The Defection Of The She-Wolf is a powerful werewolf romance short drama filled with betrayal, fated mates, pack politics, and emotional redemption. After enduring heartbreak and rejection, a determined She-Wolf chooses her own destiny and leaves everything behind. But when the truth emerges, those who wronged her are forced to face the consequences. Watch the full episode and experience an unforgettable story of love, strength, and second chances.
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00:02i'm getting married but the person i've been in love with for eight years won't know about it
00:07because he has already found the luna he chose and when i erased all my memories and was expelled
00:12from the group by him he knelt down before me in tears in the palace garden on the night of
00:18the coronation feast i heard my cousin moan the name of my fated mate the bell tolled slow iron
00:24rattling my bones the air was thick with a scent i knew better than my own skin fur iron and
00:29the
00:29promise of a storm it belonged to the man i'd loved for eight years my destined mate his teeth
00:34were buried in my cousin viola's throat not mine asha viola flinched fingers clutching her cloak
00:42eyes glossing with a practiced shield leona don't miss miss stand i i didn't want to be here the
00:50elders say all the clans are watching the north needs a luna who can steady things i'm just
00:55filling in for tonight i laughed sharp as a blade of ice filling in this is the coronation night not
01:03a tryst shut up asher lifted his mouth from her skin gold eyes turned to me calm crushing you should
01:11learn to speak more sweetly we need someone who puts our allies at ease tonight then do something worth
01:17hearing silly me i stared at them still braced together viola's the fated luna isn't she that's
01:26why you betrayed me i haven't betrayed anyone he stepped forward his presence a slab of pressure
01:32i'm the alpha the pack comes first then us us she's my cousin so your mark gets to come in
01:40order viola shook her head fast voice soft enough to ring don't say that i never wanted to replace
01:47you i was afraid you'd be hurt everyone says being luna is cruel i thought i could hold it for
01:52you first
01:53until things settled then i give it back how considerate i jerked my chin at the bite oozing on
01:59her neck considerate enough to soothe my boyfriend i see her fingers trembled innocence wilted prettily
02:05asher caught my chin and forced my gaze to his look at me his voice dropped iron threaded you're not
02:12leaving his thumbs slid the hollow of my neck low unshakable you're mine let go i knocked his hand
02:20away only to feel an invisible weight slam my chest alpha voice hot form already demanding my bones kneel
02:28i bit my tongue and strangled the egg legal double marking asher will you really i'll bear the
02:35consequences i snorted you bear them i pay what a bargain now get your hands off me leona please
02:43don't don't make a scene viola pleaded they're all watching the elders the lords if you must blame
02:48someone blame me this is only temporary after tonight i i can step aside can you step aside clean
02:56or do you mean to say once the crown's on too late i stared at the fresh mark her eyes
03:02reddened
03:02she twisted her ties i'm not that kind of fire ripped under my skin detonating my skull my heart
03:12hammered war drums the wolf in me bucked and clawed shame and craving tore through reason i clutched the
03:18cold pillar until my knuckles blanched i would not fall he lifted his head knuckles wiping the smear of
03:23blood from his lip his gaze clear almost cruel now everyone knows whose you are viola squealed
03:32asher what have you staggering i clapped both hands over my throat my heart slammed like it would break
03:38free my new mark jumped in time with his chaining me to the man who had just betrayed me viola
03:44made a
03:44show of reaching for me i slapped her hand away is this the plan make me the thing between you
03:50no one
03:50seized you miss to stand her asher said low the only person i misjudged is myself i yanked my cloak
03:57loose blood slid from the wound flowering dark on stone i thought eight years would teach you to
04:02choose once the alpha voice fell again granite on my shoulders come back it bowed my tendons my wolf
04:09howled to heal to drown in his scent i locked every instinct behind my ribs
04:13no leona don't go viola choked at least not tonight they'll say you're willful unfit then wear fit for
