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The Alpha's Widow: I Seduced My Dead Mate's Brother to Survive - Short Drama Full HD 1080p #ASM
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00:00To survive.
00:01Three days after the funeral,
00:03I seduced my late mate's brother at his coffin.
00:07I wore only thin mourning linen.
00:09My back pressed to cold oak.
00:12I needed a child.
00:13One Luna Morrigan would believe was the last bloodline of her dead eldest son.
00:18I needed to survive.
00:20In fact, I lied.
00:22I trembled because I was just reborn.
00:24In my first life, Silverstone Pack sent me to Blackstone as a peace bride.
00:29My mate Alistair died three days after our wedding.
00:32He and his father fell in battle, slain by my own people.
00:36Three months later, his mother Luna Morrigan gave me poisoned wine in this same hall.
00:42Daughter of the enemy, a cursed widow.
00:45Your death will break the alliance and spark war.
00:48My soul was trapped, forced to watch it all.
01:01I stared at Cassian.
01:03For three years, he drowned Silverstone in blood.
01:07Today, we remind the world who rules it.
01:12Today!
01:18Forcing all Pax to bow to his rule, I watched him point a dagger at his own mother's throat for
01:23a grey-eyed shepherd girl.
01:24As they clashed, the family locket flew right through my ghostly heart.
01:28Then light swallowed everything.
01:43Candlelight flickered.
01:45If you're the one coming to me...
01:47His fingers sank into my jaw.
01:49Why are you shaking?
01:51I was watching the snow outside.
01:54It's cold.
01:55Fragile thing.
01:56The man above me bit out, impatient.
02:01Focus.
02:04Cassian.
02:05Then be rougher.
02:08Warm me up.
02:10His breath caught.
02:11He froze for half a heartbeat, clearly surprised that I dared.
02:17The coffin against my back was cold, but his palm against my chest was hot.
02:23Then he cupped the back of my head firmly and kissed me deeper and harder.
02:27I climbed onto his shoulders, letting my mourning gown slip down one arm.
02:32Then I felt his teeth grazed the pulse point in my throat.
02:35Our ragged breathing filled the hall.
02:39I needed a child.
02:41One Luna Morrigan would believe was the last bloodline of her dead eldest son.
02:46I needed to survive.
02:49That night after, I tempted him in every place we met.
02:53Beside Alistair's coffin.
02:56The garden.
02:59In the snow.
03:02My side chamber.
03:04By the bookshelf.
03:06I memorized his scent.
03:08Learned when his guard slipped.
03:10And learned to wrap my legs tighter.
03:12Driving him to take me with desperate force.
03:15Every time he fell asleep beside me.
03:17I would take out a moon bloom leaf and press it to my belly.
03:21I'd close my eyes and pray in silence.
03:25Moon goddess above.
03:26Tell me the result.
03:29After a moth, I opened my eyes to see the moon bloom leaf glowing silver in the moonlight.
03:39The poisoned cup arrived as I sat beside Alistair's coffin.
03:44Luna Morrigan wore morning black and held the silver cup.
03:47Alistair has been gone three months.
03:49Now it's time you joined him.
03:52The liquid in the cup was clear.
03:54I knew the taste well.
03:55I can't.
03:57I knelt.
03:58My hand moving to my stomach.
04:00I carry his child.
04:03Impossible.
04:03Her hand froze.
04:05Alistair never marked you before his death.
04:08He marked me.
04:09I looked up, moving her eyes directly.
04:12Our wedding night.
04:13Don't you remember?
04:15I was gambling.
04:16Gambling that a mother would choose to believe her son had left behind blood.
04:20Gambling that she would not kill her own grandchild right now.
04:23She stared at me for a long time.
04:26Summon the moon priest.
04:27Her voice icy.
04:28Verify.
04:32Priest.
04:33Verify whether the child in her womb carries my son's blood.
04:37Madame Fecilia.
04:41Swear by the moon goddess.
04:43And any lie shall find no shelter under her gaze.
04:47The priest held the moon blue moon.
04:49His gaze cold and piercing.
04:52Witnessed by the moon goddess.
04:53I, Cassilia Silverstone.
04:56Swear that the child in my womb is Blackstone Blood.
04:58Luna Morius' grandchild.
05:00The moon bloom leaf in the priest's hand burst into silver light.
05:04The moon bloom tree confirms.
05:06It is true.
05:08How conveniently time this child's arrival is.
05:12I held my breath.
05:13Go. Rest.
05:16I stood up.
05:18My legs trembling.
05:20But I steadied myself.
05:21Walked calmly out of the morning hall.
05:24I stepped into the sunlit corridor.
