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00:01I was the daughter of the late Alpha King.
00:04My bond with Alpha Ryder of the Black Ridge Pack was supposed to be the Moon Goddess's greatest blessing to
00:10his lineage.
00:11Yet, the moment my carriage rolled up to the packhouse gates, the illusion shattered.
00:17A lowborn she-wolf knelled on the frozen cobby stones, desperately clutching a pup to her chest.
00:24Ryer blocked my path, clad in his ceremonial Alpha doublet.
00:29Serafina, listen to me. Alara saved my life at the borders. She-she bore my son.
00:35The rogues are hunting them, and she has nowhere else to go. This changes nothing between us.
00:39You are still my Luna, my chosen mate. But as an Alpha, I cannot turn away my own blood.
00:45Gasps rippled through the gathered pack. Before I could even part my lips, Ryak's grandmother stepped forward, her voice cutting
00:52through the silence.
00:53You live a life of absolute privilege, Serafina. Surely your royal pride can tolerate granting sanctuary to the woman who
00:59kept our Alpha alive.
01:01Know your place, little bird. The King's laws end where the Blackridge borders begin.
01:05You will allow her shelter today, or you can run back to your court with nothing but a hollow title.
01:11Protect the bloodline, Luna!
01:14I looked down at the child, then met Ryer's anxious gaze. And then, I smiled.
01:20I slipped the Moonstone Vaughn cuff off my wrist and let it clatter onto the seat.
01:25The very token Blackridge had sent to claim me before this farce of a ceremony.
01:31Alpha Ryer, if you want to bed astray, be my guest. I won't stop you.
01:39But this alliance was supposed to be a sacred mating ceremony. Not a public circuit.
01:46Do you really have to make a scene on our mating day, Serafina?
01:51There was no warmth of a fated mate in his eyes. Only the lethal glare of a beast whose authority
01:56had been challenged.
01:58A scene. You let a low-blend rogue ambush my arrival and humiliate me at your gates?
02:04And now I'm the one ruining the day?
02:08Ryer's jaw flexed, the aggressive Alpha act instantly melting away into a mask of tortured guilt.
02:15You know nothing about the hell of the borders, Serafina.
02:19When the rogues has ambushed us, Alara threw herself in front of a blade meant for me.
02:24If it weren't for her, my blood would have stained the snow.
02:27She risked her life for me.
02:30She was forced to live as a hunted outcast while carrying my pup.
02:34If I turn my back on her now, I don't deserve to be an Alpha.
02:39He spoke with a sickening wave of martyrdom.
02:41Around us, the pack's murmurs shifted.
02:43I could smell the sharp turn in the air, the metallic tang of hostility fading,
02:47replaced by a cloggy wave of sympathy drifting towards the trembling stray in the dirt.
02:51Sensing the crowd's shifting loyalty, Alara seized her moment.
02:54Perfect.
02:55Crystalling tears spilled down her pale cheeks.
02:57Riker, please.
02:58Don't fight with your Luna because of me.
03:02Please, Luna.
03:03I ask for nothing for myself.
03:05I will be a servant, an Omega, anything.
03:07Just, please.
03:09Please let my pup be claimed by his father.
03:11Let him have a pack.
03:18Look at her, Seraphina.
03:20How can you be so heartless?
03:22She is begging you on her knees.
03:24Have you no mercy for a mother trying to save her child?
03:28I watch their pathetic little performance unfold, my chest hollow,
03:32not from the heartbreak of losing a fated mate, but from the sheer absurdity of his audacity.
03:37Tell me, Riker.
03:39Did the border frostbite freeze your mind entirely?
03:42Or have you always been this easily fooled?
03:46You allow a stray to weaponize her tears at my gates,
03:49defiling the sacred mating rites of the Moon Goddess?
03:53And you have the audacity to call me heartless?
03:58Riker's jaw tightened as the truth hit its mark,
04:01but his warriors weren't so easily shamed.
04:03These were hardened border wolves,
04:05loyal only to their alpha and entirely indifferent to the Lycan King's authority.
04:10A scarred beta stepped forward,
04:11his fangs elongating as his low growl vibrated against the wood of my carriage.
04:16A deafening chorus of howls erupted from the hundred armored wolves behind him.
04:26They used their sheer numbers as a weapon,
04:29flooding the air with aggressive, dominant pheromones.
04:32A blunt, suffocating threat.
04:34This wasn't a plea for mercy.
04:36It was a mutiny.
04:38Standing at the head of his men, a smug glint flashed in Riker's eyes.
04:42His arrogant posture screamed his thoughts loud and clear.
04:45The pack has spoken.
04:46You are powerless here.
04:47Submit.
04:48I calmly withdrew my gaze and let the heavy velvet fall,
04:52shutting out the feral stench of their rebellion and the deafening noise.
04:56Turn us around.
04:58Now.
04:59My driver instantly cracked his whip,
05:02forcing the massive beasts pulling the carriage to wheel around.
05:05Before the carriage could move,
05:07a heavy iron staff slammed onto the cobblestones,
05:10striking mere inches from the lead beast's paws.
05:15Let's see who dares to leave my territory today.
05:20Flanked by two Omega maids,
05:22Vanina marched forward,
05:23planting herself like an immovable wall in front of my carriage.
05:27Her hair was a stark, brilliant silver,
05:29but her eyes burned with cold, vicious calculation.
05:33She wasn't some fragile elder.
05:35She was a legendary warlord who had bled in the border wars,
05:39alongside the late king himself.
05:41It was because of those battlefield scars
05:43that even the highest royals had once shown her deference.
