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2025-04-05 05:01:45“What did he do to Dad, Uncle?” Marian demanded; her pupils like needle points as she paced the room, her gaze fixed on Gravan.
Gravan stared at her, assessing her posture, her breathing.
“Where did you go?” he asked softly, gazing intently at her taut face.
“I…what do you mean?” Marian stuttered, blinking, but still pacing left to right directly in front of her uncle.
“You’ve been crying, princess. It’s only been a few hours since I last saw you, fast asleep. And now, your eyes are red,” he explained calmly, keeping his tone and manner steady in the face of the highly charged she-wolf before him.
“Nothing in your dorm could have upset you so much,” he continued as he watched her. Speaking slowly, drawing out his words, forcing his princess’ mind to slow itself down.
“You don’t go out, don’t visit others, and no one would have visited you.
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Don’t cry!Reyland!Marian wanted to say all the words at the same time, but no sound could come out from her dry lips.Instead, she wailed in her mind as she stared weakly up at her giant.But Reyland was not crying.He just stared at her with damp, sorrow-filled eyes and a knotted brow.The silence expanded, then, Reyland inhaled.“I’m sorry,” he breathed; his voice low.“What…what for?” she whispered, barely able to form the words.“Everything that happened to you. To your father. Four years ago, and every day after that,” he replied, his voice heavy.He had not moved a muscle.He continued to sit as he had been when she woke, with two fingers resting beside his mouth.Similar to how he had sat just hours earlier when he had been talking to his father, back at his home in the woods.Marian recalled those moments as she
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Reyland’s smile was driving daggers into Marian’s heart.It was the sweetest thing she had ever seen. That word came again, and she pushed it down, refusing to be distracted.He’s so adorable! She mused, unable to make the word disappear.Marian stifled a sob.“You’ve never kissed me before,” she breathed.“What do you mean? We’ve kissed –” Reyland replied, his eyes searching her face, as if unsure whether she was all there.“Yeah, but only when I do it,” Marian retorted breathlessly.“This is the first time you’ve kissed me, without pulling back,” she continued in a breathless whisper.“Oh? How many times did you force yourself on me?” he murmured slyly, the smile still on his lips.“Three times,” she breathed instantly, her green eyes boring into his sapphire ones.“Then…”
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“The fallen princess did what?!” the Alpha of the Bloodrayne pack bellowed.“Yesterday, Alpha. The whole place was locked down. We couldn’t –”Tobias strode to the runner and picked him up by the throat, claws digging into his skin, choking him as he linked him in the mind space.There, he got all the information firsthand without waiting for the wolf to form his thoughts into words.He dropped him like a rag doll, coughing and wheezing, holding his bruised, bleeding neck. The runner remained on his knees, bowing to his Alpha.“If that is what I think it is, then the girl may be far more important than my little Alpha,” He murmured.“More important than Dax?” Misha, his son, crooned.“Now THAT is something indeed,” he said slyly.“You won’t understand,” Tobias spat.“Then explain it, Father,” Misha retorted flippantly.
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“I didn’t hear you move!” Marian continued in a whisper.“You didn’t make a sound! Reyland!” she said urgently as she lay flat on the bed, staring up at him.Reyland smiled, hesitantly.“Shhhh. Marian,” he whispered, “something is going on that neither of us knows much about,” he continued, his voice low.“My…the Alpha has got wind of a spy from Bloodrayne. We need to be careful,” he stated, his tone and manner very formal.“There was a plan…before Christmas, to take them down. Tension between them and us has risen in the last nine months. They’ve become…unpardonable. Their raids, their ranging, everything has just been…too much.”“We were making preparations, with other allies, to wipe them out. But with everything for the past two days –”“Two…two days?” Marian stuttered, her eyes
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Reyland continued. “So, what I need you to do, my princess, is find your wolf,” he encouraged her gently, his voice steady, confident.“She must be hiding; she must be scared. Call her to you. Tell her everything you know. Tell her what you don’t,” he elaborated calmly.“Your father will fill in the rest, but let him tell both of you. Okay?” he finished gently.Marian’s eyes dampened, and she swallowed.“Are you sure?” she asked softly.“Yes,” Reyland replied confidently.“No. I mean, are you for real?” she asked again, her voice trembling as her eyes filled.Reyland’s brow furrowed. “What do you mean?” he asked hesitantly, eyeing Marian again.“Am I…YOUR princess?” she whispered. Reyland blinked at her, then he inhaled sharply.His soft cheeks flushed as he glanced to the side.“YOU are n
