00:00Back to the moment the moon goddess marked me as his. Damien's hand was around my throat,
00:04just like before. Same fury, same cold gold eyes. Why would the moon goddess choose you as my Luna?
00:09I looked up at him. Come. Don't worry. I'll break the bond myself. Don't play games with me. The
00:16moon goddess only pairs a wolf once. Break the bond and that's it. No second mate. Ever. Unless
00:22you're planning to crawl to that freak from the snowfield pack? The snowfield pack. They were new,
00:27but no one called them small anymore. In the span of a few years they had risen from nothing,
00:31expanding fast and ruthlessly across the northern tundra, until every established pack had been
00:36forced to take notice. Their alpha was a man named Ethan, and a story that followed his name was one
00:40wolves told in lowered voices. On the day he came of age, the moon goddess had given him nothing.
00:45No bond. No Luna. No mate. Abandoned, people said. Passed over. Broken. Now his pack had arrived at
00:51our territory without warning. Bearing gifts no one could ignore, and a single request. They wanted a
00:56mate for their alpha. The problem was simple. The snowfield territory was exactly what its name
01:00promised. Ice. Wind. Endless white. No wolf raised in the warmth of the forest wanted to go there.
01:05I looked at Damien's face. That easy contempt. Like I was something he'd already dismissed.
01:09The pain of it moved through me sharp and familiar, stealing the air from my lungs. I let myself feel
01:14it. Then I let it go. Just wait. I'll make sure you end up with Sophia. I went deep into
01:20the forest,
01:21past the place where the trees stopped letting in light. The witch found me before I found her.
01:25She listened to what I wanted. I can break the bond between you and Damien. But the pain will
01:30be unlike anything you felt before. Bad enough to make you wish you hadn't survived it. Nothing
01:34could hurt more than staying. Please. Help me. The witch was quiet for a long moment. Then she
01:39reached into the folds of her cloak and produced a ring. One drop of blood from each wolf you love
01:44most. Yours and his. When the ring has both, the bond will break. The wolf I loved most was Damien.
01:51The wolf Damien loved most was Sophia. If I hurt Sophia to get her blood, Damien might actually
01:56kill me. I rode back to the pack anyway. I found Damien and held the ring out before he could
02:00speak.
02:01All you have to do is give me a drop of your blood and Sophia's. Then the bond.
02:08He knocked it out of my hand. I watched it arc through the air and disappear into the lake.
02:12Are you ever going to stop? Heart's blood? Seriously Iris? Why not just ask us both to die and be
02:17done with
02:17it? And why would the witch need Sophia's blood? The bond is between us. Try harder if you're gonna
02:22lie to my face. Something inside my chest went very cold. My hands dropped to my sides. I couldn't
02:27feel them anymore. Because the ring needs blood from whoever each of us loves most. I love you.
02:32You love Sophia. What a ridiculous excuse. Damien didn't believe a word of it. I stopped trying to
02:38make him. I turned and jumped into the lake. The cold had me like a wall. I forced my eyes
02:42open
02:42underwater and searched the dark. Rocky bottom until my fingers closed around something small
02:46and hard. The ring. Before I could surface on my own. Hands grabbed me. Strong. Furious. And hauled me
02:51up onto the bank. Damien was soaked. His chest was heaving. What is wrong with you? Are you actually
02:57insane? The thing that always confused me. The way he moved like he cared. Like I was something worth
03:02saving. Every time. It made me wonder. Every time. Sophia existed. And the wondering stopped. I opened my hand.
03:08The ring sat in my palm. Still cold from the lake. I started to cry. I wasn't sure if it
03:13was the pain
03:13or the relief. Maybe both. Damien looked at me like I was something he couldn't solve. Then he turned
03:18and walked away. That left me with only one option. I went to find Sophia. Sophia and I had never
03:23made
03:23sense together. Not in this life. Not in the last one. She was prettier than me. Sharper than me.
03:28Easier to love than me. When we walked into a room together. Every eye found her first. Nobody ever had
03:33to think about it. When I came to her room. She didn't look up. I can make you Damien's lunar.
03:38But I need something from you first. That got her attention. What? Your blood. You might as well
03:44just ask to kill me. I'm not trying to hurt you. Damien and I have a bond. If I break
03:50it he's free.
03:51You'd be free to be with him properly. No bond between us in the way. She finally looked at me.
03:56Her eyes were sharp. Why would you do that? Everyone in this pack knows you've been in love
04:01with Damien since we were children. So why would you just give him up? Give him to me?
04:08I didn't have a good answer. Fine. I'll call the healer. Don't try anything stupid.
04:13The healer came. The needle was ready. The door came off its hinges. Damien. He took in the scene
04:18in half a second. And his face did something I'd never seen before. He shoved the healer out of the
04:22way. Pulled off his jacket and wrapped it around Sophia's shoulders in one motion.
04:26Sophia. His voice had dropped to something almost unrecognizable.
04:29Are you okay? Did she hurt you? Sophia's eyes went glassy. She put one hand against his chest
04:35and pushed gently. You shouldn't have come. How could I not come? You actually believed her?
04:42You could have died Sophia. Do you understand that? If it meant being with you. It would have been
04:49worth trying. One tear slid from the corner of her eye. Just one. It was enough. Damien pulled her
04:54into his arms. Held her the way you hold something you thought you'd lost. I had never seen him love
04:59someone before. Not like this. Not with his whole body. I was still standing in the corner. I hadn't
05:03moved. Then Damien looked at me. He crossed the room and shoved me. Hard. My back hit the pillar and
05:08I went down. He crouched down and grabbed the front of my shirt. You wanna come after someone? Come
05:12after me. Leave Sophia out of it. I knew that voice. I knew those words. He used to say them
05:18to other
05:18people. Anyone who came for me. Anyone who got too close. He'd step in front of me and say exactly
05:23this.
