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00:07my best friend stole my future alpha on bonding day she wore my luna gown he followed half-dressed
00:13marked i smiled and gave my blessing because the moment he touched me my grandmother's moonstone
00:18charm shattered she said if it breaks run a catastrophe was averted whoever was closest
00:24got what was meant for me that morning chantelle claimed it was an accident i put on your luna
00:30gown by mistake and ian drank too much he didn't even realize who who he was with
00:35chantelle in my torn gown marks everywhere ian wouldn't look at me
00:42my dad kicked him to the floor ian hugged me caitlin i messed up but we can't ignore what
00:48happened please just let us be happy i'd always said no everyone expected me to explode instead
00:55i smiled so go ahead you two can complete the bond today right here ian breathed out like i'd freed
01:03him caitlin hale you're really letting these two trash wolves get away with this get on
01:11my mother screamed i'd humiliated our family i grabbed both of them and pulled them away before
01:16they lost control they were shaking with rage at the corner of the hallway i reached inside my
01:22dress and took out the moonstone charm my grandma had left me or rather what was left of it it
01:27had
01:27split clean in half the second they saw it all the anger drained from their faces mom dad grandmom's
01:34charm broke now it was in two pieces in my hand mom grabbed my wrist and hauled me into the
01:45elevator
01:47she stared at the broken moonstone then at me this just happened dad's face went from red to gray
01:53his nose trembled no way then it broke when ian hugs me
02:01mom and dad exchanged a look panic on their faces hit me harder than anything upstairs
02:06the moonstone charm was no ordinary keepsake
02:10it was meant to intercept one catastrophe for me just one if it broke something catastrophic had
02:15just been diverted we're moving now hurry outside my parents kicked out for ian's photo scans and took
02:21mine mom told the coordinator every word every photo every image nothing with my name could stay i pulled
02:29out my phone and deleted everything of ian his number his photos his contact info everything
02:36we fled the lodge in a panic that same night my whole family left the city
02:42the reason my whole family panicked that hard was the moonstone charm my grandma wasn't just an old
02:47woman with stories she was the seer the day she died was a bright winter afternoon she was sitting
02:51in the yard in her rock when she called my name caitlin i was eight she took off the moonstone
02:57charm
02:57she had worn her whole life and tied it around my neck she told me to keep it on never
03:02take it off
03:02if it ever broke it meant it had just blocked disaster for me then i had to run immediately
03:07away from whoever was closest when it shattered when the stone breaks it won't be bad luck it'll
03:12be ruin i didn't understand i asked her what kind of ruin she locked eyes with me and rasped three
03:17words three pines hollow three pines hollow just those three words then she leaned back in the chair
03:26closed her eyes and passed away peacefully grandma her funeral was huge not just our pat came
03:33important people from six neighboring territories showed up too that was how much her name still
03:38carried afterward i told my parents everything what grandma had given me what she had said
03:44then i asked them what three pines hollow meant they refused to answer instead they packed our bags
03:50and retreated to the city overnight
03:57years later all those buried memories came rushing back what happened between me ian and chantelle spread
04:04all over social media at first everyone dragged chantelle called her trash for sleeping with her best
04:10friend's fiancee but then people found out i hadn't screamed i hadn't fought i handed over the groom and the
04:16entire bonding ceremony without a scene and suddenly they turned on me now i was the coward the weak
04:22one the rumors got uglier by the hour but i didn't care let them talk chantelle stole my place in
04:29the
04:29ceremony now she was standing in the luna's place ian's publicly recognized mate and she loved every second
04:36of it she posted non-stop a diamond ring the size of a robin's egg a two million dollar mating
04:41token
04:42ian kneeling to fasten an old family anklet around her ankle closet after closet of luxury goods
04:49every post screamed the same thing she had won and her captions thanked me thanks caitlin and thanks to
04:56the version of me who was brave enough to chase love she said this time she was getting both money
05:02and
05:02love i looked at their fake happiness and laughed she had no idea what she had taken from me she
