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The Alpha's Twin Game : New 🔝
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00:00Damon Blackwood and I have been mates for three years.
00:03The day I discovered I was pregnant,
00:05I overheard his twin brother say they had been swapping places,
00:10playing with me all along.
00:12I didn't cry. I didn't make a seat.
00:14I booked an abortion surgery on the plane ticket abroad.
00:20On the day I found out I was pregnant,
00:22I went through heavy rain to the club Damon Blackwood frequently.
00:26By the time I rushed to the club, my hair was soaked through.
00:29Glenn damped my neck just as I was about to push the heavy oak doors open.
00:33I heard Damon's cold alpha voice from inside.
00:36Done playing around? When are you going to switch back?
00:40His twin brother, Dorian Blackwood leaned back lazily.
00:48No, I haven't had enough fun yet.
00:50Damon frowned.
00:52You haven't touched her, have you? You know the pack laws!
00:55Dorian paused for a split second.
00:58Then he slowly curled his lips into a smurf.
01:01What is there to worry about?
01:04I haven't.
01:10He picked up his goblet of aged wolf's fame wine.
01:13Though, even if I had, he probably wouldn't care.
01:17She's just an Omega you claimed for appearances.
01:22Damon hesitated.
01:23His alpha scent sharpened with something close to discomfort.
01:27Of course.
01:28I would simply find her tainted.
01:33Laughter erupted from the pack's inner circle.
01:35The silver wolf asked.
01:37Dorman, you're circling your own alpha brother's mitt?
01:39Can you blame him?
01:40An Omega with violet scent, pure hummysuckle and moonlight?
01:43Who wouldn't want to get closer?
01:44And that form curves in all the right places.
01:47Any wolf would salivate.
01:48Only Damon here is immune to Omega charms
01:50and won't perform the claiming bite.
01:53The she-wolf sitting beside Damon let out a snicker.
01:55Her amber eyes gleamed with malice.
01:58Violet might as well be packed property.
02:01Any wolf could mount her.
02:02The gathered wolves howled with laughter.
02:07I knew this she-wolf.
02:09Celeste Harrington.
02:10High born alpha female of the Harrington pack.
02:13Damon's childhood companion.
02:14The she-wolf.
02:15He'd always cradled and protected since they were pets.
02:20A few pack members asked.
02:22Whose brilliant scheme was this anyway?
02:25Celeste lifted her chin.
02:26Her golden wolf arms squashed with pride.
02:29Obviously mine.
02:33These two brothers are far too stupid to consider it themselves.
02:38Violet has never dreamed in her most fevered nightmares
02:42that her precious Damon has a twin.
02:45You should all be thanking me.
02:47Without my genius,
02:49none of you would witness a game this exquisite.
02:51Damon's expressions soften.
02:56Yes, yes.
02:58You have always been the cleverest of us all.
03:00Someone asked.
03:01I heard that in seven days,
03:03at the full moon,
03:05Damon intends to perform the mating ceremony with Violet.
03:08Is that true?
03:10Damon's lips hurling.
03:14Of course it is a sham.
03:18The little ome begged for the honor of a formal bond,
03:21so I am humoring her.
03:23Celeste suddenly sat up straighter.
03:25A wicked gleam flashed through her amber eyes.
03:28Wait until the mating ceremony,
03:30seven days from now under the full moon,
03:32then reveal to her that you've been swapping back and forth all year.
03:36I want to watch her wolf spirit shatter.
03:39Throwing her into the abyss right at the moment
03:43she believes she is about to receive the claiming bite.
03:48Isn't that exquisite?
03:50Damon sighed, his turn indulgent.
03:54You are still so childish, Celeste.
03:59Celeste pouted.
04:01Childish or not,
04:02you have always given me whatever I wanted, haven't you?
04:06But seriously, be careful.
04:08Don't accidentally sire pups on her.
04:10Omega females from nameless bloodlines,
04:12once they're carrying your litter,
04:13they become impossible to shake off.
04:15Damon's brow furrowed.
04:16Don't jest like that.
04:18We have never bedded her.
04:20Celeste tilted her head, pressing.
04:23But what if...
04:25What if she did fall pregnant?
04:27Damon answered carelessly,
04:28his alpha boredom palpable.
04:30Then she can crawl back to whatever gutter she came from.
04:33Right, Dorian?
04:34Dorian had been staring into the fire,
04:35lost in thought.
04:36Hearing his name, he said belatedly.
04:39Yes.
04:39I stood outside the heavy roof doors.
04:42In that moment,
04:42I howled the medical report from the workshop,
04:45the turning space of me.
04:49I had run through the storm all the way here.
04:52Wanting to see the first to help me on the knees,
04:54I pressed my palm to my stomach.
04:56A flicker of vulnerability flashed in my eyes.
05:00I am carrying your pot.
05:02I think you were made up my mind.
05:04Now there is no need.
05:09That afternoon, I contacted a discreet healer outside pack territory.
05:14I booked the termination.
05:16Then I bought a one-way ticket,
05:17departing in seven days.
05:19The same night as the full moon mating sermon.
05:23I leaned over my topic.
05:25Fingers flying.
05:26Zoe's message blinked on screen.
05:28She was not right.
05:29You're really doing this?
05:32Why should I not leap into it?
05:34Run from the bounding antifact.
05:36Turn my full script into a computer.
05:39After all, I had quietly accumulated quite a bit of independent wealth.
05:43Especially lately, the deposits had inexplicably doubled.
05:46I had always wondered why Damon,
05:47forgetting he had already transferred copies into his team,
05:51Paying me again.
