🐺 An empowering, high-stakes werewolf romance and ultimate revenge short drama about broken bonds, hidden lineages, and absolute royal vindication. 🌙 For years, a gentle she-wolf endured cold cruelty, public humiliation, and constant disrespect from her arrogant Alpha husband and his toxic pack, who branded her weak and useless. 📉 The ultimate power shift explodes across the supernatural territories when he brutally casts her aside for a scheming rival—only to discover that his rejected mate is actually the long-lost, pureblood heir to the supreme Lycan throne. 👑⚡ Supported by a ruthlessly powerful, possessive Lycan King who vows to protect her, she steps into her true power, leaving her regretful ex begging for mercy as she is divorced by the Alpha, crowned as Queen. 🏰❤️
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00:00you want him to think you're dead perform a soul-severing ritual on me you want him to think
00:05you're dead yes the full moon glared down at the birthing altar a contraction ripped through me so
00:15hard my spine arched off the stone dominic squeezed my hand almost there selena my mate
00:22my alpha bound to me by the human goddess herself the pack priest walked in carrying a silver tray
00:27i offered my arm for the pain relief the needle pierced my skin but it wasn't medicine the
00:32pungent scent hit my nose wolf's vein i looked at dominic he wasn't surprised he was checking his
00:38watch vivian's water just broke delay her for two hours our true heir needs to be born first he
00:45turned and walked away didn't look back i tried to scream i wanted my wolf to tear free and lunge
00:51after him but the wolf's vein was already working my wolf was dragged under my voice died in my throat
00:57and my pup halfway into the world stopped moving frozen inside me by her own father's command
01:02two pack guards dragged me down into the dungeon beneath the temple a place for rogues war prisoners
01:08and wolves sentenced to death now it held the alpha's fated mate and his unborn child
01:15a single rune lamp flickered on the wall straw on the floor no bed i slid down the freezing stone
01:21wall
01:21hands clutching my belly she was still kicking faint frantic mommy's here mommy's here three months ago
01:29dominic's older brother marcus died in a territorial dispute
01:40his mate vivian was carrying a boy a pure blood alpha air the only pup you could inherit
01:45mine was a girl girls couldn't inherit the moment the ultrasound confirmed it the entire blackwood
01:53pack abandoned us both heels clicked down the corridor cassandra blackwood dominic's sister the
01:58pack beta
02:04she stood outside the iron bars twirling a silver dagger the blade dragged along the bars metal
02:09screeching celine don't blame my brother vivian is carrying marcus's post-morious son a pure blood
02:17alpha air the only pup in our generation who can inherit the alpha title it doesn't matter how early
02:23you give birth you're carrying a girl girls can't inherit you know that a contraction slammed into me
02:29the wolfsbane pushed the labor down my body fought back two forces tore me apart from the inside
02:35get the priest the baby is coming please the wolfbane will last another three hours vivian has already
02:45been taken to the birthing altar you'll stay here and wait if she starts howling gag her don't let the
02:52noise reach upstairs don't scare viviana
03:01i looked down my dress was soaked in blood all i could see was dominic's face when he turned away
03:07his eyes held no guilt just cold calculation i dragged myself to the cell door then i punched the
03:12cell door hard again and again until my skin split open somebody help i'm in labor save my baby
03:20shut up if it dies that's its fate a girl with no inheritance rights her death won't affect the pack
03:27my blood-stained hands slid off the cell door i collapsed into a pool of my own blood this wasn't
03:33fate someone was murdering my child just as my vision began to blur the heavy door crashed open
03:40she's dr holden the pack doctor the moment he saw me all the colors drained from his face
03:46luna what are you doing here domic said you were resting in the moonstone lounge fully dilated
03:52water broke you're losing too much blood the wolf of spain is still suppressing your healing
03:58guards the luna is hemorrhaging only echoes answered no one came he tried his comm stone
04:05nothing the dungeon's warding runes blocked all signals gritting his teeth he scooped me up and ran
04:11an aging beta carrying a bleeding woman up three flights of stone stairs every jolt sending agony
04:17through my pelvis he burst onto the ground floor ran for the medical wing kicked open the door and
04:23froze he kicked open the door and froze everything was gone stripped bare every moonstone crystal
04:30runestone potion gone how i checked inventory this afternoon cassandra strolled down the hall
04:38two omega attendants followed behind her we moved to the third floor vivian c-section is high risk
04:44she needs the best resources her gaze drifted to me drenched in blood half dead in dr holden's arms
04:50she smiled i knew that smile six months ago she'd worn it downtown linking her arm through mine
04:56selena you're the best luna i've ever met you're more like a real sister to me the antique moonstone
05:02necklace i gave her still rested against her collarbone it glowed softly in the dim hallway
05:07and made her smile look monstrous dr holden laid me on a bare stone cot he tore open every cabinet
05:14and drawer empty not a single herb i'm sorry luna i have nothing relax once vivian is done the supplies
05:22will be returned what's the rush her gaze dropped to my belly besides you were nothing but a breeding
