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00:01Nora, the healer's ready. Hop on the table, prenatal check.
00:05I lay on the table, waiting. Then, the screen lit up. The chart on the bedside tablet was open.
00:12Miscarriage recovery package. Booked under Nora Hayes.
00:16Lucian, you clicked the wrong line. You booked the recovery package, not prenatal check.
00:22It wasn't a mistake. There's something I need to tell you.
00:26I've been keeping a girl on the side. A student. She's kind, nice, and doesn't want a title.
00:32Won't fight you for the family. But she's pregnant now. I've made her wait long enough.
00:37I can't let her pup suffer too. The pup needs a name on paper.
00:41My face went black.
00:44Lucian, what are you saying? You're planning to break our bond? Take your mistress as Luna?
00:51What are you talking about? You're my fated mate. I swore before the moon goddess you are my only Luna.
00:59Besides, your parents are dead. And you can't shift. Barely half a wolf.
01:03If we break the bond, where would you even go?
01:06I just want you to adopt Chloe's pup. I don't want you favoring your own blood later.
01:10And mistreating mine and Chloe's. And also, I don't want a pup can't shift like you.
01:15I don't want you. So sorry, Nora. We have to clear your pup.
01:19He passed me the consent form. Face calm.
01:21Be good. I promise. You'll always be Luna of Blackwood. No one outranks you.
01:32No. I'm not signing. I'm not doing this.
01:37Lucian, this pup is yours. This pup is eight months.
01:42Lucian. The healer's hand was already on the IV line.
01:54Lucian! Lucian!
01:56The needle went into my arms. I felt my body go.
01:59Lucian.
02:02Who is Blackwood? I hope you never live to regret what you did today.
02:09He didn't know. He was a barren werewolf.
02:12And in this world, I was the only one who could bear a pup for him.
02:16I woke up three days later.
02:18Alpha Blackwood.
02:19The surgery was extremely dangerous.
02:22Forcing the pup out at eight months.
02:24Using silver to take her ability to bear pups.
02:27She almost bled out.
02:28I promised Chloe.
02:29The only pup I'll ever have is hers and mine.
02:32Safest way is making sure Nora can't carry again.
02:35And Nora has never even shifted.
02:36The pup she was carrying probably couldn't have shifted either.
02:38Why let a broken bloodline live?
02:40His eyes swept the room.
02:41Met mine.
02:42He didn't flinch.
02:44You heard.
02:45I had no choice.
02:47Chloe said the law only accept the adoption if the woman couldn't bear pups.
02:51You were terminating anyway.
02:53We use silver.
02:55Won't have to worry about you carrying again.
02:57A tear slid down my cheek.
03:00Almost teasing.
03:01I didn't think the silver would make you bleed out like that.
03:04Call it lucky.
03:06Fortunately, the top healers I brought in for Chloe were already on hand.
03:10You only survived because of her.
03:15Lucian Blackhield.
03:17You're not a man.
03:18But my palm barely grazed his cheek.
03:21Didn't even leave a mark.
03:23A small figure shrieked and lunged at me.
03:25A palm cracked across my face.
03:27I fell back.
03:30I gasped.
03:31Ugly.
03:32I looked up.
03:32A girl, eyes wet.
03:34Planted in front of Lucian, screaming at me.
03:36How dare you hit him!
03:38He sat outside the ward for three days straight.
03:41If I hadn't brought him food every day, he'd have collapsed.
03:44The man I love so much, he's not your punching bog.
03:50I caught it.
03:51The flicker in Lucian's eyes.
03:54Soft.
03:55Aching for her.
03:56I'd seen that look before.
03:58When I took the wolf's bane meant for him at a council banquet.
04:01And lost our first pup.
04:03When rogues came for him, I stood between him and their fangs.
04:06Traded my mother's keepsake for his life.
04:08I'd done so much for him.
04:10And none of it weighed as much as one of his mistress's tears.
04:13Something in my chest cracked.
