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00:00Damon Blackwood and I have been mates for three years.
00:03The day I discovered I was pregnant, I overheard his twin brother say they had been swapping places, playing with
00:11me all night.
00:12I didn't cry, I didn't make a scene, I booked an abortion surgery, and the plane took it abroad.
00:20On the day I found out I was pregnant, I went through heavy rain to the club Damon Blackwood Weekend.
00:25By the time I rushed to the club, my hair was soaked through, clung damp to my neck just as
00:31I was about to push the heavy oak doors open.
00:33I heard Damon's cold alpha voice from inside.
00:36Done playing around? When are you going to switch back?
00:40His twin brother, Dorian Blackwood, leaned back lazily.
00:48No, I haven't had enough fun yet.
00:50Damon frowned.
00:52You haven't touched her, have you? You know the pack laws!
00:55Dorian paused for a split second, then he slowly curled his legs into a smurf.
01:01What is there to worry about?
01:04I haven't.
01:10He picked up his goblet of aged wolf's fame wine.
01:14Though, even if I had, he probably wouldn't care.
01:17She's just an omega you claimed for appearances.
01:22Damon hesitated. His alpha scent sharpened with something close to discomfort.
01:27Of course, I would simply find her tainted.
01:33Laughter erupted from the pack's inner circle.
01:36A silver wolf asked.
01:37Dorman, you're circling your own alpha brother's mitt?
01:39Can you blame him?
01:40An omega with violet scent, pure hummusuckle and moonlight?
01:43Who wouldn't want to get closer?
01:44And that form curves in all the right places.
01:47Any wolf would salivate.
01:48Only Damon here is immune to omega charms and won't perform the claiming bite.
01:53The she-wolf sitting beside Damon lit out a snicker.
01:55Her amber eyes gleamed with malice.
01:59Violet might as well be packed property.
02:01Any wolf could mount her.
02:03The gathered wolves howled with laughter.
02:06Laughter
02:07I knew this she-wolf, Celeste Harrington.
02:10High-born alpha female of the Harrington pack.
02:13Damon's childhood companion, the she-wolf.
02:15He'd always cradled and protected some favorite packs.
02:20A few pack members asked.
02:22Whose brilliant scheme was this, anyway?
02:25Celeste lifted her chin.
02:26Her golden wolf eyes flashed with pride.
02:29Obviously mine.
02:33These two brothers are far too stupid to conceivate themselves.
02:38Violet has never dreamed, in her most fevered nightmares, that her precious Damon has a twin.
02:45You should all be thanking me.
02:47Without my genius, none of you would witness a game this exquisite.
02:52Damon's expressions soften.
02:56Yes, yes.
02:58You have always been the cleverest of us all.
03:01Someone asked.
03:02I heard that in seven days, at the full moon, Damon intends to perform the mating ceremony with Violet.
03:08Is that true?
03:10Damon's lips hurl.
03:14Of course it is a sham.
03:18The little ome begged for the honor of a formal bond, so I am humoring her.
03:23Celeste suddenly sat up straighter.
03:25A wicked gleam flashed through her amber eyes.
03:29Wait until the mating ceremony, seven days from now, under the full moon.
03:33Then reveal to her that you've been swapping back and forth all year.
03:36I want to watch her wolf spirit shatter.
03:39Throwing her into the abyss.
03:41Right at the moment she believes she is about to receive the claiming bite.
03:48Isn't that exquisite?
03:50Damon sighed.
03:51His turn was indulgent.
03:53You are still so childish, Celeste.
03:59Celeste pouted.
04:01Childish or not, you have always given me whatever I wanted, haven't you?
04:06But seriously, be careful.
04:08Don't accidentally sire pups on her.
04:10Omega females from nameless bloodlines, once they're carrying your litter, they become impossible to shake off.
04:15Damon's brow furrowed.
04:16Don't jest like that.
04:18We have never bedded her.
04:20Celeste tilted her head, pressing.
04:23But what if...
04:25What if she did fall pregnant?
04:27Damon answered carelessly.
04:28His alpha boredom palpable.
04:30Then she can crawl back to whatever gutter she came from.
04:33Right, Dorian?
04:34Dorian had been staring into the fire, lost in thought.
04:36Hearing his name, he said, belatedly.
04:39Yes.
04:40I stood outside the heavy left doors.
04:42In that camp, I held the medical report from the workshop.
04:45It was a totally space of me.
04:49I had run through the storm all the way here.
04:52Wanting to see the first calvary news, I pressed my palm to my stomach.
04:57A flicker of vulnerability flashed in my eyes.
05:00I am carrying your pup.
05:02Thank you, I made up my mind.
05:05Now there is no need.
05:09That afternoon, I contacted a discreet healer outside pack territory.
05:14I booked the termination.
05:16Then I bought a one-way ticket, departing in seven days.
05:19The same night as the full moon made in Zalman.
05:23I leaned over my topic.
05:25Fingers flying.
05:26Zoe's message blinked on screen.
05:28She was my friend.
05:29You're really doing this?
05:32Why should I not leap into it?
05:34Run from the boundary line to a book.
05:36Turn my cool script into a computer.
05:39After all, I had quietly accumulated quite a bit of independent wealth.
05:43Especially lately, the deposits had inexplicably doubled.
05:46I had always wondered why Damon, forgetting he had already transferred copies into his name.
05:51Paying me again.
05:53Now it made perfect sense.
05:55Damon wired funds once.
05:57Then his twin brother, Dory, wired separately.
05:59Matching me.
06:00I gently patterned my letter of hidden treasure.
06:11I had become entangled with Damon Blackwood back when I first presented as Omega.
06:16Celeste Harrington had been my den sister at the academy.
06:19She set her predatory sights on me.
06:21An Omega female working three human world jobs just to survive.
06:25This time, I was to be her game.
06:29Damon Blackwood was the alpha male she hand-selected to play my heart's destroyer.
06:34The heir to the Blackwood pack.
06:35The most powerful werewolf dynasty in the entire city.
06:38The untouchable alpha prince.
06:39According to Celeste's script, Damon would store me with pack luxuries until I grew addicted.
06:44Once I was accustomed to the privilege, he would cast me out and watch me collapse.
06:48He showered me with endless gifts.
06:51Pack crafted jewelry, ancestral heirlooms, enchanted souls.
06:55But I had been nameless, packless, and poor for far too long to have you prepared.
