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Five-year deadline, love has betrayed Chapter 10
The memorial was small. I did not attend.Instead, I walked to the cemetery where my mother's grave stood empty. I knelt in the grass."It's over," I whispered. "He's gone."The wind answered.The days turned into weeks. My clinic grew. Gideon stayed.One evening, after a long shift, I came home to find him in the kitchen. He had cooked dinner. The table was set for two."Selene. I've waited seven years to ask you this.""Ask."He took my hand. "Will you stop running? Not for me. For yourself."I thought about my mother's words. Don't look back. Keep moving forward."I stopped running a long time ago," I said. "I just didn't realize it.""Then stay.""Here? With you?""Here. With me. Wherever that is."I looked around the small kitchen. The worn table. The kettle that had boiled tea for a hundred late-night conversations."I'd like that."The next morning, I woke before dawn. Gideon was still asleep.I slipped out of bed and walked to the window. The sea was gray and calm. Snow Peak ro
Five-year deadline, love has betrayed Chapter 9
Seven years passed.Alistair was released. He came to my town. He knelt outside my clinic for three days, begging for forgiveness.On the fourth day, I opened my door."What do you want, Alistair?""I want you to forgive me.""You fed my mother's ashes to a pup. You locked me in a cellar. You don't get forgiveness.""I loved you," he whispered."You loved the idea of me. Go home, Alistair. Don't come here again."I walked inside and closed the door.He left that night. A week later, a hiker found his body at the base of Snow Peak. He had jumped.The note in his pocket was short: "Selene. I owe you a life. I'm paying it back."Gideon came up behind me when I read the news. He wrapped his arms around my waist."His choices were his own. You did not push him.""I know. But I keep thinking—if I had said yes, would he still be alive?"He turned me around to face him. "That is not murder. That is survival."That night, Gideon brought me a letter. Alistair had left it with a lawyer.Selene,I
Five-year deadline, love has betrayed Chapter 8
Alistair's world crumbled.His beta turned on him, submitting testimony to the council. Jade Moonshadow was convicted and screamed as the guards dragged her away.Alistair asked to speak to me. "Denied," the council said.I heard about it later from Gideon. "Are you okay?" he asked."I'm fine.""You don't look fine.""I look exactly how I feel. Nothing."The fellowship ended six months later. I graduated at the top of my class.Instead of accepting a position at Dr. Thorne's institute, I took a small apartment in a quiet town near the sea. I opened a clinic—humans during the day, wolves at night.Gideon visited every weekend. He brought coffee. He brought books. He brought a quiet companionship that began to fill the empty spaces.One night, a year after the fellowship ended, we walked along the shore.The moon was full. Gideon walked close enough that our shoulders brushed."Selene. I've been waiting for you to heal. To stop running. To be ready.""I'm not sure I'll ever be completely
Five-year deadline, love has betrayed Chapter 7
Two months passed.The fellowship consumed me. Anatomy labs until midnight. Research papers stacked to my ceiling. Rounds at the human hospital where no one knew I was a wolf.But Alistair had not forgotten me.The first sign came in the form of an email. A junior researcher forwarded me an anonymous document—thirty pages of supposed "evidence" that I had fabricated my research data, plagiarized my fellowship application, and falsified my medical credentials.I knew that handwriting. I had seen it on love letters years ago, on the back of the photograph that ruined my life.I forwarded it to Gideon."He's trying again," I said.Gideon's face hardened. "The council's investigators will tear it apart. But the human board—""I know. If they believe this, I lose the fellowship."Gideon made a call. Within days, the report came back: forged. Metadata traced to a server in the North—the same server used by Alistair's former beta."He's running this from his cell," Gideon said. "That's a viol
Five-year deadline, love has betrayed Chapter 6
The dungeons were not my concern anymore.I packed my bags and left Silvermoon territory without looking back. The human college was three hundred miles south—a sprawling campus hidden in plain sight, where wolves and humans studied side by side under the guise of "international medical research."Dr. Zachary Thorne met me at the gate."Selene Nightshade." He extended a hand. His grip was firm, his eyes sharp. "I read your file. The council's judgment, too. You've been through hell.""I've been through worse. I survived."He smiled—a thin, approving curve. "That's why I wanted you for the fellowship. We don't need perfect students. We need wolves who know how to keep going when everything falls apart."He led me inside.The first week was a blur of orientation, lectures, and labs. I buried myself in work. Anatomy. Pharmacology. Wolfen physiology. Human pathology. The hours were long, the material brutal, and I welcomed every minute of it.Gideon Frost appeared on my second day.He was
Five-year deadline, love has betrayed Chapter 5
The post went viral within hours.Not just on the wolf forum. Somehow, screenshots had leaked to human news sites. The story crossed worlds—an Alpha accused of letting his mate's mother die, of feeding ashes to a dog, of beating his Luna.The council had no choice but to move fast.The next morning, a new announcement appeared on the official pack network:Notice of Suspension: Alpha Alistair Blackthorn of Silvermoon Pack is hereby suspended from all Alpha duties effective immediately. A full investigation into charges of infidelity, abuse of power, misuse of Moonflower Essence, and desecration of remains has been initiated. Alistair Blackthorn is forbidden from leaving pack territory until further notice.Jade Moonshadow received no separate notice. She was nothing to the council. But everyone in the pack knew. Her Gamma ranking had been stripped. Her name removed from every training roster. The healers refused to treat her. The merchants refused to serve her.She had become a ghost.
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