05:48Seraphina, if you walk away now,
05:50do you think your family can survive the humiliation?
05:53She slammed her iron staff against the frozen ground.
05:56Her voice held no respect,
05:57only the suffocating arrogance of a matriarch demanding absolute submission.
06:01Let us be clear, Seraphina.
06:03Ryuk is the only reason the northern borders haven't collapsed.
06:06If you walk away over a petty grievance,
06:08you aren't just throwing a tantrum.
06:10You are declaring war on the Alliance.
06:13She wove the political trap flawlessly,
06:15shifting the blame entirely onto my shoulders.
06:18If I order the carriage to move now,
06:20I would be branded a selfish traitor to my own people.
06:23With his grandmother leading the charge,
06:25riots confidence surged.
06:28Listen to her, Seraphina.
06:29Don't let a petty bout of jealousy ruin your future.
06:31Our mating is already ordained.
06:33If you run back to your court crying like a spoiled pup,
06:35you'll be a laughingstock across the entire continent.
06:40I sat motionless inside the carriage.
06:42Listening to the sickening wave of their self-righteousness.
06:46The hollow ache in my chest crystallized into pure, freezing clarity.
06:54A laughingstock.
06:57You think way too highly of yourself, Ryuker.
07:00My survival doesn't depend on a coward who hides behind a stray.
07:05Ryuker's face instantly drained of color,
07:08his eyes flashing,
07:09a dangerous, unstable gold.
07:12He looked less like a proud leader,
07:14and more like a rabid hound that had just been kicked in the ribs.
07:19What did you just call me?
07:21The alpha of the Blackridge Pack had just been branded a coward
07:24by his supposedly defenseless, wolf-less mate,
07:28shamed before his entire territory.
07:30It was a wound deeper than a silver blade to the heart,
07:33a brutal stripping of his alpha pride.
07:37My alpha, please don't be angry.
07:40Alara wept, her voice a fragile whisper.
07:43She scrambled up from the freezing cobstones,
07:46throwing herself frantically against his chest.
07:48Her trembling fingers clutched his dark mantle,
07:51while her other arm pressed the wailing pup to her chest.
07:55She's only lashing out in bitterness.
07:58It's all my fault!
08:00I'll leave right now, I swear it!
08:04I won't let you suffer her wrath on my account!
08:07She wailed about leaving,
08:09yet her feet remained firmly rooted to the stone.
08:13Her tear-filled eyes locked onto his,
08:15her gaze a perfectly calculated display of submissive devotion.
08:21Alara's tears were the final match thrown onto the powder ket.
08:25Riker's restraint snapped completely.
08:28Stepping protectively in front of his crying mistress,
08:31he roared at my carriage.
08:33Seraphina.
08:34Do not test my patience!
08:37Another suffocating wave of his dominant alpha fearer slammed against the wood,
08:43trying to force me to submission.
08:45You should be begging the moon goddess that I'm even willing to take you in!
08:49Your father is dead.
08:51You're just a wolfless runt with a hollow title.
08:53You have zero power here!
08:56A collective gas rippled through the gathered wolves,
09:00followed by a suffocating, dead silence.
09:04No one had expected him to strip away the diplomatic facade so brutally.
09:09Vanna made no move to stop him.
09:11Instead, a satisfied smirk twisted her wrinkled features.
09:15To this savage pack,
09:16I was nothing but helpless prey cornered in a trap,
09:19waiting to be tamed.
09:21Riker is right.
09:23Know your place, little bird.
09:25The Lycan King's laws end where the Blackridge borders begin.
09:30You will grant her shelter today.
09:31Or you will leave this territory with nothing but your shame.
09:37The moment her words faded,
09:40hundreds of heavy-armored warriors stepped forward in perfect, terrifying unison.
09:46The sharp scrape of unsafe steel
09:49and the sicking pop of shifting claws filled the air.
09:52They boxed my carriage in,
09:55forming an impenetrable wall of muscle and dark iron.
09:58The scarred beta glared at my driver,
10:01his feral posture,
10:03promising a torn throat if the man so much as twished the reins.
10:08Step down from the carriage.
10:11Do not keep our guests waiting any longer.
10:15The air grew thick,
10:16heavy with a suffocating, hostile pressure
10:18as the Blackridge warriors hemmed us in,
10:21cutting off any hope of retreat.
10:22My driver trembled violently,
10:25his knuckles stark white against the leather reins,
10:27too terrified to even draw breath.
10:29These were the so-called fierce warriors of the North.
10:32This was the honorable mate my father had chosen to test.
10:36Glancing at the glimming blades through the carriage window,
10:39a cold, bitter amusement washed over me.
10:42Riker, do you honestly believe these Mongols are enough to break me?
10:45Riker frowned,
10:47clearly irritated that I wasn't crumbling into a weeping, compiant bride.
10:51I'm doing this to protect you, Seraphina.
10:53He sighed,
10:54the very epitome of a patronizing, exhausted alpha.
10:57Step out of the carriage.
10:59Alara is only here because I owe her a life debt,
11:01and my pup deserves the protection of these pack lands.
11:05Alara instantly bowed her head,
11:06bearing her throat in a practice show of absolute submission.
11:09Please, Luna, I will be your lowest servant.
11:12She sobbed, perfect tears spilling down her pale pink cheek right on cue.
11:16To the wolves watching,
11:17her pathetic performance painted me as a jealous, heartless tyrant,
11:20standing in the way of their alpha's bloodline.