05:30machine from the beginning and you couldn't even produce the right product dr holden stepped in
05:36front of me this is murder cassandra two lives a smile vanished mothers and pups die in childbirth
05:42every day dystedia hemorrhage healing failure perfectly natural causes of death no one will say
05:49a damn thing and this is blackwood family business you're a contract beta doctor know your place she
05:55snapped at the guards drag him to the third floor vivian needs him i'll handle her two guards grabbed
06:01dr holden he thrashed against them screaming over his shoulder luna press your stomach shard the wolf
06:08hard fight the wolf on the baby still has a heartbeat you can still save her cassandra slammed the door
06:15then pulled out a comb stone dominic's face appeared in the holographic screen behind him
06:20the birthing altar blazed with light priests moved in and out nurses swarmed around vivian
06:25dominic selena looks like she's about to deliver want to see dominic's eyes shifted to me one glance
06:32like i was trashed by the roadside again stop messing around savina vivian isn't doing well the baby's
06:39heart rate dropped twice cassandra moved the stone closer making sure the screen clearly showed my
06:44dying form but look she's bleeding a lot doesn't she look like she's dying tell her to wait once
06:50vivian is done i'll send a priest down cassandra pocketed the stone you heard him vivian is the
06:55priority marcus's son is the priority you were nothing i closed my eyes stopped looking at her
07:01my hand crept behind my back fingers finding the tiny raised bump on my left hip it looked like a
07:06mole
07:07it wasn't a blood seal rune my father had carved it into my skin on my wedding day with his
07:12own alpha
07:12blood his voice echoed in my head selena the waters in the blackwood family may run deeper
07:17than you know if the day ever comes when you need help bite your finger and let one drop of
07:22blood
07:22fall on this rune no matter where you are someone will reach you within 30 minutes i had laughed and
07:27pushed his hand away dad you're being dramatic dominic treats me so well i'm his mate the moon
07:34goddess chose him for me how could he ever hurt me my father had been silent for a long time
07:40then he only said one thing the moon goddess binds the souls selena but she doesn't bind the heart
07:46i was such a fool blood welled on my fingertip i let it fall on the rune
07:5330 minutes i looked at the blood pooling beneath me my baby's heartbeat was still there hold on
07:59please hold on the wolf's bane suppression broke every contraction that had been held back for hours
08:04hit at once like a damn collapsing wave after wave faster harder i screamed the sound ricocheted
08:10off stone walls an omega attendant rushed in checked me and went white fully dilated the head's crowning
08:17hemorrhage we need moonstone crystals healing rooms anything cassandra didn't even step into the room
08:21then let them die it's just a girl completely useless alive she's a waste of space
08:30dead changes nothing she turned and walked away the attendant tried but i had no blood left no
08:36strength no wolf my muscles wouldn't obey me the baby was stuck in the birth canal i could feel her
08:41heartbeat getting weaker slower fading my vision went black i am sorry baby mommy tried a deafening
08:48wolf howl tore through the night the entire blackwood territory shook the protective wards flared
08:54violently across the walls then shattered a booming blast rocked the building centuries of blackwood
09:00enchantments destroyed in seconds moonlight flooded the room in that silver light stood a massive man in
09:06tactical combat gear
09:10he ripped off his helmet battle scarred face cold silver eyes eyes that had witnessed countless massacres
09:17and never flinched but the moment they found me they turned bloodshot garrett my father's head better
09:22the man who caught me every time i fell learning to walk who shifted into wolf form and slept beside
09:28my bed when i was afraid of the dark who stood at the very back of my wedding silent jaw
09:33locked eyes
09:33red because he already knew he crossed the room in one stride and dropped to one knee the stone floor
09:39cracked under the impact princess i am late behind him stood 12 heavily armored warriors silver eyes
09:47weapons drawn the elite shadow fang guard blackwood guards lay unconscious in the hall the omega
09:53attendant screamed this is blackwood territory who are you how did you get it garrett didn't look at
09:59her he was already lifting me off the cot one arm beneath my knees the other cradling my head as
10:04gently as if i were made of glass blackwood soon there won't be a blackwood the shadow fang warriors
10:12moved with terrifying efficiency from the moment the captain picked me up to the second i was loaded
10:17into an armored pack ambulance waiting just outside the borders barely four minutes have passed four
10:22minutes i had bled in that dungeon for hours begging for help and no one came shadow fang shattered the
10:27territory's defenses and extracted me in four minutes inside the medical transport emergency moonstone
10:33rays flared to life bathing my body in pure silver light blood pressure critically low blood loss
10:39exceeds the lethal threshold by three times fetal distress is severe heart rate is under 60 and
10:44dropping we must perform an emergency c-section right now but her vitals can't handful surgery do it
10:50the captain's roar rattled the walls of the ambulance every medic flinched he gripped my hand his
10:55knuckles white veins bulging up his forearms i'll take full responsibility cut her open i squeezed
11:02his fingers back using the absolute last shred of my strength
11:07garrett