05:08took
05:08everything public bragging about stealing my ceremony like it was a bold love story overnight she gained
05:13half a million followers comments cheered for her then people found out my family had moved
05:18they called us cowards and losers i could take the insults aimed at me but when they mocked my parents
05:24i snapped i wrote in chantelle's comments say what you want about me but leave my family out of it
05:29and
05:30stop using me for clout chantelle never replied she just liked every comment that trashed me
05:35i shook my head the moon goddess sees everything we moved half a territory away mom suggested a nearby
05:43city but dad insisted on going hundreds of miles so we went that night i finally asked my parents
05:50what grandma meant by ruin their faces were stiff mom dad when grandma said ruin what exactly did she mean
06:01maybe it's time we tell her dad hesitated you tell her ruin how i asked what kind of ruin like
06:10a wildfire
06:11or landslide do you remember three pines hollow yeah grandma said it right before she died mom's expression
06:19turned uneasy she explained that three pines hollow was a settlement just beyond our old pack lands
06:25hundreds of people lived there then one night every single person was found hanging the warmth of
06:31the table died instantly i was stunned all this time i thought grandma had meant a natural disaster
06:37a flood an earthquake i never imagined something so twisted my parents both looked uneasy they answered
06:44together that place was under a curse we finished dinner but the shock stayed with me no wonder grandma
06:50had given me that moonstone right before she died that little stone had blocked something huge something
06:55monstrous grandma hadn't just read fate for others she had seen mine too just thinking about three pines
07:02hollow made my neck prickle hundreds of people hanging overnight that wasn't just tragedy that was a
07:08nightmare but one question kept digging at me why hadn't the charm broken earlier why only after ian
07:14and chantel crossed that line together i was still sitting there half in awe of how terrifyingly sharp
07:20she had been when my phone rang an unknown number caitlin are you okay caitlin are you okay it was
07:30ian's
07:30smooth voice i hung up immediately and blocked the number not after that night after that i stopped
07:36answering every unknown call i was terrified meanwhile chantel kept showing off online like she had won the world
07:44luxury cars designer watches gold silver late that night chantel went live she was dressed to kill
07:53full glam pale fur pack crest jewelry lounging on a couch inside the alpha estate like she'd been born there
08:01people flooded in praising her looks she played the part perfectly she said she was bored and wanted
08:07to spend time with everyone then she showed off a few designer bags and then because of the comments
08:13she brought me up again some girls are just not cut out for it even if you spoon feed them
08:19they still
08:19can't swallow it she laughed and claimed i'd never truly treated her like a best friend she called it
08:25classic insecure friend behavior then she leaned back and smiled wider she said i was probably hiding
08:31somewhere that my family ran the same night she and ian bonded her whole family ran away that night
08:37afraid that i would come back as the alpha's wife to take revenge lie after lie listening to her rewrite
08:45everything i kept thinking how the hell had i ever been this blind but while she was busy smearing me
08:52people in the live stream started noticing something strange wait did her closet just move did anybody
08:58else see that why does it look like something's in there chantelle check behind you
09:06at first she didn't notice the comments then the chat moved so fast the whole screen seemed to scream
09:12at her to turn around and i saw it too the closet behind her was cracked open just a sliver
09:18in that
09:19narrow gap there appeared to be an eye you people are so sick you love trying to freak me out
09:25she
09:25insisted no one else was in the estate that night then as if to prove a point she walked over
09:29to the
09:30closet in her heels grabbed the handle and yanked it open a man in black leather tumbled out upside
09:36down and hit the floor expensive jewelry spilled around here don't let it touch me then he looked up
09:42not at chantelle but past her at something behind her he let out a raw broken scream dropped to his
09:48knees
09:49and started prostrating himself slamming his forehead into the floor until blood pooled
09:54chantelle froze for half a second then clutched her chest and screamed for help everything turned
09:59chaotic someone hit the phone the live stream crashed sideways after that i couldn't see what