04:22me
04:26i strode away music shifted the heart erupted in cheers people glimpsed the stain on my neck and looked
04:33aside like dodging a drawn wire at the turn i lit my calm stone father by the old law begin
04:40the
04:40centering i didn't soften it the sooner the better mother's voice cut in steadying but shaking beneath
04:45leona you know what that means truth will cut your heart silver fire will sear your bones once you turn
04:53you carve out your own lungs father rumbled and once begun it can't be stopped failure may take your
04:58life i pressed my palm to the burning mark i know and i am not turning back snow feathered past
05:05the
05:05window even if it strips me to skin and bone i will return this bite to the goddess father asked
05:10when three days i said in the birch grove with black water as mirror have them witness
05:29i stood in the center of my room fur and snow lingered his scent all that remained was the sting
05:37first into the trunk the wool shawl he gave me at last winter's rights the blue of the deepest northern
05:43ice he'd said it matched my eyes to hell with matching leona came a sugared whisper from the door
05:50i didn't turn wrong room luna yours is down the hall viola crept in fingers twisting her skirt
05:59i wanted to help asha said you'd be moving i straightened so fast she flinched help to check i
06:09didn't hide any of his things or to see if i've cried her eyes glossed why do you always think
06:14the
06:14worst of me we grew up as sisters exactly why i know how you help i picked up the album
06:22my fingertips
06:23burned the way you helped with the luna's place asha came from the doorway he crossed in and took that
06:32half step in front of her protective without thinking it cut deeper than i expected no need he said
06:37to me alpha weight in his tone viola's showing concern like your way of showing loyalty i asked
06:43marking two women at once his jaw set for the pack viola's blood is purer the elders calm when they
06:50see
06:50it oh then i should thank you both i swept the room filled with our years one steals my place
06:56the
06:56other tears the vow viola tugged his sleeve don't don't fight asha only meant for me to stay at his
07:02auntski loser to counsel you put her at your aunts i asked a hundred paces from your bed it's safer
07:10he
07:10said voice brooking none all eyes are on us she needs protection protection i repeated from my malice
07:18or the rumor mill polishing your new luna he stepped in watch your tone or what i held his gaze
07:25use your
07:32fault i can go back to my old house skin if it isn't safe enough asher cut her off his
07:39gold eyes
07:39locked on me viola will be luna that's settled she will stay where she is and you his glance flicked
07:47to the half-packed trunk you have three days to leave the norse main grounds the air froze i'd
07:52expected it hearing it still twisted my gut three days my voice stayed level how generous the elders
08:00decided it he said time to prepare and to avoid conflict conflict i laughed afraid i'll spoil the
08:07picture or tell how you staged it it isn't like that viola burst out they're worried you're not
08:12coping and outside there are rumors what rumors i asked she looked away that you couldn't accept the
08:18decision that you acted extreme that you might not suit the luna's role so exile me to prove i suit
08:26it
08:26i looked at asher that's your fix send me off so she can ascend his face hardened you need distance
08:35it's for the good of all i felt very tired eight years and it was my first clear look at
08:40this face
08:41fine i bent to the trunk three days i'll go she moved to speak he tugged her back tell the
08:50guard if
08:51you need anything he said like to any pack member the door closed on viola's whisper i'm so worried
09:02the door closed on viola's whisper i'm so worried
09:10the next two days rumor spread like fire in dry brush at the hall a woman murmured i heard she
09:16wrecked
09:16coronation nearly attacked the new luna in the corridor two guards muttered or if i had to mark
09:23her twice to settle her wolf's too wild even the clerk granting my removal pass eyed me with pity
09:30leaving might be best each word was a knife i knew whose hand guided them i said nothing i emptied
09:38my
09:38rooms and my memories one thing left the album tonight was a spillover feast from winter rights
09:44roast smoke and laughter in the air none of it touched my courtyard no one wanted to look at