11:09garrett save the baby save the baby first garrett my father's head beater the man who had guarded
11:15me since the day i was born when i was learning to walk and fell he was the one who
11:19picked me up
11:20when i was terrified of the dark he shifted into his wolf form and slept beside my bed the entire
11:24night
11:25on the day i got married he stood at the very back of the crowd completely silent his eyes red
11:30now he was kneeling beside my stretcher his combat armor stained with blackwood blood
11:34his silver eyes completely bloodshot princess don't speak save your strength his voice trembled but he
11:41gritted out every word like a blood oath the alpha is on his way he'll be here soon you and
11:47the pup
11:47will be fine i swear it on my life before he could finish the moonstone array above the operating table
11:52violently flickered the vital sign monitors erupted into a shrill piercing uninterrupted scream
12:02the luna's heart has stopped push the moonlight essence start the recitation romans
12:07fetal heart rate is plummeting 70 50 30 scalpel now the medics shoved garrett out of the way
12:14he stumbled back into the corner of the ambulance clenching his fists so hard his claws tore through
12:19his own palms blood dripping onto the metal floor the surgeon sliced open my abdomen with a room
12:24carved scalpel silver energy flooded the incision forcibly cauterizing the bleeding they were draining
12:29the absolute limits of their healing stones just to keep my soul tethered to my body essence injected
12:35heartbeat is faint but back where's the pup founder extract pull her out the umbilical
12:41cate is wrapped around her neck damn it the wolfsbane choked off her oxygen in the womb for too long
12:46she's out she's out they pulled a baby from my womb but she didn't cry in the final second before
12:53the darkness swallowed me entirely i forced my eyes open my vision was a massive blur of blinding silver
12:59light but i saw it through the haze the doctor held a tiny blood covered infant in his hands
13:04she wasn't moving she wasn't breathing she didn't cry the voices faded faded into an abyss of static the
13:11last thing i heard was garrett a battle-hardened warrior in his 40s covered in 37 scars a man who
13:17had ripped the throats out of hundreds of rogues collapsing into the corner of the ambulance and
13:22silently weeping i woke up to the harsh smell of medical bleach mixed with the crisp ozone scent of
13:27moonstone crystals the princess is awake someone shouted in relief several faces crowded my vision
13:34familiar faces my father's personal elite guards uncles who had watched me grow up garrett stood
13:41closest to the bed his jaw was clenched so tight a muscle ticked in his cheek his eyes rimmed with
13:46red
13:46seeing me open my eyes his lips parted but no words came out he just gave me one stiff trembling
13:52nod
13:53where is she a figure standing at the foot of my bed slowly turned around my father voices my father
14:00the current alpha of the shadow fang pack the absolute ruler of the oldest most lethal werewolf
14:05bloodline on the north american continent in the entire werewolf world his name alone made other
14:10alphas bow their heads in submission he was 54 his posture as straight as a spear i had never seen
14:17him
14:17slouch but right now his hair was completely white overnight he had gone totally gray he walked over
14:23and sat on the edge of my bed he took my hand in his his hands were massive calloused scarred
14:28from decades
14:28of war these hands had snapped the necks of his enemies and signed treaties that dictated the fates
14:33of millions of wolves right now they were shaking selena he choked on my name he bowed his head in
14:39my
14:39entire life i had never seen this man bow his head not when facing the interrogations of the seven alpha
14:45council not when executing traitors with his bare hands not even when he stood before my mother's grave for
14:52an entire night but now looking at me he bowed his head she's gone isn't she i looked at him
14:59and i
15:00knew the answer my father nodded my a single scolding tear fell from his face onto the back of my
15:06hand
15:08the hemorrhage placental abtruction the wolf bait in her bloodstream
15:12she was deprived of oxygen for too long the doctors did everything the moonlight essence the
15:18healing stones the ancient bloodline resurrection rituals we couldn't bring her back the room fell
15:23dead silent the only sound was the low steady hum of the medical crystals i closed my eyes that tiny
15:30life that had lived inside me for nine months the pup that kicked my ribs the pup that made me
15:34run to
15:35the bathroom three times a night the little wolf who would instantly calm down the second i rubbed my
15:40belly and whispered mommy's here gone where is dominic my father lifted his head and wiped his face
15:46who at the blackwood pack by vivian's side she gave birth a boy pure blood alpha lineage the entire
15:54blackwood pack is throwing a massive celebration for their new heir they held the moonlight recognition
15:59ceremony the old alpha hosted it himself right before he died not a single person thought of you
16:04not a single person asked if you were dead or alive i laughed my chest heaved as a broken hysterical
16:11laugh tore out of my throat the mate bond was still pulsing faintly in my chest i could feel
16:17dominic's heartbeat steady joyful untroubled he was smiling he was celebrating his fated mate had
16:24nearly bled to death in a dungeon and his daughter was a corpse and he was celebrating
16:29good that's good my father tightened his grip on my hand selena come home with me blackwood pack
16:37doesn't deserve you
16:41dad i need you to do something for me anything perform a soul-severing ritual on me my father
