Rejected By My Mate, Crowned By The Moon
hues of silver and violet. Tonight was supposed to be the happiest night of Aria Thorn's life. At just eighteen, she was about to meet
rs. The entire pack had gathered, whispering excitedly about who the Moon Goddess would pair together this year. Aria stood nea
ira whispered,
ywhere. The mate bond is fo
s swung open, and
forehead, his piercing storm-gray eyes scanning the room with the intensity of a warrior. Power rolled off him li
tion. The invisible thread of the mate bond tugged tight between
es locked
ross his expression-shock, conf
sg
" he said coldly, and the room fell in
inked.
I reject you, Aria Thorn, as my fated m
icy. Aria felt as if the floor had crumbled bene
.. K
You're the daughter of a disgraced warrior an
mbled. Her w
broke. "I accep
golden thread yanked violently from her soul. She fell to her knees, clutching her chest. Her breath
person came
t her mother, long since passed. Not even h
ence. An
ain. "He rejected us.
pered aloud. "W
s passed
she closed her eyes, she saw his face-those cold
n should hav
egan to forge
ge her mother once owned. The girl in the reflection was hollow-ey
y," she murmured. "He cast me aside li
edges of the vanity.
e in us?" Aria as
the Moon, Aria. The stars do not weep when
led her from
there. A wise woman with piercing eyes and a stra
aid softly. "The rejection echoed through the bo
. "More pain
iled. "Mor
able. "This was left by your mother, hidden in the wa
before unrollin
y the fated, shall be
not born
ll light
hall weep a
shall be
lo
l l
ot by fate,
led as she read th
ise when the wo
shall bow a
ean?" she asked,
ject you," Mirella said,
ia went to the edge
where she was going. No
creature with markings that shimmered faintly like moonlight. She sprin
wstep, her re
l for a mate who th
n in a pack that sa
, grow, and return-not
would wear a crown n
oonlight