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00:177 years ago, my parents adopted daughter, my younger sister Sonia, a delicate omega, got drunk, caused a hit and
00:24run, and left blood spilled across the human territory border.
00:27My alpha father, my luna mother, and my biological younger sister all came to me with the same patronizing plea.
00:33Selina is an omega. She's too fragile for prison.
00:36If she goes to Silvermoon Penitentiary, her wolf won't survive it.
00:39Lyra, take her place.
00:41I refused, but on a stormy night broke of thunder, my father used absolute alpha command.
00:47He crushed my will, took control of my mind, and personally delivered me to the prison transport.
00:51My fiancé, my fated mate, Kaylin, the strongest alpha in the pack, held back his raging wolf era and said
00:56to me,
00:57Lyra, when you get out, we'll complete the mate bond.
01:00Endure these 7 years, for now.
01:047 years later.
01:05Lyra, once you leave Silvermoon Penitentiary, keep your wolf under control and do not look back.
01:11I took the mold-smelling canvas bag from the guard's hand and limped through the iron gates, dragging the leg
01:16that had been ruined by four silver shackles.
01:18A black military SUV waited outside the territory.
01:21The window rolled down revealed Kaylin's sharp, striking face.
01:247 years had passed, and he looked exactly the same.
01:27The suffocating pressure of a top-tier alpha still radiated from him.
01:29Lyra.
01:30Instinctively, I shrunk back before forcing myself in the passenger seat.
01:33In the rearview mirror, I caught sight of my own reflection.
01:36Pale, gaunt, my neck covered in burn scars left by silver weapon.
01:40You've suffered these past 7 years.
01:42I'll keep my promise.
01:43Kaylin said.
01:44At the next full moon night, I'll officially mark you and make you my Luna.
01:48He reached over and covered my rough hand with his.
01:50There was no spark, no shiver, no bond.
01:53I looked into his golden-green eyes, where my withered reflection stared back at me and slowly pulled my hand
01:58away.
01:59Even the wolf inside me could not be bothered to whimper.
02:02Okay.
02:04Seven years in Silvermoon Penitentiary.
02:062,557 days soaked in blood and violence.
02:09Long enough to see Kaylin and my family for what they truly were.
02:12They had never loved me, and I no longer wanted to be his mate.
02:14Sensing my indifference, Kaylin let out a low, irritated sound.
02:17Selina knows you're coming back today.
02:19Her trauma response disorder is acting up again.
02:22Your parents and your sister are all at Pack Medical Center calming her down.
02:26I closed my eyes.
02:27The SUV drove into the heart of Crescent Moon Pack territory.
02:31An hour later, we arrived at my home.
02:33Only the Beta Butler and a few Omega Solvents were inside the manor.
02:36They caught the cheap, sour prison smelt clinging to me, and the disgust in their eyes was impossible to hide.
02:41My parents loved only Selina.
02:43To the servants, I had never been the eldest daughter of this house.
02:46The Beta Butler bowed respectfully to Kaylin first.
02:49Only then did he turn to me.
02:50Miss Lyra, Luna says that now you've returned, you are to stay inside your own scent circle.
02:55Do not wander around and disgrace the pack.
02:57Disgrace.
02:57I had endured seven years of silver burns in Salud's place.
03:01How had I become the shameful one?
03:03But my expectations had died seven years ago.
03:06On that storm-filled night when they used Alpha Command to force my confession.
03:10I understand.
03:10I turned toward the side entrance.
03:12Then Kaylin stiffened, receiving an urgent mind link.
03:15His pupils sharpened into slits.
03:17Lyra, Selen's scent is weakening.
03:20She needs me.
03:21Go rest.
03:22He did not wait for a reply.
03:23He turned at once and disappeared into the night.
03:26I limped back to the storage room that belonged to me and curled up on the narrow wooden bed.
03:33Late that night, drifting between sleep and exhaustion, I heard voices downstairs in the living room.
03:39It was my Beta sister, Chloe.
03:41Alpha father, Luna mother.
03:43Selina is in terrible shape mentally.
03:45Shouldn't we move Lyra out of the manor?
03:47If Selina catches her scent, she'll have another episode.
03:50My father sighed but said nothing.
03:52My mother answered first.
03:53She carries our blood.
03:54If we throw her out the moment she gets back from prison, what will the other packs say?
03:57Then what are we supposed to do?
03:58Chloe paced the room, agitation sharp in her voice.
04:01My father finally spoke.
04:03When Selen returns, order Lyra to suppress every trace of her scent.
04:08She is not to appear in front of Selen.
04:09She is not to leave her room for any reason.
04:11My eyes stayed shut, but a burning ache rose behind them.
04:15Then the custom comm device hidden beneath my pillow began to vibrate.
04:19An encrypted message.
04:20Miss Lyra, congratulations.
04:22You have passed the evaluation for the Global Institute for Werewolf and Supernatural Secrecy.
04:27Once you accept the contract, you will depart in ten days, on the night of the full moon,
04:31under a new identity for Sanctum Isle on Dominica Island.
04:34Your pack identity will be permanently erased.
04:36You may not contact any outside wolves for five years.
04:39I did not hesitate.
04:41On the holographic display, I signed my name.
04:44Lyra.
04:45I had passed the Institute selection process seven years ago.
04:48Before I could take the oath and join, my parents sent me to Silvermoon Penitentiary.
04:53Shortly before my release, I applied again.
04:55As expected, I passed.
04:57Ten days.
04:58If I could endure ten more days, I would sever the pack bond tying me to this frozen family forever.
05:05The next morning, I washed up and pushed open the warped door.
05:10A rich, sugary omega scent flooded the hallway.
05:13Selina was back.
05:15Dressed in a flowing white gown, she sat in the center of the leather sofa like a princess on display.
05:20My alpha father, my luna mother, Chloe, and Kaylin all surrounded her as if she was the center of their
05:26world.
05:27The beta butler set down an elegant cake.
05:30In perfect unison, everyone said,
05:33Happy Awakening Day, Selina.
05:34Selina smiled sweetly and thanked them all.
05:37Then she lifted her chin.
05:38I just got out of the sterile recovery room.
05:41Did anyone get me something special?
05:43My parents and Chloe each presented expensive gifts.
05:46Kaylin was reaching for his own.
05:49When his sharp gaze found me standing in the shadows.
05:52Lyra, you're awake.
05:54Come here, celebrate with us.
05:56Selina turned toward me, releasing a cloud of innocent pheromones.
05:59Sorry, sis.
06:00My nerve pain flared up yesterday, so I couldn't come pick you up.
06:03You're not mad, are you?
06:05Before I could answer, Kaylin spoke for me.
06:07Lyra isn't petty.
06:08She wouldn't blame you.
06:10At that, Selina boldly slipped her arm through his and looked straight at me.
06:14Since it's my Awakening Day, give me a present too.
06:17She smiled.
06:18I want Kaylin as my mate.
06:20Stealing another wolf's mate was one of the greatest taboons in Pac-Law.
06:24Yet after she said it openly, no one in the room object.
06:27Every wolf there stayed silent.
06:29Their status, their pressure, their authority, all pushed toward one thing.
06:33My surrender.
06:34Rage surged through my blood.
06:35I clenched my fists.
06:37And if I say no?
06:40Selina froze for half a second, then switched to French and whimpered dramatically.
06:44I was only joking.
