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Reborn She-Wolf: Until Death Falls
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00:00the day after i died my husband came to my grave not to mourn he drove a silver blade into
00:06his own
00:06chest and used his last breath to write a message on my headstone in his own blood liana you will
00:14pay for your selfishness then i opened my eyes three days before the bonding ceremony back where
00:20it all started under the accord the council gathers at full moon to hear the oracle's decree
00:25they promised my adoptive sister sarah to clayton blackridge the dying alpha of the blackridge pack
00:31and me i was assigned to christian gray the stray rogue my father took in the one who just clawed
00:38his way to becoming alpha of graycliffe but on the day of the bonding ceremony sarah ran she couldn't
00:44face giving herself to a man already half in the grave she came back and tried to bond with christian
00:49herself i got there in time to stop it in her shame and fury sarah threw herself off the cliffs
00:57eventually christian went through with it he bonded with me everyone said he treated me like a queen
01:03i believed them right up until the moment he became high alpha of the five packs
01:08and flayed 27 members of my pack alive nailed their skeletons to our border posts as a warning
01:15by the time i died there was nothing left of me and now i'm back christian is standing by the
01:21moonwell right now waiting for me to choose him just like last time but this time i'm done we don't
01:27need to wait for the oracle i'll go to the blackridge pack i'll take the dying alpha as my mate
01:36no hesitation no grief since she's going i ask for your blessing to mate with sarah
01:44in my last life he spent this entire week pretending to be desperately in love with me
01:49so why is he so eager to throw me away this time there's only one answer he didn't just come
01:55back
01:55to find me he's been reborn too christian gray you gave your word before the moonwell
02:04you swore once you won the alpha challenge and earned the council's recognition you would bond
02:12with liana you would protect this pack i looked at my father the white in his hair was worse than
02:18i remembered my mother died young he raised me alone and when the five pack accord threatened to
02:24send me to blackridge to be used as a living lifeline for a dying alpha he found another way
02:30a half-starved rope pup freezing to death in the snow on our border my father gave christian a name
02:35food training the protection of our lands
02:44he burned the last of great cliff's political standing to put him on the alpha seat
02:50at the cost of everything we had left every piece of it all of it to keep me safe that
02:56kindness got us
02:57both killed in my last life christian threw my father into a dungeon and had his fingernails pulled
03:03out one by one every single day revenge for the one time my father stood between him and sarah
03:09i stepped forward and studied my father's hands father the reality christian already has three of the
03:15five packs behind him the second clayton dies he becomes high alpha and gray cliff our hunting
03:21grounds are half gone our allies have vanished the only reason we haven't been swallowed whole
03:27is because christian technically came from our pack he's a man who lives for revenge until i have a real
03:33plan i have to play nice alpha aldrich i'm not that orphan boy anymore let's not dig up old things
03:40i knew that smile he was wearing that exact expression when he ordered my 27 pack members
03:46skinned alive
03:49or is this another act liana are you gonna play the mortem again just so you can push sarah off
03:57another
03:57cliff
04:00relax christian i'm going to the black ridge pack i'm not changing my mind
04:05you better mean that liana if i find out this is another game another way to hurt sarah
04:10i swear i will strip your rank cast you out of this pack and leave you to rot on the
04:15dead zones of
04:15the border alone
04:21this is all my fault i pitied him i raised him i handed him everything he needed to take power
04:28and i built a monster liana i ruined your life
04:33dad going to blackridge isn't a death sentence it's the only chance we have at a real life
04:39because i knew what the alternative looked like i'd lived it christian's hands on my father's
04:45collar dragging him to the dungeon the bones of 27 of my people hanging on our own border posts
04:51me locked in that east wing grief eating me alive until there was nothing left
04:55i have a secret christian doesn't know about i carry the rarest healing bloodline in graycliffe's
05:00history it can reverse death itself i'm gambling everything on this if my bloodline is strong
05:05enough to save clayton blackridge then i can save graycliffe and this time i'm going to make christian
05:11gray pay
05:14i made my decision then went straight to the market near the graycliffe border walked straight to the
