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00:01I made a deal with Magnus, the Alpha King of the Thorn Pack.
00:06Carry his heir's pup within a month, and he'd pay me a fortune, plus the pack's full protection.
00:11But once I was mated to his heir, he never marked me.
00:15I thought I'd never get pregnant. Then I saw his brother.
00:22Kyle was buried between my legs, gripping my hips with every thrust.
00:26On the other end was my mate, Royce.
00:30I know you're carrying my pup. Don't think the pup gives you leverage.
00:33Get rid of it.
00:34I bit down on my lip, forced it back, kept my voice steady.
00:37I never said the pup was yours.
00:39What did you say?
00:43Stop talking to my brother, babe. You're with the pup's real father now.
00:48Three months and he never once made you feel good. I only needed one night.
00:52Tell me, did Royce ever make you feel like this?
00:56Royce hated me, and he never hid it.
00:58Your scent makes me sick.
01:00To him, I was just something to use.
01:01Three whole months, and my belly stayed empty.
01:05Then my chance came.
01:07Kyle knocked on my door. I opened it, and a wall of alpha scent hit me.
01:10Kyle was Royce's younger brother. The pack lost him when he was four.
01:13They only got him back two years ago.
01:15My brother can't do it, can he? Why not let me try?
01:21Kyle was six years younger than me, and built way too well for it.
01:25He wasn't hiding what he meant.
01:27Want a touch?
01:29Go ahead.
01:32That heavy alpha scent went straight to my knees.
01:35Show some respect.
01:36Don't go after your brother's woman.
01:40He slept with you, but never dared leave a mark.
01:42He never really claimed you.
01:44So whose woman are you?
01:45He'd clearly done his homework.
01:47Stop waiting for my brother to come around.
01:49Use me.
01:50My bond with Royce was fake from the start.
01:52Our pup would be true thorn blood. Same as his.
01:55Kyle was fresh back in the pack and wanted his power back.
01:58What he lacked was a pup the Alpha King would recognize.
02:02What my brother couldn't do in three months, I'll give you in one night.
02:07Trust me. I'll make you feel good.
02:10Royce's body always ran cold, and wolves hate the cold.
02:13I had the most expensive cashmere scarf made and handed it to him myself.
02:18Get your cheap junk out of my sight.
02:21Fagna showed up and pinned him with an alpha aura so heavy that he could barely breathe.
02:26Then he wired me $20,000.
02:29I slipped into a corner and opened my ledger.
02:32July 3rd. One custom cashmere scarf.
02:35Cost? $150.
02:37Thrown in the trash to my face.
02:39Alpha King paid out $20,000.
02:41Net today $19,850.
02:45I could turn every one of Royce's tantrums into income.
02:49It all came down to one obsession of Magnus's.
02:52When he was young he'd had a true mate.
02:54Her name was Korra.
02:56Back then he wasn't strong enough.
02:58So he had to let her go.
03:02Later he became the most powerful alpha king of all.
03:05But by then, Korra belonged to someone else.
03:08He never got over losing her.
03:10I'm a lone wolf with no pack, but Korra's blood runs in me.
03:14I even have her face so Magnus brought me into the thorn pack.
03:18He set me up as mate to Royce, his favorite heir.
03:21He wanted the pairing to look right to everyone.
03:23A replay of what he'd lost.
03:25But Royce and I never truly bonded.
03:27The match was fake.
03:30Another time, I laid out Royce's favorite dinner and invited the whole pack.
03:35You really can't compare to Vivian.
03:37Vivian was the she-volf he actually wanted and never got.
03:40Magnus's face darkened at once.
03:42He stripped Royce of a pack duty on the spot.
03:44Then wired me $50,000.
03:46I held my ledger and barely kept a straight face.
03:48July 17th, Royce's favorite dinner.
03:51Ingredient costs fully reimbursed to me.
03:54Told I'm less than Vivian in public.
03:57Humiliation fee $500,000 self-charged.
04:00Plus Alpha King paid out $50,000.
