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Follow a powerful story where relationships are tested, hidden truths are revealed, and lives change forever. From romantic moments to shocking surprises, this drama keeps you engaged from beginning to end.
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00:00:1510 years of being bullied, the day I turned 16, two wolf kings tearing each other apart,
00:00:23over me. And that? That's not even my biggest secret. My name's Leah, just an ordinary human girl.
00:00:33My parents never once really looked at me. When I was six, I made an enemy of Zane,
00:00:39the hottest, richest, most dangerous boy in town. I accidentally spilled a glass of orange juice on
00:00:46him. He never lays a hand on me himself. That's what the hounds are for.
00:00:53Their leader, Warner, rips my notes to shreds.
00:00:58Get on your knees and apologize. Five, four. I didn't do anything.
00:01:05You're breathing. That's enough. A crowd circles us. Not one person speaks up for me.
00:01:14Then a hand clamps down on Warner's wrist, a boy I've never seen before. Let her go.
00:01:20This isn't your business, new kid. I can't stand men who terrorize a girl and think it makes them tough.
00:01:27Warner takes a step back under his stare. The boy turns to me.
00:01:34Don't be scared. I've got you.
00:01:37Who are you?
00:01:39My name's Blake Walker. In that moment, he felt like my guardian angel. But at the back of the crowd,
00:01:47the way Zane looks at Blake shifts, like he's watching a wolf stroll into his territory.
00:01:53Warner, enough.
00:01:56Zane never steps in. But today, he called them off.
00:02:01After school, they stuff me into a locker and lock it in a way of punishing me for fighting back.
00:02:07Let me out! Let me out!
00:02:09But the hall's empty. No one can hear me. I'm scared of the dark. And yet, in the pitch black,
00:02:17I can see everything. Every scratch. Every screw. Crystal clear. That's my second secret.
00:02:25Then I hear footsteps. Getting closer.
00:02:29I brace for another beating. Worse this time.
00:02:33Who's there? Are you gonna-
00:02:36The door is pried open from the outside. It's Zane, of all people.
00:02:41You? Why would you-
00:02:43Don't talk. Get out.
00:02:46As he pulls me out, his fingertips brush mine, and a shiver runs through me.
00:02:50Hey, what are you playing at?
00:02:52He says nothing. Just looks at me once, then turns and walks away.
00:02:57Back home, lying in bed, it hits me. Today's my birthday. And Zane, we share the exact same birthday.
00:03:04That night, I have the dream again. The one I get every birthday.
00:03:11Under a blood moon, a silver wolf lowers its head to me.
00:03:16I don't know what it means. I only know I'm not like everyone else. Then, the window bursts open with
00:03:23a bang.
00:03:24I jolt awake. A massive wolf leaps into my room.
00:03:33I let out a scream. It steps up to my bed, leans in, and sniffs at my neck. A pair
00:03:39of blue eyes.
00:03:40It gives me one last look, then leaps back out the window.
00:03:44I don't dare sleep the whole night. Next morning, I've got dark circles down to my chin.
00:03:55Time to break out the makeup.
00:04:00Blake's taking me out tonight for my birthday.
00:04:05Just then, the window slides open from the outside.
00:04:10It's Zane. He climbs in and sits on the edge of my bed.
00:04:13How did you get in? This is my house!
00:04:15That wolf last night, it didn't scare you too bad, did it?
00:04:19How do you know about the wolf? I never told anyone.
00:04:22Take a guess.
00:04:26Your eyes. They're exactly like that wolf's.
00:04:31The door gets kicked open. It's Blake.
00:04:35I followed your scent all the way here. Sneaking into a room in the middle of the night. What are
00:04:39you after?
00:04:39Scent? What are you two even talking about?
00:04:42Since when is anything about her your business?
00:04:47The two of them lunge at each other. Chairs go flying. A glass shatters on the floor.
00:04:52Stop it! Both of you, stop!
00:04:55Zane takes hit after hit.
00:04:57But he keeps his eyes locked on me, and never throws a single punch back.
00:05:01Finally, Blake drags him out the door, into the woods behind the house.
00:05:05The next day, in class, they act like nothing happened. Not a scratch on their faces or hands.
00:05:12Like that fight never took place. I look down, and run my fingers over my own wrist.
00:05:18There have been countless wounds here too, gone by morning. That's my third secret.
00:05:23Every time they kicked and beat me, my wounds would heal, fast. So fast that I had to find ways
00:05:29to hide them.
00:05:29The wounds gone overnight. I know this all too well. Because that's exactly how I am. Could it be,
00:05:38they're the same as me?
00:05:44After school, the second I walk out the gate, I see Zane leaning against his car, waiting.
00:05:50I pretend not to notice, and try to slip past him. But he opens the car door and blocks my
00:05:55way.
00:05:55Get in. Just this once, I won't hurt you. Why would I get in your car?
00:06:00Because there's something I want to give back to you.
00:06:05Give back to me?
00:06:08The car drives out of town, the view growing emptier by the mile.
00:06:12Where are you taking me? This isn't the way home.
00:06:14You'll see when we get there.
00:06:16I grip the seat belt, my head full of the worst possibility.
00:06:18This is another one of your pranks.
00:06:20It's not. Not this time.
00:06:21The car stops in front of a huge house I've never seen before. It's dark inside. He raises a hand
00:06:27and
00:06:28gently covers my eyes. Keep them closed.
00:06:32The lights come on. Balloons everywhere. And on the cake, my name. This is...
00:06:39Ten years ago, your sixth birthday. I ruined it. You haven't had one since. So I didn't celebrate mine
00:06:44either. Not until I'd made yours right. That cup of orange juice. That humiliation in front of the
00:06:51whole school. He remembered all along. He hands me a box. I open it. It's a photo album. I turn
00:07:03the pages
00:07:04one by one. They're all of me. Me, head down in class. Me, eating alone in the corner of the
00:07:10yard.
00:07:11Me, fighting back tears as they shoved me around. Ten whole years. Not a single one missing.
00:07:19You've been watching me this whole time?
00:07:22You thought no one saw you. But for ten years, I always did.
00:07:27You were never invisible.
00:07:29I hold back the tears. Then why did you never step in all those times I was bullied?
00:07:35Zane's face turns pain.
00:07:36Some things aren't what you think. I have my reasons.
00:07:39Reasons? Does it have something to do with you and Blake fighting?
00:07:42Don't go there, Leah. Just know this. I'll always protect you.
00:07:46As he says it, his eyes sweep the darkness outside the window, like he's on guard against something.
00:07:52I follow his gaze. Nothing there. But every hair on the back of my neck stands on out.
00:08:02That night, I barely slept. What on earth was Zane guarding against?
00:08:07The next day at school, I noticed things were different. Warner saw me from a distance and
00:08:12actually went out of his way to avoid me. The people who'd bullied me for ten years all lowered
00:08:17their heads when they saw me. That uneasy feeling in me only grew heavier. At lunch,
00:08:22I carried my tray toward my usual spot in the corner. Suddenly, the whole cafeteria went dead
00:08:27quiet in an instant. And the next second, the floor-to-ceiling window exploded with a deafening
00:08:32crash. Glass rained down like a storm. A black wolf, bigger than any animal I'd ever seen,
00:08:38stepped in over the broken glass. Its fur was carkole black. Its eyes, red enough to drip blood.
00:08:44Screams tore through the air. Everyone stampeded toward the exits.
00:08:48I got knocked to the ground by the crowd. When I lifted my head, the black wolf was
00:08:54staring dead at me. It crouched low and launched. I didn't even have time to be afraid. I just threw
00:09:01up my arms, uselessly. At the last possible second, a figure threw itself in front of me. It was Zane.
00:09:12He didn't dodge. He charged straight at the wolf instead. And then, right in front of me,
00:09:18his body began to shake and contort violently. I heard bones snap and reset. Silver blue fur pushed
00:09:24out through his torn clothes. Seconds later, it wasn't Zane standing in front of me anymore.
00:09:28It was a massive, silver blue wolf. It turned its head and looked at me. Those same blue eyes. I
00:09:36knew it.
00:09:37The wolf from a few nights ago. The one that broke into my room and leaned in at my neck.
00:09:41Zane really
00:09:42is a wolf. The two beasts tore into each other across the cafeteria. The red-eyed black wolf was
00:09:48no match for Zane in the end. It broke free and fled through the shattered window. I sat collapsed in
00:09:53the wreckage. The entire world I'd known for 16 years came crashing down in that one minute.
