Alpha's Redemption: Reclaiming My Destined Luna

expected at his wedding anniv

inges shrieked in protest. Every conversation died. Every glass froze halfway to lips. Every breath ca

ightfall ha

his woman commanded the very air around her, violet eyes blazing with otherworldly power as she surveyed the frozen crowd with predator

l, rich with deadly amusement. "What a lovely party.

ecognition, in desperate longing, in absolute *need*. The mate bond he'd severed five years ago flared back to l

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s woman wore power like armor, her lean frame encased in black leather that hugged every deadly curve. Combat boots laced up to her

Shadow Moon Pack

rough with shock and something th

reach her eyes. "Disappointed, Kai? I'm sure you hoped your little rejection would

ai assumed was fear. But when he glanced down, he caught something else flickerin

d with manufactured outrage. "This is a

husband's pack territory borders mine now. The Shadow Moon Pack has been... expanding." Her violet gaze s

e serious business, handled through proper channels with weeks of preparati

e announcement had no inte

harp with calculation. "Seraphina Ashworth," he said, using her old name deliberately. "You w

like the musical laugh he remembered, soft and sweet and shy. This laugh held edges th

ssing back against the walls as her aura rolled over them like a physical force. But this wasn't th

ried to every corner of the hall. "Alpha of the Shadow Moon Pack. Defender of the Forgotten

whispers of the Shadow Moon Pack over the past year. Stories that seemed too impossible to believe. A pack that took in rogues and outcasts, led by a mysterious

was

recognized the threat Sera represented, even if her human mind couldn't accept it. "She w

his protective instincts roar to life. Not for his wife-for Sera. Becau

to know you'll always be second choice? That even after five years, even with you

to him. Her violet eyes were swirling with something that might ha

. What did she see when she looked at him now? The boy who'd loved her desperately, compl

Silver Crest Pack, reject you,

ice. The threats had been explicit, detailed, horrifying. Reject her or wat

ng. He'd chosen

magination and looking at him like he w

ck's territorial claims. I want you to pull your patrols back to the original bor

sical blow. Territorial challenges were mat

Thorne protested. "They've been neutr

like me to prove my claim? I'd be happy to demonstrate

rm on the windows, and several pack members gasped as their breath misted in the suddenly frigid a

t his wolf knew better. His wolf could smell the magic rolling of

you?" he

eartbeat, he saw a glimpse of the girl he'd loved, vulne

into place, and she was t

imply. "The question is: are you p

You have three days to consider my... proposal. After that, I'll be

is throat before he could st

ing around, tension in

can we talk

nce." She glanced back over her shoulder, and her violet eyes were infinitely sad de

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t make me come back here again. Next tim

vanished into the storm, leaving behind onl

aised in fear, anger, confusion. Pack members demanding answer

taring at the empty doorway where the most importan

ai

f raged against the bonds of human control. She was here. She was alive

. "Kai, what are we going to do? She's clearly unstable, d

rougher than he intended

reatened ou

ways be the truth, no matter what papers he'd signed or vows he'd spoken. "She's my mate,

cracked. "She's not your mate

quietly. "But she's my mate

hammer against the windows, Kai Blackwood finally

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