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Chapter 4

Myosotis
The day of the Mating Ceremony​ dawned bright and clear. The snow glistened in the sunlight, and the air was crisp and cold.

I stood in my chambers, looking in the mirror.

I was wearing a ceremonial mating gown stitched with silver wolf runes, and a crown of moonblooms in my hair.

I looked calm. But inside, my heart was racing.

Today was the day I would finally get my happy ending.

The procession left the fortress at midday.

A hundred warriors in their pristine white wolf forms marched ahead of me.

They were the pack's elite guard, their golden eyes fixed straight ahead.

Behind me, a line of carriages stretched for miles, carrying the pack’s nobles and warriors.

The entire pack had turned out to see their future Luna claimed.

We were halfway to the Alpha’s den when the procession stopped.

I heard shouting. Angry shouting.

I pushed aside the velvet curtain of my carriage and looked out.

Kael was standing in the middle of the road, blocking our path. His face was twisted with rage, his canines elongated, his eyes glowing a feral gold.

“Nova!” he screamed, his voice breaking with a growl. “Get out of that carriage! You are mine! You will mate me!”

The white wolves growled, baring their fangs. But Kael didn’t back down.

“Move aside, Kael,” one of the warriors said. “You are blocking the future Luna’s procession.”

“Future Luna?” Kael laughed. “She is mine! The moonstone chose me! I am the future Alpha!”

Just then, Elias rode up on a black stallion. He was wearing his wedding robes, a silver sword at his hip. He looked down at Kael, his silver eyes cold.

“Move,” he said.

Kael spat on the ground. “She is my fated mate! She bound her soul to mine in the last life, and she will do it again!”

The words hung in the air.

Everyone froze.

No one knew about the rebirth.

Elias’s eyes flicked to me. I nodded slightly.

He unsheathed his silver blade.

“Last chance,” he said. “Submit, or bleed.”

Kael drew his own sword. “I will die before I let you touch what is mine!”

They clashed.

Kael was fueled by desperation, but Elias moved with the lethal grace of a mountain wolf. He had spent ten years honing his killing edge in the wild, a place where mercy was a fatal weakness.

Within minutes, Elias had Kael on his knees, his sword at Kael’s throat.

“Yield,” he said.

Kael laughed.

“Yield?” he spat, his voice raw and broken. “Never!”

Kael roared.

“Get out of my way, you bastard!”

Finally, after word of the chaos reached them, my father, stepmother, and Lila arrived.

My father pointed at Kael and thundered,"Didn't you swear on your blood you'd make Lila your Luna? Didn't you vow you'd never mate Nova, not even in death? What is this madness? Get out of my sight!"

Kael glanced over and saw his raging father, his anxious mother, and Lila weeping uncontrollably beside them, and his rage crumbled instantly.

Then, no matter what my father, stepmother, and Lila pleaded, Kael never took his eyes off me.

After an eternity, he let out a ragged sigh and stepped silently aside.

When I saw he had yielded, I leaned down to Elias and spoke softly.

“Let’s go.”
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