11:23The restless murmurs of the pack grew louder,
11:26slipping past their bailed fangs.
11:28She's completely heartless!
11:31Alara is begging on her knees!
11:32Our alpha bleeds for this pack.
11:35He has every right to protect his own flesh and blood.
11:38She's just a wolf-less defect anyway.
11:39A spoiled runt looking down her nose at us.
11:43The air grew thick with the pack's sour, aggressive pheromones.
11:46Vauna's smile widened into a smug sneer.
11:49She knew that within these borders,
11:50a pack's blind loyalty was a sharper weapon than any silver blade.
11:54If I let them brand me a jealous, wolf-less defect,
11:58my title would mean nothing within these borders.
12:00Serafina, I will ask you one last time.
12:03Vauna said,
12:04her milky catatong cladded eyes narrowing
12:06as she delivered her final optimatum.
12:08Are you stepping out of that carriage or not?
12:11I didn't give her the satisfaction of an answer.
12:14Instead, I shifted my gaze to the scarred beta,
12:17leading the Wall of Wolves.
12:19What is your name?
12:21The beta blinked, caught off guard by my composure,
12:23but emboldened by Ryer's presence,
12:25he squared his heavy shoulders,
12:27his voice booming across the courtyard.
12:29I am Beta Kale of the Vanjard!
12:31Good.
12:32I nodded, keeping my composure flawlessly.
12:36Tell me, Kale.
12:38Do you know the penalty for threatening royalty?
12:41Kale bout laughing, the sound echoing off the stone walls.
12:44Luna, I only answer to my Alpha.
12:46While you were pampered in the capital,
12:47our Alpha's ripping out rogue throats in the mud.
12:49Even if the late king stood where you are,
12:51I would still fight for my Alpha!
12:53It was blatant, undiable treason,
12:55yet Riker made no move to correct him.
12:57Instead, he puffed out his chest, radiating snug pride.
13:00This entire pack belonged to him,
13:02bound to his sole command,
13:03and he was using their blind Pac-Manel devotion
13:06as a noose to tighten around my throat.
13:09An Alpha's howl indeed,
13:11I murmured, tilting my head.
13:13Beneath the heavy folds of my velvet cloak,
13:15my fingers tighten around the ancient lichen crest
13:18hidden in my palm.
13:19You certainly know how to keep your dogs on a leash.
13:23Riker.
13:24Naturally.
13:26Riker sneered,
13:27drawing himself up to his full height.
13:29Stop this stubborn game, Seraphina.
13:31Get out of the carriage now,
13:33and let's finish this ceremony with some dignity.
13:36Don't force my hand, or you'll grit.
13:38He lunged forward and violently ripped the curtains open,
13:40grabbing from my arm to drag me out.
13:42Step down!
13:43He barked.
13:44His eyes burned with naked contempt,
13:47viewing me not as a fated mate,
13:49but as a fenceless, wolfless trovie
13:51he had already conquered.
13:52Behind his back,
13:53Allura's lips curled into a smug smile.
13:56Vanya tapped her iron staff against the coltons,
13:58waiting for the exact moment I would be dragged to my knees.
14:01I didn't even flinch.
14:02I simply watched his hand close the distance between us,
14:06but the exact millisecond his fingertip brushed my sleeve.
14:12Riker jerked his hand back,
14:14staggering away from my carriage as dark blood sprayed into the snow.
14:18Who dares strike the alpha?
14:20Hale bellowed, drawing his broadsword from its sheath.
14:23His eyes wildly scanned the shadows.
14:25Around him, the rohoge vibrating through the air as their bloodlust spiked.
14:30Allura shrieked,
14:31clutching her stolen pup to her chest as she scrambled behind Vanya for cover.
14:36Vanya flinched, but her ancient pride quickly overgan her fear,
14:40slamming her iron staff into the stones.
14:42Who dares strike an alpha on Blackridge soil?
14:45Step forward and meet your end.
14:47Rhythmic,
14:47synchronized thundering shook the earth.
14:49The sound rolled down the approach like an oncoming storm.
14:52Heavy,
14:52methodical,
14:53and utterly crushing.
14:54Then,
14:54a suffocating,
14:55ancient,
14:55lithen era crashed over the courtyard.
14:57The dominant pressure was so pure and lethal,
15:00that it frozen the breath in their throats,
15:02instantly plunging the courtyard into a dead,
15:04terrifying chill.
15:06The pack scattered in blind panic,
15:08scrambling over one another like terrified cows just to clear a wide path.
15:11An army of nightmares tore through the mist.
15:13Elite warriors clad in midnight steel rode atop monstrous beasts.
15:17They looked like an agent born straight from the darkest depths of the moon goddess's wrath.
15:21The moment the Blackridge wolves saw them,
15:23the color drained tuntily from their faces.
15:25The arrogant,
15:26feral pride they had used to corner me just a second ago vanished into pure,
15:30unadultated terror.
15:31Beta Kale's knees buckled under the sudden,
15:34suffocating weight of their presence.
15:36His heavy broadsword slipped from his trembling grip,
15:39clattering uselessly against the stone.
15:41The,
15:41the Shadow Vanguard.
15:43He could barely get the words out,
15:44as if speaking the name aloud would summon death itself.
15:47It was a known truth across the continent.
15:49Wherever the Vanguard rode,
15:50entire packs were wiped from existence,
15:53the clutching his mangled hand to his chest.
15:55Riger stared at the advancing cavalry in sheer horror.
15:59The Vanguard halted exactly ten spaces from my carriage.
16:03With military precision,
16:05the formation parted down the middle.
