Chasing The Rejected Luna's Heart
On her nineteenth birthday, Sage Sterling expects the Moon Goddess to give her the man she has loved for two years. Instead, she finds Alpha Jaxon Vance with her best friend, and that night, in front of the whole Silverwood Pack, he rejects her as too weak to be his Luna.
With nowhere left to go, Sage crosses the border into enemy territory, where Alpha Kaelen Thorne, a feared Lycan and billionaire, finds her shivering on his road. He gives her warmth and kindness she has never known. By morning, Sage has seen the crest of the pack her people hate most, and she disappears before anyone can find her.
Four years later, Sage has rebuilt her life as a gifted strategist and a devoted mother. Her son, Leo, is a gentle genius with glowing silver eyes, and he is the secret she would do anything to protect. When Silverwood scouts close in, she hides in the one city they would never search: Kaelen’s. One charity gala, one wandering little boy, and the Alpha who never stopped looking finds her at last.
To keep Leo from the Elder who wants to claim him, Kaelen offers a contract marriage. One year. Public engagement, private terms. But Sage is no longer the omega everyone dismissed, and Kaelen is no longer a man who feels nothing. Between sharp-tongued banter, a formidable grandmother, jealous rivals and a mystery that reaches back to the night her parents died, the fake engagement starts to feel dangerously real.
As an ancient bloodline awakens inside her, Sage must decide who she is willing to become. The rejected omega, or the queen she was always meant to be.
A romance of second chances, secret heirs and hearts that refuse to follow the rules.
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Chapter: 11Millbrook was the kind of town where everyone knew everyone else's business and nobody asked about mine.That was exactly why I had chosen it. It sat at the end of a long road between two hills, with one stoplight, one church, a bakery that smelled of cinnamon at dawn, and a landlady named Mrs. Adaeze who took one look at me stepping off the bus with a backpack and a belly and said, "You are too thin. Sit down. I am bringing rice."She brought rice. She also brought a blanket, a pot of stew, and, on the third day, a secondhand crib she had somehow dragged up the stairs by herself. She did not ask who the father was. She told me her own daughters had given her three grandchildren and one great disappointment, and she patted my cheek and called me my child as if it were a title.The town took me in with a casual, unquestioning kindness that nearly undid me. The baker slipped me day-old buns. The old man at the hardware shop fixed my window latch and refused payment. Nobody asked for a p
Última actualización: 2026-11-10
Chapter: 10"They found me," I whispered.Evie was at the window in three strides, one hand on the blind. She peered through the slats at the street below, where the man stood utterly still, his head cocked, his breath coming out in small white clouds."Big guy? Neck like a tree?""Marcus's enforcer.""Not on my watch." She let the blind snap back into place and crossed to the supply closet, where she began yanking cardboard boxes down onto the floor with the efficiency of someone who had done this before. "There's a fire stairwell behind the laundromat. It lets out in the alley. I've been using it to dodge my landlord since I was twenty-three.""Evie, you don't have to do this. It isn't your fight.""You're sleeping on my couch." She turned and jabbed a finger at me. "That makes it my fight. Listen to me, because I'm only going to say this once, and I'm going to say it fast. I have a cousin in a human town three hundred miles from here. Quiet place. No wolves, no weirdos, nothing but cows and a
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Chapter: 9Eleven weeks later, I fainted in the middle of a grocery store.It was embarrassing, but it was also, I would learn, the best thing that could have happened. I had been living on stale bread and bus tickets for three months. I had slept in a motel room that rented by the week, scrubbed dishes in the back of a diner, and tried very hard to think about nothing. I had been standing in the canned goods aisle holding a tin of beans and trying to decide if I could afford it when the shelves began, very gently, to tilt.A woman in a white coat happened to be buying instant noodles two aisles over. She caught me before my head hit the shelf, propped me against a stack of beans, and said in a voice like a rusty hinge, "Okay, kid. You're coming with me."That was how I met Evelyn Cross.She ran a tiny clinic above a laundromat in the human quarter, a place with peeling green paint and a single chair that doubled as an exam table. She was twenty-eight and sarcastic and wore her hair in a messy k
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Chapter: 8I slid out from under his arm so slowly that my muscles ached.Kaelen shifted but did not wake. I stood frozen with my breath held until his chest rose and fell evenly again. In the thin gray light he looked younger. The hard line of his mouth had gone slack, and one hand lay open on the pillow where my head had been, palm up, like someone waiting to be given something. I thought of waking him. I thought of the words I would use. Each sentence I composed sounded worse than the last.Thank you. I'm sorry. I'm terrified. I have to go.I gathered my damp dress from the bathroom floor with trembling hands, and there was no time to wash. There was no time to decide how I felt. If Silverwood learned where I was, they would not simply drag me home. They would use me as an excuse to start a war, and the first casualty would be the man sleeping in that bed.I left his sweater folded at the foot of the mattress. I did not leave a note. I had written three drafts in my head, and every one of the
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Chapter: 7It was Kaelen who finally broke the silence, and he did it by ordering enough food to feed a small army."You haven't eaten," he said, already halfway across the room with a phone to his ear. "Don't argue. You smell like someone who hasn't eaten in two days.""I'm not hungry.""Wren is." He covered the receiver and looked at me with perfect gravity. "I can hear her stomach from here."It was true. Somewhere in the middle of my chest Wren was making a small, mournful, undignified sound. I put a hand over my sweater and felt my face go red, and Kaelen turned away to hide a smile and told whoever was on the line that he wanted soup, toast, rice, anything with lemon in it, and he did not care what time it was.Twenty minutes later we were sitting cross-legged on his marble floor with a spread of dishes between us. He had refused to let me eat on the couch like a guest. "You look like you'd apologize to the furniture," he said, and then he sat down on the floor himself, in a suit that prob
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Chapter: 6Neither of us said anything for a moment.Tea ran over his knuckles and dripped onto the marble floor. Kaelen stared at the broken mug as if he had only just noticed it, then set the two halves carefully on the table and wiped his hand with a napkin, one finger at a time."Sorry," he said."For the mug?""For the language I'm about to use." His jaw flexed. "Vance's father has been trying to take a bite out of my border for six years. His son rejects a girl on her birthday, and I'm supposed to be surprised?""How do you know it was my birthday?""You smell like candle wax and lemon." He glanced at me, and something in his eyes softened by a fraction. "Someone baked you a cake. Or you baked one yourself."My laugh came out as a hiccup. "I baked it for him.""Then he's a bigger idiot than I assumed."That should not have made me smile. It did, a small wet ridiculous smile that I tried to hide behind my hair. Kaelen noticed anyway. His gaze lingered a moment too long on my mouth before he
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