10:04happened then i thought of what my mom had told me about three pines hollow and a sick feeling twisted
10:08in my stomach maybe this was the beginning of that ruin because i knew one thing for sure there was
10:13something old and wrong inside the alpha state now
10:19the break-in at the alpha state blew up online
10:23ian rushed back to calm chantelle i had been watching the live stream too but exited as soon as
10:28ian appeared that ruin was getting closer i wanted nothing tying me to him my phone lit up sophie my
10:35college roommate messaged me she knew chantelle too sophie said she heard what chantelle did and told me
10:42not to be upset i wasn't heartbroken anymore so i just thanked her i turned sophie down flat
10:48then she asked if i wanted payback that made me pause sophie and chantelle had always been close
10:54did i hate chantelle yes but go near her no she was sleeping beside ian standing in my place
11:02i turned sophie down flat she kept pushing trying too hard i got annoyed and muted her
11:11mom dad what is all this are we stocking up for the apocalypse cut back on those doom day novels
11:19but this time it's not that different we just don't know how long it's gonna last for the next month
11:25staying alive matters more i had to take time off work or quit staying alive mattered more and one more
11:32thing you're not watching those either they cut off every way the thing could touch us
11:38dad also told me to stop watching chantelle's live streams
11:44i blocked her account
11:47dad sat on the balcony smoking staring at red clouds
11:53this time somebody's done for
11:59we shut ourselves in didn't go out once my parents talk about three pines hollow was still vague
12:05but if hundreds of people really hanged themselves in one night what else could it be
12:10meanwhile chantelle and ian lived better than ever luxury stores yachts everything
12:17so the three of us shut ourselves in didn't go out not once until the middle of that month
12:24the haunting took hold at the alpha estate even with chantelle blocked i heard about it one night
12:30chantelle woke to crying it got louder sharper like a blade scraping through dark
12:36she realized it came from her balcony on the fourth floor no one should have gotten there unseen
12:41she looked over a woman in a white dress long black hair curled up
12:46chantelle screamed servants came running balcony door locked nothing outside no one
12:53chantelle can you just swanned you ian's family said chantelle imagined it until the second thing
13:00ian's younger brother sleepwalked
13:03that night he dreamed of a girl in white by the pool he tapped her shoulder she laughed high-pitched
13:10and sharp the sound echoed through the whole estate when he snapped out of his face
13:15then something dragged him into the pool two fingers jammed into his eye sockets he screamed guard
13:25one incident coincidence two in a row no chance two incidents in a row no chance chantelle told it all
13:34on live stream what happens in the pack stays in the pack we don't air any pack and stays will
13:39plagues
13:40we days go air dirty laundry on the web after i listened to one creator break the whole thing down
13:46a chill crawled right up my spine a chill crawled up my spine
13:52just looking at it made me grateful all over again for how far ahead grandma had seen
13:57this was just the beginning worse than three pines hollow i didn't want to imagine
14:05yeah what is it
14:11i sat on the sofa sipping red wine to calm my nerves silently grateful for grandma's foresight all
14:17those years ago then my phone rang yeah what is it you heard about what's happening at
14:21chantelle's place right right yeah caitlin what do you think do you think somebody's taking revenge
14:26on her what are you trying to say that i did it because i didn't no no i'm not saying
14:30that i just
14:30mean maybe this is karma caitlin i heard your grandma used to be this famous seer that anyone
14:35in your family still know the old boarding rules no sophie was chantelle's go-between maybe even her spy
14:40they could keep dreaming sophie called not about chantelle at dinner i told my parents your grandma
14:46saw this too dad said grandma saw this too i nearly choked oh my god grandma was unreal this ruin
14:55can't
14:55be avoided the moonstone only intercepted it for you once only once as for everyone else they'll have to
15:01depend on their own fate as for that backstabbing friend of yours if they really want a chance have
15:06somebody tell them to go south of the city blackwood ridge there's an old rights keeper that can do
15:10anything that depends on what kind of debt has found their line my dad really was too soft-hearted
15:16honestly i had never planned to save chantelle but once he said it i nodded then i passed his message
