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?

Sophia. Not

as my head started pounding. Faces swirled,

father stood across the hall with his arms folded

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.

his mate. The Moon Goddess chose me.

I’m human.

We choose. We date. We

head around it, Cayden’s voice

got what you wanted,

My chest

wolf, even though I wasn’t connected to their rituals, that

Caspian tightened his hands around me... it dulled the

Excitement? Warmth?

Then chaos.

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

me

quick succession. My cheeks burned. My vision blurred with

can’t

echoed like a curse

she screamed, eyes wild, "Tell

forward, eyes glowing with a silvery gleam. She scanned me

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

the Luna was shaking her head, furious. "She

again. And Caspian

his chest, strong and unshakable. My face pressed against his

Luna recoiled at the sight

charmed you too!" she screamed, her voice cracking with

the former Alpha, Sir Claus, barked from the

witch," he added, turning to the crowd. "But you all want proof? Fine. You’ll

looked at Dahlia.

guard, who immediately

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