05:26For the first time the air tasted sweet.
05:29Then darkness crashed over me.
05:31Suffocation seized my throat.
05:33Cassian pinned me against a corridor pillar.
05:35His fingers ironed around my neck.
05:37You calculated me.
05:41Not a question.
05:43But a verdict.
05:45His eyes blazed with the same fury I'd seen in my past life.
05:50Three months.
05:53You schemed to approach me.
05:55All for this child.
05:59My back pressed against the cold pillar.
06:02I looked up at him.
06:03He faltered.
06:04Perhaps he had expected denial.
06:08Wait for death.
06:09Or fight to live.
06:12Which would you choose?
06:15You expect me to bow quietly to my fate.
06:18I cut him off.
06:19You know I was the Silverstones' sacrifice.
06:21You know I had nowhere to run.
06:23You know your mother, Luna Morian.
06:25Once the war between Blackstone and Silverstone fully abropes.
06:28She'll kill me to set a battle banner.
06:30You know nothing.
06:34Do you think I watched coldly from the side?
06:37You have no idea what merciful arrangement I made for you.
06:40I froze.
06:41Fine.
06:42He stared at me.
06:43Since you deem me an accomplice.
06:47Let me show you what an accomplice is capable of.
06:50He seized my wrist.
06:53Dragged me down the corridor.
06:56I fell onto the bed.
06:58His shadow fell over.
07:00He breathed against my ear.
07:01You schemed against me.
07:03Then scheme this through to the end.
07:04His teeth grazing my earlobe.
07:08His teeth sank into my shoulder.
07:13My nails raked deep furrows down his back.
07:16He drove into me like a man unraveling.
07:24That night, he had no gentleness left.
07:28Yet his hands held my belly with desperate tenderness.
07:31Near dawn, he fell asleep.
07:33In sleep, he looked almost harmless.
07:36Moonlight poured through the window.
07:38Gilding his lashes.
07:39Softening the hard lines of his face.
07:44I rose quietly.
07:47Where are you going?
07:51Where are you going?
07:53His voice came from behind me.
07:55Sharp and cold.
07:56Luna Moralek will send someone to check.
07:58I did not turn.
08:01I can't be found here.
08:03I prepared a deathfall straight for you.
08:06He sat up in bed.
08:07A cabin in the north.
08:09A new name.
08:10His eyes bright in the darkness.
08:11You could have lived freely.
08:13Not as my brother's widow.
08:14Not as...
08:15Not as the woman who schemed against me.
08:18I walked over.
08:19His voice was low.
08:20Almost hollow.
08:22His eyes bright in the darkness.
08:24Are you going to planning to defy your mother Luna Moran?
08:27To set me free?
08:29He looked at me for a long time.
08:31Come here.
08:32He pulled my hand.
08:33Dragged me into his arms.
08:34I plan to hide you away.
08:36His heartbeat was fast.
08:37Matching mine.
08:38Make you mine.
08:41And mine alone.
08:53And mine alone.
09:08The Blackstone's secret dreft.
09:11False death.
09:12New identity.
09:14You will be mine.
09:16Not my brother's widow.
09:17Not Blackstone's young mistress.
09:19Just...
09:20He lowered his head.
09:21Kissed my forehead.
09:23Mine.
09:24Mistress in the dark.
09:29Cassian.
09:31The idea detonated in my skull.
09:40This is your mercy.
09:41What?
09:42False death.
09:44New identity.
09:45Hidden away.
09:46To be your secret mistress.
09:49Cecilia.
09:52Cecilia.
09:53What difference is there from waiting to die?
09:55I grabbed my clothes.
09:56Walked toward the door.
09:57The difference is...
09:58You would live!
09:59His voice chased from behind.
10:01I stopped at the door, hand on the latch.
10:04Live!
10:04As your pet!
10:06Until I die unknown!
10:08I pulled the door open and walked out.
10:12Morning light stabbed my eyes.
10:20After that day, Cassian left for battle.
10:25Luna Morrigan never spoke of the poisoned cup again.
10:38Yet by her silent command, the servants ignored all my requests for daily necessities.
10:46Cold leftovers.
10:48Thin worn winter clothes.
10:50Time passed.
10:51Day by day.
10:52I needed a new path.
10:54I began appearing at Luna Morrigan's side.
10:56Morning herbal tea.
10:59Afternoon walks.
11:00Evening dinner.
11:02I did not speak.
11:03Only kept her company.
11:05One week passed.
11:06Two weeks passed.
11:08One day.
11:09She spoke to me.
11:14You are a quiet child.
11:18Quieter than I thought.
