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Sorry, Alpha. I Don't Love You Anymore : New 🔝
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00:00Every year, when the first snow fell, Kane would lose his memory and go back to the time when he
00:06hated me most.
00:09He would smash my medicine cabinets, burn my formulas, and lock me in the underground kellen until I passed out
00:14on my knees,
00:16surrounded by cold air and the bitter scent of silver powder.
00:19All for Leah, the woman, he protected like something sacred.
00:24But every time, Inner Wolf shivered in the snow until it nearly broke.
00:27At Kane would remember again, and pull me into his arms.
00:31Aelin, I'm sorry. I forgot who you were again.
00:35I believed him for five years.
00:37Because five years ago, during the Winter Full Moon Hunt, At Kane was poisoned by Wolf Boss and nearly lost
00:43his inner wolf.
00:44None of the healers in Moonstone Pack could save him.
00:46I was the one who went to the northern border and made a deal with Maeve.
00:49This is a deal.
00:54The price was simple.
00:56For five years, I would use my own blood to brew Kane's medicine.
01:01Every dose would weaken my inner wolf.
01:04And every dose would make it harder for me to leave him.
01:07When the five years were over, if Kane truly chose me and married me, the deal would end.
01:13If he still refused me, Maeve would take every bit of love and every memory I had of him.
01:20I always thought that if I could just make it to the fifth year, he would finally get better.
01:24Until tonight.
01:30Kane, how much longer are you going to keep this act up?
01:33Memory loss?
01:34Please.
01:35Only that stupid she-wolf Eilina would believe it.
01:39Every year, she kneels in the snow and begs us to help you remember.
01:43Like you are actually going to make her your Luna.
01:46The first snow is next week, right?
01:49Are you going to pretend you don't know her again?
01:51How many years has it been now?
01:53Kane's voice cut through the crack in the door.
01:55Colder than the snow outside.
01:58Five.
01:58But that is far from enough.
02:08He sat at the head of the table.
02:11During the winter full moon hunt five years ago, Leah lost her sense of smell after drinking
02:16the medicine Eilina gave her.
02:18Eiline turned her into a broken she-wolf.
02:22She should spend the rest of her life paying for that.
02:27Everything Leah suffered, I will make Eiline pay back a hundred times over.
02:35The room broke into laughter.
02:37But her hand was badly frostbitten the last time you locked her in the cellar.
02:41If you do it again, she may not even be able to sort herbs anymore.
02:47Kane, let it go.
02:48It doesn't matter whether I ever get my sense of smell back.
02:51As long as I can stay by your side.
02:54That is enough.
02:57Since when do you get to tell me what to do?
03:00Sharps scattered across the floor.
03:01Standing outside the door, I suddenly felt ridiculous.
03:06So there had never been any memory loss.
03:09No lingering damage from Orphi.
03:12The cellar, the snow, the apologies, the embraces.
03:16All of it had been a punishment.
03:17He staged with his own two hands.
03:20In my heart, I called Maeva's name.
03:23Black mist rose from my palm.
03:25Maeve's lazy voice sounded beside my ear.
03:29Little healer, there are still five days left.
03:31Calling me now?
03:33Finally having regrets?
03:34I looked through the crack in the door at Kane's cold profile.
03:39In five days, the deal ends.
03:41Take away every ounce of love I have for Kane.
03:44Maeve fell silent for a moment.
03:46Are you sure?
03:47Back then, you traded ten years of your life just to keep these five years.
03:52Inside the hall, at Kane gave a cold laugh.
03:55Her.
03:56Worthy of being my Luna.
03:59I'm sure.
04:06Just then, my message stone flared wildly.
04:13Eileen, Noah's inner wolf is collapsing again.
04:16Come now!
04:17The last bit of warmth drained from my body.
04:22Noah was my only younger brother.
04:24After our parents died in the border war, I was the one who raised that pup in Moonstone Pack.
04:29He had been born with a weak inner wolf.
04:31Every winter, his lips would turn blue and his fingers would go cold as snow.
04:35When I reached the infirmary, Noah was already lying on a stone bed.
04:40The inner wolf beside him flickered in out, like a flame about to die.
04:48We are still missing a heart of white wolf's bait.
04:51White wolf bone grew in the northern herb fields of Moonstone Pack.
04:54Ordinary wolf bait was poison to werewolves.
04:56But the heart of white wolf bait could steady a failing inner wolf.
05:00The herb was precious and dangerous.
05:02No one could harvest it without the alpha's permission.
05:04Which meant I had to beg Kane.
05:07How long does he have?
05:09The healer looked at Noah, then, and at the faint little wolf shadow beside him.
05:13If the medicine arrives before dusk tomorrow, he still has a chance.
05:16If it comes late...
05:22Sister...
05:22Is it snowing again?
05:27No.
05:29Not yet.
05:30You just have to sleep.
05:32I will bring the medicine back.
05:34Noah tried to smile.
05:36But even that seemed to hurt.
05:38Don't fight with Alpha Cain for me.
05:41The words almost broke me.
05:46I swear, I'll save you.
05:48Then I rushed out of the infirmary with a list in hand and nearly ran straight into At Cain.
05:54Alan.
05:55Don't be afraid.
05:57I'm here.
06:02The familiar scent of cedar washed over me.
06:06Once, I had craved that scent more than anything.
06:09Every time, he remembered, he would hold me like this and make me think I had finally waited long enough
06:15for love.
06:15Now it only made me sick.
06:21Sign it.
06:25Leah came out from behind him.
06:29Aelin, is something wrong with Noah again?
06:31She glanced at the list.
06:33White?
06:34Wolf bud heart?
06:36That must be expensive.
06:37Haven't you been in charge of the medicine room all these years?
06:40How can you not even afford the herb that might save your brother?
06:48Several pack members looked at me differently at once.
06:51Did she steal the herbs?
06:54No wonder Leah always said she was rotten inside.
06:57She hurt Leah and still dares to run the medicine room.
07:00Disgusting.
07:01I looked at Cain.
07:03He knew better than anyone that I had never taken a single herb for myself.
07:07Leah didn't mean it.
07:09Aelin, don't embarrass her in public.
07:12I almost laughed.
07:14Leah, you'd better shut your mouth, or I swear I'll slap that face of yours raw.
07:21Apologize to Leah.
07:26What if I say no?
07:28Then I won't sign off on the application.
07:31I could barely believe what I had just heard.
07:34My brother was in critical condition, and at Cain still wanted me to apologize to at Leah before he would
07:39sign.
07:40How absurd.
