The Alpha's Forgotten Bride

uins, carrying the scent of pine, ash, and something el

temple's crumbled steps, the air be

he didn't remember. But touching it brought flashes. Not memories, not yet. Just sensations. A heartbeat that wasn

ched it

the fire?" she asked,

through rubble with my bare hands. The council declared y

curse?" s

pression. "The Moon Goddess cursed me

ou... tried to

for yours," he said. "I didn'

cursed yo

gave me what I asked for. You

st time, she saw him not as a terr

n said. "It doesn't sleep. It claws to get ou

th. "Then maybe I can

nd for a moment, h

could speak, t

came the sce

rus

ed. He stood instantly,

ordered, eyes

he fo

olf form-still man, but with enhanced senses, claws, and fur brist

on the scene

slit, blood soaking the moss. A third l

nter... mark.

pressing a hand to the man

d, Kaelen growle

Lyra wh

"The ones who cursed me.

's W

her hut the moment she saw them retur

alone?" she snapped at K

prisoner," Ka

unding on Lyra, "bu

nd. The seal was broken, the message old but c

f Moonborne an

e bond shall not be reforged

ecy must

ed the scrol

said. "Again. And they've waited a lo

onborn

before a mirror, star

rst time in days, her hair hung loose over her shoulders.

her tunic sligh

that shimmered only under moonlight. It looked like

The moment her fingers

ion h

lt beside her, blood on his hands, and a priestess pressed a dagger

eath h

. Their bond had been forged

re conse

's Rev

ain that night, q

ow you someth

nketed the shelves, and vines crept through the stone walls.

urnals. And a single po

ded it

a pai

silver dress, stan

as sm

ore our bond," he said. "It was

fingers acros

she whispered.

not as a stranger, but as s

turn," he said, "so

ed up. "

e. That's why they feared you. T

I'm j

never just

ral

ing dawn b

and his warriors rushed out to find two homes

ought back a creature twice the

sn't

creature bred with blac

form-massive, dark-furred, silver-eyed. He tore into the hunt

r, growled low-an

a f

er mark

ing the creature back. It yelped, dazed. Warriors t

to his human f

it," he said

shook. "I did

you

ing warm passed between them-a p

Kiss (Re

tanding i

on was

forward, offe

n. My mate. My

kis

resent, it was because she re

t slowly, brus

ght," she whispered

and kissed her again, gently this

he di

st

ace Is

, Dorian arrived

from the hunter attack,"

Kaelen a

ok it-a

er real one. The one she h

top was a line tha

who I am... e

ed at her,

"There's more. Much more. And whatever

contin