Ascension 75_A Warrior Luna's Awakening

Freya’s POV

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 Jocelyn Thorne’s eyes narrowed, a subtle shadow of displeasure crossing her otherwiseposed, golden face. She stepped in front of me, her smile still polite, but I could smell the tension coiling beneath it.

 “Let me be clear,” she said, voice soft yet venomous. “To Ss, you are nothing. He will never love anyone.”

 I didn’t flinch. My wolf growled low in my chest, smelling the scent of entitlement and threat she carried. “So…. he won’t love you either?” I asked, voice steady.

 Her face flushed crimson. Before she could react further, she swung her hand toward my cheek.

 Instinctively, I caught it with one hand, holding it firm. “Between people, there’s no such thing as worthier or lesser,” I said coldly, letting my wolf’s dominance temper my words. “Why do you assume you’re above anyone else?”

 “You… you don’t even know who I am! I am-” she tried to assert, her pride ring.

 “I know your name is Jocelyn Thorne,” I interrupted, my voice t. “As for your pedigree or pack status? I have no interest.” I flicked her hand aside.

 A bitterugh slipped from her lips. “What if I told Ss you pushed me, broke my sses, even hurt my eye? What do you think he would do to you?‘

 Before I could respond, she yanked off her sses and smashed them against the sink. The golden frames shattered, lenses splintering into jagged shards. My wolf red at the reckless aggression–but I kept calm.

 “My eyes… are what Ss cares about most,” she said, venom dripping from every word.

 I barely restrained a snarl. She had misread him–and me. Ss was no man to be trifled with, and anyone thinking to manipte him or threaten those under his protection would discover just how deadly patience could be.

 I pressed a button on my phone and flipped it to speaker. The call was already live–Ss’s voice cool and clear filled the restroom. “I heard everything.” 

 Jocelyn froze. The chill of Irond Alpha authority brushed against her soul like a wolf’s bite. She could feel it in the air, in the tension vibrating off my skin. My wolf purred satisfaction at the fear now crawling across her posture.

 From the corner, Ss emerged, tall and lethal, his presence radiating dominance. My grip on the phone tightened, wolf instinct guiding my actions. “Since Alpha Whitmor has already heard, I trust he won’t me me,” I said calmly.

 Jocelyn’s features twisted with fury. “You deliberately set me up!”

 “If you hadn’t tried to hurt me, none of this would have happened,” I replied, my words icy but measured.

 She lunged at me, but Ss’s hand intercepted, a quiet yet absolutemand. “My people are not yours to touch.” His gaze, as sharp as a wolf’s fang, rested on her injured eye. “Next time you weaponize that against anyone, don’t expect my old promises to stand.”

 Jocelyn froze. Her arrogance faltered under the weight of his presence. “I… understand,” she whispered finally, a shadow of fear crossing her face.

 Ss and I left the restroom. Outside, I felt my pulse steady into its wolf rhythm again. The predator scent lingering from Jocelyn wasn’t strong enough to bother me when Ss walked beside me, an unyielding wall of Alpha authority.

 In the car, Ss finally spoke. “If I hadn’t answered your call, what would you have done?”

 Tsmirked faintly, letting the wolf sharpen in my veins. “Then I would have told Jocelyn Thorne–if I wanted to hurt her, she wouldn’t be standing here in one piece.”

 “Not afraid she might retaliate?” His voice was calm, the iron edge of hismand barely hidden.

 Life’s too short to live in fear,” I said, feeling the fire of my pack blood re. “If we fear every possible strike, we’re already

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 half dead.”

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 Ss’s lips curved, a faint wolfish smile tugging at the corner, and I allowed my gaze to linger on him, wolf and human alike— both Alpha, both predator, and now, for the first time, uneasy allies in this hunt of power and pride.

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Ascension 75