09:51the former save for glances laced with pity and gossip the leather album dragged at my hands eight
09:57years inside it 9999 photos 9999 moments 9999 reasons he loved me now reasons he used to it read like
10:08a
10:08clumsy joke i built a small pyre flames licked eager page one two pups wrestling in snow his gold eyes
10:18bright
10:18with laughter my nose red my eyes crinkled shut with it reason one you are my first snow pure and
10:25alive his
10:26strong hand the little paw doodle i tore it free and fed it to the fire it curled and blackened
10:33to smoke page after page
10:35first kiss in the snow our first stag the crown i set on him the day he became alpha the
10:41four seasons
10:42four promises at a time 9999 moments all ash paper sliced my finger i didn't feel it the hole in
10:51my
10:51chest swallowed pain whole the flames rose my shadow stretched thin warped he came stop asher's voice
11:00anger barely held i didn't turn another page tore free the kiss under moonlit arches reason 512
11:08your scent smells like forever how droll alpha voice leona i order you to stop pressure punched the air
11:16my wrist shook but the page still fell into the fire your orders don't work on me asher
11:23remember remember i'm already exiled the courtyard parted for him he strode to my side gold eyes
11:30flickering with firelight you don't have to do this don't i i looked at him at last and laughed hug
11:37this book every night and sob over how you chose someone else his jaw locked it isn't what you think
11:43what is it then i held up the album of these 9999 reasons you loved me which one lets you
11:51mark another
11:52which lets you choose viola he watched me fire dancing in ice no answer viola appeared hands at
12:00her chest leona please don't these memories are precious they brought a crowd of course they did
12:09no show without an audience precious i echoed eyes on viola's rehearsed tremble like your luna's crown
12:17like asher's vows murmurs rose rebuke for me defense for her i lifted the whole album to pitch it asher
12:26grabbed we grappled a heartbeat then he wrenched it free by thrusting both hands into the flames
12:34the stink of scorched flesh flooded the square gasps viola shrieked lunging asher your hands he
12:43didn't spare himself a glance he clutched the album enough leona it ends here i looked at those hands
12:52hands that had been tender with me burned now to save the relic of our love if a promise can't
12:58bear
12:58betrayal i said it isn't worth keeping viola sobbed and clutched his arm my wrist when we struggled
13:08i must have twisted every eye swung to her her fine wrist was faintly pink nothing beside asher's
13:14seared palms but he turned at once voice rich with concern are you hurt it was absurd he burned to
13:21keep
13:21our album and first worried over her feigned twinge leona apologize you hurt her he said face cold i
13:30stared i hadn't known his talent for reversal outstripped his leadership i didn't touch her it's
13:36not her fault it was an accident viola whispered weeping prittily but it really hurts the murmurs
13:43thickened jealous mad dangerous apologize asher commanded alpha voice crushing the air i looked at
13:53the face i'd loved at viola's tremor behind him at the ring of judgment and fear the last light went
13:59out
14:00i laughed it rang in the square like a cracked bell fine i'll apologize
14:20asher's brows eased he thought i'd bent i stepped up and met viola's eyes i'm sorry viola sorry i treated
14:29you like a sister sorry i begged my parents to take you in when yours died sorry i shared everything
14:36my
14:36clothes my room i paused my gaze cut to asher my lover her face bleached she hadn't expected that
14:47but most of all i raised my voice so all could hear i'm sorry i ever believed we were family
14:54i turned to the pyre and pulled out the last token a crescent pendant he gave me on our first
15:00anniversary
15:01you wanted to keep sake asher i said softly tossing it into the blaze fetch it from the ash with
15:08your
15:08new luna cries chased me as i left the square fire devoured the last thing i'd kept and my last
15:16retreat
15:17tomorrow the rumors would write themselves crazy leona burned her memories and hurt innocent viola even the
15:25alpha burned his hands trying to stop her let them talk tonight i buried the leona who loved asher
15:32tomorrow a new wolf would rise
15:36one who would not kneel
