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Ivy has loved twin Alphas for three years yet stays hidden from the pack’s public eye. As the tribe honors another girl as their destined Luna, she bears all indignities alone and clings to their precious bond. A harsh night crushes all her fantasies. Abandoned and pushed aside for another partner, she wakes up to the bitter truth: she was never their destined mate, merely an embarrassing secret they chose to conceal.
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00:00:06Damien's voice came from above me, low, horsky, burning with the heat of an alpha in rut.
00:00:13I had lost count by now. Three times, maybe? His arms were braced on either side of my head,
00:00:19veins bulging at his temples, every thrust hitting me with a force that felt more punishment than
00:00:25pleasure. I didn't dare make a sound. The patrol guards outside would hear. The entire pack would
00:00:32know that the wolfless, worthless Omega was being used as a painkiller by their alpha.
00:00:37Nobody knew I was Damien's fated mate, or rather, he refused to let anyone know. A nobody from the
00:00:43slums whose wolf had never awakened. How could someone that pathetic ever deserve to be the
00:00:47fated mate of the pack's twin alphas? So for three years I had been hidden away in the gray sector,
00:00:52a run-down district packed with crippled and discarded wolves. I was his dirty little secret.
00:00:57The third time ended and Damien finally got off me. I laid there gasping, my whole body trembling.
00:01:04All I wanted was to close my eyes and sleep. Then a pair of hands grabbed my waist again.
00:01:10Turn over.
00:01:11It was Damien's voice, but the hands were wrong. The Khalids were in different places. The ring he
00:01:16always wore on his left hand was missing. I was too exhausted. My brain was mush. I couldn't think
00:01:21straight. Four, five. He was rougher than before. His fingers dug ug into my waist hard. I thought
00:01:27they would break through the skin. Which felt better? He leaned down to my ear. His voice dropped
00:01:32to a whisper. There was something cruel and mocking in his tone that I had never heard from Damien.
00:01:38Hmm? Answer me.
00:01:43Six. Seven. My mind was coming apart. Every release ripped away what little strength I had left. In the
00:01:50haze I turned my head and reached for his mouth. I wanted a kiss. Just one. My lips found his,
00:01:56but my
00:01:56eyes found him first. Damien's eyes were gray-blue, cold and still. The eyes staring down at me were blown
00:02:01wide, bloodshot, with a faint gold sheen of something savage. Kaspen, Damien's twin brother, the one the whole
00:02:07pack called the rabid dog behind his back. My blood went cold. The scream stuck in my throat because
00:02:14his hand was already on my neck, his thumb resting right over my windpipe. Figured it out? Kaspen
00:02:19grinned at me, wearing the same face as Damien. Too late, little waste. A small sound came from the far
00:02:26corner of the room. A wall lamp clicked on. Damien was sitting in an armchair, fully dressed. His shirt
00:02:31sleeves rolled up to his forearms, a glass of whiskey in his hand. He had been here the entire time.
00:02:36He had
00:02:37watched his brother take his mate, and he looked bored. Why? My voice came out wrecked, unrecognizable.
00:02:43Damien swirled his glass. Ice clinked against the amber liquid. You're my fated mate, sure, but so what?
00:02:49His tone was flat, his expression blank. You have no wolf, no family. You can't even shift into a full
00:02:55wolf form. What makes you think you deserve the Luna title? The moon goddess played a sick joke on me.
00:03:00He took a sip. Tying a waste of space to me as my fated mate. So I made the best
00:03:04of it. Your body calms
00:03:06our ferial episodes. Your blood works as a pain repressor. Beyond that, you have zero value.
00:03:12Kaspen climbed off me and wiped his hands on the sheet. Basically, you're a sedative the two of us
00:03:17share. You think you actually deserve the mate title? My hands were shaking. Shaking so badly I
00:03:25couldn't grip the sheets. Three years. Three full years. I had skipped meals to buy herbs for Damien's
00:03:31pain relief tonic. I had pricked my own fingers with a sewing meal to feed him my blood for the
00:03:36remedy. I had told myself that if I was good enough, useful enough, he would eventually claim
00:03:42me in front of the pack. My mate. My alpha. I had believed I was his future Luna. Turns out,
00:03:50I was never anything more than a tool he was too ashamed to mention. Next week, Serena will
00:03:55officially become the pack's Luna. She's from the Blackwell bloodline. Pure lineage. Powerful wolf
00:04:01form. The entire pack already believes she's my mate. Damien stood and adjusted his cuffs.
00:04:05He said it the same way he would read a memo. I won't correct them. Serena. A complete stranger was
00:04:12going to wear the Luna crown that should have been mine, and I wouldn't even be allowed to sit and
00:04:17watch. Damien walked to the door and glanced back. You will attend the ceremony. His eyes swept over
00:04:23my bruised, marked body. There was no guilt in his gaze. No disgust. Nothing at all. You'll kneel in
00:04:31the last row of the gallery, with the servants. You'll bow to the new Luna. And if you make a
00:04:36scene,
00:04:37or if Serena or anyone else finds out you're my mate. He didn't finish the sentence. He didn't need to.
00:04:44Caspi had cut in. He bent down and patted my sweat-dripped face. I'll rip your tongue out
00:04:50myself. Little waste. The door closed. The room went dark. I curled up on the crumpled sheets.
00:05:00Every part of me felt crushed. The tears wouldn't come. Not because it didn't hurt. Because it hurt
00:05:06too much. So much that even crying felt pointless. I was their fated mate. I was supposed to be this
00:05:12Pax Luna. And I couldn't tell a single soul. I didn't know how long I lay on that bed.
00:05:18My thighs were still sticky. The air reeked of two alphas pheromones mixed together. So thick it made
00:05:25my stomach turn. My phone buzzing woke me up. A message from my neighbor in the gray sector.
00:05:32Five words. Nana's is not going to make it. I jumped off the bed barefoot and ran out the door
00:05:39stepping over the mess on the floor. The shack in the gray sector smelled of blood. Heavy,
00:05:44rotten blood. Nana was curled up on her worn-out mat. Dark blood was seeping from the corners of
00:05:49her mouth. And her nostrils her body was seizing, jerking and sharp violent spasms.
00:05:54Nana!
00:05:54I dropped to my knees beside her scrambling to wipe the blood away. But it kept coming the
00:05:59pack doctor was already packing up his kit ready to leave.
00:06:02The wolfspide has reached her bones.
00:06:04He barely glanced at her. Unless you can get alpha blood for the antidote, she's done.
00:06:09Alpha blood. My mate. My alpha at least in name. His blood could save her life. But he wouldn't
00:06:16even acknowledge that I existed. I closed my eyes and reached for the thin thread of the
00:06:19mate bond between me and Damien. That bond had worn down to almost nothing after three years of
00:06:24one-hided draining. But it was still there, no matter how much he despised me. A mate bond was
00:06:29the moon goddess Mark. As long as both of us were alive, it couldn't be broken.
00:06:33Damien, please. Just one drop of blood. Nana is dying.
00:06:37The link went quiet for two seconds. Then Serena's sugary voice bled through the mind link.
00:06:43Damien, look at this one. Don't you think the lease neckline is prettier than the last dress?
00:06:53And then Damien's voice. So gentle, I almost didn't recognize it.
00:07:00They all look beautiful. You look beautiful in anything, my Luna.
00:07:05My Luna. He had never once called me that. I was his mate. But that title, those two words,
00:07:11he gave them to a woman who had no fated bond with him at all. I screamed through the link.
00:07:16Damien! I'm begging you!
00:07:19Shut up.
00:07:20That wasn't Darmien. It was Caspian. His consciousness slammed into the link with open disgust.
00:07:26Using the old woman for sympathy again?
00:07:29Haven't you embarrassed yourself enough? An Alpha's mate living in the Grey Tektor,
00:07:34crying and begging. If word gets out, how do you think that makes us look?
00:07:39It's not an excuse. She's really bleeding out.
00:07:42Enough, Ivy.
00:07:43Damien's voice came back. Colder than the night wind.
00:07:47Today is Serena's dress fitting. As the future Luna, every moment of her day matters more than
00:07:52whatever crisis you've invented. Stop acting crazy.
00:07:55The link was severed from his end. The backlash hit me instantly. Pain exploded inside my skull.
00:08:02I grabbed my head and collapsed. My ears ringing so loud I couldn't hear anything else.
00:08:07By the time I pulled myself off the floor, Nana had stopped seizing. Her hand was cold.
00:08:12She was looking at me. She reached into her shirt with shaking fingers and pulled out an old whistle
00:08:17carved from bone. She pressed it into my palm. Then her lips moved. No sound came out. Just a shape.