04:15I pushed myself up.
04:16Watched them cling to each other.
04:19Laughed at myself.
04:22So am I supposed to thank him?
04:24Thank him for taking my ability to bear children away?
04:29Thank him for almost killing me, but sitting bedside waiting for me to wake up?
04:33Chloe's tears came in sheets.
04:36She glared at me.
04:37Fine.
04:38It's my fault.
04:39I ruined you.
04:40Let me make it up to you.
04:42Satisfied?
04:42She lost it.
04:44She shoved Lucian off, grabbed the fruit knife off my tray, and drove it at her belly.
04:48I'll cut my pup out right now.
04:50Will that make you happy?
04:51Lucian caught her.
04:53Wrapped his hand around the blade.
04:54Blood ran down.
04:55He looked up at me.
04:56Cold.
04:57Nora.
04:58Happy now?
05:02He picked Chloe up and walked out.
05:04He didn't look back.
05:06Only threw one line over his shoulder.
05:08I've been too soft on you.
05:09I made you think you can do whatever you want.
05:11Fine.
05:12It's the time you got a taste of suffering.
05:15I watched him go.
05:17Tears slid down.
05:18I smiled.
05:20The man who once swore he'd spoil me forever.
05:22Who said he'd never let me suffer one bit.
05:24Time took him away in the end.
05:26Lucian's enforcer hauled me up, threw me out the door.
05:30From now on, everything the Alpha gave you is being pulled back.
05:33If you want to keep the room.
05:35I gave a bitter smile and walked.
05:37No need.
05:38Lucian and everything he gave me.
05:41I don't want any of it.
05:44My phone, my wallet, all confiscated.
05:47Because Lucian had bought them.
05:48I stood in the street with nothing.
05:50I tried to flag down a car.
05:51But when every kind soul stopped, Lucian's enforcer was right there.
05:55Cross the Blackwood Alpha if you want.
05:57Let her in.
05:59They'd shake their heads and step on the gas.
06:02I could barely stand.
06:04The Alpha says to tell you.
06:05This is what defying him looks like.
06:08Apologize to Miss Chloe.
06:09Promise to attend her through the pregnancy.
06:11Then he'll let me take you back.
06:13I ignored his words.
06:14Started walking.
06:15Blood ran down my thigh.
06:17Dripped on the asphalt.
06:18Strangers stared.
06:19But I'd already gone numb.
06:21One step at a time.
06:23Until the sky went black.
06:24I made it home.
06:28I lifted fingers stiff with cold.
06:31Punched in the code.
06:32I gritted my teeth and tried again.
06:34Again.
06:35The system kept rejecting me.
06:36Mrs. Whitmore, the housekeeper, finally got fed up and yanked the door open.
06:42Luna.
06:43Stop.
06:44Until you apologize to the Alpha, you don't get to use anything he bought.
06:48He bought this house.
06:49No apology.
06:50No entry.
06:52If you ask me, just apologize already.
06:54So what if you're his fated mate?
06:56The moon goddess doesn't get to decide where his heart goes.
06:59Look at you.
07:00No bloodline.
07:01No looks.
07:02You can't even shift.
07:04And you can't even breed anymore.
07:07Miss Chloe gave him a pup.
07:08And he still won't release you.
07:10He's being more than generous.
07:12What are you fighting for?
07:13I won't come in.
07:13I just need to take one thing with me.
07:15She scoffed.
07:19Everything inside was bought by the Alpha.
07:21What do you own?
07:22Or were you planning to steal his jewelry, luxuries, sell them off?
07:25I want my old healer record.
07:27That's all.
07:28Mrs. Whitmore went upstairs.
07:30Came back and threw a sealed envelope at my chest.
07:33I caught it.
07:34Pulled out the document inside.
07:36Lucian's name on the top.
07:38I laughed without sound.
07:39It was the bonding exam record from ten years ago.
07:42From the week we'd been claimed as mates.