05:53Now it made perfect sense.
05:55Damon wired guns once.
05:57Then his twin brother Doreen flying separately.
05:59Matching me.
06:00I gently patterned my hidden hidden treasure.
06:11I had become entangled with Damon Blackwood back when I first presented as Omega.
06:16Celeste Harrington had been my den sister at the Academy.
06:19She set her predatory sights on me.
06:21An Omega female working three human world jobs.
06:24Just to survive.
06:26This time, I was to be her game.
06:29Damon Blackwood was the alpha male she hand selected.
06:31To play my heart's destroyer.
06:33The heir to the Blackwood pack.
06:35The most powerful werewolf dynasty in the entire city.
06:38The untouchable alpha prince.
06:39According to Celeste's script, Damon would scare me with path luxuries until I grew addicted.
06:44Once I was accustomed to the privilege, he would cast me out and watch me collapse.
06:48He showered me with endless gifts.
06:51The pack crafted jewelry, ancestral heirlooms, enchanted souls.
06:55But I had been nameless, packless, and poor for far too long to ever forget.
07:00Free resource Damon transferred to my name.
07:02I saved in the hidden accounts.
07:04The pack jewels he gifted me, I flipped discreetly through human world brokers for top five.
07:11Wealth.
07:12The more you hoard, the safer you feel.
07:15And I was not stupid.
07:16Every time Damon took my hand, I did not miss the flicker of condescending mockery deep in his alpha eyes.
07:23He was performing.
07:24I could feel it in my bones.
07:26I needed to stockpile.
07:27Opportunities like this do not come twice in an Omega's lifetime.
07:30We lived like a mated pair.
07:32Outings, embraces, human style kisses.
07:35In winter, I even hand knitted him a scarf, infused with my subtle Omega scent.
07:41The day my grandmother's illness turned critical,
07:43I actively asked Damon for an expensive birthday gift for the first time.
07:47Damon froze for a single heartbeat, then smiled.
07:50I did not miss the wild, dark delight that exploded in his pupils.
07:54The primal gleam of an alpha watching prey walk willingly into the trap,
07:59like a wolf finally curling its lip over bared fangs.
08:02They believed I had been corrupted, spoiled, ruined,
08:05everything proceeding precisely according to their designs.
08:11The next day, Damon initiated the breakup.
08:18Celeste waited eagerly to witness me unable to cope.
08:22Crying, throwing fits, threatening self-destruction,
08:25clinging to Damon desperately.
08:27She found I was the same Omega as before,
08:30working when I needed to work,
08:31attending academy when I needed to attend.
08:33Back to my ordinary, unremarkable routine.
08:36Just with one tiny upgrade, three human jobs a day, cut down to two.
08:40Sometimes when I ate plain noodles,
08:42I could add a sausage, and a man.
08:45I even gained three pounds.
08:46I did not desperately beg for my desire.
08:49Nothing played out as she had scripted.
08:51She threw a tantrum over it,
08:53declared the game boring beyond endurance.
08:55From that day forward in our den quarters,
08:58she targeted me relentlessly,
09:00slipping silver-dusted nails into my shoes,
09:03silver that burned Omega flesh,
09:05pouring ice water onto my bedding in the dead of winter.
09:09Later, my father, ever the gambler, racked up impossible debt.
09:14Somehow those debts were owed directly to the Blackwood pack.
09:17To settle them, he threw me at the pack as living collateral.
09:21That is how I ended up back in Damon Blackwood's den.
09:26To be honest, I had been thinking recently about truly settling into this life with him.
09:32Damon had always been cold and distant,
09:34never once touching me with true intimacy.
09:37But early this year, something changed.
09:39He began willingly kissing me.
09:42That night, he returned to the den,
09:44reeking of alpha-grade spirits.
09:49I helped him onto the fur-draped couch,
09:51prepared him a tonic to fill his eye.
09:54He suddenly wrapped his arm around my waist,
09:56pulled me into his broad chest.
09:58He gently pressed his lips to the roof.
10:02His alpha scent wrapped around me like a physical force.
10:07I barely understood how to kiss.
10:09I nearly passed out from lack of air.
10:11He laughed softly.
10:13So that is what you taste like.
10:16Sweet, like moonlight honey.
10:20Next time someone kisses you, little Omega,
10:24remember to breathe.
10:26At night, he guided me through my first intimate encounter.
10:30After that, he seemed addicted to experimenting
10:33with all kinds of thrilling, borderline dangerous scenarios.
10:38He never wanted to use any kind of instruction.
10:41He loved tormenting me
10:42as the packed den keepers and Rita servants were a portion.
10:46I could only bite my lip and endure it silently.
10:51The more I held back, the more he seemed to enjoy.
10:54He had a peculiar fixation.
10:56During our coupling at night,
10:57he demanded that I say his name over and over,
10:59like a chant.
11:04What is my name?
11:06Damon.
11:07You are Damon.
11:11No.
11:12Say it again.
11:14What is wrong with you, Damon?
11:17The more I gasped his name, the rougher he became.
11:20More feral.
11:21More possessive.
11:22He loved to curl around me and nuzzle.
11:25He knew my stomach was weak to certain foods
11:27and personally prepared warm herbal broths to suit him on my birthday.
11:31He would command the entire city skyline
11:33to ignite with enchanted packed fireworks, blazing all night.
11:39As the spectacular silver and gold lights exploded across the heavens,
11:43he would stroke my hair and burn them.
11:46Little wolf, let us make this real.
