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Chapter 1

After sending in my resignation, I went to the sealed Moon Hall in the farthest wing of the pack's administrative complex.It was where Adrian had once planned to hold my Luna ceremony.Eight years ago, after I was poisoned at the full moon trial and my wolf went silent, he locked the hall himself.He said that as long as I couldn't feel the pack, he would never let anyone set foot in that room.But the caretaker didn't look the least bit surprised to see me."The Alpha isn't here yet. You can wait inside. He comes every full moon and stays all night."Every full moon.That was when the moon was fullest and my wolf hurt the most.For the past eight years, whenever the full moon came, Adrian claimed he needed to be alone to stabilize the pack's mind-link.I never doubted him. Then I stepped inside and saw the truth.The long table was covered with appointment paperwork for Vivian's return to the pack.The file on top read:Reinstatement applicant: Vivian Hale.I stared at that line for

Chapter 2

After packing my bags, I went to the pack medical center where I had been treated eight years ago.The old doctor recognized me, but his first words were not what I expected."Why did you never complete the second phase? The wolfsbane purge and the psychic reconstruction?"I froze."Adrian said the risk was too high. That the odds of waking my wolf were under thirty percent."The doctor frowned.He pulled up the old records.The records filled the screen one line at a time.Wolf still responsive.Complete the purge within three months. Recovery probability: above seventy percent.Treatment cost: $480,000.Payer: Adrian Cross.When I saw the payment record, my chest seized.So he really had wanted to save me once.But that flicker of warmth lasted only a few seconds.The next page was a treatment cancellation request.Signed: Adrian Cross.The cancellation date was one day before Vivian faced the Inter-Pack Council's charges.The stated reason read:Patient emotionally unstable. Patient

Chapter 3

On the day of Vivian's reinstatement hearing, Black Pine's Beta, Marcus Cole, sent me an address.He said my acting Luna file needed to be signed for in person.I arrived at the central assembly hall to find the entrance packed with media and pack members.On the public agenda, my name was listed under "Witness to the Accident Settlement."I turned to leave.A staff member stopped me."Ms. Ward, the Alpha has already approved the agenda."I saw the document in the host's hands.Elena Ward publicly confirms: the full-moon trial incident eight years ago resulted from a medication accident and was unrelated to Vivian Hale.He had even scripted my silence for me in advance.Inside the hall, Vivian stood in a white gown, weeping for the cameras.She said she had carried the blame for eight years and had finally lived to see the pack welcome her back.Adrian stood behind her.His voice dropped to a murmur. "Don't be afraid."She had taken the stabilizer Adrian prepared for her himself.My wo

Chapter 4

I braced against the long table, black blood dripping onto the floor.Adrian looked at me.For the first time, real fear showed in his eyes.He took a step toward me.An absurd little hope even sparked in me.Maybe this time, he would steady me first.Vivian cried out for him."I can't feel my hand."The hall dissolved into chaos.Someone called for physicians.Someone evacuated the ordinary members.Someone asked if I had deliberately sabotaged Vivian's reinstatement ceremony.I could barely hear any of it.The wolfsbane locked my mind inside a pitch-black forest.Two teams of physicians arrived at once, pushing antidote into my veins and Vivian's.The lead physician looked at Adrian."The drugs can hold their bodies for now, but both of their wolves are collapsing."Your Alpha power can enter only one of their minds first. Wait any longer, and both of them may lose the ability to shift forever."Adrian stood between me and Vivian.I looked at him.My mate bond with him still held. If

Chapter 5

Half an hour later, Adrian came rushing in.He charged to the nurses' station, but I was long gone.Before the plane took off, my phone kept buzzing.The screen was full of his name.Elena, where are you?Did you go back to the main house?Rejecting a mate isn't a joke. Retract it now.Your body can't withstand the backlash. Answer me.He even forced open the broken psychic channel between mates.But all that came through was chaos and pain.For the first time, I shut that channel down completely on my own.So Adrian could search for someone this desperately after all.It was just that before, that someone was never me.The announcement told us to switch our devices to airplane mode.I took one last look out the window.The lights of Black Pine territory merged into a single glow in the dark.For eight years, I had believed I couldn't leave this place.Couldn't leave Adrian.Couldn't leave the man who stayed with me through every failed shift and taught me to run a pack without a mind-