00:08:24Run. Her hand dropped. I held her body as it went stiff. I couldn't cry. Not because I didn't want
00:08:30to.
00:08:31The moment the link had been cut, it felt as though something inside me had been severed too.
00:08:36My tears along with it.
00:08:39Outside, the pack loudbeater was playing Serena's recorded message on a loop.
00:08:44Everyone is welcome to attend my ceremony with Damien. Next week, I will officially become the pack's Luna.
00:08:51Luna.
00:08:52That seat was supposed to be mine. But I didn't even have the right to fight for it.
00:08:56Fighting required being acknowledged first. And I was not even allowed to exist.
00:09:00Some time passed. The door opened. Cold air rushed in. I squinted against it.
00:09:06A tall figure stood in the doorway, wearing a tattered cloak.
00:09:09Every nerve in my body went tight. I shot to my feet and stood in front of Nana's body.
00:09:14Who are you? He didn't answer. He looked at the body on the floor. Then at me. Then he walked
00:09:19to
00:09:19the corner, picked up the shovel leaning against the wall. He lifted Nana's body onto his shoulder
00:09:24and carried her outside. I think I understood what he was going to do. He dug a hole in the
00:09:29frozen ground behind the hill, filled it in, set up a plank of wood as a marker.
00:09:34Why are you helping me? I asked.
00:09:37Six months ago, in the alley behind the market, you saved my life.
00:09:41He turned and disappeared Dinto the dark. I stood in front of the fresh grave,
00:09:45gripping the bone whistle Nana had left me. The sharp edges of the bone had cut into my palm.
00:09:50That was when I felt it. A tiny flutter deep in my belly. Something stirring in my blood.
00:09:55Faint and timid, nudging against my skin from the inside. I pressed my dirt-covered hand against my
00:10:01stomach. Two. Two faint heartbeats. I was pregnant. Carrying my Alpha's children.
00:10:08Funny, wasn't it? He refused to claim me as his mate, but he had left his bloodline growing inside me.
00:10:16In the distance, the main house was blazing with light. A golden countdown sign for the wedding
00:10:22was glowing on the front porch. I knew Damiathian Cassibian would never let these children be born.
00:10:29A secret mate they treated as a tool found to be carrying their pups. That wasn't just a scandal
00:10:34that would make the entire pack question Serena's Luna status. They would kill these babies the same
00:10:39way they had killed every last shred of my dignity without blinking. I had already lost Nana.
00:10:45I would not lose them too. I looked down at the blood-stained bone whistle. I thought about the
00:10:51cloaked wolf who had just buried Nana for me. I raised the whistle to my lips and I blew it
00:10:57with
00:10:57everything I had left. The whistle's sound didn't carry far. The winter wind swallowed it whole.
00:11:06Nobody came. Not that night, at least.
00:11:09Three days later, the night before the Luna coronation, two guards dragged me out of my
00:11:15shack in the gray sector and shoved me into the servants' changing room in the pack's main house.
00:11:24Put this on.
00:11:26One of them tossed me a gray linen robe.
00:11:28Tomorrow you stand in the last row of the gallery, with the servants. You kneel and bow to our new
00:11:33Luna. No looking up, no talking, no looking at the Alpha.
00:11:36I took the rough fabric and said nothing. What a joke I was this Pax Alpha's fated mate.
00:11:41The Luna crown should have been on my head. Instead I would be wearing slave clothes kneeling
00:11:46on the ground watching a woman with no mate bond sit in my seat.
00:11:51The door locked behind me I crouched on the floor. One hand pressed against my belly without
00:11:56thinking three days in those two heartbeats. Had grown a little stronger tiny stubborn.
00:12:02Pushing outward, the door swung open. Not a guard, Serena.
00:12:06She wore an ivory velvet robe, her hair loose, her feet in satin slippers.
00:12:11Two personal attendants trailed behind her.
00:12:15So you're Ivy.
00:12:16She tilted her head and looked me over.
00:12:19The wolf-less waist from the gray sector?
00:12:21She sniffed the air and wrinkled her nose.
00:12:24You smell disgusting. I have no idea why Damien even knows someone that pathetic.
00:12:30Her eyes narrowed, studying me.
00:12:33I kept my head down. I didn't dare speak.
00:12:36If she found out I was Damien's real mate, Casserbyn had promised to rip my tongue out.
00:12:42Serena didn't push further. Her gaze dropped to my neck, where Nana's bone whistle hung on
00:12:48a cord.
00:12:50That's interesting.
00:12:52She reached out without warning and ripped the cord off my neck.
00:12:57Give it back!
00:12:58I jumped to my feet and grabbed for it. The slap knocked me back to the ground.
00:13:03Serena shook out her hand, then held the whistle up and studied it. She smiled.
00:13:08Do you know Dead Man's Valley? That ravine behind the hill? The one full of bones?
00:13:14I'm going there tomorrow morning for a purification ritual, before the coronation.
00:13:20She spun the whistle between her fingers.
00:13:25I'll toss this filthy thing down there for you.
00:13:29Consider it the future Luna cleaning up the trash.
00:13:33Tonight, you stay on your knees right here.
00:13:36You don't get up until I say so.
00:13:38She turned and walked out.
00:13:40I stayed kneeling on the cold stone floor. Blood trickled from the corner of my mouth.
00:13:46The next morning, I ran to Dead Man's Valley. It was a deep ravine cut into the far side of
00:13:50the
00:13:50hill. The rock walls on both sides were streaked with old dried blood. I dug through the rubble at
00:13:55the mouth of the valley, tearing through loose stones and broken bones. My fingers were sliced
00:13:59open. Blood dripped onto the rocks.
00:14:01I knew you'd come.
00:14:03Caspian's voice came from behind me, amused, entertained. Before I could turn around,
00:14:07something cold wrapped around my ankle. A silver-laced chain. The second the silver touched
00:14:11my skin white, smoke hissed up from the contact point. The burning pain hit me so hard it felt as
00:14:16though someone had pressed a red, hot iron against my bones. I screamed and collapsed.
00:14:21Caspian gripped the other end of the chain and dragged me across the rough stone. Ground 10-15 feet,
00:14:27maybe more the skin on my back. My arms and my shins shredded against the rocks.
00:14:32K-silver dust ground into the open wounds. The pain was so intense I couldn't breathe,
00:14:36but I kept both hands over my stomach. I didn't let go once Damien was standing nearby.
00:14:41He was dressed for the coronation black suit white shirt. Without a single wrinkle his mate was being
00:14:46dragged in front of him torn apart by silver chains. And his face showed nothing he could have been
00:14:51watching. A stray mutt on the roadside.
00:14:54Ivy.
00:14:55He spoke his tone was flat official.
00:14:58From this moment, I formally sever the mate bond between us.
00:15:02You don't deserve to be my mate. You don't deserve to be this Pax Luna. You never did.
00:15:16Again.
00:15:17Damien's voice came from above me. Low. Horski. Burning with the heat of an alpha in rut.
00:15:23I had lost count by now. Three times, maybe? His arms were braced on either side of my head,
00:15:30veins bulging at his temples, every thrust hitting me with a force that felt more punishment than
00:15:36pleasure. I didn't dare make a sound. The patrol guards outside would hear. The entire pack would
00:15:43know that the wolfless, worthless Omega was being used as a painkiller by their alpha.
00:15:47Nobody knew I was Damien's fated mate. Or rather, he refused to let anyone know. A nobody from the
00:15:54slums whose wolf had never awakened. How could someone that pathetic ever deserve to be the
00:15:58fated mate of the pack's twin alphas? So for three years I had been hidden away in the gray sector,
00:16:03a run-down district packed with crippled and discarded wolves. I was his dirty little secret.
00:16:08The third time ended and Damien finally got off me. I laid there gasping, my whole body trembling.
00:16:15All I wanted was to close my eyes and sleep. Then a pair of hands grabbed my waist again.
00:16:21Turnover.
00:16:22It was Damien's voice. But the hands were wrong. The Khaleds were in different places. The ring he
00:16:27always wore on his left hand was missing. I was too exhausted. My brain was mush. I couldn't think
00:16:32straight. Four. Five. He was rougher than before. His fingers dug ug into my waist hard. I thought
00:16:37they would break through the skin. Which felt better? He leaned down to my ear. His voice
00:16:43dropped to a whisper. There was something cruel and mocking in his tone that I had never heard
00:16:48from Damien. Hmm? Answer me.
00:16:53Six. Seven. My mind was coming apart. Every release ripped away what little strength I had left.
