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 started pounding. Faces swirled, mouths

his arms folded and disgust carved into every line of his

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 cover the mark, but my hand wouldn’t move. My fingers just hovered there, like I was afraid touching it would confirm it

Because it was.

Moon Goddess chose me.

I’m human.

We date. We marry.

head around it,

you wanted, right?

blinked. My

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

hands around me... it dulled the

Excitement? Warmth?

Then chaos.

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

me

succession. My cheeks burned. My vision blurred with hot tears. But I stayed still, too shocked to

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

echoed like a curse

wild, "Tell me she’s

with a silvery

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

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

again.

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 and I

recoiled at the sight

she screamed, her voice cracking with tears. "She’s done

yourself!" the former Alpha, Sir Claus,

turning to the crowd. "But you all want

looked at Dahlia.

and whispered to a guard, who immediately ran

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