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