00:17:00In the haze I turned my head and reached for his mouth. I wanted a kiss. Just one. My lips
00:17:06found his,
00:17:06but my eyes found him first. Damien's eyes were gray blue, cold and still. The eyes staring down
00:17:12at me were blown wide, bloodshot, with a faint gold sheen of something savage. Caspin, Damien's
00:17:17twin brother, the one the whole pack called the rabid dog behind his back. My blood went cold.
00:17:22The scream stuck in my throat because his hand was already on my neck, his thumb resting right over
00:17:27my windpipe. Figured it out? Caspin grinned at me, wearing the same face as Damien.
00:17:33Too late, little waste. A small sound came from the far corner of the room. A wall lamp clicked on.
00:17:39Damien was sitting in an armchair, fully dressed. His shirt sleeves rolled up to his forearms,
00:17:43a glass of whiskey in his hand. He had been here the entire time. He had watched his brother take
00:17:48his
00:17:48mate. And he looked bored. Why? My voice came out wrecked. Unrecognizable. Damien swirled his glass.
00:17:55Ice clinked against the amber liquid. You're my fated mate. Sure, but so what?
00:18:00His tone was flat, his expression blank. You have no wolf, no family. You can't even
00:18:05shift into a full wolf form. What makes you think you deserve the Luna title?
00:18:09The moon goddess played a sick joke on me. He took a sip.
00:18:12Tying a waste of space to me as my fated mate. So I made the best of it. Your body
00:18:16calms our
00:18:17ferial episodes. Your blood works as a pain repressor. Beyond that, you have zero value.
00:18:23Caspian climbed off me and wiped his hands on the sheet.
00:18:26Basically, you're a sedative the two of us share. You think you actually deserve the mate title?
00:18:33My hands were shaking. Shaking so badly I couldn't grip the sheets.
00:18:37Three years. Three full years. I had skipped meals to buy herbs for Damien's pain relief tonic.
00:18:44I had pricked my own fingers with a sewing meal to feed him my blood for the remedy.
00:18:47I had told myself that if I was good enough, useful enough, he would eventually claim me in
00:18:53front of the pack. My mate. My alpha. I had believed I was his future Luna.
00:19:00Turns out, I was never anything more than a tool he was too ashamed to mention.
00:19:04Next week, Serena will officially become the pack's Luna. She's from the Blackwell bloodline.
00:19:09Pure lineage. Powerful wolf form. The entire pack already believes she's my mate.
00:19:14Right. Damien stood and adjusted his cuffs. He said it the same way he would read a memo.
00:19:18I won't correct them.
00:19:20Serena. A complete stranger was going to wear the Luna crown that should have been mine,
00:19:25and I wouldn't even be allowed to sit and watch. Damien walked to the door and glanced back.
00:19:31You will attend the ceremony.
00:19:32His eyes swept over my bruised, marked body. There was no guilt in his gaze. No disgust.
00:19:39Nothing at all.
00:19:40You'll kneel in the last row of the gallery, with the servants. You'll bow to the new Luna.
00:19:46And if you make a scene, or if Serena or anyone else finds out you're my mate.
00:19:51He didn't finish the sentence. He didn't need to.
00:19:55Caspi had cut in. He bent down and patted my sweat-dripped face.
00:19:59I'll rip your tongue out myself.
00:20:03Little waste.
00:20:04The door closed. The room went dark.
00:20:09I curled up on the crumpled sheets. Every part of me felt crushed.
00:20:13The tears wouldn't come. Not because it didn't hurt.
00:20:16Because it hurt too much. So much that even crying felt pointless.
00:20:20I was their fated mate.
00:20:22I was supposed to be this Pax Luna.
00:20:24And I couldn't tell a single soul.
00:20:25I didn't know how long I lay on that bed.
00:20:28My thighs were still sticky.
00:20:31The air reeked of two alphas pheromones mixed together.
00:20:35So thick it made my stomach turn.
00:20:38My phone buzzing woke me up.
00:20:40A message from my neighbor in the gray sector.
00:20:43Five words.
00:20:45Nana's is not going to make it.
00:20:47I jumped off the bed barefoot and ran out the door stepping over the mess on the floor.
00:20:52The shack in the gray sector smelled of blood.
00:20:54Heavy, rotten blood.
00:20:56Nana was curled up on her worn out mat.
00:20:58Dark blood was seeping from the corners of her mouth.
00:21:00And her nostrils her body was seizing.
00:21:02Jerking and sharp violent spasms.
00:21:04Nana!
00:21:05I dropped to my knees beside her scrambling to wipe the blood away.
00:21:08But it kept coming the pack doctor was already packing up his kit ready to leave.
00:21:13The wolf's bite has reached her bones.
00:21:14He barely glanced at her.
00:21:16Unless you can get alpha blood for the antidote, she's done.
00:21:20Alpha blood.
00:21:21My mate.
00:21:22My alpha at least in name.
00:21:24His blood could save her life.
00:21:26But he wouldn't even acknowledge that I existed.
00:21:28I closed my eyes and reached for the thin thread of the mate bond between me and Damien.
00:21:32That bond had worn down to almost nothing after three years of one-heighted draining.
00:21:36But it was still there.
00:21:37No matter how much he despised me.
00:21:39A mate bond was the moon goddess Mark.
00:21:41As long as both of us were alive, it couldn't be broken.
00:21:44Damien, please.
00:21:44Please, just one drop of blood.
00:21:47Nana is dying.
00:21:48The link went quiet for two seconds.
00:21:51Then Serena's sugary voice bled through the mind link.
00:21:54Damien, look at this one.
00:21:57Don't you think the least neckline is prettier than the last dress?
00:22:04And then Damien's voice.
00:22:07So gentle, I almost didn't recognize it.
00:22:11They all look beautiful.
00:22:13You look beautiful in anything, my Luna.
00:22:15My Luna.
00:22:16He had never once called me that.
00:22:19I was his mate.
00:22:20But that title, those two words, he gave them to a woman who had no fated bond with him at
00:22:24all.
00:22:25I screamed through the link.
00:22:27Damien!
00:22:28I'm begging you!
00:22:30Shut up.
00:22:31That wasn't Darmian.
00:22:32It was Caspian.
00:22:33His consciousness slammed into the link with open disgust.
00:22:36Using the old woman for sympathy again?
00:22:40Haven't you embarrassed yourself enough?
00:22:42An Alpha's mate living in the Grey Tector, crying and begging.
00:22:46If word gets out, how do you think that makes us look?
00:22:50It's not an excuse.
00:22:51She's really bleeding out.
00:22:53Enough, Ivy.
00:22:54Damien's voice came back.
00:22:56Colder than the night wind.
00:22:57Today is Serena's dress fitting.
00:22:59As the future Luna, every moment of her day matters more than whatever crisis you've invented.
00:23:05Stop acting crazy.
00:23:06The link was severed from his end.
00:23:08The backlash hit me instantly.
00:23:10Pain exploded inside my skull.
00:23:12I grabbed my head and collapsed.
00:23:14My ears ringing so loud I couldn't hear anything else.
00:23:18By the time I pulled myself off the floor, Nana had stopped seizing.
00:23:21Her hand was cold.
00:23:23She was looking at me.
00:23:24She reached into her shirt with shaking fingers and pulled out an old whistle carved from bone.
00:23:29She pressed it into my palm.
00:23:31Then her lips moved.
00:23:33No sound came out.
00:23:34Just a shape.
00:23:35Run.
00:23:36Her hand dropped.
00:23:37I held her body as it went stiff.
00:23:39I couldn't cry.
00:23:40Not because I didn't want to.
00:23:42The moment the link had been cut, it felt as though something inside me had been severed too.
00:23:46My tears along with it.
00:23:50Outside, the pack loudbeater was playing Serena's recorded message on a loop.
00:23:55Everyone is welcome to attend my ceremony with Damien.
00:23:58Next week, I will officially become the pack's Luna.
00:24:01Luna.
00:24:03That seat was supposed to be mine, but I didn't even have the right to fight for it.
00:24:07Fighting required being acknowledged first, and I was not even allowed to exist.
00:24:11Some time passed.
00:24:12The door opened.
00:24:13Cold air rushed in.
00:24:15I squinted against it.
00:24:16A tall figure stood in the doorway, wearing a tattered cloak.
00:24:20Every nerve in my body went tight.
00:24:22I shot to my feet and stood in front of Nana's body.
00:24:25Who are you?
00:24:26He didn't answer.
00:24:27He looked at the body on the floor.
00:24:29Then at me.
