After Rebirth, I Ruined His Alpha Reign

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mega commander

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his arms, and planned their winter-solstice w

sent me back. Eighteen years

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lood from my

was familia

me, the battlefield lay in silence-fallen soldiers in torn Southern Fang colors, a trampled banner half-buried in the crimson-stained snow, the dying embers of a campfi

touched

had

pushed back the rogue packs at the bord

ath to the thr

behind me. My heart leaped, a

y smile widening. Love, pure and f

thern Crest Dominion, the man I deeply loved , the future king I had bled for. His golden hair was

, dark cloud i

wanted to throw my arms around him, to feel

a hand, s

plash of icy water.

the darkness. A knot of unease tighten

ice rough. "We won. But

id softly, trying to soothe the shadow from

hree-month siege I had commanded in his name while he recovered from a fever, the letters I never sent him about the men I'd los

us. His arms wrapped around me, pulling me into

is armor digging into my skin thr

y hair, his voice a low

rmured. "For

w, cold drum against my chest. There was no

see his face, but his a

oldier. The man who promised me a future. I was being foolish. The battle had made me par

his voice was stripped of all war

s why you h

registered, a searing a

n cut of a sword or the tear of a claw. This was fire.

asp escape

ut of me like water from a shattered glass. I

oked

my heart. It gleamed, wet and crimson in the moonlight. My b

familiar set of shallow grooves I had carved myself. A spiral, then a crescent moon. My mark. I had shaped this arrow with

e let

owy ground, a puppet

ved, the man I had fought for, bled for, killed for. M

word was a

m. A woman, dressed in a rich velvet gown

ster. Chri

ted her pretty face. She held a

the smile that shattered

ecklace arou

her cold fingers trembling against my skin. She had whispered that it carried her love, her protection, her hope for my future. I had worn it for years, slept with it pres

essively. She looked down at me, her eyes gleaming with a hatre

said, her voice dripping with false sweetne

h my eyes to say it wasn't true. To

is face a mask of

x," he said, his voice flat. "Not an h

rld fr

. His promises. The future

had used my love, m

Their blood was the mortar for the t

ing in its place. Hate. Pure, black, and absolute. It fl

onto one elbow, my

soaked whisper, but it carrie

... Chr

od spattering

... I will destroy... eve

head fell forward, an

wasn't

ntom of smoke and moonlight. I looked down and saw my body, lying

held to this place by the

Couldn't even close my own dead eyes. I tried to shove a burning branch from the dying campfire toward his retreating back. My hand went through the

econd glance. He took Christal's hand, the one t

we can plan the wedding without her shadow looming over everything. I

plied, and his voice carried n

adows as if they had just taken out the trash. Their laughter faded into

ld, with nothing but the m

onlight, I could see the faint grooves of my own carving catching the silver glow-the spira

let it be

attle, thanked you for every victory. I gave you my blood, my loyalty,

full and indifferent, and

vengeance. I will burn their kingdom to ash. I will make them watch everything they love turn to dust. Take my so

ply. The snow fell,