Getting Back My Secret Luna

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ng of antiseptic clinging to every breath I took. Beneath me, stiff hospital shee

ith kind eyes approached

pain that forced me back down. "What happen

served for delivering bad news. "I'm so sorry, Luna, but you've lost yo

My hand instinctively moved to my now-empty womb, the loss

asmine's mournful voice resonated with

ispered aloud,

uld somehow hold onto what was already gone. That baby. she had been hope. Not ju

grandfather-that he might re

now about our lost pup. Maybe in this moment of shared grief, we might find a real conn

. *He never has. Fenrir doesn't feel ou

try," I murmured,

ri

ri

re

is voice was ice. "

ospital," I managed,

cked. Not heartbro

e off sharply. "Don't distur

ian, I l

urself." The

e roared in my ears. Two years of marriage,

asmine whimpered insi

etting the phone aside with shaking

ng works. He believes I'm the obstacle standing between him and his true de

hadn't expected

years ago, I had been walking through Riverside Park, lost in thou

an collapsed on the ground, clutching his chest. Without thinki

and Pack Elder. His gratitude had been effusive, and within weeks, his grandson Lucian wa

eminded me gently. *Ever since high school wh

admired Lucian Storm from

, knocking my books everywhere and mocking my second-

ber it now, but that moment h

lly noticed me, that perhaps fate had br

er truth-Victor had essentially ordered him to take

t's not right. It's worse

lap. The sterile scent of antiseptic clung to the air,

nger. The walls of the hospital room seemed to be c

carefully swung my legs over the edge, grimacin

hroom," I told her when she

t my room was close to the nurses' station. The hallwa

I was almost there when familiar voices dri

We can get a second opinion if you're n

the wall near the corner. Lucia

dered a weakness in the pack hierarchy-no one

t, it became my g

peered aroun

ms. Lucian's arm was wrapped protectively around He

cern, with gentle care that

ming with me, Lucian. I just got so

theart. His once-intended mate b

re for you, didn't I?

dn't even listen to me for five seconds when I called to tell him abo

n my throat. Thanks to my scentless wolf, neither Lucian nor Heidi noticed m

my room, collapsing onto t

pent trying to be the perfect Luna, the perfec

couldn't even stay on the line long enough to hear me say it. But he can

breath, but it was nothing compared to the r

*We are not lesser wolves. We deserve a

ears from my face with newfound resolve.