00:24:30Then he walked to the corner, picked up the shovel leaning against the wall.
00:24:33He lifted Nana's body onto his shoulder and carried her outside.
00:24:36I think I understood what he was going to do.
00:24:39He dug a hole in the frozen ground behind the hill, filled it in, set up a plank of
00:24:43wood as a marker.
00:24:45Why are you helping me?
00:24:46I asked.
00:24:48Six months ago, in the alley behind the market, you saved my life.
00:24:52He turned and disappeared into the dark.
00:24:54I stood in front of the fresh grave, gripping the bone whistle Nana had left me.
00:24:58The sharp edges of the bone had cut into my palm.
00:25:01That was when I felt it.
00:25:02A tiny flutter deep in my belly.
00:25:04Something stirring in my blood.
00:25:06Faint and timid, nudging against my skin from the inside.
00:25:09I pressed my dirt-covered hand against my stomach.
00:25:12Two.
00:25:13Two faint heartbeats.
00:25:15I was pregnant.
00:25:16Carrying my Alpha's children.
00:25:18Funny, wasn't it?
00:25:20He refused to claim me as his mate, but he had left his bloodline growing inside me.
00:25:27In the distance, the main house was blazing with light.
00:25:31A golden countdown sign for the wedding was glowing on the front porch.
00:25:36I knew Damiathian Cassibian would never let these children be born.
00:25:39A secret mate they treated as a tool found to be carrying their pups.
00:25:43That wasn't just a scandal that would make the entire pack question Serena's Luna status.
00:25:48They would kill these babies the same way they had killed every last shred of my dignity.
00:25:52Without blinking, I had already lost Nana.
00:25:56I would not lose them too.
00:25:58I looked down at the blood-stained bone whistle.
00:26:01I thought about the cloaked wolf who had just buried Nana for me.
00:26:05I raised the whistle to my lips and I blew it with everything I had left.
00:26:11The whistle's sound didn't carry far.
00:26:14The winter wind swallowed it whole.
00:26:16Nobody came.
00:26:18Not that night, at least.
00:26:20Three days later, the night before the Luna coronation,
00:26:24two guards dragged me out of my shack in the gray sector
00:26:31and shoved me into the servants' changing room in the pack's main house.
00:26:35Put this on.
00:26:37One of them tossed me a gray linen robe.
00:26:39Tomorrow you stand in the last row of the gallery, with the servants.
00:26:42You kneel and bow to our new Luna.
00:26:44No looking up, no talking, no looking at the Alpha.
00:26:47I took the rough fabric and said nothing.
00:26:50What a joke I was this pack's Alpha's fated mate.
00:26:52The Luna crown should have been on my head.
00:26:54Instead I would be wearing slave clothes kneeling on the ground
00:26:57watching a woman with no mate bond sit in my seat.
00:27:02The door locked behind me I crouched on the floor.
00:27:05One hand pressed against my belly without thinking three days in those two heartbeats.
00:27:10Had grown a little stronger tiny stubborn.
00:27:13Pushing outward the door swung open.
00:27:15Not a guard Serena.
00:27:17She wore an ivory velvet robe, her hair loose, her feet in satin slippers.
00:27:22Two personal attendants trailed behind her.
00:27:26So you're Ivy.
00:27:27She tilted her head and looked me over.
00:27:29The wolf-less waist from the gray sector?
00:27:32She sniffed the air and wrinkled her nose.
00:27:35You smell disgusting.
00:27:37I have no idea why Damien even knows someone that pathetic.
00:27:40Her eyes narrowed, studying me.
00:27:43I kept my head down.
00:27:45I didn't dare speak.
00:27:47If she found out I was Damien's real mate,
00:27:50Casserbyn had promised to rip my tongue out.
00:27:53Serena didn't push further.
00:27:55Her gaze dropped to my neck, where Nana's bone whistle hung on a cord.
00:28:01That's interesting.
00:28:03She reached out without warning and ripped the cord off my neck.
00:28:07Give it back!
00:28:09I jumped to my feet and grabbed for it.
00:28:12The slap knocked me back to the ground.
00:28:14Serena shook out her hand, then held the whistle up and studied it.
00:28:18She smiled.
00:28:18Do you know Dead Man's Valley?
00:28:21That ravine behind the hill?
00:28:23The one full of bones?
00:28:25I'm going there tomorrow morning for a purification ritual,
00:28:29before the coronation.
00:28:31She spun the whistle between her fingers.
00:28:36I'll toss this filthy thing down there for you.
00:28:40Consider it the future Luna cleaning up the trash.
00:28:44Tonight, you stay on your knees right here.
00:28:47You don't get up until I say so.
00:28:48She turned and walked out.
00:28:51I stayed kneeling on the cold stone floor.
00:28:54Blood trickled from the corner of my mouth.
00:28:56The next morning, I ran to Dead Man's Valley.
00:28:59It was a deep ravine cut into the far side of the hill.
00:29:01The rock walls on both sides were streaked with old dried blood.
00:29:04I dug through the rubble at the mouth of the valley,
00:29:06tearing through loose stones and broken bones.
00:29:09My fingers were sliced open.
00:29:10Blood dripped onto the rocks.
00:29:12I knew you'd come.
00:29:13Caspian's voice came from behind me, amused, entertained.
00:29:17Before I could turn around, something cold wrapped around my ankle.
00:29:19A silver-laced chain.
00:29:20The second the silver touched my skin white,
00:29:22smoke hissed up from the contact point.
00:29:25The burning pain hit me so hard it felt as though someone had pressed a red,
00:29:29hot iron against my bones I screamed and collapsed.
00:29:32Caspian gripped the other end of the chain,
00:29:34and dragged me across the rough stone.
00:29:36Ground 10-15 feet, maybe more the skin on my back.
00:29:39My arms and my shins shredded against the rocks.
00:29:42K-silver dust ground into the open wounds.
00:29:45The pain was so intense I couldn't breathe,
00:29:47but I kept both hands over my stomach.
00:29:49I didn't let go once Damien was standing nearby.
00:29:52He was dressed for the coronation black suit white shirt.
00:29:55Without a single wrinkle his mate was being dragged in front of him torn apart by silver chains.
00:30:00And his face showed nothing he could have been watching.
00:30:03A stray mutt on the roadside.
00:30:05Ivy.
00:30:06He spoke his tone was flat official.
00:30:08From this moment, I formally sever the mate bond between us.
00:30:12You don't deserve to be my mate.
00:30:14You don't deserve to be this Pax Luna.
00:30:16You never did.
00:30:24You never did.
00:30:26Again.
00:30:28Damien's voice came from above me.
00:30:30Low.
00:30:31Horsky.
00:30:32Burning with the heat of an alpha in rut.
00:30:34I had lost count by now.
00:30:36Three times?
00:30:37Maybe?
00:30:38His arms were braced on either side of my head.
00:30:41Veins bulging at his temples.
00:30:43Every thrust hitting me with a force that felt more punishment than pleasure.
00:30:48I didn't dare make a sound.
00:30:50The patrol guards outside would hear.
00:30:52The entire pack would know that the wolfless, worthless Omega was being used as a painkiller by their alpha.
00:30:58Nobody knew I was Damien's fated mate.
00:31:01Or rather, he refused to let anyone know.
00:31:03A nobody from the slums whose wolf had never awakened.
00:31:06How could someone that pathetic ever deserve to be the fated mate of the pack's twin alphas?
00:31:11So for three years I had been hidden away in the Grey Sector.
00:31:14A run-down district packed with crippled and discarded wolves.
00:31:17I was his dirty little secret.
00:31:19The third time ended and Damien finally got off me.
00:31:22I laid there gasping, my whole body trembling.
00:31:26All I wanted was to close my eyes and sleep.
00:31:29Then a pair of hands grabbed my waist again.
00:31:32Turn over.
00:31:33It was Damien's voice.
00:31:34But the hands were wrong.
00:31:35The Khalids were in different places.
00:31:37The ring he always wore on his left hand was missing.
00:31:39I was too exhausted.
00:31:41My brain was mush.
00:31:42I couldn't think straight.
00:31:43Four, five.
00:31:44He was rougher than before.
00:31:46His fingers dug ug into my waist hard.
00:31:48I thought they would break through the skin.
00:31:50Which felt better?
00:31:51He leaned down to my ear.
00:31:53His voice dropped to a whisper.
00:31:55There was something cruel and mocking in his tone that I had never heard from Damien.
00:31:59Hmm?
00:32:01Answer me.
00:32:04Six.
00:32:05Seven.
00:32:06My mind was coming apart.