00:10:00Werewolves are real. And Zane, who bullied me for 10 years, then strangely got close to me,
00:10:06is one of them. Before I could pull myself together, Blake and a few others had surrounded me. Blake
00:10:11crouched down, blocking my view. Look at me. You have to stay calm. You can't read a word of what
00:10:17you saw
00:10:18to anyone. Not one word. It's not just your life on the line. I couldn't take in a single thing
00:10:25he
00:10:26said. I scrambled up off the floor, shoved past them, and ran without looking back. I don't know
00:10:33how I made it home. I burst into my room and locked the door behind me. Back against the cold
00:10:39door,
00:10:39I gasped for air. But when I looked up, Zane was sitting on my windowsill, those blue eyes,
00:10:47glowing faintly in the dark, exactly like that wolf. I told you, I'll protect you. Back against
00:10:55the door, I stared hard at him on the windowsill, those blue eyes, exactly like the wolves in the
00:11:00cafeteria. If I wanted to hurt you, I'd have done it 10 years ago. He climbed down from the sill,
00:11:04slowly. That wasn't makeup. It wasn't a magic trick. I saw you turn into a wolf with my own eyes.
00:11:11What are you? We're werewolves. We've lived hidden among humans for generations. We have our own packs,
00:11:18our own rules. We never harm the innocent, and I'm the next leader of this pack. The Alpha.
00:11:23The whole school saw it. How do you hide that? Tomorrow's news will call it a gas explosion.
00:11:31And the witnesses will forget what they shouldn't remember. That's how the pack handles things.
00:11:38I slid down the door until I was sitting on the floor. Werewolves. Alpha. Words straight out of a
00:11:45fantasy novel, and every one of them was real. He crouched down, level with my eyes,
00:11:55and said the thing that truly made my head spin. Leah, you're my fated mate.
00:12:02What?
00:12:04The one the moon goddess made for every wolf. The only other half we get. For life.
00:12:10It's why our fingertips spark the second they touch.
00:12:18Why I can pick out your scent in a hallway packed with people. From the moment you spilled that orange
00:12:23juice on me when you were six. I knew it was you. I couldn't get out a single word.
00:12:29So these ten years were never just bullying. This was the truth buried underneath. Just then,
00:12:35the door burst open again. It was Blake. He'd tracked my scent, rushed in, and put himself between me and
00:12:41Zane.
00:12:45Then he turned and looked at me, and said the words that frozen the blood in my veins.
00:12:50Leah, you're not just his fated mate. Blake paused.
00:12:55You're mine too.
00:12:58The room went dead silent. I looked at Zane, then at Blake.
00:13:05That's impossible. Even Zane's face changed.
00:13:09One person. The fated mate of two alphas at once. In a thousand years. Unheard of.
00:13:17And I was that unheard of?
00:13:20I looked at these two men fighting red-faced over me. A fury I didn't even know I had came
00:13:26rushing up.
00:13:27I pushed off the floor and stood up. Enough! I don't care about the moon goddess or fated mates.
00:13:32I'm a person. Not a prize for you two to split between you. Who I love. And when? That's my
00:13:38choice.
00:13:39Not some goddess I've never even met deciding for me. Both men froze. But I was past caring.
00:13:46I shoved them both out the door. I sank to the floor, my chest still heaving. I looked around my
00:13:52pitch dark room. Every outline of every piece of furniture. Unnaturally clear.
00:13:59I thought of the wounds that healed overnight, never leaving a scar. And the silver wolf under the
00:14:05blood moon, lowering its head to me. Again and again. Am I really human at all?
00:14:12After that night, I did everything I could to avoid them both.
00:14:19But those two clung to me like shadows I couldn't shake.
00:14:25I started to suspect Blake. I went to find Zane. That black wolf in the cafeteria,
00:14:33the timing was too perfect. Right when he happened to be there. And it went for me,
00:14:37and only me. He was quiet for a moment, then laid out the truth.
00:14:43That rogue wolf. Blake lured it there on purpose. He wanted to play the hero who saves you. Then use
00:14:49the moment to tell you the truth. And win you over completely. Fear crept over me. So it was all
00:14:55staged. He'd shoved me into danger just to earn a scrape of my trust. And what about you? If I'm
00:15:03supposedly your fated mate, why did you stand by and watch me get bullied for ten years?
00:15:09He was silent for a long time. Someone tried to set your hair on fire. I stopped it. And worse
00:15:14than that, I shut that down too. I couldn't make it too obvious. Or I'd have exposed you to a
00:15:22far
00:15:22more dangerous enemy. Zane offered to drive me home, but I waved him off. I didn't know who to trust.
00:15:31I wandered through the school grounds in a daze. That's when Sheila,
00:15:36one of Zane's crew, cornered me. Don't think being the fated mate it makes you special.
00:15:42If you bring trouble to the pack, Zane won't hesitate to eliminate any threat.
00:15:48Including those useless human friends of yours. I could feel the killing instinct behind her words.
00:15:54She meant Christy, my best friend, and my parents. In that moment, fear drowned out everything else.
00:16:00I couldn't let them get dragged, because of me, into a world where people turn into wolves and kill.
00:16:06I had to get as far away from all of it as I could. Back home, I locked the door
00:16:11and opened my laptop,
00:16:12searching like a mad woman how to get rid of werewolves. After a long while, I found a hidden page.
00:16:19An organization that called itself a werewolf hunting group. They were called The Order.
00:16:24I stared at the contact link. My finger hovered over the keyboard. That death threat had burned away my last
00:16:30shred of reason.
00:16:32I closed my eyes. And sent a message.
00:16:46After I sent that message, nothing happened. I figured it had sunk without a trace.
00:16:52Then, over the next few days, Zane suddenly vanished. His whole crew disappeared from school with him.
00:17:01Instead of relief, I felt heavy, hollow, uneasy, like I'd lost something. Until he came back,
00:17:08with a girl I'd never seen tucked under his arm, laughing together, walking right past me.
00:17:14I felt a wave of misery. But even more, I was furious.
00:17:20I hid in a supply closet. He followed me in and prinsed me against the door.
00:17:25What do you think you're doing? Why are you hiding in here alone? I thought you didn't care about me.
00:17:31Who said I cared? I just, I just... Disappearing. The girl. All of it. It was all for you to
00:17:36see.
00:17:37I wanted you to taste what being away from your fated mate feels like. I was angry and hurt.
00:17:42And that's when, shaking, I told him about contacting The Order. His expression changed in an instant.
00:17:50You did what? The Order isn't some online joke!
00:17:56They're real. They hunt us with silver and wolf pipe. These days I've been gone. I was tracking the
00:18:03hunters who slipped into town. I'd caused a disaster. I was too eaten up with guilt to speak. But he
00:18:09just
00:18:09pulled me into his arms. It's not your fault. I'll take care of everything.
00:18:15Then, for the first time, he looked me dead in the eyes.
00:18:19I love you, Leah. I... I don't know. Zane just smiled.
00:18:23You'll understand one day how fated the mate bond really is.
00:18:30Before I could even answer that, disaster struck. After I left Zane, Blake stopped me in the hallway.
00:18:38Leah, please. Give me one chance to explain. I don't even know who to trust anymore.
00:18:44Here's a deal. Let me show you the real werewolf world to make it up to you.
00:18:48You'd better not take me anywhere weird.
00:18:50Leah, trust me just once. I won't hurt you.
00:18:59I nodded and agreed. At the restaurant, he was in the middle of saying something.
00:19:06When suddenly, a silver-tipped crossbow bolt poured through his shoulder without warning.
00:19:12It's the order.
00:19:15Tables flipped, the crowd scattered screaming.
00:19:18I was shoved and fell into the chaos. A rogue wolf launched at me.
00:19:23It's poisoned claws ripped open my body.
00:19:27After the searing pain came a fast-spreading cold.
00:19:31Zane arrived in time with his people.
00:19:34But the world before my eyes was going dark bit by bit.
00:19:38I collapsed to the ground.
00:19:40The last thing I heard was Zane screaming my name.
00:19:46Then, in the darkness, the silver wolf appeared again.
00:19:58A blood moon hung high in the sky. It didn't lunge at me.
00:20:03It just walked slowly up to me and lowered its head.
00:20:07Like it was waiting for me to follow, I followed it to the edge of a river.
00:20:11It gestured for me to look into the water. I leaned down. The reflection in the water wasn't me.
00:20:18It was a figure glowing all over with silver light. I wanted to see it more clearly.
00:20:23But a roar yanked me back. It was Zane's voice.
00:20:28I opened my eyes. The pack-in-ferminary.
00:20:34Zane knelt by my bed. His eyes red.
00:20:37I found out later that the rogue wolf's claws had been laced with deadly poison.
00:20:42The pack-healer said I couldn't be saved. Unless they turned me into a werewolf.
00:20:46But turning requires my own consent. And unconscious, no one had the right to make that choice for me.
00:20:53Zane didn't force it. He just gave me his blood, over and over.