11:21Also smarter than I thought.
11:23I was gambling.
11:24Gambling on a grieving mother's need to fill the void left by her lost son.
11:28Cecilia.
11:30You are finding a way to live?
11:32My heart raced.
11:33But I only nodded.
11:35To prove your worth to me.
11:39Her eyes hardened into icy slits.
11:44Cassian needs a mate.
11:50Help him pick a suitable one.
11:52I lowered my eyes.
11:58Yes.
11:58Lunar Moria.
12:03The day Cassian returned, I waited for him at the manor gates.
12:06He led a column of black stone wolf warriors.
12:09A long line of war spoils trailing behind him.
12:11Cassian, on horseback.
12:13His gaze swept over the crowd, locked onto mine.
12:15Then drifted down to my faintly rounded belly.
12:18Then he rode past me without a word.
12:21I stepped forward to block his path.
12:25Cecilia.
12:27Long time no see.
12:28I have a surprise for you.
12:30Tomorrow.
12:30The back garden.
12:33What surprise?
12:34Come and you'll know.
12:35He straightened.
12:36Lips pressed thin, deigning to nod.
12:38I exhaled.
12:39He had agreed.
12:40Then he pointed to a carriage behind him.
12:42Find her some work.
12:43I picked her up on the road.
12:45She knows sheep.
12:49I turned.
12:50The carriage curtain lifted.
12:52A grey-eyed girl looked at me.
12:54Timid.
12:54My blood turned to ice.
12:57Aayla.
12:57The shepherd girl from my first life.
13:01Of course, Cassius brings back such a pretty girl.
13:05She must be well arranged.
13:06Cassian's expression turned playful as he watched me.
13:09Was this.
13:09His warning not to mistreat Aayla.
13:11She must be his true love from his past life.
13:13I'll arrange it personally.
13:15How about some simple banquet service work?
13:22Cassian dropped a...
13:23Whatever.
13:24...and left.
13:27The next day.
13:29Cassian came to the back garden.
13:31He wore a deep blue formal coat.
13:33His hair tied back.
13:35He smiled.
13:36Striding toward me with a bouquet of white roses.
13:39He looked at me.
13:40Lips curving.
13:41His gaze making my heart skip.
13:44Then he looked past my shoulder.
13:46Then he glanced past my shoulder.
13:48Wolf maidens gathered.
13:49He looked at me.
13:50Silk.
13:51Gems.
13:52Laughter.
13:53All around.
13:54Twelve pairs of eyes fixed eagerly on him.
13:57His steps faltered.
13:59Then the smile froze on his face.
14:02Luna Morrigan stepped out from the pavilion.
14:05Satisfaction rare on her features.
14:09Well done.
14:10You've made thorough arrangements.
14:13Cassian even got all dressed up.
14:15He's brought gifts to please the ladies.
14:19Cassian's expression changed.
14:21Excuse us for a moment.
14:22He seized my hand.
14:24Dragged me into the shadow of the corridor panel.
14:27White rose petals crushed between his fingers.
14:31This is your carefully prepared surprise.
14:33Bringing me here to pick a noble mate.
14:38This was Luna Morrigan's delight.
14:41He stared at me.
14:43Eyes burning.
14:44Then he laughed dangerously.
14:46Fine.
14:47Fine.
14:48Fine.
14:49Fine.
14:53Cassian pulled me back to the garden center.
14:55Stopping before the assembled guests.
14:59Mum.
15:01There is already someone in my heart.
15:03He gripped my hand tightly.
15:05I struggled.
15:06Tried to shake him off, but he would not release.
15:09Do not jest.
15:12No jest.
15:14My heart pounded wildly.
15:16I feared he would speak madness.
15:18I wrenched at his fingers with all my strength.
15:21His hand finally torn from mine.
15:23His eyes on me.
15:24The one I desire is her.
15:28All gazes followed his pointing finger.
15:31To me, I froze.
15:33Screaming inwardly.
15:35Crash behind me.
15:37Porcelain shattered.
15:38I turned.
15:39Bowls and plates scattered across the floor.
15:42Who is this girl?
15:44Cassian fell silent.
15:47Aayla only looked at him timid.
15:49Cecilia.
15:50You tell me.
15:51Luna Morrigan's voice cut.
15:53A shepherd girl I brought back.
15:55Cassian spoke suddenly.
15:59Isla.
16:00Luna Morrigan's expression shifted.
16:03She looked past me.
16:04The girl behind me.
16:06A low born woman who bewitches Blackstone's future alpha should die.
16:13I could not tell which of us she meant.
16:20Isla is my beloved.
16:23I exhaled.
