Watch The Beta Chose Her Son Over Mine Full Episode with English Subtitles. Experience an emotional fantasy short drama where Beta wolves, fated mates, family betrayal, and painful choices collide. As a mother's love is tested and hidden truths come to light, revenge, redemption, and destiny reshape the future of an entire wolf pack. Filled with emotional twists, supernatural romance, and unforgettable moments, this gripping drama series is a must-watch.
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00:01Serena, is this how you raise our pup?
00:03Top line, in her careful handwriting.
00:07I'm alive! And you let her write like I'm dead!
00:10And threw the bundle of wildflowers onto the stone table.
00:13I didn't teach her that. She wrote it herself.
00:16Lucian clenched his jaw, grabbed the journal like he was going to tear it apart.
00:20He stared at Nora's handwriting for a long moment, then set it back down.
00:24He had no idea.
00:25This wasn't even close to the first time Nora had written him dead.
00:28Ever since he took fallen packmates widow Lyra and her son to the honor quarter,
00:33this man had stopped existing in our pup's world.
00:35The honor quarter, the section of our pack, reserved for the families of fallen pack members.
00:40Pack law granted Lucian, as beta, the duty of overseeing her welfare.
00:44But he had gone too far.
00:45I didn't say anything. Just watched him. Cold.
00:48Nora heard the noise and came out of her room.
00:51She had on her worn sleeping furs.
00:53Stayed behind me. No running up to call him dad.
00:56No crying from his rage.
00:57She just looked at Lucian with calm.
00:59Lucian's breath caught.
01:01All that rage seemed to lodge in his throat,
01:04push down his temper, and pulled a wrapped bundle from his pack.
01:09Nora, come here.
01:10Dad passed the trader's post today.
01:12Got you the shift training kit you've been asking for.
01:16Your first guided shift is next moon cycle, isn't it?
01:20Come on. Try it on.
01:23That training kit Nora had pressed her face against the trader's display case to stare at it for three moons,
01:29Lucian always said next time.
01:31In pack law, a pup's first shift must be guided by her dad.
01:35Without his presence, the shift was not only incomplete, it was dangerous.
01:39Any other day Nora would have howled with joy.
01:42But now, Nora didn't move.
01:49Sighing, Lucian knelt down and held out a hand to her.
01:53His signal stone pulsed.
01:55Reflects.
01:56He grabbed the stone and pressed it.
01:59Lyra, what's wrong?
02:01Lucian, I'm so sorry to call again.
02:04But Kai's wolf sickness flared up.
02:06He's howling for you.
02:07I can't calm him alone.
02:08I stood listening to that tired, familiar routine.
02:11But Lucian's face changed.
02:13No hesitation.
02:15Serena, watch Nara.
02:17Kai's condition is critical. I have to go.
02:19The door closed.
02:20He said it like it was the most reasonable thing in the world.
02:22He didn't even look back at his daughter.
02:24Nora walked over and looked down at the training kit on the rug.
02:27Then she picked it up and dropped it into the fire pit.
02:31Mom.
02:32Dead dad can't guide a shift, right?
02:34My chest split open.
02:36The pain hit so hard I could barely breathe.
02:38Right.
02:39After Nora fell asleep, I sat alone in the study.
02:42Opened the bottom of my healer's chest.
02:45Inside lay a sealed blood oath scroll.
02:47I am a blood gifted healer.
02:49For Lucian, I had turned down three summons from the Hypax Healing Council.
02:53But I was done drowning in this.
02:55Fifteen days from now.
02:56The last day to answer the blood oath.
02:58In fifteen days, Nora and I would leave this path.
03:01As if he never existed in our lives at all.
03:06Countdown.
03:07Day ten.
03:08I had just finished a six-hour emergency healing session on a pack warrior.
03:12I dragged myself home.
03:13Our door was open.
03:14I walked in fast.
03:15My blood went cold.
03:17Two wolves were carrying something out of Nora's training room.
03:20Her blood.
03:21Anchor stone.
03:21I had spent a lot to commission that stone for Nora's fifth naming day.
03:25The pack stone carver had etched her name into it during a full moon rite.
03:29It was anchored to our territory's sacred ground.
03:31Nora polished it every morning.
03:33She pressed her palm to it before sleep.
03:35Careful.
03:36Don't chip the edges.
03:37That stone holds a blood reed.
03:42Lucian.
