The Alpha's Unexpected Secret Replacement Bride

“On the day of my mating ceremony, I woke up chained in a silver-laced dungeon. My fiancé, Alpha Erich, walked in arm-in-arm with my best friend, Kenya. She was wearing my mother's wedding gown and bearing his fresh mating mark on her neck. "Because you're in the way, Claire. I'm the one who deserves to be Luna." Kenya smiled as Erich methodically severed my fingers one by one with a silver knife, casually feeding him pastries as my blood pooled on the floor. He then forced me to falsely confess to treason, promising to spare my captured pack members. But the moment the words left my lips, he ordered their slaughter, laughing as their screams echoed through the cells just to watch my hope die. I couldn't understand how the man I loved and the woman I called sister could be such sadistic monsters. Filled with pure, agonizing hatred, I used the blood from my severed hand to draw a forbidden totem, sacrificing my soul to the Moon Goddess for one chance at revenge before smashing my own head against a stone wall. Opening my eyes again, I was back in my bedroom on the morning of the ceremony, my body completely whole. This time, instead of walking into Erich's trap, I intercepted a terrified bride meant for the Dominion's most ruthless "mate-killer" Alpha, and took her place.”