16:24My heartbeat dropped from my throat back to my chest.
16:27He had chosen her.
16:28Just as in the first life, history was repeating itself.
16:32And I was standing beside.
16:33Luna Morrigan's expression did not change.
16:36She only waved her hand.
16:38The ball is dismissed.
16:41The twelve wolf maidens exchanged glances.
16:44Then lowered their heads and withdrew.
16:46Aayla remained standing.
16:47Eyes on the shattered porcelain.
16:50You stay.
16:52And you.
16:53She did not look at me.
16:54She looked at Aayla.
16:55The door closed behind us.
17:00Luna Morrigan sat in the master's seat.
17:03Cassian stood.
17:05Aayla knelt.
17:06I stood by the corridor pillar.
17:08Kill her.
17:10Tonight.
17:11Who?
17:12The shepherd girl.
17:14Impossible.
17:17Cassian, you are the future alpha.
17:19Your mate must be the Pax Luna, not some roadside shepherd girl.
17:24My mate.
17:24I choose myself.
17:27You choose?
17:29Do you choose a mate or do you choose rebellion?
17:33Cassian's shoulders tensed.
17:36I knew this stance.
17:37In my first life before he pressed the dagger to her throat.
17:40He had stood just so.
17:45You're obsessed with control.
17:47When will it end?
17:48When you become alpha.
17:50I am alpha now.
17:51You are merely the heir.
17:53You are merely the heir.
17:54Since your father died.
17:55Since your brother died.
17:56Until I allow it.
17:57You are nothing but Cassian.
17:59My son.
18:00The heir flows.
18:01Aayla's knees trembled.
18:03I looked at her.
18:04Remembering myself kneeling on the morning hall.
18:06We were both chips.
18:07Both tools.
18:09I choose the one I desire as my mate.
18:12She cannot become Luna.
18:14I do not need Luna.
18:16Every alpha needs a Luna.
18:18Otherwise the pack splits, bleeds, falls to-
18:21Falls to what?
18:22He cut through her words.
18:23Like father.
18:24Like brother.
18:25Dying under silverstone blades.
18:27Her expression finally changed.
18:29You hate me.
18:30Because you believe I drove them to their deaths.
18:33Did you not?
18:34They chose the battlefield themselves.
18:36Not I.
18:37Cassian looked at her for a long time.
18:40Then he glanced at me.
18:42He turned.
18:43Took Aayla's hand.
18:45She will not die.
18:46Unless you kill me first.
18:48Cassian passed by me without another look.
18:51You saw.
18:53This is the future alpha.
18:56Weak.
18:56Bewitched.
18:58Taken by-
18:58By what?
18:59She paused.
19:00She only waved her hand, dismissing me.
19:03As I turned, I heard her whisper,
19:05By love.
19:09She was waiting.
19:10As was I.
19:12My belly grew rounder.
19:14The moon-bloom leaf glowed in my palm.
19:17The priest pronounced the child healthy.
19:20The bloodline pure.
19:21But she only nodded.
19:23Her eyes on the window toward Cassian's quarters.
19:27Cecilia, how long do you think Aayla will live?
19:30My hand stilled.
19:31Once, Alistair hated me.
19:33Because I forced him to marry a stranger.
19:36You.
19:38But I was right.
19:39At least this preserved his bloodline.
19:41Don't you agree?
19:43Now Cassian hates me.
19:46History repeats.
19:48What should I do?
19:49I looked at her.
19:51What do you wish me to do?
19:53She smiled.
19:54The same smile when she handed me the poisoned wine before.
19:57She produced the same silver cup.
20:00I was not surprised.
20:02Aayla must die.
20:03Or you join her.
20:05After you deliver the child.
20:10I cannot kill an innocent.
20:12Then you are useless.
20:15Useless people should not consume Blackstone's resources.
20:18After she left.
20:20The poison cup remained on the table.
20:22My days returned to what they had been.
20:25Cold meals.
20:26Thin clothes.
20:27The servants contempt.
20:28This time.
20:29I knew it was Luna Morrigan's order.
20:31She was forcing me to move against Aayla.
20:34I could not.
20:35Harming the innocent was not my way.
20:37Let alone.
20:38Aayla was Cassian's chosen beloved.
20:41If harm came to Aayla.
20:42In the future he would make me pay in blood.
20:45Yet I could not defy Luna Morrigan.
20:47If I did not act against Aayla.
20:48She would make my life unbearable.
20:51What could I do?
20:52Trapped between the two of them.
20:53I have no path to survival.
20:55Then.
20:56The thought struck.
20:57Leave this place.
20:59No longer be the enemy's daughter.