07:42Cain, don't be angry.
07:44I still have some calming medicine.
07:46It cannot cure a collapsing inner wolf, but it might make Noah suffer a little less.
07:51The next second, the bowl tilted, scalding liquid poured straight over the back of my right hand.
07:56I suck in a sharp breath and flung her away on instinct.
08:00Leah screamed and fell to the floor.
08:03Eileen, I was only trying to help.
08:06Why did you push me?
08:08The air around at Cain dropped to ice.
08:12I lifted my blistering hand to explain.
08:15Your brother is dying.
08:17I understand that you are desperate.
08:20But Leah owes you nothing.
08:22Owes me nothing?
08:23One sentence from her had ruined five years of my life.
08:26One tear from her could make him force me to kneel in the snow.
08:30Apologize to Atlea.
08:31For one second, I wanted to tear her pale mask from her face and make every wolf see the poison
08:37underneath.
08:40But At-Noah was lying in the infirmary, and his inner wolf could not wait for my pride.
08:46At-Lea enforced the words out, one by one.
08:50Sorry.
08:52At last, Cain stamped the order, signed it, and threw it to his beta.
08:57This is the last time.
08:59I took the order and lowered my voice.
09:02There would never be another time.
09:06White wolf-boad heart had to be brewed within three hours of being picked.
09:10The healer said that as long as it arrived before dusk, Noah still had a chance.
09:14I waited outside the infirmary from afternoon until dark.
09:17Every set of footsteps made me think the wolves from the herb field had finally arrived.
09:20But At-Noah's inner wolf had turned almost transparent,
09:23and still the guards from the northern herb field had not come.
09:27Noah, hold on a little longer.
09:30I sent message after message to Cain as if I had gone mad.
09:33The first went unanswered.
09:35The tenth went unanswered.
09:37On the ninety-ninth try, the stone finally lit up.
09:40But it was the pack Vita who answered.
09:44Aelin, the alpha cannot come right now.
09:47I nearly broke apart.
09:48Where is the heart of white wolf, Pate?
09:50The order is signed.
09:51Why has it not been sent?
09:52The beta was silent for a moment.
09:54Leah is on the top terrace of the council hall.
09:55She says the pack has been calling her a broken she-wolf,
09:57and she does not want to live.
09:58The alpha is trying to talk her down.
10:00My mind buzzed.
10:01Noah was waiting for the medicine.
10:03Leah had trapped every wolf with a few tears.
10:11Aelin,
10:12if the medicine is not here soon,
10:15if the medicine is not here soon,
10:15his inner wolf will fade before nightfall.
10:19I ran out of the infirmary and pushed through the snow toward the council hall.
10:26The top terrace was crowded with wolves from the pack.
10:30Leah was half over the railing,
10:32sobbing like her heart had been ripped out.
10:36The beta stood nearby with the box containing the heart of white wolf, Pate.
10:39The moment I saw the box,
10:40I lunged for it.
10:41Give it to me!
10:42But the second my fingers touched it,
10:44two guards slammed me down into the snow.
10:47Aileen,
10:48have you not caused enough chaos?
10:50Noah is dying!
10:52Give me the medicine!
10:53Please!
10:57Kane, I really cannot take this anymore.
10:59Every wolf says I am pretending,
11:00but I truly cannot smell anything.
11:02I can barely remember what my own wolf smells like.
11:07Aileen,
11:08admit in front of every wolf
11:09that you gave Leah the wrong medicine
11:11and ruined her sense of smell.
11:12I stared at him in disbelief.
11:14You know it was not me.
11:15I only know Leah is about to jump.
11:18Would it kill you to just admit you're wrong?
11:20From the direction of the infirmary
11:22came the sharp, frantic toll of a bell.
11:24The warning bell for a dying inner wolf.
11:27My whole body went cold.
11:29The bell rang again.
11:31Each sound like it was tearing Noah away from me.
11:34Say it.
11:36If Leah does not come down,
11:37you are not getting that medicine.
11:42Five years ago,
11:43during the winter full moon hunt,
11:44everything had fallen into chaos.
11:46Leah suddenly collapsed from poison.
11:48I gave her the calming medicine
11:49I always carried with me.
11:50There had been nothing wrong with that medicine,
11:52but when Leah woke up,
11:53she said I had given her the wrong dose
11:54and destroyed her sense of smell.
11:59From that day on,
12:01I became the sinner of Moonstone Pack.
12:04Someone pointed a message stone at me.
12:06The entire pack could see.
12:10Kneeling in the snow,
12:11I said word by word,
12:13it was me.
12:16I gave Leah the wrong medicine
12:17and destroyed her sense of smell.
12:20I am the sinner of Moonstone Pack.
12:23A flash of triumph crossed at Leah's eyes.
12:26She put on her little act for a long time
12:28before At Kane finally carried her down from the terrace.
12:32I snatched the medicine box
12:33and stumbled back toward the infirmary.
12:35The snow was too heavy.
12:37I fell several times.
12:39My knees split open.
12:41My palms were bloody.
12:43Still,
12:43I did not dare loosen my grip on the box.
12:46When I rushed into the infirmary,
12:47the healer was already standing at the door.
12:49The medicine is here!
12:50Save him!
12:53Too late.
12:54Noah lay still on the stone bed.
12:56The inner wolf beside him had gone completely dark.
12:59The healer's voice broke.
13:01Ten minutes.
13:02That was all.
13:09Ten minutes.
13:11The ten minutes Leah had wasted.
13:14The ten minutes Cain had spent
13:16forcing me to confess.
13:19My brother was dead.
13:28My message stone lit up again.
13:30Cain's voice came through.
13:32Leah has calmed down.
13:34About Noah.
13:34I will compensate you.
13:36Compensate me?
13:38With what?
13:38Could he give At-Noah back the ten minutes he lost?
13:43Could he pull my brother's inner wolf out of the dark
13:45and put it back into his body?
13:47Aileen,
13:48you should sit down.
13:50I could not sit.
13:51If I sat down,
13:51I was afraid I would never stand again.
13:53Tomorrow night is the full moon.
13:54Come to Moonlight Square.
13:55I have something important to say to you.
13:57I have something important to say to you.
13:57Only then did I remember.
13:58Tomorrow night would be the fifth time he recovered his memory and prepared to propose to me.
14:02In every past year, I had waited for that night like a starving wolf waiting for spring.
14:06I had imagined him kneeling under the full moon, placing the lunar ring on my finger,
14:09and telling every wolf that I was not a sinner.
14:12Now At-Noah's body lay cold in front of me.