15:22to sophie word for word and told her reflay it to ian's family they moved fast really fast
15:30go to blackwood ridge right away
15:37ian's family moved fast they sent people to blackwood ridge and brought the old rights keeper back
15:42that same night we stayed holed up at home like cowards we had just moved into a new apartment every
15:49time we went out we wore masks and avoided neighbors we couldn't be recognized or tied back to ian's line
15:55so far nobody knew we were the family mocked online my parents followed grandma's rules stay quiet
16:01stay hidden at first i thought chantelle might dodge this thing but we were wrong dead wrong
16:08someone in ian's family died the first one to go was ian's father
16:15it happened on the night of his 70th birthday he drowned the marks around the bathroom showed
16:21he had fought back hard and there were scratches all over his face either the alpha patriarch forced
16:25his own face into the toilet and drowned himself or something from inside the toilet reached up grabbed
16:30him and held him there until he died a birthday turned into a funeral ian's whole family fell into
16:35panic that doesn't make sense by the old rules your grandma followed even if the rights keeper couldn't
16:40stop the ruin he should have at least been able to slow it down but it's barely been any time
16:45and
16:46someone's already dead maybe this is just the debt coming due or maybe maybe they never found the keeper at
16:53all caitlin call and ask and remember do not tell them where we are i nodded and called sophie
17:03hey caitlin what's up that old rights keeper i told you about did you pass the message on or not
17:09huh well um caitlin where are you guys right now the second she said that my whole family went on
17:17alert
17:17don't worry about where i am answer my question first i did tell them about the keeper but chantelle
17:23told me that keeper broke from fright what start over tell me exactly what happened we went to the
17:31ridge temple and when we found him from what sophie told me chantelle went straight to ian with the
17:39message the very next day ian sent people up to blackwood ridge to find the old rules keeper
17:44and that same night they brought him back to the estate the man was gaunt skeletal and faded robes
17:50he walked the ground slowly listening to something under the walls then he told them the truth
17:55something the truth is buried deep within these walls and it is far more terrible than you can
18:02imagine the family moved out leaving him toward the house
18:08he covered it in paper wards painted sigils burned bitter herbs the place felt like a coffin
18:18guards heard nothing all night at dawn the family rushed back everything looked the same but the keeper
18:24was gone they searched old gentleman ian found him in the underground cellar curled up against dry
18:33storage bags the flower had turned black the keeper's eyes twitched wildly he kept muttering forgive me
18:40don't come back and he gouged out both his own eyes
18:49grandma's moonstone hadn't saved me it had cut me out of a blood debt caitlin do you know any other
18:56way to stop this dad motioned me to hang up i don't know i said i didn't know and ended
19:00the call
19:01dad we have to go right now we can't stay here either we're leaving the province
19:24we left the province in a panic didn't even take our supplies we bought plane tickets and got out
19:34by the time chantelle found our home address all she could do was curse us out to stay alive we
19:40headed straight for the countryside and checked into a hunting lodge
19:46good thing we ran fast they started calling me like lunatics hundreds of numbers but i had set my
19:53phone to auto reject this time the one who died was ian's younger brother found hanged a deep ligature
20:03mark around his neck but police never found a rope no cord no belt no murder weapon now chantelle was
20:12truly terrified ian's family scattered some fled overseas some begged the pack council for protection
20:19everyone tried to get away from ian's bloodline back chantelle and ian brought in more warders more
20:24rights workers day and night dad just said it was useless back then even hundreds of people together
20:29at three pines hollow didn't survive what happened at three pines hollow was bizarre
20:34grandma foreseen total destruction she went there and asked if they had done something unforgivable
20:41crazy old woman get out they denied everything and chased her away calling her a mad woman
20:59that same night a child vanished from three pines hollow the whole village searched they found him
21:05trapped inside a dense black thorn thicket the branches were covered in vicious spikes and black