06:45I didn't realize my sister's feral instinct was this savage.
06:49My Luna mother answered her in the same flawless French.
06:52Don't be afraid, Selina.
06:54Lyra spent too long out in the wild.
06:56Her bloodline is beneath yours.
06:58My alpha father released the calming scent of pine.
07:01Blood means nothing.
07:02Your mother and I have only one true daughter.
07:05Chloe joined in without hesitation.
07:06That's right, Selina.
07:07You're my only sister.
07:09I forced down the bitterness rising in my chest and pretended not to understand a word.
07:13And instead, I turned to Kaylin.
07:14What are they saying?
07:16His throat tightened before he answered.
07:19Selina said she was joking.
07:21Everyone just thinks you're being too sensitive.
07:23The room reeked of lies.
07:25What none of them knew was that I had understood every word.
07:28My Luna mother was a world-renowned painter.
07:31My alpha father had once ruled the business world.
07:33But ever since they brought me back from St. Mary's home, they despised the habits I had picked up surviving
07:38on my own.
07:39Every resource, every ounce of love, they gave it all to Selina.
07:43Ten years ago, when Selina was accepted into Elite Art Academy, the entire pack celebrated her.
07:48What they never knew was that I had been admitted to the most prestigious university in the country.
07:52I had also taught myself French, Italian, and Spanish.
07:55None of it mattered now.
07:56Soon, I would be gone from this territory for good.
07:58I just got out of Silvermoon Penitentiary.
08:00I want some air outside the territory.
08:02You all enjoy the party.
08:03Under their contemptuous stares, I dragged my damaged leg towards the door.
08:07Behind me, their laughter and French mockery tangled together.
08:10Not one of them remembered.
08:12Today was my awakening day, too.
08:13Once I left the territory, I suppressed my wolf aura and took a bus to downtown Seattle.
08:18Because of my prison record, the pack had erased my education and every official file tied to my name.
08:22With a ruined leg and no history, I could only find work at a run-down roadside diner.
08:26It would be enough to survive the next ten days.
08:30The irony was almost funny.
08:32Ever since they brought me back at fifteen, they had resented me for not being as accomplished as Selena and
08:36cut me off completely.
08:38I had paid for school, food, and survival by working in the human world.
08:42At eleven thirty that night, I finished washing the last dish.
08:45When I stepped outside, freezing rain hit my face.
08:48Then another scent cut through the storm.
08:50Cold fur.
08:52Powerful.
08:52A top-tier alpha.
08:53Kaelin stepped out of a black SUV and strode straight toward me.
08:58Lyra, why have you been gone so long?
09:00He grabbed my wrist and pulled me to the car.
09:03The rear door was already open.
09:05Lyra, happy awakening day.
09:07The words hit me like a blow.
09:09I stood there, frozen.
09:11Kaelin's pack and mine had been alive for generations.
09:13Our territories shared a border, and our families had been bound by an old promise long before either of us
09:19was born.
09:20Even after I went missing in Blackwood Forest at the age of two and was not found again until I
09:24was fifteen, bruised and scarred, that ancient agreement never changed.
09:30I still remember the first time I saw Kaelin after I was brought back.
09:34He stood in the sunlight wearing a white shirt, powerful enough to command submission, yet somehow warm at the same
09:40time.
09:41In that cold territory, he was the only one who never recoiled from the wild scent clinging to me.
09:47He used his alpha pressure to shield me.
09:49He brought me prey and gifts on holidays.
09:51He was the only person in that steel and stone world who had ever been kind to me.
09:56And when he was ambushed by a rival pack and left gravely empty, I gave him an echidna.
10:01I poured the core of my wolf vitality into him without hesitation.
10:04Yet, in the end, he was also the one who used alpha authority to send me to Silvermoon Penipotentiary with
10:11his own hands.
10:12Lyra, what is it?
10:13Kaelin's deep voice pulled me back to the present.
10:16Did you think I forgot your awakening day?
10:18I answered evenly, thank you.
10:20Then he handed me another beautifully wrapped box.
10:22When I opened it, I found a custom-made red wedding gown for a bonding right.
10:28Do you remember telling me as a child that you wanted to wear a red dress when we completed our
10:32mate bond?
10:33I had it made early.
10:35Do you like it?
10:36Bitterness filled my throat.
10:39Alpha, you remembered wrong.
10:41I don't like wedding dresses.
10:42And I hate red.
10:43The headmistress at St. Mary's home once told me she had found me abandoned outside a bridal shop.
10:48At the time, I had been wearing an expensive red dress.
10:51After I was old enough to remember, every full moon night I would return to bridal shop windows by instinct.
10:57Wearing red clothes so my people could follow my scent signature and bring me home.
11:03Kaelin's eyes tightened.
11:04Just like he had years ago, he reached over and ruffled my hair.
11:07I'm sorry.
11:08I remembered wrong.
11:09Come on.
11:10I'll take you to dinner.
11:11On the drive back, he kept my hand clasped tightly in his.
11:14Lyra, why is your scent so faint?
11:17Why are you thinner than before?
11:18And your leg, he never finished.
11:20A shrink ringtone cut through the car.
11:23The screen flashed one name, Selina.
11:26The moment he answered, panic flooded his face.
11:29Turn around.
11:29Now, back to the territory.
11:31The whole drive back, he spoke into the comdibession non-stop, trying to soothe her.
11:35When we rushed into the manor grounds, I looked up.
11:39Selina stood on the rooftop in a white dress, swaying at the edge.
11:43The moment she caught our scent, Selina looked down at us from above.
11:46Her face was pale as paper.
11:48My sister is back, she whispered.
11:50A worthless Omega like me should step aside now.
11:54Goodbye?
11:55Then she jumped.
11:56The Pac-Manon was only one story high.
11:58The roof was barely 30 feet above the ground.
12:00But when Selina fell, every one of my so-called family moved on instinct.
12:03My father, my mother, Chloe, even Kaylin.
12:05All of them lodged forward in a frenzy to save the weaker wolf.
12:08That night, the scream of ambulance sirens echoed over the territory.
12:13Seven years ago, my parents adopted daughter.
12:16My younger sister, Selina, a delicate Omega.
12:18Got drunk, caused a hit and run, and left blood spilled across the human territory border.
12:23My alpha father, my luna mother, and my biological younger sister all came to me with the same patronizing plea.
12:29Selina is an Omega.
12:30She's too fragile for prison.
12:32If she goes to Silvermoon Penitentiary, her wolf won't survive it.
12:35Lyra, take her place.
12:38I refused.
12:39But on a stormy night filled with thunder, my father used absolute alpha command.
12:43He crushed my will, took control of my mind, and personally delivered me to the prison transport.
12:47My fiancé, my fated mate, Kaylin, the strongest alpha in the pack, held back his raging wolf era and said
12:53to me,
12:53Lyra, when you get out, we'll complete the mate bond.
12:56Endure these seven years for now.
13:00Seven years later.
13:01Lyra, once you leave Silvermoon Penitentiary, keep your wolf under control and do not look back.
13:07I took the mold-smelling canvas bag from the guard's hand and limped through the iron gates,
13:12dragging the leg that had been ruined by four silver shackles.
13:15A black military SUV waited outside the territory.
13:17The window rolled down revealed Kaylin's sharp, striking face.
13:20Seven years had passed, and he looked exactly the same.
