Chapter 11: She’s a witch!

~Hazel’s POV~

"I reject you."

That’s all I heard. That’s all I felt.

Cayden’s words struck my chest like a whip. Cold. Final. Cruel. He stared at me like I was filth smeared across his boots like I was something he wanted to scrape off. That one sentence ricocheted in my head repeatedly, each time cutting deeper.

And then like thunder following lightning, I heard Caspian’s voice boom through the hall:

"I accept you."

Gasps. Shocks. Echoes. But none of it mattered because, in the next moment, Caspian knelt beside me. I didn’t move. Couldn’t. My limbs were frozen, locked in some invisible chain of shame and disbelief. Yet he was so... gentle.

He tucked my hair away from my neck. My breath hitched when his fingers grazed my skin, and then—gods—his warm breath blew across my nape, slow and steady like a prayer. I should’ve felt fear.

Instead?

My stomach flipped.

My lips trembled as I bit down on them, trying to muffle the gasp threatening to escape me.

Then he bit me.

Not with violence. Not with force. But like I was something precious. Cherished.

The pain was brief. Sharp. But it was swallowed quickly by this wave of tingles rushing from my neck down my spine. Something stirred inside me, something raw and wild and not human.

What just happened?

What is happening? NovelFire

And more terrifying..what’s going to happen?

I was marked. By Beta Caspian.

By a man, I didn’t know but whose arms felt safer than home ever did. Around the entire pack, in front of my father, I had been claimed. And they called me...me—their mate?

Not

blurred at the edges as my head started pounding. Faces swirled, mouths moved, but all I heard

his arms folded and disgust carved into every line

clutched Natasha, whose eyes were locked on the mark on my neck. Her face twisted in a grotesque mix of heartbreak and rage. I tried to cover the mark, but my hand wouldn’t move. My fingers just hovered there,

Because it was.

Moon Goddess chose me. But

I’m human.

We date. We marry. The Moon Goddess doesn’t pick for us—does

could wrap my head around it, Cayden’s voice sliced through

you wanted, right? You

blinked. My

I don’t have a wolf, even though I wasn’t connected to their rituals, that rejection hurt. Deeply. In

it

Excitement? Warmth?

Then chaos.

since I woke up, sprang up like she’d been lit on

slapped me

My vision blurred with hot tears. But I stayed still,

"You can’t

a curse through the

wild, "Tell me

old witch stepped forward, eyes glowing with a silvery gleam. She scanned me slowly, methodically. My breath

her," she said finally. "I don’t sense any power in her. She’s not one

"She must’ve cloaked it! Witchcraft

again. And Caspian

I weighed nothing. He pulled me into his chest, strong and unshakable. My face pressed against his heart and it beat steady... calm... grounding. His scent, earth,

recoiled at the

she screamed, her voice

control yourself!" the former Alpha, Sir Claus,

the crowd. "But you

at

whispered to a guard, who immediately ran

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