00:21:01Kneeling by the bed, praying to the moon goddess. Begging me to hold on.
00:21:08Begging me to come back to him.
00:21:11You're awake.
00:21:13His voice was shaking.
00:21:15Don't move. The poison just cleared your system.
00:21:18But the strange thing was, I didn't feel the weakness of someone just off death's door.
00:21:23Instead, my whole body was filled with an unfamiliar strength.
00:21:26I could hear heartbeats in the next room.
00:21:29Smell the food cooking downstairs. See the tiniest speck of dust in the air.
00:21:35Zane, what did you do to me?
00:21:39I gave you my blood. Werewolf blood has healing power.
00:21:43But deep down I knew, it wasn't just that. I thought of that river.
00:21:47Of the silver glowing me in the water.
00:21:51Zane, while I was unconscious, I saw a silver wolf.
00:21:56Zane went still.
00:21:58It was just a dream.
00:21:59He said it too fast. Fast enough to be hiding something.
00:22:03I survived. But that silver glowing me in the river? Who was she, really?
00:22:12After that near fatal injury, Zane practically moved into my room.
00:22:16Every night he'd climb in through the window, change my bandages, watch over me as I slept.
00:22:22I'd complain that he was a pain. But with him there, I slept soundly, somehow.
00:22:27My wounds healed frighteningly fast.
00:22:29In under three days, that poisoned claw wound was just a faint mark. A normal person needs a month to
00:22:35recover.
00:22:36You're not normal. You've known that for a while, haven't you?
00:22:40I didn't answer, because I had more secrets than he realized.
00:22:43Those days, I noticed I was changing. Through a wall, I could hear my parents talking. Without my glasses,
00:22:50I could read words clear across the yard. I was becoming less and less human.
00:22:56But every time I tried to press him, Zane changed the subject. Until that night, when I pretended to be
00:23:02asleep and heard him at the window, on the phone, keeping his voice low.
00:23:07Found the hunter's hideout. Make it clean. Don't let Leah know. This kind of thing, it can't stain her hands.
00:23:17Tears welled up in my eyes, so he'd been keeping all the blood and violence somewhere I'd never see it.
00:23:22The next morning, he handed me breakfast like nothing had happened. As if nothing had happened at all.
00:23:29Sleep okay last night?
00:23:30Yeah. Pretty well.
00:23:32I didn't call him out. I looked at the dark circles under his eyes, and smiled softly. But the calm
00:23:37didn't last more than a few days.
00:23:39After school that day, Blake stopped me. His eyes were an unnatural red.
00:23:45Leah, you belong to me and me alone. If you won't choose, then I'll choose for you.
00:23:52He took me to the woods behind the school.
00:23:56What do you mean, you'll choose for me?
00:23:58Leah, Zane has been lying to you.
00:24:00You're the one who lied to me. That wolf that attacked me, you lured it in.
00:24:05His face darkened, little by little.
00:24:08That's because I couldn't wait any longer. You're my fated mate.
00:24:13You belong to me.
00:24:16I don't belong to anyone. I turned to leave.
00:24:19But he grabbed my wrist, his grip shockingly strong.
00:24:24That hypocrite Zane doesn't dare mark you.
00:24:30But I do.
00:24:31I looked back, those red eyes, deeper than last time.
00:24:35Once I bite down, you're mine forever. Not even the moon goddess could take you away.
00:24:41His fangs edged closer to my neck.
00:24:44Let go of me! Blake, you're insane!
00:24:48And that's when…
00:24:51A roar shook the entire forest. Zane came slamming in like a black fleur.
00:24:56One punch sent Blake flying. He put himself between me and Blake.
00:25:01You lay one hand on her. I'll tear you apart.
00:25:05I'd never heard Zane's voice so cold.
00:25:08Blake got up off the ground, blood at the corner of his mouth.
00:25:12Why does it get to be you?
00:25:14She's my fated mate too! I have the right!
00:25:17You have no right at all. A mark has to be willing.
00:25:23What you're trying to seize with fangs isn't a mate.
00:25:27It's a slave.
00:25:31The two wolves collided in the woods.
00:25:35Trees snapped at the root. Dirt flew everywhere.
00:25:42In the end, Zane pinned Blake down. His people arrived and dragged Blake away.
00:25:49Zane turned and pulled me into his arms.
00:25:53I was still shaking.
00:25:55What was he trying to do to me just now?
00:25:59Force a mark on you.
00:26:00What is that?
00:26:02A mark is the deepest bond between wolves.
00:26:05A willing mark links two souls together.
00:26:11But a forced mark…
00:26:13He stopped, like he couldn't bear to go on.
00:26:15…strips off all your will.
00:26:17You'd forget who you are.
00:26:19For the rest of your life, you'd trail after the one who marked you.
00:26:23Like a shadow.
00:26:24Never yourself again.
00:26:26The blood in my veins ran cold.
00:26:28Just now, I'd come this close.
00:26:30To never being me again.
00:26:32Why won't you mark me?
00:26:34It slipped out before I could stop it.
00:26:36Zane looked at me for a long time.
00:26:38Because what I want is for you to come to me on your own.
00:26:40Not someone I sank my teeth into.
00:26:43I hugged him, gently.
00:26:49He just held me back, just as gently.
00:26:53Zane left guards to watch my house.
00:26:58That night was a full moon.
00:27:01I leaned by the window, looking at that big, round moon.
00:27:04I felt something deep inside me, slowly waking up.
00:27:08I fell asleep with that flutter in my chest.
00:27:12But when I opened my eyes again…
00:27:15I wasn't in my bed.
00:27:17I was lying naked in a strange forest.
00:27:23I lay naked in a strange forest, shivering with cold.
00:27:27It wasn't dawn yet.
00:27:30But strangely, I could see everything around me crystal clear.
00:27:34The veins of every leaf.
00:27:36Every insect crawling under the rotting leaves.
00:27:39All of it came to my eyes magnified, sharp.
00:27:42I followed instinct towards town.
00:27:44The gravel underfoot cut my soles open.
00:27:46I looked down.
00:27:47The wounds were closing, bit by bit.
00:27:49I wasn't even shocked by this kind of thing anymore.
00:27:52Just as I was about to give out, a pounding of footsteps came from deep in the woods.
00:27:57A huge, silver-blue wolf came crashing through the brush.
00:28:01It was Zane.
00:28:02He shifted back to human in front of me, tore off his coat to wrap me up, and crushed me
00:28:08into his arms.
00:28:10I searched for you all night.
00:28:12How on earth did you end up out here?
00:28:15I don't know.
00:28:16I was asleep in my own bed, with your guards right outside the door.
00:28:20I closed my eyes, opened them again, and I was in these woods.
00:28:24The door never opened. The window wasn't broken.
00:28:27He stared at me, brow knotted tight.
00:28:29My people watched all night and saw nothing.
00:28:32Only a white light, shooting out of your window. And then you were gone.
00:28:37A white light? How can a person turn into a beam of light?
00:28:41He opened his mouth, but in the end said nothing.
00:28:44But I could feel it plainly. He knew something, and just wouldn't tell me.
00:28:49In that moment, a thought I'd buried for 16 years finally broke loose.
00:28:55Back home, I cornered my parents on the spot.
00:28:58Mom, I'm gonna ask you one thing, and you have to answer me honestly.
00:29:04Am I, am I actually your biological daughter?
00:29:06The cup in my mother's hand shattered on the floor.
00:29:09I could hear, clear as day, her heartbeat scramble into chaos.
00:29:13Why are you suddenly asking this?
00:29:15Don't change the subject.
00:29:18She froze in place, face drained white. My father was silent a long time, then finally sighed.
00:29:2516 years ago, on a rainy night, we opened the door and on the step, we found you.
00:29:31Found me?
00:29:32You were lying in a basket. No note, no name. Just wrapped in a silver blanket.
00:29:41In the kitchen, it was quiet enough to hear the rain.
00:29:46Even who I am turned out to be a lie. The parents I'd called mom and dad for 16 years
00:29:53shared not a single drop of blood with me.
00:29:58The days after I learned I was abandoned, I moved through everything in a daze.
00:30:03Zane just held me, his chin resting on the top of my head.
00:30:07Being left behind wasn't your fault. I found you. That's enough.
00:30:11I didn't say anything. My head was full of that silver blanket and the silver wolf.
00:30:18Zane, you've known some things for a while now, haven't you? His hand paused.
00:30:23I have a guess. One I've sat on for a long time.
00:30:27Say it.
00:30:28Your wounds heal overnight. You can see in a pitch black room.
00:30:33He looked at me.
00:30:34You can vanish from under my guard's noses. Any one of those three, no human can do.
00:30:40Maybe it's a sign I'm about to become a werewolf?
00:30:43No.
00:30:44He shook his head.
