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LUCIAN I barely registered Tobias sprinting like lightning. “What the hell is going on, Lucian?!” he yelled, his eyes darting around. “Are you planning to tear down the whole building?” Yeah, I was. I needed to find the intruder. Who dared to eavesdrop on my conversation? Who dared to act special, breaking the pack’s rules? I had to find them and destroy them. I didn’t know why I felt this inexplicable anger—at Aria’s expense. She was the one with the secrets. But I was the one who had asked her to play the game this way. If I hadn’t, that fool wouldn’t have heard. That was Aria’s secret. No one else had the right to know. And I swear to the Moon Goddess, whoever was responsible wouldn’t be spared. They would be executed. “Look, you’re scaring her. Just stop!” Tobias gestured toward Aria, who was still shivering, pressing herself as close to the ground as possible. I squeezed my eyes shut. Fuck. How could I have forgotten she was an omega? But her tolerance wa

LUCIAN A muscle ticked in my jaw. Tobias was testing my patience. Again. I turned slightly, just enough to catch Tobias in my peripheral vision. He was breathing hard, his chest rising and falling in frustration. “Tobias, I appreciate the concern. I do. You’ve been my right hand for years, and I know you always have my back.” This was me being in control, and he wasn’t going to fuck this up for me. “But this isn’t about what people will fucking say. I just need to speak with Maren.” It was a lie. And we both knew it. He scoffed behind me. “Bullshit, Lucian. You don’t just want to speak to her. You’re pissed off, and when you get like this—” I ignored the rest. I didn’t have time for his warnings or his attempts to reason with me. My patience was already running on fumes, and I wasn’t about to waste the little I had left on a damn lecture. My footsteps echoed through the hall as I made my way to the room Tobias had supposedly locked her in. What the fuck was she doi

ARIA The way things turned out, Lucian handed me over to Tobias, and Tobias, being the practical man he was, dumped me on Clara. Unlucky for her, she just happened to be at the Alpha’s quarters at the wrong time. Now, she was storming ahead of me, clutching a tray like it had personally offended her as she made a beeline for the kitchen—the same damn path she had dragged me through yesterday. “I can’t believe I’ve been saddled with the responsibility of taking care of a rogue,” Clara muttered furiously. “This has to be a fucking joke.” And there it was again. That fucking word. Rogue. The word was practically tattooed on my forehead at this point. No, scratch that. It was a damn brand slapped across my face. Every turn, every look, every whisper in this damn pack—I had heard it at least a hundred times since I got here, and each time, it got under my skin. Maybe the Bloodfang Pack wasn’t as kind as I thought. Maybe they needed someone like me to teach them that emotion

ARIA“No, I think omegas aren’t allowed to have a community.”Clara frowned, like I had said something deeply wrong. “That’s not how it works here.”I wanted to scream. Instead, I inhaled sharply. “So you don’t get punished? The higher ranks don’t interfere?”“We have our own structure. Our own hierarchy.”I scoffed. “Omegas have a hierarchy?”“Yes.”“Where’s the part where you get beaten for existing?”Clara winced. “That doesn’t happen.”I stared at her, waiting for her to admit she was lying. But she didn’t. I felt like I was going insane. “So,” I said, “you’re telling me omegas here have rights?”Clara hesitated before nodding.I exhaled slowly. “And… you believe that’s normal?”She gave me that look again. That pitying, soft-eyed look that made the bruises on my skin itch. “It is normal.”I wanted to grab her by the shoulders and shake her. No, it’s not. It was a sick joke. A cruel illusion. If this was normal, then what the hell had my entire life been? A lie?A nightmare?I tur

ARIA We walked in silence for a long time. I kept my eyes ahead, my arms crossed tightly over my chest as Maren led me away from the omega’s hut, away from the gathering, away from the mess she had thrown me into. Finally, she spoke. "That was quite the show back there." I scoffed, adjusting the tunic draped over my shoulders. "Glad you enjoyed it." She hummed. "I’ve seen worse." "Comforting." Another silence. "You must be wondering why I helped you." I turned my head slightly, narrowing my eyes. "You mean aside from scaring the shit out of everyone?" Maren’s lips quivered, but there was no humor in her eyes. "Aside from that, yes." I hesitated before asking, "Are you… not an omega?" Her pace didn’t change. "No." My frown deepened. "Then what the hell are you?" "Beta." I stopped walking. Maren took a few more steps before realizing. She turned slightly, raising a brow. I stared at her. "Beta?" "Yes." "Aren’t betas supposed to… I don’t know, help the