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I watched Nathan and Sarah's interaction with growing coldness in my spectral form.

"Brother, I love you," Sarah suddenly reached for Nathan's face, her eyes filled with desperate longing. "Please break your mating bond with her and be with me instead. I've loved you for so long."

"Sarah, no, no, we're siblings." Nathan jerked back, his body tense with conflict.

"Nathan, you're still treating me like your real sister? You weren't like this back then." Sarah moved closer, her hand clutching his shirt. "Don't forget I'm not blood-related to the Snow Peak pack." She suddenly lunged forward, pressing her lips against his. "I'm not your real sister. I can be so much more."

"Sarah!" Pack Elder Marie's voice cracked through the room like a whip. She stood in the doorway, her face twisted with fury and disgust. "What are you doing? Have you lost your mind?"

Sarah didn't back away from Nathan. Instead, she pressed closer, her voice challenging. "Mother, you've always loved me best. Brother can mate anyone - why not me? What makes Nora better than me? I've loved him longer. I've always been the one by his side."

"You are his sister, not his mate, much less his Luna! I adopted you back then, but I didn't expect you to repay me like this." The former Luna, now Elder Marie trembled with anger.

"Why not, that's how you drove me away back in the day, but mom, my brother wasn't happy." She took Nathan's hand, a smug look in her eyes.

My spirit felt an overwhelming chill. So I was the only one kept in the dark. This sickening relationship between Nathan and Sarah - apparently everyone knew except me.

"Enough!" Elder Marie stormed into the room, physically pulling Sarah away from Nathan. "You were raised together! You played together as children! How dare you try to seduce your own brother? The pack would never accept this perversion!"

"Nathan," Elder Marie turned to her son, her voice shaking with rage. "You're already mated to Nora, and she's carrying your pup. What are you doing letting your sister act like this? Have you both lost your minds?"

She grabbed Nathan's arm hard enough to leave marks. "Use your mate bond now! Contact Nora immediately. Something feels wrong."

Nathan closed his eyes, attempting to reach through the mate bond. His face grew increasingly troubled as the seconds ticked by.

"I... I can't feel her," he admitted, a hint of panic creeping into his voice. "The bond feels... empty."

Sarah's eyes lit up. "Brother, I might know what's happening." She reached for her phone. "There's an ancient magic that can completely seal a mate bond. It blocks all communication, location sensing, even... feelings of betrayal."

She pulled up a video on her phone. "A friend sent me this earlier. I was afraid to show you because I knew it would upset you."

The video showed me sitting at the Silver Moon restaurant with a handsome young man. We were feeding each other cake, laughing intimately.

"The timestamp shows this was just taken," Sarah said softly. "That's why you can't feel her through the bond."

Elder Marie's eyes narrowed with suspicion. "That video could easily be fake."

"Sarah," Nathan's voice was tight with barely controlled rage. "Tell me more about this magic. You're saying if she... if she's with someone else, I wouldn't feel it through the bond?"

"Yes, brother. The magic completely blocks everything."

"No wonder..." Nathan muttered under his breath, his hands clenching into fists.

"Nathan!" Elder Marie snapped. "Think carefully about what you're doing. You're going to regret this terribly."

She grabbed Nathan's arm hard enough to leave marks. "Go find Nora and apologize properly. I'll deal with your sister's madness. This ends now, before word spreads to other packs."

"Nora is still your Luna, regardless of past events. We don't know her condition, and you're here entertaining this... this obscenity!" Elder Marie's face was pale with fury. "Do you want our pack to become a laughingstock? Do you want to destroy everything your father built?"

"Mom, I'll apologize to Nora, but Sarah needs medical attention right now," Nathan said, still not moving away from Sarah. "You saw the video - she's clearly fine and... enjoying herself. Once Sarah is stable, I'll deal with this situation."

"Your priority should always be your partner! But you're totally twisted now!" Elder Mary slammed her hand on the table next to her." Your mate falls into the water unaware with your cubs in her arms, and not only are you not in a hurry, but you're here coddling the sister who tried to seduce you? What kind of Alpha are you?"

"Enough! Mom, I know what I'm doing on my own! You're retired, so don't always meddle in PACK affairs." Nathan's face was frosty as if he was looking at Mary with displeasure.

"If anything happens to the cubs, you'll regret it, Nathan." Tears fell from Mary's eyes as she took Nathan's hand and tried to lead him out of the hospital room.

Nathan shook her hand right off, "What cub? Sarah has said that magic can hide mate bonds and sense no betrayal, so who knows whose cub that is." He looked at his mother coldly, "James, Jack, are you dead? Come in and take the Elder back to rest yet." He called out to his guards.

"Elder Mary, don't make this difficult for us." James and Jack looked at Mary with difficulty as she let out a long sigh and eventually left the ward.

Looking at her hunched back, I thought of my mom and wondered how upset she would be when she found out about this.