07:45The diagnosis?
07:46Wolf crippled.
07:47Unable to sire.
07:50The day the results came in,
07:51I'd sat there with a thousand feelings in my chest.
07:55I didn't know how to tell him.
07:57Lucian.
07:58The proud heir of the Blackwood.
08:00How could he ever accept his wolf was crippled,
08:03even being barren?
08:05How could he survive his rivals tearing him apart for it?
08:08But the healer had pulled me aside.
08:10Don't be sad.
08:12The moon goddess blessing you too.
08:15You can't shift,
08:16because has slept since you were born.
08:20But she can heal every wolf near her.
08:22So, yes.
08:24The moon goddess didn't just give Alpha Blackwood a mate.
08:27She gave him a miracle.
08:30You're the only one who can give the Alpha Blackwood an heir.
08:34I'd thought I'd bury this secret with me.
08:36Never let him know.
08:38Never let the Pax know.
08:40I never thought there'd come a day
08:42I'd hand it to the world myself.
08:44I pulled the last cash from my pocket.
08:47Walked to the print shop.
08:49Made 15 copies.
08:51Each one I sealed in a courier pouch.
08:53Each one addressed to a different rival Alpha.
08:56Every wolf who'd ever wanted Lucian's territory.
09:00As fast as you can.
09:01Just say it's a gift from the Luna of Blackwood.
09:03They'll tip you well.
09:05Lucian.
09:06This is my last gift to you.
09:07I hope you like it.
09:11I left the manor.
09:13I went back to a small cabin.
09:15Lucian and I used to live there when we were starting out.
09:18Back then we'd had nothing.
09:20A pair of barely grown wolves
09:22living in a one-room cabin at the edge of vampire territory.
09:25The place was rough, but we were happy.
09:26When all we could afford was cans,
09:28Lucian would lie about feeding at pack runs,
09:30and portions a-drum both portions into my bowl.
09:34I'd catch him at three in the morning at the sink,
09:37drinking water glass after glass to fill his stomach.
09:42We'd done our mating ceremony in that cabin.
09:45No witnesses.
09:46No wine.
09:48A plain band moonstone ring that cost him all salary.
09:52That place meant everything to me.
09:54Even after we moved into the manor,
09:56I'd quietly bought the cabin and kept it.
10:00I used to picture us going back there when we were old.
10:03I never pictured this.
10:05Coming back to where we started.
10:08Alone.
10:09The mating already ash.
10:12I turned the handle.
10:14Pushed the door open.
10:16Two bodies tangled on the couch.
10:18The matching pajamas Lucian and I once wore,
10:21which I'd kept carefully tucked away in my closet.
10:24They were on Lucian and Chloe now.
10:26Lucian.
10:28How could you bring her here?
10:29You know what this place is to us.
10:33I didn't get to finish.
10:35Chloe was already slapping herself across the face.
10:38Luna.
10:39I just wanted to see where he grew up.
10:42I begged him to bring me.
10:43If you're angry, I'll kneel.
10:45I'll apologize.
10:47Just stop hurting him.
10:48Lucian cupped her cheek.
10:50He flicked his eyes at the Enforcer.
10:52The Enforcer pinned my arms.
10:54A hand came down on my face.
10:56Over and over.
10:57My ears rang.
10:58I didn't know how long.
11:00They finally stopped.
11:01Let go.
11:02I dropped to the floor.
11:04Lucian looked down at me.
11:06Calm.
11:07Nora.
11:08Why do you keep doing this?
11:10If you don't feel well, go rest home.
11:12Why hunt me down?
11:14I laughed.
11:15Bitter.
11:16Rest where?
11:17I still have a home.
11:19That's still my home.
11:20I looked at him.
11:21Tears mixed with blood from my nose.
11:24Dropped on the floor.
11:26Lucian.
11:27Why did you bring her here?
11:29Do whatever you want, wherever you want.
11:31Why ruin this place?