11:49Let us build a true life together.
11:52When nightmares seized me, he would wake me
11:54and carefully gather me into his arms.
11:56It is all right, sweet one.
11:58Do not be frightened.
11:59Your alpha has you.
12:00I slowly began to feel it,
12:03truly falling for him.
12:07A few months ago,
12:08he pinned me to the fur throes again,
12:10once more refusing protection.
12:12I was breathless.
12:13What if I fall pregnant?
12:15He kissed the corner of my mouth.
12:17His alpha rumble vibrated through my bones.
12:22Then you carry my pups.
12:26I will protect you and our litter with my life.
12:29The mating ceremony proposal.
12:31That had been his idea.
12:32That night, after our bodies had stilled and our breathing slid,
12:36he lay draped over me.
12:37Little Omega,
12:39stop merely being my claimed mate in name.
12:42Become my bonded mate before the entire pack.
12:45Now, looking back upon all of it,
12:47I understood.
12:48From the very first night he took me to his bed,
12:50that person was never tamed.
12:52It had always been Doriel and the mating ceremony proposal.
12:55Merely the climactic final act of their new prank game.
12:58This pot growing inside me.
13:00I had truly considered keeping it,
13:01raising it with hope.
13:02I set down the pregnancy test on the windowsill.
13:05Now, I truly considered keeping you.
13:07Raising you with hope.
13:09I pulled my hand away.
13:10Now there was no need.
13:14Five days until I fled pack territory,
13:16I had become quite skilled at telling the Blackwood Alpha twins apart.
13:21Damon was cold, brooding.
13:23He never smiled.
13:24His wolf was a magnificent beast of pure black.
13:27Dorian loved to cuddle and cling.
13:29He had a small crescent shaped marking,
13:31right above the Adonis belt of his abdomen.
13:33Visible every time he stripped down for our intimate encounters.
13:37When I came downstairs in the morning,
13:39Damon was seated in the great hall.
13:40Gold rimmed spectacles perched on his nose.
13:43Reviewing pack territory reports.
13:45Violet, present yourself well today.
13:48We are receiving important visitors.
13:50Gold rimmed glasses.
13:51Frigid tone of command.
13:53That was the real Damon.
13:54At midday, Dorian and Celeste arrived together.
13:57Faced with Dorian, Damon's identical mirror.
13:59I feigned a moment of shock.
14:00Damon performed the introduction.
14:02This is my twin brother,
14:03recently returned from our northern pack territories.
14:06Dorian extended his hand to me first.
14:08A pleasure to finally meet the Omega my brother speaks of.
14:12I placed my hand in his.
14:14The pleasure is mine.
14:16I offered a careful smile.
14:17I never imagined you two truly look exactly alike.
14:21Dorian's expression did not fracture at all.
14:23His smile remained gentle, harmlessly warm.
14:26There is much you have yet to discover about this pack.
14:29Celeste laughed.
14:30Her alpha female energy sharp as cut crystal.
14:33I require no introduction.
14:36Violet and I were den sisters at the academy.
14:38She took my arm with aggressive warmth.
14:40I heard you are about to undergo the mating ceremony.
14:43I shall serve as your bonding witness.
14:46At the grand dining table,
14:47Celeste positioned herself precisely between Damon and Dorian.
14:51She propped her chin upon her inter-raised fingers,
14:53smiling at me with feline satisfaction.
14:56Violet, have you noticed any changes in Damon lately?
14:59I knew precisely why she was asking.
15:02She simply wanted to watch me humiliate myself before them all.
15:05I set down my utensils and nodded thoughtfully.
15:07Yes, he truly has changed so much this year.
15:10In that suspended moment,
15:12the entire world froze.
15:14The blackwood alpha twins' expressions turned especially carved from stone.
15:20I suddenly laughed, allowing a faint blush to color my cheeks.
15:24He has been so much sweeter to me these months.
15:27I have found myself falling for him more and more deeply.
15:31Damon shot a look at Dorian.
15:32During the meal, Dorian casually, naturally,
15:35placed a peeled garlic prawn into my bowl.
15:37Garlic prawn without the shell, sweet one.
15:40Just the way you prefer it.
15:42The next heartbeat we all stiffened.
15:44He kept his expression perfectly composed.
15:46I thought you'd like it, right?
15:47I nodded and smiled.
15:49You're such a kind wolf.
15:51Damon aimed a warning glare at Dorian.
15:53Alpha to Alpha, a silent threat.
15:55I ignored them both,
15:56lifted the peeled prawn to my lips,
15:58and chew, chew, chew, I frowned.
16:00It tasted sour and metallic.
16:03I covered my mouth with my napkin,
16:04and rushed toward the washroom.
16:06After I had emptied my stomach,
16:08Celeste fixed me with a deeply meaningful way.
16:11Could that be pregnant?
16:13Both Alpha gazes landed upon me with the wave of falling stones.
16:20I waved a dismissive hand.
16:22No.
16:23Merely something I ate recently that disagreed with me.
16:26Damon set down his fork with a deliberate click.
16:28The smile on his lips failed to reach his Alpha eyes.
16:32If you're not feeling well,
16:33you'd better go see the Pax Stroman sooner.
16:35After the meal,
16:36Damon and Dorian escorted Celeste back to the Harrington Pack Estate.
16:40They returned to the Blackwood Den very late.
16:42When they arrived,
16:43he went directly to the bathing chamber.
16:45I was uncertain whether the wolf,
16:47now standing under the cascade of water,
16:49was Damon or Dorian.