00:30:47Turning requires being marked first, awakened by an alpha's blood.
00:30:52You've been through none of that. What you have, you were born with it.
00:30:56My breathing slowly came apart. You're saying I was never human from the day I was born?
00:31:04I don't know what you are, but I'm certain of one thing. You are anything but ordinary.
00:31:09I didn't argue, because I'd said those exact words to myself countless times.
00:31:15Just then, the door pushed open. It was Blake. In front of everyone, he dropped straight to his knees.
00:31:22Zane stepped in front of me at once.
00:31:24What are you doing here?
00:31:26Earlier that day in the woods, I lost control. That wasn't the real me. The order drugged me.
00:31:32I scoffed. Drugged? You seemed plenty clear-headed when you were trying to mark me.
00:31:36I know you don't believe me.
00:31:39Zane. He lifted his head and stared me down.
00:31:43But there's one thing I'll swear on my life. The person the order wants, from the very start,
00:31:48it's been you. Why me?
00:31:51I don't know. But they've been investigating for a whole year. A whole town of werewolves to hunt,
00:31:58and they're fixated on you alone. Zane cut him off. Enough. Get out. Zane, you can protect her for now.
00:32:08Blake stood up and looked at me. But you don't even dare tell her what she is.
00:32:13Zane's face changed in an instant. So he really was hiding something from me.
00:32:18Those days, I started having the same dream, over and over. No longer just the silver wolf lowering
00:32:24its head. Under a blood-red moon, tens of thousands of wolves. All of them, kneeling to me in unison.
00:32:32And I stood in the middle of them, like a worshipped god. I jolted awake, cold sweats,
00:32:40and are soaking my back. What was this dream trying to tell me? And that blood moon, when would it
00:32:45truly rise?
00:32:48That day, I dragged my best friend Christy to the burger place in town.
00:32:52You've been all secret-y lately. You seeing someone?
00:32:57Something like that. Ooh-hoo! Spill!
00:33:01I just opened my mouth. A gunshot shattered the glass. Amid the screams, the crowd surged toward
00:33:08the door. I got knocked to the floor. A bullet grazed my arm. Blood came pouring out.
00:33:14Leah! You're bleeding!
00:33:15But right there, under her palm, the wound closed. Fast enough to watch. The blood was still there,
00:33:22but the wound was gone. She saw all of it. Just then, Blake shoved through the crowd and rushed
00:33:28in. He pulled me behind him, his green-gold eyes sweeping the room. Come with me, now. One of us
00:33:35in
00:33:35each hand, he dragged us out the back door. Gunfire cracked behind us, but he kept his back between me
00:33:42and the bullets the whole way. Once we were safe, he locked the door behind us. That was the order.
00:33:48They've locked onto you. How do you know they came for me? Because I've been tracking them this whole
00:33:54time. He stared at me. Zane protects you. So do I. You can hate me, but I won't watch you
00:34:06die. For a
00:34:07moment, I felt strangely off balance. Zane arrived fast. The second he was through the door, he pulled me
00:34:14behind him and glared danglets at Blake. What are you after this time? I saved her. You might not
00:34:21have been fast enough. Christy was standing in the corner, shaking all over. I walked over to her.
00:34:27First, promise me, you won't be scared of me after you hear this. You go first. There are people in
00:34:33this world who turn into wolves. I lifted the arm that had been bleeding moments ago,
00:34:38and I might be something even stranger than they are.
00:34:43She was stunned for a long time. Then, eyes rimmed red, she threw her arms around me.
00:34:50You carried this alone for ten whole years. Why wouldn't you just tell me? Those people with the
00:34:56guns, will they come back? Yes. So I have to go, somewhere that can keep me safe. And you will
00:35:06be
00:35:06okay? I don't know. Behind me, Zane spoke, low. The blood moon is almost here. Before then,
00:35:17I have to get you hidden. I saw that even Blank had gone pale.
00:35:22The day after the shooting, Zane was waiting at my door, his face grim.
00:35:28Pack your things. You can't stay in town anymore.
00:35:34Why? This is my home. That shot at the burger place was meant for you.
00:35:42The Order already knows where you live. Stay here, and you're a sitting duck.
00:35:50Then where can I go? I'm taking you back to the pack.
00:35:57There are wards there, and guards. It's the only place in the world that can protect you.
00:36:03I looked at the bloodshot in his eyes, and nodded.
00:36:08He took me to meet his parents. The pack's former Alpha and his mate. My palms were sweating with
00:36:15nerves, but the way they looked at me was full of warmth. Welcome, child. We've waited a long time for
00:36:24this day. Waited for me? But we've never even met. From the day Zane recognized you,
00:36:36the whole pack has been waiting for his fated mate. Zane's mother smiled. From today on, you are this
00:36:43pack's future Luna. Luna? The Alpha's mate? The queen of the pack? Me? A foundling left on a doorstep?
00:36:52And now I was to become the queen of a pack of werewolves? That night, the pack threw a feast
00:36:58for me.
00:36:58For the first time, I felt like I might belong somewhere. After the feast, Zane walked me down to
00:37:05the lake behind the house. Thank you for today, I said softly. Your mother was so kind to me.
00:37:13He looked at me. They could tell. How badly I want to keep you. My heart skipped a beat.
00:37:24Zane. Hmm? There's something I've wanted to ask you. You said fated mates are decided by the moon
00:37:34goddess. So if you set the goddess aside, set all of this aside, would you still like me? He was
00:37:44quiet
00:37:45for a moment. Then he reached out and gently tucked my loose hair behind my ear. Leah. I watched over
00:37:52you for ten years. Not because a goddess told me you were my fated mate. Because I watched you get
00:37:58shoved and mocked. And never once bow your head. Anyone else would have broken. But you didn't.
00:38:07What I love is you. The person you are. The goddess has nothing to do with it.
00:38:13I looked down, smiling shyly. So, what are we now, exactly?
00:38:20I'm formally asking you for an answer. He lowered his head, resting his forehead against mine.
00:38:28Leah Snow, be my girlfriend. Not a fated mate. Just my girlfriend.
00:38:42Okay. I stood on my toes and gently hugged him. It was the first time in 16 years that I
00:38:52reached for
00:38:53someone on my own. That night under heavy guard. I fell asleep with a peace I'd never known. But the
00:39:04next day,
00:39:05once again, I woke up in the wild. Naked. Soaked in dew. At first, I thought it was like last
00:39:14time.
00:39:16But when I pushed myself up, I saw my hands. My hands. My body. Covered in blood.
00:39:23I froze. The blood wasn't mine. I followed the trail of it and turned my head. Beside me lay a
00:39:32corpse.
00:39:34A man I didn't know, his throat torn open. No. It wasn't me. I stumbled backward and hit a tree.
00:39:42Was it me? Did I do this? While I was blacked out? Zane and his people found me fast.
00:39:51Don't look. He pulled me into his arms, blocking my view. Zane, was it me? Did I kill him?
00:39:59No. How do you know it wasn't? That blood came off my hands. Calm down. He let go of me,
00:40:07crouched beside the body, and studied the wound closely. His face grew darker and darker.
00:40:15What is it? What do you see? Come look at this cut. The edges. Too clean.
00:40:25So what if they're clean? Real claws tear flesh ragged, with hooks. But this wound was sliced
00:40:32open with a blade, then clawed to look like a scratch. My breath slowly stopped.
00:40:38You're saying someone did this on purpose? Someone killed him, then arranged the body beside you.
00:40:48Zane stood fury pressed beneath his voice. Timed so you'd wake and see it with your own eyes.
00:40:55Why? Why would they do this to me? Because what they want isn't to kill you.
00:41:01He looked at me. It's to make you brand yourself a monster. Make you fear yourself.
00:41:06Hate yourself. Until you can never trust anyone again. I stood frozen, cold all over. So ever since
00:41:14the day I first vanished, someone had been scheming against me, step by step, from the shadows.
00:41:23But I'm nothing. I'm just a foundling, left on a doorstep.
00:41:30What could they possibly want from me?
00:41:33Zane fell silent.
00:41:36You've gone quiet again. I grabbed him.
00:41:40What are you hiding from me?
00:41:42When you're ready, I'll tell you everything.
00:41:46I want to know now!
00:41:49It's not time yet.
00:41:51He avoided my eyes.
00:41:53What am I, really?
00:41:55Why would someone set up a scheme like this?
00:41:58Just to force me to destroy myself with my own hands?
00:42:04After the frame-up, I couldn't sleep easy anymore.
00:42:09I stopped pressing Zane.
00:42:11I decided to look into it myself.
00:42:15That night, I slipped into the Pax archive of old books.
00:42:19I didn't know what I was looking for.
00:42:22I just felt the answer was buried in these ancient texts.