07:00Every resource Damon transferred to my name.
07:02I saved in the hidden accounts.
07:04The pack jewels he gifted me, I flipped discreetly through human world brokers for top five.
07:11Wealth.
07:12The more you hoard, the safer you feel.
07:15And I was not stupid.
07:16Every time Damon took my hand, I did not miss the flicker of condescending mockery deep in his alpha eyes.
07:23He was performing.
07:24I could feel it in my bones.
07:26I needed to stockpile.
07:27Opportunities like this do not come twice in an Omega's lifetime.
07:31We lived like a mated pair.
07:32Outings, embraces, human-style kisses.
07:36In winter, I even hand-knitted him a scarf.
07:38Infused with my subtle Omega scent.
07:41The day my grandmother's illness turned critical, I actively asked Damon for an expensive birthday gift for the first time.
07:47Damon froze for a single heartbeat, then smiled.
07:50I did not miss the wild, dark light that exploded in his pupils.
07:54The primal gleam of an alpha, watching prey walk willingly into the trap, like a wolf finally curling its lip
08:01over bared fangs.
08:02They believed I had been corrupted, spoiled, ruined, everything proceeding precisely according to their designs.
08:11The next day, Damon initiated the breakup.
08:18Celeste waited eagerly to witness me unable to cope.
08:22Crying, throwing bits, threatening self-destruction, clinging to Damon desperately.
08:26And she found I was the same Omega as before.
08:30Working when I needed to work.
08:31Attending academy when I needed to attend.
08:33Back to my ordinary, unremarkable routine.
08:36Just with one tiny upgrade, three human jobs a day cut down to two.
08:40Sometimes when I ate plain noodles, I could add a sausage, and an egg.
08:45I even gained three pounds.
08:46I did not desperately beg on my own side.
08:49Nothing played out as she had scripted.
08:51She threw a tantrum over it, declared the game boring beyond endurance.
08:55From that day forward in our den quarters, she targeted me relentlessly.
09:00Slipping silver-dusted nails into my shoes.
09:03Silver that burned Omega flesh.
09:06Pouring ice water onto my bedding in the dead of winter.
09:09Later, my father, ever the gambler, racked up impossible debt.
09:14Somehow those debts were owed directly to the Blackwood pack.
09:17To settle them, he threw me at the pack as living collateral.
09:21That is how I ended up back in Damon Blackwood's den.
09:26To be honest, I had been thinking recently about truly settling into this life with him.
09:32Damon had always been cold and distant.
09:35Never once touching me with true intimacy.
09:37But early this year, something changed.
09:40He began willingly kissing me.
09:42That night, he returned to the den, reeking of alpha-grade spirits.
09:49I helped him onto the fur-draped couch.
09:51Prepared him a tonic to cool his head.
09:54He suddenly wrapped his arm around my waist.
09:56Pulled me into his broad chest.
09:59He gently pressed his lips to my mouth.
10:02His alpha scent wrapped around me like a physical force.
10:07I barely understood how to kiss.
10:09I nearly passed out from lack of air.
10:11He laughed softly.
10:25That night, he guided me through my first intimate encounter.
10:31After that, he seemed addicted to experimenting with all kinds of thrilling, borderline dangerous scenarios.
10:38He never wanted to use any kind of rejection.
10:41He loved tormenting me as the pack-dened keepers and Rita servants were in motion.
10:46I could only bite my lip and endure it silently.
10:51The more I held back, the more he seemed to enjoy.
10:54He had a peculiar fixation during our coupling at night.
10:57He demanded that I say his name over and over like a chant.
11:04What is my name?
11:06Damon.
11:07You are Damon.
11:11No.
11:13Say it again.
11:14What is wrong with you, Damon?
11:18The more I gasped his name, the rougher he became.
11:21The more feral, the more possessive.
11:23He loved to curl around me and nuzzle.
11:25He knew my stomach was weak to certain foods
11:27and personally prepared warm herbal broths to suit him on my birthday.
11:31He would command the entire city skyline
11:33to ignite with enchanted packed fireworks,
11:36blazing all night.
11:39As the spectacular silver and gold lights exploded across the heavens,
11:43he would stroke my hair and burn them.
11:46Little wolf, let us make this real.
11:49Let us build a true life together.
11:52When nightmares seized me,
11:54he'd wake me and carefully gather me into his arms.
11:57It is all right, sweet one.
11:58Do not be frightened.
11:59Your alpha has you.
12:01I slowly began to feel it,
12:03truly falling for him.
12:07A few months ago,
12:09he pinned me to the furthrows again,
12:11once more refusing protection.
12:12I was breathless.
12:13What if I fall pregnant?
12:15He kissed the corner of my mouth.
12:17His alpha rumble vibrated through my bones.
12:22Then you carry my pups.
12:26I will protect you and I'll litter with my life.
12:29The mating ceremony proposal,
12:31that had been his idea.
12:33That night,
12:33after our bodies had stilled and our breathing slid,
12:36he lay draped over me.
12:38Little Omega,
12:39stop merely being my claimed mate in name.
12:42Become my bonded mate before the entire pack.
12:45Now looking back upon all of it,
12:47I understood.
12:48From the very first night he took me to his bed,
12:50that person was never Taman.
12:52It had always been Dorian
12:53and the mating ceremony proposal.
12:55Merely the climactic final act of their new prank game.
12:58This pot growing inside me.
13:00I had truly considered keeping it,
13:02raising it with hope.
13:03I set down the pregnancy test on the windowsill.
13:05I truly considered keeping you,
13:08raising you with hope.
13:09I pulled my hand away.
13:11Now there was no need.
13:14Five days until I fled pack territory,
13:17I had become quite skilled at telling the Blackwood Alpha twins apart.
13:21Daemon was cold,
13:22brooding.
13:23He never smiled.
13:24His wolf was a magnificent beast of pure black.
13:27Dorian loved to cuddle and cling.
13:29He had a small crescent shaped marking,
13:31right above the Adonis belt of his abdomen,
13:33visible every time he stripped down for our intimate encounters.
13:37When I came downstairs in the morning,
13:39Daemon was seated in the Great Hall,
13:40gold-rimmed spectacles perched on his nose,
13:43reviewing pack territory reports.
13:45Violet, present yourself well today.
13:48We are receiving important visitors.
13:50Gold-rimmed glasses,
13:52frigid tone of command.