15:40i didn't expect him to come in the morning i left alone he stood in the doorway he didn't enter
15:46the carriage is ready do you need an escort so distant fitting making sure i obeyed i zipped my
15:54last case do you need to watch he sighed leona don't when this is over i'll bring you back you
16:03know
16:04it's necessary for the pack pack first i've heard enough i hefted the suitcase tell your luna her seat
16:12her man her perfect plan i'm not interested he gripped my arm don't speak of her that way
16:20she defended you though you never gave her kindness i heard every rumor these three days i said looking
16:27at his hand on me every version says i'm not enough through wild too fragile too mad for luna i
16:32lifted my
16:32eyes to his only one says the truth you didn't choose her because she's better you chose her because
16:38she's easier to control his pupils cut tight you don't know what you're saying you know it perfectly
16:44i shook him off you feared a mate who wouldn't kneel so you picked the one who will always look
16:52up
16:53viola anger cracked his mask watch your mouth
16:59or what i glanced at the clock three hours and i'm free how long does your alpha voice reach asher
17:07we stared eight years tight as a wire between us singing as it snapped for a breath i thought
17:13he might argue apologize he didn't he stepped back east gate three hours he said and left
17:26i drew a long breath and raised my calm stone mother i'm early the birch is in one hour a
17:35beat
17:36are you sure the pain beats staying i said watching women point at my window tell them to be ready
17:46i'm going to be free by nightfall i lifted the case rumors won't cease hurt won't vanish but in
17:55three hours asher would wait at the east gate and i would not come he would get a legend how
18:01his former
18:01mate walked into the birches and tore their bond apart when i walked out i would no longer be his
18:07leona i'd be a wolf who belonged to herself the revelry still hadn't died by dawn
18:21i slipped toward the birch grove the pack's quietest holiest ground snow squeaked beneath
18:28my boots eight years crushed one step at a time the elders were already there five cloaked shapes
18:35ringed around obsidian stone the air smelled of herbs and ice the first elder rasped leona hail
18:46you are early delay serves no one i said begin another elder side the sundering is pain beyond pain
18:59three trials as one you must bear them alone the alpha he is nothing to this i cut in my
19:06choice my right
19:08begin they exchanged looks and nodded first trial the question that carves the chief touched my brow
19:18cold power lanced my mind face your deepest fear and pain and answer truly lie or flee
19:26and the bond will lash you to pieces vision struck coronation night his mouth at viola's white throat
19:37red beating moonlit colonnade his fingers on my chin gold eyes frozen you are mine his teeth in my neck
19:44pain
19:45and humiliation rumors viola's tears his distrust agony burst from my heart squeezing it in a fist
19:54i nearly dropped to my knees sweat soaking my spine ask thundered the elder in my skull do you still
20:04love him another asked the bond screamed choking off truth love what remnants resentment habit or
20:14i jerked i jerked my head up eyes blurred with tears and tore the answer free i loved him but
20:22i hate him more
20:24for wrecking us for choosing power over me
20:29for turning me into someone i don't recognize a wet snap inside pain then vacuum first trial passed
20:38meanwhile at the east gate she isn't here asher paced frowning at the empty road for the third time
20:46unease nod at him don't fret viola murmured fingers gliding on his arm maybe she needs time to
20:54settle perhaps she's crying in her room
20:58reluctant to go he didn't shake her off he only grew more irritable another quarter hour
21:04biola tried again worry pitched just right or perhaps she means to make you go to her she did that
21:12sometimes wanting your attention it sounded plausible and felt wrong leona use ploys no she'd rather burn
21:23the world then a soul deep pain tore his chest the bond ripping color drained from his face
21:31he spun toward the birches leona he bolted like a loosed arrow stop her stop her in the birches
21:41second trial silver fire the elder intoned they slit my forearm silver liquid burned into the cut
21:50pine beyond words burning freezing tearing rushed my veins every nerve shrieked blood ignited and iced at once