16:49froze the soul-severing ritual one of the darkest most ancient forbidden arts of the shadowfang bloodline
16:55it artificially severed a mate bond forcing the other party to experience the exact physical
17:00sensation of their mate dying the stopping of the heart the shredding of the soul the permanent
17:04snapping of the bond to the person on the receiving end it felt exactly like their mate had perished
17:10you want him to think you're dead yes the soul-severing ritual took place on the obsidian altar deep
17:16within the shadowfang's ancestral lands midnight a new moon pitch black it was the only time we could
17:23deceive the moon goddess's gaze i lay on the cold stone surrounded by four of our oldest priests
17:28their chanting was deep guttural vibrating with the ancient lost tongue of the first wolves my chest
17:34surrounded violently it was dominic's heart beat eating inside me clear across a thousand miles
17:40the high priest pressed his palm against my sternum the runes fled blinding white and then an invisible
17:47silver spike was viciously ripped out of my heart the mate bond is a tether woven into the soul
17:51severing it felt like two deeply intertwined trees being violently ripped apart by their roots
17:56i clamped my teeth together refusing to scream in my mind's eye i saw glowing golden threads
18:02the physical manifestation of our bonds snapping one by one turning into ash when the final thread broke
18:07my chest went completely hollow a terrifying absolute emptiness like someone had reached into my ribcage and
18:14carved out my heart leaving nothing but a gaping void the ritual was complete from this second onward
18:20in dominic's mind and soul and he's dead meanwhile a thousand miles away in the heart of blackwood
18:26territory dominic stood proudly at the main altar accepting the congratulatory toasts from his pack
18:31members without warning it felt as if an invisible claw had just plunged into his chest and ripped it
18:37open the bond snapped he crashed to his knees his hands desperately clawed at his own chest his nails
18:43digging so deep into his own flesh that blood poured out over his shirt a primal guttural roar of pure
18:49agony exploded from his throat cassandra shoved through the panicked crowd
18:55brother what's wrong dominic convulsed on the marble floor his claw scraping sickeningly against
19:01the stone selena she's dead the bond just broke she's dead cassandra's face drained of color for a
19:09split second but only a second brother calm down she was always going to get the fuck away from me
19:15dominic backhanded her so hard she came backward crashing violently into the altar pillars he scrambled
19:21to his feet stumbling and sprinting wildly out of the temple the dungeon was empty there was nothing
19:28left but a massive coagulated pool of blood and a soaked pile of straw and the rapidly fading scent of
19:33selene lingering in the damp hair dominic stood frozen in the center of the blood pool he stood
19:39there for a very very long time long enough for cassandra to finally creep into the room and gingerly
19:44touch his arm brother
19:49you locked her in here i just told her to wait wait for what wait to die those were two
19:59lives
19:59my mate my pup cassandra took a step back but she was having a girl she was useless to the
20:07pack
20:07the sharp crack of flesh meeting flesh echoed through the dungeon cassandra's head whipped to the side
20:13a bright red handprint instantly welling up on her cheek she clutched her face staring at dominic in
20:19total disbelief dominic glared at her if i had been by her side she wouldn't have died if you hadn't
20:25taken all the medical supplies she wouldn't have died if i hadn't ordered them to inject her with wolf
20:31faith he couldn't finish the sentence because the subject of that sentence was pre-syndrome from start
20:37to finish he made every single decision cassandra was just the executioner the person who murdered
20:43selene and their child was him i spent the next few weeks recovering in the shadowfang estate
20:47my body healed agonizingly slowly the wolfsbane residue severely crippled my cellular regeneration
20:53and the pack doctor estimated it would take three months to completely purge it from my system
20:57but i wasn't in a hurry i had all the time in the world my father ate with me and
21:02walked with me every
21:02day treating me exactly like he did when i was a little girl he never brought up the blackwoods but
21:08i
21:08knew his intelligence network never stopped spinning shadowfang's eyes and ears were buried
21:13in every major pack in north america that was the terrifying power of an ancient bloodline
21:17every meeting every decision every hushed conversation the blackwoods had was transcribed
21:23and placed on my desk dominic had brought my corpse a flawlessly forged illusion created by the
21:29soul severing ritual back to the blackwood manor he didn't place the casket in the main hall
21:33it was shoved into a side morning room vivienne and her son had already moved into the alpha's
21:39master suite they were surrounded by wet nurses guards and priests around the clock elder blackwood
21:46had issued his final decree before his stroke keep the funeral brief and simple do not bring bad luck
21:52to the newborn heir find a random day to bury her coffin in the family cemetery she was a luna
21:58so make
21:59the grave look decent he dressed it up in polite words but the translation was clear
22:05dispose of the dead woman quickly the living heir is the only future this pack has dominic didn't argue
22:12he sat in the morning room guarding the casket three days and three nights no food no water cassandra