03:43What are you doing?
03:45A flicker of guilt crossed his eyes.
03:48Gone fast, replaced with that usual righteousness.
03:50Don't make this harder than it needs to be.
03:53Lyra is moving Kai into new quarters.
03:55The pack healer said having an anchor stone would help stabilize his wolf sickness.
03:59He paused.
04:00Lyra can't commission one her own.
04:01Nora can just lend it to Kai for a while.
04:03I listened to his logic and almost laughed.
04:05Use your own pup's anchor stone to help another woman's son.
04:08I believed he never once thought to ask Nora.
04:11I pulled out my memory mirror and pressed it to the scene.
04:14What are you recording for?
04:19Evidence.
04:20This stone was Nora's.
04:22Transferring it outside our bloodline without consent gives me the right to record this.
04:33Serena, when did you become this cold?
04:35That is Zane's son.
04:36Zane died saving my life.
04:38It's just a stone.
04:40You're really going to be this petty about it?
04:45There.
04:46That covers the commission cost.
04:49Go have the carver make Nora a smaller one.
04:56I stood in Nora's empty training room and felt the air leave my lungs.
05:01Nora came home from her lessons not long after.
05:07The place where the stone had sat for years was empty.
05:10Nora didn't cry.
05:11Even didn't ask where it went.
05:12She walked back to her room.
05:14Picked up her journal and opened it to a new page.
05:16She picked up her quill and wrote carefully.
05:19Title.
05:19My dead dad took my blood anchor stone with her.
05:22I stood in the doorway watching my pup's thin shoulders.
05:25Eyes burning.
05:27A projection from Lyra.
05:29In the image, Kai sat beside the blood anchor stone.
05:31Grinning wide.
05:32Zane watching over us from above.
05:35Kai finally has a stone to call his own.
05:37Thank you to our dearest Beta Lucian for giving us the strength to keep going.
05:42I stared at that image for a long time and opened my healer's ledger.
05:46Transferred the full bond payment on the new house in the other pack's territory.
05:52Right after the transfer, Lucian sent a message.
05:57Once Kai is stable, I'll take Nara to the mid-season gathering next week to make it up to her.
06:01Stop teaching her to hold grudges.
06:03I looked at the words make it up and felt nothing but contempt.
06:06No reply.
06:07He didn't know.
06:08There was no next week.
06:13Countdown.
06:14Day 3.
06:15Hodei was the pack's annual pup gifting ceremony.
06:17Ons a year, every pup was brought before the pack elders to have their gifts assessed
06:22and recorded in the pack's bloodline registry.
06:24A pup whose gift was formally recognized gained standing in the pack.
06:28Their names were inscribed beside their abilities for all to see.
06:31For a pup like Nara, who carried a rare double bloodline, this was everything.
06:35I sat beside her and held her small, sweaty hand.
06:39My chest ached.
06:40I knew he wasn't coming.
06:41A pup's always hope.
06:43Nara whispered.
06:43Mom.
06:44Dad promised he would be here for my gifting.
06:47I said nothing.
06:48Just held her hand tighter.
06:49Ten minutes before the ceremony began, my signal stone pulsed.
06:53Lucian.
06:54The rogue patrol ran long.
06:55I can't get away.
06:56Tell Nara.
06:57I am sorry.
06:58Same excuse.
06:59Same broken promise.
07:00I turned the stone face down on my lap.
07:02Didn't tell Nara.
07:03Probably held up at the rogue pack.
07:05The ceremony moved along.
07:07Now, we record the gift of our most remarkable pup this season.
07:11Nara's hand tightened around my fingers.
07:14The gift to be registered.
07:15It was Nara's.
07:16She had bled for months to draw that form out of herself without Lucian.
07:20Every training session, every bruise, every night she collapsed from exhaustion had built
07:24toward that one image.
07:25Mom.
07:26That's mine.
07:27I smiled and began to nudge her toward the elder's dais.
07:30Please welcome the gifted pup, Kai Hayes.
07:34Nara's face froze.
07:35Bottom of the projection.
07:36The name read Kai Hayes, not Nara Cole.
07:39Her shift form.
07:40Someone else's name.
07:43Nara stood there, mouth open.
07:45No sound coming out.
07:46Why is that girl standing?
07:48They called Kai.
07:49Nara heard.
07:50She sat back down.
07:51Head dropped.
