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The day before Derek\u2019s engagement to the heiress of the Bluemoon Pack, the Darkmoon Pack\u2019s judgment was announced.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ivy\u2019s eldest brother, James, bore the heaviest guilt. He would spend the rest of his life behind iron bars, claws clipped and fangs dulled by confinement. Lucas and Abram, next in line, were each sentenced to ten to twenty cycles.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Already well into mid-life, even if they ever left the cage, the Darkmoon Pack would never regain its former dominion.\u00a0<\/p>\n
These three had been the pillars of the family. With them broken, Darkmoon\u2019s alliances, networks, and territories collapsed like sand under a wolf\u2019s paw.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The once-proud Darkmoon lineage\u2014wolves of calculated power and ruthless bite-were reduced to scuttling prey, struggling to survive as common wolves, chewed by life like carrion. No longer would anyone shield them from the consequences of their misdeeds.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It was said that the fiercely proud Olivia, driven to desperation to save the family\u2019s failing enterprise, colluded with an old suitor. But the suitor already had a bonded mate.\u00a0<\/p>\n
When caught in an embrace, the fianc\u00e9e\u2019s wrath descended. Both were beaten until broken. Desperate to reclaim a suitable match for the pack\u2019s social standing, the suitor forced one million to placate her.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Olivia, ever conceited, considered the coin an insult. How dare he treat her like an ordinary she-wolf? She alone had deigned to consort with him.\u00a0<\/p>\n
When she confronted the worthless male again, she misstepped down the stone steps and fell. This time, the blow fractured her mind. Upon waking, she babbled incessantly about Magnus Sanchez being her rightful mate and about vanquishing the \u201cinterloper\u201d who had dared challenge her.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Fearing the calamity her mind could unleash, her mother gathered the money and compensation and prepared to whisk Olivia away from the imperial territory.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The engagement feast commenced. Aysel entered with Magnus at her side.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ivy had just concluded a grating call with her sister-in-law demanding the funds.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Today, she had dressed with unusual care.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Yet even the finest threads could not mask the hollowed frame, the gauntness of a wolf starved\u00a0<\/p>\n
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of fortune and pride. Heavy makeup could not veil her exhaustion. The previous day\u2019s verdict. mocked her in silence-an invisible scorn sharper than fangs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Spotting Aysel and Magnus, her pride, always her armor, shattered. A wolf who had once towered over the weakest now knelt before a pair of Alphas in the grand hall. With a wet, reverberating \u201cthump,\u201d she sank to the stone floor.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At the doors, the display stunned the first matriarch into stillness. Even Bastien tensed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A family consumed by external crises had neglected the ticking time bomb within.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ivy no longer cared for judgment. Time and tribulation had etched itself into her preserved features. The gossamer threads of beauty were now cut with scars of fate.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She lifted her tear-stained muzzle toward Magnus, voice trembling yet raw, \u201cI know you despise me. I destroyed Raya, I destroyed your grandparents\u2026 all because of my greed. If I give my life back to you, will you spare the Darkmoon Pack?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The hall fell into a strangling silence. Guests seemed to hold their breaths, senses alert, ears twitching at the tension.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Aysel, sensing the suffocating weight, laughed softly, bending to pull Ivy to her feet. Her strength was gentle but firm, undeniable.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIvy,\u201d she chided softly, \u201cinciting a wolf to self-destruction is a crime in our lands.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ivy resisted, seeking an answer that might absolve her. But Aysel\u2019s iron-like pressure left no room for refusal.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ulva stepped forward, pulling Ivy back from aggression, whispering fiercely, \u201cEnough. Do not stir further chaos.\u201d Then to the servants: \u201cThe second mistress is unwell. Take her away to rest.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ivy tried to struggle. Aysel\u2019s low, icy murmur cut through her resistance, \u201cIvy\u2026 can you bring Raya back to life?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The question froze her.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Wolves die, spirits cannot return, and claws cannot untear the\u00a0<\/p>\n
She could do nothing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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past.\u00a0<\/p>\n
gaze fell on the pair-Aysel and Magnus-rejoined and standing strong, their presence a silent judgment. Their eyes held her in the same way she once had gazed upon Raya from above, superiority laced with cruelty.\u00a0<\/p>\n
One life, once lost, was worthless. It could not stir her conscience.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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So she let it pass. She allowed justice-her personal reckoning-to unfold.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Finished\u00a0<\/p>\n
The silence, the unflinching stance of the Alphas, spoke as clearly as any verdict. Ivy\u2019s final sliver of hope flickered, then died.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tears poured down her face. She cast aside the servant\u2019s hand with a wooden, self-mocking\u00a0<\/p>\n
stare.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI can walk myself,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Family turned against her in a heartbeat, eyes gleaming with long-harbored wrath. Years of a husband\u2019s cold distance. A home irretrievably lost. A lover unattainable. Her life, in totality, had become a joke.\u00a0<\/p>\n
How utterly meaningless.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Shaking, faltering, she passed through the grand doors into the shadowed night.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Aysel glanced back. In the dim glow, thorn branches snagged her gown, the wind tousled her hair, yet she marched forward, oblivious to all.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A wolf who had spent a lifetime in pride and dominion, Olivia, had finally tasted the grinding weight of her spine being broken, the devastation of family shattered, and the hollow echoes of a ruined legacy.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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