00:42:25You shouldn't be here.
00:42:27A voice behind me. It was Blake. How did you even get in?
00:42:30I followed your scent.
00:42:32He glanced at the book in my hands.
00:42:35The origin of the wolves. What are you digging into?
00:42:38None of your business.
00:42:39Leah, let me help you.
00:42:42Why would I trust you?
00:42:43Because I'm not like Zane.
00:42:45He hides everything from you.
00:42:47But me?
00:42:51I'm willing to tell you the truth.
00:42:53Then tell me.
00:42:55What am I, really?
00:42:57Blake opened his mouth.
00:42:58But just then, the door pushed open.
00:43:01Zane stood in the doorway, his face like iron.
00:43:04Blake, out.
00:43:06I put myself between them.
00:43:08Enough!
00:43:09I'm sick of you two treating me like a child.
00:43:12Zane, you keep saying it's not time yet.
00:43:15But the one being framed, hunted, who doesn't even know what she is, is me.
00:43:23Zane was silent for a long time.
00:43:26You're right.
00:43:27He finally spoke.
00:43:29The old texts speak of a being.
00:43:32She isn't a wolf, yet she is the source of all wolves.
00:43:36The source.
00:43:37What does that mean?
00:43:39Legend says the moon goddess had a, a lost daughter.
00:43:44She was cast into the human world, and hidden away, and every sign.
00:43:50He looked at me.
00:43:52Healing, night vision, vanishing into light, the dream of the blood moon and the kneeling wolves.
00:43:58All of it points to one person.
00:44:00My heart started pounding.
00:44:03You're saying, that person is me?
00:44:06I can't be certain, but every single thing about you fits.
00:44:11And if, if it really is me?
00:44:14Then the order's reason for hunting you makes sense.
00:44:17Zane's voice was heavy.
00:44:19What they fear was never a foundling.
00:44:22It's a god.
00:44:25One who can command every wolf alive.
00:44:28I sank into the chair.
00:44:29A worthless girl left on a doorstep, bullied for ten years.
00:44:34How could I be the daughter of a god?
00:44:36I, I don't believe it.
00:44:38I shook my head.
00:44:39I'm just an ordinary person.
00:44:41Ordinary people don't keep turning into light and vanishing as the blood moon nears.
00:44:45Zane crouched down and took my hands.
00:44:49Leah, the blood moon is getting closer.
00:44:52That night, the power in you may fully awaken.
00:44:57And after it wakes?
00:44:59I don't know.
00:45:01For the first time, he showed fear in front of me.
00:45:08All I know is, the order is waiting for that night too.
00:45:14Those few days, strangely, I got to live like a normal person.
00:45:18The people who used to bully me kept their heads down when they saw me.
00:45:22You know they're scared of me now, right?
00:45:24Zane murmured.
00:45:26I am your future Luna, after all.
00:45:28He looked at me.
00:45:29You are.
00:45:31Theirs.
00:45:32And mine.
00:45:33Something had been nagging at me lately.
00:45:35Blake had disappeared.
00:45:36Not answering calls.
00:45:38Not showing up at school.
00:45:39Where did Blake go?
00:45:41I asked Zane.
00:45:42Don't worry about him.
00:45:44He frowned.
00:45:45One less person watching you?
00:45:46I sleep better.
00:45:47But I had a feeling it wasn't that simple.
00:45:50After school that day, Zane dragged me to the library.
00:45:55He suddenly seemed a little awkward.
00:45:58Leah, there's something I want to ask you.
00:46:00The lights dimmed.
00:46:02On a small stage, golden fairy lights flickered on one by one, on a white board, in his handwriting.
00:46:09He dropped to one knee and pulled a silver bracelet from his pocket.
00:46:17I know we've been through so much, blood, fights, you vanishing again and again, getting hunted almost every week.
00:46:27But I want to give you one night a normal girl should have.
00:46:32Just one night, where we don't think about any of it.
00:46:38Tears spilled over.
00:46:40I nodded and let him fasten the silver bracelet around my wrist.
00:46:45I said, running my fingers over the chain.
00:46:49Is there something special about it?
00:46:51Pack silver.
00:46:52He said.
00:46:53As long as you wear it, I can sense where you are.
00:46:57In case you vanish out from under me again.
00:47:03That night, I had the dream again.
00:47:06But this time, it was different.
00:47:08In a softly glowing forest stood three silver wolves.
00:47:12They didn't snarl or bare their teeth.
00:47:15They just watched me, gently.
00:47:18The one in front slowly lowered its head to me.
00:47:22I heard myself ask,
00:47:23Who are you?
00:47:26The silver wolves didn't answer.
00:47:29The night before prom, Zane, for once, didn't climb in through my window.
00:47:34See you tomorrow night, my Luna.
00:47:36I smiled.
00:47:37Sweet.
00:47:38But then another message popped up.
00:47:40It was from Blake.
00:47:42Leah, if one day I'd do something, don't hate me.
00:47:46I just love you too much.
00:47:51The school prom went ahead as planned.
00:47:54Zane fastened the strap of my dress.
00:47:56Tonight, don't think about anything.
00:47:59Let's just be an ordinary couple.
00:48:02He was dressed especially sharp.
00:48:04In the middle of the dance floor, he held me by the waist.
00:48:07When this is all over, I'll take you to see the ocean.
00:48:12No more order, no more blood moon.
00:48:16Just the two of us.
00:48:17I leaned on his shoulder, close to tears.
00:48:21But before a single dance was through, his phone rang.
00:48:25The moment he answered, his face changed.
00:48:27How many? Coming out of the woods?
00:48:32He hung up and cuffed my face.
00:48:35Something's happened at the pack house.
00:48:36I have to go back.
00:48:37I'm coming with you.
00:48:38No.
00:48:39He kissed my forehead.
00:48:43Stay here.
00:48:45Warner and Sheila will watch you.
00:48:47Don't leave the school.
00:48:49Zane.
00:48:51I'll come back.
00:48:54He turned and rushed into the night with Aax and Aaron.
00:49:00Leaving just me, standing in the noisy crowd.
00:49:05Zane didn't come back.
00:49:06Warner stood beside me.
00:49:08He'll be fine.
00:49:09You know Zane.
00:49:10He never loses.
00:49:12Right.
00:49:13He's the alpha.
00:49:15He always wins.
00:49:17I hid in the restroom, trying to calm myself down.
00:49:22And that's when...
00:49:24The music suddenly blasted, deafening.
00:49:28The restroom door pushed open.
00:49:32It was Blake.
00:49:34It was Blake.
00:49:34His eyes were blood red, like a demon's.
00:49:38And on the floor, Sheila was already down.
00:49:42Come with me, Leah.
00:49:47What did you do to her?
00:49:51Christy and I backed into the corner together.
00:49:54Blake advanced, step by step.
00:49:57Move.
00:49:59Now.
00:50:01He threw me over his shoulder like I weighed nothing.
00:50:04Christy!
00:50:05Christy lunged and grabbed my ankle.
00:50:08Blake flung her off hard.
00:50:10She hit the wall with a dull thud.
00:50:13Christy!
00:50:13I pounded on his back, but the blaring music swallowed every cry for help.
00:50:20He took me behind the school.
00:50:25Blake!
00:50:26Let me go!
00:50:26You don't have to do this!
00:50:28You forced my hand, Leah.
00:50:30His voice was shaking.
00:50:32You made your choice.
00:50:33You chose Zane.
00:50:35I just want you to be mine.
00:50:37His fangs pressed against my neck.
00:50:41Steering pain exploded from my throat.
00:50:44That wasn't what a mark should feel like.
00:50:46Zane had said a willing mark links two souls.
00:50:49But this felt like something was ripped open and forced inside me.
00:50:54Inside me, a voice was screaming in refusal.
00:50:57I wanted to call for Zane, but my voice, my strength, draining away fast.
00:51:02I'm sorry, Leah.
00:51:03Blake's voice came from far away.
00:51:06I just loved you too much.
00:51:08The world in front of me sank, bit by bit, into darkness.
00:51:13Zane said you'd come back.
00:51:18Can you find me before I disappear completely?
00:51:24When I came to, I thought I was dead.
00:51:27I opened my eyes, but I wasn't in bed.
00:51:29I was in that red dress, standing in a strange forest.
00:51:33The trees here were far older than the ones in town.
00:51:37The air smelled of rain, yet the ground was dry, like another time, another world.
00:51:43I followed a low murmur deeper into the woods.
00:51:46A woman, her back to me, a baby in her arms, her whole body wrapped in a faint silver glow.
00:51:55She walked up to a house and gently set the baby down on the doorstep.
00:52:00That house, I knew it.
00:52:03I knew it.
00:52:03It was my home.
00:52:04That baby was me.
00:52:10Who are you?