04:02Net today $50,500.
04:05So my ledger kept getting thicker.
04:08And my savings kept growing.
04:11But Royce the heir let Magnus down again and again.
04:14Until one day he defied Magnus in public and it blew up into a full fight.
04:20The old Alpha King had to be helped into the pack infirmary.
04:23I could tell this time he wanted more than to pay me off.
04:28Give the thorn pack a pup.
04:31I want a child with both Korra's blood and thorn blood.
04:34As long as the pup is born alive it'll be recognized at the full moon.
04:38The council of elders will name it the thorn heir.
04:41You'll be the only one who can speak for the pup.
04:44Every decision about this bloodline goes through you.
04:46Everything I promised to pay you still stands.
04:49In full.
04:50But you have one year.
04:52No living pup by then and the deal is void.
04:55But by then I already knew the truth.
04:57Royce would never accept me.
04:58He hated me.
05:01Then one night his rut hit.
05:06Don't hide.
05:07Let me look at you.
05:08My heat flared instantly.
05:10I pulled him closer wanting more.
05:13Relax.
05:14Pinch me if it hurts.
05:17It's been so long.
05:18How could I keep pushing you away?
05:20I gripped his shoulders thinking he'd finally accepted me.
05:23I waited for him to bite.
05:25But on his last thrust the name he cried out wasn't mine.
05:30Vivian.
05:33That name snapped Royce out of it.
05:34He pulled out before he finished.
05:36Spilling on my stomach instead.
05:37His rut broke.
05:38But my heat was still burning.
05:39Don't go.
05:40Help me.
05:43Look at you.
05:44In heat like this.
05:45A stray mutt with no pack begging me to touch you.
05:48Throw yourself at me all you want.
05:50You're a low rogue.
05:52And you'll never be Vivian.
05:56I curled up on the floor.
05:58Heat burning through me.
06:00The weakness stripped away my usual control.
06:01I cleaned myself up in the bathroom close to breaking.
06:04The air was thick with the scent of my unspent heat.
06:07His brow tightened and his eyes changed.
06:09Do you want me to help you?
06:10The heat had burned off every sane thought.
06:12My body answered before my mind could.
06:17Just when I thought he'd push in, he laughed against my ear.
06:21See?
06:21I'm a lot easier to deal with than my brother.
06:24Make this deal with me.
06:25You won't lose out.
06:28When you admit Royce can't give you an air, you'll know who to come to.
06:38Don't cry, baby.
06:40Kyle put away all his edges.
06:41His hand slipped into the water, moving between my legs.
06:44His thumb just pressed once.
06:46His fingers worked inside me.
06:53I came against his chest.
06:56Kyle lifted me out of the tub and dried me off.
06:59Careful about it.
06:59A strong warm alpha scent settled over me.
07:02The last of the heat faded.
07:05When I woke, the pillow beside me was empty.
07:08Kyle was gone.
07:10I decided to back out of Magnus' bloodline deal.
07:13I texted Royce.
07:15Let's meet and clear things up.
07:17Each reply was uglier than the last.
07:19One time and you're already hooked?
07:21A rogue with no pack?
07:22And you've got your eye on my bed?
07:24I never even marked you.
07:25Why are you still clinging like this?
07:29You've got it wrong.
07:30I'm here to leave.
07:32Threatening me with leaving.
07:33You're in no position to make terms.
07:35Don't compare yourself to Vivian.
07:37You'll never reach her.
07:38A voice message popped up in Royce's chat.
07:41Vivian's back.
07:42Don't come bothering us again.
07:44Right after, Royce sent a second voice message.
07:46I opened it, but the voice that came out belonged to another woman.
07:49Long time no see, Sloane.
07:50Her voice was light and sure of itself.
07:54Hearing Vivian's voice, I thought back to the ceremony.
07:57That year Magnus used his alpha aura to push me to Royce's side.
08:00He made the whole pack acknowledge the match.
08:02The elders, the pack families, and every branch of thorn blood sat below.