13:53That was the real Daemon.
13:54At midday,
13:55Dorian and Celeste arrived together,
13:57faced with Dorian,
13:58Daemon's identical mirror.
13:59I feigned a moment of shock.
14:01Daemon performed the introduction.
14:02This is my twin brother,
14:03recently returned from our northern pack territories.
14:06Dorian extended his hand to me first.
14:08A pleasure to finally meet the Omega my brother speaks of.
14:12I placed my hand in his.
14:14The pleasure is mine.
14:16I offered a careful smile.
14:18I never imagined you two truly look exactly alike.
14:21Dorian's expression did not fracture at all.
14:23His smile remained gentle,
14:25harmlessly warm.
14:26There is much you have yet to discover about this pack.
14:29Celeste laughed,
14:30her alpha female energy sharp as cut crystal.
14:34I require no introduction.
14:36Violet and I were den sisters at the academy.
14:38She took my arm with aggressive warmth.
14:41I heard you are about to undergo the mating ceremony.
14:43I shall serve as your bonding witness.
14:46At the grand dining table,
14:48Celeste positioned herself precisely between Daemon and Dorian.
14:51She propped her chin upon her interlaced fingers,
14:53smiling at me with feline satisfaction.
14:56Violet, have you noticed any changes in Daemon lately?
15:00I knew precisely why she was asking.
15:02She simply wanted to watch me humiliate myself before them all.
15:05I set down my utensils and nodded thoughtfully.
15:07Yes, he truly has changed so much this year.
15:10In that suspended moment,
15:12the entire world froze.
15:14The Blackwood Alpha Twins expressions turned especially carved from stone.
15:20I suddenly laugh,
15:21allowing a faint blush to color my cheeks.
15:24He has been so much sweeter to me these months.
15:27I have found myself falling for him more and more deeply.
15:31Daemon shot a look at Dorian.
15:32During the meal,
15:33Dorian casually, naturally placed a peeled garlic prawn into my bowl.
15:37Garlic prawn without the shell, sweet one.
15:40Just the way you prefer it.
15:42The next heartbeat, we all stiffened.
15:44He kept his expression perfectly composed.
15:46I thought you'd like it, right?
15:47I nodded and smiled.
15:49You are such a cunning wolf.
15:51Daemon aimed a warning glare at Dorian.
15:53Alpha to alpha, a silent threat.
15:55I ignored them both,
15:56lifted the peeled prawn to my lips.
15:58And a chew, chew, chew, I frowned.
16:00It tasted sour and metallic.
16:02I covered my mouth with my napkin
16:04and rushed toward the washroom.
16:06After I had emptied my stomach,
16:08Celeste fixed me with a deeply meaningful...
16:11Could that be...
16:12Pregnant?
16:13Both alpha gazes landed upon me
16:16with the wave of falling stones.
16:20I waved a dismissive hand.
16:22No.
16:23Merely something I ate recently that disagreed with me.
16:26Daemon set down his fork with a deliberate click.
16:28The smile on his lips failed to reach his alpha eyes.
16:32If you're not feeling well,
16:33you'd better go see the pack's showroom sooner.
16:35After the meal,
16:36Daemon and Dorian escorted Celeste back to the Harrington Pack estate.
16:40They returned to the Blackwood Den very late.
16:42When they arrived,
16:43he went directly to the bathing chamber.
16:45I was uncertain whether the wolf now standing under the cascade of water
16:49was Daemon or Dorian.
16:50I noticed his communication tablet lying abandoned on the nightstand.
16:54Perhaps I should take a look.
16:55I attempted Daemon's birthdate first to unlock it.
16:59Nothing.
16:59After a moment of consideration,
17:01I entered Celeste's birthdate.
17:03The tablet unlocked immediately.
17:07I opened their private message thread.
17:09Switch back with me within the next few days.
17:12No.
17:12I am not finished yet.
17:13She commented that you have been exceptionally tender toward her this year.
17:17You are not developing genuine attachment, are you?
17:20No.
17:21Of course not.
17:22Is that not precisely what you advised?
17:24The sweeter the treatment,
17:25the more devastating the fall.
17:27Understood.
17:28You genuinely have not vetted her?
17:29No.
17:30Why does the thought disturb you?
17:32No.
17:32I simply do not wish my possessions to be dirtied by another wolf's scent.
17:36Consider this your final warning.
17:38Play whatever games you wish.
17:40But do not cross that boundary.
17:42So,
17:42the wolf who had returned to the den tonight,
17:45was Dorian.
17:46Ten minutes later,
17:47Dorian emerged from the bathing chamber,
17:49steam curling off his skin.
17:51I was absorbed in a mindless game on my tablet,
17:54pretending to notice nothing.
17:55He gently captured my wrist.
17:57Why do you always grow your nails so long, little wolf?
18:01My back is covered in the marks of your passion.
18:04I shrugged.
18:05You let the enforcers come for me.
18:07He released a low, rough laugh.
18:11When I was very young,
18:13my mother used to soothe my back.
18:15Just like this.
18:15That memory.
18:16As unreachable as a fated dream now.
18:18Dorian's hand moved in slow circles against my back.
18:21I stared into the dark.
18:22I felt nothing except the bitter,
18:24metallic taste of irony on my tongue.
18:26In the morning,
18:27Dorian was already awake.
18:29He stood rigid at the bedside,
18:30scrolling through my tablet.
18:32His alpha expression was black as thunderclouds.
18:34He turned to face me with a smile
18:36that did not reach his wolf-gold eyes.
18:39Little Omega,
18:40be honest with your alpha.
18:42Are you concealing something from me?
18:44I yawned lightly.
18:45What could I possibly be hiding?
18:48His face fell into hard.
18:50Refusing to speak?
18:51Fine.
18:52Then answer me this instead.
18:54Unreadable lines.
18:56He thrust my tablet directly before my face,
18:58nearly touching my nose.
19:00Why is the healer's den outside Pact Territory
19:03sending you pre-procedure care instructions?
19:05His voice dropped to something even colder.
19:08Little Omega,
19:09how is it that I did not know you were carrying pups?
19:14My entire body locked,
19:17rigid.
19:17My temples throbbed with sudden pressure.
19:19I pulled myself together with desperate speed.
19:22Oh, you are catastrophically overreacting.
19:24I likely triggered some rogue advertation
19:26while browsing unsavory human world sites.
