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