07:53I clenched my fist and walked straight to the family seating area.
07:57Lyra was standing, adjusting Kai's collar.
08:00Smiling.
08:01Lyra!
08:02Stop right there!
08:03She looked up, smiled still on.
08:05Oh, Serena.
08:07You're here too.
08:09That shift form is my daughter's!
08:11Why does your son have his name on it?
08:14Serena, don't be upset.
08:16Lucian handled this himself.
08:18I didn't know anything about it.
08:20But honestly, Serena, does it matter whose gift it is?
08:24What matters is who Lucian wants to put on a pedestal.
08:28Your pup can train until she bleeds, and it doesn't change the fact that Lucian doesn't
08:32care about you two.
08:33You can be as angry as you want.
08:35Nothing changes.
08:36I looked at her face and slapped her.
08:38You have no shame.
08:41Lyra's head snapped to the side.
08:42She cried out.
08:43I grabbed her arm to drag her to the elders.
08:46Someone shoved me hard from the side.
08:48I stumbled back several steps and hit a stone bench with my lower back.
08:52I looked up.
08:53Lucian.
08:53He had Lyra and Kai behind him.
08:56Lucian, it hurts so much.
08:58Don't blame Serena.
08:59It's my fault.
09:00I shouldn't have let Kai accept this registration.
09:04Serena, what is wrong with you?
09:06You look completely unsinged right now.
09:09Lucian, Nora trained for months for that gift.
09:11You registered her shift from under Kai's name.
09:13Nora can rely on me.
09:15Kai grew up without a father.
09:17He needs this recognition to find his place in the pack.
09:19Zane died saving me.
09:21I helped his son.
09:22What's the problem?
09:25You're impossible.
09:26Impossible.
09:27My daughter's gift was stolen.
09:29Her months of blood and exhaustion were handed to another child.
09:32I went to set it right, and her own father shoved me to the ground for another woman.
09:37I closed my mouth.
09:40Nora stood there, mouth open.
09:43No sound coming out.
09:44Why is that girl standing?
09:45They called Kai.
09:46Nora heard.
09:47She sat back down, head dropped.
09:51I clenched my fist and walked straight to the family seating area.
09:55Lyra was standing, adjusting Kai's collar, smiling.
09:58Lyra!
09:59Stop right there!
10:00She looked up, smiled still on.
10:03Oh, Serena.
10:05You're here too.
10:06That shift form is my daughter's!
10:08Why does your son have his name on it?
10:11Serena, don't be upset.
10:13Lucian handled this himself.
10:15I didn't know anything about it.
10:17But honestly, Serena, does it matter whose gift it is?
10:21What matters is who Lucian wants to put on a pedestal.
10:25Your pup can train until she bleeds, and it doesn't change the fact that Lucian doesn't care about you two.
10:31You can be as angry as you want.
10:33Nothing changes.
10:34I looked at her face and slapped her.
10:36You have no shame.
10:38Lyra's head snapped to the side.
10:40She cried out.
10:41I grabbed her arm to drag her to the elders.
10:44Someone shoved me hard from the side.
10:45I stumbled back several steps and hit a stone bench with my lower back.
10:49I looked up.
10:50Lucian.
10:51He had Lyra and Kai behind him.
10:53Lucian, it hurts so much.
10:55Don't blame Serena.
10:57It's my fault.
10:58I shouldn't have let Kai accept this registration.
11:02Serena, what is wrong with you?
11:03You look completely unsinged right now.
11:06Lucian.
11:07Nora trained for months for that gift.
11:09You registered her shift from under Kai's name.
11:11Nora can rely on me.
11:13Kai grew up without a father.
11:14He needs this recognition to find his place in the pack.
11:17Zane died saving me.
11:19I helped his son.
11:20What's the problem?
11:23You're impossible!
11:24Impossible.
11:25My daughter's gift was stolen.
11:26Her months of blood and exhaustion were handed to another child.
11:30I went to set it right, and her own father shoved me to the ground for another woman.
11:34I closed my mouth.
11:38Kai is here today because of his wonderful godfather, Beta Lucian Cole.
11:43He has been more than family to us.
11:46Mom?
11:47A voice behind me.
11:48I turned.
11:50Nora stood a few feet away.
11:52Nora.
11:53I reached for her.
11:54Nora stepped back.
11:58Mom, let's go.
12:00Nora's face was tight.
