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 Natasha.

edges as my head started pounding. Faces swirled,

with his arms folded and disgust carved

the mark on my neck. Her face twisted in a grotesque mix of heartbreak and rage. I tried to cover

Because it was.

mate. The Moon Goddess

I’m human.

don’t have mates. We choose. We date. We marry. The Moon Goddess

head around it, Cayden’s voice sliced through the

got what you wanted,

blinked. My chest

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

tightened his hands around me... it dulled the pain. Replaced

Excitement? Warmth?

Then chaos.

woke up, sprang up like she’d been lit on fire. She pushed Caspian and stormed toward me with

me

quick succession. My cheeks burned. My vision blurred with hot tears. But I

she spat. "You can’t

voice echoed like a curse through

wild, "Tell

witch stepped forward, eyes glowing with a silvery

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

Luna was shaking her head, furious. "She must’ve cloaked it! Witchcraft

again. And Caspian

his chest, strong and unshakable. My face pressed against his heart and it beat steady... calm... grounding. His scent, earth, pine, and something warmer invaded my lungs

at the sight of

voice cracking with tears. "She’s done something to

control yourself!" the former Alpha,

the crowd. "But you all

at Dahlia.

to a guard, who immediately ran out of the

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