16:50I noticed his communication tablet lying abandoned on the nightstand.
16:54Perhaps I should take a look.
16:55I attempted Damon's birth date first to unlock it.
16:58Nothing.
16:59After a moment of consideration,
17:01I entered Celeste's birth date.
17:03The tablet unlocked immediately.
17:06I opened their private message thread.
17:09Switch back with me within the next few days.
17:11No.
17:12I am not finished yet.
17:13She commented that you have been exceptionally tender toward her this year.
17:17You are not developing genuine attachment, are you?
17:20No.
17:21Of course not.
17:22Is that not precisely what you advised?
17:23The sweeter the treatment,
17:25the more devastating the fall.
17:27Understood.
17:27You genuinely have not bedded her?
17:29No.
17:30Why?
17:30Does the thought disturb you?
17:32No.
17:32I simply do not wish my possessions to be dirtied by another wolf's scent.
17:36Consider this your final warning.
17:38Play whatever games you wish.
17:40But do not cross that boundary.
17:42So,
17:42the wolf who had returned to the den tonight,
17:44was Dorian.
17:46Ten minutes later,
17:47Dorian emerged from the bathing chamber.
17:49Steam curling off his skin.
17:50I was absorbed in a mindless game on my tablet,
17:54pretending to notice nothing.
17:55He gently captured my wrist.
17:57Why do you always grow your nails so long, little wolf?
18:01My back is covered in the marks of your passion.
18:04I shrugged.
18:05You let the enforcers come for me.
18:07He released a low, rough laugh.
18:11When I was very young,
18:13my mother used to soothe my back.
18:14Just like this.
18:15That memory.
18:16As unreachable as a faded dream now.
18:18Dorian's hand moved in slow circles against my back.
18:21I stared into the dark.
18:22I felt nothing,
18:23except the bitter,
18:24metallic taste of irony on my tongue.
18:26In the morning,
18:27Dorian was already awake.
18:28He stood rigid at the bedside,
18:30scrolling through my tablet.
18:32His alpha expression was black as thunderclouds.
18:34He turned to face me with a smile that did not reach his wolf-gold eyes.
18:39Little Omega,
18:40be honest with your alpha.
18:41Are you concealing something from me?
18:43I yawn,
18:44delicately.
18:45What could I possibly be hiding?
18:47His face fell in too hard.
18:50Refusing to speak?
18:51Fine.
18:52Then answer me this instead.
18:54Unreadable lines.
18:55He thrust my tablet directly before my face,
18:58nearly touching my nose.
19:00Why is the healer's den outside Pack Territory
19:02sending you pre-procedure care instructions?
19:05His voice dropped to something even colder.
19:08Little Omega,
19:09how is it that I did not know you were carrying pups?
19:14My entire body,
19:16locked,
19:16rigid.
19:17My temples throbbed with sudden pressure.
19:19I pulled myself together with desperate speed.
19:22Oh, you are catastrophically overreacting.
19:24I likely triggered some rogue advertation
19:26while browsing unsavory human world sites.
19:29If I were truly pregnant,
19:30I would absolutely inform you.
19:32I would wield it to wrap you entirely around my smallest finger.
19:35Dorian raised eyebrow.
19:36You browse unsavory human world sites.
19:39I nodded with false gravity.
19:41It never hurts to expand one's knowledge.
19:43He tilted my chin upward with two fingers.
19:45With every position I teach you night lie,
19:47you still hunger for more learning?
19:49Are you not afraid I will go completely irreversibly feral?
19:53He pulled me against his chest.
19:55Tell me then,
19:55what exactly did you learn from these sites of yours?
19:58I met his eyes.
19:59I do not know.
20:00I retain none of it.
20:01He suddenly laughed,
20:02a genuine sound,
20:03sharp with surprise.
20:05You truly are an impossible little creature.
20:08I suppose I must continue to teach you personally.
20:10He held my gaze with sudden burning intensity.
20:14Violet, four more days until the full moon.
20:17On the night of our mating ceremony,
20:19I am going to make you the most treasured Omega bride this pack has ever witnessed.
20:25I did not answer.
20:27Because there would be no mating ceremony.
20:29And there would be no shared future.
20:31Damon and Dorian were both consumed with preparations for the ceremony.
20:35And I was consumed with packing my belongings for departure from pack territory.
20:40Quietly liquidating every asset I had siphoned from the Blackwood pack's resources over the years.
20:45I had a trusted friend living abroad, outside any pack jurisdiction.
20:49Zoe Clark.
20:50She had already reserved a bed for me at a discreet healer's facility for the procedure.
20:55She had also secured living arrangements.
20:57Exactly the sort of place I had always dreamed of.
21:00Floor to ceiling windows.
21:03And a broad balcony that caught the morning sun.
21:05Living expenses had arrived as well.
21:08Still deposited in two separate transfers.
21:11Each twin sending their own contribution.
21:14Neither aware of the other's payments.
21:17In the afternoon, Dorian escorted me to the pack seamstress.
21:21The maiden Sarah and the other.
21:22He poked gently at my back.
21:25Your little middle is slightly round.
21:28What precisely?
21:29Sweet Omega.
21:31How are you this impossibly adorable?
21:34He cupped my face with devastating tenderness.
21:37He leaned down to capture my lips with his.
21:40His hands began to wander, slipping beneath the fabric of my sleeping clothes.
21:44I pushed him away.
21:45My voice was unsteady.
21:47My stomach pains me to night.
21:49His brow furrowed deeply.
21:51Your stomach?
21:52Is your condition flaring again?
