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 Natasha.

looked around, dazed. My vision blurred at the edges as my head started pounding.

the hall with his arms folded

grotesque mix of heartbreak and rage. I tried to cover the mark, but my hand

Because it was.

his mate. The Moon Goddess

I’m human.

We date. We marry. The

wrap my head around it,

got what you wanted, right?

My chest

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

around me... it dulled

Excitement? Warmth?

Then chaos.

Luna—who had been fainted on the floor since I woke up, sprang up like she’d been lit on fire.

slapped me three

blurred with hot tears. But I stayed

"You can’t be my

echoed like a curse through the

she screamed, eyes wild, "Tell me she’s

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

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

her head, furious. "She must’ve

again.

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

recoiled at

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

the former Alpha, Sir Claus, barked from

he added, turning to the crowd. "But you all want proof? Fine. You’ll have your

at

whispered to a guard,

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