05:19back counter there it was my mother's moonstone pendant resting on a square of black velvet
05:24the chain had snapped a few days ago i'd left it with the old silversmith to be rest rung
05:29christian is absolutely spoiling sira did you see that white silk gown i heard the labor alone cost
05:34more than a hunter makes in a full year that's nothing the lining is northern white deer belly
05:38pale and the buttons real moonstone
05:40in my past life right before he marked me i asked christian for a nice dress it's not exactly a
05:46memorable
05:46occasion no point wasting money i scoffed and reached for the pendant
05:53i want this one give it back that's mine it belonged to my mother i only brought it here to
06:01get the chain
06:02fixed christian's expression shifted he knew exactly what it was when my mother was dying her last words
06:09were to him she made him swear he would clasp that necklace around my neck on my wedding day
06:14i want this one christian christian this is the only thing my mother left me
06:20your mother has been dead for years liana how long are you going to keep clinging to the dead
06:24or are you still holding on to the idea that if you wear it to the moon well i'll remember
06:27that old
06:27vow and choose you
06:33oops the craftsmanship really wasn't all that was it but i'm sure you don't mind a little wear and tear
06:38given where it came from
06:42this was the last thing she ever gave me
06:44stop clinging to dead things liana and stop dreaming about bonding with me
06:50it was always sarah only ever her
06:53i looked up at the two of them and the memory came before i could stop it
06:57the day sarah jumped christian had stood at the cliff's edge for the entire night
07:01when he finally came back the next morning his hair had gone white from root to tip
07:05shock grief like his body had turned on itself
07:08and yet he had smiled at me so gently brushed the hair from my face
07:12i know you're grieving for sarah don't let it destroy you
07:16for years after that he was tender patient the whole pack talked about how devoted the high alpha
07:22was to his wife i believed every word of it right up until the day he consolidated power over all
07:27five
07:28packs that was the day he had 27 of my people flayed alive their bones stripped and hung in the
07:33moonlight blood everywhere i screamed at him demanding to know why sarah's been alone down there for too
07:39long she needed company then he locked me in the east wing and left me to fall apart until my
07:45heart
07:45simply stopped before sarah had gone to blackridge my father had promised to bring her home the moment
07:50clayton died she didn't have to jump but she did and christian used that as justification to destroy
07:57everything i had ever loved
08:02you really do think too high of yourself christian the man i'm bonding with is clayton blackridge
08:09we still have to look at the dress don't let her ruin it
08:14let's go
08:17you're really going through with this once you cross into black's territory there's no coming back
08:21i've made up my mind dad i went out to the courtyard to clear my head sarah was already there
08:29big day tomorrow sister just make sure you keep your eyes off someone else's alpha what are you so
08:34afraid of sarah that i'll take christian back or that the blackridge contract isn't as settled as
08:38you think christian is mine go to blackridge and rot that's exactly where you belong let go of me
08:49it wasn't even a hard wrench but the moment i broke her grip she pretended to fall backward
08:59christian came out of nowhere slammed into me as he lunged past sarah clutched his shirt and sobbed i
09:05just wanted to say goodbye why would she do this christian's eyes found mine they were blazing that
09:12deep are you still this delusional liana you disgust me his calm
09:19the force knocked the air out of me and sent me flying backward the cold was absolute water flooded
09:25my nose my lungs pull her out the future high elf of the five packs and you can't even smell
09:34a lie
09:34this obvious you think the truth matters liana do you honestly believe anyone has ever cared about
09:44you your mother is dead your father has one foot in the grave you have nobody how could you say
09:51that
09:52they raised you my father treated you like his own blood liana you need to learn who gives the orders
09:55from now on if you ever speak to me like that again i won't hesitate to help aldrich along on
09:59his way out
10:01don't worry by tomorrow i'll be gone to the blackridge pack you won't have to see me again
10:06liana given everything between us in our last life i'm willing to go to the high council i can have
10:10them cancel the blackridge assignment you don't have to go but only if you behave only if you
10:16remember your place if you do i might even come see you from time to time but you will stay
10:21quiet and
10:22you will not lay a finger on syrah are we clear don't throw your life away just to spite me