21:10thorn never grows alone it forms a living cage the boys cries came from the center they had to chop
21:16the
21:16whole thing down when they pulled him free he was out of his mind a few days later the villagers
21:25begged
21:26grandma for help i cannot save you
21:39a few days after that the whole village was found hanged in their own homes
21:44no murder weapon no rope nothing overnight wiped out
22:03water give me water
22:06go away the people of three pines hollow had ruined a woman who was only passing through she came asking
22:19the whole village the whole village helped to trap her they locked her in an abandoned barn
22:25and they starved her broke her
22:27her leave the sun brought her food we found her hanging dead rotting her white dress swaying in the dark
22:34her neck stretched too long by then she was no longer in her right mind whatever they did had broken
22:41her
22:41before death i thought three pines hollow was wiped out by hanging ian's brother was hanged too
22:48could this be the same thing my parents hated my guesses don't go down that rabbit hole
22:53if your grandmother's charm hadn't blocked this for you the people dying right now wouldn't just be them
23:07a chill went through me if grandma hadn't left me the moonstone and if she hadn't yet him
23:13shantin hadn't stolen ian i would be the one trapped in that estate
23:20shantin had become my stand-in then the one who ran farthest died ian's uncle overseer hanged
23:27i noticed a pattern the farther they ran the faster the debt found them
23:32like something unseen was warning don't leave the estate
23:42could this be karma for stealing someone else's alpha
23:47if i apologize now is it too late she blocked my number wrong you
23:56the cheating was my fault my family's being punished now can you please save me i just shook my head
24:04cheating had only redirected the disaster there was something older underneath it all then ian had a
24:10dream a strange girl took his hand and said she would show him somewhere beautiful we're going
24:15she told him to lift the stone pressing on him he obeyed then to put his hand here and pass
24:20through
24:21the waterfall if the stone he did that's pressing then to climb the mountain he did then to cross a
24:25stream she stepped over first and waved ian said okay and was about to follow
24:37the girl's face twisted she snarled you're awake chantel dragged ian back from the rooftop edge
24:44below was a 10-story drop one more step and he would have been dead the whole thing was caught
24:50on
24:50live stream ian finally understood lift the stone meant throw off the blanket pass through the waterfall
24:58don't go over unlock the door climb the mountain meant take the stairs cross the stream meant jump
25:11i heard about it it scared me numb this ruin could not be avoided chantel had told ian about my
25:19grandmother so now they were hunting for us more deaths from overseas the farthest runners died fastest
25:28chantel the first to see the woman stayed closest to the estate and was still alive i told my parents
25:34dad said maybe it was a warning not to run i asked if staying closer meant better odds they didn't
25:40answer i thought for a long time then had sophie pass along what i observed that same night ian and
25:48chantel moved back into the estate more than half a year passed ian's family was wrecked yet somehow
25:54ian and chantel were still alive people said they had escaped the curse they kept living in the mansion
26:00covered in the dead keepers then new updates came both had completely broken down their minds were
26:07gone they couldn't clean couldn't function barely recognized day from night the estate became a
26:13nightmare trash rotting food rats roaches it looked like a giant grave i thought the disaster was finally
26:21over then dad told me something that stopped me cold ian had been the child trapped in the blackboard
26:29thicket at three pines hollow
26:34his parents sent him to a hospital in another province that was why he survived he eventually
26:39came back to himself but forgot his childhood then he was adopted by a good family ian's father's
26:45line grandma had seen it on the night three pines hollow fell one person probably slipped through
26:51ian's age matched that boy the deck had never ended it had changed houses changed names waited
26:58but i still told myself none of it had anything to do with me anymore then something new happened many
27:04people online said they had all dreamed of the same woman in white every one of them had watched
27:08chantel's live streams i finally understood what grandma meant by ruin
27:13the live stream hadn't just shown the horror it had carried it it turned every viewer into a witness
27:20and witnessing opened the door