00:52:12I heard myself ask.
00:52:15She turned around.
00:52:16My child, I'm sorry.
00:52:20I couldn't keep you.
00:52:22But one day, you'll remember who you are.
00:52:27Her voice flowed into me like moonlight.
00:52:30I am Selene.
00:52:32And you are the moon's lost daughter.
00:52:36A voice detonated in my mind.
00:52:38Like an ancient prophecy, word by word, marked by two, bound by one.
00:52:47I jolted awake, my whole body like it had been pierced by a thousand needles.
00:52:52Leah.
00:52:53It was Zane, kneeling by my bed.
00:52:56His hair, a wet mess, bare-chested, still bleeding.
00:53:00I asked urgently,
00:53:01How are you hurt this badly?
00:53:02He opened his mouth, but no words came.
00:53:05I touched my own neck.
00:53:06There it was, the mark Blake had bitten into me.
00:53:10He marked me.
00:53:13The strange thing was, that memory was so violent.
00:53:18Yet I felt no pain, and no hatred.
00:53:22How long was I out?
00:53:24I thought I was going to lose you.
00:53:26Zane's voice shook.
00:53:27You weren't breathing.
00:53:28Your pulse was a thread.
00:53:29The healer said your heart was rejecting Blake's mark.
00:53:34Because the one you love is me.
00:53:36I froze.
00:53:37She said you might wake in hours, or days, or years.
00:53:44I couldn't just sit there and watch you die.
00:53:47So I made a decision.
00:53:49What decision?
00:53:50He closed his eyes.
00:53:53I bit you.
00:53:55I turned you into a werewolf.
00:53:57If you were going to die this way, you could come back as a wolf.
00:54:01I know I had no right.
00:54:06You said no one gets to decide for you.
00:54:09So, you can hate me for it.
00:54:12I looked at the wounds all over him, the pack army that had blocked the door of Blake's house.
00:54:18He'd cut through an entire pack to take me back.
00:54:23Zane, I don't hate you.
00:54:25I said softly.
00:54:26You brought me back.
00:54:28Just now, I saw my birth mother.
00:54:31He went rigid.
00:54:32Her name is Selene.
00:54:35I saw her set me as a baby on my doorstep.
00:54:38And I heard a line marked by two, bound by one.
00:54:45Zane was silent for a long time.
00:54:47So, the legend is true.
00:54:50He lifted his head, an expression I'd never seen in his eyes.
00:54:55Awe.
00:54:56Leah.
00:54:58You're not human.
00:55:00You're the moon goddess's lost daughter.
00:55:02The mother of all of us wolves.
00:55:05Outside the window, the blood moon burned red.
00:55:09I looked down at my own hands.
00:55:11A faint thread of silver light curled around my fingertips.
00:55:1616 years.
00:55:17The silver wolf, the white light, the wounds that healed overnight.
00:55:22All of it had been leading to this moment.
00:55:25I was no longer the worthless Leah, left on a doorstep and bullied for 10 years.
00:55:30Zane drove me home.
00:55:32If I kept hiding at the pack house, my parents would get suspicious sooner or later.
00:55:36I've posted hidden guards all around your house.
00:55:39He said, go stay with them a few days.
00:55:42Things have quieted down.
00:55:43I hid Blake's bite mark on my neck under my hair.
00:55:46If mom and dad ask...
00:55:49Don't be scared.
00:55:50Zane took my hand.
00:55:51It'll be fine.
00:55:55After the forced marking ordeal, I went to see Christy at the hospital.
00:55:59I'm sorry.
00:56:00It's all my fault.
00:56:02I held her hand.
00:56:04Don't be silly.
00:56:05You came.
00:56:06She smiled weakly.
00:56:07That's enough for me.
00:56:08I didn't dare tell her that the demon that night was Blake.
00:56:12That boy beside her, Nathan, was already asking questions.
00:56:16The hounds?
00:56:17Eyes gone all black?
00:56:19Was it a demon?
00:56:20Word would get out.
00:56:22Sooner or later, I could hide it from my parents, but not from the whole world.
00:56:27That night, the moment I pushed open my bedroom door, Blake was sitting on my windowsill.
00:56:33His eyes read,
00:56:34Not a sound or I'll kill your parents.
00:56:37But this time, I wasn't afraid.
00:56:41Something scalding blazed up from my eyes.
00:56:44I saw myself in the mirror, hair turned silver white, eyes violet.
00:56:49Blake stumbled back, fear on his face for the first time.
00:56:53Show up one more time.
00:56:54I heard myself say, and I'll kill you.
00:56:59He ran.
00:57:00The next day, I told Zane everything.
00:57:02He's not my fated mate anymore, Zane.
00:57:07You said when the goddess decides two people shouldn't be, the bond breaks.
00:57:12I'm her daughter.
00:57:14How could she leave me bound to the man who forced us to mark on me?
00:57:17Zane was quiet for a moment.
00:57:21I thought the choice was yours to make.
00:57:22And I made it, over and over.
00:57:26The instant he bit down, my body shut itself down instead.
00:57:29That was me, choosing you.
00:57:35It's different. It's fading.
00:57:37Zane's fingertips brushed lightly over the mark on my neck.
00:57:40He has no reason to stay here anymore.
00:57:42I told him, if I ever see him again, I'll kill him.
00:57:46Are you willing to train?
00:57:48Zane was quiet for a beat.
00:57:49Let's give it a shot.
00:57:50So Zane started helping me try to control that power.
00:57:53Try what?
00:57:55Your silver hair.
00:57:56Your eyes.
00:57:57That goddess aura you keep bottling up.
00:57:59It only happened once.
00:58:01I was furious that time.
00:58:02Then let's trigger an emotion just as strong.
00:58:04Trigger it how?
00:58:06Emotionally?
00:58:08You just want an excuse to flirt with me.
00:58:10Is it working?
00:58:11Your heart's already racing.
00:58:12Shut up.
00:58:13Close your eyes.
00:58:15Picture your claws pushing out through your skin bit by bit.
00:58:18I did as he said.
00:58:19A sliver of light glimmered between my fingers.
00:58:22But the next second, the power spun out of control without warning.
00:58:26Too full.
00:58:27Too hot.
00:58:28I couldn't hold it down.
00:58:29Silver light erupted from my whole body.
00:58:32Then everything went dark.
00:58:33When I woke, I was in bed.
00:58:35My head pounding like I'd hit a wall.
00:58:37Zane was keeping watch beside me.
00:58:39Hey.
00:58:39Don't ever scare me like that again.
00:58:41Something hit me all at once.
00:58:43Zane, did I hurt you?
00:58:45No, nothing happened.
00:58:48Show me your back.
00:58:49Leah, let it go.
00:58:51You're not healing?
00:58:52He glanced at the ceiling, then said quietly.
00:58:55It'll heal.
00:58:56It's just been slow lately.
00:58:58I froze.
00:58:59A wolf's wounds never heal that slowly.
00:59:01Did I hurt him?
00:59:02Or was there something else he was hiding too?
00:59:04Something I still didn't know?
00:59:08Zane's wounds took two days to heal.
00:59:10He told me not to worry.
00:59:12He'd been careless, hadn't guarded himself.
00:59:16I half believed him.
00:59:18But I had no time to dwell on it.
00:59:20The blood moon was only a week away.
00:59:23Zane said that after it came, there'd be war.
00:59:25He stopped making me hide and secretly took me to the woods to train every night.
00:59:31You took forever.
00:59:34Mom wouldn't go to sleep.
00:59:36Kept making me talk about you.
00:59:38That night, I did something I'd never have dreamed of.
00:59:41I threw Zane to the ground.
00:59:43A fully trained alpha.
00:59:46You went easy on me.
00:59:48I didn't.
00:59:51You're stronger than anyone expected.
00:59:52That bespecacled, bullied, worthless Leah.
00:59:55It felt like she'd really died in the past.
00:59:57I could finally protect Zane, Christy, my parents.
01:00:00But the pride didn't survive to the next day.
01:00:03Christy and I were laughing in my room.
01:00:05The next second, silver light burst from my hand without warning.
01:00:09Christy jumped.
01:00:10Sorry, I didn't mean to.
01:00:13It's okay.
01:00:15I'm not scared, just a little surprised.
01:00:19I buried my face in my hands.
01:00:22That's the problem.
01:00:25I can't control it.
01:00:27I'm the daughter of a goddess.
01:00:29And I can't even keep from glowing in broad daylight.
01:00:33Then don't bottle it up alone.
01:00:35Let Zane teach you.
01:00:36The blood moon came early.
01:00:38The one who warned us was Blake.
01:00:40He sent a text to Ajax.
01:00:42At first, the hounds didn't believe it.
01:00:44They even wanted to hunt him down and kill him.