00:32:07Every release ripped away what little strength I had left.
00:32:11In the haze I turned my head and reached for his mouth.
00:32:13I wanted a kiss.
00:32:15Just one.
00:32:16My lips found his.
00:32:17But my eyes found him first.
00:32:19Damien's eyes were gray-blue.
00:32:20Cold and still.
00:32:21The eyes staring down at me were blown wide, bloodshot, with a faint gold sheen of something
00:32:25savage.
00:32:26Caspin, Damien's twin brother.
00:32:28The one the whole pack called the rabid dog behind his back.
00:32:31My blood went cold.
00:32:33The scream stuck in my throat because his hand was already on my neck, his thumb resting
00:32:38right over my windpipe.
00:32:39Figured it out?
00:32:40Caspin grinned at me, wearing the same face as Damien.
00:32:44Too late, little waste.
00:32:45A small sound came from the far corner of the room.
00:32:48A wall lamp clicked on.
00:32:50Damien was sitting in an armchair, fully dressed.
00:32:52His shirt sleeves rolled up to his forearms, a glass of whiskey in his hand.
00:32:56He had been here the entire time.
00:32:58He had watched his brother take his mate.
00:33:00And he looked bored.
00:33:01Why?
00:33:02My voice came out wrecked.
00:33:04Unrecognizable.
00:33:05Damien swirled his glass.
00:33:06Ice clinked against the amber liquid.
00:33:08You're my fated mate.
00:33:09Sure.
00:33:10But so what?
00:33:11His tone was flat.
00:33:12His expression blank.
00:33:13You have no wolf.
00:33:14No family.
00:33:15You can't even shift into a full wolf form.
00:33:17What makes you think you deserve the Luna title?
00:33:19The moon goddess played a sick joke on me.
00:33:21He took a sip.
00:33:23Tying a waste of space to me as my fated mate.
00:33:25So I made the best of it.
00:33:26Your body calms our ferial episodes.
00:33:29Your blood works as a pain repressor.
00:33:31Beyond that, you have zero value.
00:33:34Caspin climbed off me and wiped his hands on the sheet.
00:33:37Basically, you're a sedative the two of us share.
00:33:39You think you actually deserve the mate title?
00:33:43My hands were shaking.
00:33:45Shaking so badly I couldn't grip the sheets.
00:33:48Three years.
00:33:49Three full years.
00:33:50I had skipped meals to buy herbs for Damien's pain relief tonic.
00:33:54I had pricked my own fingers with a sewing meal to feed him my blood for the remedy.
00:33:59I had told myself that if I was good enough, useful enough, he would eventually claim me in front of
00:34:04the pack.
00:34:05My mate.
00:34:06My alpha.
00:34:07I had believed I was his future Luna.
00:34:11Turns out I was never anything more than a tool he was too ashamed to mention.
00:34:15Next week, Serena will officially become the pack's Luna.
00:34:18She's from the Blackwell bloodline.
00:34:20Pure lineage.
00:34:21Powerful wolf form.
00:34:23The entire pack already believes she's my mate.
00:34:25Damien stood and adjusted his cuffs.
00:34:27He said it the same way he would read a memo.
00:34:29I won't correct them.
00:34:30Serena.
00:34:32A complete stranger was going to wear the Luna crown that should have been mine, and I wouldn't even be
00:34:37allowed to sit and watch.
00:34:39Damien walked to the door and glanced back.
00:34:41You will attend the ceremony.
00:34:43His eyes swept over my bruised marked body.
00:34:46There was no guilt in his gaze.
00:34:48No disgust.
00:34:49Nothing at all.
00:34:51You'll kneel in the last row of the gallery, with the servants.
00:34:55You'll bow to the new Luna.
00:34:57And if you make a scene, or if Serena or anyone else finds out you're my mate.
00:35:02He didn't finish the sentence.
00:35:04He didn't need to.
00:35:06Caspi had cut in.
00:35:07He bent down and patted my sweat-dripped face.
00:35:10I'll rip your tongue out myself.
00:35:13Little waste.
00:35:15The door closed.
00:35:16The room went dark.
00:35:20I curled up on the crumpled sheets.
00:35:22Every part of me felt crushed.
00:35:24The tears wouldn't come.
00:35:25Not because it didn't hurt.
00:35:27Because it hurt too much.
00:35:28So much that even crying felt pointless.
00:35:31I was their fated mate.
00:35:32I was supposed to be this Pax Luna.
00:35:34And I couldn't tell a single soul.
00:35:36I didn't know how long I lay on that bed.
00:35:39My thighs were still sticky.
00:35:42The air reeked of two alphas pheromones mixed together.
00:35:46So thick it made my stomach turn.
00:35:49My phone buzzing woke me up.
00:35:51A message from my neighbor in the gray sector.
00:35:54Five words.
00:35:55Nana's is not going to make it.
00:35:58I jumped off the bed barefoot and ran out the door stepping over the mess on the floor.
00:36:03The shack in the gray sector smelled of blood.
00:36:05Heavy, rotten blood.
00:36:06Nana was curled up on her worn out mat.
00:36:08Dark blood was seeping from the corners of her mouth.
00:36:11And her nostrils her body was seizing.
00:36:13Jerking and sharp violent spasms.
00:36:15Nana.
00:36:16I dropped to my knees beside her scrambling to wipe the blood away.
00:36:19But it kept coming.
00:36:20The pack doctor was already packing up his kit ready to leave.
00:36:23The wolf spied has reached her bones.
00:36:25He barely glanced at her.
00:36:27Unless you can get alpha blood for the antidote she's done.
00:36:30Alpha blood.
00:36:32My mate.
00:36:33My alpha at least in name.
00:36:35His blood could save her life.
00:36:36But he wouldn't even acknowledge that I existed.
00:36:39I closed my eyes and reached for the thin thread of the mate bond between me and Damien.
00:36:43That bond had worn down to almost nothing after three years of one-hided draining.
00:36:47But it was still there.
00:36:48No matter how much he despised me.
00:36:50A mate bond was the moon goddess Mark.
00:36:52As long as both of us were alive it couldn't be broken.
00:36:54Damien.
00:36:55Please.
00:36:56Just one drop of blood.
00:36:57Nana is dying.
00:36:58The link went quiet for two seconds.
00:37:01Then Serena's sugary voice bled through the mind link.
00:37:05Damien.
00:37:05Look at this one.
00:37:07Don't you think the lease neckline is prettier than the last dress?
00:37:15And then Damien's voice.
00:37:18So gentle I almost didn't recognize it.
00:37:21They all look beautiful.
00:37:24You look beautiful in anything my Luna.
00:37:26My Luna.
00:37:27He had never once called me that.
00:37:29I was his mate.
00:37:31But that title, those two words, he gave them to a woman who had no fated bond with him at
00:37:35all.
00:37:35I screamed through the link.
00:37:38Damien!
00:37:39I'm begging you!
00:37:41Shut up.
00:37:42That wasn't Darmian.
00:37:43It was Caspian.
00:37:44His consciousness slammed into the link with open disgust.
00:37:47Using the old woman for sympathy again?
00:37:51Haven't you embarrassed yourself enough?
00:37:53An alpha's mate living in the gray tech tour, crying and begging.
00:37:57If word gets out, how do you think that makes us look?
00:38:00It's not an excuse.
00:38:02She's really bleeding out.
00:38:04Enough, Ivy.
00:38:05Damien's voice came back.
00:38:07Colder than the night wind.
00:38:08Today is Serena's dress fitting.
00:38:10As the future Luna, every moment of her day matters more than whatever crisis you've invented.
00:38:15Stop acting crazy.
00:38:16The link was severed from his end.
00:38:19The backlash hit me instantly.
00:38:21Pain exploded inside my skull.
00:38:23I grabbed my head and collapsed.
00:38:25My ears ringing so loud I couldn't hear anything else.
00:38:28By the time I pulled myself off the floor, Nana had stopped seizing.
00:38:33Her hand was cold.
00:38:34She was looking at me.
00:38:35She reached into her shirt with shaking fingers and pulled out an old whistle carved from bone.
00:38:40She pressed it into my palm.
00:38:42Then her lips moved.
00:38:43No sound came out.
00:38:45Just a shape.
00:38:46Run.
00:38:46Her hand dropped.
00:38:48I held her body as it went stiff.
00:38:50I couldn't cry.
00:38:51Not because I didn't want to.
00:38:52The moment the link had been cut, it felt as though something inside me had been severed too.
00:38:57My tears along with it.
00:39:01Outside, the pack loudbeater was playing Serena's recorded message on a loop.