08:05A lone wolf with no pack.
08:06I stood in the center in a thorn robe.
08:08Royce Thorn, do you take Sloane as your mate?
08:11Answer now, before the moon goddess and the pack.
08:15Do you swear to mark her, protect her, and never abandon her?
08:19I, Royce Thorn, take Sloane.
08:21He never finished the vow.
08:22Right then a stir broke out at the door.
08:24Vivian appeared.
08:25He dropped my hand, called her name in front of everyone, and chased after her.
08:29The vow hung there, half spoken.
08:30First a dead silence.
08:32Then the hall buzzed with whispers.
08:33A rogue with no pack.
08:35And she wants to stand as a thorn mate?
08:37Look how fast he ran.
08:39He didn't even glance at her.
08:41The humiliation left me nowhere to hide.
08:43Royce never came back.
08:44I stood through the whole ceremony alone.
08:46I'd had enough.
08:47He couldn't keep humiliating me like this.
08:49I dug out Kyle's number and called him.
08:51You said to come to you once I'd made up my mind.
08:54Well, I've made up my mind.
08:56Give me ten minutes.
08:59Ten minutes later, the doorbell rang.
09:02He leaned in, cocky and pleased with himself.
09:04Calling me over this fast.
09:05Figure out something good?
09:08Years ago, I'm the one who sent your name back to the Thorn Pack.
09:13At four, he was stolen from the Thorn Pack and ended up with the brutal Ashfall rogues.
09:18He was the least welcome outsider in that den.
09:20He had no pack behind him.
09:21Even so, he clawed his way up and became the strongest rogue alpha.
09:25It was a Thorn Group investors dinner.
09:27Royce ditched me at the venue.
09:29Kyle was there too, as Ashfall's muscle for a deal.
09:31We were both the joke of the room, and no one cared.
09:34I remembered his face.
09:35I've always been sharp with faces.
09:37You've got Thorn blood in you.
09:39Do you want to come back?
09:40I can tell Magnus about this.
09:44Who are you?
09:45Bait sent by Thorn?
09:46I'm your brother's mate.
09:48Once I'm back, I'm Royce's rival, and you get nothing out of it.
09:52You're not scared?
09:54A wolf can hate his own blood, but you should still know who you are.
09:58I know how bad the rogue life is.
10:00Otherwise, I'd never have stayed with Royce.
10:02Through all that humiliation, I took his photo, noted his name, and traced him back to Ashfall.
10:07Then I handed the lead to the Thorn elders.
10:12Today, I want a clean choice of my own.
10:15I need you to agree to three things.
10:18One.
10:19The child is innocent, not a tool to fight for power.
10:22Be a real father.
10:23I'll be someone worthy of the word father.
10:25Two.
10:26The inheritance of this bloodline belongs to the child.
10:30Always.
10:30Fight Royce however you like.
10:32But that seat is off limits.
10:40Want the truth, baby?
10:42The one I've always wanted is you.
10:45That seat bores me.
10:46Three.
10:47As long as this lasts, you don't touch any other she-wolf.
10:51Only you.
10:52No one else gets in.
10:54Then you can kiss me now.
11:05Now, can I start working on being a dad?
11:07I rocked my hips against him.
11:09Get started.
11:10And felt him already hard in his pants.
11:13Kyle was wild with no pattern to it.
11:15And dead on precise all the same, he pressed me into the bed.
11:18And the moment he entered, we both gasped.
11:20Then he changed angle after angle.
11:22Reading the answer off every reaction I gave, the second I caught my breath.
11:25He drove in harder, on the hardest thrust.
11:28He bent to my neck, bangs against the skin.
11:30I turned my head and offered my neck to his mouth.
11:33Bite.
11:34First a sharp sting, then heat shot straight up my spine.
11:38The wolf in my blood surged up.
11:41Royce had kept me all that time and never truly marked me.
11:44This one bite from Kyle tore that fake bond to pieces.
11:48Kyle didn't stop there.
11:50Again and again, deep into the night until I couldn't take any more.
