Chapter 17
They locked me in the deepest chamber of the Marcus estate–a prison carved not just from stone, but from silence, and control.
The runes on the walls glowed with ancient silver light. My wrists and ankles were bound by chains etched with suppressive glyphs, pulsing like a heartbeat. My scent markers, once wild and unstable, were now frozen beneath cold iron.
I couldn’t scream. I wouldn’t beg.
All I had was breath. And fury.
“Mixedpower bearer.”
The High Elder’s voice cut through the stillness like a blade. “You, Alpha by flesh,
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Omega by scent–are a violation of every natural order. At dawn, you will be purified. Your power, removed. Your lineage… corrected.”
I didn’t flinch.
Instead, I laughed.
It was hoarse, broken, but it echoed like a bell in the hollow space.
“You call that justice?” I asked, voice slicing through the cold. “You sit there, smug in your robes, worshiping a bloodline that eats its own.”
A murmur rippled among the robed figures.
“You should thank me,” I continued. “Because if I survive this, I’ll make your laws bleed.”
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“Enough!” one elder barked. “You speak like the monster you are.”
“No,” I whispered. “I speak like a woman who refuses to die quietly.“”
They dragged me into the ceremonial vault as the moon hit its apex.
A massive purification circle burned in silver light on the floor, flanked by towering statues of the wolfgoddess in her judgment form.
My arms were spread wide, my back pressed to cold stone, and an iron collar locked into place around my throat–charged with voltage and bound to the sigils on the floor.
Above me, the High Elders began chanting in the old tongue.
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But they didn’t know what was coming.
Midnight.
The north wall exploded.
Smoke poured into the underground vault. Panic erupted.
And through the fire came Alpha Ethan.
He wasn’t in uniform. No crest. No insignia. Just torn black armor, bloodied fists, and eyes like a wolf that had tasted madness.
“Let her go,” he growled.
“You don’t have the right,” spat one elder.
“I don’t need a right,” Alpha Ethan snarled. “I need her.”
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He broke through the circle, punching guards, breaking chains. But when he reached me–he stopped.
I was barely conscious, covered in bruises, collar sparking. My lips were cracked. My scent was faint, erratic. Not Alpha. Not Omega. Something… beyond both.
His hands trembled.
“Alpha Evelyn…”
I turned my head. “You finally showed up.”
“I should’ve come sooner.”
“You should’ve never left, I whispered. “But you did. And that cost me everything.”
He reached out. I recoiled.
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“You said I was filth. You let them chain me.”
“I didn’t know-”
“You didn’t care to find out,” I snapped.
Silence.
Then he fell to his knees before me.
“I killed Emily,” he said.
The room froze.
The elders gasped.
“I killed her,” he repeated. “I let Luna Chloe lie. I let the doctors fake the charts. I made her believe she was doing something noble- when I was just saving my brother.”
“You’re saying this now?” I whispered. “When
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I’ve already been broken?”
He looked up. “Because I’m still trying to put the pieces back.”
Another figure pushed through the smoke.
Alpha Daniel.
He was injured–blood soaked through his shirt, one sleeve torn, claw marks across his ribs. But his eyes never left mine.
“You’re here…” I murmured.
“I told you,” he said softly. “I’ll never let them take you.”
He rushed forward, ignoring the protests, and grabbed my hand.
His fingers were warm, shaking. He pulled a
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folded, bloodstained note from his pocket.
“I never stopped writing to you,” he whispered. “After you disappeared. After they said you were dead. I wrote you letters and hid them in that old tree at the orphanage.”
My breath hitched.
“You said… if I ever turned Alpha, I could marry you.”
I laughed through tears. “And you did?”
“I turned Alpha the day I realized losing you hurt worse than transformation ever could.”
The collar sparked.
The purification ritual reactivated.
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Pain seared through my neck, burning into my nerves. I screamed.
Alpha Ethan lunged, grabbing the collar with his bare hands. Sparks exploded, searing his skin.
Alpha Daniel tried to help–was tackled by guards.
“I won’t let this happen!” Alpha Ethan roared.
“You already did!” I cried.
The collar’s voltage spiked.
And then–Alpha Ethan ripped it free.
He screamed, his hands scorched black, blood pouring from his palms. He dropped to the ground, unconscious.
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The ritual shattered.
Elders backed away in horror.
“She bears Omega frequency!” one shrieked.
“Impossible!”
Alpha Daniel staggered upright, pulling me into his arms, wrapping his coat around my shoulders.
“She’s not a mutation,” he growled. “She’s evolution.”
The Marcus enforcers arrived.
Long black coats. Silver brands on their gloves. The silent executioners of the bloodline code.
“She must be taken,” one declared. “Her body
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bears both lines. This is heresy.”
“Touch her,” Alpha Daniel snarled, “and you’ll bleed.”
“Enough, I rasped.
They paused.
I stood up–torn, bleeding, scorched–but alive.
“If you want to erase me,” I said, voice cracking, “you’ll have to erase the truth too.”
“And the truth,” I raised my eyes, “is that I survived all of you.”
They bound me again. Dragged me toward the council chamber.
But this time, my head was high.
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I woke in the healing wing.
Omega Silas was sitting beside me, eyes rimmed red. Alpha Daniel was on a cot nearby, heavily bandaged. Alpha Ethan sat by the door, his hands wrapped in gauze, watching me as if any second I’d vanish.
“You’re awake,” Omega Silas whispered.
I nodded.
“You fought like hell,” Alpha Daniel murmured, his voice cracked but full of warmth. “You always did.”
I turned to Alpha Ethan last.
He knelt at my bedside. “I don’t want your forgiveness,” he said. “I just want to stay.”
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I looked at all three of them–men who had
saved me, betrayed me, loved me in different, broken ways.
Then I closed my eyes.
“You don’t get to choose me anymore.”
“I will choose myself.”
Moonlight spilled through the windows.
And on my collarbone, my power pulsed with new life.
Not Alpha. Not Omega.
Both.
Silver and crimson, twined like threads of blood and starlight.
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They wanted purity.
But I was reborn impure.
And I would live impure.
Wild.
Unapologetic.
Unchained.
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