19:29If I were truly pregnant,
19:30I would absolutely inform you.
19:32I would wield it to wrap you entirely
19:34around my smallest finger.
19:35Dorian raised eyebrow.
19:37You browse unsavory human world sites?
19:39I nodded with false gravity.
19:41It never hurts to expand one's knowledge.
19:43He tilted my chin upward with two fingers.
19:46With every position I teach you,
19:47Night Lie,
19:47you still hunger for more learning?
19:49Are you not afraid
19:50I will go completely, irreversibly feral?
19:53He pulled me against his chest.
19:55Tell me then,
19:56what exactly did you learn
19:57from these sights of yours?
19:58I met his eyes.
19:59I do not know.
20:00I retain none of it.
20:01He suddenly laughed,
20:02a genuine sound,
20:03sharp with surprise.
20:05You truly are an impossible little creature.
20:08I suppose I must continue
20:09to teach you personally.
20:11He held my gaze
20:12with sudden burning intensity.
20:14Violet,
20:14four more days
20:15until the full moon.
20:17On the night of our mating ceremony,
20:19I am going to make you
20:20the most treasured
20:21Omega bride
20:22this pack has ever witnessed.
20:25I did not answer
20:27because there would be
20:28no mating ceremony
20:29and there would be
20:30no shared future.
20:31Damon and Dorian
20:32were both consumed
20:33with preparations
20:34for the ceremony
20:35and I was consumed
20:36with packing my belongings
20:38for departure
20:38from pack territory.
20:40Quietly liquidating
20:41every asset
20:42I had siphoned
20:42from the Blackwood Pack's
20:43resources over the years,
20:45I had a trusted friend
20:46living abroad
20:47outside any pack jurisdiction,
20:49Zoe Clark.
20:50She had already
20:51reserved a bed for me
20:52at a discreet healer's facility
20:54for the procedure.
20:55She had also secured
20:56living arrangements,
20:58exactly the sort of place
20:59I had always dreamed of.
21:01Floor to ceiling windows
21:02and a broad balcony
21:04caught the morning sun.
21:06Living expenses
21:07had arrived as well,
21:08still deposited
21:09in two separate transfers,
21:12each twin sending
21:13their own contribution,
21:14neither aware
21:15of the other's payments.
21:17In the afternoon,
21:18Dorian escorted me
21:19to the pack seamstress
21:20to the maintenance
21:21of the family.
21:22He poked gently
21:24at my back.
21:25Your little middle
21:26is slightly round.
21:28What precisely...
21:29Sweet Omega,
21:31how are you
21:32this impossibly adorable?
21:34He cupped my face
21:36with devastating tenderness.
21:37He leaned down
21:38to capture my lips
21:39with his.
21:40His hands began
21:41to wander,
21:42slipping beneath
21:42the fabric
21:43of my sleeping clothes.
21:44I pushed him away.
21:45My voice was unsteady.
21:47My stomach pains me
21:48to night.
21:48His brow furrowed deeply.
21:50Your stomach?
21:52Is your condition
21:53flaring again?
21:54I shook my head.
21:55No.
21:56His broad palm
21:57settled over my belly.
21:58Permit me to warm it for you?
22:00I swatted his hand away.
22:01Do not.
22:02After a weighty silence,
22:03he released a cold puff.
22:05Fine.
22:07Suffer alone, then.
22:08I am finished inched
22:10extending care
22:11where it is not wanted.
22:12We did not speak
22:13for a long,
22:14stretched silence.
22:15In the deep hours of night,
22:16my lower belly
22:17continued to ache
22:18with dull persistence.
22:20I turned restlessly,
22:21unable to find sleep,
22:22curling my body
22:23into a tight,
22:24protective ball.
22:25I do not know
22:26how late it was
22:27when Dorian finally
22:28released a soft,
22:29defeated sigh.
22:30He drew me
22:30into the warm cage
22:31of his arms
22:32and gently pat my back.
22:33His voice was thick
22:34with sleep,
22:35roughened and low.
22:36Sweet one,
22:38it will stop hurting soon.
22:39It will stop soon.
22:43He laughed,
22:44low and warm.
22:46About to be bonded to me
22:47and your temperament
22:48grows sharper by the day.
22:49He lifted my left hand
22:51and slid a ceremonial ring
22:52onto my fourth finger.
22:53A moonstone
22:54the size of a pigeon's egg
22:55glittered there.
22:56An ancestral blackwood heirloom.
22:58He held me close.
23:00This is perfect.
23:03You are finally,
23:04truly about to become mine.
23:06I permitted him
23:07to hold me
23:08and murmured a quiet,
23:09non-committal,
23:10hmm.
23:11Two days until I departed
23:12pack territory forever.
23:14I splurged recklessly
23:15for the first time
23:16in my life
23:16at a neutral territory tavern.
23:18A handful of beta male
23:19entertainers.
23:20A private performance.
23:22One of them
23:22leaned close.
23:26What is a pretty Omega
23:28doing here alone?
23:29I swirled my glass.
23:31I wanted to taste it.
23:32What it feels like
23:34to select
23:35and toy with wolves.
23:37One glass
23:38of strong spirit sense
23:40that was coughing
23:40and choking
23:41just then.
23:42A discordant sound
23:43reached my ears.
23:44Celeste was sprawled
23:46at the bar nearby.
23:47Deeply intoxicated.
23:49Her words
23:49slurring.
23:50Once we humiliate her
23:52before the entire pack
23:53at the ceremony,
23:55expel her from the territory
23:56immediately.
23:59seeing her wedged
24:01constantly between
24:02the two of you
24:03is utterly magnifying.
24:04Daemon was silent
24:05for a waited moment.
24:07We will discuss this
24:09after the ceremony.
24:11Celeste's eyes narrowed.
24:12She turned to Dorian.
24:15Darian,
24:16what is your position?
24:17Dorian looked away,
24:18his jaw tight.
24:19She clings so desperately
24:21to me,
24:21I mean,
24:22to my brother.
24:23If we simply
24:24command her to leave,
24:24I fear she will not
24:25be able to withstand.
24:27Celeste's beautiful face
24:28twisted with displeasure.
24:30Are you two softening?
24:32Going weak?
24:35Now we finally
24:36possess the perfect chance.
24:38Of course,
24:38we must grind her
24:39into the dust
24:40beneath our paws.
