Born to shine
I was born to shine. But the fate had others plans for me.
The moment my feet left the edge, the world fell silent.
There was only wind.
And peace.
For one fragile heartbeat, I was free.
Like a bird.
Then something slammed into me from behind.
Arms. Hard. Unforgiving.
The impact hurled me sideways instead of down. Wood splintered. Something inside me cracked.
Darkness rushed in and I welcomed it.
…
“Open. Your. Eyes.”
The voice was quiet, slow, deliberate. It forced its way through bone and blood.
An Alpha command.
Pain detonated through me as air tore back into my lungs. My body convulsed against my will. I tried to sink back into the quiet—to finish what I had started.
“You were NEVER given permission to die.”
Power wrapped around the words like chains.
My eyes snapped open.
We were beyond the pack’s borders. The air felt colder. Wilder. Untouched by law or duty.
For one second, I had belonged to nothing.
And he had dragged me back.
He loomed above me, fury carved into every sharp angle of his face. His breathing was controlled, his posture dominant - absolute.
If anyone were watching from the cliffs, they would see an Alpha asserting ownership.
His jaw tightened, irritated at being forced to deal with something that should have already been resolved.
I had complicated his plans.
“Drink.”
His wrist pressed my mouth.
The metallic scent hit first. I tried to clamp my lips shut.
But Alpha commands do not ask. They take.
My mouth opened against my will and his blood burned down my throat, spreading heat through my chest.
A cruel gift.
He would not even grant me the mercy of dying on my own terms.
And I understood - even my death did not belong to me.
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Chapter: 201. Lifeline🦊 Melanie POVI slammed the bond shut.I couldn’t take another feeling, another thought, another glimpse of something Aron had kept buried beneath that impossible calm.Not now.I didn’t know what to say, so I turned back toward the road and started walking.Aron didn’t ask a thing.Didn’t push.Simply fell into step beside me and walked home in silence.By the time we reached the house, I had convinced myself that work would help.It usually did.The documents I hadn’t finished reviewing about the distribution of medicines were still waiting for me on the table.I sat down, opened the first one, and began reading.But by the time I reached the end of the first page, I hadn’t absorbed a single sentence.My thoughts kept circling back.Again.And again.To everything I had felt through Aron.To everything I had refused to see before.Since the day the court had found him not guilty, Aron had changed the way he treated me.And I...I hadn’t.Not at all.The shared dinners hadn’t matter
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Chapter: 200. For Me🦊 Melanie POVAron finished presenting the plan for protecting the civilians in case part of the enemy forces attempted some kind of diversion.No one had anything else to add.No objections.No corrections.Perfect.I hated how easily the word came to mind nowadays.“Dismissed.”Fenrir ended the meeting with his usual lack of ceremony.Chairs scraped against the floor.Conversation rose in small clusters as people began filing out of the room.I stayed in my place, waiting for Arria.We hadn’t had a chance to talk properly since they had awakened her wolf, and everything I knew had come secondhand from others.Aron didn’t move either.I turned my head and gave him a critical look.I wanted some time alone with Arria.Alone being the important part.Ever since Aron had returned from his so-called sparring session with Fenrir, he had been attached to me like a shadow.If I went to the school, he walked me there, and when I came out through the gates later, he was already waiting for m
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Chapter: 199. Battle Plan🍃 Arria POVSeven days.That was all we had left until the full moon.Until the elven invasion.Until the war that would decide the fate of our realm.“Why don’t we attack the palace before the full moon?” one of the Alphas around the table asked.“It would be easier to win without the elves supporting Vaerion and the King, wouldn’t it?” another chimed in.“It makes sense,” several more agreed.“Divide the enemy and defeat one group after another.”A wave of small, approving nods moved around the table.“A prophecy was made a little over a month ago,” I told them. “It stated that on the full moon, the world shall burn.”Uneasiness moved through the room.Several expressions tightened.Then one of the Alphas frowned.“A prophecy? Really? By whom? Werewolves don’t have prophets.”I turned my head toward him.“I see you already know the answer. It was made by an elf,” I pointed out. “So what exactly are you implying?”He shifted uncomfortably beneath my scrutinizing gaze.“It’s just tha
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Chapter: 198. Completed🍃 Arria POVFenrir took a sharp turn halfway down the corridor and pushed open the door to his office instead of carrying me to our bedroom.'Absolutely not,' Fiona said, thoroughly offended.Before I could decide whether I was irritated too or simply amused by her outrage, he set me down on the edge of his desk and stepped away.Then he crossed to one of the cabinets, opened it, crouched in front of a lower drawer, and began pulling things out with maddening calm.“What are you doing?” I asked, still a little breathless from the way he had just carried me here.Fenrir didn’t answer immediately.'He kissed us half senseless, carried us off like prey, and then brought us to the office?'I laughed despite myself.'If he gives you work, I am going to—'What?Scream through the mindlink?Manifest?Go on. Tell me.'You! You...'I shook my head indulgently.'You are not supposed to be on their side.'It is all our side.You are just dragging out the inevitable.And just so you know, your s
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Chapter: 197. No Is a No🍃 Arria POVI ducked beneath Fenrir’s fist and immediately turned into another attack.He wasn’t there anymore.Of course.My own punch cut through empty air, and I barely managed to twist away before his hand came toward my shoulder from the side.'This is ridiculous,' Fiona complained.I bit back a smile.I warned you.I threw another sequence.Fenrir blocked the first strike, stepped effortlessly out of range of the second, and made me miss the third altogether.Again.Not once had I managed to touch him.Not properly.And Fiona was getting increasingly furious about it.Not that the morning had started much better for her.After Fenrir had kissed me until I was breathless, thoroughly distracted, and all needy, he had simply stopped.Just like that."If Fiona doesn't want to speak with me, then we'd better spar instead of... this," Alaric had stated while pulling me out of bed and toward the door.Apparently, having a wolf now meant I had officially lost every excuse not to join h
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Chapter: 195. Wanted🌘 Fenrir POVAre you really going to sulk instead of doing something about the situation? I asked Alaric.'I am not sulking.'Sure.A low growl rumbled through him.The curse was still burning inside us, waiting for the slightest opportunity to overpower us.The way Fiona had unceremoniously thrown Alaric out of Arria’s mind would have unleashed it on the spot if Arria hadn’t fainted.The moment her body swayed, Alaric's focus had snapped back to her.Away from rage.And now that Arria had finally woken up and explained Fiona’s reasoning to us, Alaric seemed defeated in a way I had never thought possible.He was the unstoppable force everyone considered unbeatable.I had always thought of him the same way.Until now.We don’t deserve her if you’re planning to give up on her so easily, I told him.'Giving up?' His voice sharpened. 'Fiona’s assumption is most likely correct. I am going to kill the mate I marked willingly simply because she is equal to me—or stronger than me—in rank.'Y
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