11:53He stopped between my legs.
11:55He licked and kissed me gently.
11:56Until I was shaking, lifting my hips on my own.
12:01See?
12:01You still want it.
12:04We didn't stop until it was nearly dawn.
12:06When I opened my eyes again, it was almost noon.
12:09He touched the mark on my neck, checking it wasn't hurting me.
12:12Tell me if anything hurts.
12:13Shut up.
12:14His alpha scent settled over me.
12:16That day I packed up and moved out of the house on Royce's territory.
12:20Two days later, Royce finally came back to that house.
12:23He pushed the door open to empty rooms and a mess.
12:26The whole place reeked of another alpha.
12:28He punched the door frame and called.
12:34You put another alpha scent on my bed on purpose just to force me back?
12:38I don't need you back.
12:39This fake bond is over, and I don't need your mark.
12:42Dream on.
12:42I'm the thorn heir.
12:44No alpha would dare mark you.
12:46I pressed the mark on my neck, the one he refused to believe in.
12:49I didn't say another word.
12:50I just hung up.
12:52His tongue dragged over the new mark.
12:54He doesn't believe it?
12:55Then let the whole pack smell it.
12:57Now, let me carve this mark a little deeper.
13:00Come on.
13:02That first month at Kyle's place was better than any time before.
13:05The fake bond had never given me days like these.
13:08The strongest rogue alpha moved his small meetings to remote and rushed home after work.
13:12The second he was in, he'd check the mark on my neck, then wrap me in his scent.
13:17At night, he carried me to bed.
13:18Be honest, babe.
13:20How many times did you secretly think of me today?
13:22I thought about you all day.
13:25Want me to kiss here?
13:26Or here?
13:29Royce came around every week to remind me he existed.
13:31I never once replied, but he kept texting anyway.
13:34I threw out all your junk.
13:35Stop being an eyesore.
13:36What kind of life do you think you'll have without me?
13:39Quit sulking and come back.
13:40Lining up a few alphas to show off won't get to me.
13:43It just makes you look pathetic.
13:44I left him on read.
13:45By the fourth week, his tone changed.
13:47I was too busy before and neglected you.
13:49Come back and we'll start over.
13:51This one I answered.
13:52No thanks.
13:53I'm doing just fine.
13:54That month my heat scent faded, but the wolf in me kept guarding my belly.
13:58I knew right away.
13:59I was carrying Kyle's pup.
14:00Kyle caught the change in my scent and the faint trace of a pup underneath it.
14:03He moved so carefully.
14:06My pup, right?
14:08Of course.
14:09Don't waste my time.
14:12I booked a prenatal checkup at the Thorn Clinic for the next day.
14:15My fake bond with Royce hadn't been formally dissolved yet.
14:18In the clinic system, he was still listed as my mate.
14:21So the checkup reminder went straight to Royce.
14:24That night, Kyle's possessiveness rose up again.
14:26He pinned me to the bed, buried himself between my legs, and drove in deep.
14:30Partway through, my phone rang.
14:32Royce on the screen.
14:36I answered breathless, but Kyle didn't stop.
14:39He pushed in deeper.
14:41I know you're carrying my pup.
14:42Don't think the pup gives you leverage.
14:44Get rid of it.
14:45Have it without my say-so and you'll regret it.
14:48Kyle didn't leave me an inch of room to drift.
14:49I never said the pup was yours.
14:52What did you say?!
14:53Kyle saw the loss of control he'd forced out of me.
14:56Stop talking to my brother, babe.
14:59You're with the pup's real father now.
15:02Three months and he never once made you feel good.
15:06I only needed one night.
15:08Tell me, did Royce ever make you feel like this?
15:11The next day, Kyle and I finished the check-up.
15:14Royce cornered us in the waiting room.
15:18You're both out of your minds.
15:20Then he forced out a tenderness he'd never once shown me.
15:23Come home with me.
15:24I can let the past go.
15:25Royce didn't look at Kyle.
15:27He looked only at me.