22:19tried to talk to him but he threw her out vivienne eventually walked in cradling the baby dominic
22:27dominic my condolences selena is with the moon goddess now she wouldn't want to see you like
22:35this do you know what she was thinking about dominic slowly lifted his head and stared at her right
22:41before she died
22:45she was wondering why her alpha wasn't with her
22:49why everyone was waiting for your baby to be born and no one gave a single damn if she lived
22:54or died
22:54dominic what is that supposed to mean i practically died on that table too
22:59yes you went through a lot dominic interrupted his voice dead but she died two corpses
23:10just because the pup in her stummy didn't have a dick they deserved to die
23:14as she turned to leave she threw one last sentence over her shoulder
23:17don't forget dominic my son is the one continuing the blackwood bloodline now
23:23dead people are useless vivienne the absolute decimation of the blackwood pack began in the
23:29second week first their territorial alliances collapsed the silver crest pack allies with the
23:36blackwoods for three generations abruptly terminated their treaties when dominic sent iron boys to
23:42negotiate the gates were slammed in their faces an anonymous dossier was submitted to the seven alpha
23:48council it detailed the blackwood packs use of wolfsbane on their luna her illegal imprisonment
23:54and the deliberate denial of medical care during labor every single accusation was a heavy felony
23:59under pack law the council dispatched inquisitors to occupy blackwood territory for a month
24:05panic swept through their subordinate packs and one by one they defected seeking asylum with
24:11rival alpha families next their resources were completely severed the blackwoods had monopolized
24:18the moonstone mines for generations suddenly the neighboring pack upstream dammed the mystical rivers
24:24without the spiritual water nourishing the land the moonstone yield plummeted to zero
24:29moonstone crystals were the blackwood packs entire economy when production halted their trade routes snapped
24:36and their finances instantly went bankrupt in less than a month the blackwoods devolved from a top
24:42three powerhouse on the east coast into an isolated quarantined bankrupt starving pack elder blackwood was so
24:51enraged that his inner wolf went rogue during a forced shift his blood vessels ruptured he suffered a
24:57massive stroke and collapsed this time there was no saving him save the pack the air the bloodline
25:05and then he died
25:11almost no one attended his funeral those who did only showed up to sneer dominic stood by the coffin like
25:18a
25:18stone statue completely expressionless when the last guest left he turned to vivienne take the kid and
25:25leave the blackwood territory vivienne shrieked what did you just say i'll give you a safe house
25:32outside our borders and enough cash to live comfortably for the rest of your lives get out
25:37i'm your sister-in-law this boy carries marcus's blood the elder named him the sole heir heir to what
25:44dominic chuckled a dark mocking sound a pack that's being liquidated by the council
25:49a territory that's about to be butchered and divided among our rivals
25:53vivienne glared at him then let out a sharp cold love don't bullshit me dominic you're not doing this
26:00out of guilt for selena you're just terrified terrified of what of those black wolves that
26:06stormed the dungeon that night you're terrified of whatever monstrous fact was backing you selena
26:11you know they're coming back you're kicking me out so you can wash your hands of us and save your
26:17own
26:17skin she adjusted the baby in her arms and sneered as she walked to the door she paused to spit
26:22out
26:22one final insult you weren't so scared when you ordered the price to inject wolf bark into her
26:28veins dominic stood alone in the empty mourning hall he didn't say a word because she was absolutely
26:34right i sat in the study of the shadowfang estate flipping through the latest intelligence reports
26:39my father walked in holding a cup of tea the council has ruled to strip the black hoods of two
26:45thirds of their territory the core sector they have left won't survive six months i closed the file
26:53faster than i predicted my father sat down staying quiet for a moment selena
27:00is it enough i looked up i don't pity my father clarified i just don't want you trapped in this
27:06darkness vengeance is a double-edged blade hold it too long and it'll slice your own hand i stood
27:10up and walked to the window beyond the glass stretched the vast jagged mountains of the shadowfang
27:15ancestral lands the moonlight spilled over the pine forests turning the world into an ocean of silver
27:20i stepped out of the darkness the second my daughter died right now i'm just collecting a debt
27:27my father looked at me his eyes full of complex sorrow you've changed you used to smile so much now
27:34even your smiles look hollow i didn't turn around some people take a lifetime to grow up some people
27:40just need one betrayal my father didn't argue he set the teacup down and quietly left the room
27:46my phone buzzed our shawuzzi it was dominic more accurately it was him calling the old comms and
27:52frequency dead selene shadowfang's text and witches had kept the line open and routed it to my secure
27:58device i didn't say a word i said his rasky broken voice bled through the speaker selena i know you
28:05can't hear me but i don't know who else to talk to anymore he sounded like he had been swallowing
28:10glass the background was dead silent he was probably sitting in the morning hall again the pack is
28:14finished the territory is gone our allies ran and the council report drops next week they're probably