10:28i know
10:29you still have feelings for me why else would you be clutching that pendant like your life depends on it
10:34he reached into his belt and pressed something into my free hand a small glass vial fainted death potion
10:40take it tomorrow everyone will think you've passed tomorrow night i'll send someone to bring you out
10:45i looked down at the vial sitting in my open palm then i opened my fingers it hit the surface
10:51of the
10:51moon well and sank straight to the bottom the night of the bonding ceremony moonlight spilled across the
10:58territory like a silver flood bone flutes wailed low and mournful the leather drums hit deep steady
11:04like a second heartbeat growls rolling through their throats in something older than words
11:09then a heavier drumbeat rolled in from the distance the blackridge escort came onto the grounds
11:14for black wolf guards in two lines clearing the path behind them two elders in dark gray pelts
11:20i stepped out from the shadows and walked toward them
11:24why is there another escort i already sent my men
11:30that's not liana tell me that's not her alpha it is blackridge sent word alpha clayton is too ill to
11:36come himself she sent the elders and the moon temple priest to bring her home
11:41that's not possible she was supposed to take the potion
11:45no one answered him the blackridge party turned toward the border
11:49drawing me further and further away from everything i'd once known
11:54we reached the heart of blackridge territory
11:59he's inside
12:00i went in alone clayton was half reclined against a pile of dark furs
12:05alpha clayton i'm liana he looked at me for a long time
12:09then he reached out and pressed his palm to my cheek
12:11his hand was burning with fever a faint smile
12:17do you consent to a full bond
12:19my heart skipped a beat
12:21i do mark me alpha
12:24i tilted my head and bared my throat to him
12:27my healing bloodline surged and poured everything it had into him
12:30i held his gaze trembling watching for any sign it had worked
12:34then the tension left his face all at once
12:36he laughed and pulled me into his arms
12:38he tilted my chin up and kissed me
12:43i walked out of the tent slowly still collecting myself
12:48it's christian gray he's broken through the gates
12:51he's saying alpha clayton is dead that the bonding is void
12:53he's here to take great clicks people back
12:56i smoothed my clothes and walked toward it
12:59christian was already in the yard
13:01a squad of armed guards behind him
13:03the moment he saw me his eyes went straight to my throat
13:06the fresh mark dark and unmistakable
13:09liana
13:11how dare you
13:12how dare i what
13:13the high council has handed gray cliff over to me
13:15your father's too old
13:17everything in that pack is mine now
13:18you're standing on clayton's land
13:21what's the plan christian
13:22dragging an alpha's mate off his own territory
13:24enough with the act
13:26he won't make it through the night
13:28come with me now and i'll let the bond go
13:30i'll sort it with the council when we're back
13:31sort what but i chose clayton over you
13:33there's nothing to sort
13:36you think you're worth choosing
13:38take her now
13:41the guards closed in
13:43hands seized my wrists and wrenched them back
13:45a black feathered arrow split the air
13:49the whole yard went still
13:51clayton was walking toward us
13:52who's taking my mate
13:54every guard christian had brought drop to their knees
13:57you brought armed men onto my land
13:59are you trying to die here
14:02christian's face had gone the color of ash
14:03the high council of me authority over gray cliff
14:06i'm reclaiming what belongs to my pack
14:08you only become high alpha if i'm dead
14:10do i look dead to you
14:12right baby
14:14right
14:16you heard her
14:18now take your people and get off my land
14:21let's go
14:22he turned and stumbled toward the gate
14:24his guards dragged the wounded man out behind him
14:27silence settled over the courtyard
14:31i saved your life
14:33you owe me
14:34name it
14:36a partnership
14:37help me bring him down
14:38he looked at me
14:40then he laughed
14:42low
14:42quiet
14:43and pulled me closer
14:44for you
14:45absolutely
14:49clayton kept his word
14:50but honestly
14:51just being alive was already making christian's life hell
14:54i leaned back on the first sofa
14:56and listened to the blackridge scouts report
14:58just as i thought
14:59in my past life
15:01christian traded gray cliff's prime hunting grounds for political favors
15:05he used my father's name to strong arm smaller tribes into lopsided deals
15:09swallowing their land one by one
15:11and through it all
15:12he would always tell me
15:13liana it's all for show
15:16in my heart you're the only one
15:18like a fool
15:19i believed him
15:20i believed him when he went through our ceremony but refused to mark me
15:24refused to make the bond real
15:26i believed him when he eventually took freya