00:39:05Everyone is welcome to attend my ceremony with Damien.
00:39:09Next week, I will officially become the pack's Luna.
00:39:12Luna.
00:39:14That seat was supposed to be mine, but I didn't even have the right to fight for it.
00:39:18Fighting required being acknowledged first, and I was not even allowed to exist.
00:39:22Some time passed.
00:39:23The door opened.
00:39:24Cold air rushed in.
00:39:25I squinted against it.
00:39:27A tall figure stood in the doorway, wearing a tattered cloak.
00:39:31Every nerve in my body went tight.
00:39:33I shot to my feet and stood in front of Nana's body.
00:39:36Who are you?
00:39:37He didn't answer.
00:39:38He looked at the body on the floor.
00:39:39Then at me.
00:39:40Then he walked to the corner, picked up the shovel, leaning against the wall.
00:39:44He lifted Nana's body onto his shoulder and carried her outside.
00:39:47I think I understood what he was going to do.
00:39:50He dug a hole in the frozen ground behind the hill, filled it in, set up a plank of wood
00:39:54as a marker.
00:39:56Why are you helping me?
00:39:57I asked.
00:39:59Six months ago, in the alley behind the market, you saved my life.
00:40:02He turned and disappeared into the dark.
00:40:05I stood in front of the fresh grave, gripping the bone whistle Nana had left me.
00:40:09The sharp edges of the bone had cut into my palm.
00:40:11That was when I felt it.
00:40:13A tiny flutter deep in my belly.
00:40:15Something stirring in my blood.
00:40:17Faint and timid, nudging against my skin from the inside.
00:40:20I pressed my dirt-covered hand against my stomach.
00:40:23Two.
00:40:24Two faint heartbeats.
00:40:25I was pregnant.
00:40:27Carrying my Alpha's children.
00:40:29Funny, wasn't it?
00:40:30He refused to claim me as his mate,
00:40:32but he had left his bloodline growing inside me.
00:40:38In the distance,
00:40:39the main house was blazing with light.
00:40:42A golden countdown sign for the wedding
00:40:44was glowing on the front porch.
00:40:46I knew Damienthian Cassibian would never let these children be born.
00:40:50A secret mate they treated as a tool found to be carrying their pups,
00:40:54that wasn't just a scandal that would make the entire pack question Serena's Luna status.
00:40:59They would kill these babies,
00:41:00the same way they had killed every last shred of my dignity without blinking.
00:41:04I had already lost Nana.
00:41:07I would not lose them too.
00:41:08I looked down at the blood-stained bone whistle.
00:41:12I thought about the cloaked wolf who had just buried Nana for me.
00:41:15I raised the whistle to my lips,
00:41:17and I blew it with everything I had left.
00:41:22The whistle's sound didn't carry far.
00:41:25The winter wind swallowed it whole.
00:41:27Nobody came.
00:41:28Not that night, at least.
00:41:31Three days later,
00:41:32the night before the Luna coronation,
00:41:34two guards dragged me out of my shack in the gray sector,
00:41:42and shoved me into the servants' changing room in the pack's main house.
00:41:46Put this on.
00:41:47One of them tossed me a gray linen robe.
00:41:50Tomorrow you stand in the last row of the gallery,
00:41:52with the servants.
00:41:53You kneel and bow to our new Luna.
00:41:55No looking up,
00:41:56no talking,
00:41:57no looking at the Alpha.
00:41:58I took the rough fabric and said nothing.
00:42:00What a joke I was this Pax Alpha's fated mate.
00:42:03The Luna crown should have been on my head.
00:42:05Instead I would be wearing slave clothes
00:42:07kneeling on the ground
00:42:08watching a woman with no mate bond
00:42:10sit in my seat.
00:42:12The door locked behind me
00:42:14I crouched on the floor.
00:42:16One hand pressed against my belly
00:42:18without thinking three days in those two heartbeats.
00:42:21Had grown a little stronger,
00:42:22tiny stubborn.
00:42:24Pushing outward the door swung open.
00:42:26Not a guard, Serena.
00:42:27She wore an ivory velvet robe,
00:42:30her hair loose,
00:42:31her feet in satin slippers.
00:42:33Two personal attendants trailed behind her.
00:42:36So you're Ivy.
00:42:38She tilted her head and looked me over.
00:42:40The wolf-less waist from the gray sector?
00:42:43She sniffed the air and wrinkled her nose.
00:42:45You smell disgusting.
00:42:47I have no idea why Damien even knows someone that pathetic.
00:42:51Her eyes narrowed,
00:42:52studying me.
00:42:54I kept my head down.
00:42:56I didn't dare speak.
00:42:58If she found out I was Damien's real mate,
00:43:01Casserbyn had promised to rip my tongue out.
00:43:04Serena didn't push further.
00:43:06Her gaze dropped to my neck,
00:43:08where Nana's bone whistle hung on a cord.
00:43:11That's interesting.
00:43:14She reached out without warning
00:43:15and ripped the cord off my neck.
00:43:18Give it back!
00:43:20I jumped to my feet and grabbed for it.
00:43:22The slap knocked me back to the ground.
00:43:25Serena shook out her hand,
00:43:26then held the whistle up and studied it.
00:43:28She smiled.
00:43:29Do you know Dead Man's Valley?
00:43:31That ravine behind the hill?
00:43:33The one full of bones?
00:43:36I'm going there tomorrow morning
00:43:38for a purification ritual
00:43:40before the coronation.
00:43:42She spun the whistle between her fingers.
00:43:47I'll toss this filthy thing down there for you.
00:43:51Consider it the future Luna cleaning up the trash.
00:43:54Tonight,
00:43:55you stay on your knees right here.
00:43:57You don't get up until I say so.
00:43:59She turned and walked out.
00:44:02I stayed kneeling on the cold stone floor.
00:44:05Blood trickled from the corner of my mouth.
00:44:07The next morning,
00:44:08I ran to Dead Man's Valley.
00:44:09It was a deep ravine cut into the far side of the hill.
00:44:12The rock walls on both sides
00:44:13were streaked with old dried blood.
00:44:15I dug through the rubble at the mouth of the valley,
00:44:17tearing through loose stones and broken bones.
00:44:19My fingers were sliced open.
00:44:21Blood dripped onto the rocks.
00:44:22I knew you'd come.
00:44:24Caspian's voice came from behind me,
00:44:26amused,
00:44:27entertained.
00:44:28Before I could turn around,
00:44:28something cold wrapped around my ankle.
00:44:30A silver-laced chain.
00:44:31The second the silver touched my skin white,
00:44:33smoke hissed up from the contact point.
00:44:36The burning pain hit me so hard
00:44:37it felt as though someone had pressed a red.
00:44:39Hot iron against my bones
00:44:41I screamed and collapsed.
00:44:43Caspian gripped the other end of the chain
00:44:45and dragged me across the rough stone.
00:44:47Ground 10-15 feet,
00:44:48maybe more the skin on my back.
00:44:50My arms and my shins shredded against the rocks.
00:44:53K-silver dust ground into the open wounds.
00:44:56The pain was so intense I couldn't breathe,
00:44:58but I kept both hands over my stomach.
00:45:00I didn't let go once Damien was standing nearby.
00:45:03He was dressed for the coronation black suit white shirt.
00:45:06Without a single wrinkle,
00:45:07his mate was being dragged in front of him
00:45:09torn apart by silver chains.
00:45:11And his face showed nothing he could have been watching.
00:45:13A stray mutt on the roadside.
00:45:16Ivy.
00:45:17He spoke his tone was flat official.
00:45:19From this moment,
00:45:20I formally sever the mate bond between us.
00:45:23You don't deserve to be my mate.
00:45:25You don't deserve to be this Pax Luna.
00:45:27You never did.
00:45:38Damien's voice came from above me.
00:45:41Low.
00:45:42Horsky.
00:45:42Burning with the heat of an alpha in rut.
00:45:45I had lost count by now.
00:45:47Three times?
00:45:48Maybe?
00:45:49His arms were braced on either side of my head,
00:45:52veins bulging at his temples,
00:45:54every thrust hitting me with a force
00:45:56that felt more punishment than pleasure.
00:45:59I didn't dare make a sound.
00:46:00The patrol guards outside would hear.
00:46:03The entire pack would know that the wolfless,
00:46:05worthless Omega was being used as a painkiller by their alpha.
00:46:09Nobody knew I was Damien's fated mate.
00:46:11Or rather,
00:46:12he refused to let anyone know.
00:46:14A nobody from the slums whose wolf had never awakened.