14:14Kane, At-Noah is dead.
14:15For a long moment, there was only silence.
14:19I know.
14:20I said I will compensate you.
14:21Don't make this harder than it has to be.
14:23I looked at Noah's face and answered softly.
14:25Fine.
14:27Between us, there would never be another chance.
14:29I would make Kane pay for every stolen minute, every lie, and every breath Noah never got to take.
14:37I buried Noah in the cedar woods at the edge of Moonstone Pack.
14:41Our parents were buried there too.
14:44Snow quickly covered the freshly turned earth.
14:46I knelt in front of the grave and wiped the headstone clean with frozen fingers.
14:50Noah, I'm sorry.
14:51I failed to save you.
14:53I spun around.
14:55Maeve stood beneath the trees, her black cloak brushing the snow.
14:58His inner wolf has not fully faded yet.
15:01A pup who dies from wolf spirit collapse leaves behind a brief remnant.
15:04Other wolves cannot see it.
15:05I can.
15:07I nearly lunged toward her.
15:08Can you save him?
15:09I can hold that last remnant in place for now.
15:11But that is not the same as bringing him back.
15:13For that, you need a better apothetary workshop.
15:16Rarer herbs.
15:17And power greater than the alpha of Moonstone Pack.
15:21Ely, the alpha king of the northern werewolf kingdom, is looking for a healer.
15:24He has suffered from silver poisoning for seven years.
15:27And the royal healers can no longer control his inner wolf.
15:29If you can save him, you can earn a place in the royal apothetary workshop.
15:33The northern werewolf kingdom was made up of many packs.
15:35Moonstone Pack was only one pack under the kingdom's rule.
15:38Kane could rule Moonstone Pack with one word.
15:40But in front of the alpha king, he was just one alpha among many.
15:43I'll go.
15:44Go, little healer.
15:45Let that foolish alpha see what he has truly lost.
15:52The next day, I did not go to Moonlight Square.
15:54I stayed in the cedar fields and kept watch beside Noah's grave.
15:57Kane's beta came with guards, looking uneasy.
15:59Elyne, the alpha has been waiting for you.
16:01The whole pack is gathered at Moonlight Square tonight.
16:03You cannot be absent.
16:04Tell him Noah is buried today.
16:06If he still has a heart, he should know why I am not going.
16:09The beta's eyes flickered with guilt.
16:10But the guards still stepped forward and forced me up.
16:12Moonlight Square was covered in white roses.
16:15The full moon hung between stone pillars.
16:17The elders and pack members stood on both sides of the square.
16:20I had seen this scene four times before.
16:23Every time, I had cried and thought I had finally reached the end of my waiting.
16:27His eyes full of practiced tenderness.
16:28Elyne, you have suffered these past few years.
16:30Once I am completely free of the memory loss, I will marry you and make you the Luna of Moonstone
16:33Pack.
16:36I looked at the ring and felt nothing but absurdity.
16:40The wolves around us began to whisper, as if I should be grateful enough to crawl toward him.
16:45After everything she did to Lea, the alpha is still willing to marry her.
16:48I raised my hand and slapped the ring away.
16:50It rolled into the white rose petals.
16:57Elyne, what are you doing?
17:01Before I could answer, hurried footsteps burst in from outside the square.
17:05Alpha, something happened in the cedar woods!
17:07Wolves are digging up Noah's grave!
17:10The next second, I ran out of the square like a madwoman.
17:13The roses, the elders, the gasps of the pack.
17:15I left all of it behind.
17:17The snow night was too dark.
17:18The cedar woods looked like a shadow ready to swallow wolves whole.
17:22I fell once, stones cutting into my palms,
17:25then scrambled up and kept running.
17:27Only one thought remained.
17:28Do not touch him.
17:30Noah was already dead.
17:32He was already lying so quietly beneath the snow.
17:35Why couldn't they let him rest?
17:37When I reached the cedar woods, the grave had already been dug open.
17:41Fresh soil was scattered everywhere.
17:42The headstone lay toppled in the snow.
17:45Noah's name trampled until it was almost unreadable.
17:52You admitted it yourself.
17:54You hurt Leah.
17:55Why should your brother be buried in moonstone pack?
17:57I threw myself to the ground in front of the ruined grave
17:59and tried to gather the mud and snow with my bare hands.
18:01Don't touch him.
18:03My voice shook so badly it barely sounded like mine.
18:05He never hurt anyone!
18:06He only wanted to live!
18:16His face changed the moment he saw the ruined grave.
18:18All of you, get away from there!
18:22But it was too late.
18:25The headstone was broken.
18:27The grave was ruined.
18:28The last bit of peace Noah had was crushed into the snow and mud.
18:35Aelin, I will handle this.
18:38Handle it?
18:39When Noah died, you said you would compensate me.
18:41Now his grave has been dug up and you say you will handle it.
18:44Cain, do you think if you say it calmly enough,
18:45other wolves' deaths stop counting as death?
18:48Maeve's voice rang in my ear.
18:50The five years are over.
18:51Aileen, do you still want to love him?
18:54I looked at Cain.
18:55At the shattered snow.
18:56At Noah's open grave.
18:58Then, suddenly, I became calm.
19:00No.
19:02Take away the part of me that loves him.
19:04Black mist rose from my palm.
19:06Pain exploded through my chest, then vanished all at once.
19:10When I looked at him again, he was nothing more than a strange male wolf.
19:13He seemed to realize something.
19:14Panic flashed across his face as he grabbed my hand.
19:16Aelin, where are you going?
19:20Somewhere you cannot reach me.
19:22Maeve took my hand.
19:24Before the black mist swallowed the cedar woods, I heard At Cain scream my name for the first time.
19:29Aileen!
19:31But his voice could no longer catch me.
19:36When the black mist faded, only the wreckage of the cedar woods remained.
19:39Cain wanted to chase Aileen, but Leah threw herself into his arms, sobbing that she was afraid.
19:43Cain, don't leave me here.
19:45Those wolves looked at me like they wanted to blame me.
19:47I am scared.
19:48His eyes stayed fixed on the place where Aileen had disappeared.
19:51For a few seconds, he almost pushed Leah away.
19:55But Leah clutched his sleeve with shaking fingers.
19:58You promised you would protect me.
20:03He still walked Leah back to her room.
20:09Cain, are we doing the usual today?
20:11First snow is almost here.
20:12Should we send a listen back to the underground caliph?
20:17Then Leah wrapped her arms around his from behind.
20:22Yes.
20:23Aileen was just throwing a tantrum.