11:33The Lucian at 30 is rotten through.
11:36Why couldn't you leave the Lucian at 20 alone?
11:39He's the only piece of you I still have.
11:44Rotten?
11:44I'm rotten?
11:47Don't forget.
11:48If it weren't for me, you half-wolf, you'd still be living in a place like this.
11:55Don't forget.
11:56The money you used to buy this cabbage came out of my account.
12:00This place is mine too.
12:02I do what I want with it.
12:04He laughed.
12:06Ruined the cabin, did I?
12:08I'll do better.
12:10I'll blow the whole thing to the ground, and it still has nothing to do with you.
12:14He had me dragged out.
12:16Soon, Lucian had a witch brought in.
12:20She traced a ring of fire script around the foundation.
12:23Move.
12:24One word from him.
12:26The cabin that held the only good memory I had of us went up.
12:30Witch fire lit up the night.
12:33Lucian watched the tears running down my face.
12:36The rage drained from his eyes.
12:38He spoke cold.
12:40Nora, how many times do I have to say this before it gets through to you?
12:44I gave you the Luna title.
12:46The manor.
12:47Custom dresses know your Omega could afford in a lifetime.
12:51Wasn't that enough?
12:53You can't shift.
12:54You're not young.
12:55Do you really think I still love this faded version of you?
12:58Even if the moon goddess curses me for it.
13:02I can't bear you anymore.
13:08I kept your title.
13:09I gave you a comfortable life.
13:11All I ask is that you turn a blind eye.
13:13Let Chloe stay.
13:14Let her pup live.
13:15Understand?
13:16I won't.
13:16One word at a time.
13:18Lucian, you've erased everything we had.
13:20Release me from the bond.
13:24His eyes flashed, annoyed.
13:26He looked at me, flat.
13:28Release you?
13:29Not happening.
13:30Even if I don't love you anymore.
13:31You're still the most important person in my life.
13:34I'm not releasing you.
13:35Nora, I never wronged you.
13:37If I owe anyone, it's Chloe.
13:39I couldn't give her a title.
13:41I made her wait the best years of her life with no mark beside mine.
13:44I tried to do, do this the dignified way.
13:48You wouldn't take it.
13:50You had to drag it down to this.
13:53He turned, dropped to one knee, pulled a black box from his pocket, opened it on a diamond the size
13:59of a small egg.
14:04Chloe, I'm sorry I found you late.
14:07I can't give you a title.
14:08But I can give you the biggest mating ceremony every alpha has ever seen.
14:12Let every wolf in every territory know you're the one I love.
14:16Chloe covered her mouth, eyes wet.
14:20She turned her face away.
14:22I can't accept.
14:24I love you.
14:25I'd lower myself, be your mistress without a mark.
14:28But I won't stand in front of every pack and be called the one with no bond.
14:34Unless, unless the Luna officiates in front of every alpha here.
14:39Let her admit, in front of all of them.
14:42She lied.
14:43She's the unmarked mistress.
14:46And I'm your fated mate.
14:50I met the cold spite in her eyes.
14:52Lucian saw I didn't speak.
14:54His voice went low.
14:56Nora, your parents' bodies are still buried on land I own.
15:00You don't want them to end up like this cabin.
15:03Do you?
15:03A chunk got charred out of my chest.
15:06Every breath came up tasting of blood.
15:08I nodded slow.
15:09Fine.
15:10I'll do it.
15:11Chloe broke into a smile, threw herself into Lucian's arms.
15:15He took Chloe to pick out gowns, to book the manor's great hall.
15:19At the doorway, he paused.
15:21He turned back to me.
15:22The first time in a long time, he sounded almost gentle.
15:26Nora.
15:26Nora, it's just a ceremony.
15:29It doesn't move you out of the Luna seat.
15:31Okay.
15:31He stared at me for a long beat.
15:34Finally smiled.
15:36You don't need to attend Chloe through this stretch.
15:38Rest at the manor.