28:19going to strip my alpha title my father is dead viviane left cas hates me it's just me left i'm
28:26the only one left in the whole territory a long suffocating silence i keep thinking if i hadn't
28:33let them inject you with wolf vein that night would you still be alive if i had just left you
28:37half of
28:38the moonstone crystals would your wolf have healed if i wasn't so damn greedy wanting the perfect air
28:42wanting the alpha seat wanting absolute control over everything would you still be here would you
28:48still be rubbing your belly laughing and telling she was kicking again another silence then a
28:55microscopic muffled sob but there are no ifs you're dead our pup is dead and i did it i could
29:03live a
29:04thousand lifetimes and never pay off this debt the line clicked dead i sat in the moonlight gripping the
29:11phone outside the wind tore through the pine trees rustling the branches after a very long time
29:18i put the phone down on the desk the black screen reflected my face totally blank not a single tear
29:25three months later my body was entirely healed the wolf bay was purged from my veins my cellular
29:31regeneration was operating at maximum capacity and my wolf had finally woken up she was quieter than
29:37before but vastly more lethal my father was waiting for me in the study on the mahogany desk lay a
29:43single document the official transfer of the shadow fan alpha title are you ready i'm ready he nodded
29:50sliding the papers towards me sign this and you are the next alpha of the shadow fang pack the apex
29:57predator of the seven ancient bloodlines of north america are you absolutely certain once you walk this
30:03path there is no turning back i picked up the pen and signed my name without a fraction of hesitation
30:07the second the ink dried a terrifying surge of raw power exploded from the floorboards
30:12rocketing up my spine and flooding every cell in my body the shadow fang bloodline was acknowledging me
30:17the earth of our ancestral lands was answering me outside the window massive thousand-year-old pine
30:22trees violently trembled in unison emitting a low groaning hum as if bowing to their new alpha
30:27my father looked at me his eyes slightly red but he smiled you look just like your mother from that
30:33day on i officially took over the shadow fang empire to the outside world i was the new alpha
30:37operating under the alias silver no one knew silver was selena no one knew the discarded
30:43murdered luna of the blackwood pack was actually the reigning queen of north america's deadliest
30:47werewolf syndicate i stopped paying attention to the black keys collapse i didn't need to anymore
30:53three dominic had liquidated the last scraps of their territory and formally disbanded the pack
31:00a dynasty that had ruled for five generations completely ceased to exist in three months
31:08he lived alone in the crumbling blackwood the council allowed him to keep the house as a
31:13final sliver of mercy for a former alpha
31:17he only did two things every day drink and sit in front of my gravestone sometimes he talked sometimes
31:26he just stared garrett's intelligence reports noted that he had lost nearly 30 pounds his hair was
31:35mostly white and his mental state was completely shattered the backlash of the severed mate bond was
31:40slowly rotting him from the inside out insomnia auditory hallucinations the inability to shift
31:47into his wolf form uncontrollable violent outbursts he took symptoms of an alpha whose mate had been
31:53ripped on his soul a mild case could survive for a few years a severe case wouldn't last a year
32:00dominic was the most severe case possible because our bond didn't break through natural death it was
32:05violently amputated by a dark magic the room was infinitely deeper the rot was infinitely faster
32:12princess should we intervene at this rate of decay he has six months max no intervention
32:22this is his debt to pay month six a freezing late autumn night i had just finished signing off
32:30on the day's operations and stood by the study window staring out at the mountain ridges
32:38princess he went to your grave again he goes every day
32:44tonight is different he brought a silver dagger a silver dagger to awolf that wasn't a weapon it was
32:53an execution tool if silver pierced the heart the healing factor was instantly neutralized death was
33:00absolute it was the only foolproof method of suicide for our kind what is he doing sitting in front of
33:08the headstone
33:08holding the blade he hasn't moved yet it looks like he's hesitating
33:15we're waiting for something i looked up at the sky tonite was a full moon exactly nine months ago
33:21under a full moon i lay on the birthing altar while he casually ordered them to pump wolfsbane into my
33:26veins
33:28nine months the exact time it took to carry a child to term get the car ready
33:37princess i'm going to see him one last time and then this is completely finished the cemetery at midnight
33:46the blackwood family graveyard was situated on a sloping hill at the edge of the old territory
33:52surrounded by pines the moonlight bled through the branches scattering silver shards across the grass
33:59i stood deep in the shadows watching dominic he was sitting in front of my gravestone he was so
34:05emaciated he barely looked human his cheekbones jutted sharply against his gaunt face his eye sockets
34:12were sunken hollows he wasn't even 40 but he looked like an old man he gripped the silver dagger the
34:19blade glinting with a lethal icy white glare the doctor says my wolf is dying the bond rot has hit
34:28the
34:28terminal stage i can't shift anymore my healing is gone i'm no better than a human now no