00:46:17How could someone that pathetic ever deserve to be the fated mate of the pack's twin alphas?
00:46:21So for three years I had been hidden away in the gray sector,
00:46:24a run-down district packed with crippled and discarded wolves.
00:46:27I was his dirty little secret.
00:46:29The third time ended and Damien finally got off me.
00:46:33I laid there gasping,
00:46:35my whole body trembling.
00:46:36All I wanted was to close my eyes and sleep.
00:46:39Then a pair of hands grabbed my waist again.
00:46:43Turnover.
00:46:43It was Damien's voice.
00:46:45But the hands were wrong.
00:46:46The Khalids were in different places.
00:46:48The ring he always wore on his left hand was missing.
00:46:50I was too exhausted.
00:46:51My brain was mush.
00:46:52I couldn't think straight.
00:46:53Four, five.
00:46:54He was rougher than before.
00:46:56His fingers dug ug into my waist hard.
00:46:59I thought they would break through the skin.
00:47:01Which felt better?
00:47:02He leaned down to my ear.
00:47:04His voice dropped to a whisper.
00:47:05There was something cruel and mocking in his tone that I had never heard from Damien.
00:47:10Hmm?
00:47:11Answer me.
00:47:15Six.
00:47:16Seven.
00:47:16My mind was coming apart.
00:47:18Every release ripped away what little strength I had left.
00:47:21In the haze I turned my head and reached for his mouth.
00:47:24I wanted a kiss.
00:47:26Just one.
00:47:27My lips found his, but my eyes found him first.
00:47:29Damien's eyes were gray-blue.
00:47:31Cold and still.
00:47:32The eyes staring down at me were blown wide, bloodshot, with a faint gold sheen of something
00:47:36savage.
00:47:37Caspin, Damien's twin brother, the one the whole pack, called the rabid dog behind his
00:47:41back.
00:47:42My blood went cold.
00:47:44The scream stuck in my throat because his hand was already on my neck, his thumb resting
00:47:48right over my windpipe.
00:47:50Figured it out?
00:47:51Caspin grinned at me, wearing the same face as Damien.
00:47:54Too late, little waste.
00:47:56A small sound came from the far corner of the room.
00:47:59A wall lamp clicked on.
00:48:00Damien was sitting in an armchair, fully dressed.
00:48:03His shirt sleeves rolled up to his forearms, a glass of whiskey in his hand.
00:48:07He had been here the entire time.
00:48:08He had watched his brother take his mate, and he looked bored.
00:48:12Why?
00:48:12My voice came out wrecked, unrecognizable.
00:48:15Damien swirled his glass.
00:48:17Ice clinked against the amber liquid.
00:48:19You're my fated mate.
00:48:20Sure, but so what?
00:48:22His tone was flat, his expression blank.
00:48:24You have no wolf, no family.
00:48:26You can't even shift into a full wolf form.
00:48:28What makes you think you deserve the Luna title?
00:48:30The moon goddess played a sick joke on me.
00:48:32He took a sip.
00:48:33Tying a waste of space to me as my fated mate.
00:48:36So I made the best of it.
00:48:37Your body calms our ferial episodes.
00:48:40Your blood works as a pain repressor.
00:48:42Beyond that, you have zero value.
00:48:45Caspin climbed off me and wiped his hands on the sheet.
00:48:48Basically, you're a sedative the two of us share.
00:48:50You think you actually deserve the mate title?
00:48:54My hands were shaking.
00:48:56Shaking so badly I couldn't grip the sheets.
00:48:58Three years.
00:48:59Three full years.
00:49:01I had skipped meals to buy herbs for Damien's pain relief tonic.
00:49:05I had pricked my own fingers with a sewing meal to feed him my blood for the remedy.
00:49:10I had told myself that if I was good enough, useful enough,
00:49:13he would eventually claim me in front of the pack.
00:49:16My mate.
00:49:17My alpha.
00:49:18I had believed I was his future Luna.
00:49:21Turns out, I was never anything more than a tool he was too ashamed to mention.
00:49:26Next week, Serena will officially become the pack's Luna.
00:49:29She's from the Blackwell bloodline.
00:49:31Pure lineage.
00:49:32Powerful wolf form.
00:49:33The entire pack already believes she's my mate.
00:49:36Damien stood and adjusted his cuffs.
00:49:38He said it the same way he would read a memo.
00:49:40I won't correct them.
00:49:41Serena.
00:49:42A complete stranger was going to wear the Luna crown that should have been mine.
00:49:47And I wouldn't even be allowed to sit and watch.
00:49:49Damien walked to the door and glanced back.
00:49:52You will attend the ceremony.
00:49:54His eyes swept over my bruised, marked body.
00:49:57There was no guilt in his gaze.
00:49:59No disgust.
00:50:00Nothing at all.
00:50:02You'll kneel in the last row of the gallery with the servants.
00:50:05You'll bow to the new Luna.
00:50:07And if you make a scene, or if Serena or anyone else finds out you're my mate.
00:50:12He didn't finish the sentence.
00:50:14He didn't need to.
00:50:17Caspi had cut in.
00:50:18He bent down and patted my sweat-dripped face.
00:50:21I'll rip your tongue out myself.
00:50:24Little waste.
00:50:26The door closed.
00:50:27The room went dark.
00:50:30I curled up on the crumpled sheets.
00:50:33Every part of me felt crushed.
00:50:35The tears wouldn't come.
00:50:36Not because it didn't hurt.
00:50:38Because it hurt too much.
00:50:39So much that even crying felt pointless.
00:50:41I was their fated mate.
00:50:43I was supposed to be this Pax Luna.
00:50:45And I couldn't tell a single soul.
00:50:47I didn't know how long I lay on that bed.
00:50:50My thighs were still sticky.
00:50:52The air reeked of two alpha's pheromones mixed together.
00:50:56So thick it made my stomach turn.
00:51:00My phone buzzing woke me up.
00:51:02A message from my neighbor in the gray sector.
00:51:04Five words.
00:51:06Nana's is not going to make it.
00:51:08I jumped off the bed barefoot and ran out the door stepping over the mess on the floor.
00:51:13The shack in the gray sector smelled of blood.
00:51:16Heavy, rotten blood.
00:51:17Nana was curled up on her worn out mat.
00:51:19Dark blood was seeping from the corners of her mouth.
00:51:22And her nostrils her body was seizing.
00:51:24Jerking and sharp violent spasms.
00:51:26Nana!
00:51:26I dropped to my knees beside her scrambling to wipe the blood away.
00:51:30But it kept coming the pack doctor was already packing up his kit ready to leave.
00:51:34The wolfspide has reached her bones.
00:51:36He barely glanced at her.
00:51:38Unless you can get alpha blood for the antidote she's done.
00:51:41Alpha blood.
00:51:42My mate.
00:51:44My alpha at least in name.
00:51:45His blood could save her life.
00:51:47But he wouldn't even acknowledge that I existed.
00:51:49I closed my eyes and reached for the thin thread of the mate bond between me and Damien.
00:51:54That bond had worn down to almost nothing after three years of one-heighted draining.
00:51:57But it was still there.
00:51:59No matter how much he despised me.
00:52:00A mate bond was the moon goddess Mark.
00:52:03As long as both of us were alive it couldn't be broken.
00:52:05Damien.
00:52:06Please.
00:52:06Just one drop of blood.
00:52:08Nana is dying.
00:52:10The link went quiet for two seconds.
00:52:12Then Serena's sugary voice bled through the mind link.
00:52:15Damien.
00:52:16Look at this one.
00:52:18Don't you think the least neckline is prettier than the last dress?
00:52:25And then Damien's voice.
00:52:28So gentle I almost didn't recognize it.
00:52:32They all look beautiful.
00:52:35You look beautiful in anything, my Luna.
00:52:37My Luna.
00:52:38He had never once called me that.
00:52:40I was his mate.
00:52:41But that title, those two words, he gave them to a woman who had no fated bond with him at
00:52:46all.
00:52:46I screamed through the link.
00:52:48Damien!
00:52:50I'm begging you!
00:52:52Shut up.
00:52:53That wasn't Damien.
00:52:54It was Caspian.
00:52:55His consciousness slammed into the link with open disgust.
00:52:58Using the old woman for sympathy again?
00:53:01Haven't you embarrassed yourself enough?
00:53:04An Alpha's mate living in the Grey Tektor, crying and begging.
00:53:08If word gets out, how do you think that makes us look?
00:53:11It's not an excuse.
00:53:13She's really bleeding out.
00:53:14Enough, Ivy.