15:28He marked you just to use the pup to grab the thorn's seat.
15:31Can't you see that?
15:32And you?
15:33Do you want me?
15:34Or the air in my belly?
15:35Vivian's long over.
15:37It's you I want.
15:38If this pup didn't come with that seat,
15:40would you beg me back in front of everyone?
15:44Royce once sneered that I wasn't fit to carry his pup.
15:47Now for that seat, he was putting on a devoted act.
15:51Back when I wanted a child,
15:54you spiked my drinks with restresses every day.
15:57Pack doctor,
15:58pull up my blood work from the last three months.
16:00The doctor put the results on the screen.
16:04You suppressed my heat,
16:06blocked the pregnancy,
16:07then pinned the failure on me.
16:09Three blood draws, the same suppressant in everyone.
16:11Royce still wanted to run the room,
16:12so I threw down a lab report too.
16:16You never even needed to drug me.
16:18I had your sample tested.
16:21The one who can't reproduce is you.
16:24Not one she-wolf you've touched
16:26has ever gotten pregnant.
16:27The doctor took the report and nodded to confirm.
16:30The report passed around the waiting wolves.
16:32An alpha who can't fire pups is worse than dead in a pack.
16:37A voice came from the doorway.
16:39Congratulations, Slona.
16:40You'll make a wonderful mother.
16:43Hi Viv.
16:46Viv, when did you switch to Sloane's side?
16:49We're both wolves you lied to.
16:50Of course we'd stand together.
16:51That devoted act of yours?
16:53I never believed a word of it.
16:56After I left Royce, Vivian came to find me on her own.
16:59She hadn't come back to take Royce.
17:01She'd heard about my situation and didn't want me played any longer.
17:04She'd turned Royce down long ago.
17:05He'd used her as a shield to cover his own failure.
17:08Royce looked at her then at me, and finally saw how completely he'd lost.
17:11All he ever wanted was a womb to keep his seat.
17:14Anyone would do.
17:15Tires screeched to a stop outside the clinic.
17:17A black car with a thorn crest pulled up, and Magnus's people came in.
17:21They'd come to take us to the Alpha King.
17:25Good timing.
17:26I'll settle this account in front of Magnus and the council.
17:30In the council hall, the elders sat along both sides.
17:33Royce was summoned to the center.
17:34Magnus sat at the head, leaning on his cane, his alpha aura bearing down ahead of him.
17:41I'm her lawful mate.
17:43Royce's words stuck in his throat.
17:44Lawful?
17:46You never truly marked her.
17:47Magnus swept his gaze over the council, his voice flat and hard.
17:51I arranged this bond.
17:52Today I end it.
17:53As of today, the fake bond between Sloan and Royce is void.
17:58She speaks for her pup and holds the pack's full protection.
18:02Anyone who touches her answers to me.
18:05The elders nodded.
18:07Not one of them spoke up for Royce.
18:09After the ruling, Royce was escorted out, and Magnus kept me back alone.
18:13The aura faded, and his expression softened.
18:15Sloan, come sit.
18:16When I first brought you into the Thorn pack, did you ever resent me?
18:21I'm a lone wolf with no pack.
18:23My mother died young with no one to claim her.
18:25My father ran up heavy debts.
18:26A rogue creditor was pushing to hand me over to a dangerous old alpha.
18:30Magnus dropped a pile of money that shut them all up, and took me into the Thorn pack.
18:34A fake bond still beat being handed off to settle a debt.
18:37For three years, Royce looked down on me, but in all of Thorn, the only one who ever really protected
18:42me was Magnus.
18:43You saved me.
18:44I won't forget that.
18:45But you set me up with Royce for your own sake too.
18:48Know why I tud the heir ruling to this pup?
18:52One, you want this pup.
18:54Two, you're leaving me a way out.
18:56Now I speak for the pup.
18:57Even without you, no one would dare touch me or the child.
19:01Smart.
19:03Just like your mother.
19:05You know how your wolf reacts to Kyle.
19:07You know it best.