21:01Nor the widow who brought curse upon the family heir.
21:03But how to escape the heavily guarded Blackstone Manor.
21:06I needed the death false draft.
21:09Cassian had spoken of it.
21:10I infiltrated Cassian's quarters.
21:16A few maids passed.
21:18I hid behind a corridor pillar.
21:21Aayla is so fortunate.
21:22Prince Cassian visits her every night.
21:25I watched Cassian enter Aayla's chamber.
21:27The lamp burned for a long while.
21:30Good.
21:31Their world of two.
21:32Time for me.
21:34Study.
21:35Hidden compartment.
21:36Secret chamber.
21:37I searched every place.
21:39At last I found a plain white porcelain bottle by his bed.
21:43My hands trembled as I opened it.
21:45The smell was sharp.
21:46But I could not tell if it was what I need.
21:49I took out the moon bloom leaf.
21:51Pressed it to the bottle.
21:52Closed my eyes.
21:54Moon bloom tree above.
21:55Reveal the truth.
21:57The leaf.
21:57Glowed images.
21:58Flooded in.
21:59Not the draft ingredients.
22:01Cassian.
22:02Standing bathed in the moonlight.
22:04Leaf in hand.
22:05Eyes closed.
22:07Murmuring.
22:07The vision shifted.
22:09He looked at me.
22:10In the morning hall.
22:11In the study.
22:12In the garden.
22:13The moon.
22:13His heart racing.
22:15His temperature rising.
22:16His wolf spirit restless.
22:18Not Ayla.
22:19Me.
22:24Every time he entered Ayla's chamber.
22:26He stood at the window.
22:27Looking toward my direction.
22:29Every time he said.
22:31My beloved.
22:32His fingers clenched.
22:34As if enduring pain.
22:36The moon bloom leaf does not lie.
22:38You saw.
22:39My eyes flew open.
22:42You came to steal the death false drought?
22:44I stepped back.
22:46My spine hitting the wall.
22:49Uncertain if it was real?
22:51Luna ordered me to kill Ayla or die with her.
22:53He entered.
22:55Closed the door.
22:57Then die.
22:58False death.
23:00I will help you.
23:01Why?
23:02Why help me?
23:03He approached.
23:04Hand covering mine on the leaf.
23:06Because I love you.
23:07The moon bloom tree bears witness.
23:09The moon bloom leaf burst into light.
23:12He drew closer.
23:13Hands on my shoulders.
23:14The death false drought.
23:15The northern cabin.
23:16New identity.
23:17Freedom.
23:17You still want me as your secret mistress?
23:19Never.
23:19It's only temporary.
23:21Until I'm free of my mother's coercion.
23:22Until she is no longer a threat to you.
23:24One hand tangled in my hair.
23:26The other took the porcelain bottle from my grasp.
23:28The real draft is in a safer place.
23:31In three days.
23:32It is mother's birthday banquet.
23:33I'll slip it to you amid the chaos.
23:37Why help me?
23:38He paused.
23:39Did not turn.
23:40Because.
23:41You are mine.
23:45The morning of the banquet.
23:47Luna summoned me at the tower.
23:48Cecilia.
23:50You have been restless these days.
23:53I said nothing.
23:54My heart tightened.
23:55Cassian and you.
23:57Did you think I did not know?
23:58My blood turned to ice.
24:00Isla is merely a shield.
24:01He thinks he has won.
24:03But he is only my son.
24:05Luna Morrigan, I do not understand what misunderstand-
24:07What misunderstanding that my second son fell for his elder brother's widow and got her with child?
24:12I collapsed.
24:13But I clung to hope.
24:15The child in my midst is your grandchild.
24:18Enemy blood.
24:19Bastard born of adultery.
24:22Unfit to taint the family line.
24:23She waved her hand.
24:25Deal with her.
24:28The banquet is in full wish tonight.
24:30Let us stoke the flames further.
24:32Fire spread beyond the tower window.
24:34I fell to the tower floor, watching her turn to leave.
24:37I shielded my belly.
24:39My child was only three months.
24:41The door burst open.
24:42Cassian stood in the doorway, blood streaking his face.
24:45Not his.
24:46Behind him lay two fallen warriors.
24:48God.
24:48He seized and dragged me through burning corridors.
24:51Heat licked our backs.
24:53Wooden beams crashed through my head.
24:56The death falls Drost.
24:58Drink it now.
25:00I'll carry you out and bury you on the edge of the manor.
25:03Wait three days.
25:04I'll come dig you up.
25:05He pressed a porcelain bottle into my hand.
25:07My hand shook around the bottle.
25:09Why should I trust you?