05:23Now I was the other people. I blinked back the tears. Pried his fingers off my shirt one by one.
05:28Why won't you believe me? Just once. The witch told me how to do this. It has to be Sophia's
05:36blood
05:36because the ring needs blood from whoever each of us loves most. That's the rule. Not mine.
05:41How am I supposed to believe anything you say? The bond is between us. So why does Sophia have
05:47anything to do with it? Stop. I'm done listening. I exhaled. Pressed my fist against my side. There
05:53was nothing left to say that he would hear. I looked up. Sophia was watching me from across
05:57the room and she was smiling. She'd done it on purpose. Called him here. Knowing exactly what
06:02would happen. And I had trusted her. I wouldn't make that mistake again. I moved. I was across
06:06the room before anyone could react. Knife out. Blade at Sophia's throat.
06:10Iris. She is your sister. Put it down. No. You hate me that much. I didn't answer her. I pulled
06:18the bloodied needle from my pocket and threw it to Damien. Your blood. Give me your blood and I'll
06:24let her go. He looked at me for one long moment. Then he exposed his chest. Fine. Remember what you
06:30promised. Dark red moved slowly through the hollow tube. I turned away. I couldn't
06:36watch it. Once the bond broke. He would have everything he wanted. And we would have nothing
06:40left between us at all. Let her go now. I looked away. Picked up the needle from the table. Pressed
06:46it to Sophia's chest and pushed. Iris. I am your sister. Damien help me. Stop. Touch her again and
06:55I will never. Do you hear me? Never. Be with you. Not in this life. Not in any life. The
07:03blood hit the
07:03ring. I let Sophia go. Added Damien's blood. He was already at her side.
07:07Sophia. Are you okay? Let me see. She was crying quietly against his chest. Then she looked at me
07:14over his shoulder. Why are you doing this to me? Damien turned. His claws were out. He drove them
07:19to my chest. The pain was enormous. Blood came. More than Sophia's had. Enough that I felt it moving
07:24down my ribs. Soaking through my shirt. He didn't look at me. Not once. You deserve that. He turned
07:29back to the healer. Sophia first. Every cut. Every mark. I don't want her to carry a single
07:35scar. I made it out of the room. That was as far as I got. The pain hit without warning.
07:40Not from the wound. But from somewhere deeper. Somewhere the witch had warned me about.
07:43I felt something dark rise in my throat and I couldn't stop it. Black blood. The bond breaking.
07:48The ground disappeared. I hit the lake before I understood what had happened. The cold swallowed
07:52me whole. I tried to scream and couldn't. The water took the sound before it left my throat.
07:56I felt my body stopping. Felt the edges of everything going soft and dark. Then something
08:00caught my wrist. Hard. Certain. Like it had no intention of letting go. He pulled me up from
08:04the bottom of the lake like I weighed nothing. I had never seen him before. He was taller than
08:08Damien. Broader. The kind of build that came from years of surviving somewhere brutal. A long scar ran
08:13down the center of his chest. Pale and old. His hair was the color of moonlight. How did you let
08:18this
08:18happen? If I hadn't come. You would have died down there. Do you understand that? Thank you Kate.
08:28Thank you. He stared at me. Something moved across his face that I didn't have a name for. Then he
08:33seemed to make a decision. Ethan. My name is Ethan. Ethan stayed. I don't know if I asked him to
08:41or if
08:41he simply decided. Either way. He was there when I woke. And the day after. And the day after that.
08:46Until the wound closed and the bond sickness passed and I could breathe without it hurting.
08:50On the morning I finally felt like myself again. Damien came. He brought a thermos of soup. My
08:54favorite. The kind I only ever wanted when I was sick. He sat beside the bed and picked up the
08:59spoon
08:59the way he used to. Back when things between us were different. I didn't open my mouth. He set the
09:03spoon down. The bond is broken. I was wrong about you. Sophia hasn't gotten out of bed since that day.
09:09She's still shaken. Now that you're better. Go apologize to her. And if I don't.
09:16Then you're not welcome in this pack anymore.
09:20The snowfield alpha is looking for a luna. If you won't apologize go be his.
09:25You've both been left behind by the moon goddess. We'd make a perfect pair.
09:28Something shifted in my chest. Not breaking. Something quieter than that. The last small
09:32thing I've been holding on to. Finally letting go.
09:35Alright I'll go. Damien. Damien.
09:39Are you even listening to me? What is wrong with you?
09:42He blinked. Came back. He'd been thinking about Iris. The way she'd looked this morning.
09:46Thinner than before. He'd done that. He pushed the thought down and pressed his lips to the top
09:50of Sophia's hair. When Iris comes to apologize. Give her some of your medicine. For the wound.
09:55Why should I? That's mine. You're the older sister. And once you're my luna you'll have all the
10:01medicine you could ever want. This is nothing. Fine. Just this once. They waited. The afternoon
10:07went. The light changed. The room got dark. Iris didn't come. Sophia was crying by the time
10:12Damien called for Jack. Jack! She never respected me. Not once. Not ever. Go get Iris. Bring her here.
10:21If she won't come willingly. Drag her. Jack didn't move. Is there a problem?
10:29Alpha. Iris left this morning. She went with the snowfield pack. What?
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