15:39After the pup comes, the three of us will take a trip.
15:41Call it making it up to you.
15:46I said okay.
15:48Again.
15:50He left, satisfied.
15:53The day of the ceremony, Lucian thought I would stir up trouble.
15:57He had me brought to the bridal suite early and locked in with two enforcers.
16:02My gown is too heavy.
16:03I couldn't lean down to put on my own shoes.
16:06My Luna.
16:07Help me.
16:08Lucian watched me, something unreadable on his face.
16:11He almost said something.
16:13Chloe nudged him.
16:15Babe.
16:16I'm thirsty.
16:17Go grab me an orange juice.
16:19Lucian laughed.
16:20Ruffled her hair.
16:21Walked out.
16:23The second the door clicked, Chloe's foot lashed up.
16:27Caught me square in the chest.
16:28She looked down at me.
16:30Cold.
16:31Nora.
16:32You don't actually think I'm just some little gold digger he keeps.
16:37Do you?
16:40You probably don't know.
16:42Lucian and I have been together almost ten years too.
16:49I stared up at her.
16:51The shock on my face.
16:53She smiled.
16:55Wicked.
16:55Lucian said I was too young.
16:57He didn't want me to suffer with him.
17:02So he'd only date me.
17:04He married you.
17:05Just because you are fated mates.
17:09He felt so bad about owing me.
17:13The first real money he made, he told you the rogues took it.
17:17He bought me a designer bag with it.
17:20Every time I cried, he'd send those rogues to your house to fake a debt collection.
17:24Then he'd take the money and buy me bags.
17:271.8 million total.
17:29Oh, and one cheap moonstone band.
17:31I lost that one.
17:35I shook.
17:36I couldn't stop.
17:391.8 million.
17:41The money I'd bled for those years.
17:43Working myself sick to pay off his debts.
17:50When Lucian heard, he'd held me and shook.
17:53He said he was sorry.
17:54He said it was his fault.
17:56I'd patted his back, laughing.
17:58Said it wasn't his fault.
18:01It was all fake.
18:05He'd been lying the whole time.
18:10Chloe kept going.
18:12She was enjoying it.
18:14Later, when you got pregnant, I got jealous.
18:17Wouldn't let him touch me.
18:19And he don't want a pup can't shift like you.
18:25So he set the whole thing up with the council.
18:29Drugged you with wolfbane wine.
18:31Made sure you lost the pup.
18:33You don't know what he was doing while you were on the surgical table, bleeding out?
18:40He was on the phone with me.
18:42Telling me not to be mad at him anymore.
18:44The words landed like a hammer.
18:46My vision blacked out.
18:48Chloe's face twisted suddenly.
18:50Pure vellum.
18:51And he still won't break the bond!
18:53He still won't take me as Luna!
18:56You think you're so special?
18:58You're just leaning on Lucian's soft heart.
19:01Leaning on the years you suffered with him.
19:03You're just relying on being his fated mate.
19:06He's terrified of Luna's curse.
19:08So he dares not break the bond.
19:10She laughed.
19:12What do you think happens?
19:14If Lucian finds out you went after my pup, will he still care about you?
19:18My skin crawled.
19:19I turned and bolted for the door.
19:21Behind me, she smashed a champagne bottle into her own stomach.
19:25She screamed.
19:26Lucian!
19:26Help me!
19:29The door blew open.
19:30Lucian grabbed my wrist and slammed me to the floor.
19:33His eyes went red.
19:35He saw Chloe on the ground.
19:37Blood spreading from under her gown.
19:39It wasn't me.
19:41The words got cut off in my throat.
19:42His hand was around it.
19:44He roared at me.
19:45Eyes bloodshot.
19:46Nora!
19:46You can't even spare a pup!
19:49You disgust me!
19:50You took Chloe's pup from her.
19:52Don't blame me for what I do to your parents' bodies!
19:55Through my terror, my tears, he gave the order.