13:23The suffocating pressure of a top-tier alpha still radiated from him.
13:26Lyra.
13:26Instinctively, I shrunk back before forcing myself in the passenger seat.
13:29In the rearview mirror, I caught sight of my own reflection.
13:32Pale, gaunt.
13:33My neck covered in burn scars left by silver weapon.
13:36You've suffered these past seven years.
13:38I'll keep my promise.
13:39Kaylin said.
13:40At the next full moon night, I'll officially mark you and make you my Luna.
13:44He reached over and covered my rough hand with his.
13:47There was no spark, no shiver, no bond.
13:49I looked into his golden-green eyes, where my withered reflection stared back at me, and
13:53slowly pulled my hand away.
13:55Even the wolf inside me could not be bothered to wimper.
13:58Okay.
14:00Seven years in Silvermoon Penitentiary.
14:022,557 days soaked in blood and violence.
14:05Long enough to see Kaylin and my family for what they truly were.
14:08They had never loved me, and I no longer wanted to be his mate.
14:10Sensing my indifference, Kaylin let out a low, irritated sound.
14:12Selina knows you're coming back today.
14:15Her trauma response disorder is acting up again.
14:18Your parents and your sister are all at Pack Medical Center calming her down.
14:22I closed my eyes.
14:24The SUV drove into the heart of Crescent Moon Pack territory.
14:27An hour later, we arrived at my home.
14:29Only the Beta Butler and a few Omega Solvents were inside the manor.
14:32They caught the cheap, sour prison smell clinging to me, and the disgust in their eyes was impossible
14:37to hide.
14:37My parents loved only Selina.
14:39To the servants, I had never been the eldest daughter of this house.
14:42The Beta Butler bowed respectfully to Kaylin first.
14:45Only then did he turn to me.
14:47Miss Lyra, Luna says that now you've returned, you are to stay inside your own scent circle.
14:51Do not wander around and disgrace the pack.
14:53Disgrace.
14:53I had endured seven years of silver burns in Salud's place.
14:57How had I become the shameful one?
14:59But my expectations had died seven years ago.
15:02On that storm-filled night when they used Alpha Command to force my confession.
15:06I understand.
15:06I turned toward the side entrance.
15:08Then Kaylin stiffened, receiving an urgent mind link.
15:11His pupils sharpened into slits.
15:13Lyra.
15:15Selen's scent is weakening.
15:16She needs me.
15:17Go rest.
15:18He did not wait for a reply.
15:20He turned at once and disappeared into the night.
15:22I limped back to the storage room that belonged to me and curled up on the narrow wooden bed.
15:29Late that night, drifting between sleep and exhaustion, I heard voices downstairs in the
15:35living room.
15:36It was my Beta sister, Chloe.
15:38Alpha father.
15:38Luna mother.
15:39Selina is in terrible shape mentally.
15:42Shouldn't we move Lyra out of the manor?
15:43If Selina catches her scent, she'll have another episode.
15:46My father sighed, but said nothing.
15:48My mother answered first.
15:49She carries our blood.
15:50If we throw her out the moment she gets back from prison, what will the other pack say?
15:53Then what are we supposed to do?
15:55Chloe paced the room, agitation sharp in her voice.
15:57My father finally spoke.
15:59When Selene returns, order Lyra to suppress every trace of her scent.
16:04She is not to appear in front of Selene.
16:06She is not to leave her room for any reason.
16:07My eyes stayed shut, but a burning ache rose behind them.
16:11Then the custom comm device hidden beneath my pillow began to vibrate.
16:15An encrypted message.
16:16Miss Lyra, congratulations.
16:18You have passed the evaluation for the Global Institute for Werewolf and Supernatural Secrecy.
16:23Once you accept the contract, you will depart in ten days, on the night of the full moon,
16:27under a new identity for Sanctum Isle on Dominica Island.
16:30Your pack identity will be permanently erased.
16:32You may not contact any outside wolves for five years.
16:35I did not hesitate.
16:37On the holographic display, I signed my name.
16:40Lyra.
16:41I had passed the Institute's selection process seven years ago.
16:44Before I could take the oath and join, my parents sent me to Silver Moon Penitentiary.
16:49Shortly before my release, I applied again.
16:51As expected, I passed.
16:53Ten days.
16:54If I could endure ten more days, I would sever the pack bond tying me to this frozen family forever.
17:02The next morning, I washed up and pushed open the warped door.
17:06A rich, sugary omega scent flooded the hallway.
17:38Selina was back.
17:39My parents and Chloe each presented expensive gifts.
17:42Kalen was reaching for his own when his sharp gaze found me standing in the shadows.
17:49Lyra, you're awake.
17:51Come here.
17:51Celebrate with us.
17:52Selina turned toward me, releasing a cloud of innocent pheromones.
17:55Sorry, sis.
17:56My nerve pain flared up yesterday, so I couldn't come pick you up.
17:59You're not mad, are you?
18:01Before I could answer, Kalen spoke for me.
18:03Lyra isn't petty.
18:05She wouldn't blame you.
18:06At that, Selina boldly slipped her arm through his and looked straight at me.
18:10Since it's my awakening day, give me a present too.
18:14She smiled.
18:15I want Kalen as my mate.
18:16Stealing another wolf's mate was one of the greatest taboons in pack law.
18:20Yet after she said it openly, no one in the room object.
18:23Every wolf there stayed silent.
18:25Their status, their pressure, their authority all pushed toward one thing.
18:28My surrender.
18:30Rage surged through my blood.
18:32I clenched my fists.
18:33And if I say no?
18:36Selina froze for half a second, then switched to French and whimpered dramatically.
18:40I was only joking.
18:42I didn't realize my sister's feral instinct was this savage.
18:46My Luna mother answered her in the same flawless French.
18:49Don't be afraid, Selina.
18:50Lyra spent too long out in the wild.
18:52Her bloodline is beneath yours.
18:54My alpha father released the calming scent of pine.
18:57Blood means nothing.
18:58Your mother and I have only one true daughter.
19:01Chloe joined in without hesitation.
19:02That's right, Selina.
19:04You're my only sister.
19:05I forced down the bitterness rising in my chest and pretended not to understand a word.
19:09And instead, I turned to Kalen.
19:11What are they saying?
19:12His throat tightened before he answered.
19:15Selina said she was joking.
19:17Everyone just thinks you're being too sensitive.
19:19The room reeked of lies.
19:21What none of them knew was that I had understood every word.
19:24My Luna mother was a world-renowned painter.
19:27My alpha father had once ruled the business world.
19:29But ever since they brought me back from St. Mary's home, they despised the habits I had picked up surviving
19:34on my own.
19:35Every resource.
19:36Every ounce of love.
19:38They gave it all to Selina.
19:40Ten years ago, when Selina was accepted into Elite Art Academy, the entire pack celebrated her.
19:44What they never knew was that I had been admitted to the most prestigious university in the country.
19:48I had also taught myself French, Italian, and Spanish.
19:51None of it mattered now.
19:52Soon, I would be gone from this territory for good.
19:55I just got out of Silvermoon Penitentiary.
19:56I want some air outside the territory.
19:58You all enjoy the party.
19:59Under their contemptuous stares, I dragged my damaged leg towards the door.
20:03Behind me, their laughter and French mockery tangled together.
20:06Not one of them remembered.
20:08Today was my awakening day, too.