25:10You may not too.
25:11But you have no choice.
25:15Luna knows everything.
25:16She knows Isla is a fraud.
25:18Knows the child is mine.
25:19Knows you.
25:20He paused.
25:22Knows I love you.
25:25The bottle burned in my palm.
25:27Drink.
25:27Or die.
25:29Fire swallowed the tower.
25:31Cassian's palm burned hot.
25:32The bottle in my hand felt cold.
25:34I pulled the stopper.
25:35The smell was sharp.
25:37I tilted my head back and drank it all.
25:39The liquid scorched my throat.
25:40Bitterness flooded my mouth.
25:42Then numbness spread from my tongue to my limbs.
25:44My vision blurred.
25:45His face swam amid the firelight.
25:47Lie down.
25:48He pressed me onto the burning cliff.
25:49Hold your breath.
25:50Three days.
25:51I will come for you.
25:52He bent to press one last kiss to my forehead.
25:55You are mine.
25:56Darkness swallowed my consciousness.
25:57I heard beams crash.
25:59His footsteps fade.
26:00And Luna Morgan's cold laughter beyond the fire.
26:06Darkness.
26:07Suffocation.
26:07The weight of earth pressed my chest.
26:10I opened my eyes and my mouth to scream.
26:12But I couldn't.
26:14I clawed upward into my fingertips touching cold air.
26:19A hand seized me.
26:21The azul closed behind him.
26:22Moonlight blinded.
26:23Cassian knelt at the grave's edge.
26:25Mud caked.
26:26Eyes bloodshot.
26:27Behind him stretched the northern border waistline.
26:30I looked down at my belly.
26:31The swell remained.
26:32Trembling.
26:33I touched it and felt a faint flutter.
26:35The child lived.
26:36Cassian.
26:38Don't speak.
26:39He lifted me onto the horse's back.
26:41Luna believes you dead.
26:42Wrapped me in his cloak.
26:43Now, you are a dead woman.
26:45The horse galloped more.
26:47I looked back.
26:50Blackstone Manor left behind us.
26:53The northern cabin.
26:55A new identity.
26:58Freedom.
26:59I leaned against his back and smelled blood.
27:01To get me out.
27:02Why are you wounded?
27:03How many had he killed?
27:04It did matter.
27:05But I was too tired.
27:08It doesn't matter.
27:09The horse stopped before dawn.
27:11A wooden cabin.
27:12Embers dying in the hearth.
27:14He placed me on the bed.
27:15Turned to tend his wounds.
27:18Cassian.
27:20Is this prison?
27:21Or freedom?
27:23Both.
27:23Then laughed.
27:24The door locked.
27:26The cabin was more comfortable than expected.
27:29Hearth.
27:29Blankets.
27:30And stored food.
27:32Beyond the window lay a frozen wasteland.
27:34Wolf howls.
27:36Echoing through the night.
27:37Cassian came every few days.
27:39Thought medicine.
27:40Food.
27:41And books.
27:42He never touched me.
27:43Only sat by the hearth.
27:45Watching my belly grow rounder by the day.
27:48A name for the child.
27:49Not yet chosen.
27:53If a boy.
27:55Perhaps.
27:56Not yours.
27:57His eyes darkened.
27:58Like the moon hidden by clouds.
28:01I know.
28:02He rose.
28:03Walked to the door.
28:04Luna is purging dissenters.
28:06I must return.
28:08How long?
28:09Until she no longer suspects.
28:11Or until her suspicion costs nothing.
28:14He left.
28:16I counted days.
28:18Seven.
28:19Fourteen.
28:20Twenty-one.
28:22The food dwindled.
28:23The medicine ran out.
28:25One snowy night.
28:27Pain flared in my belly.
28:29The lock clicked open from outside.
28:32It was not Cassian in Winter.
28:34A border wanderer.
28:36Drawn by the cabin's smoke.
28:38He saw me.
28:39Then my belly.
28:40His eyes were greed.
28:42Silver wolf blood glowed in the dark.
28:45My pupils turning silver.
28:49Big fortune.
28:50He raised his hunting knife.
28:52For my baby.
28:53I seized the fire toms.
28:55The struggle was weak.
28:57He fell.
28:58Blood soaked the floor red.
29:00I dragged his corpse outside.
29:02Then returned to find the pain worsening.
29:04I pressed moon bloom leaf to my belly.
29:07Closed my eyes.
29:08Prayed.
29:09The leaf glowed.
29:11The pain eased.
29:12By dawn.
29:13I made a decision.
29:15I packed my belongings.
29:17Took all the medicine.
29:18And walked north.
29:20Three days later.