19:59Dig up Nora's parents.
20:01Grind the bones.
20:02Throw them in the sewer.
20:03No!
20:04I tore at his hand.
20:05Lucian!
20:06You're insane!
20:07Check the cameras in this room!
20:09It wasn't me!
20:13Chloe staggered up, stumbled toward the window.
20:16The pup is gone.
20:19What's the point of living?
20:20I'll just die.
20:22Luna!
20:23Frame me however you want!
20:26Lucian let go of me.
20:28Caught her.
20:29He looked back at me.
20:30One word at a time.
20:32Nora.
20:33You've used up the last of what I had left for you.
20:35Hurt my mate and my pup.
20:37I won't let you go.
20:38He spoke flat.
20:39Take her to the manor's dungeons.
20:41Tell the guards.
20:42Treat her well.
20:43I don't want her to have one good day down there.
20:53Lucian blew through every red light, crashed into the pack hospital.
20:58He carried Chloe straight into the emergency room.
21:01Save my mate!
21:03Save my pup!
21:05Save the pup and I'll sit here in hospital for ten years!
21:08The on-call healer foes stared at Lucio.
21:11Alpha Blackwild?
21:13He looked at Lucio.
21:14Looked at Chloe.
21:15Pale on the gurney.
21:17Confused.
21:18Your pup?
21:18Alpha Blackwild.
21:20Your wolf is crumpled.
21:21You can't sire.
21:22Where would a pup come from?
21:24He whipped his head toward the healer.
21:26Voice low.
21:28Murder in it.
21:30What did you just say?
21:33Crippled?
21:37Crippled?
21:37The healer flinched, hurried to explain.
21:40Alpha Blackwood.
21:41I'm not making this up.
21:43Your bonding exam ten years ago.
21:45The result was clear.
21:47Your Luna Nora never told you?
21:48You can't sire.
21:50It's not possible.
21:57Nora?
21:59How much did she pay you to put on this show?
22:02The healer paled.
22:04Alpha Blackwood.
22:05To split me and Chloe?
22:07Or to convince me Chloe's pup isn't mine?
22:10He laughed once.
22:11You go back and tell Nora.
22:13I'm not buying it.
22:14Her tricks are pathetic.
22:16They're an insult.
22:18If I can't sire, what was she carrying then?
22:22Some rogues litter?
22:25The healer's face changed.
22:27Alpha Blackwood.
22:28But...
22:29Enough!
22:31Right now I need one thing from you.
22:34Save the pup.
22:36If anything happens to that pup,
22:38you and this entire hospital are done.
22:43Yes, Alpha?
22:45Lucian's phone rang.
22:47He glanced down.
22:49His beta.
22:51He picked up.
22:53What?
22:54The beta sounded frantic.
22:58Alpha.
23:00You need to get back to the ceremony.
23:02Something's wrong.
23:03What?
23:05Every rival Alpha you've ever fought.
23:07They're all here.
23:09They say they have a wedding gift for you.
23:14Ignore them.
23:15They're failed dogs.
23:17If they want to make a scene,
23:18have the guards drag them out.
23:20I'm only thinking about Chloe and the pup right now.
23:23Until they're safe,
23:24nothing else matters.
23:25Alpha, but...
23:26Do what I told you.
23:28What about the Luna?
23:29Has she apologized?
23:30Begged?
23:31If she's ready to come around,
23:33take her to the hospital.
23:34If she promises to attend Chloe personally,
23:36I won't.
23:37I...
23:37I don't know, Alpha.
23:39If she wants to be stubborn,
23:40let her sit in the dungeons and think about it.
23:42I told you I don't want this pup!
23:44Do you understand what I said?
23:46Take the pup out!
23:48Now!
23:48I'll give you a million dollars to make it disappear.
23:50Lucian doesn't have to know.
23:52We'll say Nora hurt me.
23:54Say the pup couldn't be saved.
23:56Done.
24:05What did you just say?