20:25She had nowhere to go.
20:28Her brother was dead.
20:29Her parents were dead.
20:32In Moonstone Pack, she had no one left but me.
20:35As long as he brought her back to the cellar, she would be like every other time.
20:40Crying and shivering in the snow.
20:41Waiting for him to remember.
20:44He did not yet understand that the wolf who once waited for him had already died beside Noah's ruined grave.
20:53Two hours later, the guards returned.
20:56Alpha, Miss Aileen is gone.
21:00Cain lifted his eyes.
21:03His voice was cold enough to frighten wolves.
21:06I knew she left last night.
21:09I asked you to find out where she is now.
21:13We searched the apothetory, the cellar, the cedar woods, and her room.
21:20Her medicine chest is gone.
21:22The ledgers are gone.
21:25Even the things she left for Noah are gone.
21:28The cup in At-Cain's hand smattered.
21:30Fragments cut into his palm.
21:32Blood dripped onto the floor.
21:34He did not seem to feel it.
21:37Cain, maybe that witch is hiding her.
21:40Aileen loves you so much.
21:42She would not truly leave.
21:45The lunar ring Aileen had knocked away still lay among the wilted white roses in Moonlight Square.
21:53He suddenly remembered the way she had looked at him before she left.
21:56Calm.
21:58Strange.
21:59As if he was a male wolf who had nothing to do with her anymore.
22:05Search again.
22:07Search every abandoned den.
22:09Every border cabin.
22:11Every old herb path she ever used.
22:14Yes, Alpha.
22:15Leia tightened her fingers around her moonstone pendant.
22:19Cain.
22:20She only wants you to panic.
22:22Don't let her win.
22:25Not another word.
22:27Don't test my patience.
22:31That night, At-Cain went to the underground cellar.
22:35For five years, every time he lost his memory, he had ordered the guards to lock Aileen there.
22:40He had never truly looked at that place before.
22:44The moment the door opened, cold, damp air mixed with the scent of herbs rushed toward him.
22:49The walls were covered in formulas.
22:52Treatments for silver wounds.
22:54Antidotes for wolf bag.
22:55Medicines to stabilize pups in a wolf's.
22:57And the special stabilizing medicine made only for him.
23:00Beside every formula was a date and an ingredient note.
23:04Year one.
23:05Three drops of Aileen's fingertip blood.
23:07Year two.
23:08Half a cup of blood from Aileen's wrist.
23:09Year three.
23:10Wolf's five backlash worsened.
23:11Aileen unconscious for two days.
23:13Year four.
23:13Silver injury and right hand worsened.
23:15No further contact with cold poison herbs recommended.
23:17Year five.
23:19Lifespan damage severe.
23:21Blood infusion still required.
23:23Cain's hands began to shake.
23:25He had not known.
23:26Or maybe he had never wanted to know.
23:29The guard behind him lowered his head.
23:32Alpha.
23:33Should I call the pack healer?
23:35Your hand is still bleeding.
23:37Cain looked at his own palm.
23:38Then at the old blood notes on the wall.
23:40No.
23:42His voice was rough.
23:44This blood is nothing.
23:45Compared with what Aileen had fed him for five winters.
23:47It was not even enough to stain one medicine bowl.
23:50He stepped deeper into the cellar.
23:51And every line on the wall looked like an accusation.
23:57A wooden chest sat in the corner.
24:00Inside was a lunar gown.
24:02The stitches were delicate.
24:04Aileen had sewed it by hand.
24:06Beside it was a small bottle of medicine.
24:08Two words were written on the glass.
24:11Wedding night.
24:12Cain remembered.
24:13That year, after he recovered,
24:15Aileen had shown him the bottle and said that after the full moon proposal,
24:18they could place it in the square to soothe his damaged inner wolf.
24:21I tested it three times.
24:22It will not hurt you.
24:24On our wedding night, your inner wolf will sleep peacefully.
24:27In front of half the pack,
24:29At Cain had thrown the bottle into the snow.
24:34A healer who hurts wolves wants to prepare medicine for my wedding night?
24:38Do you hear yourself?
24:39At the time, Aileens flesh had to get her feindlich plage.
24:42Still.
24:42She had to crouch in and pick up the broken pieces you and buy one.
24:45It's okay.
24:47When you are Bessa, I will make another one.
24:53The old scene tore through him with a pain he had no right to call grief.
24:57His fingers brushed the lunar gown and a thin needle fell from the folded fabric.
25:02There was dried blood on the needle tip.
25:04She had bled for the gown too.
25:07Aileen, how much did you hide from me?
25:10No one answered.
25:11Only the cold Selen held his voice and threw it back at him.
25:17Then Cain's message stone lit up.
25:20The same male wolf sent him an image.
25:22Cain, we're finished.
25:23That night in the council hall when we talked about you faking the memory loss, I think Aileen heard everything.
25:27In the image, Aileen stood outside the door, her face white as paper.
25:31The medicine bowl fell from her hand and shattered on the floor.
25:33Then she turned and left.
25:35Cain stared at the image, frozen in place.
25:38She had known everything.
25:41That the memory loss had been fake for five years.
25:44That every punishment had been done while he was fully aware.
25:47That he had never planned to marry her.
25:49The message stone slipped from his hand.
25:51Surrounded by medicine formulas, Cain crouched down and finally let out a broken, strangled breath.
25:56But in the underground cellar, there was no wolf left to answer him.
26:01The young wolf's message stone kept flashing with new words.
26:04Alpha, should we destroy the recording?
26:05If the elders see it, Moonstone Pack will be humiliated.
26:08Cain slowly lifted his head.
26:10His eyes were bloodshot.
26:12No.
26:13That's impossible.
26:14His hands shook violently as he sprung to his feet and rushed toward the door.
26:18I have to find Aileen!
26:22Maeve brought me to the royal capital at dawn.
26:24The capital of the northern werewolf kingdom stood beneath the snow mountains.
26:28Moonstone Pack was only one pack under the kingdom's rule.
26:30And the Alpha King on the throne ruled every northern pack.
26:33Maeve placed a small black box in my hand.
26:35The last trace of Noah's inner wolf is inside.
26:37I kept it from fading for you.
26:38Whether he wakes again depends on you.
26:44Do not thank me too soon.
26:46Alpha King Eli is not easy to serve.
26:47His silver poisoning has dragged on for seven years.
26:50The royal healers have been replaced three times.
26:53A royal guard stopped us before the gate.
26:56Name and purpose.
26:57A healer for your dying king.
26:59Unless.