22:01my wolf slammed against my ribs begging to shift to survive it i clamped my teeth blood seeped at my
22:07mouth
22:08i shook refusing the change by will alone riding the silver storm until it thinned soaked spent i dropped to
22:15a knee gulping air second trial past leona stop asher hit the grove and the barrier struck him back
22:27sundering seals its own field none may cross
22:31his gold eyes were wild on me rage and fear i wiped my mouth didn't look his way continue
22:44third trial the choice of renunciation the chief elder bore a stone plate upon it a silver knife
22:52and a braided lock of hair mine and asher's twined cut at our joining eight years ago sever it feed
22:59it
22:59to the fire his eyes were ancient stone then your bond is ended no reconciliation i gripped the knife
23:06cold seeped into my palm the braid lay between us each strand wound with laughter vows warmth i thought
23:14it would bind us to the end leona look at me i forbid this asher hammered the barrier voice cracking
23:22from
23:22command to something close to panic i order you to stop your alpha orders once his orders were my axis
23:30my breath now they were a wasteland of irony i drew breath and raised the blade snow light flashed on
23:37steel a pale decided face glanced back at me leona don't his voice broke to plea we can talk fix
23:45it
23:45viola she she only brought the knife down a small clean sound like a thread snapping in an empty room
23:54the braid fell in too clean as if i'd cut not hair but a living cord between two hearts something
24:00thundered
24:00apart in my soul the last beam of a house collapsing years of feeling thread by thread tore loose and
24:08blew away hunger void and rending pain swallowed me the world went black my body folded forward i didn't
24:15strike cold stone i fell into a stranger's arms a scent rushed in cold fur wild and free i twitched
24:24newborn weak couldn't fight don't move said a low steady voice above me flat unreadable by nightwind's
24:32charge i'm taking you home nightwind the word was a plank my nerves unstrung darkness took me whole
24:40put her down who are you give her back asher raged ramming the barrier like a trapped beast leona
24:48open your eyes don't go with him the elders stood as one a wall he couldn't cross the right is
24:55sealed
24:56the chief said voice like ice sundering is her will the law is above all respect it viola stumbled in
25:04breathless her eyes flashed with secret triumph at the severed braid gone again in a wash of tears when
25:10she saw me in a stranger's hold she covered her mouth my god weeping with exquisite grief leona so you
25:17had someone else so that's why you were so cruel why not say so why must you hurt yourself hurt
25:24asher
25:25like this a poisoned needle straight to asher's spinning mind someone else ready retreat so her
25:32severing wasn't betrayal's ache it was that she'd found her next she burned the album turned her back
25:38cut the braid not from hate but because her heart had already moved shame and fury drowned the last of
25:45his pain he glared at the stranger's arm underneath fine very fine you had your replacement ready
25:55no wonder you were so eager his voice warped with rage as you wish from now on we are finished
26:04never
26:05show your face to me again the man finally lifted his head a hood shadowed him i saw a hard
26:11jaw and a
26:12ghost of a contemptuous smile she cut a chain he said voice low but clean as breaking ice slicing
26:19through wind and howl not to find a stand-in don't measure her with your small sorry yardstick he
26:25didn't spare them another glance he gathered me and strode into the birches into shadow and snow
26:31behind him asher's unspent fury viola's weeping with its bitter shine the elder's silent witness
26:39the right was done no turning back
26:46asher's unspent fury viola's weeping with its bitter shine the elder's silent witness the right
26:53was done no turning back i rose through emptiness bone-deep weariness first then a throat like dust
27:00and a body bruised by an unseen wheel i opened my eyes the ceiling was familiar the wood grain of
27:06my
27:06childhood room fire crackled in the hearth dry and warm leona mother's voice trembled i turned
27:13with effort my parents sat close father holding my hand mother stroking my hair dark crescents under
27:19both eyes told the vigil water i rasped mother lifted me and tipped the cup father's jaw unclenched
