Moonbound: My Dark Alpha

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e: Shadows

erbrush, my feet barely touching the ground, my heart racing in my chest. Behind me, the growls o

r away, urgent, filled with fear. Her warning was almost dro

e look back.

staying one step ahead of the monsters chasing me, but they were too close. I cou

c-stood in front of me, a towering figure of strength. But even his power couldn't stop the attack. He fough

r, Elara, cried out, he

d to stay and fight. To protect t

again, and for the first ti

t there was nothing I could do. Nothing anyone could do. The rogue's claws sunk d

d out, my vo

er's voice echoed through the cl

heart shattered as I watched him fall,

verything

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enched in sweat. My pulse was racing, but the ni

was more than that. It was a me

onstant reminder of the night my world shattered. The night the

len

ghts like a blade. "Get up, you lazy gir

the nightmare away. "I'm coming," I mutte

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he harsh clink of utensils against the countertop echoing through the room. She wasn't lo

his face. His eyes didn't meet mine, his gaze focused o

ng through it like she had a million important things to do. He

ng her sharp eyes on me. "Do you

I whispered, m

nt command from Helena, the sharp edge in her voice, or the way she bar

arents were alive, he was different. He wasn't the quiet, detached man he had become. He'd once treated me like f

t time or the man who had told me stories of my parents' love. He wa

after my father's death, he had

rents died, she became colder. More distant. I realized, over time, that her kindness had always been a mas

but because they had no choice. They had taken me in because my father's death had placed a heavy burd

alpha too, after all. But deep down, I couldn't shake the feeling

r's beta, his most loyal ally, and I had looked up to him. But n

to the garden outside. There, hidden beneath the shadows, I could almost see the faces of my parents. Th

"I don't know why we even bother with her. It

laining about it. She's a tool, nothing more. She

I didn't respond. I could

s a

had alwa

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their own affairs, I slipped out into the garden. I walked slow

ng shadows over the plants. The breeze was gentle, but

ht of the house. I had never asked them for this. Never asked them to take me in, to raise me

the grave. "I don't know what to do

me, as if answering me. But there

me. A

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ugh the window, casting faint shadows across the room. My fingers brushed over the

idn't come easily. I kept hearing her voice, her last wor

I survive in a world that h

e cage I was in-built by my foster fa