead leaf, nearly tripping over his own feet.
36:03Six months ago, he was an alpha now.
36:05He couldn't even withstand a casual push from a beater.
36:10Saliva, you're alive.
36:12I knew it.
36:13The bond broke, but I could still feel it.
36:15He tried to sidestep Garrett, but three more Shadowfang guards instantly materialized from the tree line, boxing him in.
36:22Only then did he realize who I had brought.
36:24Four warriors in pitch black tactical armor, all with silver irises, all wearing the Shadowfang crest on their chests.
36:30His expression shifted, from hysterical joy to confusion to a slow, creeping, terrifying realization.
36:35Who are they?
36:37My men.
36:39Dominic stared at me.
36:40He looked at me from head to toe, and my own eyes were faintly glowing silver in the dark.
36:43The absolute mark of an awakened ancient bloodline alpha.
36:45I look nothing like the submissive, fragile Omega wife you remember.
36:48Who the hell are you?
36:49He choked out, his whole body shaking.
36:50Let me reintroduce myself.
36:52I stared down at him, my tone as polite and detached as if I were speaking to a stranger.
36:56Selene Ashfield, direct bloodline heir to the Shadowfang pack, current reigning alpha queen.
37:01The apex predator of the seven ancient bloodlines.
37:04Dominic whispered, his mind breaking, as if responding to my presence.
37:08The moonlight suddenly intensified, blazing down on us.
37:11Behind me, my four elite guards simultaneously dropped to one knee, lowering their heads in absolute submission.
37:16Dominic stumbled backward, one step, two steps, until his spine slammed against my gravestone.
37:20Impossible.
37:21You said you were rogue, an orphan, no pack, no family.
37:24I lied.
37:24My father forbade me from marrying you.
37:26He said a blackbird wasn't worthy of wiping dirt off the Shadow Fox boots.
37:29I didn't listen.
37:30I threw a tantrum and forced his hand.
37:32Looking back, every single word he said was right.
37:34No, no, no.
37:36So everything that happened to the blackbirds over the past six months, the territory lost, the allies betraying us, the
37:42council sanctions?
37:43My father orchestrated it.
37:44I simply chose not to stop him.
37:46Why didn't you tell me who you were?
37:48His voice suddenly skyrocketed, cracking like tearing fabric.
37:52If you had told me you were the Shadow Fox heir...
37:54I would what?
37:55I cut him off smoothly.
37:56You would have treated me better?
37:58You wouldn't have pumped wolf bean into my veins?
38:01You wouldn't have locked me in a dungeon to bleed out?
38:05Think very carefully before you answer that, Dominic.
38:07From the very beginning, all you wanted was an easily manipulated, powerless mate with zero backing.
38:13Someone you could sacrifice whenever it became convenient.
38:16If you had known I was the Shadow Fane heir, you would have been too terrified to even look in
38:20my direction.
38:22You probably would have found a way to magically sever the bond before I even got pregnant.
38:26Just so you could trade me out for a more obedient Luna.
38:29He couldn't say a word.
38:31Because it was the absolute truth.
38:34He knew it.
38:35I knew it.
38:35The silence stretched on for an eternity, long enough for the moon to drift from the treetops to the dead
38:40center of the sky.
38:41Finally, Dominic laughed.
38:43A very quiet, hollow laugh.
38:45The sound of a man completely accepting his own destruction.
38:48So from start to finish, I was just the loser.
38:51This was never about winning or losing.
38:53It's about the two lives you owe, and you can't afford to pay.
38:56He looked at me.
38:57His eyes slowly shifted from agonizing torment to a strange, vacant peace.
39:01The kind of peace a man only finds when he has absolutely nothing left to lose.
39:07Can I ask you one last question?
39:09Ask.
39:12Did you, even for a single second, actually love me?
39:17The moonlight was quiet.
39:19The pine forest was quiet.
39:20I looked at his skeletal, decaying face.
39:23I couldn't even recognize the man he used to be.
39:25I thought back to the library on campus, years ago.
39:28You read a lot, huh?
39:28He had helped me pick up my dropped books, flashing a bright, warm smile.
39:32You read a lot, huh?
39:34He had laughed.
39:35The sunlight hitting his face had felt so safe, so clean.
39:40I loved you.
39:41Tears finally spilled over Dominic's eyelids, tracking down his hollow cheeks.
39:48That's enough.
39:49I turned around and started walking away.
39:52After three steps, I stopped.
39:53I didn't look back.
39:55Garrett, confiscate his silver dagger.
39:58Yes, Alpha.
39:59I kept walking into the dark.
40:00I didn't stop again, behind me.
40:03Dominic's voice drifted through the freezing wind, so faint it sounded like a ghost.
40:07I'm sorry, Selene.
40:08I didn't turn my head.
40:10Three months later, Dominic died alone on the floor of the Blackwood Manor.
40:13It was the mate Bond wrought.
40:15Garrett had taken his dagger, but he couldn't confiscate the festering wound carved into Dominic's soul.
40:20The severed Bond was a bleeding gash that could never be closed,
40:24devouring his life force day by day.
40:26First, his wolf died completely.
40:29A werewolf without a wolf was just a hollow shell, like a tree stripped of its roots.