27:27i'm home the hollowness of sundering hum the worst of the pain had ebbed to a long dull ache
27:32your home mother whispered tears spilling father blew out a breath the ride cost you dearly
27:40i shook my head less than staying the last memory before i fell those arms that voice who
27:48carried me i asked a man my parents traded a look mother gripped my hand there's something we meant
27:56to tell you but before father finished grave the north is worse than you know silver means and
28:04nightclaws press the borders without the main pack shelter we can't stand alone i listened the shape of
28:11it was clear we've arranged a match the strongest shield we could find who canin thorn father said
28:22they call him the rogue king strong unbound by any great pack yet feared by them all
28:29we didn't tell you because your heart was set we wanted you happy so the road had been laid and
28:34they'd waited never forcing until i cut the past myself they'd borne too much for me my chest still
28:40ate emptied and raw but my choice rose simple and short i accept i said voice thin and steady on
28:48one
28:48condition their eyes widened i'll meet him i'm not a commodity not a prize not an appendage i said this
28:57alliance happens on terms we set mine and his i belong to myself he needs to understand that my voice
29:03wasn't loud it didn't have to be a low baritone rich as smoke answered from the door i don't steal
29:10prey
29:11the door swung a tall man leaned the frame travel worn leathers eyes winter starlight gray i receive
29:18what chooses me kane thorn stood there like he'd been waiting now he said tell me your choice leona hale
29:31i made the only choice that made sense the wedding moved with shocking speed
29:3710 days from waking and saying yes to standing before a mirror in a gown
29:42mother's fingers shook at my collar no heavy northern robes kane had sent a lean silver white
29:49dress shoulders edged with wolf fur the skirt cut like a warrior's coat he understands you mother
29:57murmured pride and worry braided in my eyes he understands a posture i said to the mirror
30:05one that refuses the leash father called from the door the right was ready
30:13no grand hall no assembled clans a ruined stone keep at the border suited kane only my parents and our
30:21core and his small handful quiet flint-eyed fighters stamped by the wild kane waited at the altar in black
30:29leathers under a dark silver cloak stitched with a waning moon and wolf claws no crown no ornament
30:36he wore authority like skin i crossed rubble toward him each step sure wind combed the ruins we faced
30:45each other his eyes traveled over me without judgment only an appraiser's clean measure as if weighing a
30:51weapon meant to match his hand an elder priest lifted his voice we witness the alliance of leona hale
30:59and kane thorn leaking balance and shelter by blood and oath so bound neither to betray the other he
31:08turned to kane do you swear i swear kane never looked away from me i swear the night wind clan
31:17my shelter and
31:18theirs is mine to guard i swear respect to my ally leona hale her will is her territory he paused
31:24the words fell
31:26like stones i came thorn will never use alpha voice on my wife her soul will not bow a ripple
31:33of the
31:33crowd no alpha made such vows because it stripped their right to compel the elder swallowed moved to
31:40me leona hale do you accept i said i do clear as a struck bell i trade this marriage for
31:50my people's
31:51safety i swear to stand as ally to kane thorn until our pact is done my will and my loyalty
31:58rise from
31:59my choosing he raised a silver knife seal it kane offered his hand i set mine in his warm steady
32:09a roar cracked the right in half asher stormed the ruins with a clutch of guards his eyes burned when
32:16he saw
32:17the bar joined hands and the lifted blade this ends now his voice lashed the air alpha pressure trying
32:23to cow the room leona do you know what you're doing kane's hand didn't shift he didn't look at asher
32:32his eyes narrowed cool and faintly amused i stepped forward unnecessarily shielding him asher wood
32:41mind your words and where you stand where he laughed he is cutting the ruin this is what you choose
32:51a wander in a heap of stones without the north what can you get joyce i said and you by
32:59what right
33:00do you stop me former mate the elders witnessed the sundering ample of the north your hand doesn't reach
33:08here he choked on that color worsening even severed you were mine the north is not a toy to be