26:59The royal critfurs burying another alpha before spring.
27:03He glanced at me.
27:04Then at the black box in my hand.
27:07Follow me.
27:07Do not touch anything without permission.
27:12I followed him into the royal apathory workshop.
27:15Chaos filled the room.
27:16Healers argued over old formulas.
27:18At the center of it all.
27:19The alpha king was chained to a stone seat.
27:21The next second.
27:22His eyes opened.
27:23Our gazes met.
27:27Eli was young.
27:28With black hair and gray eyes.
27:30Silver poison marks crawled along the side of his neck.
27:32When his inner wolf went for all.
27:33The killing pressure in the room became almost unbearable.
27:36Several royal healers stood pale-faced.
27:37Holding all the wrong medicines.
27:39Old silver poisoning could not be treated with a harsh suppressive draught.
27:42That would only force his inner wolf to lash out.
27:44I stepped up to the medicine table.
27:46Chose white wolf fad leaf.
27:47Cedar root.
27:48And black thistle seed.
27:49Then cut open my finger nip.
27:50And let three drops of blood fell in.
27:52Who is this she-wolf?
27:53Who gave her permission to touch the king's medicine?
27:56I ignored him.
27:58Another healer reached out to stop me.
28:00If his majesty dies after drinking your medicine.
28:04Can you bear that crime?
28:06If he drinks yours, he will not last until sunset.
28:10The room went silent.
28:12When the medicine finished brewing, I carried it to Eli.
28:15A low, rough wolf growl rolled from his throat.
28:18The guards drew their blades.
28:20I stopped in front of him.
28:22If you kill me now, you will lose control completely tonight.
28:26Drink this.
28:27And you might at least survive the night asleep.
28:29Eli stared at me.
28:32After a few breaths, he lowered his head and drank.
28:35The silver markings faded little by will.
28:37The chains stopped shaking.
28:39The room fell dead silent.
28:41Eli leaned back against the stone seat, his voice horny.
28:44Name.
28:45Island.
28:46Which pack?
28:48Moonstone pack.
28:50Something shifted in his eyes.
28:54Eli looked at me for a long moment.
28:56Kane's future Luna?
28:58Almost.
28:59Once.
29:01Not anymore.
29:02He ordered the guards to unlock his chains.
29:05Give her an apothetory workshop.
29:07The best one in the capital.
29:08The royal healers looked displeased, but none of them dared object.
29:11Eli swept a calm glance over them.
29:14Anyone who disagrees can bring me medicine that works better than hers.
29:17I had just been led into my new workshop when hurried footsteps sounded outside.
29:23Your Majesty!
29:24The Alpha of Moonstone pack requests an audience.
29:27The next moment, he burst into the workshop.
29:29After just one night, his eyes were bloodshot, like he had searched through the snow for hours.
29:34The moment he saw me, he almost lunged forward.
29:37Alan!
29:38I stepped back and pressed a small herb knife to his throat.
29:41Take one more step, and I will make sure you cannot shift for three days.
29:47Come back with me.
29:48The royal guards moved at once, blades half-awn, but Eli raised one hand and stopped them.
29:52He seemed to want to see whether I still needed anyone to stand in front of me.
29:55I did not lower the knife.
29:59When Cain said it, his voice was so horsey it sounded as if fear had finally found him overnight.
30:04May have had taken everything cleanly.
30:06All that love, all that pain, all those snowy nights spent waiting for him to turn back.
30:11They felt like they belonged to some other she-wolf.
30:13Back where?
30:14Cain's throat bobbed.
30:15Back to Moonstone pack.
30:16I will rebuild Noah's grave.
30:17I will punish the wolves who dug it up.
30:19If you want a new apothetory workshop, I will give you one.
30:22If you want the lunar position, I will give you that too.
30:25Cain, everything you are offering me now is something I no longer want.
30:29You're still angry with me, aren't you?
30:30Punish me however you want.
30:32Just come back with me.
30:34Why should she go back with you?
30:36All the guards bowed their heads.
30:38Your Majesty.
30:39Cain's expression changed.
30:40No matter how arrogant he was, he did not dare cause a scene in front of the Alpha King.
30:45Eli came to stand beside my, his gaze falling on the lunar ring in Cain's hand.
30:49The lunar ring of Moonstone pack?
30:51Cain clenched his jaw.
30:53This is between Aileen and me.
30:54She is a royal healer now.
30:56Her affairs are under the royal court's protection.
30:58Anger pressed behind Cain's eyes.
31:03Your Majesty.
31:04She was once my future Luna.
31:06Was she?
31:09I lowered the knife.
31:10Almost.
31:12Then she was not.
31:16Aileen entered with several she-wolves from Moonstone pack supporting her.
31:19Her face was pale.
31:20Her eyes red.
31:21The moment she saw me, she looked like she had suffered some unimaginable wrong.
31:26Aileen!
31:26So this is where you ran?
31:27Was ruining my sense of smell not enough?
31:29Now you want to trick the Alpha King into protecting you too?
31:32Leah.
31:33Why are you here?
31:36Your Majesty, please do not trust this she-wolf.
31:39Five years ago, during the winter full moon hunt, she fed me the wrong medicine and left
31:42me unable to smell anything ever again.
31:43She knows exactly how to play the victim.
31:45She is even better at wrapping mails around her finger.
31:48She saved you only so she could worm her way to your side.
31:51Once you trust her, she will hurt you the way she hurt me.
31:56Cain looked at me.
31:57Pain flashing in his eyes.
31:58Aileen, Leah is not well.
32:00Whatever happened between you two can be discussed back in Moonstone Park.
32:03How wonderful.
32:05How familiar.
32:06Even after I had reached the royal capital, even after I had just saved the Alpha King,
32:10as long as Leah cried, he would still protect her first.
32:14Seeing him stand in front of her, Leah's eyes flashed with triumph.
32:20Leah lifted her face, her voice even softer.
32:23Aileen, as long as you admit to His Majesty that you gave me the wrong medicine, I can
32:27let it go.
32:28Stop deceiving people, alright?
32:32Cain grabbed my wrist.
32:34Aileen, that's enough!
32:35His voice was sharp with anger, and with pain for her.
32:39She has been unable to smell for five years.
32:42Why do you still have to push her?
32:44I looked down at his hand around my wrist, and my eyes went cold.
32:48Let go.
32:50Cain stiffened.
32:52Eli lifted his eyes.
32:54The next second, a royal guard's blade was pressed to Cain's shoulder.
32:57Cain had no choice but to release me.