19:09He's nothing like Royce.
19:11He'd said the quiet truth out loud.
19:13The first time I saw Kyle, the wolf in me was already drawn to him.
19:17Once Magnus' ruling was set, things got a lot easier.
19:20Royce was afraid of him and didn't dare harass me anymore.
19:23Kyle and I settled in, waiting for the pup to grow.
19:26My belly got rounder by the day.
19:29Rounder is good.
19:30More of you to hold.
19:31Life should have stayed this calm.
19:33Seven months along, I was folding tiny clothes for the pup.
19:36My phone rang.
19:36A thorn pack messenger, voice tight.
19:39Magnus was stable under care.
19:41Then his heart just stopped.
19:43We couldn't bring him back.
19:45Kyle took the phone and left for the pack.
19:48After Magnus died, the thorn pack had no clear leader.
19:51The next alpha had to be recognized by the council at the full moon.
19:54Magnus had favored Kyle, but two years was too short.
19:58His footing was still shallow.
19:59Royce bought off the old guard with favors and forced the vote into a tie.
20:02As the full moon neared, the guards around me finally thinned out.
20:05That day, I went out with a pack, a tenant to buy baby supplies.
20:08When I woke, my hands were zip tied to my sides.
20:11My throat burned raw by some drug.
20:13A blindfold left me blind.
20:14My first instinct was to protect the pup inside me.
20:17Someone yanked the blindfold off.
20:19The man leaning over me was Dax.
20:20Kyle's pup.
20:22Precious, isn't it?
20:23He was the son of the leader of the Ashfall den that raised Kyle.
20:26He went back to Thorn and pinned the blame on Ashfall.
20:30My family was exiled, scattered, left with nowhere to belong.
20:34This debt, I'll collect it piece by piece from what he treasures most.
20:38The pup first.
20:40Then we see if Kyle falls apart.
20:42Reason took over.
20:43To protect the pup, I had to stay calm.
20:46This clinic was fully equipped.
20:48A scattered homeless Ashfall couldn't afford a place like this.
20:51Someone behind him had put up the money in the space.
20:53I caught a familiar scent by the door.
20:55Someone I knew was hiding behind it.
20:57Come out.
20:58Hide all you want, I'd still know your scent.
21:00You'd stoop to something this low just to grab that seat.
21:02Right, Royce?
21:03The shadow behind the door went rigid.
21:06The shadow at the door stepped into the light.
21:09It was Royce.
21:09This is all your fault, Sloane.
21:12You just had to make a fool of me.
21:14Magnus' deal had a deadline.
21:15No living pup by then, and the ruling is void.
21:18Lose this pup, and the ruling falls back to you.
21:21Add the old guard you bought off, and the Full Moon Council hands you the majority.
21:25Who gains most from this kidnapping?
21:26Couldn't be clearer.
21:28Magnus.
21:29Was that you?
21:30He forced my hand!
21:32He raised me as the heir, then turned around and said that Mongol suited him better!
21:36So you killed the grandfather who raised you.
21:38That's on you too.
21:40You're the one who dragged Kyle back in front of Magnus!
21:42Stop lying to yourself.
21:44Kyle was always going to come back.
21:46You lose because you're weak, and all you ever do is blame someone else.
21:50Take her in.
21:52Finish it.
21:53The deal was just the pup.
21:54Killing a mother carrying packed blood means execution or exile.
21:57The enforcers would hunt me for the rest of my life.
21:59Who said she dies?
22:01Take the pup.
22:01She's mine.
22:02Feed her a drug that scrambles her mind so she can't make a single decision.
22:06Tell the pack she's gone mad, then no murder charge lands on you.
22:10Your pay goes up five times.
22:12He bent down, and ground his thumb hard over Kyle's mark on the back of my neck.
22:17Before I wreck your mind, I'll wipe my brother's bite off you first.
22:22Then I'll mark you again.
22:23So you'll remember, right up to your last day, exactly who you belong to, darling.
22:28This was his last attempt to take back control.
