Claimed by the Blood Moon Alpha as His Fated Luna

d in the shadows for

olf was crippled

ascension, I learn

en-he just didn't want

spend our mating night wit

rode into the dark forest to hu

follo

to h

eal m

ough my thigh and left me

e Pack a day later, they were al

e soul had

ha of the Blood Moon Pa

me his true

I did not

pte

phin

not so much lit as it was scalded by

. The night air was clogged with the fumes of ro

ield we had against the feral, mateless wolves we called Rogues. And tomorro

must personally hunt and kill a Shadow Beast in the d

the one pulling the bowstring and

every werewolf-was severely injured during a Rogue attack. He said he could no

gether, I suppressed my own pride as a top-tier Warrior.

econd-in-command, the Betas managed the Pack's daily affairs. I needed to ask her husband a favor. I needed

ut softly, stepping

from the mead. She waved her hand

nt for your poor, crippled mate?" she

she leaned in, her br

s wolf is the most massive, terrifying beast in this entire te

ced my blood. The torches seemed t

traight toward Liam's stone manor

avy oak door, I pau

necting the Pack was usually a low hum of background noise.

t, Liam's voice echoed in my mind, dripping with arrogance. I want her to

won't that delay your Marking ceremony with her

ugh the link. I need to delay the ceremony.

en around my ribs, squeezing

the Beta asked nervously. They say s

escendant of the Moon Goddess hers

is just a brute. She smells like dirt and blood. She is rough, unrefined, and entirely

hands curled into fists until my nails

the door down.

y mouth. I simply turned away and

of the old laws, a man whose word could ove

of his study. He was sitting behind h

ily calm. "I am no longer hunt

n a half-beat. His gaze was nailed to the coin he was turning between his thumb and forefing

smile spread acros

ledger shut. "Then you have faile

glass cabinet. He reached insid

te oak, topped with a glowing moonstone. It was th

ess," Silas announced coldly, "I a

im, my breath

wolves, weak and submissive. She had wandered into ou

stors to an outsider?" I whispered, a

is malleable. You, Seraphina, cast too long a shadow. A Pack cannot be ruled by an Alpha who is constantly out

mory flashe

d beneath the sacred Moon Tree, ask

violated the ancestral rules b

wift. He locked me i

at can truly harm a werewolf. It burns o

in blistering against the bars, while Elara now bro

lk dress draped over the cha

onation gown. I rec

ng it into a wooden

fingertips throbbed once, a quiet pu

or creaked o

vily on a cane, dragging his left

nto a mask of fake sorrow. "Please. Just wait for me

had gathered in the hallw

ior muttered. "He is injured. A true

e people I had bled for. I had fought off R

d at me like I

foul taste of iron filled my throat, forcin

ad in the eyes a

their hound. Tonight, I