12:01Holding back tears, she refused to let fall.
12:05No more fighting.
12:06There was no point arguing with a man who had chosen to be blind.
12:10Back home, Nora sat in her room for a long time.
12:14Then she opened her journal and wrote a new entry.
12:17Dad gave away my innate gift to someone else.
12:20I moved our departure two days earlier.
12:24I could not stay in this pack one moment longer than I had to.
12:32The day before we left, I took Nora to the pack market to gather last supplies for the journey.
12:38Nora held my hand.
12:39She stopped outside a food stall.
12:41I followed her gaze through the crowd.
12:43Lucian.
12:44He was carefully cutting a piece of roasted meat, blowing on it to cool it, feeding it to Kai.
12:49Lyra sat beside him, smiling like she had everything.
12:52Run, happy family.
12:53I watched it and almost wanted to laugh.
12:55This was what his emergencies always looked like.
12:58Mom, isn't Dad supposed to be on patrol?
13:00A lie caught in the open.
13:02Ridiculous and pathetic.
13:04I let out a cold laugh and turned to leave with Nora.
13:07Then a war horn split the air.
13:09A second later, the market's outer wall exploded inward.
13:12Rogues.
13:13A full raiding pack.
13:14Pouring through the breach in the stone.
13:16People screamed and surged toward the inner gates.
13:22Nora!
13:23I shouted and grabbed for her hand on instinct, but the crowd was wild.
13:28No direction.
13:29My hand was empty.
13:31By the time I got back up, smoke from the burning stalls had spread across the market square.
13:36I searched through the crowd.
13:37Through the black smoke, I spotted Nora.
13:39She had fallen behind an overturned cart, blocked by a collapsed market frame.
13:43Then a figure broke through the smoke.
13:45Lucian, he was moving fast, blade drawn, cutting a path through the fleeing crowd.
13:50He saw Nora.
13:52He saw his pup trapped behind the cart.
13:54From the other side came Lyra's scream.
13:58Lucian!
13:59Help!
13:59Kai is pinned under a fallen beam!
14:04Lucian went rigid.
14:06He turned back, eyes locking on his own pup just feet away.
14:09Nora!
14:10Don't move!
14:10Dad is getting Kai out first, then coming back for you!
14:14And I watched him, and run toward another woman and her child.
14:18He pulled Kai free, and pushed Lyra toward the inner gates.
14:21In the worst moment of my life, he left his own pup behind.
14:25I watched, bit through my lip until I tasted blood.
14:28He left her with a promise to come back.
14:30In the rolling smoke, Nora watched the direction Lucian disappeared, her small body completely still.
14:36She stopped crying.
14:38Stopped calling out.
14:39Slowly, she let the hand covering her nose drop.
14:42Let the smoke fill her lungs.
14:43A tear slid down her cheek.
14:46Mom, Dad went to save someone else.
14:49Pack law says a father protects his pup above all others.
14:52But I don't have a father anymore.
14:54So the law doesn't count for me.
14:56Those words broke through my last wall.
14:58Nora!
14:59Nora!
15:02Mom's here!
15:05I grabbed a healer's kit from the rack and started on Nora myself.
15:10After a long while, I finally stepped outside and collapsed onto a bench.
15:15I pressed my hand to my chest.
15:17Found the thread of the mate bond still there.
15:20Faint and fraying, I closed my eyes, and I severed it.
15:24The pain hit like a blade through the ribs.
15:26But I didn't make a sound.
15:27Lucian, you have lost us for good.
15:32Two hours later, Lucian ran into the healing tent soaked in sweat, face smeared with ash.
15:39Serena!
15:40What happened?
15:41How is Nora?
15:42Lucian!
15:43My head hurts so much!
15:47Kai won't stop crying!
15:48He's asking for you!
15:50Please go check on him first!
15:53Let me go!
15:55My pup is in there!
15:57Every time she cried, Lucian gave in.
16:00But this time...
16:08Nora...
16:11Nora...
16:11Serena, due to smoke damage combined with severe shock to the blood bond, her wolf voice is gone.
16:17She cannot produce a howl.
16:18No!
16:19She cannot shift.
16:20No!
16:22No!
16:22No!
16:23No!
16:24No!
16:27No!
16:28Healer.
16:29What did you just say?
16:31My pup never stops howling.
16:33She sings in her sleep.
16:35Why is this happening?
16:36It's all my fault!