24:41The pack suffocates
24:42chimed in swiftly.
24:44Who truly is Violet?
24:45A nameless Omega.
24:47Amuse yourselves
24:48with her until she is spent
24:50and then cast her aside.
24:51If she proves
24:52difficult to dislodge,
24:53Daemon,
24:54just reward her
24:55with one final night
24:56and grant her
24:57that single mercy coupling.
24:59I held my breath,
25:00suspended,
25:01waiting for their answer.
25:02Then I heard Daemon's voice,
25:04quiet and flat.
25:08Hmm.
25:09Understood.
25:10In that single syllable,
25:11my heart skipped
25:12half its rhythm,
25:13just as I expected
25:15from the start.
25:18The night of the full moon,
25:21the mating ceremony.
25:22Daemon wore a perfectly tailored
25:23black ceremonial coat,
25:25threaded with silver,
25:26the ancient
25:27Blackwood Alpha vestments.
25:28He was devastating,
25:30the picture of wolf nobility.
25:31Dorian,
25:32positioned as the bonding witness,
25:34wore a white ceremonial coat.
25:35Celeste wore a custom-crafted gown
25:37that resembled
25:38an Alpha Queen's coronation dress.
25:40It far outshone
25:41my hand-stitched
25:42mating ceremony gown,
25:43like a princess wolf
25:44born to rule.
25:45In her hand,
25:46she held a recording crystal,
25:48ready to capture
25:49my breakdown and despair.
25:50She wanted the entire pack
25:52to witness the farts.
25:53The moment I realized
25:54I had been manipulated
25:55for an entire year,
25:56Celeste had even commanded
25:58that the ceremony
25:58be broadcast across
26:00the pack's territory network.
26:01She spoke to the broadcast
26:03with a ploying,
26:04honeyed smile.
26:05No, no,
26:05I am not the Omega Bride.
26:07I am simply the Al-Brother's
26:08dearest childhood companion.
26:09These two have doted upon me
26:10since I was a mere pup.
26:11Of course I had to serve
26:12as their bonding witness.
26:13Truly,
26:13I am not as beautiful
26:14as you all insist.
26:15If you direct such compliments
26:16at me,
26:16the Omega Bride
26:17will grow distressed.
26:17She is actually
26:18rather petty and small-minded.
26:22But tonight,
26:23I shall present
26:24the Omega Bride
26:25with a very
26:27special ceremonial gift.
26:29But as the full moon
26:30climbed to its zenith,
26:31the Omega Bride
26:32still had not appeared.
26:33Damon's alpha composure
26:34shifted.
26:35He attempted to contact me
26:36through the pack bond.
26:37The link was severed,
26:38locked from my end.
26:39He sent a direct message.
26:40Violet,
26:41this is our mating ceremony.
26:42The full moon
26:43is at its peak.
26:44Do not choose this night
26:45to indulge your temper.
26:46Just then,
26:47a collective gasp
26:48swept through
26:49the assembled pack nobility.
26:50On the great ceremonial projection,
26:52a recording began to play.
26:54Dorian's alpha voice
26:55emerged first.
26:56Damon,
26:56I have been impersonating you,
26:58playing with your little Omega
26:59all this time.
27:00She will not flee
27:01when she discovers the truth,
27:02will she?
27:03What is there to fear?
27:04A rare Omega like her.
27:05She has nowhere else to go.
27:07She cannot bear to leave.
27:08Besides,
27:09it is not the first time
27:10we have traded places.
27:11Just do not get her marked
27:12or pregnant.
27:13I don't want the mess of pups
27:14I did not instar.
27:15Of course it is a sham.
27:17The little Omega
27:18begged for the honor
27:19of a formal bond,
27:20so I am humoring her.
27:23Wait until the mating ceremony,
27:25seven days from now,
27:26under the full moon,
27:27then reveal to her
27:28that you've been swapping
27:29back and forth all year.
27:30I want to watch
27:31her wolf spirit shatter,
27:33throwing her
27:34into the abyss
27:35right at the moment
27:37she believes
27:38she is about
27:38to
27:40receive the claiming bite.
27:42Isn't that exquisite?
27:44The mating ceremony
27:45descended into chaos.
27:47Pack nobles on their feet.
27:48Howls of shock and outrage
27:50filling the hall.
27:52At the recording's conclusion,
27:53blazing text
27:54filled the ceremonial projection.
27:58Game concluded.
28:02Satisfied with your victory?
28:04Oh, one final note, Dorian.
28:06I have been far too embarrassed
28:08to mention this previously,
28:09but you are truly terrible
28:11in the bedchamber.
28:12I have not enjoyed myself
28:13one
28:14single
28:15time
28:16throughout this entire year.
28:19Not even half
28:20as satisfying
28:21as the eight beta
28:22entrance moments
28:22I've hired at the tavern.
28:24Farewell forever.
28:26I genuinely do not have time
28:28for your childish games
28:29any longer.
28:30The ceremony erupted
28:31into a hell of a palace.
28:33By the moon goddess,
28:35this vile pack schemer
28:37intended to destroy
28:38this omega
28:39and got completely
28:40outmaneuvered.
28:42So where is the omega bride?
28:45Has she fled pack territory?
28:48I am dying
28:50of savage laughter.
28:52These retchels
28:53schemed to publicly
28:54eviscerate their omega
28:55and now taste
28:56public humiliation themselves.
28:58Celeste's face
28:59drained
28:59to a deathly pallor.
29:01She covered her face
29:02with both hands
29:03and shrieked.
29:04Deactivate it!
29:05Sever the broadcast link!
29:07At that exact same moment
29:08I had far beyond
29:10pack territory.
29:11I threw my arms
29:12wide open
29:12to the friend
29:13waiting at the arrival gate
29:14and shouted
29:15with pure joy
29:16Zoe!
29:18I am finally free!
29:19I moved into
29:20Zoe's son
29:21the department
29:22in the human territories
29:23of France.
29:24Zoe was laughing
29:26so violently
29:26she was slapping
29:27her own thigh.
29:28They constructed
29:29an elaborate performance
29:30to deceive you
29:31and you had been
29:32performing the entire
29:33time as well.
29:34When did your clever
29:35little wolf mind
29:36grow so sharp?
29:37Have you heard?
29:38The Blackwood Pack
29:39is in complete
29:40unbriiled chaos.