27:27when three pines hollow fell she had not harmed any innocent outsider she still knew who she wanted
27:33but now strangers who only watched through a screen were dreaming of her her restraint was gone
27:39the ruin was still spreading i scrolled through comments people seeing her on balconies by lakes faceless
27:49i closed the app outside autumn wind acorns falling everything looked peaceful too peaceful the net was
27:57tightening around thousands of eyes after dinner i helped mom clear dishes she could tell i was still
28:06thinking about it i asked if that thing could travel through live streams through watching how many people
28:11would die mom turned on the faucet with water running she said grandma once said that woman went alive hated
28:20being falsely accused
28:22three pines hollow said she was sleeping around but she was only passing through asking for water i froze
28:29she wasn't already like that mom shook her head they terrorized her until she broke they locked her in the
28:37shed
28:37by the third day she broke by the fifth she hated herself i asked what she was wearing mom shut
28:45off the faucet
28:46a white dress almost white that night i couldn't sleep i held the broken moonstone grandma had worn it for
28:5499
28:54years i had worn it for less than 10 it blocked one disaster then it broke for the first time
29:00i regretted
29:01not asking grandma one more question what was that woman's name that night i dreamed of grandma she sat in
29:08her rocking chair the yellow dog lay at her feet i crouched by her knees she called my name
29:15i asked what happened to the woman from three pines hollow grandma didn't answer she touched my head and said
29:22you just live well
29:29i woke up with a damp pillow
29:34next morning dad said he was going to town for supplies i went with him
29:41on the way he told me mom wanted to take me back home for a visit not now after things
29:45settle grandma's
29:46grave needed fresh soil also before she died she left a box under her bed they never touched it mom
29:52thought it was meant for me i didn't ask anything else in town dad bought oranges i stayed in the
29:58truck
29:59then my phone buzzed sophie we hadn't talked in a long time she asked if i had heard about ian
30:05and
30:05chantelle i typed yeah she sent a long message two nights ago during a shift change ian climbed onto a
30:14third floor balcony saying once i crossed the stream i'll be home an orderly grabbed him but
30:20couldn't hold him he jumped he didn't die but both legs were broken chantelle was completely gone
30:27she didn't recognize anyone every day she hugged ian's suit jacket repeating
30:33it wasn't me i wasn't the one who locked you up
30:38don't come for me
30:40sophie's last message
30:42if i hadn't given her that ceremony would the one in the hospital be me i locked the screen
30:48outside dad looked old half his hair had gone white
30:52since grandma's warning if the charm breaks leave immediately
30:56they had spent their lives running from hometown to city to another province to this little town
31:02beyond any pack land they had done nothing wrong grandma saw it coming they believed her and used
31:09everything to keep me alive ian died with the first snow of winter sophie sent the news post-op
31:16infection multiple organ failure chantelle was sent back to her family still the same if not
31:22controlled she hit people and screamed no one dared live in the estate now listed for sale for six
31:28months no buyers people said you could hear crying from inside at night i deleted the screenshot winter
31:35came the oak tree was there this little town was quiet no one knew we had escaped such a large
31:42disaster
31:42the hashtag about the woman in white was scrubbed from trending not because it ended
31:47but because it was too strange and dangerous
31:50under the silence the dreams still happened five springs passed people forgot only we were still
31:56alive hiding like survivors on stolen time eventually we stepped out the air felt clean
32:03i was tired not from surviving one terrible thing but from half a life tied to prophecy
32:08i wanted to see the ocean my parents nodded i took a train east the ocean opened up waves rolled
32:16in
32:16endless the wind was wet and salty i stood at the shore my whole life i had lived inside prophecy
32:23dragged
32:24by invisible ropes what was on the other side of the sea the waves answered nothing maybe the other side
32:30was just another sea and the far shore every chained person longs for is not a place it is learning
32:37to
32:37live with the water already inside you under the open moon with no bond and no pack i let out
32:43a slow
32:43breath for the first time in five years i was not waiting for the next prophecy
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