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 Natasha.

vision blurred at the edges as my head

across the hall with his arms folded and disgust

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

Because it was.

was his mate. The Moon

I’m human.

date. We

head around it,

got what you wanted,

blinked. My chest

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

his hands around me... it dulled the

Excitement? Warmth?

Then chaos.

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

slapped me

My cheeks burned. My vision blurred with

spat. "You can’t be my daughter-in-law. You’re a

like a curse

screamed, eyes wild, "Tell

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

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

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

shoved me again. And

arms shot around me as I stumbled, catching me like I weighed nothing. He pulled me into his chest, strong and unshakable. My face pressed against his heart and it beat steady... calm...

recoiled at

you too!" she screamed, her voice cracking with tears. "She’s done something

former Alpha, Sir

crowd.

looked at Dahlia.

nodded and whispered to a guard,

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