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Chapter 9
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2026-08-24 15:20:36"We forget nothing," another elder, a scarred warrior named Tobias, interjected from the left. He slammed his goblet onto the table, his eyes fixed on Rhea. "Which is exactly why we require the sealing ceremony. The Northern Alliance cannot be built on words alone, Jaxon. The treaty demands the bride prove her lineage before the High Council. Let Lady Vivienne stand before the Lunar Mirror."
I felt Rhea’s arm twitch against mine. A sudden spike of adrenaline shot through her blood, and my wolf instantly picked up the scent of raw terror beneath the amber elixir.
‘Steady,’ I sent the command through the telepathic link, slamming the thought into her mind with the weight of an Alpha’s order. ‘Do not flinch.’
She didn't answer with words, but the small, stubborn tilt of her chin told me she had heard me.
I let go of her arm, stepping back just half a pace to give her the stage. "Go," I said aloud, keeping my face an unreadable mask of stone. "Show them the blood of the Moretti."
Every eye in the hall tracked her as she took three slow, deliberate steps toward the silver artifact. The liquid surface of the mirror began to churn violently at her approach, the mercury rippling as if reacting to an unseen current.
Rhea stopped exactly two feet in front of the glass.
For a single, agonizing second, nothing happened. The mirror remained dark, a swirling vortex of silver and shadow. Then, the ancient iron frame began to hum. A low, vibrating frequency pulsed through the floorboards, making the heavy crystal chandeliers above us rattle.
Then, the glass reacted.
A faint, sickly violet light began to bleed from the center of the mirror. It wasn't the deep, vibrant sapphire of a royal Alpha bloodline. It was pale, fractured, and chaotic. The liquid mercury began to spin faster, the violet deepening, shifting toward a dark, dangerous hue.
"What is the meaning of this?" Elder Tobias growled, half-rising from his seat. "The mirror should be turning gold or deep blue within seconds!"
My heart hammered against my ribs like a battering ram, but I didn't let my expression waver. The mirror was reading her. It was stripping away Kaelen’s amber elixir, digging deep into the marrow of her bones where her true, submissive, rogue Omega nature resided. The violet light was the color of a soul without a pack, a stray. A target.
Suddenly, the mirror flared. A blinding, violent crimson light erupted from the center of the glass, casting bloody shadows across the stone walls of the banquet hall.
The color of a rogue threat. The color of a fraud.
"An impostor!" Tobias roared, drawing the silver dagger at his waist. "The mirror senses a rogue!"
The hall erupted into absolute chaos. Hundreds of Alphas stood up, their chairs screeching against the stone floor, their scents turning lethal and aggressive as their inner beasts reacted to the crimson warning of the magical artifact. Weapons slid from their sheaths, the metallic ring of steel echoing through the rafters.
"Hold!" Vance shouted, his ancient voice cutting through the noise, though his eyes were wide with a predatory hunger. "Look at the edges of the glass! That is not the reflection of a purebred Alpha!"
Rhea froze, her breath catching in her throat as the crimson light bathed her face, exposing every line of terror on her pale skin. She looked back at me, her blue eyes wide, her lips parted in a silent plea.
Before the guards could take a single step toward her, I moved.
I crossed the distance between us in a fraction of a second, my movements blurrier than human sight could follow. I reached out, my large hand clamping onto her waist with a brutal, possessive grip, yanking her back against my chest.
‘Give it to me,’ I roared through the bond, unleashing the full, unbridled fury of my inner wolf. ‘Let me in!’
I didn't wait for her consent. I forced my own dominant Alpha aura to erupt from my skin like a shockwave. A heavy, suffocating scent of dark cedar, liquid fire, and freezing winter air rolled off my body, filling the dais and crashing into the magical artifact. I slammed my free hand onto the gnarled iron frame of the mirror, forcing my own spiritual weight through her, using the fresh mark on her neck as a conduit to flood her soul with my power.
The liquid mercury shivered. The crimson light fought back for a terrible, agonizing second, the red and silver clashing in a violent vortex that hissed like boiling oil.
"Jaxon!" Vance warned, his hand shaking as he pointed at the glass. "You cannot force the Goddess's mirror to lie!"
"I force nothing!" I bellowed, my golden eyes flashing with a light so bright it illuminated the dark corners of the hall. "The girl is mine! Her soul belongs to the North!"
I dug my fingers into her waist, pushing more of my Alpha essence through the bond. Rhea gasped, her head falling back against my shoulder as my power tore through her veins, rewriting her spiritual signature in the eyes of the glass.
Slowly, painfully, the crimson light began to bleed away. The edges of the glass turned a deep, shimmering gold, the unmistakable color of the Ravencroft lineage. The liquid mercury stabilized, reflecting a brilliant, blinding golden shield that filled the dais, forcing the closest elders to shield their eyes.
The silence returned, heavier this time, thick with the scent of my absolute dominance.
I stood there, breathing heavily, my hand still gripping Rhea's waist so tightly I could feel the rapid, terrified flutter of her heartbeat against my palm. The mirror held the gold reflection, but the very edges of the frame were still pulsing with a faint, residual violet light, a thin, dangerous thread of her true self that wouldn't completely dissolve.
Elder Vance stepped forward, his eyes narrowing to slits as he leaned over the table, staring at the border of the glass.
"Hold!" Vance shouted, his voice dropping into a dark accusation that made every guard in the room freeze. "Look at the edges of the glass, Jaxon. That is not the reflection of a purebred Alpha. There is a secondary scent, a fractured lineage hidden beneath your shroud!"
He looked up, his flint-like eyes locking onto mine.
"You have brought a marked stray into the High Council's treaty, Warlord. Explain the violet thread in the Goddess's glass, or the executioners will take her head before the sun rises.”
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