33:16touched
33:17kane are you provoking the north pain moved at last he turned slow deliberate drawing me a fraction
33:24behind him no voice weight only something older larger like the step opening its eyes provocation
33:31he tasted the word or you're mistaken twice he dropped each word like pebbles in still water
33:39first she isn't norse property or your inheritance she belongs where she chooses not where you assign
33:48her and second his gaze stung i'm not testing the north sliding from asher to his guards i'm accepting an
33:54ally who chose to stand with me you however are testing me on my ground disrupting my right what do
34:01you
34:01want asher his head tilted two thrones voice gone ice a handful of warm bodies in power both
34:07she his hand reached back found mine pressed a thumb to my skin a silent foul between equals
34:14she wants a road of her own silence fell heavy asher's face went iron he opened his mouth and found
34:21his
34:21reasons thin and silly against the other man's clarity i laced my fingers in canes and stepped up
34:27shoulder to shoulder i said continue asher thrashed no leona it was for the pack i did it for us
34:36i never loved anyone else only you he didn't see his guards catch up or pale-faced viola at their
34:42backs
34:44asher
34:51asher
34:51i was wrong i was wrong leona asher's voice went raw i marked you both mad thinking i could hold
35:00love and
35:01power both i needed viola's blood to soother the elders i had to hold both for the norse sake
35:10a howl went around the ruin marking two sisters against the law near unforgivable viola's face
35:20shattered she stumbled forward disbelief and hurt lancing her prettiness to be called a tool before
35:27all to hear that what he truly couldn't let go was me stabbed deeper than any rebuke for the pack
35:34she whispered shaking tears spill unlovely now
35:40you said i was gentler more to your taste you said it was because because her voice fell to pieces
35:49asher dropped his head yes you suited my taste sweeted the luna i pictured
35:57but not what my heart wanted
35:59no
36:01no
36:02viola broke she pointed at me and screamed that night a ragged sound the goddess's blessing was hers
36:10i begged the officiant i changed the prayer i stole the luna's blessing silence so pure even the wind held
36:19breath she sobbed and laughed at once eyes white on asher you thought i was luna she was
36:28you hurt her over and over i won't let you have her truth hit like a pail of glacial water
36:35i hadn't
36:36only lost a faithless mate i'd lost a path stolen a future snatched by the hands i'd called kin
36:43a crown that should have been mine taken and smashed i stood chilled to the bone not rage not grief
36:50a cold absurd clarity kane's voice cut clean you're fighting gaze brushing asher
36:59then viola settling on me for a stolen crown stained his eyes lit with the first hint of fire as
37:06he
37:06looked at me she never wanted a crown she wants the whole sky every gaze turned to me i drew
37:14breath
37:14lifted my spine and stood beside kane my voice rang flat and final through every crack of the ruin
37:21i won't be a lunar shadow i won't be anyone's prey not before not now not ever i turned to
37:31kane and
37:31opened my hand keninthorne i choose you free and equal the corner of his mouth bent slight and sure
37:42he slit his palm so did i we clasped hands our blood fell to earth a new power rose warm
37:52strong
37:53not a collar but a resonance like moon and night locking eyes the elder cried by blood it is done
38:03the right finished in truth bared and obstacles broken
38:19noise faded i went alone to mirror lake black and still as ink beneath the waxing moon the heat
38:26of the new bond moved in me coexisting strangely with the hollowness sundering left footsteps heavy
38:32tentative i knew him before he spoke tatters of a bond ghosted the air leona asher's voice was hoarse
38:39authority gone only wreckage left i turned he stood a few paces off something clenched in his
38:46fists the gold in his eyes was dull crowded with regret refusal pain and a lost man's panic
38:51i never thought
38:56viola would the name shredded his throat i was blind to power to a false calm
39:04i wronged you he opened his hand a crescent pendant lay in his palm cleaned faintly scorched i found it
39:13in the ash he said i know it fixes nothing i looked at it once it meant the purest fiercest
39:19trust now it