15:29the snow ridge alpha's daughter
15:30as his legal mate
15:31i believed him right up until i realized i wasn't even his mate in the eyes of the law
15:35just his shadow
15:36but this life
15:38it's sarah standing beside him
15:39i wanted to see what he'd choose
15:42power
15:42or the woman he'd spent his last life desperate to get back
15:47a maid came in with tea
15:50liana
15:50sarah threw another fit this morning
15:53shredded that white star pipe christian brought back from the east
15:56did she
15:57in my past life
15:59i swallowed everything
16:00stayed quiet
16:02kept my head down
16:03sarah wasn't built like that
16:04she wasn't going to let him share power with another woman without a fight
16:08sure enough
16:09the walls of the gray cliff longhouse were shaking
16:11sarah's voice hit a pitch that could shatter glass
16:14you told me we didn't need council registration
16:16you said we didn't need a claiming mark
16:19that as long as you believed i was your mate that was enough
16:22and now freya is coming here for an official bonding ceremony
16:26what does that make me christian
16:28some kept woman you've got stashed in the alpha lodge
16:35sarah stop
16:35this is about securing our position
16:38when did you get so unreasonable
16:40unreasonable
16:41did you think i was liana
16:43that i'd just sit here and take it
16:45enough
16:46oh enough
16:48who swore i was his only one
16:49freya isn't even through the door yet
16:51and you're already looking for ways to push me out
16:53an alliance with snow ridge
16:55is the only way to lock down the northern hunting grounds
16:58once i've consolidated power before the council
17:02and then what
17:03she moves in and i pack my things
17:05clear out of the alpha lobs to make room for her
17:09answer me
17:10who told me i'd be the only mistress of gray cliff
17:13who said this whole life was for me
17:18sarah blackridge
17:19is the most critical piece of the puzzle
17:22i have to do this
17:23you have to
17:24and what am i optional
17:26you know you're everything to me
17:30why do you think i've been covering for you all this time
17:32you killed liana's mother
17:34you poisoned aldrich and kept him bedridden
17:37i buried all of it
17:39for you
17:40you didn't do it for me
17:42you did it for yourself
17:44you're a coward
17:45christian
17:47you spent years playing the loyal lapdog to liana and gray cliff
17:51and you hated every second of it
17:52that's why when i went after her mother
17:54when i poisoned her father
17:56did you try to stop me
17:59not once
18:02but look at you now
18:03after all that
18:05she still chose a dying man over you
18:10you're going to the northern watchtower tomorrow
18:13you'll stay with the patrol units
18:15until you remember who you are
18:17and who i am
18:18don't come back until you do
18:24two weeks later
18:25christian went through with it
18:27he and freya exchanged vows before the elders
18:30but i knew sarah wasn't done
18:33freya had been in the alpha lodge for three days
18:35sarah
18:36she slit her wrists
18:37the message arrived in the dead of night
18:41sarah had slit her wrists
18:42christian didn't even change out of his formal suit
18:45he rode to the border alone
18:47the guard said when he kicked in the tower door
18:51he found her slumped by a small window
18:53bandages already soaked through
18:55sarah
18:59sarah
19:00why are you even here
19:06i was wrong
19:07i never should have left you here alone
19:10sarah's tears broke
19:11and she collapsed into his arms
19:13three days later
19:14she walked back into the great cliff alpha lodge
19:16like she owned it
19:18freya wasn't the type to be pushed aside
19:20the very next day
19:21snow ridge issued a public declaration
19:23freya was the only recognized maid of christian gray
19:26and sarah's private ceremony meant nothing
19:29sarah didn't take it quietly
19:31she laced christian's wine with a heat-inducing wolf's pain tincture
19:34and triggered his rut by force
19:40caught between two women at war
19:42christian withered
19:43he looked hollowed out
19:44it dragged on for nearly two weeks
19:47then freya received an anonymous letter
19:49clear
19:50detailed
19:50and impossible to dismiss
19:52the person who had actually dragged a half-frozen christian out of the icy river
19:56all those years ago
19:57it was liana
19:58sarah had been living on a stolen debt for years
20:03that night
20:04freya brought the evidence to christian
20:05who actually pulled you out of that frozen river
20:08tell me the truth
20:10she laid it all on the stone table
20:12the old pack doctors signed confession
20:14the original herbal prescriptions
20:16and the piece of fabric i had torn from my own sleeve to bandage his wounds
20:20the blood on it long since turned black
20:22christian started shaking
20:24get sarah in here
20:25now
20:26sarah was dragged in
20:28she looked at the old wolf kneeling on the floor
20:30then at the cloth
20:31and went pale
20:32christian grabbed her jaw
