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

the edges as my head started pounding. Faces swirled,

stood across the hall with his arms folded and disgust carved into every

face twisted in a grotesque mix of heartbreak and rage. I tried to cover

Because it was.

was his mate. The Moon Goddess chose me.

I’m human.

We choose. We date. We marry. The Moon Goddess doesn’t

wrap my head around it, Cayden’s

got what you

My chest

to their rituals, that rejection hurt. Deeply. In places

around me... it dulled the pain. Replaced it with something

Excitement? Warmth?

Then chaos.

up like she’d been lit on fire. She pushed Caspian and stormed toward me with fury in her

slapped me three

My vision blurred with hot tears. But I stayed

can’t be my

a curse through

eyes wild, "Tell me she’s

silvery gleam. She scanned me

sense any power in

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

again. And Caspian

face pressed against his heart and it beat steady... calm...

recoiled at the

voice cracking with tears. "She’s

the former Alpha, Sir Claus, barked from

to the crowd. "But you all want proof? Fine. You’ll have

at

and whispered to a guard, who immediately ran

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