29:21I reached a border town.
29:22A mixed land.
29:24Where wolves traded with other races.
29:26I hung out my sign.
29:28Healer.
29:29I had studied medicine.
29:31And my skills are peerless.
29:33But no one came for treatment.
29:35Until a blood soaked wolf warrior.
29:38Collapsed at my door.
29:42He collapsed at the clinic door.
29:44I dragged him inside and cut open his armor.
29:47Wounds covered his body.
29:49The deadliest lay at the back of his skull.
29:52Blunt force trauma.
29:53A depressed fracture.
29:55I spent the night in surgery.
29:57He woke up three days later.
29:59Blue eyes empty.
30:03Who are you?
30:05Healer.
30:07Who am I?
30:08I froze amnesia.
30:10Retrograde memory loss from skull damage.
30:13I do not know.
30:14Only that you collapsed at my door.
30:17He looked down at his hands.
30:19Large.
30:20Rough.
30:21Warrior's hands.
30:22He tried to make a fist.
30:24I am a warrior.
30:26It would seem so.
30:28He was silent for a long time.
30:29Then looked at me.
30:31Eyes suddenly soft.
30:32You saved me.
30:34Yes.
30:35Why?
30:36Because you collapsed at my door.
30:39He laughed.
30:40That pure, simple laugh made me freeze.
30:44I will repay you.
30:46With my life.
30:47He reached out.
30:48Gently touched my rounded belly.
30:50He stayed.
30:51Not as patient as guard.
30:53He said he would repay.
30:55So he never left my side.
30:57So he never left my side.
30:57I treated patients.
30:59He stood at the door like a statue.
31:01Someone tried to cheat on payment.
31:04One look from him.
31:05And they paid obediently.
31:08Nights, I studied herbs.
31:10He sat by the hearth, polishing an old sword.
31:13A name for the child?
31:14He asked suddenly.
31:16No.
31:18Why?
31:20Not yet chosen.
31:25He set down the sword and came to my side.
31:28He knelt.
31:29His eyes level with mine.
31:31The gesture made my heart skip.
31:33Cassian never knelt.
31:34He always looked down.
31:35May I suggest one?
31:37He asked.
31:39For temporary use.
31:43Go ahead.
31:43He placed his hand gently on my belly.
31:45The child moved.
31:46Kicked his palm.
31:47He laughed.
31:49Star.
31:50Little star for temporary use.
31:52I turned away.
31:53Afraid he would see my tears.
31:56Leah.
31:57You may call me by this new name from now on.
31:59He smiled and thought for a while.
32:01Liam.
32:02After yours.
32:06Blackstone Manor.
32:07Cassian stood in a pool of blood.
32:09Luna Morrigan was locked in the town.
32:11Dissenting elders were hanged at the gates.
32:13He had spent three months purging all opposition in blood.
32:16He entered the study.
32:17A map hung on the wall.
32:19The border town circled in red.
32:21Found her?
32:22He asked the shadow.
32:24No, Alpha.
32:25The north is too vast.
32:26She may have...
32:27Continued searching.
32:29He sat.
32:30Fingers tapping the desk.
32:32My brother's death.
32:33What did the investigation find?
32:36He said suddenly.
32:37The shadow was silent.
32:39Speak.
32:40The battlefield that year.
32:41Traces of a third party.
32:43Not Silverstone.
32:45Not Blackstone.
32:47Someone did not want the heir to come back.
32:49Cassian's fingers stopped.
32:50Continue the investigation.
32:52After the door closed, he took out a plain white porcelain bottle.
32:57Inside lay a moon bloom leaf, carved with a name.
32:59Cecilia.
33:01You are mine.
33:02He said to the empty room.
33:04Dead or not.
33:06The border town's winter passed.
33:08Liam learned to identify herbs.
33:10To brew medicines.
33:11To gently massage my shoulders when I grew tired.
33:13You had nightmares again last night.
33:16Calling a name.
33:18What name?
33:20Cassian.
33:22Somewhat familiar to me.
33:24My hand stilled.
33:25Was he your husband?
33:26Was he your husband?
33:27He asked concernly.
33:28No.
33:30Did he hurt you?
33:31I looked at him.
33:33This man had lost his memory.
33:34Yet he showed such fatherly tenderness toward my baby.
33:37If I told him the whole truth, would he leave?
33:39Would he lock me away like Cassian?
33:41He is the past.
33:43Unimportant.
33:44Liam looked at me long.
33:46Then reached out, gently wiped my tear.
33:48I will protect you and little star.
33:51No matter what the past holds.
33:53Your future is with me.
33:54He kissed my forehead.