33:00I shook out my aching wrist and turned to Eli.
33:02Your Majesty, since Leah claims I destroyed her sense of smell, let the royal court test her.
33:06Leah's face turned white.
33:08Test what?
33:08Moonstone Pack already tested me!
33:10Eli's voice was calm.
33:11The royal court does not pass judgment based on Moonstone Pack's tears.
33:14Leah's fingers tightened around her Moonstone pendant so hard her knuckles turned white.
33:18For the first time, no one rushed to hold her before she fell.
33:21A judgment witch was brought in quickly.
33:27The first black wood box was placed in front of Leah.
33:33The judgment witch asked Leah the first question.
33:35Tell us what is inside.
33:37Leah bit her lip.
33:39I cannot smell it.
33:41The witch lifted the lid.
33:43Inside was treated hot of white wolf bite.
33:45The royal healers began to murmur.
33:47A she-wolf who has lost her sense of smell would not avoid wolf bite before the box was opened.
33:52Leah rushed to explain.
33:53I am just afraid of wolf bite!
33:56A second box was brought forward.
33:58Inside were fragments of the medicine bottle from the Winter Full Moon Hunt five years ago.
34:02The witch turned the fragments over.
34:04There are two sets of fingerprints.
34:06Aelens are on the mouth of the bottle.
34:08Leah's are on the stopper.
34:09The inside of the stopper contains silver powder residue.
34:15Bring the old healer.
34:18He was the healer who had diagnosed Leah back then.
34:21Under the pressure of the royal court, he dropped to his knees, trembling so badly he could barely speak.
34:26Leah never lost her sense of smell.
34:28She made me write a false diagnosis.
34:29She said Alpha Cain would protect her.
34:32You're lying!
34:33Slowly, Cain turned his head toward Leah.
34:36In his eyes, something finally began to collapse.
34:42I handed a set of herb ledgers to Eli.
34:44Your Majesty, I request a formal trial against Moonstone Pack.
34:50No!
34:50You cannot do that!
34:52This is Moonstone Pack's internal matter!
34:54Eli did not look at her.
34:56He took the ledgers from my hand and turned the first page.
34:59The blood marks beside several formulas were still dark.
35:03These are yours?
35:04Every formula.
35:05Every adjustment.
35:07Every note written after the seller punishments.
35:08Cain's fingers trembled.
35:09Seller punishments.
35:11Did you forget those two?
35:12His face turned even paler.
35:14Leah crawled closer to him in panic.
35:16Cain!
35:16Don't listen to her!
35:17She hates me!
35:18She wants revenge!
35:19For once, Cain did not immediately reach for her.
35:21That hesitation made Leah truly afraid.
35:25Eli closed the ledger.
35:26The Royal Court will hold trial in three days.
35:28Moonstone Pack elders, healers, guards, and every wolf involved will be summoned.
35:31Yes, Your Majesty.
35:32Leah shook her head wildly.
35:34No!
35:34I did nothing wrong!
35:35I only suffered!
35:37I stepped closer and looked down at her.
35:39Then you should be glad a true victim has nothing to fear from a trial.
35:44Leah's lips parted, but no sound came out.
35:50The Royal Court held the trial three days later.
35:54Wolves from every pack under the Northern Werewolf Kingdom came to watch.
35:58The elders, healers, and guards of Moonstone Pack were brought to the capital.
36:03So were the wolves who had dug up Noah's grave.
36:06Leah knelt in the center of the court.
36:08The mark from my slap had not yet faded from her face.
36:12Eli sat on the throne, expression cold.
36:17Proceed.
36:18The first piece of evidence was the medicine bottle from the Winter Full Moon Hunt five years ago.
36:22The Royal Witch proved before everyone that the calming medicine inside the bottle was not flawed.
36:27What had caused Leah's brief reaction was the silver powder later smeared onto the inner side of the stopper.
36:31That silver powder was not mine.
36:35Leah had placed it there herself.
36:37The second piece of evidence was the old healer's false diagnosis.
36:42He admitted in his own words that Leah had never lost her sense of smell.
36:46She ordered me to write that Aelin destroyed her senses.
36:49She said if I refused, Alpha Cain would never let me practice medicine again.
36:53You took my medicine for five years!
36:56Now you betray me!
36:59The court erupted in low murmurs.
37:03Eli's fingers tapped the armrest once.
37:06The hall went silent.
37:09Continue.
37:09I stood beside the evidence table and watched Leah look around for someone to save her.
37:14This time, every path was blocked.
37:20The third piece of evidence was the apothecary ledger.
37:24For five years, the formulas Leah had submitted to the kingdom's healer selections had all contained my handwriting at the
37:30core.
37:30Every formula carried traces of my blood as the key ingredient.
37:34And my own competition sample had been switched by Cain's beta.
37:40When the beta was dragged forward, he could barely look at me.
37:44It was the Alpha's order.
37:45He said Leah needed a reputation, and Aileen owed her.
37:48The court fell silent.
37:50Cain stood below the throne, his face assin.
37:52He had already heard the truth once.
37:54But only now, with every piece of evidence laid out before the royal court,
37:57did he truly understand what kind of wolf he had protected for five years.
38:01It wasn't me! Aileen framed me!
38:03She has the Alpha King wrapped around her finger now!
38:05Of course she wants me dead!
38:06I walked toward her step by step.
38:09Leah, you say I climbed into the Alpha King's favor.
38:12Then who was it five years ago who used a few tears to make Cain hand over my formulas to
38:15you?
38:15Leah's lips trembled.
38:16You say I destroyed your sense of smell.
38:18But for five years, you could smell the cedar on Cain.
38:20You could smell Heart of White Wolfford.
38:21You could smell every bottle of medicine you stole from me.
38:23You lost nothing.
38:25I lost my hand.
38:26I lost my medicine room.
38:28I lost five years, and I lost Noah.
38:33Leah finally broke.
38:35She crawled toward Cain.
38:36Cain, I only did it because I loved you so much!
38:38If I had not done it, why would you have kept protecting me?
38:40Aileen had everything!
38:42She had talent!
38:42She had your promise!
38:43She was going to become Luna!
38:45I only had you!
38:45Cain lowered his gaze to her.
38:48Once, whenever she cried like that, he would have picked her up.
38:51This time, he stepped back.
38:56Noah's death.
38:57Noah's inner wolf was collapsing.
39:00That day, all he needed was the Heart of White Wolfspot.
39:03The harvesting order had already been signed, but Alpha Cain kept it at the Council Hall Terrace.