21:54I shook my head.
21:55No.
21:56His broad palm settled over my belly.
21:58Permit me to warm it for you.
22:00I swatted his hand away.
22:01Do not.
22:01After a weighty silence, he released a cold huff.
22:05Fine.
22:07Suffer alone then.
22:08I am unfinished inched extending care where it is not wanted.
22:12We did not speak for a long, stretched silence.
22:15In the deep hours of night, my lower belly continued to ache with dull persistence.
22:19I turned restlessly, unable to find sleep, curling my body into a tight, protective ball.
22:25I do not know how late it was when Dorian finally released a soft, defeated sigh.
22:30He drew me into the warm cage of his arms and gently patted my back.
22:33His voice was thick with sleep, roughened and low.
22:36Sweet one, it will stop hurting soon.
22:39It will stop soon.
22:43He laughed, low and warm.
22:45About to be bonded to me and your temperament grows sharper by the day.
22:49He lifted my left hand and slid a ceremonial ring onto my fourth finger.
22:53A moonstone the size of a pigeon's egg glittered there.
22:56An ancestral Blackwood heirloom.
22:58He held me close.
23:00This is perfect.
23:03You are finally, truly about to become mine.
23:06I permitted him to hold me and murmured a quiet, non-committal, hmm.
23:11Two days until I departed pack territory forever.
23:13I splurged recklessly for the first time in my life at a neutral territory tavern.
23:18A handful of beta male entertainers.
23:20A private performance.
23:21One of them leaned close.
23:26What is a pretty Omega doing here alone?
23:29I swirled my glass.
23:31I wanted to taste it.
23:32What it feels like to select and toy with wolves.
23:37One glass of strong spirit scent.
23:39I was talking and choking.
23:41Just then, a discordant sound reached my ears.
23:44Celeste was sprawled at the bar nearby.
23:47Deeply intoxicated, her words slurring.
23:50Once we humiliate her before the entire pack at the ceremony,
23:54expelged her from the territory immediately.
23:59Seeing her wedged constantly between the two of you is utterly magnifying.
24:04Daemon was silent for a waited moment.
24:07We will discuss this after the ceremony.
24:11Celeste's eyes narrowed.
24:12She turned to Dorian.
24:15What is your position?
24:17Dorian looked away, his jaw tight.
24:19She clings so desperately to me.
24:21I mean, to my brother.
24:23If we simply command her to leave, I fear she will not be able to withstand her.
24:27Celeste's beautiful face twisted with displeasure.
24:29Are you two softening?
24:33Going weak?
24:35Now we finally possess the perfect chance.
24:37Of course we must grind her into the dust beneath our paws.
24:41The pack sycophants child in swiftly.
24:43Who truly is Violet?
24:45A nameless Omega.
24:47Amuse yourselves with her until she is spent and then cast her aside.
24:51If she proves difficult to dislodge, Daemon, just reward her with one final night.
24:56Grant her that single mercy coupling.
24:58I held my breath, suspended, waiting for their answer.
25:02Then I heard Daemon's voice, quiet and flat.
25:08Hmm. Understood.
25:10In that single syllable, my heart skipped half its rhythm, just as I expected from the start.
25:18The night of the full moon.
25:21The mating ceremony.
25:22Daemon wore a perfectly tailored black ceremonial coat, threaded with silver.
25:26The ancient, blackwood alpha vestments.
25:28He was devastating.
25:29The picture of wolf nobility.
25:31Dorian, positioned as the bonding witness, wore a white ceremonial coat.
25:35Celeste wore a custom-crafted gown that resembled an alpha queen's coronation dress.
25:40It far outshone my hand-stitched mating ceremony gown, like a princess wolf born to rule.
25:45In her hand, she held a recording crystal, ready to capture my breakdown and despair.
25:50She wanted the entire pack to witness the fox.
25:53The moment I realized I had been manipulated for an entire year.
25:56Celeste had even commanded that the ceremony be broadcast across the pack's territory network.
26:01She spoke to the broadcast with a ploying, honeyed smile.
26:04No, no, I am not the Omega Bride.
26:06I am simply the Al Brothers' dearest childhood companion.
26:09These two have doted upon me since I was a mere pup.
26:11Of course I had to serve as their bonding witness.
26:13Truly, I am not as beautiful as you all insist.
26:15If you direct such compliments at me, the Omega Bride will grow distressed.
26:17She was actually rather petty and small-minded.
26:22But tonight, I shall present the Omega Bride with a very special ceremonial gift.
26:28But as the full moon climbed to its zenith, the Omega Bride still had not appeared.
26:33Damon's alpha composure shifted.
26:35He attempted to contact me through the pack bond.
26:37The link was severed, locked from my end.
26:39He sent a direct message.
26:40Violet, this is our mating ceremony.
26:42The full moon is at its peak.
26:44Do not choose this night to indulge your temper.
26:46Just then, a collective gasp swept through the assembled pack nobility.
26:50On the great ceremonial projection, a recording began to play.
26:53Dorian's alpha voice emerged first.
26:56Damon, I have been impersonating you.
26:58Playing with your little Omega all this time.
27:00She will not flee when she discovers the truth, will she?
27:03What is there to fear?
27:04A rare Omega like her.
27:05She has nowhere else to go.
27:07She cannot bear to leave.
27:08Besides, it is not the first time we have traded places.
27:11Just do not get her marked or pregnant.
27:13I don't want the mess of pups I did not instar.
27:15Of course it is a sham.
27:17The little Omega begged for the honor of a formal bond, so I am humoring her.