29:41Those two alpha brothers
29:42have been going
29:43utterly feral
29:44trying to track you.
29:45I bit into a crisp apple.
29:47That did not surprise me
29:49in the slightest.
29:50After all,
29:51I publicly humiliated them
29:52before making my escape.
29:55Zoe's eyes lit up.
29:56The penchamber comment.
29:57I chewed slowly.
30:01Honestly?
30:02Objectively speaking,
30:04he was truly exceptional.
30:07Every encounter
30:07left me completely wrecked.
30:13Zoe gasped.
30:17Feel it.
30:19But if I was going
30:20to walk away forever,
30:22I had to strike
30:23with surgical,
30:24merciless precision.
30:26I set down the apple.
30:31I set down the apple.
30:32How is my appointment
30:34with the healer progressing?
30:35Zoe pulled up her records.
30:38Do not fret.
30:41Excellent.
30:42Let us proceed
30:44as soon as possible.
30:45Zoe accompanied me
30:46to the healer's facility
30:47for all the necessary
30:48preliminary tests.
30:50I was pursuing
30:50a gentle medical termination,
30:52the kind that would not
30:53damage my Omega physiology
30:55beyond repair.
30:56A week before
30:57the procedure,
30:58Zoe purchased
30:58an enormous care package
31:00of snacks
31:00to soothe my nerves.
31:02Hugging the snack crate,
31:03tears prickled
31:04at my eyes.
31:06Life truly transforms
31:08depending on whose company
31:09you keep.
31:10The day of the procedure
31:11arrived.
31:12I lay upon
31:13the sterile healer's bed.
31:14I felt my body
31:16gradually slipping
31:17beyond my control,
31:18my consciousness
31:19fraying at the edges.
31:23Just then,
31:24someone entered the chamber.
31:26Was it the healer?
31:26The footsteps drew closer.
31:28I forced my eyes open
31:29with monumental effort.
31:30What I saw
31:31sent an icy,
31:32primal chill
31:33crawling up my spine.
31:35Then came sheer,
31:36undiluted
31:37Omega terror.
31:38The figures who
31:39strode into the chamber
31:40were not the healer.
31:41Damon and Dorian.
31:42And an entire
31:43phalanx of
31:44Blackwood Pack enforcers
31:45in dark combat leathers.
31:47The final,
31:47desperate thought
31:48flickered through
31:49my fading mind.
31:50It is finished.
31:51They have caught me.
31:52I wanted to move.
31:53I wanted to run.
31:54But the full-body sedative
31:56had rendered me
31:56completely paralyzed.
31:58As if a rabbit
31:59pinned beneath
32:00the wolf's paw.
32:01In the last heartbeat
32:02before my consciousness
32:03dissolved into darkness,
32:04Daemon bent down
32:05and lifted me
32:06with infinite,
32:07terrible gentleness.
32:08Dorian stood rigid
32:09behind him.
32:10His fists clenched
32:11so tightly
32:12that blood seeped
32:14between his fingers
32:15where claws
32:16had pierced flesh.
32:18I awakened
32:20in a grand villa
32:21I had never seen before.
32:22Somewhere deep
32:23within Blackwood territory,
32:25its location
32:26unknown to me.
32:28Daemon sat motionless
32:29at my bedside,
32:30a sentinel carved
32:31from shadow,
32:32draped around his neck,
32:33clashing violently
32:34with his alpha ceremonial attire
32:36was the navy blue scarf
32:38I had hand-knitted
32:39for him in my academy years,
32:41still carrying faint traces
32:42of my omega scent,
32:44woven into the wool.
32:45Seeing my eyes open,
32:46his voice emerged
32:47rough and frayed.
32:48You are awake.
32:50Are you hungry?
32:51I stared at him.
32:56How are you here?
32:58He stroked my hair
32:59with devastating softness.
33:06If an alpha wishes
33:07to locate his mate,
33:08there is always a way.
33:09I shrank back
33:10against the pillows.
33:12Locate me for what purpose?
33:14To extract your revenge
33:16through torment?
33:17He paused,
33:18his brow creasing.
33:20Why would you imagine
33:20such a thing?
33:23Have I ever,
33:24in all our years,
33:25raised a hand against you?
33:27Then release me.
33:32Do not even dream of it.
33:34He pulled me into the iron cage
33:36of his arms.
33:43From this moment forward,
33:45I am never permitting you
33:47to leave my sight again.
33:51From that day,
33:52Daemon held me confined
33:54within this remote villa.
33:55I commenced a hunger strike,
33:57refused sustenance
33:59of any kind.
33:59When word reached him,
34:00he came with a bowl
34:02of warm broth.
34:03His alpha pride
34:05was visibly in tatters.
34:07I know I have committed
34:08unforgivable wrongs
34:09against you,
34:10but you cannot destroy
34:11your own body
34:11in retaliation.
34:13I repeated only
34:13the same words
34:14over and over.
34:17I want to leave
34:18this place.
34:19Leave?
34:21And go where?
34:27Anywhere that
34:28neither of you exists.
34:30Why?
34:31I can provide you
34:32with everything
34:33you could ever desire.
34:37Or is it
34:38that you have truly
34:39fallen in love
34:40with Dorian?
34:41I fixed him
34:42with a gaze
34:42of pure
34:43arctic coldness.
34:45Is there a meaningful
34:45distinction between you?
34:47You are both
34:47irredeemable garbage
34:48wearing the skin
34:49of wolves.
34:50Do not force me
34:51to choose between
34:52shit-flavored chocolate
34:53and chocolate-flavored shit,
34:54Daemon.
34:54I refuse.
34:55My words struck him
34:57like physical blows.
34:59He was silent
35:01for a long,
35:02hollow stretch.
35:04Violet,
35:05the truth is
35:05I genuinely wished
35:06to bond with you
35:07properly before
35:08the moon goddess
35:08and the entire pack.
35:09That day I had
35:10already delivered
35:10a final warning
35:11to Dorian.
35:12I commanded him,
35:13do not heed
35:14Siletta's instructions.
35:16Allow you to walk
35:17the ceremonial path
35:18of peace.
35:23After the bonding
35:24was sealed,
35:25I would never
35:25allow him near you
35:26again.
35:27I released a cold,
35:29brittle black.
35:29You were remarkably
35:31generous when you
35:32dispatched me
35:33to your brother's bed.
35:34His face
35:34and ashen.