20:10Once I left the territory, I suppressed my wolf aura and took a bus to downtown Seattle.
20:14Because of my prison record, the pack had erased my education and every official file tied to my name.
20:18With a ruined leg and no history, I could only find work at a run-down roadside diner.
20:23It would be enough to survive the next ten days.
20:26The irony was almost funny.
20:28Ever since they brought me back at fifteen, they had resented me for not being as accomplished as Selina and
20:32cut me off completely.
20:34I had paid for school, food, and survival by working in the human world.
20:38At eleven-thirty that night, I finished washing the last dish.
20:41When I stepped outside, freezing rain hit my face.
20:44Then another scent cut through the storm.
20:47Cold fur.
20:48Powerful.
20:48A top-tier alpha.
20:50Kalen stepped out of a black SUV and strode straight toward me.
20:54Lyra, why have you been gone so long?
20:56He grabbed my wrist and pulled me to the car.
20:59The rear door was already open.
21:02Lyra, happy awakening day.
21:03The words hit me like a blow.
21:05I stood there, frozen.
21:07Kalen's pack and mine had been alive for generations.
21:09Our territories shared a border, and our families had been bound by an old promise long before either of us
21:15was born.
21:16Even after I went missing in Blackwood Forest at the age of two and was not found again until I
21:21was fifteen, bruised and scarred, that ancient agreement never changed.
21:26I still remember the first time I saw Kalen after I was brought back.
21:30He stood in the sunlight wearing a white shirt, powerful enough to command submission, yet somehow warm at the same
21:36time.
21:37In that cold territory, he was the only one who never recoiled from the wild scent clinging to me.
21:43He used his alpha pressure to shield me.
21:45He brought me prey and gifts on holidays.
21:48He was the only person in that steel and stone world who had ever been kind to me.
21:52And when he was ambushed by a rival pack and left Gravely Mountain, I gave him an echidna.
21:57I poured the core of my wolf vitality into him without hesitation.
22:01Yet, in the end, he was also the one who used alpha authority to send me to Silvermoon Pennipotentiary with
22:07his own hands.
22:08Lyra, what is it?
22:10Kalen's deep voice pulled me back to the present.
22:12Did you think I forgot your awakenation day?
22:14I answered evenly, thank you.
22:16Then he handed me another beautifully wrapped box.
22:18When I opened it, I found a custom-made red wedding gown for a bonding rite.
22:24Do you remember telling me as a child that you wanted to wear a red dress when we completed our
22:28mate bond?
22:29I had it made early.
22:31Do you like it?
22:33Bitterness filled my throat.
22:35Alpha, you remembered wrong.
22:37I don't like wedding dresses.
22:38And I hate red.
22:40The headmistress at St. Mary's home once told me she had found me abandoned outside a bridal shop.
22:44At the time, I had been wearing an expensive red dress.
22:47After I was old enough to remember,
22:49every full moon night I would return to bridal shop windows by instinct,
22:54wearing red clothes so my people could follow my scent signature and bring me home.
22:59Kalen's eyes tightened.
23:00Just like he had years ago, he reached over and ruffled my hair.
23:03I'm sorry.
23:04I remembered wrong.
23:05Come on.
23:06I'll take you to dinner.
23:07On the drive back, he kept my hand clasped tightly in his.
23:11Lyra, why is your scent so faint?
23:13Why are you thinner than before?
23:14And your leg, he never finished.
23:17A shrink ringtone cut through the car.
23:19The screen flashed one name, Selina.
23:22The moment he answered, panic flooded his face.
23:25Turn around.
23:26Now, back to the territory.
23:27The whole drive back, he spoke into the comdibeshan nonstop, trying to soothe her.
23:31When we rushed into the manor grounds, I looked up.
23:36Selina stood on the rooftop in a white dress, swaying at the edge.
23:39The moment she caught our scent, Selina looked down at us from above.
23:42Her face was pale as paper.
23:44My sister is back, she whispered.
23:46A worthless Omega like me should step aside now.
23:50Goodbye?
23:51Then she jumped.
23:52The Pac-Manon was only one story high.
23:54The roof was barely 30 feet above the ground.
23:56But when Selina fell, every one of my so-called family moved on instinct.
23:59My father, my mother, Chloe, even Kaylin.
24:02All of them lodged forward in a frenzy to save the weaker wolf.
24:04That night, the scream of ambulance sirens echoed over the territory.
24:10Seven years ago, my parents' adopted daughter.
24:12My younger sister, Selina, a delicate Omega, got drunk, caused a hit and run, and left blood spilled across the
24:18human territory border.
24:19My alpha father, my luna mother, and my biological younger sister all came to me with the same patronizing plea.
24:25Selina is an Omega.
24:27She's too fragile for prison.
24:28If she goes to Silvermoon Penitentiary, her wolf won't survive it.
24:31Lyra, take her place.
24:34I refused, but on a stormy night of rope of thunder, my father used absolute alpha command.
24:39He crushed my will, took control of my mind, and personally delivered me to the prison transplant.
24:43My fiancé, my fated mate, Kaylin, the strongest alpha in the pack, held back his raging wolf era and said
24:49to me,
24:49Lyra, when you get out, we'll complete the mate bond.
24:52Endure these seven years for now.
24:56Seven years later.
24:57Lyra, once you leave Silvermoon Penitentiary, keep your wolf under control and do not look back.
25:04I took the mold-smelling canvas bag from the guard's hand and limped through the iron gates,
25:08dragging the leg that had been ruined by four silver shackles.
25:11A black military SUV waited outside the territory.
25:14The window rolled down revealed Kaylin's sharp, striking face.
25:16Seven years had passed, and he looked exactly the same.
25:19The suffocating pressure of a top-tier alpha still radiated from him.
25:22Lyra, instinctively I shrunk back before forcing myself in the passenger seat.
25:25In the rearview mirror I caught sight of my own reflection, pale, gaunt, my neck covered in burn scars left
25:31by silver weapon.
25:32You've suffered these past seven years. I'll keep my promise, Kaylin said.
25:36At the next full moon night, I'll officially mark you and make you my Luna.
25:40He reached over and covered my rough hand with his.
25:43There was no spark, no shiver, no bond.
25:46I looked into his golden-green eyes, where my withered reflection stared back at me and slowly pulled my hand
25:51away.
25:52Even the wolf inside me could not be bothered to whimper.
25:54Okay.
25:56Seven years in Silvermoon Penitentiary.
25:582,557 days soaked in blood and violence.
26:02Long enough to see Kaylin and my family for what they truly were.
26:04They had never loved me, and I no longer wanted to be his mate.
26:06Sensing my indifference, Kaylin let out a low, irritated sound.
26:09Selina knows you're coming back today.
26:11Her trauma response disorder is acting up again.
26:14Your parents and your sister are all at PAC Medical Center calming her down.
26:18I closed my eyes.
26:20The SUV drove into the heart of Crescent Moon Pack territory.
26:23An hour later, we arrived at my home.
26:25Only the Beta Butler and a few Omega Solvents were inside the manor.
26:29They caught the cheap, sour prison smelt clinging to me, and the disgust in their eyes was impossible to hide.
26:33My parents loved only Selina.
26:35To the servants, I had never been the eldest daughter of this house.
26:39The Beta Butler bowed respectfully to Kaylin first.
26:41Only then did he turn to me.
