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

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

with his arms folded and disgust

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, like I was afraid touching

Because it was.

his mate. The Moon Goddess chose me. But

I’m human.

We choose. We date. We marry. The

it, Cayden’s voice

what you wanted, right? You

My

I wasn’t connected to their rituals, that rejection hurt. Deeply. In places I didn’t know could

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

Excitement? Warmth?

Then chaos.

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

me

quick succession. My cheeks burned. My vision blurred with hot

spat. "You can’t be

a curse

"Tell me she’s

old witch stepped forward, eyes glowing with a silvery gleam. She

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

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

shoved me again.

nothing. He pulled me into his chest, strong and unshakable. My face pressed against his heart and

recoiled at the sight

you too!" she screamed, her voice cracking with tears.

former Alpha, Sir Claus,

added, turning to the crowd. "But you all

looked at Dahlia.

a guard, who immediately

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