16:38Oh, no!
16:43The healer didn't answer him.
16:44Just patted my shoulder.
16:46I walked silently into the inner chamber.
16:48No crying.
16:49No red eyes.
16:52Serena
16:53Hit me
16:54Scream at me
16:55Whatever you need
16:57I didn't know the rogues would breach so fast
16:59I thought I had time
17:00No accusation
17:02No yelling
17:05Nothing left to say
17:06Lucian was shut out
17:10Lucian pressed his palm flat
17:12Against the window
17:13Mouthing her name over and over
17:15Nora didn't cry
17:16She looked at him for two seconds
17:17Turned her head
17:18The blood bond between a pup and her father
17:20Severed at last
17:28Pack duty
17:29He was needed back immediately to file the rogue breach report
17:33Lucian had to leave
17:34Lyra scrambled after him
17:36The second he was gone
17:38I moved fast
17:40Cancelled every record tied to this pack
17:42Midnight
17:43I carried Nora out through the eastern border gate
17:46Nora walked beside me once we cleared the tree line
17:48Watching the territory lights fade behind us
17:51The farewell was done
17:58Dawn
17:58Lucian had been up all night finishing his report
18:01He ran back to the healing tent
18:09No US
18:10Just a healer collecting used dressings
18:13Where are they?
18:15Where is my mate and my pup?
18:18Serena took her daughter out at midnight
18:20You're too late, Lucian
18:28The mother daughter's sleeping furs by the hearth were gone
18:32The matching clay cups on the stone table were gone
18:37The herbs drying on the window ledge had been cleared away
18:40Belonging to me and Nora was gone
18:41He walked into Nora's room
18:43Nothing left
18:44Number one thing
18:45On the floor where the blood anchor stone used to sit
18:48In the middle of those four worn marks lay a small journal
18:51Nora's journal
18:56Lucian dropped to his knees and grabbed it
18:58Six words scratched into the cover
19:00Father's death log
19:01Lucian opened to the first page
19:03Neat, careful handwriting
19:05Day one
19:06Auntie Lyra called
19:07Dad left
19:08No one was there when I tried on my training kit
19:10Dad was killed in battle
19:12Lucian's eyes went red
19:13He remembered screaming at Serena
19:15Throwing the training kit on the floor
19:17Slamming the door without once looking back at his daughter
19:22He turned to the second page
19:24Day five
19:25Pack family witness day
19:26Every other father came
19:28I waited a long time
19:30Dad died at the widow's quarter next door
19:33Third page
19:35Day 925
19:36The anchor stone in my room was taken away
19:39Mom spent a lot to get it for me
19:41His love went with it
19:43Lucian's hands cramped
19:44He turned page after page
19:46Every page was a debt he owed
19:48A blade he had put in his own pup's hands
19:50And used to cut her open
19:52He reached the last entry
19:53The ink was blurred
19:54Clearly hit by something wet
19:56There was a rogue attack at the market
19:58Dad said wait
19:59He went to save pup
20:00I watched him carry someone else out through the sun
20:02Toad
20:03Dad turned to Ash completely
20:04Ghosts don't come back to save him
20:12He stayed on his knees in the empty room for a long time
20:17Then he got up and started sending messages to everyone
20:20My mentor
20:21My cohort sisters
20:23Anyone who might know where we went
20:25First message
20:26My fellow senior healer
20:28Please
20:28Where did Serena go?
20:30Lucian
20:31Serena accepted a post in another pack
20:33Where is confidential?
20:35She asked me not to say
20:37Message ended
20:38He sent word to her closest friend
20:40The reply came fast
20:41Get lost
20:42A piece of filth
20:43Nora can't howl now
20:45Do you understand what that means?
20:47Contact me again
20:48And I will bring this before the pack
20:50Elders myself
20:50Lucian rode to the eastern border
20:52Hold the night watch records from the crossing wall
20:55On the memory mirror's projection
20:57Me, Nora, on my hip
20:59One pack on my back
21:00Passing through the gate at midnight
21:02Nora had her face pressed into my shoulder
21:04From the moment we entered
21:05Until we disappeared into the dark
21:07She never once looked back
21:09No hesitation
21:09He understood now
21:12We were gone for good
21:13That evening
21:14Lucian came back to the empty house
21:16He had barely sat down
21:18When the entry mark was pressed from outside
21:25Lucian
21:25I made your favorite stew
21:28I'm here to take care of you
21:29Lucian looked at her face
21:31He used to see sadness and helplessness written there
21:34Now his stomach turned
21:38Lyra saw Lucian was quiet
21:41Lucian
21:42Don't be so hard on yourself
21:44Nora made it out, didn't she?