26:43Miss Lyra, Luna says that now you've returned, you are to stay inside your own scent circle.
26:47Do not wander around and disgrace the pack.
26:49Disgrace.
26:50I had endured seven years of silver burns in Salud's place.
26:53How had I become the shameful one?
26:55But my expectations had died seven years ago.
26:58On that storm-filled night when they used Alpha Command to force my confession.
27:02I understand.
27:02I turned toward the side entrance.
27:04Then Kaylin stiffened, receiving an urgent mind link.
27:08His pupils sharpened into slits.
27:09Lyra.
27:11Selene's scent is weakening.
27:12She needs me.
27:13Go rest.
27:14He did not wait for a reply.
27:16He turned at once and disappeared into the night.
27:18I limped back to the storage room that belonged to me, and curled up on the narrow wooden bed.
27:25Late that night, drifting between sleep and exhaustion, I heard voices downstairs in the living room.
27:32It was my Beta sister, Chloe.
27:34Alpha father, Luna mother.
27:36Selina is in terrible shape mentally.
27:38Shouldn't we move Lyra out of the manor?
27:39If Selina catches her scent, she'll have another episode.
27:42My father sighed, but said nothing.
27:44My mother answered first.
27:45She carries our blood.
27:46If we throw her out the moment she gets back from prison, what will the other packs say?
27:49Then what are we supposed to do?
27:51Chloe paced the room, agitation sharp in her voice.
27:54My father finally spoke.
27:55When Selene returns, order Lyra to suppress every trace of her scent.
28:00She is not to appear in front of Selene.
28:02She is not to leave her room for any reason.
28:03My eyes stayed shut, but a burning ache rose behind them.
28:08Then the custom comm device hidden beneath my pillow began to vibrate.
28:11An encrypted message.
28:13Miss Lyra, congratulations.
28:14You have passed the evaluation for the Global Institute for Werewolf and Supernatural Secrecy.
28:19Once you accept the contract, you will depart in ten days, on the night of the full moon,
28:23under a new identity for Sanctum Isle on Dominica Island.
28:26Your pack identity will be permanently erased.
28:28At least, you may not contact any outside wolves for five years.
28:31I did not hesitate.
28:33On the holographic display, I signed my name.
28:36Lyra.
28:37I had passed the Institute's selection process seven years ago.
28:40Before I could take the oath and join, my parents sent me to Silvermoon Penitentiary.
28:45Shortly before my release, I applied again.
28:48As expected, I passed.
28:49Ten days.
28:50If I could endure ten more days, I would sever the pack bond tying me to this frozen family forever.
28:58The next morning, I washed up and pushed open the warped door.
29:02A rich, sugary omega scent flooded the hallway.
29:06Selena was back.
29:07Dressed in a flowing white gown, she sat in the center of the leather sofa like a princess on display.
29:13My alpha father, my luna mother, Chloe, and Kaylin all surrounded her as if she was the center of their
29:19world.
29:20The beta butler set down an elegant cake.
29:22In perfect unison, everyone said,
29:25Happy Awakening Day, Selena.
29:27Selena smiled sweetly and thanked them all.
29:29Then she lifted her chin.
29:31I just got out of the sterile recovery room.
29:33Did anyone get me something special?
29:35My parents and Chloe each presented expensive gifts.
29:39Kaylin was reaching for his own.
29:41When his sharp gaze found me standing in the shadows.
29:45Lyra, you're awake.
29:47Come here, celebrate with us.
29:48Selena turned toward me, releasing a cloud of innocent pheromones.
29:51Sorry, sis.
29:52My nerve pain flared up yesterday so I couldn't come pick you up.
29:56You're not mad, are you?
29:57Before I could answer, Kaylin spoke for me.
29:59Lyra isn't petty.
30:01She wouldn't blame you.
30:02At that, Selena boldly slipped her arm through his and looked straight at me.
30:06Since it's my Awakening Day, give me a present too.
30:10She smiled.
30:11I want Kaylin as my mate.
30:12Stealing another wolf's mate was one of the greatest taboons in Pac-Law.
30:16Yet after she said it openly, no one in the room object.
30:19Every wolf there stayed silent.
30:21Their status, their pressure, their authority, all pushed toward one thing.
30:25My surrender.
30:26Rage surged through my blood.
30:28I clenched my fists.
30:29And if I say no?
30:32Selena froze for half a second, then switched to French and whimpered dramatically.
30:36I was only joking.
30:38I didn't realize my sister's feral instinct was this savage.
30:42My Luna mother answered her in the same flawless French.
30:44Don't be afraid, Selena.
30:46Lyra spent too long out in the wild.
30:48Her bloodline is beneath yours.
30:50My alpha father released the calming scent of pine.
30:53Blood means nothing.
30:55Your mother and I have only one true daughter.
30:57Chloe joined in without hesitation.
30:59That's right, Selena.
31:00You're my only sister.
31:01I forced down the bitterness rising in my chest and pretended not to understand a word.
31:05And instead, I turned to Kaylin.
31:07What are they saying?
31:08His throat tightened before he answered.
31:11Selena said she was joking.
31:13Everyone just thinks you're being too sensitive.
31:15The room reeked of lies.
31:17What none of them knew was that I had understood every word.
31:21My Luna mother was a world-renowned painter.
31:23My alpha father had once ruled the business world.
31:26But ever since they brought me back from St. Mary's home,
31:28they despised the habits I had picked up surviving on my own.
31:31Every resource, every ounce of love, they gave it all to Selene.
31:36Ten years ago, when Selena was accepted into Elite Art Academy,
31:39the entire pack celebrated her.
31:40What they never knew was that I had been admitted to the most prestigious university in the country.
31:44I had also taught myself French, Italian, and Spanish.
31:47None of it mattered now.
31:49Soon, I would be gone from this territory for good.
31:51I just got out of Silvermoon Penitentiary.
31:53I want some air outside the territory.
31:54You all enjoy the party.
31:55Under their contemptuous stares, I dragged my damaged leg towards the door.
31:59Behind me, their laughter and French mockery tangled together.
32:02Not one of them remembered.
32:04Today was my awakening day, too.
32:06Once I left the territory, I suppressed my wolf aura and took a bus to downtown Seattle.
32:10Because of my prison record, the pack had erased my education and every official file tied to my name.
32:15With a ruined leg and no history, I could only find work at a run-down roadside diner.
32:19It would be enough to survive the next ten days.
32:22The irony was almost funny.
32:24Ever since they brought me back at 15, they had resented me for not being as accomplished as Selina and
32:29cut me off completely.
32:30I had paid for school, food, and survival by working in the human world.
32:34At 11.30 that night, I finished washing the last dish.
32:37When I stepped outside, freezing rain hit my face.
32:41Then another scent cut through the storm.
32:43Cold fur.
32:44Powerful.
32:45A top-tier alpha.
32:46Kaylin stepped out of a black SUV and strode straight toward me.
32:50Lyra.
32:51Why have you been gone so long?
32:53He grabbed my wrist and pulled me to the car.
32:55The rear door was already open.
32:58Lyra.
32:58Happy awakening day.
33:00The words hit me like a blow.
33:01I stood there, frozen.
33:03Kaylin's pack and mine had been allied for generations.
33:06Our territories shared a border, and our families had been bound by an old promise long before either of us
33:11was born.
33:12Even after I went missing in Blackwood Forest at the age of two and was not found again until I
33:17was 15.