24:08Take the pup out.
24:09It can be saved.
24:10Why don't you want it?
24:15Chloe's eyes filled.
24:16She looked like she'd been caught in a trap.
24:19Lucian, let me explain.
24:22Tears down her cheeks.
24:24Fast.
24:25If the Luna doesn't want our pup born,
24:27then I'll make her happy.
24:29What happens later?
24:31If he's born,
24:33if I give him to her to raise,
24:34she'll kill him.
24:36She'll find a way.
24:37Better now.
24:38Before he has feelings.
24:41Lucian staggered.
24:43A second later,
24:44he pulled her against him.
24:47Chloe.
24:49Don't say that.
24:50Chloe trembled in his arms,
24:52sobbing.
24:55Lucian held her tighter,
24:57but something flickered in his eyes.
25:00A flicker he tried to bury.
25:02What you said before
25:06about blaming Nora,
25:08what was that?
25:09Are you defending her?
25:11Look at me.
25:13And you're still defending her?
25:15I just hate her.
25:16She hurt my pup.
25:17Can't I even vent?
25:19And she really did this to me.
25:22She cried harder.
25:23Couldn't get the words out.
25:25I'd already decided.
25:28Once the pup was gone,
25:29I was going to leave.
25:30Buy a flight ticket.
25:32Disappear from your life.
25:37I don't want to be in the way anymore.
25:40What did you say?
25:43Leave me?
25:46I won't allow it.
25:49Chloe.
25:50Listen to me.
25:52You and the pup.
25:54I'm not letting either of you go.
25:56Whoever hurt you,
25:57they'll pay.
25:59Chloe stopped crying slowly.
26:01Then you'll punish her for me?
26:04Yes.
26:05She moved against you and the pup.
26:09She'll bear the consequences.
26:12Then break the bond, please.
26:16I don't want her raising my pup.
26:18I don't trust her.
26:20Lucian's body stills.
26:23He didn't speak.
26:28You don't want her raising the pup.
26:32Then the pup won't be a blood mate's pup.
26:36You said I was the one you loved most.
26:39You said you didn't love her anymore.
26:41Just family loyalty.
26:43Lucian closed his eyes.
26:45A long time passed.
26:47Then he spoke.
26:49Yes.
26:50But the thought of breaking the bond.
26:54Cutting her out of my life entirely.
26:56It must be the bond.
26:58Because she's my fated mate.
27:00Nothing more.
27:03Don't worry.
27:04I'll send her overseas.
27:06To a neutral pack.
27:09She'll never come near you or the pup again.
27:12She won't be able to hurt you.
27:13Chloe smiled.
27:16Okay.
27:17The healer let out a breath.
27:19He finished the exam.
27:21The pup's stable.
27:23We'll release her with some medication.
27:30Lucian.
27:33The ceremony.
27:35The one you set up for me.
27:37We still have an hour.
27:38We can make it.
27:42Lucian looked at her.
27:44It's failed.
27:46Okay.
27:50Anything you want.
27:53The great hall of the manor.
27:55Lights bright.
27:56Music low.
27:57Chloe stepped onto the daze in a fresh gown.
28:00Smiling.
28:01Lucian stood beside her.
28:03Calm again.
28:04The picture of an alpha.
28:05The officiant raised the mic.
28:07About to speak.
28:08Hold on.
28:10Hold on.
28:13Alpha Blackwood.
28:16On such a great occasion.
28:18How could we not bring a gift?
28:24And just for a second.
28:25Something cold dropped in his chest.
28:27A feeling he couldn't name.
28:30Lucian pushed the unease down.
28:33He spoke flat.
28:35Whatever you brought.
28:37Save it for after the ceremony.
28:39But Chloe had already recognized them.
28:41The most powerful alphas in the region.
28:43Her eyes lit.
28:45Heart racing.
28:46She tilted her head.
28:47Sweet.
28:49Oh?
28:50Thank you, alphas.