35:35I never authorized
35:37that.
35:37That boundary
35:38was our explicit
35:39pack law between us.
35:40I did not know
35:41he would violate
35:41that trust.
35:43Do not fear.
35:45I will arrange
35:46the most skilled
35:47healers for you
35:48immediately.
35:49I will ensure
35:50you pass through
35:51the termination
35:52of this pregnancy
35:53without any
35:54suffering whatsoever.
35:55I have already
35:56dismantled
35:57the Harrington pack.
35:58her family's power
36:00is utterly broken.
36:02I will use
36:02everything I possess
36:03to make amends
36:04to you.
36:05Whatever you desire,
36:07I will grant
36:08it to you.
36:10I suddenly
36:11raised my hand
36:12and delivered
36:13a stinging slap
36:14across his face.
36:16Dream on, Alpha.
36:19Damon's face
36:20turned slightly
36:21from the force
36:21of my blood.
36:23He wiped
36:23the thin trickle
36:24of crimson
36:24from the corner
36:25of his mouth.
36:26Did that ease
36:27your pain at all?
36:28If not,
36:29continue striking
36:30until it does.
36:32My voice
36:32was carved
36:33from ice.
36:34I'd,
36:35Sir Nuss,
36:36remove yourself
36:37from my sight.
36:38He slowly
36:38rose to his feet.
36:42I will return
36:43tomorrow.
36:44That night,
36:45I curled
36:46beneath the blanket.
36:47I dreamed
36:48of my old
36:48academy den bed,
36:50weeping silently.
36:51When I woke,
36:53I sat up
36:54in the dark.
36:56Dorian was not
36:57here,
36:58only an empty
36:59room.
37:00I have never
37:01confessed this
37:01to anyone.
37:03I pressed my palm
37:04to my forehead.
37:06The truth is,
37:08the day Damon
37:09dissolved our
37:09relationship at the
37:10academy,
37:11I wept in secret,
37:13muffled against
37:14my pillow.
37:16But I had long
37:17since mastered
37:18the art of
37:18concealing my wounds.
37:20Did I ever love
37:21Damon I believe
37:22I truly do?
37:23My heart
37:23was torn to shreds.
37:25The night he
37:26ended everything,
37:27I spent the entire
37:28night blaming myself,
37:30telling myself I
37:31should never have
37:31asked him for that
37:32birthday gift.
37:33I let out
37:34a broken breath,
37:35even though I knew
37:36he had never
37:37harbored any
37:37genuine affection
37:38before me at all.
37:42The next day,
37:43I opened my eyes.
37:45The wolf
37:46standing before me
37:47was Dorian.
37:49Dorian had stolen
37:50me out from under
37:50Damon's alpha guard.
37:52His body bore
37:53the evidence of
37:54combat,
37:55lacerations and
37:56bruises.
37:57A mottled ring
37:58of purple-black
37:59bruising encircled
38:01his throat where
38:02his brother had
38:02choked him.
38:03His alpha eyes
38:04were threaded
38:05with crimson veins.
38:06He had not slept
38:07genuinely in a
38:08very long time.
38:09He said to me,
38:11the words ragged,
38:12I am sorry.
38:14I felt nothing
38:15but numbness.
38:16These recent days,
38:17I had heard
38:18I am sorry
38:19far too many times.
38:21He regarded me
38:22with raw,
38:23agonized concern.
38:26He did not
38:28harm you,
38:29did he?
38:29I met his eyes.
38:31You of all wolves
38:32asking me that question,
38:33do you not find it
38:34exquisitely ironic?
38:35He pressed his lips
38:36into a bloodless line.
38:38He clenched his fists
38:39until his knuckles
38:40whitened.
38:41Violet,
38:42you understood
38:43from the beginning
38:43that it was all
38:44a performance.
38:46So this entire year,
38:47every kiss,
38:48every embrace,
38:49every tangled night,
38:51every I cherish you
38:52was all of it
38:52nothing but an act.
38:55I released a long,
38:57shuddering exhale.
38:58Dorian,
38:59I am not a trained actor.
39:00One cannot
39:00convincingly perform
39:01falling in love.
39:02The night you first
39:03kissed me willingly,
39:04I was so incandescently happy
39:06I remained awake
39:07until dawn.
39:08I believed my alpha
39:09had finally,
39:10truly opened
39:10his heart to me.
39:12I told myself,
39:13I am going to repay
39:14this happiness
39:15twice over.
39:16I truly did imagine
39:17carrying your pups,
39:19building a genuine,
39:20lasting life
39:21at your side.
39:22His pupils trembled
39:23violently.
39:24Every drop of color
39:25drained from his face.
39:27I continued,
39:28my voice calm
39:29and steady.
39:30When you gifted me
39:31a sky blazing
39:32with enchanted fireworks
39:33on my birthday,
39:39when you woke me
39:40from the clutches
39:41of my nightmares,
39:41I was so exquisitely happy
39:43I thought my wolf heart
39:44might burst.
39:45When you declared
39:46you wished to give me
39:47a grand mating ceremony,
39:49before I overheard
39:50those words in the pack hall
39:51that day,
39:51I believed every single syllable.
39:55I had even begun
39:56to leaf through
39:56ancient naming records,
39:58secretly daydreaming
39:59about what we would
40:00name our litter.
40:01That day,
40:01I hurled myself
40:02into the tarotial storm
40:03and ran the entire distance
40:05to find you,
40:06just to tell you
40:07I was carrying your pup
40:08inside me.
40:09But I am not
40:10truly pathetic,
40:11Dorian.
40:11No one hears
40:12that the person
40:13they love
40:13has been trading
40:14them back and forth
40:14like a shared possession
40:15and simply swallows
40:17that poison.
40:17I can tell you now
40:18with absolute clarity
40:19I despise you.
40:21I despise both of you
40:22with every fiber
40:23of my omega being.
40:24His alpha eyes
40:25glistened wet.
40:27He reached out a hand
40:28to touch me,
40:29then yanked it back
40:30as though seared
40:31by silver.
40:34Please,
40:35do not pronounce
40:36my death sentence
40:37so absolutely.
40:39At least tell me
40:41what I can possibly do
40:44to make you hate me
40:45even the smallest
40:46fraction less.
40:47Outside the window,
40:49the winter wind
40:49swept dead leaves
40:51against the frosted glass.