39:09By the time the medicine arrived, it was ten minutes too late.
39:13As the Alpha of a pack, you withheld life-saving medicine and forced a healer to confess publicly, resulting in
39:22the death of a pup.
39:24Do you admit it?
39:27After a long time, he said hoarsely.
39:30I admit it.
39:31The moment the words fell, gasps erupted throughout the pack.
39:33What?
39:34He ignored a living, breathing person just because of a she-wolf's tears?
39:36He doesn't deserve to be an Alpha!
39:38That's too cruel!
39:38I can't believe an Alpha would do something like that!
39:40Everyone looked at Cain with disgust in their eyes.
39:42I did not look at Cain.
39:44Everything that happened was Cain's punishment.
39:51Eli then looked at the young wolves being held by the guards.
39:55And the grave?
39:58Leah hinted at it.
39:59She said Aline ruined her sense of smell, yet her brother still got to be buried in Moonstone Pack.
40:03She said it was un-unfair.
40:04She never told us to dig up the grave.
40:06I did not!
40:07A guard presented a message stone.
40:09Leah's soft voice echoed from inside it.
40:11As long as Noah is buried in the Cedar Woods, Aelin will always think she still has a home.
40:15After what she did to me, why should she still have a home?
40:17The proof landed.
40:19Leah collapsed to the floor.
40:21Werewolves revered the Moon Goddess,
40:22and they revered the dead.
40:24Digging up a grave was one of the deepest insults alts imaginable.
40:30Leah, for fabricating an injury, slandering a royal healer,
40:33stealing formulas, and inciting the desecration of a grave,
40:35you will be stripped of pack membership and sent to the border labor grounds.
40:38You will never return to the capital.
40:42No! Cain, save me!
40:44You said you would always protect me!
40:47Cain, Alpha of Moonstone Pack,
40:48for abusing your authority as Alpha,
40:50switching samples in the kingdom's healer selection,
40:51withholding livesaving herbs,
40:53and allowing your pack to persecute a healer.
40:54The northern herb fields of Moonstone Pack will be placed under royal court supervision from this day on.
40:58You are suspended from your duties for one year,
41:01and will submit to royal investigation.
41:04The hall erupted.
41:05For a pack Alpha, losing authority in the herb fields was almost the same as having his pride stripped from
41:09him in public.
41:10But Cain did not resist.
41:12He only looked at me.
41:13His eyes were full of regret that had come far too late.
41:19After the trial, Cain caught up to me in the royal court corridor.
41:22Aelin!
41:22I stopped.
41:23He stood a few steps away, his voice so racky I could barely hear it.
41:27Noah's death was my fault.
41:28I looked at him calmly.
41:30Yes.
41:32Your hand was my fault too.
41:35Yes.
41:36And those five years, I destroyed them.
41:39Yes.
41:40Every word cut back into him like a blade.
41:44At last, Cain could not hold himself up anymore.
41:48He dropped to his knees in front of me.
41:50What can I do?
41:52He looked up at me like a wolf with his spine broken.
41:54Aileen, tell me what I can do to make it hurt less for you.
41:57I suddenly remember kneeling on the cold tonight years ago,
41:59when he had carried me back to the medicine room through the snow after I was injured.
42:02Back then, I had believed he would always protect me.
42:06Later, I learned that his tenderness could be taken back at any time.
42:10Every embrace he had ever given me eventually turned into a sharper knife.
42:14Once, I survived because of those embraces.
42:16I nearly died trapped inside them too.
42:18Now he knelt there, finally learning what pain felt like.
42:22But I did not need him to suffer for me anymore.
42:24Cain, you lied to me for five years.
42:27His tears hit the stone steps.
42:29I'm sorry.
42:29I bent down and spoke in a voice only he could heard.
42:33Now I will let you wait too.
42:35Cain snapped his head up.
42:36I smiled faintly.
42:38Wait until the day you die.
42:40I still will not come back.
42:42The light in his eyes went out little by little.
42:48Footsteps sounded behind me.
42:51Eli came to my side and traped a cloak over my shoulders.
42:55There is news from the workshop.
42:57Eli's voice softened.
43:00Noah's inner wolf is responding.
43:02I forgot Cain completely and lifted my skirts, running for the workshop.
43:06Deep inside the royal medicine room, Noah's fingers moved lightly in the ice coffin.
43:10The last spark of Noah's inner wolf that maybe had preserved finally glowed again under the nourishment of white wolf's
43:15back medicine.
43:16I threw myself beside the coffin, tears spilling down all at once.
43:21Noah's lashes trembled.
43:24Slowly, he opened his eyes.
43:26His voice was very soft.
43:28Sister.
43:29Sister.
43:31In that moment, I finally knew the snow had truly stopped.
43:34Cain stood outside the workshop door and did not take another step forward.
43:37He watched Noah wake.
43:38He watched Eli stable me.
43:40At last, he understood.
43:41What I had wanted most was never his ring.
43:43It was my innocence.
43:44It was Noah.
43:46It was a path I no longer had to walk on my knees.
43:48And none of those things had come from him.
43:51Cain's hand tightened around the lunar ring until the silver edge cut into his palm.
43:55I gave her nothing.
43:57No one answered him.
43:59Inside the workshop, Noah held my hand and I did not look back.
44:06Cain returned to Moonstone Pack under royal court escort.
44:09The same council hall that had once laughed at Eileen now stood silent as a grave.
44:13A royal invite puts the sealed order on the long table.
44:16From today on, the northern herb fields of Moonstone Pack will be supervised by the royal court.
44:23No harvest, transfer, or medicine room entry.
44:26Man proceed without approval.
44:31Your excellency, the herb fields are the foundation of our pack.
44:35If the royal court takes them, how will Moonstone operate?
44:38The envoy's eyes were cold.
44:40You should have thought of that before you let a healer's brother die for ten minutes of theater.
44:45No wolf dared speak again.
44:47Cain stood at the head of the hall, but the alpha seat behind him felt farther away than ever.
44:51His suspension had begun.
44:53Every pack member who had once cursed Eileen as a thief and Leah as a lacquer was called forward.
44:57They signed written apologies under the royal court's seal.
45:02I accused her kneel in the snow and did nothing.
45:15Each word was written in ink.
45:18Each name was pressed under royal seal.
45:21Cain listened until his face lost all color.
45:24After sunset, he walked alone to the cedar woods.
45:27Noah's empty grave had been repaired.
45:29Cain knelt before it.
45:31Noah, I am sorry.
45:33The snow fell quietly.
45:38Leah was sent to the border labor grounds before the next snowfall.