33:18Bruised and scarred.
33:19That ancient agreement never changed.
33:22I still remember the first time I saw Kaylin after I was brought back.
33:26He stood in the sunlight wearing a white shirt, powerful enough to command submission, yet somehow warm at the same
33:33time.
33:33In that cold territory, he was the only one who never recoiled from the wild scent clinging to me.
33:39He used his alpha pressure to shield me.
33:41He brought me prey and gifts on holidays.
33:44He was the only person in that steel and stone world who had ever been kind to me.
33:48And when he was ambushed by a rival pack and left greatly wounded, I gave him an echidna.
33:53I poured the core of my wolf vitality into him without hesitation.
33:57Yet in the end, he was also the one who used alpha authority to send me to Silvermoon Pennipotentiary with
34:03his own hands.
34:04Lyra, what is it?
34:06Kaylin's deep voice pulled me back to the present.
34:08Did you think I forgot your awakening day?
34:10I answered evenly, thank you.
34:12Then he handed me another beautifully wrapped box.
34:15When I opened it, I found a custom-made red wedding gown for a bonding right.
34:20Do you remember telling me as a child that you wanted to wear a red dress when we completed our
34:24mate bond?
34:25I had it made early.
34:27Do you like it?
34:29Bitterness filled my throat.
34:31Alpha, you remembered wrong.
34:33I don't like wedding dresses.
34:35And I hate red.
34:36The headmistress at St. Mary's home once told me she had found me abandoned outside a bridal shop.
34:40At the time, I had been wearing an expensive red dress.
34:43After I was old enough to remember, every full moon night I would return to bridal shop windows by instinct,
34:50wearing red clothes so my people could follow my scent signature and bring me home.
34:55Kaylin's eyes tightened.
34:56Just like he had years ago, he reached over and ruffled my hair.
34:59I'm sorry.
35:00I remembered wrong.
35:01Come on.
35:02I'll take you to dinner.
35:03On the drive back, he kept my hand clasped tightly in his.
35:07Lyra, why is your scent so faint?
35:09Why are you thinner than before?
35:10And your leg, he never finished.
35:13A shrink ringtone cut through the car.
35:15The screen flashed one name, Selina.
35:18The moment he answered, panic flooded his face.
35:21Turn around.
35:22Now, back to the territory.
35:23The whole drive back, he spoke into the comdibeshan non-stop, trying to soothe her.
35:27When we rushed into the manor grounds, I looked up.
35:32Selina stood on the rooftop in a white dress, swaying at the edge.
35:35The moment she caught our scent, Selina looked down at us from above.
35:39Her face was pale as paper.
35:40My sister is back, she whispered.
35:42A worthless Omega like me should step aside now.
35:46Goodbye?
35:47Then she jumped.
35:48The Pac-Manon was only one story high.
35:50The roof was barely 30 feet above the ground.
35:52But when Selina fell, every one of my so-called family moved on instinct.
35:55My father, my mother, Chloe, even Kaylin, all of them lodged forward in a frenzy to save
36:00the weaker wolf.
36:01That night, the scream of ambulance sirens echoed over the territory.
36:06Seven years ago, my parents' adopted daughter.
36:08My younger sister, Selina, a delicate Omega, got drunk, caused a hit and run, and left blood
36:13spilled across the human territory border.
36:15My Alpha father, my Luna mother, and my biological younger sister all came to me with the same
36:20patronizing plea.
36:22Selina is an Omega.
36:23She's too fragile for prison.
36:24If she goes to Silvermoon Penitentiary, her wolf won't survive it.
36:28Lyra, take her place.
36:30I refused.
36:31But on a stormy night ago, my father used absolute Alpha command.
36:35He crushed my will, took control of my mind, and personally delivered me to the prison transport.
36:40My fiancé, my fated mate, Kaylin, the strongest Alpha in the pack, held back his raging
36:44wolf era and said to me,
36:46Lyra, when you get out, we'll complete the mate bond.
36:48Endure these seven years for now.
36:52Seven years later.
36:54Lyra, once you leave Silvermoon Penitentiary, keep your wolf under control and do not look
36:59back.
36:59I took the mold-smelling canvas bag from the guard's hand and limped through the iron gates,
37:04dragging the leg that had been ruined by four silver shackles.
37:07A black military SUV waited outside the territory.
37:10The window rolled down revealed Kaylin's sharp, striking face.
37:12Seven years had passed, and he looked exactly the same.
37:15The suffocating pressure of a top-tier Alpha still radiated from him.
37:18Lyra, instinctively I shrunk back before forcing myself in the passenger seat.
37:21In the rearview mirror I caught sight of my own reflection.
37:24Pale, gaunt, my neck covered in burn scars left by silver weapon.
37:28You've suffered these past seven years.
37:30I'll keep my promise.
37:32Kaylin said.
37:33At the next full moon night, I'll officially mark you and make you my Luna.
37:36He reached over and covered my rough hand with his.
37:39There was no spark, no shiver, no bond.
37:42I looked into his golden-green eyes, where my withered reflection stared back at me and
37:46slowly pulled my hand away.
37:48Even the wolf inside me could not be bothered to whimper.
37:51Okay.
37:52Seven years in Silvermoon Penitentiary.
37:552,557 days soaked in blood and violence.
37:58Long enough to see Kaylin and my family for what they truly were.
38:00They had never loved me, and I no longer wanted to be his mate.
38:02Sensing my indifference, Kaylin let out a low, irritated sound.
38:05Selina knows you're coming back today.
38:07Her trauma response disorder is acting up again.
38:10Your parents and your sister are all at PAC Medical Center calming her down.
38:14I closed my eyes.
38:16The SUV drove into the heart of Crescent Moon Pack territory.
38:19An hour later, we arrived at my home.
38:22Only the Beta Butler and a few Omega Solvents were inside the manor.
38:25They caught the cheap, sour prison smelt clinging to me, and the disgust in their eyes was impossible
38:29to hide.
38:30My parents loved only Selina.
38:31To the servants, I had never been the eldest daughter of this house.
38:35The Beta Butler bowed respectfully to Kaylin first.
38:38Only then did he turn to me.
38:39Miss Lyra, Luna says that now you've returned, you are to stay inside your own scent circle.
38:43Do not wander around and disgrace the pack.
38:45Disgrace.
38:46I had endured seven years of silver burns in Salou's place.
38:49How had I become the shameful one?
38:51But my expectations had died seven years ago, on that storm-filled night when they used
38:56Alpha Command to force my confession.
38:58I understand.
38:59I turned toward the side entrance.
39:01Then Kaylin stiffened, receiving an urgent mind link.
39:04His pupils sharpened into slits.
39:06Lyra, Selen's scent is weakening.
39:09She needs me.
39:09Go rest.
39:10He did not wait for a reply.
39:12He turned at once and disappeared into the night.
39:14I limped back to the storage room that belonged to me and curled up on the narrow wooden bed.
39:21Late that night, drifting between sleep and exhaustion, I heard voices downstairs in the living room.
39:28It was my Beta sister, Chloe.
39:30Alpha father.
39:31Luna mother.
39:32Selina is in terrible shape mentally.
39:34Shouldn't we move Lyra out of the manor?
39:36If Selina catches her scent, she'll have another episode.
39:38My father sighed, but said nothing.
39:40My mother answered first.
39:41She carries our blood.
