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.

blurred at the edges as my head started pounding. Faces swirled,

the hall with his arms folded and disgust carved

tried to cover the mark, but

Because it was.

was his mate. The Moon

I’m human.

We date. We

head around it, Cayden’s voice sliced through the

you wanted, right?

blinked. My chest

even though 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 with something

Excitement? Warmth?

Then chaos.

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

slapped me three

succession. My cheeks burned. My vision blurred with hot tears. But

"You can’t be my

voice echoed like a curse through

"Tell me she’s

silvery gleam. She scanned me

finally. "I don’t sense any power in her. She’s

furious. "She must’ve cloaked it! Witchcraft

shoved me again. And Caspian

My face pressed against his heart and it

Luna recoiled at the sight

voice cracking with tears. "She’s

yourself!" the former Alpha, Sir Claus,

not a witch," he added, turning to the crowd. "But you all want

looked at

whispered to a guard, who immediately ran out

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