16:08Stepping into view was a man of devastating, lethal beauty.
16:11His sharply defined features were completely masked by an icy arrogance,
16:15an oppressive darkness so potent,
16:17it physically paralyzed anyone who dared look his way.
16:19His predatory gaze swept over the kneeling Black Ridge wolves like a god surveying vermin.
16:24Which feral stray was barking just now,
16:26telling my Seraphina to know her place?
16:28The words were soft,
16:30but the crushing weight of his Lycan era hit Ryder and Vanya like a physical blow.
16:34Silas,
16:35the newly crowned Lyam King,
16:37a blood-soaked tyrant holding the entire continent by the throat.
16:40Vanya's legs buckled instantly.
16:41Her iron staff clattered loudly against the cobblestones as she collapsed into her Omega Maid's arms.
16:46Her legendary pride reduced to absolute dust.
16:49My king,
16:51Black Ridge bows to you.
16:52He swung off his mount and strode straight toward my carriage.
16:55With a casual flick of his wrist,
16:56he tossed his whip to a guard.
16:58He pulled back the heavy velvet drapes and reached his hand out to me.
17:01The lethal storm in his eyes vanished instantly,
17:03replaced by a deep devotion meant only for me.
17:05Seraphina,
17:06I've come to take you home.
17:08The raw possessiveness in his voice sent a shiver through the courtyard.
17:12As the wind howled against the black flags of the shadow vanguard,
17:16a suffocating silence fell over the frozen crowd.
17:18I looked at Simus' outstretched hand.
17:20Without hesitation,
17:21I slid my palm into his.
17:23The instant our skin,
17:24I felt it,
17:24a subtle,
17:25desperate tremor in his fingers.
17:27You kept me waiting,
17:28Simus.
17:28He helped me down from the carriage,
17:30drawing me tight against his chest.
17:32Forgive me,
17:33Seraphina.
17:33I was delayed.
17:34I should never have allowed
17:35these pathetic mutts
17:36to breathe the same air as you,
17:38let alone disrespect you.
17:39How do you want to deal with this filth,
17:41Seraphina?
17:42Shall I tear their throats out myself,
17:43or wipe their entire entire pack from existence?
17:46Vina fainted outright,
17:47slumpy into the arms of her panicked maids.
17:49Riger snapped his head up,
17:50his eyes wide with raw disbelief and terror.
17:52My king,
17:53please,
17:54what have I done to deserve this?
17:56He bared his throat in a desperate plea,
17:58his eyes darting frantically between Simus and me.
18:01I only granted sanctuary to a helpless rogue.
18:04You would wipe out my entire pack for that?
18:08Riker was still trying to play the victim,
18:11desperate to cling to his shattered dignity.
18:12But against Silas's absolute power,
18:15his pathetic excuses were nothing but a joke.
18:18You dare to publicly humiliate Seraphina?
18:20Did you truly believe she was just some wolfless nobody?
18:23Discard at your gates.
18:26Before Riker could even draw breath,
18:28Silas slammed his boot squarely into the Alpha's chest.
18:31The impact hurled Riker across the courtyard.
18:34He crashed violently into the stone monument by gate gates,
18:38slumping into the dirt as he coughed up a mouthful of dark blood.
18:41Alpha.
18:42Kale and his sentinels turned a sickly shade of pale,
18:45their hands intentively twitching toward their hilps.
18:48In a heartbeat,
18:49a hundred Vanguard blades locked onto them,
18:52the cold steel gleaming with the absolute promise of death.
18:54Draw your blade and you die where you stand.
18:58The commander's roar vibrated with a suffocating Alpha command.
19:02Kale's hand froze an inch from his hilt,
19:04cold sweat drenching his armor.
19:06They were seasoned veterans,
19:07but right now,
19:09sheer terror paralyzed them entirely.
19:11In the corner,
19:12Alara clutched her stolen pup,
19:14shaking so violently her teeth chattered.
19:16Her innocent murder act was completely gone,
19:19leaving nothing but raw horror in her eyes.
19:23I walked slowly toward Riker,
19:24watching him writhle in the dirt,
19:26choking on his own blood.
19:27Riker cross.
19:29You told your entire pack that accepting me as your mate was a charity case.
19:33You actually believed that because my father died,
19:36a wolfless reject like me was just a toothless runt you could discard whenever you please.
19:40I pulled the Oaxian token from my cloak and carelessly tossed it onto his bloody face.
19:44The lunar blood crest clattered against his cheek.
19:46Riken flinched,
19:47his pupils shrinking to pinpoints.
19:49It was the ancient eblom of the Lycan king.
19:51This stone carried the primal authority of the moon goddess herself.
19:55The bloodline dominance radiating from it was so absolute
19:58that any ordinary wolf who looked upon it would be forced onto all feats,
20:03reduced to begging for mercy.
20:05My father gave me this before he died.
20:07He told me that a daughter of the true lineage shares her mate with no one.
20:10This marriage was never a charity case.
20:13It was a test of your pack's loyalty,
20:15but you were too weak to handle the power offered to you.
20:17Your stupidity just dragged your entire pack straight into the grave.
20:21Riker stared at the crest, trembling in a horrified silence.
20:24He had truly believed I was just a defenseless, wolfless reject cast out to die.
20:29He never could have guessed that the woman he tried to break
20:32held the absolute primal authority of the entire realm.
20:36My Luna, mercy, please.
20:39Every ounce of his alpha pride turned to dust.
20:42He dragged his shattered body through the mud,
20:44crawling toward my boots and exposing his neck like a beaten dog.