39:20felt far away i didn't take it i picked it up between two fingers cold and weightless let the water
39:26bury it
39:26i said and flicked it a dim arc then nothing no splash as if it never existed he lunged a
39:34step as if
39:35to plunge in after it stopped short he stared at rings smoothing to glass stared at the past he
39:41couldn't retrieve his shoulders fell i turned to go leona the last failing reach in his voice
39:48give me one more chance even if not his mates just don't chase me i said without looking back the
39:57night
39:57shredded my words and carried them still clear chase me and i'll remember only the worst of you
40:03i walked to the figure waiting in moonlight kane said nothing only held out his hand i set mine in
40:10his
40:21mirror lake's chill and asher's last broken call fell behind us kane kept my hand in his without urging
40:28or speech leading me through snow bright pines away from lanterns and familiar scents into the wild
40:33that seemed to answer to him we didn't stop until a windless cliff shouldered above the valley below
40:40the north slept the main keep was a smudge in moonlight far and small he let go shrugged
40:48off a gray wolf pelt cloak and set it around my shoulders warm from his body snow cedar in its
40:55fibers silence pooled rest not wait he sat across the small fire he'd kindled feeding it now and then
41:04gaze cutting to the dark to me assessing never prying i broke the quiet first my voice sanded down
41:13why me you could have found someone simpler no past to trip over no enemies in tow he stirred the
41:23coals sparks rising to star themselves the north needs change not repetition he said a soul ground to
41:32powder by rules then the one who breaks them and stands understands balance better than a pretty
41:38puppet who's never been tested his eyes met mine through the heat i'm not looking for a mate who
41:43won't cause trouble i want an ally who'll meet it at my side your past you're severing your trouble he
41:51added the faintest edge of scorn in it as for enemies i've walked alone a long time they come in
41:57flocks one more is nothing i don't fear noise something eased in me there was no pity in him
42:05no rescue only measure and respect not for a woman to be shielded but for a force to be reckoned
42:12with
42:14that blood bun does it bind i glanced at our palms twin scars drying
42:18oh the last hardest knot he breathed a small laugh chains by obedience from cowards they breed
42:28rebellion in everyone else he looked at me as if laying down a contract our bond is a pact a
42:35notice
42:35served to scavengers and doubters leona hale stands under my shelter and beside me it means your enemies
42:41get my claws your choices get my weight he held me steady in his gaze it doesn't mean you must
42:48love me
42:49or obey me or belong to me you belong to you the fire snapped his words branded hotter than flame
42:59the last band about my ribs loosened not ownership not a new collar a horizon choice given without price
43:09i let out a breath that had been knotted for years and for the first time facing him let my
43:15mouth
43:16soften into something like relief i understand night thickened toward gray the wind sharpened
43:23kane rose and ground the last embers out under his boot we should go we need to crest the eastern
43:31ridge
43:31before soon up i stood and handed him his cloak he buckled it on with quick hands we took the
43:37climb side by
43:38side he didn't steady me he didn't dull the wind with his voice he kept a perfect distance present
43:43never crowding we topped the ridge as the first seam of gold ripped the dark light poured wild over an
43:50endless white plane no thrones no crowns no rules whispered behind cupped hands only snow to the end of
43:58the world mountains like sleeping titans and the sky indifferent free kane stopped beside me looking out
44:06dawn gilded the hard lines of his face calm and dangerous as a king of wilderness
44:13that's the horizon he said the wind smearing his words belongs to no one anyone can walk to it
44:20i looked back once the northern valley that had been my whole world seemed small and far
44:26when the moon swells full again the packs may remember this night but not an alpha squabble
44:32not a crown changing hands they'll remember a she-wolf who stood in ruins shook off her chains and chose
44:40her wild
44:41and her sky and her sky and she didn't look back
44:44you
44:45you
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