01:00:47But Zane checked with someone who reads the sky.
01:00:50Blake wasn't lying.
01:00:52What's he doing back here now?
01:00:57I don't know.
01:00:58Go ask him.
01:01:02So I saw Blake again?
01:01:05My first instinct was to shift and kill him.
01:01:08I told you.
01:01:10See you again, and I'll kill you.
01:01:12I know.
01:01:13But you need to hear me out.
01:01:18Your lives depend on it.
01:01:21Zane stepped in front of me.
01:01:23Talk.
01:01:25On the night of the blood moon, the order will come out in full force.
01:01:29And all of it has to do with me.
01:01:33When I disappeared, it wasn't by choice.
01:01:36I was abducted.
01:01:38A girl, crying on the street, said someone was following her, begged me to walk her home.
01:01:46She looked so helpless.
01:01:48I believed her.
01:01:50We'd barely taken a few steps when she stuck a needle in me.
01:01:54I woke up chained inside the order's base, full of poison.
01:02:00I broke free and tried to kill her, but her superior held a gun on me.
01:02:05He said he could hand you over to me.
01:02:09The girl who tricked you, she was with the order?
01:02:13Yes.
01:02:14A chill ran through me.
01:02:19So he planned the whole prom for me.
01:02:21The plan was just to take you, to draw Zane away so they could strike.
01:02:25But I did something far worse.
01:02:28In that time in the woods, there were never any drugs.
01:02:31I lost control all on my own.
01:02:34The order drugged me.
01:02:35That was a lie.
01:02:37And then, the mate bond between us broke.
01:02:43Zane grabbed him by the collar and slammed him into the wall.
01:02:46You think you have any right to bring that up?
01:02:48Zane, let him finish.
01:02:54Blake caught his breath and looked at me.
01:03:01That night, the huntress who kidnapped me came to my place to mock me.
01:03:06I grabbed her by the throat, and in that instant,
01:03:09a jolt shat up my fingertip.
01:03:18She's my second fated mate.
01:03:22The room went silent for a moment.
01:03:25Her name is Caitlin, an order soldier and ambitious.
01:03:29On the night of the blood moon, she'll be on the front lines.
01:03:32You fell for someone who wants Leah dead?
01:03:36I know I don't deserve another fated mate.
01:03:38Blake lowered his head.
01:03:40Especially after what I did to you.
01:03:45But I'm begging you for one thing, don't kill her.
01:03:48When the fighting starts, I'll get her out so she can't hurt anyone.
01:03:52Why should I trust you?
01:03:53Because I'm terrified of you, Leah.
01:03:56I've hurt you too many times.
01:03:58One more and you'll kill me for sure.
01:04:00You're not that powerless human anymore.
01:04:03I've seen what you are.
01:04:04I've heard the stories.
01:04:06You can bend a person's will.
01:04:08After Blake left, Zane said nothing for a long time.
01:04:11On the night of the blood moon, they'll come with everything they have.
01:04:14I looked at my own hands.
01:04:16Then I can't afford to keep losing control like this.
01:04:19If I can use it right, maybe this war never even has to happen.
01:04:23That day, Zane took me deep into the pack house, to the training room.
01:04:27The hounds were all there.
01:04:29Sheila stood with her arms crossed, watching me.
01:04:32Your power is called compulsion.
01:04:34The voice of the moon's lost daughter.
01:04:37No wolf can disobey it.
01:04:39Try it.
01:04:39Command me.
01:04:40I looked at him, heat rising from my chest to my eyes.
01:04:44Step back.
01:04:45Zane stepped backward, one step at a time.
01:04:48His face, blank.
01:04:51Like he was being pulled by an invisible string.
01:04:54Enough!
01:04:54He shook his head and came back to himself.
01:04:58That was so strange just now.
01:05:00Are you okay?
01:05:01I don't want to try anymore.
01:05:03Why?
01:05:04Because it felt...
01:05:07wrong.
01:05:08My voice was shaking.
01:05:11Like I was tearing something out of you.
01:05:15Because you were.
01:05:17Compulsion isn't free.
01:05:19The harder you command, the more it takes from them.
01:05:21I stood frozen in place.
01:05:25The last night before the blood moon was unnaturally quiet.
01:05:29I lay against Zane's chest, listening to his heartbeat.
01:05:33What if I lose control?
01:05:35Turn into something you can't love anymore?
01:05:38Then I'll remind you who you are.
01:05:41Every single day.
01:05:43As long as I'm breathing.
01:05:46I curled in tighter against him.
01:05:50We're going to win.
01:05:56And after we do, nothing can stop us.
01:06:00I didn't answer.
01:06:02Before dawn, the roars erupted.
01:06:07They didn't wait for the blood moon.
01:06:10They moved early.
01:06:12They know that once it rises, it'll be too late.
01:06:16Zane grabbed my wrist and pulled me downstairs.
01:06:19The main hall was already in chaos.
01:06:23Warner had Bell pinned to the wall.
01:06:27Let him go!
01:06:29I invited him!
01:06:31We made a deal.
01:06:33He's not our enemy.
01:06:37But right then, with a deafening blast, the outer wall of the mansion was blown wide open.
01:06:43Rubble, fire, thick smoke, it swallowed everything.
01:06:47Walls had collapsed, the wounded everywhere.
01:06:54I need a healer!
01:06:56The wards!
01:06:57They dropped the second it blew.
01:07:00Silver nullifiers.
01:07:01Or someone shut them off from the inside.
01:07:05A traitor?
01:07:06I don't know.
01:07:08But this wasn't random.
01:07:10They knew exactly where to hit.
01:07:13I want to help.
01:07:15Leah!
01:07:16I can pull people out of the rubble.
01:07:18I can fight!
01:07:19I've got claws!
01:07:20I am not hiding in a corner while people are dying!
01:07:25He looked at me like he wanted to argue.
01:07:28But he knew he couldn't stop me.
01:07:32Then stay with Sheila.
01:07:34Don't go off alone.
01:07:36I won't.
01:07:40He shifted.
01:07:42A massive black wolf leaping over the rubble, charging into the smoke.
01:07:46I saw Zane in the thick of the fighting.
01:07:49And one of Blake's wolves backing him up from behind.
01:07:52I turned to help a kid with a broken arm.
01:07:54But the next second, another explosion threw me off my feet.
01:08:01When I got up, I'd lost everyone in the smoke.
01:08:08A figure stepped out of the smoke.
01:08:12Not a wolf.
01:08:14A woman.
01:08:16In combat gear, a gun raised, aimed dead at me.
01:08:20My feet wouldn't move.
01:08:22My claws wouldn't come out.
01:08:24My power failed me again.
01:08:27She was about to fire.
01:08:29A figure slammed into her from the side, knocking her flying.
01:08:32The two of them hit the ground hard.
01:08:34I recognized him.
01:08:36It was Blake, which meant the woman had to be Caitlyn.
01:08:41You betrayed us.
01:08:43You said your bond with her broke.
01:08:45And here you are, risking your life to save her.
01:08:49Blake didn't fire back.
01:08:50He just pinned her wrist down hard.
01:08:52Caitlyn.
01:08:54Stop.
01:08:56While the two of them grappled, I turned and ran into the smoke.
01:09:00Underfoot were splintered wood, and bodies I couldn't bear to look at.
01:09:04Suddenly, a searing pain tore through my thigh.
01:09:07I screamed and dropped to my knees, blood soaking through my pants in an instant.
01:09:12Out of the smoke, a figure walked toward me.
01:09:15Tall, broad-shoulded, the gun in his hand still smoking.
01:09:18Get up, Lea Snow.
01:09:21I tried to move, but my leg wouldn't obey.
01:09:25Unheartied, his finger curled around the trigger.
01:09:27Zane came tearing out of the smoke.
01:09:29He ripped his fangs clean through the commander's throat.
01:09:33You're okay. You're okay.
01:09:35I'm fine.
01:09:36You got him.
01:09:39I'm getting you out.
01:09:40Then I heard it.
01:09:42That click.
01:09:43Zane spun around.
01:09:44It was another soldier.
01:09:45The first shot hit Zane in the saddle.
01:09:49ZANE!
01:09:49He didn't go down.
01:09:51The second shot hit his chest.
01:09:53The third, his shoulder.
01:09:55Exploding rounds.
01:09:56Silver-forged, poison-soaked.
01:09:59Made for one thing.
01:10:00Killing werewolves.
01:10:01Run!
01:10:02No!
01:10:03I said run!
01:10:05The soldier fired again.
01:10:07This time, it hit his neck.
01:10:10Zane went down.
01:10:12Slamming hard into the ground.
01:10:14No!
01:10:14No!
01:10:15Zane!
01:10:17Zane, get up!