40:33Then, his immune system collapsed, his senses deteriorated, and his muscles atrophied.
40:39Finally, total organ failure.
40:41According to the last few rogue amegas he had squatted in the manor, it was a full moon the night
40:46he died.
40:47The moonlight spilled through the skylight, painting the floorboard silver.
40:51He lay on the exact spot in the morning hall where my fake casket had once been placed.
40:55He was clutching something in his hand.
40:57A red hair tie, mine when I was pregnant.
41:00My hair was always in my face, so I constantly tied it back with a dark red ribbon.
41:05The night I went into labor, it must have slipped off and fallen into the bloody straw in the dungeon.
41:10I don't know when he went back to dig it out of the filth, but he had held onto it
41:15ever since.
41:15He held it until his last breath.
41:17The omegas said he died very quietly.
41:19No thrashing, no expressions of pain.
41:21The corners of his mouth were even slightly turned up, like he was smiling, or like he had finally, finally
41:27been allowed to exhale.
41:28When the news reached Shadowfang, I was in the middle of signing a massive territorial integration treaty.
41:35On Sea Inc. dried, Shadowfang would officially annex the resource networks of the three remaining ancient packs on the east
41:41coast,
41:41cementing us as the absolute supreme power on the council.
41:45Garrett knocked and stepped into the office.
41:47He stood silently in front of my desk, hesitating.
41:50I didn't look up from the paperwork. Speak.
41:54Dominic Blackwood was confirmed dead this morning.
41:57Mate bond backlash.
41:59Organ failure.
42:00My pen paused for a fraction of a second.
42:03Understood.
42:04I closed the file and handed it to my assistant.
42:06Dispatch this treaty today.
42:08I want the signatures of the other two alphas on my desk before next week.
42:11The assistant bowed and quickly left the room.
42:14Garrett and I were the only ones left.
42:16He stood there in silence for a long time.
42:19Alpha Queen, there's one more thing.
42:21Spit it out.
42:23While clearing out his belongings, the scavengers found a letter.
42:27It was explicitly addressed to you.
42:29He pulled a weathered envelope from his jacket and placed it on the edge of my desk.
42:33The envelope was incredibly frayed and worn around the edges, like it had been picked up, squeezed, and put back
42:39down thousands of times.
42:41Only one word was written on it.
42:43Selene.
42:44I stared at the envelope.
42:45I didn't move a muscle.
42:47Leave it there.
42:48Garrett nodded, turning to walk out.
42:50At the door, he paused.
42:52Alpha Queen.
42:54What?
42:55When he passed, he was holding your hair tie.
42:58I picked up the next dossier and flipped it open.
43:02I said, I understand.
43:04Garrett quietly closed the door.
43:06The room fell dead, silent.
43:08Outside the window, the jagged peaks of the Shadowfang Mountains rolled endlessly into the horizon.
43:13The pine forests swayed in the wind, like a silent, violent ocean.
43:18The moonstone chandelier overhead cast a soft silver glow over my desk.
43:23Over the envelope, Selene.
43:25I stared at my name for a long, long time.
43:28Then, I casually tossed it into the roaring fireplace.
43:31I watched the paper curl, turn black, and dissolve into a wisp of white smoke.
43:37Time kept moving forward.
43:39Under my rule, Shadowfang grew terrifyingly powerful.
43:42The territorial alliances held strong.
43:45Our council seats doubled.
43:47And the influence of the ancient bloodlines suffocated.
43:50Every corner of North America.
43:52My father formally retired.
43:54He spent his days planting trees in the mountains behind the estate.
43:58Training hunting eagles and occasionally shifting into his massive wolf form to take slow, lazy walks through the pines.
44:04He lived like a completely normal, peaceful old man.
44:07But sometimes, during dinner, he would abruptly go quiet.
44:11He would just stare at me.
44:12For a long time.
44:13The moon is very bright tonight.
44:16I knew exactly what he was trying to say.
44:18It was a full moon.
44:20If my daughter had lived, she would be one year old.
44:23Then two.
44:24Then three.
44:25She would be walking.
44:27She would be calling me mommy.
44:30Mommy.
44:41Mommy.
44:42Mommy.
44:43Mommy.
44:44The moon is moving.
44:45I never let myself think about those things.
44:49I absolutely forbade myself from going there.
44:51But the body remembers.
44:54Every single full moon, my inner wolf would let out a low, mournful whimper deep inside my chest.
45:01A mother wolf crying for the pup she failed to protect.
45:04That kind of pain isn't cured by time.
45:06It was exactly like my father said.
45:08Some wounds are forever.
45:12Outside my window, the moon hung heavy and bright.
45:17The forest was dead silent.
45:19The moonlight washed over my hands.
45:22Over my left ring finger.
45:24It was completely bare.
45:26Once, I had worn the lunar ring of the blackwood pack there.
45:30A silver band encrusted with moonstone.
45:34Dominic had personally slid it onto my finger during our mate binding ceremony.
45:39On the night of the soul-severing ritual, the ring had shattered entirely on its own.
45:45I had gathered the shards and tossed them into the sacred lake of the Shadowfang ancestral lands.
45:50They sank to the bottom, never to be recovered.
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