21:47You saved Kai
21:51Zane would be grateful
21:56I thought I was helping
21:59Was I?
22:00Get away from me!
22:08Lucian
22:10Why did you push me?
22:14All he could see was Nora closing her eyes in the smoke
22:17A few days later
22:19He rode to the honor quarter
22:20He had been covering Lyra's upkeep for months
22:24He didn't announce himself
22:27He knew the entry mark
22:28Voices inside
22:30A man's voice
22:32Laughing
22:32Lyra on the bench
22:34With a man he didn't recognize
22:36On the table between them
22:38Stacks of gold coins
22:44Lucian's quarterly stipend
22:46The upkeep allowance he had been sending every moon cycle
22:51When is that idiot beta finally going to take you as his mate?
22:56The wolf sickness act is getting old
22:58You have to fake it every single time
23:01Take me as his mate?
23:02Why bother?
23:03His mate left
23:04He's drowning in guilt
23:05If I push for a bond right now it'll backfire
23:07As long as Zay's name holds I keep the tears ready
23:10He's my permanent gold source
23:12You're cold
23:13The rogue attack was serious and you still made him save your pup first
23:17Heard his actual pup lost her voice?
23:19That little brat should have choked in the smoke
23:21She had it coming
23:22Her mother always walking around like she's above everyone
23:26Lucian's a fool
23:26I said two words about Kai being scared and he left his own pup behind
23:30A male like that deserves to lose everything
23:35Every word shredded what was left of Lucian's dignity
23:39The wolf sickness was fake
23:40All the helplessness was a performance
23:42Everything he had believed was noble
23:44And right had just been a mark getting bled dry
23:47Lucian stood outside shaking
23:49He thought about carrying Nora's anchor stone out for these people
23:52About registering Nora's gift under Kai's name at the gifting ceremony
23:56About turning his back on his pup in the smoke
23:58About Nora's dead eyes watching him go
24:00He could barely stand
24:01The old hymn would have kicked the door in
24:03But not this time
24:04He went completely still
24:05Stepped back from the door
24:06Rode straight to the pack law keeper
24:08I want to file a formal complaint
24:11Fraud
24:11Falsified illness records
24:13Someone has been collecting pack resource under false pretense
24:16After he left the law keeper
24:17Lucian went back to the pack records chamber
24:20He opened the ledgers and spent all night
24:22Pulling together three years of transfers
24:24Messages and falsified healer reports
24:26He cut off every escape route Lyra had
24:29And destroyed his own standing doing it
24:31When it was done
24:32Lucian stood alone in the dark chamber
24:34He raised his hand
24:35And struck himself
24:36Ten times
24:37Hard
24:38His lips split
24:39His cheeks swelled
24:40He couldn't feel any of it
24:43Three days later
24:44The pack held its annual honors assembly
24:46The great hall was full
24:48Every elder
24:48Every ranked member
24:49Every family with a fallen warrior
24:51The hall hadn't been this full in years
24:53Lyra sat in the front row
24:55In the seat reserved for honored widows
24:56Today she was to speak on behalf of the fallen members' families
25:00And receive the pack's annual condolence tribute
25:02A large sum
25:03Set aside from the communal stores
25:05Her face was arranged into grief
25:07Her eyes couldn't quite hide what was underneath
25:09We now call Beta Lucian Cole
25:12To present the condolence tribute to Lyra Hayes
25:15The hall gave a slow, respectful acknowledgement
25:17Lucian walked to the front step by step
25:19He did not pick up the tribute pouch
25:21Lyra stood, composed, and moved toward the dais
25:24She had her speech ready
25:26Her tears were ready
25:27Lucian swept the hall
25:28I do have something for Lyra Hayes today
25:31But it is not a gift
25:32A projection filled the air above the assembly
25:34Lyra's voice, clear and cold
25:37Echoed through the great hall
25:38Take me as his mate
25:39Why bother?
25:40A male like that deserves to lose everything
25:42All the vicious words Lucian heard that day
25:45Became solid evidence
25:48The moment the projection sounded
25:50The hall went dead silent
25:51Then erupted
25:52Pack members turned on Lyra
25:54Where she stood
25:54The air in the hall changed completely
25:57No!