01:10:19Zane wasn't breathing.
01:10:21His eyes were still open, looking at me, but they didn't blink anymore.
01:10:25Mission complete.
01:10:26The little alpha's dead.
01:10:28Died saving the girl.
01:10:29Take the body, too.
01:10:31Cut off the head.
01:10:32Don't let him heal and wake up.
01:10:33I clenched the dirt beneath me.
01:10:34My nails sharpened, bit by bit.
01:10:36You can kill me, but you don't get to lay another hand on Zane.
01:10:39I rose to my feet.
01:10:40And then, I screamed.
01:10:42The ground beneath me began to tremble.
01:10:44Silver and violet light seeping from the cracks.
01:10:45A platform of stone lifted me and Zane, rising slowly.
01:10:50A platform of stone lifted me and Zane, rising slowly.
01:10:53And that's when the moon finally showed itself.
01:10:56The blood moon.
01:10:57Silver light split across my arms.
01:10:59Violet magic coiled up my spine.
01:11:01The pain in my leg vanished.
01:11:03The pain in my chest, gone too.
01:11:05I looked down at them below.
01:11:08Zane's wolves stopped fighting and lowered themselves one by one.
01:11:13Then Blake's pack.
01:11:16Then the rogue wolves the Order had enslaved and tortured.
01:11:20And then, even the humans knelt.
01:11:22The Order soldiers dropped their weapons, one after another.
01:11:25The commander who'd just ordered Zane's head cut off,
01:11:27walked through the crowd to the foot of the platform.
01:11:29His steps like they weren't their own to control.
01:11:31My goddess.
01:11:32Give the word.
01:11:33Say it.
01:11:33And every one of us will slit our own throats for you.
01:11:35I looked at him.
01:11:36At all of them.
01:11:37You all deserve to die.
01:11:39Every last one of you.
01:11:43But I looked down at Zane.
01:11:48But I won't kill you.
01:11:50My Zane never fought for power.
01:11:54That's why they followed him.
01:11:58And why I loved him.
01:12:02He wouldn't want me to become this.
01:12:04All of you, go home.
01:12:07Never again raise a weapon against wolves, witches, or anything that lives and breathes.
01:12:13Try it one more time, and you'll slit your own throats before the thought even forms.
01:12:19Dead silence.
01:12:20Some ran.
01:12:21Some crawled.
01:12:22Not one of them looked back.
01:12:23And in that moment, a voice rang out across heaven and earth.
01:12:26It came from the sky, from the ground, from every tree.
01:12:29Marked by two.
01:12:30Bound by one.
01:12:31Her choice will decide the fate of all.
01:12:34The prophecy had come true.
01:12:36I always thought the choice was between Blake and Zane.
01:12:40It wasn't.
01:12:41The choice she gave me was always between cruelty and mercy.
01:12:50The hounds gathered close, but stopped a few steps away.
01:12:53They lowered their heads, letting out broken, grieving wimples.
01:12:56I knelt back down beside Zane and pressed my forehead to his.
01:13:00You should be here.
01:13:01You should see this.
01:13:02I did what you would have done.
01:13:03I held it together.
01:13:06I don't want any of this.
01:13:09I only want you.
01:13:12Come back to me, Zane.
01:13:18Please, come back to me.
01:13:22I lay over Zane's cold chest.
01:13:25My tears soaked into his skin.
01:13:28I learned to control my power.
01:13:31But the whole world means nothing to me now.
01:13:35Without you, none of it is worth anything.
01:13:37The hounds gathered around, heads down, not saying a word.
01:13:42And that's when a faint breath brushed against my hair.
01:13:47I froze.
01:13:48I shouted to the hounds.
01:13:50I heard his heart beat!
01:13:52The hounds lifted their heads.
01:13:55Faint. So slow.
01:13:57But it's there.
01:13:58It's really beating.
01:14:00I shot upright.
01:14:04Zane?
01:14:07I pressed my ear back to his chest.
01:14:10There it was.
01:14:11A pulse.
01:14:12A pulse.
01:14:13Quiet.
01:14:13Almost too slow to hear.
01:14:15Zane!
01:14:16Aaaaaah!
01:14:17The hounds rushed over.
01:14:18Aaron, Ajax, and Warrant shifted back to human and lifted him carefully.
01:14:22Sheila turned to, came toward me, then stopped, hesitating.
01:14:26Crying, I opened my arms.
01:14:29She rushed over, pulled me into her arms, and rubbed my back, over and over.
01:14:33He'll be okay. He's alive, Laia. He'll be okay.
01:14:37We took Zane back to the PAX hospital.
01:14:40One night, half a week later, I heard his voice again.
01:14:48Hey, baby.
01:14:50Those blue eyes had their light back. Half his face wrapped in bandages, his hair shaved off,
01:14:56covered in wounds, an IV line in his arm.
01:14:59I'm back.
01:15:01I threw myself onto his chest and burst into tears again.
01:15:05He grunt in pain, but I couldn't stop.
01:15:08I hid him, sobbing.
01:15:12How dare you?
01:15:15How dare you die on me?
01:15:18You're a liar!
01:15:20You promised you'd never leave me!
01:15:22I didn't.
01:15:24He laid his banded hand on my hair.
01:15:27I'm still here.
01:15:29Only because I begged you!
01:15:31He managed crooked grin.
01:15:35I'll make you beg me again soon enough.
01:15:38Angry and crying, I buried my face in his chest, the one that rose and fell again.
01:15:46This time, it was real.
01:15:51His heart was beating.
01:15:55Zay got better, day by day. The bandages came off, his hair grew back. He turned back
01:16:00into the Zay who climbed through my window and traded jabs with me. That day, I threw myself
01:16:05into his arms. He scooped me up, his back hitting the mirror, laughing and yelling that it hurt.
01:16:10There's one last step left between us.
01:16:12What?
01:16:13The true mate bond, two souls completely joined. From then on, you and me, me and you.
01:16:20My heart started pounding. That night, the moonlight was beautiful. He leans down and kisses me,
01:16:27deep, unhurried-y. The moonlight blurs. My heart is pounding out of my chest. But right then,
01:16:32Zayn suddenly went roged. His eyes snapped back to blue. Like, for a second, he didn't know who I was.
01:16:38Zayn?
01:16:39He didn't answer. His skin was cold. Zayn? Why are you staring at me like that?
01:16:46That wasn't a look my Zayn would ever have. A few seconds later, he snapped out of it, breathing hard.
01:16:52Sorry. I just… spaced out.
01:16:55You're lying. Just now, your eyes… it was like something else was looking at me from deep inside them.
01:17:03Leah…
01:17:03The way you looked just now, it scared me.
01:17:07I'm fine. Really.
01:17:11But the hand holding me was trembling. Just slightly.
01:17:15That night, for the first time, I felt it. The Zayn who came back from that battlefield
01:17:21didn't seem entirely like the man he used to be.
01:17:27Life slowly returned to normal. We went back to that burger place.
01:17:31The Howds crammed into our old booth, fighting over fries, chugging soda.
01:17:37Christy leaned on Nathan's shoulder and winked at me. The sun was warm, like nothing had ever happened.
01:17:43Zayn would drive me to school and show up at my door with a little punch of yellow daisies.
01:17:50He'd coldly wave off any other girl who touched him.
01:17:55Hands off. Unless you want to lose them.
01:17:59You're still just as possessive when you're protecting me.
01:18:02I watched him, smiling. I almost let myself believe everything was fine.
01:18:07But only at night could I see the truth. That day I went to find him. The door was ajar.
01:18:13He lay alone on the bed, staring at the ceiling. That ceiling, blown apart on the night of the blood
01:18:20moon, long since repaired.
01:18:25What are you thinking about? He didn't turn around?
01:18:31Tell me, if a person dies once, can they really come back whole?
01:18:40You came back, didn't you?
01:18:42He finally looked at me. In those eyes was a wariness I'd never seen.
01:18:47Did I?
01:18:48This body out here, it got repaired.
01:18:52But I keep feeling like I left something behind on that battlefield.
01:18:58And when it came back...
01:19:01He stopped.
01:19:04It feels like more than just me came back.
01:19:10Panic began to rise in me.
01:19:14I keep thinking about your eyes that night we tried to bond.
01:19:19You know?
01:19:23You jolt awake in the night sometimes. I told myself you just needed time to heal.
01:19:30But now, what I'm afraid of is...
01:19:33Zane looked at me.
01:19:36I don't know. Tell me.
01:19:40Could I turn into a monster that isn't me anymore?
01:19:43I gently patted his head and soothed him.
01:19:45Get some sleep. It'll be better tomorrow. You'll always be my love.
01:19:50The one I fought to bring back. Was it really all of him?
01:19:53Or was it that, when he came back, something else came back with him?