39:42If we throw her out the moment she gets back from prison, what will the other pack say?
39:45Then what are we supposed to do?
39:47Chloe paced the room, agitation sharp in her voice.
39:50My father finally spoke.
39:51When Selina returns, order Lyra to suppress every trace of her scent.
39:56She is not to appear in front of Selina.
39:58She is not to leave her room for any reason.
40:00My eyes stayed shut, but a burning ache rose behind them.
40:04Then the custom comm device hidden beneath my pillow began to vibrate.
40:07An encrypted message.
40:08Miss Lyra, congratulations.
40:10You have passed the evaluation for the Global Institute for Werewolf and Supernatural Secrecy.
40:15Once you accept the contract, you will depart in ten days, on the night of the full moon,
40:19under a new identity for Sanctum Isle on Dominica Island.
40:22Your pack identity will be permanently erased.
40:25You may not contact any outside wolves for five years.
40:28I did not hesitate.
40:29On the holographic display, I signed my name.
40:32Lyra.
40:33I had passed the Institute's selection process seven years ago.
40:36Before I could take the oath and join, my parents sent me to Silver Moon Penitentiary.
40:41Shortly before my release, I applied again.
40:44As expected, I passed.
40:46Ten days.
40:46If I could endure ten more days, I would sever the pack bond tying me to this frozen family forever.
40:54The next morning, I washed up and pushed open the warped door.
40:58A rich, sugary omega scent flooded the hallway.
41:01Selina was back.
41:03Dressed in a flowing white gown, she sat in the center of the leather sofa like a princess on display.
41:09My alpha father, my luna mother, Chloe, and Kaylin all surrounded her as if she was the center of their
41:15world.
41:16The beta butler set down an elegant cake.
41:19In perfect unison, everyone said,
41:21Happy Awakening Day, Selina.
41:23Selina smiled sweetly and thanked them all.
41:25Then she lifted her chin.
41:27I just got out of the sterile recovery room.
41:29Did anyone get me something special?
41:31My parents and Chloe each presented expensive gifts.
41:35Kaylin was reaching for his own.
41:37When his sharp gaze found me standing in the shadows.
41:41Lyra, you're awake.
41:43Come here, celebrate with us.
41:44Selina turned toward me, releasing a cloud of innocent pheromones.
41:47Sorry, sis.
41:48My nerve pain flared up yesterday so I couldn't come pick you up.
41:52You're not mad, are you?
41:53Before I could answer, Kaylin spoke for me.
41:55Lyra isn't petty.
41:57She wouldn't blame you.
41:58At that, Selina boldly slipped her arm through his and looked straight at me.
42:03Since it's my awakening day, give me a present too.
42:06She smiled.
42:07I want Kaylin as my mate.
42:09Stealing another wolf's mate was one of the greatest taboons in pack law.
42:12Yet after she said it openly, no one in the room object.
42:15Every wolf there stayed silent.
42:17Their status, their pressure, their authority all pushed toward one thing.
42:21My surrender.
42:22Rage surged through my blood.
42:24I clenched my fists.
42:25And if I say no?
42:28Selina froze for half a second, then switched to French and whimpered dramatically.
42:32I was only joking.
42:34I didn't realize my sister's feral instinct was this savage.
42:38My Luna mother answered her in the same flawless French.
42:41Don't be afraid, Selina.
42:42Lyra spent too long out in the wild.
42:44Her bloodline is beneath yours.
42:46My alpha father released the calming scent of pine.
42:49Blood means nothing.
42:50Your mother and I have only one true daughter.
42:53Chloe joined in without hesitation.
42:55That's right, Selina.
42:56You're my only sister.
42:57I forced down the bitterness rising in my chest and pretended not to understand a word.
43:01And instead, I turned to Kaylin.
43:03What are they saying?
43:04His throat tightened before he answered.
43:07Selina said she was joking.
43:09Everyone just thinks you're being too sensitive.
43:11The room reeked of lies.
43:14What none of them knew was that I had understood every word.
43:17My Luna mother was a world-renowned painter.
43:19My alpha father had once ruled the business world.
43:22But ever since they brought me back from St. Mary's home, they despised the habits I had picked up surviving
43:27on my own.
43:28Every resource, every ounce of love, they gave it all to Selina.
43:32Ten years ago, when Selina was accepted into Elite Art Academy, the entire pack celebrated her.
43:37What they never knew was that I had been admitted to the most prestigious university in the country.
43:40I had also taught myself French, Italian, and Spanish.
43:43None of it mattered now.
43:45Soon I would be gone from this territory for good.
43:47I just got out of Silvermoon Penitentiary.
43:49I want some air outside the territory.
43:50You all enjoy the party.
43:52Under their contemptuous stairs, I dragged my damaged leg towards the door.
43:55Behind me, their laughter and French mockery tangled together.
43:59Not one of them remembered.
44:00Today was my awakening day, too.
44:02Once I left the territory, I suppressed my wolf aura and took a bus to downtown Seattle.
44:06Because of my prison record, the pack had erased my education and every official file tied to my name.
44:11With a ruined leg and no history, I could only find work at a run-down roadside diner.
44:15It would be enough to survive the next ten days.
44:18The irony was almost funny.
44:20Ever since they brought me back at fifteen, they had resented me for not being as accomplished as Selina and
44:25cut me off completely.
44:26I had paid for school, food, and survival by working in the human world.
44:30At eleven-thirty that night, I finished washing the last dish.
44:33When I stepped outside, freezing rain hit my face.
44:37Then another scent cut through the storm.
44:39Cold fur.
44:40Powerful.
44:41A top-tier alpha.
44:42Kalen stepped out of a black SUV and strode straight toward me.
44:46Lyra, why have you been gone so long?
44:49He grabbed my wrist and pulled me to the car.
44:51The rear door was already open.
44:54Lyra, happy awakening day.
44:56The words hit me like a blow.
44:57I stood there, frozen.
44:59Kalen's pack and mine had been allied for generations.
45:02Our territories shared a border, and our families had been bound by an old promise long before either of us
45:08was born.
45:08Even after I went missing in Blackwood Forest at the age of two and was not found again until I
45:13was fifteen, bruised and scarred, that ancient agreement never changed.
45:19I still remember the first time I saw Kalen after I was brought back.
45:22He stood in the sunlight wearing a white shirt, powerful enough to command submission, yet somehow warm at the same
45:29time.
45:29In that cold territory, he was the only one who never recoiled from the wild scent clinging to me.
45:35He used his alpha pressure to shield me.
45:38He brought me prey and gifts on holidays.
45:40He was the only person in that steel and stone world who had ever been kind to me.
45:45And when he was ambushed by a rival pack and left gravely wounded, I gave him an echidna.
45:49I poured the core of my wolf vitality into him without hesitation.
45:53Yet, in the end, he was also the one who used alpha authority to send me to Silvermoon Penipotentiary with
45:59his own hands.
46:00Lyra, what is it?
46:02Kalen's deep voice pulled me back to the present.
46:04Did you think I forgot your awakening day?
46:07I answered evenly, thank you.
46:08Then he handed me another beautifully wrapped box.
46:11When I opened it, I found a custom-made red wedding gown for a bonding right.
46:16Do you remember telling me as a child that you wanted to wear a red dress when we completed our
46:21mate bond?
46:21I had it made early.
46:24Do you like it?