Chapter 6

The exams at the Silver Ridge medical center took an entire day.Dr. Rachel Monroe reviewed the results, her expression grave."The wolfsbane has lingered too long. A full recovery isn't realistic."I nodded.I had known that answer for a long time.Dr. Monroe continued."But your nerves and your shift core still respond. With long-term detox, psychic stimulation, and partial shift training, your wolf may wake again."I went still."She's still alive?""She's been alive all along."All these years, the wolfsbane and trauma kept pushing her back down. Severing the mate bond dealt her another blow."The instant those words landed, my chest began to ache again.But for the first time, the ache wasn't only despair.I thought of eight years ago.Adrian had once brought me that close to recovery.Then he shut that door himself.Then he lied that an abyss waited on the other side.It wasn't an abyss.Behind that door was the other life I should have had.Elias set the treatment agreement in f

Chapter 7

During the first awakening session, the pain almost made me dig my nails into my palms.Dr. Monroe guided me as I searched for my shift core.But my mind held nothing except scrambled static, splintering bones, and the memory of wolfsbane burning into my blood eight years ago."Hold on a little longer."My body began to shake out of control.Elias stood outside the observation window.The moment he saw my body start to convulse, he shoved open the training room door and hit the emergency stop.The machine's hum cut out.He crouched in front of me and took my sweat-soaked hand in his."If it hurts, cry out. If you can't take it, stop."Elena, here with me, you don't have to prove your strength by letting yourself get hurt."Tears spilled before I could stop them.Not from the pain.Because there really was someone in this world who knew that pain was allowed to stop.No need to be sensible.No need to endure.No need to grind myself into a silent wasteland just so someone else could be

Chapter 8

Six months later, I went to Elias's office of my own accord and knocked.He was working through a border resettlement list.The moment he saw me, he closed the file and strode around the desk to meet me.I gave him my answer."I'm ready to accept our mate bond."His breath stopped for a beat.The next second, he pulled me hard into his arms.Cedar flooded around me, carrying pure, unguarded joy."Elena, do you know how long I've waited to hear that?"He lowered his head and pressed his forehead to mine, his eyes impossibly bright."From today on, everyone will know you're the mate I spent six months wooing."His heat made me laugh."Mate only. The Luna question can wait.""Deal." He held me tighter. "Today we're just celebrating that you finally want me."Two years later, I became Luna of Silver Ridge Pack.I first joined pack governance as head of the recovery program.Through border resettlement, medical reform, and the member protection initiative, I earned the recognition of Silver

Chapter 9

On the recovery program's open day, the hall filled with young people who had lost their wolves to wolfsbane and trauma.One girl was sixteen.Before her first shift, someone had fed her trace doses of wolfsbane over a long period, and her wolf had never appeared.The doctor called her name softly."Anna."The girl froze.The next second, her head snapped up."I heard her."She threw herself into her mother's arms, sobbing so hard her whole body shook.Applause broke out across the room.I stood outside the training room, my eyes warm.My own wolf still couldn't complete a full shift.But she lay quietly in the depths of my mind.I could feel her breathing.That was enough.Elias stood not far away.He had been watching me the whole time, cedar wound tight around the edge of my consciousness.His voice came through our private mental channel, barely contained."I want to walk over there and hold you right now."I answered, "The event isn't over.""I know."I've been holding back for tw

Chapter 10

Later, Adrian tried to transfer one of Black Pine's medical funds into the program I ran.It was an enormous amount.The note contained only one line.Compensation for Elena Ward.The finance officer brought me the file.I read it and told her to send it back."The program can accept public restitution from Black Pine Pack."But it will not accept Adrian Cross's private emotional debt."He came to see me himself.It was raining that day.He stood outside the office building without an umbrella.He looked the way I must have at the reinstatement hearing, waiting for him to turn around.Only back then, I had been the one in pieces.Now it was him.By the time I came downstairs, he was soaked through."Elena, I'm not here to make you take it."I just want to do something for you."I looked at him calmly."I don't lack money now."I don't lack doctors."I don't lack standing."And I don't lack people willing to stand beside me."His lips trembled."Then what do you lack?"I said, "The wolf

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