33:56Like a family.
33:57I closed my eyes.
33:59Outside, a black horse halted at the corner.
34:01Its rider cloaked in blackstone pack hues.
34:04I smelled it.
34:05Black cedar.
34:06Blood.
34:07And Cassian.
34:08I pushed Liam away.
34:10Seized the moon bloom leaf.
34:11Glowed in my palm.
34:12Warning.
34:13We must leave.
34:14I told Liam.
34:15Out the back door!
34:16Why?
34:18Just go!
34:22The door burst open.
34:23Cassian stood in the doorway.
34:25Thinner than three months passed.
34:26Colder.
34:27He looked at me.
34:28At my belly.
34:28Then at Liam.
34:29You found a new guard.
34:31A replacement, eh?
34:32He is not!
34:33Liam stepped before me without hesitation.
34:36Cassian's gaze shifted from ice to scrutiny.
34:38He stared at Liam's face.
34:40An aged, battle-worn mirror.
34:42My brother.
34:42Liam frowned.
34:43What are you calling me?
34:45Cassian stepped forward.
34:46Alistair.
34:47Alistair Blackstone!
34:49Liam shook his head.
34:50You are familiar, but I do not remember.
34:53Impossible!
34:53I saw you die!
34:55Speak!
34:56Who are you?
34:57Why wear his face?
34:59Cassian!
35:00He has lost his memory!
35:01He remembers nothing!
35:03Cassian looked at me.
35:04Too much in his gaze, anger, pain, and fear.
35:08You defend him!
35:11He flung Liam to the ground, then came toward me.
35:14Very well.
35:16An amnesiac.
35:17Taking my woman.
35:19Keeping my child.
35:20Your child.
35:21Liam spoke suddenly.
35:23What child?
35:24He turned to look at me.
35:25My wife.
35:26Naturally my child.
35:27How could you speak so to your brother's wife, Cassian?
35:30You are-
35:31Yes.
35:32I remember now.
35:33I am Alistair Blackstone.
35:34Your husband.
35:35You may not recall our wedding night.
35:37Cassian's face changed into pale.
35:39Alistair turned to Cassian.
35:40The battlefield last year.
35:42Third party signs.
35:44Delayed reinforcements.
35:46Cassian, was it you?
35:51Silence.
35:53Long silence.
35:57You deliberately delayed the rescue.
36:00Because I was the heir.
36:01Because-
36:01Because I hated you from birth.
36:04You had everything.
36:05I had nothing.
36:06Even her.
36:07Alistair looked at me.
36:08At the swollen belly.
36:10How long was I absent?
36:13Seven months.
36:15Not to me.
36:15To my belly.
36:16His hand trembled as he touched.
36:18Cassian laughed.
36:20Touching.
36:21But she is mine.
36:23The child is mine.
36:25She is my wife.
36:27So is the child.
36:28The brothers faced each other.
36:30Their two wolves in confrontation.
36:31I refuse.
36:33But the whole room shook.
36:35His wolf spirit awakening.
36:36Blackstone pack's alpha power.
36:39You have no right brother.
36:41You were absent seven years.
36:43The pack is mine.
36:45The army is mine.
36:46She-
36:46I'm not anyone's.
36:48I spoke.
36:49They both looked at me.
36:50I stood.
36:52I stood.
36:52Belly heavy.
36:53But spine straight.
36:54The moon bloom leaf blowed in my palm.
36:57You fight for the pack.
36:58For power.
36:59For me.
37:00But no one ever asked what I want.
37:02I stepped over.
37:03Silver wolf blood boiled long so fast in my veins.
37:10Cecilia.
37:11Do not touch me.
37:15Silver light burst on the moon.
37:17My pupils turned pure silver.
37:19Hair moving without wind.
37:21The moon bloom tree pattern emerging on my belly.
37:25This is the power of the silver stone pure blood.
37:28You thought me as a sacrifice upon an accessory.
37:32But I am silver wolf.
37:34I can heal.
37:35Can sense.
37:36Can make warriors of two packs lay down their blades on the battlefield.
37:39Or drive them to slaughter each other.
37:43I raised my hand.
37:44Light gathered.
37:45Alistair.
37:46You were absent seven months.
37:48But your duty remains.
37:50Return and be alpha.
37:52But not for me.
37:53For the pack.
37:54Cassian your love is far too heavy.
37:56Heavy enough to break me.
37:58I want no cage.
38:00Not even a gilded one.
38:02The light clicked.
38:03Then receded.
38:04I returned to normal.
38:06But something had changed forever.
38:09I choose neither.
38:11I choose myself.
38:13And the child.
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