20:47I was blind.
20:48Pleased by the blood I've spilled for this territory.
20:50Show me mercy.
20:52Bleeding for this territory?
20:55I let out a soft, mocking laugh,
20:59looking down at his pathetic form with nothing but sheer disgust.
21:03Did you seriously believe you could hide your filthy dealings on the borders, Riker?
21:07I held out my hand, and Silas immediately placed a leather-bound dossier of evidence into my palm.
21:14I tossed the Rikuments directly onto Riker's face.
21:18Open your eyes.
21:20Read the warrant for your own execution.
21:25Riker tore through the parchments with violently shaking hands.
21:30The moment his eyes scanned the pages, the last traces of color drained from his face,
21:35and he slumped entirely into the mud, all the strength deserting his body.
21:40The records laid his sins bare.
21:43Years of treasonous betrayal at the Borderlands,
21:45embezzling royal tributes, massacring peaceful rogues to forge his war victories,
21:50and smuggling sacred moon crystals to our sworn enemies.
21:54A single crime on that list was more than enough to have him and his wolf put to death.
21:59You thought feeding lies to your sentinels would bury your treason?
22:02Did you honestly think the Shadow Vanger was blind to your corruption, Riker?
22:09Riker lay frozen in the dirt, his eyes completely hollow.
22:13The fierce warrior reputation he had used to threaten me was now torn to absolute shreds.
22:18No! That's a lie!
22:19Allara snapped, lunging forward like a rabid beast to snatch the papers away.
22:22My alpha is a hero! He's innocent!
22:25She threw herself over Riker,
22:27shielding his broken body as she spit her venom straight at me.
22:30You fabcated everything!
22:32You bitter, wolfless parasite!
22:34You forged these lies!
22:36Because you're desperate and jealous!
22:39Riker loves me,
22:40and because you can't have him,
22:42you're trying to drag his entire prac down with you!
22:45Even now, with her world crashing down around her,
22:50she was still trying to play the tragic Martin.
22:52I didn't waste my breath on her.
22:54I simply glanced back at the vanguard commander.
22:58Tell me, commander,
22:59what did your scouts uncover about her?
23:01She is a fraud, High Luna.
23:04Allara is a notorious rogue from the Red Den,
23:06a filthy brothel on the lawless edges of the continent.
23:09The pup she's clutching belongs to a rogue wolf.
23:12She staged the entire ambush to trick Alpha Riker into playing the hero,
23:17plotting to use the child as her golden ticket into a life of luxury.
23:22The revelation struck the courtyard like a tidal wave.
23:25The pack members, who had just been howling in sympathy for Allara,
23:29froze, looking as if they had been choked with pure silver.
23:33A brothel rogue?
23:35She's nothing but gutter trash!
23:37Alpha Ria brought a horse-burst into our sacred gates
23:40and insulted the High Luna for this?
23:42A pack's name for a lying bitch!
23:45Allara's face turned deathly pale.
23:48Shaking her head frantically,
23:50she clutched the wailing pup to her chest.
23:54No, it's not true!
23:56They're lying!
23:57She spun around, grabbing Riker's arm in sheer panic.
24:01Riker, look at me!
24:02You know me!
24:04The pup is yours!
24:06I swear by the Moon Goddess, it's yours!
24:09Riker's eyes locked onto the female.
24:11He had destroyed his own life to protect.
24:14The true love he had risked everything for
24:16was nothing but a sickening, filthy scam.
24:20No!
24:21He backhanded Allara,
24:24sending her flying across the ground.
24:26The pup rolled into the dirt,
24:28wailing atop its lungs.
24:31You lying bitch!
24:33You dare deceive your alpha!
24:36Riker lunged at her like a ravid beast,
24:38his claws digging into her neck.
24:41The two lovers were now tearing each apart in the mud.
24:44A pathetic, twisted show.
24:47Enough, my voice cut through the savage snarling.
24:50Ice cold and final.
24:52Riker cross, the Black Ridge pack has committed treason against the royal line.
24:56Vanguard, drag Ryla and every traitor who bared their claws to the high dungeons.
25:01Seal the borders of Black Ridge.
25:03No wolf leaves this territory alive without my command.
25:07At my command, the shadow vanguard moved with terrifying predatory precision, lunging at the Black Ridge Sentinels.
25:15Those border warriors, who had been radiating lethal arrogance only moments ago, didn't even dare unsheave their blades.
25:26They threw down their shields, and were forced to all fours by the sheer weight of the Lycan command,
25:32howling for mercy beneath the crushing presence of the vanguard's mounts.
25:38Beta Kale was pinned to the frozen stones.
25:40His scarred face twisted in absolute terror.
25:45He had never once suspected that the alpha he worshipped as an invincible warrior was nothing but a traitorous fraud.
25:53Have mercy, Luna! Spare us!
25:55He bared his neck to the frozen ground.
25:58His fierce warrior pride completely vaporized.
26:01I didn't spare him a single glance.
26:03Letting the vanguard drag them away, Riker was hauled up by two guards,
26:08his ceremonial double shredded and his face coated in mud and blood.
26:13The fearsome, untouchable alpha of the north was gone, replaced by a trembling, pathetic creature.
26:20Serafina.
26:22I was wrong.
26:23I'm sorry.
26:25Finding some frantic burst of strength, he ranked himself away from the guards and crawled toward me,
26:31desperately reaching for the hen of my cloak.
26:34Think of our bond. Spare me, please.
26:38I'll banish that hutch. I'll rip her apart with my own claws.