22:30He wanted to erase Kyle's claim and seize me back.
22:32I'd looked after Magnus's heart for a full six months to get it stable.
22:36His sudden death was wrong from the start.
22:37I'd suspected Royce early on, so I sent Kyle's guards away on purpose.
22:41So I played along with his plan, waiting for this confession from his own mouth.
22:45Then I raised my bound hands and showed him the ring on my finger.
22:47Recognize it?
22:48It's been recording since the second you threw me in that car.
22:51Every word you said has already gone straight to the enforcers.
22:54Live.
22:55Enjoy your exile, Royce.
22:57The color drained clean out of Royce's face.
22:59The doors burst open and Kyle charged in with the pack enforcers.
23:05I'm here.
23:06You and the pup are safe.
23:08The enforcers pinned Royce, Dax, and the fake doctor on the spot.
23:11Now every word of his confession was on record.
23:13Killing the Alpha King.
23:14Kidnapping a pregnant mother.
23:16Hiring men to do it.
23:17All of it was in there.
23:18The rest was for the council.
23:19The recording and the tracking evidence went straight to the council.
23:22On the full moon the whole pack gathered.
23:25Royce was forced to his knees before them all.
23:28The evidence played, piece by piece.
23:31Killing Magnus the kidnapping.
23:32Hiring the job out.
23:33Trying to erase Kyle's mark.
23:34The head elder rose to deliver the sentence.
23:36Strip Royce of his Alpha rank.
23:38Revoke every thorn bloodline right he holds.
23:41Life imprisonment in the northern cells.
23:43No pardon, ever.
23:44Two enforcers stepped forward.
23:45They tore the Alpha crest from his neck and dragged him out.
23:47Royce fought them.
23:48But his voice drowned under the low growls filling the hall.
23:51The doors closed.
23:52His way back into Thorn was gone for good.
23:54Dax the hired accomplice was exiled from Thorn territory.
23:57To be killed on sight if ever found.
23:59The fake doctor was taken away too.
24:01Handed over for the council's judgment.
24:03On that same full moon.
24:04The council named the next Alpha.
24:06Kyle rose to the highest stone dais of the pack.
24:08The elder declared him the new Alpha of Thorn.
24:10But once it was announced, Kyle didn't take the pack's salute first.
24:18Sloan, will you be my mate?
24:20And the Luna of Thorn?
24:21I came back to Thorn for you.
24:23From the first time I saw you, I knew you were my mate.
24:26You're the one who showed me I belong here.
24:28Thorn blood runs in me.
24:30When every wolf doubted me, you were the only one who was kind to me.
24:35I do.
24:36The elder proclaimed it again, with the moon goddess as witness.
24:39I became the recognized Luna of Thorn.
24:41Every wolf below bowed in submission.
24:43At last, my pup and I had a real home and real protection.
24:47The day the pup was born, that iron-willed Alpha froze in the delivery room.
24:51He held the baby and even his breathing went soft.
24:54He's so small.
24:55I'm scared I'll hurt him.
24:57I had a boy.
24:58The bloodline deal Magnus had staked all of Thorn on had finally settled.
25:02Nervous, first time dad?
25:03You're the strongest Alpha in the whole pack.
25:05This child was the rightful heir, and no one could take that away.
25:08That night, once the baby was asleep, Kyle came back to the room.
25:11He went to the crib first and looked at our sleeping son.
25:14Only when he'd looked his fill did he turn to me.
25:17He kissed me, and I hooked my arms around his neck and pulled him onto the bed.
25:21So, don't you think our old contract is due for a renewal?
25:27Renew it how? Tell me.
25:29Add one clause.
25:30I want a girl too.
25:32Kyle put on a look of mock reluctance.
25:34Let's negotiate, babe.
25:36How about twins?
25:38Moonlight was bright outside the window.
25:40Our son slept in his crib.
25:42The inheritance and that contract didn't matter anymore.
25:44From here on, it was just me.
25:46Him and our family.
25:47The girl he promised me.
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