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

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

folded and disgust carved into every line of

I tried to cover the mark, but my hand wouldn’t move. My fingers

Because it was.

was his mate. The Moon Goddess chose me. But

I’m human.

choose. We date. We marry. The

around it, Cayden’s voice sliced through the fog

what you wanted, right? You

blinked. My chest

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

his hands around me... it dulled the pain.

Excitement? Warmth?

Then chaos.

fainted 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 her eyes and before I

slapped me three

with hot tears. But I

can’t

a curse through

eyes wild, "Tell me

stepped forward, eyes glowing with a silvery

she said finally. "I don’t sense

shaking her head, furious. "She must’ve cloaked

again. And

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 didn’t want

recoiled at

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

yourself!" the former Alpha, Sir Claus, barked

crowd. "But you all want proof? Fine. You’ll

at

to a guard, who

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