26:42I swear, my wolf will answer only to you.
26:46He looked up, blood and tears streaking his face.
26:51It was a display so profoundly pathetic.
26:54It made my stomach turn.
26:58Our bond?
26:59I let out a cold sneer, stepping back as if his very proximity would taint the leather of my boots.
27:09You seem to have forgotten, Riker, who actually saved your life in the great frost all those years ago.
27:23I was the one who dug you out of that silver lace trap.
27:27I carried your body through a blizzard for a whole night just to keep you alive, and you used my
27:33sacrifice as a shield to protect a lying brothel robe?
27:38Riker looked as though lightning had struck his skull.
27:42He froze, his golden eyes blown wide, trembling with pure horror.
27:50He had always assumed I was completely blind to it.
27:54He had credited his survival to a dead maid, reaping the benefits of my sacrifice, while despising me for being
28:03wolfless.
28:03I know everything, and I know the real reason you were so desperate to parade this stray and her bastard
28:14at my gates today.
28:15It had nothing to do with securing your legacy.
28:20It's because the silver poisoning from that border wound permanently destroyed your ability to spire an heir.
28:28You are sterile.
28:31Riker, you can never father a pup.
28:34You feared that once we completed our mating wreaths, your secret would be exposed to everyone, so you rushed to
28:40claim a ready-made bastard to hide your shame.
28:43A dead silence fell over the courtyard.
28:45Every remaining Blackridge wolf stared at Riker with a mixture of pity and sheer horror.
28:50A sterile alpha.
28:52In a world where bloodline and legacy were everything, this public exposure was a fate far worse than death.
28:59No! Shut up! Shut your damn mouth!
29:03Riker completely lost his mind.
29:06He clapped his hands over his ears, letting out a raw, animalistic howl of absolute agony as he thrashed in
29:12the dirt like a ravvy beast.
29:15Elder Vana, who had just been revived by her maids, caught those exact words.
29:20Her eyes rolled back into her head, her inner wolf shattering under the weight of the shock as she fell
29:26into a deep catatomic state.
29:29Drag them to the pits.
29:36Silas gave a cold, dismissive wave of his hand.
29:40The shadow vanguard moved in instantly, dragging a screaming Riker and a weeping Alara down the grand-like beasts to
29:47the slaughter.
29:47Their desperate shrieks echoed across the courtyard, fading into the howling wind.
29:52In front of the massive Blackridge Packhouse, nothing remained but a ruined courtyard and the shredded remnants of our ceremonial
29:57silks.
29:58Silas stepped up from behind.
30:00Serphina, are you satisfied?
30:02His powerful arms gently wrapping around my waist as he rested his chin on my shoulder.
30:07If you are still displeased, I will go down to the dungeons tonight and snap every single bone in his
30:17body, inch by inch.
30:20I turned around within his embrace, looking up into his dark, fiercely possessive eyes, as a soft chuckle escaped my
30:27lips.
30:28Silas, you are still as jealous as a feral rogue.
30:32I lifted my hand, gently smoothing the lapel of his heavy velvet cloak.
30:39His life is still useful.
30:41We need an example to terrify the rebellious Border Packs.
30:45Blackridge will be the perfect weapon for our purge.
30:50Simus caught my hand, pulling it to his lips, to press a lingering, burning kiss against my skin.
30:57As you wish, my Seraphina.
31:01As long as it pleases you, I will burn the entire world to ash.
31:06The air in the depths of the Shadow Pits was thick with the stench of rot and wet stone.
31:12I walked slowly down the damp corridor, the velvet of my royal gown cutting sharply through the darkness.
31:28Chained to the moss-covered wall, his lower half soaked in the silver-laced water, was the once-magnificent Alpha,
31:37Riker Cross.
31:50The fool actually believed I was here to rescue him.
31:54After all, during our years in the past, the slightest wound that bypassed his Alpha healing would have driven me
32:01mad with worry.
32:04Look at yourself, Riker.
32:06I stood on the dry stone platform, looking down at his pathetic, shivering frame submerged in the water with absolute
32:13attachment.
32:14You look worse than the stray Omikas begging for scraps in the dirt.
32:18The fragile light in his eyes vanished instantly.
32:20He erupted into a violent fit of coughing, spitting thick, dark blood into the water.
32:31He thrashed against the heavy chains, his voice dissolving into an unhinged snarl.
32:37I am a war hero of this realm. I won countless border battles for your family's territory.
32:42How can you just throw me away like trash?
32:46Won battles?
32:49Do you truly believe you are some invincible master strategist, Riker?
32:54If Silas hadn't secretly funded your supply lines and sent his elite forces to clean up your tactical disasters,
33:00the border rogues would have picked your bones clean years ago.
33:04Riker's eyes blew wide in utter shock.
33:06He snapped his head toward Silas, who stood with his arms crossed, a mocking, lethal smur playing on his lips.
33:11Silas didn't even grant him a glance.
33:14Why do you think the royal throne sanctioned your claim to the Northern Territory in the first place?
33:21My father only backed your ascension, because he needed a loud, arrogant shield to absorb the border attacks.
33:27You actually thought you were the pillar of this realm?
33:31My words fell like heavy silver blades, hacking away at his remaining pride, his warrior legacy, and his delusional ego.
33:38In a matter of seconds, everything he used to define himself was ground into dust.
33:42No, it's a lie. You're just trying to mess with my head!
33:46Riker thrashed like a ravig animal, sending the heavy chains rattling violently against the stone walls.
