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ky'

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n't b

he

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front o

aside, but they haven'

nd hall, back straight, chin hig

in

orm

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e rejecte

l he left for h

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on

ited for the cracks to show-for my k

't get that

to

of the Blue

ieces... I wi

dy claimed the title-like betrayal had earned him a crown. His smug grin cut through the

t me as if

ut a forgotten chapter

e him...

sis

ced, and sickening. Her lips curled in a practiced pout, eyes br

orld apart and dare to we

ting into my palms, but I ref

betrayal in front of me l

they didn

storms d

str

just getti

, the weight of authority draped over him like a second skin. His presence alon

peak. He di

across the room like a blade seeking w

g. Unbl

layers of my soul with a single gaze. There was something unsettling

g I coul

ade Elena stir u

ushed i

thoughts were brewing behind those sharp, unreadable eye

em all

ld no

o my

o my

not to the Alph

silence like a warning bell. He cleared his throat, loud and purpos

echoing off the grand walls with arroga

As if he wasn't the villain in the ruins of my heart. As if he hadn't just shattered everything w

o him like he was

to

the exe

as the public hang

soul in half. Like it was just another announcement

he turned my

e wreckage, while he basked in th

est. His robe trailed behind him like a banner of false glory, his chin held high

ed in fr

of the man I once loved-and the

ith a voice as smooth as poiso

under the eyes of the Moon Goddess, I-David of Blueblood-reject you as my mat

he sm

smi

the punchline to some cruel sto

the crack of thunder. The room tr

tisfaction. And a few-just a few-waited,

b

knees and pl

I di

my soul like a wildfire-ripping, burning,

ted me t

don't shatt

y r

revised scen

. I truly beli

oken heart-felt like it had been ripped out and crushed beneath a thousan

coursing through every in

d around me lik

el and mocking, slicing

didn't

fused t

aged inside me. My hands trembled, my wolf Elena how

ueblood, accept

t again, shar

hurricane, my pain my ar

d no

d no

ruin with my h

moment of my undoi

man who once swore to love m

l regr

r than any flame. It was the kind of pain that left no r

sed to let

vid the satisfaction

ithered and turned to ash, so too

pe, the dreams, the foolish devotion-

o

as

st the ruin, sile

ment, I wasn't jus

an reborn f

day kneel before the f

with David crumbled to ash, a voice s

, her heels clicking with smug confidence. "Now th

ips, and the sheer audacity i

claiming her throne-like betrayal

y chin despite the storm inside me. My

it while it lasts," I said, my voice sharp as shattered g

oser, the crowd

. Not tomorrow. But when it matters most..

m-on everything I once loved-and walke

n my

had jus

king against the marble floor, a deep, comman

to

and the entire hall fell into sil

enched in authority-no

ality, his piercing gaze sweeping the room

he ceremony ended. The crowd slowly began to shift

pers swirl around

thin

o strong, but

r sister-ho

robably once envied me, now looking down o

didn't

n't f

eld high, my body aching

ena stirred-n

rowled, her voice echoin

e since the betrayal,

run from

brac

my eyes hardening as I push

over. Not

t. My limbs felt like they were made of stone-dragging me d

d me, and for the first tim

d against the cold wood, and my fin

t th

where the bond use

t was cold. S

at once was. A phantom ache that wouldn't let go

st be...

it shatt

ith betrayal, blo

, others carved into bone. And m

tidal wave. My limbs felt like stone, heavy with exhaustion, betrayal, and rage. My fingers br

o

Hollow. A grave

e phantom pain. Proof that what was meant to b

's ch

s bet

l eyes of the pack-every sneer, every pit

en I heard her-Elena. My wolf. My soul. She growled fro

at us, Vicky

're broken. We

p, but I didn'

this

ade reforged in flames. My eyes locked on

ed, voice deadly calm. "We a

vid's indifferent eyes, the way th

y had n

at they've

David died the moment he

er place... is

ing st

ng unfo

curse carried on the wind. "Not just for hurting

isn't

the be

nks he sh

y title, my bond, my wort

es don'

y r

hem, I wil

g in ruins around me. The air still tasted of betrayal, thick and bitter, th

hink I

ish

ain-doesn't des

e, my wolf trembling with rage, "They laug

r strength." Her growl ech

lived. The pain hadn't faded-it had evolved

ught crept in. Cold

d's

is world but one man:

ter of the Bl

.. my greate

he rejection ceremony. His face unreadable, but his eye

int

ked, s

glory. Let Lily wear the ti

ieve the

seen thei

strike wher

hen I will make the devil hi

no longer the

rm they neve

David and Lily will wish they

didn

vol

d at my reflection-no longer the girl who begg

hispered, voice laced with venom, "...

tlefield or titles etched in gold. Sometimes, strength was silent-co

t

was r

rg

gh every scar

ver s

re

tangled in sheets with my sister-to r

w long his d

en the Alpha he fears most can't r

lips slowly,

lence, "how it feels when the monster you

and deliberate, as I felt the fire in

ice laced in

longer

the Luna of h

o my eyes and sees not weakness

devil will sa