34:41i'm worse than a human humans don't have nightmares every single night of their mates screaming their
34:49name in a pool of blood he raised the dagger staring at his own pathetic reflection in the
34:54polished silver i thought about a lot of ways to die but a wolf should die by silver the most
35:01dignified
35:01thing i'll ever do is die like a werewolf he pressed the tip against his chest right over his heart
35:07savine i'm coming let me be a dog in my next life you can kick me you can curse me
35:15just please
35:17don't let me he squeezed his eyes shut his hands shaking as he prepared to thrust the blade
35:22i kicked a pebble the sharp clack echoed loudly in the dead silent graveyard dominic's eyes snapped
35:27open the tip of the blade had just pierced his skin a thin line of blood trickling down his shirt
35:33who's there he scrambled up turning toward the sound the moonlight shifted illuminating my face
35:39he saw me the silver dagger slipped from his trembling fingers burying itself into the dirt
35:46you his lips quivered uncontrollably he looked like a man whose sanity had just snapped it's me
35:54i'm not dead surprised she stood absolutely paralyzed bolted to the earth his eyes flooded with
36:01tears he lunged forward trying to pull me into his arms garrett instantly stepped in front of me
36:07planting a massive hand on dominic's chest and giving him a slight shove dominic staggered backward
36:13like a dead leaf nearly tripping over his own feet six months ago he was an alpha now he couldn't
36:18even
36:18withstand a casual push from a beater saliva you're alive i knew it the bond broke but i could still
36:27feel
36:27it he tried to sidestep garrett but three more shadow fang guards instantly materialized from the
36:32tree line boxing him in only then did he realize who i had brought four warriors in pitch black tactical
36:38armor all with silver irises all wearing the shadow fang crest on their chests his expression shifted from
36:44hysterical joy to confusion to a slow creeping terrifying realization who are they my men dominic stared at me
36:52he looked at me from head to toe and my own eyes were faintly glowing silver in the dark the
36:56absolute
36:56mark of an awakened ancient bloodline alpha i looked nothing like the submissive fragile omega
37:00wife you remember who the hell are you he choked out his whole body shaking let me reintroduce myself
37:04i stared down at him my tone as polite and detached as if i was speaking to a stranger
37:08celine ashfield direct bloodline heir to the shadow fang pack current reigning alpha queen the apex predator
37:15of the seven ancient bloodlines dominic whispered his mind breaking as if responding to my presence
37:20the moonlight suddenly intensified blazing down on us behind me my four elite guards simultaneously
37:34they dropped to one knee lowering their heads in absolute submission dominic stumbled backward
37:41one step two steps until his spine slammed against my gravestone impossible you said you were rogue an
37:47orphan no pack no family i lied my father forbade me from marrying you he said a black pit wasn't
37:58worthy
37:58of wiping dirt of a shadow
38:04fox boots i didn't listen i threw a tantrum and forced his hand looking back every single word he said
38:09was
38:10right
38:17no no no no so everything that happened to the blackwoods over the past six months
38:22the territory lost the allies betraying us the council sanctions my father orchestrated it i simply
38:27chose not to stop him or why didn't you tell me who you were his voice suddenly skyrocketed cracking like
38:33tearing fabric if you had told me you were the shadow fuck heir i would what i cut him off
38:38smoothly you
38:39would have treated me better you wouldn't have pumped wolf bean into my veins
38:44you wouldn't have locked me in a dungeon to bleed out think very carefully before you answer that
38:50dominic from the very beginning all you wanted was an easily manipulated powerless mate with zero backing
38:56someone you could sacrifice whenever it became convenient if you had known i was the shadow feign
39:01heir you would have been too terrified to even look in my direction you probably would have found a way
39:06to magically sever the bond before i even got pregnant just so you could trade me out for a more
39:11obedient
39:11lunar he couldn't say a word because it was the absolute truth he knew it i knew it the silence
39:19stretched on for an eternity long enough for the moon to drift from the treetops to the dead center
39:23of the sky finally dominic laughed a very quiet hollow laugh the sound of a man completely accepting his
39:30own destruction so from start to finish i was just the loser this was never about winning or losing it's
39:36about the two lives you owe and you can't afford to pay he looked at me his eyes slowly shifted
39:41from
39:41agonizing torment to a strange vacant peace the kind of peace a man only finds when he has absolutely
39:47nothing left to lose can i ask you one last question ask
39:55did you even for a single second actually love me the moonlight was quiet the pine forest was quiet
40:03i looked at his skeletal decaying face i couldn't even recognize the man he used to be i thought back
40:09to the library on campus years ago you read a lot he'd help me pick up my dropped books flashing
40:14a bright
40:15warm smile you read a lot huh he had laughed the sunlight hitting his face had felt so safe so
40:22clean
40:23i loved you tears finally spilled over dominic's eyelids tracking down his hollow cheeks thank you
40:31that's enough i turned around and started walking away after three steps i stopped i didn't look back
40:38garrett confiscate his silver dagger yes alpha i kept walking into the dark i didn't stop again
