theld onto my father Lars’s arm and walked away without looking back, leaving behind the Eternal Pce


    the ce that had witnessed both my revenge and my rebirth.


    Kirby’s eyes, full of pain and regret, didn’t stir a single ripple in my heart.


    “Where’s Carl?”


    Father looked toward Thorbane. “Why didn’t he show up to something this important?”


    Thorbane coughed helplessly. “He said if he came, he’d steal everyone’s spotlight. So… he stayed home and slept.”


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    Father snorted. “What damn spotlight? That ‘de of the Wilds‘ nonsense was all hyped up because of me in the first ce!”


    Thorbane and I exchanged a look, and we both couldn’t help butugh.


    After the banquet, Astrid and Amara dragged me off to the most popr bar in the city, swearing we wouldn’t go home sober.


    Kirby’s POV


    “Crimson Moon Pack! That was insane tonight!”


    I had just walked into the private room at Shadow Pub when Leiss rushed up to me, still wearing <i>a </i>look of shock–and a trace of fear.


    The entire continent’swork had exploded because of tonight’s celebration.


    Leslie was a princess of the Rogue Pack royal family.


    Thinking back to all the nasty things he’d said about her over the past three years, Leiss broke out in a cold


    sweat.


    I ignored him and walked straight to the bar, grabbed an unopened bottle of fiery liquor from the Northern Icefields, and downed it in one go.


    The other young Alphas from various packs in the room wisely kept their mouths shut.


    “Seriously, Crimson Moon Pack,” Leiss sighed, “that woman hid herself way too well. She’s at the top of the food chain now. You think she’s gonnae after us?”


    “No,” I muttered with a dryugh, my voice hoarse and bitter. “She’s onlying for me.”


    From beginning to end, I was the only one who truly wronged her.


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    “But I still don’t get it,” another young Alpha blurted out. “Why would she marry you in the first ce? She’s a princess of the Rogue Pack. Lars’s only daughter. How does that even make sense?”


    Why?


    Was it because we were fated mates?


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    I didn’t know.


    That question wrapped itself around my heart like a curse I couldn’t shake..


    It wasn’t that I thought I wasn’t worthy of her.


    Even if she was royalty, I believed I had the strength to build a kingdom of my own.


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    Ljust couldn’t understand why she’d give up all her light and brilliance–why she’d willingly marry a man who never cared about her–just because of some ridiculous fated bond.


    If I never figure out the answer, I don’t think I’ll ever sleep peacefully again.


    And just then, a deafeningmotion erupted from outside the private room, followed by a wave of high- pitched screaming.


    Leiss peeked his head out to check, then jerked back a secondter, his face twisted in panic.


    “Holy sh*t! It’s her! Leslie’s here!”


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