25:57That recording is false!
26:00Lucian, listen to me!
26:01I was threatened!
26:02That man forced me to say those things!
26:04The hall doors opened
26:05Lyra Hayes
26:06You are formally charged with fraud against the pack
26:09Falsification of illness records
26:11And deliberate manipulation of a ranked Beta
26:13To breach his sworn duty to his blood pup
26:16Iron binding cuffs locked around her wrists
26:19Every mask she had worn collapsed at once
26:21Lucian, don't stand there playing the honorable male now
26:24Did I force you to leave your pup behind?
26:26You left your own pup in that smoke yourself
26:28You will never wash that off!
26:32Every word landed exactly where it was meant to
26:34She was right
26:35Lyra was just an outsider
26:37A predator who found a mark
26:38The one who handed the weapon to her
26:40The one who used it on his own pup
26:42That was him
26:43Lyra was dragged out of the hall
26:44Her pack standing was stripped on the spot
26:46Her name removed from the honor quarter records
26:49Kai, with his mother facing formal charges
26:51And his wolf sickness confirmed as never having existed
26:54Was taken into pack ward care
26:56The assembly ended without ceremony
26:58Lucian stood alone in the emptying hall
27:00He slowly removed his Beta insignia
27:02Unpinned it from his chest
27:03He walked to the senior elder
27:05Bowed deep
27:06Placed the insignia in her hands
27:07I don't deserve to hold this rank anymore
27:09Stripped of every title
27:11Every standing
27:12Every piece of his identity
27:14Lucian walked out of the great hall
27:16Carrying one thing only
27:17The need to find us
27:18And face what he had done
27:22Two years later
27:23A pack territory near the southern coast
27:25Inside the largest gathering hall in the region
27:28I was leading a cross pack healing council
27:30Good morning everyone
27:31Thank you for being here
27:33He the willed the Sment Straits
27:35Senior healers from seven territories
27:37Before Istis was more yes from the way
27:39The council ended to a standing acknowledgement from every healer in the room
27:43Nobody in that hall knew that two years ago I had walked out of a territory with nothing
27:47In the very last row
27:48Lucian sat with a beard grown out
27:50Two years of searching
27:51He had crossed half the known territories
27:54Spent everything he had
27:56Taken labor work and supply runs to keep moving
27:59He had aged a decade
28:02He didn't dare approach
28:03Turned and left before I could see him
28:06Late afternoon
28:08Outside a pup training ground on the edge of the territory
28:12Lucian's eyes burned
28:13The shadows that used to live in her face were gone
28:16He couldn't stop himself
28:18Nora!
28:19Nora!
28:20Dad's here!
28:24He reached out
28:25Wanting to hold the daughter he had missed every single day
28:28Nora stopped
28:30Lucian reached for her through the blood bond on instinct
28:33Nothing
28:33No frequency
28:35No pull
28:36No trace of his own blood in her at all
28:39Only pure unfamiliarity
28:41Like looking at someone she had never seen before
28:46There is a stranger approaching me
28:52The tutor stepped forward immediately
28:54Placing herself between Nora and Lucian
28:57What do you want?
28:59Our pup says she doesn't know you
29:02Step back now or I call the law keepers
29:10Lucian froze
29:12He watched his daughter's hands as she signed
29:18The hands that used to press against the anchor stone every morning
29:21Those hands now only spoke in silence
29:24And what they said was
29:25I don't know him
29:27The cruelest punishment wasn't hatred
29:29It was being erased completely
29:32But Lucian understood now what the healer had not been able to explain two years ago
29:36Nora wasn't silent because she couldn't howl
29:39She had found the bond thread herself
29:41The one connecting her blood to his
29:44And she had cut it
29:45A pup who severs her own blood bond to her father
29:49The healer said it was impossible
29:51No pup had the will for it
29:53Nora had
30:00Can you put some distance between this male and my daughter?
30:04He's frightened her
30:06Serena
30:08Lyra
30:10Lyra is gone
30:12I know what I did
30:13I know all of it
30:14Let me make it right, please
30:17Even if you just let me watch from a distance
30:30Sometimes a missed chance meant a farewell forever
30:33Is it ever?
30:34Ever
30:34I know you
30:36I know you
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