27:22Wait until the mating ceremony, seven days from now, under the full moon.
27:27Then reveal to her that you've been swapping back and forth all year.
27:30I want to watch her wolf spirit shatter.
27:33Throwing her into the abyss.
27:35Right at the moment she believes she is about to receive the claiming bite.
27:42Isn't that exquisite?
27:43The mating ceremony descended into chaos.
27:47Packed nobles on their feet.
27:48Howls of shock and outrage filling the hall.
27:52At the recording's conclusion, blazing text filled the ceremonial projection.
27:58Game concluded.
28:02Satisfied with your victory?
28:04Oh, one final note, Dorian.
28:06I have been far too embarrassed to mention this previously.
28:09But you are truly terrible in the bedchamber.
28:12I have not enjoyed myself one single time throughout this entire year.
28:19Not even half as satisfying as the eight beta entertainers I've hired at the tavern.
28:24Farewell forever.
28:26I genuinely do not have time for your childish gains any longer.
28:30The ceremony erupted into a hell in your hands.
28:33By the moon goddess.
28:35This vile pack schemer intended to destroy this Omega and got completely outmaneuvered.
28:42So where is the Omega Bride?
28:45Has she fled pack territory?
28:48I am dying of savage laughter.
28:51These retchels schemed to publicly eviscerate their Omega and now taste public humiliation themselves.
28:57Celeste's face drained to a deathly pallor.
29:01She covered her face with both hands and shrieked.
29:04Deactivate it!
29:05Sever the broadcast link!
29:06At that exact same moment, I had far beyond pack territory.
29:11I threw my arms wide open to the friend waiting at the arrival gate and shouted with pure joy.
29:16Zoe!
29:17I am finally free!
29:19I moved into Zoe's sunlit apartment in the human territories of France.
29:24Zoe was laughing so violently she was slapping her own thigh.
29:28They constructed an elaborate performance to deceive you.
29:31And you had been performing the entire time as well.
29:34When did your clever little wolf mind grow so sharp?
29:37Have you heard?
29:38The Blackwood Pack is in complete, unberiled chaos.
29:41Those two Alpha brothers have been going utterly feral trying to track you.
29:45I bit into a crisp apple.
29:47That did not surprise me in the slightest.
29:50After all, I publicly humiliated them before making my escape.
29:54Zoe's eyes lit up.
29:56The penchaper coffin.
29:58I chewed slowly.
30:01Honestly?
30:01Objectively speaking, he was truly exceptional.
30:06Every encounter left me completely wrecked.
30:12Zoe gasped.
30:16Fuel it.
30:19But if I was going to walk away forever, I had to strike with surgical, merciless precision.
30:26I set down the apple.
30:32Zoe, how is my appointment with the healer progressing?
30:35Zoe pulled up her records.
30:38Do not fret.
30:41Excellent.
30:42Excellent.
30:42Let us proceed as soon as possible.
30:45Zoe accompanied me to the healer's facility for all the necessary preliminary tests.
30:49I was pursuing a gentle medical termination.
30:52The kind that would not damage my Omega physiology beyond repair.
30:56A week before the procedure, Zoe purchased an enormous care package of snacks to soothe my nerves.
31:01Hugging the snack crate.
31:03Tears prickled at my eyes.
31:06Life truly transforms depending on whose company you keep.
31:10The day of the procedure arrived.
31:12I lay upon the sterile healer's bed.
31:14I felt my body gradually slipping beyond my control.
31:18My consciousness fraying at the edges.
31:23Just then, someone entered the chamber.
31:26Was it the healer?
31:26The footsteps drew closer.
31:28I forced my eyes open with monumental effort.
31:30What I saw sent an icy, primal chill crawling up my spine.
31:35Then came sheer, undiluted Omega terror.
31:38The figures who strode into the chamber were not the healer.
31:41Damon and Dorian.
31:42And an entire phalanx of blackwood pack enforcers in dark combat leathers.
31:47The final, desperate thought flickered through my fading mind.
31:50It is finished.
31:51They have caught me.
31:52I wanted to move.
31:53I wanted to run.
31:54But the full body sedative had rendered me completely paralyzed.
31:58As if a rabbit pinned beneath the wolf's paw.
32:01In the last heartbeat before my consciousness dissolved into darkness,
32:04Damon bent down and lifted me with infinite terrible gentleness.
32:08Dorian stood rigid behind him.
32:10His fists clenched so tightly that blood seeped between his fingers where claws had pierced flesh.
32:18I awakened in a grand villa I had never seen before.
32:22Somewhere deep within Blackwood territory, its location unknown to me.
32:28Damon sat motionless at my bedside, a sentinel carved from shadow.
32:32Draped around his neck, clashing violently with his alpha ceremonial attire,
32:36was the navy blue scarf I had hand knitted for him in my academy years.
32:41Still carrying faint traces of my omega scent, woven into the wool.
32:45Seeing my eyes open, his voice emerged rough and frayed.
32:48You are awake.
32:50Are you hungry?
32:51I stared at him.
32:56How are you here?
32:58He stroked my hair with devastating softness.
33:06If an alpha wishes to locate his mate, there is always a way.
33:09I shrank back against the pillows.
33:11Locate me for what purpose?
33:14To extract your revenge through torment?
33:17He paused, his brow creasing.
33:20Why would you imagine such a thing?
33:22Have I ever, in all our years, raised a hand against you?
33:27Then release me.
33:32Do not even dream of it.
33:34He pulled me into the iron cage of his arms.
