The Lycan King's Forbidden Mate

moonlight. I sighed as I silently adore the delicate lace sleeves, woven with patterns of roses and th

at the reflection of a wolf less girl who is

ill bear after tonight, as the Luna of Shadow Walker Pack. I had alw

in around my neck forged not by by love

ox

It was Miya, her eyes gleamin

is t

sper before a warm sm

me

I somehow had grown up with, the only wolf whom despite knowing the amount of care an

front of the pack, to speak the word

w, Alaric did not love

to fists, my nails pri

n for the wild unknown while forcing myself in

aric had never been anything but cruel, heartles, and always hungry for power,

ing through the stone halls of the pack house. The pack had gathered and the

e I finally stepped forward, my wedding gown trailing be

ed me, he was clad in the ceremonial black robes, wearing the silver crown enough to announce his new positio

ached for his, but he pulled away.

, something

dow Walker Pack reject you, Brielle

t, a collective gasp spread through the pac

ed, my voice barely au

ked, crossi

k I'd accept a mate w

gleamed wi

disgrace to the Shad

my chest, even deeper than

this isn't ho

om the side, shif

staring the El

fool ourselves. She's an embarrassment. A wo

turning back t

efore you humiliate

dug into

me just because I h

e low as I try t

et

ing laugh esca

lf shifts by eighteen, some even

like wildfire

. Not with tears,

be cele

d that is the reason I was trying to t

f how much I tried to convince the fa

as my mate, we are f

t I never want

a in my head, still trying to fig

o scream and burst into tears not because Alaric rejected me, as his

had spent years waiting for this moment, believing in

urned it int

hy would you ask me

sh my words, my voice

though

olled hi

ant to be? Please. I've found s

forward. Miya, the only trusted

s tall, beautiful, and shifted i

mation that night became t

to her, Miya was my frien

s us, she tilted h

lly think he'd cho

od ran

ched m

, that even after I didn't transform that night, I still chose to cling onto Alpha Aric's words. I a

no

liation, suddenly became the so

finally let a single te

irk on his lips, the way he stood proudly beside

them break me. No

hered all the courage left in me before meeting t

ot have

my voice

ithout a mate than b

ipped from A

the crowd again but

ter of Alpha Weldon Fox,

heel, walking away from the ceremony, I wanted to leave

e do

e no

at I don't belon

not without Alpha Aric

to be quite t

have just arrived to Shadow Walke

u are weak, you always will be. I need a Luna who will

e scene unfold. There was cruelty in the way Alari

eyes was raw, a wound

her voice steady despite t

thout a second glance. The pack remained silent, their eyes

me roared, urging me to intervene, to shiel

t something about this, about he

s doing, or even stop m

ey

me, confusion flicke

ng Ma

red, bowin

hould not have to wit

nd I saw the way her body tre

who should be

id f

y, it was obvious she w

ue Luna is not in

, my voice

that does not extinguish even wh

d hard, blin

t know what

survi

d sim

ou are read

y touching her face, giving it a soft caress. It was not pity I was offerin

urning to the pack, letting ev

be discarded like a broken too

nd of a King. My silver eyes locked onto the new A

er that

ning my attention

k at her amber eyes,

r fade into mystery, or lost

d prot