33:54Where is Alara? Where is that miserable bitch? I'll tear her throat out!
33:58He had finally remembered the parasite who dragged him into this abyss.
34:03Her? I smiled faintly and gestured to the guard.
34:07The iron door of the adjacent cell groaned open, with a sharp, echoing creak.
34:12Alara was tossed into the corridor like a piece of rotting meat.
34:15She was covered in deep slashes, her once-beautiful hair torn out in clumps to expose her raw, bleeding scalp.
34:22The very face she had used to seduce an alpha was a mangled ruin.
34:27Seeing Riker through the bars, she didn't beg him for help.
34:31Instead, she unleashed a piercing venomous shriek.
34:33You impotent loser!
34:36You useless, gelded beast!
34:38I was a fool to ever waste my senestero male.
34:41If you hadn't insisted on playing the arrogant alpha and provoking the royal lineage,
34:46I wouldn't be trapped in this hell.
34:48You ruined me! You ruined my pop!
34:52The tragic love story they had proudly flaunted at the pack gates had twisted into a foul, toxic curse.
34:58Riker froze, the bloody spit dripping down his cheek.
35:02He stared at the female he had sacrificed his entire pack to protect.
35:06And then, a wild, unhinged laugh tore from his throat.
35:11Retribution! It's all retribution!
35:15His laughter brought dark tears to his eyes, mixing with the crusted grime and blood on his skin,
35:20until he looked utterly monstrous.
35:22The wild, echoing sound bounced off the whetstone walls,
35:25heavy with nothing but absolute despair and suffocating regret.
35:28For the sake of a scheming whore who saw him as nothing but a stepping stone,
35:32he had personally destroyed his own pack,
35:35and pushed away the only female who had ever truly loved him,
35:38plunging into this dark abyss,
35:40abandoned by his bloodline and forgotten by his gods.
35:45This was his retribution.
35:47Enjoy your final days, Riker.
35:50I watched him thrashing in his self-made hell,
35:53and the last remaining thread of my past attachment finally dissolved into nothingness.
35:59Tomorrow at dawn,
36:01the Blackridge line will be exiled to the death wastes.
36:05As for you,
36:06you will rot in this silver cage,
36:09slowly bleeding your sins into the dark.
36:12I turned on my heel and walked toward the exit,
36:15without giving him another glance.
36:18Serafina!
36:18Serafina, don't leave me!
36:20Behind me,
36:21his desperate, raw screams tore through the dungeon.
36:24I was blind!
36:25I know it now!
36:26Please give me one more chance!
36:27Let me be your slave!
36:29Your lowest sentinel!
36:31Anything!
36:32Anything!
36:32Anything!
36:34Just let me stay near your scent.
36:37The heavy iron chains rattled violently as he lunged forward,
36:41his cries sounding like the pathetic wimples of a dying beast.
36:44But I didn't even slow my pace.
36:46There are no second chances when you desecrate a fated union.
36:50Some mistakes cost you your entire existence.
36:53Stepping out of the dark pits,
36:55the glaring capital sunlight forced me to narrow my eyes.
36:59Serafina,
37:00are you truly satisfied with just leaving him down there?
37:03Silas stepped up beside me,
37:05his deep voice carrying a lingering hint of bloodthirsty disappointment.
37:08Death is too quick a mercy for him.
37:12I lifted my hand,
37:14shielding my eyes from the bright sun.
37:16Let him live.
37:17Let him rot in the dark,
37:19breathing in his failures day and night
37:21while he watches us rule from the throne.
37:23Let him watch the entire realm thrive under our reign.
37:28That is the ultimate torture.
37:30Hearing this,
37:31a dark, dangerous smile played on Simus's lips.
37:34As my lunar commands,
37:35I'll ensure the guards provide him with a very special brand of care.
37:39He won't be allowed to die,
37:41but I promise he will pray for death every single second.
37:44Three months later,
37:46the capital hosted a grand royal union
37:48unlike anything the continent had ever seen.
37:51The silks stretched across every pack boundary,
37:53painting the entire territory.
37:55The High Council officially recognized King Simus,
37:58claiming me as his true High Luna.
38:00The sheer scale of this mating ceremony
38:02made the pathetic Blackhidge arrangement look like a sick joke.
38:07Wolves from every corner of the continent
38:09flooded the capital streets,
38:11desperate to witness the union of the century.
38:15I sat peacefully inside the magnificent golden wedding carriage,
38:18its interior breached with intricate royal protective rooms.
38:22Compared with the public humiliation
38:24at the Blackbridge gates three months ago,
38:27my heart was now completely at peace.
38:31Silas rode on a massive war beast
38:33at the front of the grand procession.
38:35The lethal darkness that usually surrounded him had softened,
38:39replaced by the proud, breathtaking aura
38:42of a dominant male
38:43who had finally claimed his fated mate.
38:46Along the crowded avenues,
38:48thousands of wolves howled in ecstatic celebration,
38:52showering the air with sweet-scented moon petals.
38:56But in a dark, foul alleyway
38:58near the edge of the market square,
39:00a few crippled, half-starved beggars
39:02were fighting over rotten scripts tossed into the mud.
39:05They were broken, wolfless outcasts,
39:08reeking of decay and utter desperation.
39:11As the grand royal procession rolled past,
39:13one of the beggars slowly lifted his scarred, hideous face.
39:17His remaining eye locked onto the carriage,
39:20his single pupil contracting in violent shock.
39:25His jaw tritched contulsively,
39:28a broken, wheezing sob escaping his ruined throat.