40:45behind me dominic's voice drifted through the freezing wind so faint it sounded like a ghost i'm
40:50sorry celine i didn't turn my head three months later dominic died alone on the floor of the blackwood
40:56manor it was the mate bond rot garrett had taken his dagger but he couldn't confiscate the festering
41:02wound carved into dominic's soul the severed bond was a bleeding gash that could never be closed
41:07devouring his life force day by day first his wolf died completely a werewolf without a wolf was just
41:14a hollow shell like a tree stripped of its roots then his immune system collapsed his senses
41:20deteriorated and his muscles atrophied finally total organ failure according to the last few rogue
41:27omegas who had squatted in the manor it was a full moon the night he died the moonlight spilled
41:31through the skylight painting the floorboard silver he lay on the exact spot in the morning hall where my
41:37fake casket had once been placed he was clutching something in his hand a red hair tie mine when i
41:43was pregnant my hair was always in my face so i constantly tied it back with a dark red ribbon
41:49the night i went into labor it must have slipped off and fallen into the bloody straw in the dungeon
41:54i don't know when he went back to dig it out of the filth but he had held onto it
41:58ever since he held it
41:59until his last breath the omegas said he died very quietly no thrashing no expressions of pain the corners of
42:06his mouth were even slightly turned up like he was smiling or like he had finally finally been allowed
42:11to exhale it when the news reached shadow fang i was in the middle of signing a massive territorial
42:17integration treaty once the ink dried shadow fang would officially annex the resource networks of the
42:23three remaining ancient packs on the east coast cementing us as the absolute supreme power on the
42:28council garrett knocked and stepped into the office he stood silently in front of my desk
42:34hesitating i didn't look up from the paperwork speak dominic blackwood was confirmed dead this
42:40morning mate bond backlash organ failure my pen paused for a fraction of a second understood
42:47i closed the file and handed it to my assistant dispatch this treaty today i want the signatures
42:52of the other two alphas on my desk before next week the assistant bowed and quickly left the room
42:58garrett and i were the only ones left he stood there in silence for a long time alpha queen there's
43:04one more thing spit it out while clearing out his belongings the scavengers found a letter it was
43:11explicitly addressed to you he pulled a weathered envelope from his jacket and placed it on the edge
43:16of my desk the envelope was incredibly frayed and worn around the edges like it had been picked up
43:22squeezed and put back down thousands of times only one word was written on it celine i stared at the
43:28envelope i didn't move a muscle leave it there garrett nodded turning to walk out at the door he paused
43:36alpha queen what when he passed he was holding your hair tie i picked up the next dossier and flipped
43:45it open
43:45i said i understand garrett quietly closed the door the room fell dead silent when outside the window
43:53the jagged peaks of the shadowfang mountains rolled endlessly into the horizon the pine forests swayed
44:00in the wind like a silent violent ocean the moonstone chandelier overhead cast a soft silver glow over my
44:06desk over the envelope celine i stared at my name for a long long time then i casually tossed it
44:14into
44:14the roaring fireplace i watched the paper curl turn black and dissolve into a wisp of white smoke
44:22time kept moving forward under my rule shadowfang grew terrifyingly powerful the territorial alliances
44:28held strong our council seats doubled and the influence of the ancient bloodlines suffocated
44:34every corner of north america my father formally retired he spent his days planting trees in the
44:40mountains behind the estate training hunting eagles and occasionally shifting into his massive wolf form
44:46to take slow lazy walks through the pines he lived like a completely normal peaceful old man but sometimes
44:53during dinner he would abruptly go quiet he would just stare at me for a long time the moon is
44:58very bright
44:59i knew exactly what he was trying to say it was a full moon if my daughter had lived she
45:07would be one
45:07year old then two then three she would be walking she would be calling me mommy and on nights with
45:16a full
45:16moon she would feel her inner wolf stirring for the very first time she would run up to me grabbing
45:22my
45:23fingers vibrating with excitement mommy mommy mommy my wolf is moving i never let myself think about
45:32those things i absolutely forbade myself from going there but the body remembers every single full moon
45:40my inner wolf would let out a low mournful whimper deep inside my chest a mother wolf crying for the
45:47pup she failed to protect that kind of pain isn't cured by time it was exactly like my father said
45:53some
45:54wounds are forever
45:57outside my window the moon hung heavy and bright the forest was dead silent the moonlight washed over my
46:06hands over my left ring finger it was completely bare once i had worn the lunar ring of the blackwood
46:14pack
46:14there a silver band encrusted with moonstone dominic had personally slid it onto my finger during our mate
46:22binding ceremony on the night of the soul-severing ritual the ring had shattered entirely on its own
46:30i had gathered the shards and tossed them into the sacred lake of the shadowfang ancestral lands
46:35they sank to the bottom never to be recovered
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