The Rejected Luna's Second Chance

he Blood Moon ba

room had frozen. They were all staring at the man in the doorway. Even without his pack colors, Kael reeked of power. The he

tightened my grip on the silver

ck. The sharp, arrogant Alpha who had humiliated me three years ago was gone. His dark hair was disheveled, his jaw

s rough, broken. He looked at me like a

h. "I told you. You have the

e. "No. No, it's you. I would know you anywhere.

a hand, trying

d flat against the wooden bar. In the same fluid motion, I brought the silver kni

ar ga

He just stared at the kni

in close. "You lost the right to tou

so raw and intense it almost ma

us. But Aria, please... you have to listen to me. The bond... it

as cold as the silver b

y arms. "What do you want, Kael? Why are you here? Shouldn't yo

. "Lila is not my L

g against the wall in the shadows, watching the sce

d, narrowing my eyes. "I saw the cer

elves rattle. "I was blinded, Aria! Lila... she used dark magic. She hired a witch. She put a spell on me to clo

bs. Dark magic. The sister who had always hated m

idn't know until a year after you left. The spell started to fade. My wolf woke up and realized what I had do

er, his eyes shinin

ry rogue camp, every city. I left my pack in the hands of my Beta just to

s hand trembling.

who had loved him since she was twelve years old, stirred in my ches

n I rem

a's smug smile. I remembered the cold stone floor of the

blood, sweat, and tears it took

home?" I asked, my vo

flickering in his

as a beautiful

en

inked.

ing up into his eyes. "You humiliated me in front of the entire pack. You destroyed me. And now you want me to just

expect hi

didn't

or of the rogue bar. Gasps echoed around the room. An Alpha on his

were trembling at his sides. "I will do anything. I will give up

kneeling at my feet in a room full of criminals. The revenge w

wasn't

thetic," I

, the heavy wooden doors

ering the room in glass. A massive black wolf burst thr

he bar. They weren't rogues. They were w

was a deep, guttural voice that made t

was bigger than Kael, with a shaved head and scars

pass on my territory and not pay the

a flaring to life. He pushed me behind him, h

us," Kael growled. "Th

You see, I've been tracking a ru

t Kael and landed directly on me. A slow,

a very hard girl to find. But now... you're goin

d, his eyes flashing gold

to touch her, Kael. I intend to break her, chain her in my dungeons,

, pointing the tip dir

ill you ri

Moon wolve

lf to defend me, I realized the war I had bee

as I looked at Kael's wolf protecting m

ht, the mate bond

if I would survive