00:53:15Damien's voice came back.
00:53:17Colder than the night wind.
00:53:19Today is Serena's dress fitting.
00:53:21As the future Luna, every moment of her day matters more than whatever crisis you've invented.
00:53:26Stop acting crazy.
00:53:27The link was severed from his end.
00:53:30The backlash hit me instantly.
00:53:32Pain exploded inside my skull.
00:53:34I grabbed my head and collapsed.
00:53:36My ears ringing so loud I couldn't hear anything else.
00:53:39By the time I pulled myself off the floor, Nana had stopped seizing.
00:53:43Her hand was cold.
00:53:45She was looking at me.
00:53:46She reached into her shirt with shaking fingers and pulled out an old whistle carved from bone.
00:53:51She pressed it into my palm.
00:53:53Then her lips moved.
00:53:54No sound came out.
00:53:55Just a shape.
00:53:57Run.
00:53:57Her hand dropped.
00:53:59I held her body as it went stiff.
00:54:00I couldn't cry.
00:54:01Not because I didn't want to.
00:54:03The moment the link had been cut, it felt as though something inside me had been severed too.
00:54:08My tears along with it.
00:54:11Outside, the pack loudbeater was playing Serena's recorded message on a loop.
00:54:15Everyone is welcome to attend my ceremony with Damien.
00:54:20Next week, I will officially become the Pax Luna.
00:54:22Luna.
00:54:24That seat was supposed to be mine, but I didn't even have the right to fight for it.
00:54:28Fighting required being acknowledged first, and I was not even allowed to exist.
00:54:33Some time passed.
00:54:34The door opened.
00:54:35Cold air rushed in.
00:54:36I squinted against it.
00:54:38A tall figure stood in the doorway, wearing a tattered cloak.
00:54:41Every nerve in my body went tight.
00:54:44I shot to my feet and stood in front of Nana's body.
00:54:47Who are you?
00:54:47He didn't answer.
00:54:48He looked at the body on the floor, then at me, then he walked to the corner, picked up
00:54:53the shovel leaning against the wall.
00:54:54He lifted Nana's body onto his shoulder and carried her outside.
00:54:58I think I understood what he was going to do.
00:55:00He dug a hole in the frozen ground behind the hill, filled it in, set up a plank of wood
00:55:05as a marker.
00:55:06Why are you helping me?
00:55:08I asked.
00:55:09Six months ago, in the alley behind the market, you saved my life.
00:55:13He turned and disappeared into the dark.
00:55:15I stood in front of the fresh grave, gripping the bone whistle Nana had left me.
00:55:20The sharp edges of the bone had cut into my palm.
00:55:22That was when I felt it.
00:55:24A tiny flutter deep in my belly.
00:55:26Something stirring in my blood.
00:55:28Faint and timid.
00:55:29Nudging against my skin from the inside.
00:55:31I pressed my dirt-covered hand against my stomach.
00:55:34Two.
00:55:34Two faint heartbeats.
00:55:36I was pregnant.
00:55:38Carrying my Alpha's children.
00:55:40Funny, wasn't it?
00:55:41He refused to claim me as his mate, but he had left his bloodline growing inside me.
00:55:48In the distance, the main house was blazing with light.
00:55:52A golden countdown sign for the wedding was glowing on the front porch.
00:55:57I knew Damienthe and Cassibian would never let these children be born.
00:56:01A secret mate they treated as a tool found to be carrying their pups.
00:56:04That wasn't just a scandal that would make the entire pack question Serena's Luna status.
00:56:09They would kill these babies the same way they had killed every last shred of my dignity.
00:56:14Without blinking.
00:56:15I had already lost Nana.
00:56:17I would not lose them too.
00:56:19I looked down at the blood-stained bone whistle.
00:56:23I thought about the cloaked wolf who had just buried Nana for me.
00:56:26I raised the whistle to my lips and I blew it with everything I had left.
00:56:33The whistle's sound didn't carry far.
00:56:35The winter wind swallowed it whole.
00:56:38Nobody came.
00:56:39Not that night, at least.
00:56:41Three days later, the night before the Luna coronation,
00:56:45two guards dragged me out of my shack in the gray sector
00:56:52and shoved me into the servants' changing room in the pack's main house.
00:56:56Put this on.
00:56:58One of them tossed me a gray linen robe.
00:57:01Tomorrow you stand in the last row of the gallery, with the servants.
00:57:04You kneel and bow to our new Luna.
00:57:06No looking up, no talking, no looking at the Alpha.
00:57:09I took the rough fabric and said nothing.
00:57:11What a joke I was this pack's Alpha's fated mate.
00:57:14The Luna crown should have been on my head.
00:57:16Instead I would be wearing slave clothes kneeling on the ground
00:57:18watching a woman with no mate bond sit in my seat.
00:57:23The door locked behind me I crouched on the floor.
00:57:26One hand pressed against my belly without thinking three days in those two heartbeats.
00:57:31Had grown a little stronger, tiny stubborn.
00:57:34Pushing outward the door swung open.
00:57:36Not a guard, Serena.
00:57:38She wore an ivory velvet robe, her hair loose, her feet in satin slippers.
00:57:44Two personal attendants trailed behind her.
00:57:47So you're Ivy.
00:57:49She tilted her head and looked me over.
00:57:51The wolf-less waist from the gray sector?
00:57:53She sniffed the air and wrinkled her nose.
00:57:56You smell disgusting.
00:57:58I have no idea why Damien even knows someone that pathetic.
00:58:02Her eyes narrowed, studying me.
00:58:05I kept my head down.
00:58:06I didn't dare speak.
00:58:09If she found out I was Damien's real mate,
00:58:12Casserbyn had promised to rip my tongue out.
00:58:15Serena didn't push further.
00:58:17Her gaze dropped to my neck, where Nana's bone whistle hung on a cord.
00:58:22That's interesting.
00:58:24She reached out without warning and ripped the cord off my neck.
00:58:29Give it back!
00:58:30I jumped to my feet and grabbed for it.
00:58:33The slap knocked me back to the ground.
00:58:36Serena shook out her hand, then held the whistle up and studied it.
00:58:39She smiled.
00:58:40Do you know Dead Man's Valley?
00:58:42That ravine behind the hill?
00:58:44The one full of bones?
00:58:47I'm going there tomorrow morning for a purification ritual before the coronation.
00:58:52She spun the whistle between her fingers.
00:58:58I'll toss this filthy thing down there for you.
00:59:01Consider it the future Luna cleaning up the trash.
00:59:05Tonight, you stay on your knees right here.
00:59:08You don't get up until I say so.
00:59:10She turned and walked out.
00:59:12I stayed kneeling on the cold stone floor.
00:59:15Blood trickled from the corner of my mouth.
00:59:18The next morning, I ran to Dead Man's Valley.
00:59:20It was a deep ravine cut into the far side of the hill.
00:59:23The rock walls on both sides were streaked with old dried blood.
00:59:26I dug through the rubble at the mouth of the valley, tearing through loose stones and broken bones.
00:59:30My fingers were sliced open.
00:59:32Blood dripped onto the rocks.
00:59:33I knew you'd come.
00:59:35Caspian's voice came from behind me, amused, entertained.
00:59:38Before I could turn around, something cold wrapped around my ankle.
00:59:41A silver-laced chain.
00:59:42The second the silver touched my skin white, smoke hissed up from the contact point.
00:59:46The burning pain hit me so hard it felt as though someone had pressed a red, hot iron against my
00:59:51bones.
00:59:52I screamed and collapsed.
00:59:53Caspian gripped the other end of the chain and dragged me across the rough stone.
00:59:57Ground 10-15 feet, maybe more the skin on my back.
01:00:01My arms and my shins shredded against the rocks.
01:00:04K-silver dust ground into the open wounds.
01:00:06The pain was so intense I couldn't breathe, but I kept both hands over my stomach.
01:00:11I didn't let go once Damien was standing nearby.
01:00:14He was dressed for the coronation black suit white shirt.
01:00:17Without a single wrinkle his mate was being dragged in front of him torn apart by silver chains.
01:00:22And his face showed nothing he could have been watching.
01:00:24A stray mutt on the roadside.
01:00:27Ivy.
01:00:27He spoke his tone was flat official.
01:00:30From this moment, I formally sever the mate bond between us.
01:00:34You don't deserve to be my mate.
01:00:36You don't deserve to be this Pax Luna.
01:00:38You never did.
01:00:40You never did.
01:00:42You don't deserve to be the dead.
01:00:43You never did.
01:00:44You never did.
01:00:47You never did.
01:00:48You
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