46:25Bitterness filled my throat.
46:27Alpha, you remembered wrong.
46:29I don't like wedding dresses.
46:31And I hate red.
46:32The headmistress at St. Mary's home once told me she had found me abandoned outside a bridal shop.
46:36At the time, I had been wearing an expensive red dress.
46:40After I was old enough to remember, every full moon night I would return to bridal shop windows by instinct,
46:46wearing red clothes so my people could follow my scent signature and bring me home.
46:51Kalen's eyes tightened.
46:53Just like he had years ago, he reached over and ruffled my hair.
46:56I'm sorry.
46:56I remembered wrong.
46:58Come on.
46:58I'll take you to dinner.
46:59On the drive back, he kept my hand clasped tightly in his.
47:03Lyra, why is your scent so faint?
47:05Why are you thinner than before?
47:07And your leg, he never finished.
47:09A shrink ringtone cut through the car.
47:11The screen flashed one name, Selina.
47:14The moment he answered, panic flooded his face.
47:17Turn around.
47:18Now, back to the territory.
47:19The whole drive back, he spoke into the comdibeshan nonstop, trying to soothe her.
47:24When we rushed into the manor grounds, I looked up.
47:28Selina stood on the rooftop in a white dress, swaying at the edge.
47:31The moment she caught our scent, Selina looked down at us from above.
47:35Her face was pale as paper.
47:36My sister is back, she whispered.
47:39A worthless Omega like me should step aside now.
47:42Goodbye?
47:43Then she jumped.
47:44The Pac-Manon was only one story high.
47:46The roof was barely 30 feet above the ground.
47:48But when Selina fell, every one of my so-called family moved on instinct.
47:52My father, my mother, Chloe, even Kalen.
47:54All of them lodged forward in a frenzy to save the weaker wolf.
47:57That night, the scream of ambulance sirens echoed over the territory.
48:02Seven years ago, my parents adopted daughter.
48:04My younger sister, Selina, a delicate Omega.
48:07Got drunk, caused a hit and run, and left blood spilled across the human territory border.
48:12My alpha father, my luna mother, and my biological younger sister all came to me with the same patronizing plea.
48:18Selina is an Omega.
48:19She's too fragile for prison.
48:20If she goes to Silvermoon Penitentiary, her wolf won't survive it.
48:24Lyra, take her place.
48:26I refused, but on a stormy night, a rope of thunder, my father used absolute alpha command.
48:31He crushed my will, took control of my mind, and personally delivered me to the prison transport.
48:36My fiancé, my fated mate, Kalen, the strongest alpha in the pack, held back his raging wolf era and said
48:41to me,
48:42Lyra, when you get out, we'll complete the mate bond.
48:44Endure these seven years for now.
48:48Seven years later.
48:50Lyra, once you leave Silvermoon Penitentiary, keep your wolf under control and do not look back.
48:56I took the mold-smelling canvas bag from the guard's hand and limped through the iron gates,
49:00dragging the leg that had been ruined by four silver shackles.
49:03A black military SUV waited outside the territory.
49:06The window rolled down revealed Kalen's sharp, striking face.
49:09Seven years had passed, and he looked exactly the same.
49:11The suffocating pressure of a top-tier alpha still radiated from him.
49:14Lyra.
49:15Instinctively, I shrunk back before forcing myself in the passenger seat.
49:17In the rearview mirror, I caught sight of my own reflection, pale, gaunt, my neck covered in burn scars left
49:23by silver weapon.
49:24You've suffered these past seven years.
49:26I'll keep my promise, Kalen said.
49:29At the next full moon night, I'll officially mark you and make you my Luna.
49:33He reached over and covered my rough hand with his.
49:35There was no spark, no shiver, no bond.
49:38I looked into his golden-green eyes, where my withered reflection stared back at me and slowly pulled my hand
49:43away.
49:43Even the wolf inside me could not be bothered to wimper.
49:47Okay.
49:49Seven years in Silvermoon Penitentiary.
49:512,557 days soaked in blood and violence.
49:54Long enough to see Kalen and my family for what they truly were.
49:56They had never loved me, and I no longer wanted to be his mate.
49:59Sensing my indifference, Kalen let out a low, irritated sound.
50:01Selina knows you're coming back today.
50:03Her trauma response disorder is acting up again.
50:07Your parents and your sister are all at PAC Medical Center calming her down.
50:11I closed my eyes.
50:12The SUV drove into the heart of Crescent Moon PAC territory.
50:15An hour later, we arrived at my home.
50:18Only the Beta Butler and a few Omega Solvents were inside the manor.
50:21They caught the cheap, sour prison smelt clinging to me, and the disgust in their eyes was impossible to hide.
50:26My parents loved only Selina.
50:28To the servants, I had never been the eldest daughter of this house.
50:31The Beta Butler bowed respectfully to Kalen first.
50:34Only then did he turn to me.
50:35Miss Lyra, Luna says that now you've returned, you are to stay inside your own scent circle.
50:39Do not wander around and disgrace the PAC.
50:41Disgrace.
50:42I had endured seven years of silver burns in Salud's place.
50:45How had I become the shameful one?
50:48But my expectations had died seven years ago.
50:50On that storm-filled night when they used Alpha Command to force my confession.
50:54I understand.
50:55I turned toward the side entrance.
50:57Then Kalen stiffened, receiving an urgent mind link.
51:00His pupils sharpened into slits.
51:02Lyra, Selen's scent is weakening.
51:05She needs me.
51:05Go rest.
51:06He did not wait for a reply.
51:08He turned at once and disappeared into the night.
51:11I limped back to the storage room that belonged to me and curled up on the narrow wooden bed.
51:18Late that night, drifting between sleep and exhaustion, I heard voices downstairs in the living room.
51:24It was my Beta sister, Chloe.
51:26Alpha father.
51:27Luna mother.
51:28Selina is in terrible shape mentally.
51:30Shouldn't we move Lyra out of the manor?
51:32If Selina catches her scent, she'll have another episode.
51:35My father sighed, but said nothing.
51:36My mother answered first.
51:37She carries our blood.
51:38If we throw her out the moment she gets back from prison, what will the other packs say?
51:42Then what are we supposed to do?
51:43Chloe paced the room, agitation sharp in her voice.
51:46My father finally spoke.
51:47When Selene returns, order Lyra to suppress every trace of her scent.
51:52She is not to appear in front of Selene.
51:54She is not to leave her room for any reason.
51:56My eyes stayed shut, but a burning ache rose behind them.
52:00Then the custom comm device hidden beneath my pillow began to vibrate.
52:04An encrypted message.
52:05Miss Lyra, congratulations.
52:07You have passed the evaluation for the Global Institute for Werewolf and Supernatural Secrecy.
52:11Once you accept the contract, you will depart in ten days, on the night of the full moon,
52:15under a new identity for Sanctum Isle on Dominica Island.
52:18Your pack identity will be permanently erased.
52:21You may not contact any outside wolves for five years.
52:24I did not hesitate.
52:25On the holographic display, I signed my name.
52:28Lyra.
52:29I had passed the Institute's selection process seven years ago.
52:33Before I could take the oath and join, my parents sent me to Silvermoon Penitentiary.
52:37Shortly before my release, I applied again.
52:40As expected, I passed.
52:42Ten days.
52:43If I could endure ten more days, I would sever the pack bond tying me to this frozen family forever.
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