45:41There were no Moonstone pendants there.
45:43No warm rooms where she could cry until someone held her.
45:46There was only snow, mines, and silver ash that would never wash clean.
45:52The border guard removed the last Moonstone pack token from her cloak.
45:55Leah of no pack, step forward.
45:59No, I am from Moonstone pack.
46:01Cain will come for me.
46:02He promised he would always protect me.
46:04The guard looked bored.
46:05Alpha Cain is suspended and under investigation.
46:08His promises do not reach the border.
46:10The labor wolves around her laughed without pity.
46:12So this is the famous broken she-wolf.
46:15She smells silver ash faster than any of us.
46:18Leah covered her nose on instinct.
46:20The guard's eyes sharpened.
46:21Careful.
46:21I thought you could not smell anything.
46:24Leah froze.
46:25No wolf cared.
46:28She cried the entire way, claiming she had only loved Cain too much and that Eileen had stolen everything from
46:32her.
46:33But on the border, tears were useless.
46:35A cart of silver-stained ore was pushed toward her.
46:37Start working.
46:38If you fall, you get up.
46:39If you cry, you work while crying.
46:41Leah shook her head wildly.
46:43I am not meant for this, Cain!
46:45Cain, save me!
46:46The wind swallowed her scream.
46:47For five years, she had used weakness as a weapon.
46:50Now weakness could no longer buy her mercy.
46:56After Cain returned to Moonstone pack, his suspension took effect.
47:00The royal court took control of the northern herb fields and began reviewing the medicine room ledgers.
47:06Cain went to the cedar woods every day.
47:08The last trace of Noah's inner wolf had already been taken by Maeve, leaving only an empty grave that had
47:13been repaired.
47:15Cain would kneel there all night.
47:16Later, he truly began to lose his memory.
47:19It was not an act anymore.
47:21Every time the first snow fell, he would return to five years ago and search Moonstone pack like a mad
47:26wolf.
47:26He would clutch the lunar ring and ask every wolf the same question.
47:29Where is Eileen?
47:31Where is my Eileen?
47:35No wolf dared answer.
47:39Without Eileen's medicine, the wolf-spy damage inside him slowly returned.
47:48A royal healer went to examine him once.
47:53The healer watched Cain crawl at the cellar door until his fingers bled.
48:15The royal healer brought back only one sentence.
48:18He will live, but he can never be a complete alpha again.
48:26When Moonstone wolves heard the judgment, no one dared call it unfair.
48:32When I heard what happened to Cain, I was changing Noah's medicine.
48:37Noah sat by the window, still pale, but his inner wolf had stabilized.
48:41He looked at me carefully.
48:42Sister, are you still sad?
48:45I handed him the bowl.
48:47A little.
48:48He lowered his head.
48:50I rubbed his hair.
48:53But not because of Cain.
48:55I was sad for the girl I used to be.
48:56The one who had waited in the snow for five years.
48:59Sad for the Eileen who had given away her life, her blood, and her love, and still believed a promise
49:05would come.
49:07Noah finished the medicine and grimaced at the bitterness.
49:10Eli's voice came from the doorway.
49:13Bitter or not, you still have to drink it.
49:15Noah immediately sat up straight.
49:18Your Majesty.
49:19Eli walked in and tossed him a small pouch of sweet fruit.
49:23After you finish.
49:28Noah's eyes lit up.
49:30I could not help laughing.
49:31Eli came to my side and placed a document on the table.
49:34Appointment as Chief Apithery of the Royal Court.
49:37I froze.
49:38He looked at me, a faint smile in his gray eyes.
49:40The Northern Werewolf Kingdom needs you.
49:42I opened the document.
49:43The Royal Court's seal rested at the bottom.
49:45In Moonstone Pack, I had made so much medicine, yet not a single formula had ever truly belonged to me.
49:50Now, through the most formal document in the kingdom, the Royal Court declared to every pack,
49:54Elaine was the Chief Apithery of the Northern Werewolf Kingdom.
49:57Her formulas belonged to her.
49:59Her achievements belonged to her.
50:01Her name no longer depended on any Alpha's promise.
50:08A few months later,
50:09The Spring Healer Exhibition was held in the capital.
50:15I stood at the center of the display with my newest medicine.
50:18The bottle was named Snowfall's End.
50:21It could stabilize a collapsing inner wolf and repair the damage left by silver poisoning.
50:26Many pack healers stood below the platform,
50:28carefully taking notes as I explained.
50:30Do not suppress a damaged inner wolf by force.
50:33First calm the backlash,
50:35then rebuild the bond between body and wolf spirit.
50:37Chief Apithery, can this formula be used on pups born with weak wolves?
50:42With adjustment, yes.
50:44No pup should die because one pack controls the herb field.
50:49Eli stood at the back of the crowd in his black royal cloak, watching me quietly.
50:56Only after the exhibition ended did he walk over.
51:01I turned around.
51:02He took out a ring.
51:08It was not a lunar ring.
51:09The face of the ring was engraved with the royal court's herb crest and the mark of the Alpha King.
51:13I do not need an ornament standing beside my throne.
51:16I need a healer who can help me protect this kingdom.
51:18Something moved gently in my chest.
51:22He did not ask me to become his possession.
51:25He asked me to stand with him.
51:27You can refuse.
51:28If you do, your position as chief apothetory is still yours.
51:32The workshop is still yours.
51:34Noah will still stay in the capital for treatment.
51:37I looked at him and suddenly smiled.
51:39Your Majesty, do you always propose like you are issuing an appointment?
51:43Eli paused.
51:44For once, the tips of his ears turned red.
51:46Beside us, Noah tried so hard not to laugh that his shoulders shook.
51:50I held out my hand.
51:51But I accept.
51:54The moment the ring slid onto my finger, a bell rang in the distance.
51:59The spring snow had stopped.
52:01Sunlight spilled into the royal apothecary workshop and lit the rows of medicine bottles.
52:05Outside the window, Noah shifted into a small wolf for the first time and stumbled into the snow.
52:09Eli wrapped his arms around me from behind.
52:12Shall we go home?
52:14I leaned into him and looked toward the snow mountains shining under the sun.
52:19A long time ago, I thought home was Moonstone Pack.
52:21I thought home was Cain's promise, the one he never meant to keep.
52:25Now I knew better.
52:26Home was not something I waited for.
52:28It was something I took back with my own hands after walking out of the snow.
52:32Yes.
52:34Let's go home.
52:35Let's go home.
52:36Let's go home.
52:37Let's go home.
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