33:43From this moment forward, I am never permitting you to leave my sight again.
33:51From that day, Daemon held me confined within this remote villa.
33:55I commenced a hunger strike, refused sustenance of any kind.
33:59When word reached him, he came with a bowl of warm broth.
34:03His alpha pride was visibly in tatters.
34:07I know I have committed unforgivable wrongs against you.
34:10But you cannot destroy your own body in retaliation.
34:12I repeated only the same words, over and over.
34:17I want to leave this place.
34:19Leave?
34:21And go where?
34:27Anywhere that neither of you exists.
34:30Why?
34:31I can provide you with everything you could ever desire.
34:37Or is it, that you have truly fallen in love with Dorian?
34:41I fixed him with a gaze of pure, arctic coldness.
34:45Is there a meaningful distinction between you?
34:47You are both irredeemable garbage, wearing the skin of wolves.
34:50Do not force me to choose between shit-flavored chocolate and chocolate-flavored shit, Daemon.
34:54I refuse.
34:55My words struck him like physical blows.
34:59He was silent for a long, hollow stretch.
35:04Violet, the truth is, I genuinely wished to bond with you properly before the moon goddess and the entire pack.
35:09That day, I had already delivered a final warning to Dorian.
35:12I commanded him.
35:13Do not heed Siletta's instructions.
35:16Allow you to walk the ceremonial path of peace.
35:23After the bonding was sealed, I would never allow him near you again.
35:27I released a cold, brittle lap.
35:30You were remarkably generous when you dispatched me to your brother's bed.
35:34His face was ashen.
35:35I never authorized that.
35:37That boundary was our explicit pack law between us.
35:40I did not know he would violate that trust.
35:43Do not fear.
35:45I will arrange the most skilled healers for you immediately.
35:49I will ensure you pass through the termination of this pregnancy without any suffering whatsoever.
35:55I have already dismantled the Harrington pack.
35:58Her family's power is utterly broken.
36:01I will use everything I possess to make amends to you.
36:05Whatever you desire, I will grant it to you.
36:10I suddenly raised my hand and delivered a stinging slap across his face.
36:15Dream on, Alpha.
36:19Daemon's face turned slightly from the force of my blow.
36:23He wiped the thin trickle of crimson from the corner of his mouth.
36:26Did that ease your pain at all?
36:28If not continue striking until it does.
36:31My voice was carved from ice.
36:34I'd Cernus, remove yourself from my sight.
36:38He slowly rose to his feet.
36:41I will return tomorrow.
36:43That night, I curled beneath the blanket.
36:47I dreamed of my old academy den bed.
36:50Weeping silently.
36:52When I woke, I sat up in the dark.
36:56Dorian was not here.
36:58Only an empty room.
36:59I have never confessed this to anyone.
37:03I pressed my palm to my forehead.
37:06The truth is,
37:08the day Daemon dissolved our relationship at the academy,
37:10I wept in secret,
37:13muffled against my pillow.
37:16But I had long since mastered the art of concealing my wounds.
37:20Did I ever love Daemon?
37:21I believe I truly do.
37:23My heart was torn to shreds.
37:25The night he ended everything,
37:27I spent the entire night blaming myself,
37:30telling myself I should never have asked him for that birthday gift.
37:33I let out a broken breath,
37:35even though I knew he had never harbored any genuine affection before me at all.
37:42The next day,
37:43I opened my eyes.
37:45The wolf standing before me was Dorian.
37:48Dorian had stolen me out from under Daemon's alpha guard.
37:52His body bore the evidence of combat.
37:55Lacerations and bruises.
37:57A mottled ring of purple-black bruising encircled his throat where his brother had choked him.
38:03His alpha eyes were threaded with crimson veins.
38:06He had not slept genuinely in a very long time.
38:09He said to me, the words ragged.
38:12I am sorry.
38:14I felt nothing but numbness.
38:16These recent days, I had heard I am sorry far too many times.
38:21He regarded me with raw, agonized concern.
38:26He did not harm you, did he?
38:29I met his eyes.
38:31You of all wolves asking me that question, do you not find it exquisitely ironic?
38:35He pressed his lips into a bloodless line.
38:37He clenched his fists until his knuckles whitened.
38:41Violet, you understood from the beginning that it was all a performance.
38:45So this entire year, every kiss, every embrace, every tangled night, every I cherish you, was all of it nothing
38:52but an act?
38:54I released a long, shuddering exhale.
38:58Dorian, I am not a trained actor.
39:00One cannot convincingly perform falling in love.
39:02The night you first kissed me willingly, I was so incandescently happy I remained awake until dawn.
39:08I believed my alpha had finally, truly opened his heart to me.
39:12I told myself, I am going to repay this happiness twice over.
39:16I truly did imagine carrying your pups, building a genuine, lasting life at your side.
39:22His pupils trembled violently, every drop of color drained from his face.
39:27I continued, my voice calm and steady.
39:30When you gifted me a sky blazing with enchanted fireworks on my birthday.
39:39When you woke me from the clutches of my nightmares, I was so exquisitely happy I thought my wolf heart
39:44might burst.
39:45When you declared you wished to give me a grand mating ceremony.
39:49Before I overheard those words in the pack hall that day, I believed every single syllable.
39:55I had even begun to leaf through ancient naming records, secretly daydreaming about what we would name our litter.
40:01That day, I hurled myself into the tarotial storm and ran the entire distance to find you.
40:06Just to tell you I was carrying your pup inside me.
40:09But I am not truly pathetic, Dorian.