40:53I gazed into the
40:55shattered light
40:56fracturing in his
40:57alpha eyes.
40:58Release me.
41:00He clenched his hands
41:01until they trembled.
41:03After what felt like
41:04the span of an entire age,
41:06he forced broken syllables
41:08from his throat.
41:09Very well.
41:11I will release you.
41:16Zoe rushed to the
41:17transportation hub.
41:19She discovered me
41:20sitting on a bench,
41:21staring into empty space.
41:23She threw herself at me,
41:25checking every inch
41:26of my body for injury.
41:28She wrapped me
41:29in a desperate embrace
41:30and wept.
41:34They did not harm you,
41:36did you?
41:37Tell me they did not harm you!
41:39I patted her head
41:40soothingly.
41:40Do not fret.
41:42They did not.
41:43I was certain
41:44those two feral
41:45alpha lunatics
41:46would never release you.
41:48They simply
41:49permitted you to leave?
41:52Yes.
41:53I considered for a moment.
41:57Perhaps they wished
41:59to accumulate
41:59some worthwhile karma
42:00with the moon goddess.
42:03The day Dorian released me,
42:04he stood before me
42:06and spoke.
42:07In the beginning,
42:07it was about following
42:08Celeste's instructions.
42:10He looked down
42:11at his hands.
42:14But you were too gentle,
42:16too achingly sweet.
42:19You wept without
42:21making a single sound.
42:23His voice went hoarse.
42:25Like an abandoned kitten.
42:27I said nothing.
42:29Before I even realized
42:31what was happening to me,
42:33I had begun to fall for you.
42:37Genuinely.
42:39Irreversibly.
42:41He pressed his knuckles
42:42to his mouth.
42:44At first,
42:46it was sweet.
42:47This secret blooming
42:48inside my chest.
42:50But slowly,
42:51it transformed
42:52into a gnawing terror.
42:55Terror of you
42:56discovering the truth.
42:58I sank deeper
43:00into the web of lies
43:00I had spun,
43:01pouring everything
43:02into being good to you.
43:05Desperately hoping
43:06if the love was real enough
43:08the origin story
43:08would cease to matter.
43:09He met my eyes
43:10for the first time.
43:11I wanted to construct
43:12a genuine life with you.
43:14He looked away again.
43:16But I was tormented
43:17by a question
43:18I could never voice.
43:20Was the wolf
43:21you believed you loved
43:25actually Damon?
43:27His voice broke entirely.
43:29Or was it me?
43:30I stared at him.
43:32I had no answer.
43:33I even contemplated
43:34the unthinkable.
43:35Getting you pregnant
43:36with my pup.
43:38Using the unborn child
43:39as my final
43:40desperate trump card.
43:42That was my sole
43:43remaining card to play.
43:44The path stretching
43:45ahead of you
43:46should be broad
43:47and luminous
43:48leading somewhere
43:49filled with light.
43:51And on that path
43:53there should exist
43:54no trace of me.
43:55After that day
43:57I never encountered
43:58either Blackwood Alpha
43:59brother again.
44:00Zoe and I lived together
44:01in the human world
44:02laughing and
44:03carrying on each day.
44:05Occasionally
44:06fragmented news
44:07drifted across
44:08the territory borders.
44:09The Harrington pack
44:11was systematically
44:11dismantled.
44:13All of Celeste's
44:14vile deeds
44:15were exposed
44:16to the pack.
44:19The Blackwood pack
44:20had known no peace.
44:22The two Alpha brothers
44:23warred without cease.
44:24And the pack's
44:26governance
44:26rotted from within.
44:29I heard whispers
44:30that Damon
44:30still had not
44:31abandoned his obsession
44:32with locating me.
44:34But someone tampered
44:35with Damon's vehicle.
44:37Damon was caught
44:38in the resulting devastation.
44:39His spine was shattered.
44:41He would never
44:41walk again.
44:43Another three winters
44:44passed.
44:45I encountered Dorian.
44:47I was strolling
44:48through a sun-drenched
44:49park
44:50holding the hand
44:51of a little girl
44:52who had just celebrated
44:53her third birthday.
44:54He saw the child
44:55in her flowing dress
44:56beside me.
44:57His Alpha eyes
44:59ignited with
45:00desperate hope.
45:04Violet,
45:05is she...
45:06I understood precisely
45:07what he was struggling
45:08to ask.
45:11She is not yours.
45:13I took a human husband.
45:15He was silent
45:16for a long,
45:17aching span.
45:19Right.
45:19That is...
45:21That is good.
45:22That is for the best.
45:24He turned
45:24and walked away.
45:26Utterly defeated.
45:27His Alpha shoulders
45:29bowed.
45:30I released a breath
45:31I had been holding
45:32for years.
45:34My daughter
45:35tugged my hand.
45:36Mother?
45:38Who was that man?
45:40I looked down
45:41at her.
45:42Dorian's eyes
45:43looking back at me.
45:46I said in a voice
45:48only I could hear,
45:49The truth is,
45:51I never remarried.
45:53That day,
45:54standing beside Zoe
45:55in the healer's facility,
45:57after all the agonizing
45:58back and forth,
45:59in the end,
46:00I could not go through
46:01with the termination.
46:03A few more years
46:04slipped past.
46:05My daughter
46:06grew more breathtakingly lovely
46:08with each passing season
46:09and more and more
46:10with every passing moon
46:12she resembled Dorian.
46:13Dorian was not a fool.
46:15Of course,
46:15he eventually divined
46:16that the child
46:17was his own blood.
46:18All these years,
46:20he had been silently
46:21transferring resources
46:22to my accounts
46:23from an anonymous source,
46:24never revealing himself.
46:26But he never dared
46:27to seek me out directly,
46:29never dared to approach.
46:30Seven in the morning,
46:32I was curled
46:33luxuriously in my bed,
46:35yawning against the sunlight.
46:36My daughter,
46:37her school satchel
46:38already on her back,
46:40patted me
46:40with patient exasperation.
46:45Mom,
46:45I am departing
46:46for my lessons.
46:48I kissed her soft cheek.
46:51Sweet pup,
46:52do not forget
46:53to bring back
46:54two honey-glosed-glazed pastries
46:57on your way home.
46:58Extra honey.
47:00My daughter laughed,
47:01the sound bright as bells.
47:03I know,
47:04I know,
47:05greedy mother.
47:07I know I'm out of hand.
47:07I know.
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