39:31A single filthy tear slid down his heavily scarred cheek,
39:35disappearing into the sour mud beneath his knees.
39:38A silent testament to his complete and final ruin.
39:42Seated deep within my carriage,
39:44I didn't even glimpse Riker Cross,
39:47crawling like a pathetic parasite in the mud.
39:50And even if I had looked out
39:51and caught sight of his ruined form,
39:53my heart wouldn't have stirred
39:55with a single flicker of emotion.
39:56He was nothing to me now.
39:57The carriage came to a smooth, majestic halt
40:01before the towering stone citadel
40:03of the High Estate.
40:05The royal packhorns blew,
40:07their deep resonant echoes
40:08filling the endless sky
40:10to celebrate our union.
40:12Silas swung himself off his massive mount,
40:14striding toward the carriage doors
40:16with unyealing, predatory confidence.
40:18He parted the heavy velvet curtains himself,
40:21extending his broad, claw-tipped hand towards me.
40:24Serafina, we're home.
40:26His voice was so breathtakingly tender.
40:29It could have melted the deepest northern ice,
40:32a complete and beautiful contrast
40:34to the ruthless tyrant the entire realm feared.
40:37I placed my palm firmly in his,
40:40letting him guide me,
40:41as we stepped across
40:42the sacred silver pack threshold together.
40:45There was no disgusting moral blackmail
40:47waiting for me here,
40:48no feral mistress weaponizing a bastard at the gates,
40:51and no toxic manipulation.
40:52There was only the deafening,
40:53roaring approval of our people,
40:55and a powerful, dominant male
40:56whose entire universe revolved around me.
40:59After our mating ceremony,
41:01the Blackridge name vanished entirely
41:02from the capital erased,
41:04as if it had never existed.
41:06Word eventually arrived that Eldovania
41:07didn't even survive the brutal trek into exile.
41:10Her frail, prideful wolf spirit
41:12simply collapsed under the shame,
41:14and she died like a dog in the dirt.
41:16As for Ellara,
41:17she was cast into the lowest,
41:18most lawless roguedids
41:20at the bleak edge of the continent,
41:21left entirely at the mercy of feral,
41:23unmaided beasts,
41:24day and night.
41:27And Riker.
41:28Rumor had it that he eventually
41:30lost his mind completely.
41:31He dragged his crippled body
41:33through the market streets
41:34every single day,
41:35begging for raw scraps
41:36while muttering to himself
41:37that he was the great alpha of the north,
41:40and that the High Luna
41:41was his fated mate.
41:42The passing wolves only saw
41:44a crazed, reeking beggar
41:45kicking him ruthlessly
41:47out of their way
41:47whenever he crawled too close.
41:50During a brutal,
41:51bone-chilling night
41:52of the long winter,
41:53he froze to death
41:54beneath a collapsed watchtower.
41:56His corpse was picked clean
41:58by scavengers,
41:59long before the morning patrol
42:01could even find him.
42:02When the news finally reached
42:03the High Estate,
42:04I was lounging by the roaring
42:06stone hearth in our royal quarters,
42:08leaning lazily against
42:09Simus's broad chest
42:10while peeling frostberries.
42:12A fitting end for a traitor.
42:15Even uttering his name
42:16is a waste of our breath.
42:19My Luna is right.
42:21That kind of filth
42:22was never worthy
42:22of catching your scent anyway.
42:24He tightened his massive arms
42:26around my waist,
42:27burying his face deep
42:28into the cuck of my neck
42:30as he let out a low,
42:32contented purr
42:33like a dangerous,
42:34fully satisfied beast.
42:37Sepraphina,
42:39the realm is secure.
42:40And the packs
42:41have all submitted.
42:42His voice dropped
42:43into a dark,
42:44velvety rush,
42:45his hot breath
42:45brushing against my ear
42:47and sending a sharp shiver
42:48down my spine.
42:49When are you going
42:50to bless me
42:51with a royal pup?
42:52I swapped his shoulder
42:52playfully,
42:53glaring at him
42:54as a warm flush
42:55crept up my neck.
42:56You speak of a true-born heir
42:58as if it's some
42:58hunting trophy
42:59you can just pick up.
43:01Simus let out
43:01a low,
43:02rumpling laugh,
43:03the vibration
43:04travelling from his chest
43:05straight into my back.
43:06Then it seems
43:07I will just have to work
43:08a little harder tonight.
43:09Before I could reply,
43:11he swept me
43:11into his arms,
43:12lifting me effortlessly
43:13against his chest
43:14as he strode
43:15toward the velvet-draped bed.
43:16Silas,
43:17the sun hasn't even set yet.
43:19What has gotten
43:19into your wolf?
43:20I gasped,
43:22intinctively wrapping
43:23my arms around his neck.
43:24I am merely doing
43:25my duty to ensure
43:26the future
43:27of the royal lichen lineage.
43:29My luna
43:30should be more accommodating.
43:31He spoke with absolute
43:33arrogant righteousness
43:34before leaning down
43:35to seal my lips,
43:36swallowing all
43:37of my remaining protests.
43:39The heavy furs
43:40closed around us,
43:42filled with the intoxicating,
43:44possessive scent
43:45of our true
43:45fated bond.
43:46Closing my eyes,
43:48I leaned into
43:49his fierce,
43:50burning touch.
43:51In this lifetime,
43:52I hadn't failed myself,
43:53nor had I failed
43:54the protective male
43:55who had waited
43:56in the shadows for me.
43:57The true,
43:58brilliant legacy
43:59of Luna Serafina
44:00was only just beginning.
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