28:51What kind of gift?
28:53Why not show me now?
28:54Lucian's brows knit.
28:56Hard.
28:58For years, he'd shielded Chloe from this side of the world.
29:02The fights.
29:03The blood.
29:05The plots.
29:07He'd kept her clean of all of it.
29:09She didn't know how they'd circled him.
29:11Cornered him.
29:12Tried to break him.
29:14She didn't know how he'd clawed his way out.
29:17So now, with them in front of her, she was smiling at his enemies, thanking them, to his face.
29:24And in his head, unbidden, another face.
29:30I'd have smelled the danger the second they walked in.
29:33I'd have removed them quietly, cleanly, before they ever spoke.
29:37I'd never let this happen.
29:39The thought struck him cold.
29:41He stopped it dead.
29:43Why was he comparing Chloe to Mora?
29:44His face hardened.
29:46Chloe was sheltered.
29:47He'd made her that way.
29:48He had no right to use the rules of the gutter against her.
29:51If Chloe wants to see her, show her.
29:57Calm.
29:58Like the rival alphas weren't there at all.
30:00Changed looks.
30:02The same smile on every face.
30:04One of them raised a hand.
30:08Two soft claps.
30:10The lights in the hall dropped.
30:17The hall erupted.
30:21So that's all.
30:22A video.
30:23A video of him and Chloe.
30:26He didn't care.
30:28Still.
30:29He turned.
30:31Looked.
30:32One glance.
30:34His face changed.
30:36F***ing on the screen.
30:39Chloe.
30:41Half-dressed.
30:45Pinned under a man.
30:50A man who wasn't him.
30:51His pupils blew wide.
30:55He knew that face.
30:59Chloe's junior from the Human University.
31:01A pack initiated she'd mentored.
31:04Chloe's face went bone white.
31:08She couldn't even scream for someone to cut the feed.
31:12The audio came through.
31:14Clean.
31:15Loud.
31:17The boy laughing.
31:19What if you get pregnant?
31:20Chloe's voice.
31:22Bored.
31:23Good.
31:23Then I can finally push that Luna bitch off her seat.
31:28Her voice sharpened.
31:30I've been trying for years.
31:32Couldn't get pregnant.
31:34Couldn't force Lucian to break the bond.
31:40This works.
31:42I'll just say it's his.
31:43Damn.
31:44So my pup gets raised by an alpha.
31:53The hall exploded.
31:57Lucian's face was something I'd never seen.
32:01Chloe lost it.
32:02She clawed at his arm.
32:04It's not real.
32:05It's fake.
32:06AI.
32:07Someone framed me.
32:10Alpha Blackwood.
32:11Funny coincidence.
32:14We have one more gift.
32:16A blood test.
32:18Of the pup in Miss Chloe's belly.
32:21Oh.
32:22And we brought the father too.
32:29A snowfall of white envelopes burst over the hall.
32:33Papers everywhere.
32:34A man was dragged in.
32:37Face white.
32:38Pointing at Chloe.
32:40Hands shaking.
32:42She came after me.
32:43It's not on me.
32:45Lucian bent down.
32:47Picked one up.
32:48His fingers shook.
32:49His eyes raked the report.
32:52Color drained from his face.
32:54No.
32:57Fake.
32:58Fake.
32:58It's fake.
32:59It's fake.
33:00He looked up.
33:00Voice almost out of control.
33:02If my wolf were crippled, how could Nora have been pregnant?
33:08She loved me.
33:09She'd never.
33:12She'd never have.
33:14Alpha Blackwood.
33:15We anticipated that question.
33:20The healer, who watched everything ten years ago.
33:24She sighed.
33:26Pulled a yellowed file from a leather satchel.
33:29This is the bonding exam record from ten years ago.
33:34Alpha Blackwood.
33:36Your wolf was born crippled, so you cannot side-ups.
33:40This was confirmed the week you were claimed as mates.
33:42Transcription by CastingWords
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