40:11No one hears that the person they love has been trading them back and forth like a shared possession and
40:16simply swallows that poison.
40:17I can tell you now with absolute clarity I despise you.
40:21I despise both of you with every fiber of my Omega being.
40:24His alpha eyes glistened wet.
40:27He reached out a hand to touch me, then yanked it back as though seared by silver.
40:35Please, do not pronounce my death sentence so absolutely.
40:39At least tell me what I can possibly do to make you hate me even the smallest fraction less.
40:47Outside the window, the winter wind swept dead leaves against the frosted glass.
40:53I gazed into the shattered light fracturing in his alpha eyes.
40:58Release me.
41:00He clenched his hands until they trembled.
41:03After what felt like the span of an entire age, he forced broken syllables from his throat.
41:09Very well.
41:11I will release you.
41:16Zillie rushed to the transportation hub.
41:18She discovered me sitting on a bench, staring into empty space.
41:23She threw herself at me, checking every inch of my body for injury.
41:28She wrapped me in a desperate embrace and wept.
41:34They did not harm you, did you?
41:37Tell me they did not harm you!
41:38I patted her head, soothingly.
41:40Do not fret.
41:41They did not.
41:43I was certain those two feral alpha lunatics would never release you.
41:48They simply...
41:49permitted you to leave?
41:52Yes.
41:52I considered for a moment.
41:57Perhaps they wished to accumulate some worthwhile karma with the moon goddess.
42:02The day Dorian released me, he stood before me and spoke.
42:06In the beginning it was about following Celeste's instructions.
42:10He looked down at his hands.
42:14But you were too gentle.
42:16Too achingly sweet.
42:19You wept without making a single sound.
42:23His voice went hoarse.
42:25Like an abandoned kitten.
42:27I said nothing.
42:29Before I even realized what was happening to me, I had begun to fall for you.
42:36Genuinely.
42:39Irreversibly.
42:41He pressed his knuckles to his mouth.
42:44At first, it was sweet.
42:47This secret blooming inside my chest.
42:49But slowly, it transformed into a gnawing terror.
42:55Terror of you discovering the truth.
42:58I sank deeper into the web of lies I had spun, pouring everything into being good to you.
43:05Desperately hoping, if the love was real enough, the origin story would cease to matter.
43:09He met my eyes for the first time.
43:11I wanted to construct a genuine life with you.
43:14He looked away again.
43:16But I was tormented by a question I could never voice.
43:20Was the wolf you believed you loved actually Damon?
43:26His voice broke entirely.
43:29Or was it me?
43:30I stared at him. I had no answer.
43:32I even contemplated the unthinkable.
43:35Getting you pregnant with my pup.
43:38Using the unborn child as my final desperate trump card.
43:41That was my sole remaining card to play.
43:44The path stretching ahead of you should be broad and luminous, leading somewhere filled with light.
43:51And on that path, there should exist no trace of me.
43:56After that day, I never encountered either Blackwood Alpha brother again.
43:59Then, Zoe and I lived together in the human world, laughing and carrying on each day.
44:05Occasionally fragmented news drifted across the territory borders.
44:09The Harrington pack was systematically dismantled.
44:13All of Celeste's vile deeds were exposed to the pack.
44:19The Blackwood pack had known no peace.
44:21The two Alpha brothers warred without cease.
44:25And the pack's governance rotted from within.
44:28I heard whispers that Damon still had not abandoned his obsession with locating me.
44:34But someone tampered with Damon's vehicle.
44:36Damon was caught in the resulting devastation.
44:39His spine was shattered.
44:41He would never walk again.
44:43Another three winters passed.
44:45I encountered Dorian.
44:47I was strolling through a sun-drenched park, holding the hand of a little girl,
44:52who had just celebrated her third birthday.
44:54He saw the child in her flowing dress beside me.
44:57His Alpha eyes ignited with desperate hope.
45:04Violet, is she...
45:06I understood precisely what he was struggling to ask.
45:10She is not yours.
45:13I took a human husband.
45:14He was silent for a long, aching span.
45:19Right.
45:19That is...
45:20That is good.
45:22That is for the best.
45:23He turned and walked away.
45:26Utterly defeated.
45:27His Alpha shoulders bowed.
45:29I released a breath I had been holding for years.
45:34My daughter tugged my hand.
45:36Mother?
45:38Who was that man?
45:40I looked down at her.
45:42Dorian's eyes looking back at me.
45:46I said in a voice only I could hear.
45:49The truth is...
45:51I never remarried.
45:52That day, standing beside Zoe in the healer's facility.
45:57After all the agonizing back and forth.
45:59In the end, I could not go through with the termination.
46:03A few more years slipped past.
46:05My daughter grew more breathtakingly lovely with each passing season.
46:09And more and more, with every passing moon, she resembled Dorian.
46:13Dorian was not a fool.
46:14Of course, he eventually divined that the child was his own blood.
46:18All these years, he had been silently transferring resources to my accounts from an anonymous source.
46:24Never revealing himself.
46:26But he never dared to seek me out directly.
46:28Never dared to approach.
46:30Seven in the morning.
46:32I was curled luxuriously in my bed.
46:34Yawning against the sunlight.
46:36My daughter, her school satchel already on her back,
46:40patted me with patient exasperation.
46:45Mom, I am departing for my lessons.
46:48I kissed her soft cheek.
46:51Sweet pup, do not forget to bring back two honey-glosed-glazed pastries on your way home.
46:58Extra honey.
47:00My daughter laughed, the sound bright as bells.
47:03I know, I know, greedy mother.
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