20:34it was liana
20:36liana saved my life
20:37why did you lie
20:43fine it was her
20:44but who spent the years after that
20:46making her life a nightmare
20:47that was you
20:48christian
20:49don't pretend you didn't know
20:50you just didn't want to admit it
20:52because if you did
20:53how could you justify any of it
20:59shut up
21:01now you see her for what she is
21:03something in sarah's face changed
21:05before anyone could move
21:06she pulled a dagger from the folds of her dress
21:11christian lunged and caught her as she fell
21:13sarah stood staring at her own hands and started to laugh
21:16freya didn't survive
21:19three days later
21:20white wolf flags from snow ridge lined every inch of the great cliff border
21:24the snow ridge alpha stood before the high council and demanded justice for his daughter
21:28within a month the council stripped christian of all protection
21:31he never got to taste what it meant to be high alpha
21:34he was kicked from the council seat before he ever sat in it
21:37back in blackridge
21:38clayton wrapped his arms around me from behind
21:40satisfied
21:40we're just getting started
21:44the council handed down their judgment
21:47for freya's murder
21:48sarah was sentenced to exile
21:50christian
21:51stripped of his title and protection
21:53was banished from great cliff alongside her
21:55hard labor at the northern watchtower
21:58i went to watch them be taken away
22:00sarah moved in heavy iron chains
22:02stumbling under the weight
22:03christian followed behind her
22:05hair matted
22:06eyes sunken
22:08liana
22:11this is your fault
22:15you chose
22:17every single bit of this yourself
22:22and what about you
22:24you're just hiding behind clayton
22:26enjoy the north
22:28you two deserve each other
22:29you bitch
22:33the chain snapped him back and he snapped
22:36a blackridge guard drove a boot into the back of his knee
22:39he hit the frozen ground hard
22:41you think clayton will protect you forever
22:44i'll be waiting
22:48take them
22:49the guards hauled the chains and dragged them toward the gate
22:52i watched until they were nothing but two shapes dissolving into the distance
22:56the reports came back from the trail one by one after that
22:59they fought over scraps of rotten meat the guards threw them
23:02in one fight sarah bit off half of christian's ear
23:05crossing the blackwater river
23:07she shoved him into the rapids
23:08he hit the rocks
23:10his right leg never healed right
23:12in the mountain caves one night
23:14sarah lost her mind entirely
23:15she used a sharp stone to carve lines across his face while screaming my name
23:19screaming that i had come to take my revenge
23:21the guards said she'd broken
23:23then the council sent investigators to great cliff to look into my father's illness
23:27they found traces of a slow acting poison
23:30sarah had been killing him for months
23:32the council issued a final decree
23:34exile wasn't enough
23:36both of them were banished from the five packs forever
23:38stripped of their wolf spirits and cast into the barren wastes
23:42no pack
23:43no protection
23:44no mercy
23:45left to tear each other apart until the wilderness finished what they'd started
23:51i stepped into the great cliff longhouse
23:53my father was resting against a pile of furs by the hearth
23:56the pack healer was crouched by the fire grinding herbs
23:59and gave me a small nod as i passed
24:02my father reached a hand out toward me
24:04the moment i took it
24:05i couldn't hold it anymore
24:08clayton stood in the doorway and watched us in silence
24:11my father looked up at him and smiled
24:13later
24:14the three of us shared a quiet meal
24:16afterward
24:17clayton walked me outside
24:18the moon hung low and full over the trees
24:24clayton
24:26our deal is done
24:27his arms closed tighter
24:29chin resting on top of my head
24:31so
24:32you're the maid i chose for myself
24:35liana
24:36you stepped into my world you're not leaving it
24:40it was only later that i found out the truth
24:42the council hadn't simply assigned a great cliff daughter to clayton
24:46he had gone to them himself
24:47he had asked for me specifically
24:50it finally made sense
24:51great cliff was a pack in decline
24:53there was no political reason for an alpha like clayton to choose us
24:57he didn't want the alliance
24:58he wanted me
25:01we've met before
25:02a long time ago
25:04the memory came all at once
25:06the day i pulled christian from the river
25:08i poured everything into saving him
25:11and collapsed in the snow afterward
25:13too spent to move
25:14a figure crouching beside me in the dark
25:17the cloak
25:19that was you
25:20he reached up and traced his thumb gently along my cheekbone
25:23and nodded
25:24this isn't the end liana
25:26this is where our mate bond truly begins
25:30the sun sank behind the mountains
25:32the sky bleeding violet and gold
25:33you
25:34you
25:34you
25:34You
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