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Marian reluctantly recalled the last time her father had been in her room, just two days ago.She had told him that she would always be there for him. She had asked him not to be sad.And now, here they were, again, and she had done something wrong – again.Making him sad. Again.Her father was speaking.“Good. Gravan, you go first. I too need to hear this,” he said, a steeliness in his voice that made both Marian and Gravan wince.“Dinka?”“Yes, Dad,” Dinka replied Nikal, Corien’s wolf, in their mind space.“Okay. Gravan. Please,” Corien said out loud, closing his eyes as he rested his back against the chair he was seated in, straightening his shoulders.Gravan glanced away from him, his face drawn.Marian could sense his hesitation and could feel that he was not at full strength, but she kept quiet, waiting for her uncle to speak.==========
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His head began to bend backwards when Gravan’s voice came through.“You are our Alpha. The one true Alpha of Lightmoon. If you cannot control yourself, why expect your child to do better?” he said hoarsely, still kneeling upright on both knees, backing his mentor.Marian’s wide eyes snapped to her uncle.Gravan’s back and shoulders were straight as he turned, on his knees, to face her father.“If you want to help her, show her how it’s done,” the former Beta of Lightmoon demanded firmly, fearlessly to the morphing former Alpha.Gravan rose slowly, his eyes fixed on Corien.“Show her,” Gravan insisted, his voice low, forceful.Marian stared at her uncle, still slack-jawed.“Look to your father, princess. Look and focus,” he ordered her, his eyes still on his friend and mentor.“This is what happened to you. See it with your own eyes,” he g
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“No power? NO POWER!” Dorien bellowed now, not caring anymore about being overheard by pack members or spies.“Brother!” Reyland whispered urgently, the concern in his voice and eyes palpable.The heir swallowed, his breathing calming down a notch as he shook Reyland by his shirt.“How can you SAY that?” Dorien hissed as his eyes almost fervently searched Reyland’s“You know –” he pressed, but Reyland cut in.“I do. That’s why I’m not afraid,” he urged, watching his brother closely.Seeing Dorien about to protest more, Reyland placed a hand on his brother’s shoulder.“It’s what I said Christmas morning. Do you remember?” he continued, bending lower, leaning closer to Dorien.“We know about the blood. She did not. Now, for one second, just one second, Dorien, imagine someone made our father do what HER father has bee
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Corien was in Dax’s office. He had been with him for the past hour, letting the Alpha seethe and rage.Dorien and the Luna had been present as well, but they had left earlier, leaving only the two brothers, the two enemies, together.Dax sat in his chair, his back to Corien, staring out the large window behind his desk.“Once the Alpha King hears of this from Anna, he will come for her,” Dax droned. Finally calm after his last outbursts with his family.“Not if we claim her,” Corien replied calmly.Dax did not respond.Corien continued.“We don’t have to do so immediately. We can plan for it, as we do for everything,” he stated firmly as he approached the large desk and stopped at the edge, adjacent to Dax’s wide shoulders.“If you put everything aside, you will know that what Dorien has suggested is the best solution,” he continued carefully.Silence.
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“If he banishes me…” Marian whispered hoarsely, her voice catching. She shifted her eyes to Gravan, “Will you and Dad come with me?” she whispered, her eyes filling.“Just us? No one else?” Gravan replied with a soft smile, his bright eyes shining in his handsome face.Marian shifted her head against her pillow as she gazed up at her uncle.“I won’t have any hope there, if I’m banished,” she croaked.Gravan shook his head gently, stroking her forehead, the smile still on his face.“First of all, princess, we don’t dwell on ‘what-ifs’, hmmm? What’s done is done. All that matters is where we are now, and what we can do about it,” he stated matter-of-factly.“Your father will not let anything happen to you. Rest assured, nothing as drastic as banishment will happen,” he droned.“But, what if he – Alpha Dax &ndash
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Is he in heat?Am I?Marian mused.Dinka chuffed at her in their mind space.“What? I’m bored!” Marian tossed at her wolf, “If I can’t go out tomorrow, let me have a little fun today.”“It’s been too hard these past few days,” she complained to Dinka, “I need a distraction!”“This is not a distraction, Marian, this is torture,” Dinka replied, her teeth bared as if she were laughing.“We’ve seen torture, D. We’re just playing with him,” Marian replied with a smile.With her eyes directing Zepher and a few sounds chipped in here and there, she made the young omega feed her every bite of food and every drop of water and light wine that had been brought to her as she breathed him in.Thirty long minutes later, Gravan walked in to find a very distraught Zepher feeding a very contented Marian.========
