They said I had no wolf.
No name.
No place in this pack.

So when I was beaten, broken, and left bleeding… no one stopped it.

Not even him.

The Alpha’s son.
The boy who once promised to protect me.
The man who looked me in the eyes… and chose another.

But the moon had already made its choice.

I was his mate.
The one he hid.
The one they tried to erase.

And just when I thought that was the cruelest fate I could be given

he arrived.

The Blood Moon Alpha.
A king in everything but name.
A man powerful enough to shake packs… and dangerous enough to destroy them.

The moment he touched me, everything changed.

Secrets buried deep beneath this pack begin to surface.
Girls who disappeared.
Truths no one was meant to uncover.
And a past tied to me… that no one can explain.

Now the Alpha who rejected me wants me back.
The king who should never want me won’t let me go.
And the girl they once called nothing

might be the one thing that brings them all to their knees.

I was unwanted.
Now I’m the one they fear.

My mind kept moving even as Cel ran, because it was all I had left to work with. I thought about what Phoenix had told me about Lyra. How they had been friends since childhood and how her true mate had been killed in a fight and her father was forcing her to accept the wolf who won in his place. The more I turned it over the sicker it made me feel, not at Phoenix but at the system that allowed it. An Alpha and a King deciding the shape of a woman's life like she was a piece on a board. It was barbaric and I was genuinely sorry for her.


Chapter 102 - Almost Home