HE CHOSE HER LIES OVER ME
On the day Selene Ashwood is meant to become Luna, the woman who once destroyed her life returns covered in blood, and with a single lie that shatters everything.
Branded the daughter of a traitor since childhood, Selene has spent her life fighting for a place in the Moonfang Pack. When the Moon Goddess reveals Kael Draven, the future Alpha, as her fated mate, she dares to believe her darkest days are finally over. But when Kael's former lover accuses Selene of kidnapping and torture, the evidence is impossible to ignore, and the man who once swore to protect her chooses doubt over love.
Imprisoned, betrayed, and hunted as a fugitive, Selene uncovers a secret capable of destroying every Alpha in the Northern Territories. Her father's execution was built on a lie, and the conspiracy that stole his life is far from over. As hidden enemies close in and old loyalties crumble, Selene must decide whether to reclaim the mate who abandoned her, or embrace a new path beside the mysterious Alpha willing to risk everything for the truth.
In a world where love is tested by power, trust is more dangerous than claws, and every lie demands blood, one woman will rise from betrayal to rewrite her destiny.
He chose her lies over me. Now he'll have to decide if the truth is worth losing me forever.
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Chapter: Chapter 55Chapter Fifty-five : The Alpha Who RebuiltAlpha Davan arrived without a letter, exactly the way I had begun to expect she would.She came to the festival grounds six days before the council introduction, on a horse that was neither impressive nor neglected, which told me she had no interest in the signals that horses send in political contexts. She had two people with her whose posture suggested they were there for company rather than protection, which told me she trusted herself in an unfamiliar space and did not feel the need to perform readiness.She was perhaps fifty, with the particular leanness of someone who had rebuilt something from almost nothing and whose body remembered the years when there had not been enough of anything. Her eyes were the specific grey of a mountain morning, and she looked at everything she saw with the same degree of attention: the guard at the gate, the yard, the door, me, all receiving the same careful focus as though she had learned long ago that t
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Chapter: Chapter 54Chapter Fifty Four: The WorkThe self-governing settlement contacted us first.Not through a letter. Through a woman who appeared at the festival grounds gate nine days before the council introduction, travel worn and direct, who gave her name as Petra and her position as the settlement's elected speaker, and who said to the guard, with the particular economy of someone who does not waste words because words have cost her things before, that she had heard Valdenmere had an Alpha again and she would like to know what that meant for the people who had been living on Valdenmere land for twenty two years without one.I brought her inside myself."How did you hear?" I asked, once we were seated and Lyra had produced food that Petra accepted without ceremony, which told me she had been traveling for at least two days and had not eaten recently enough to perform indifference."The border pack leaders talk," she said. "Senna's people mentioned the letters. Greywood mentioned them less cha
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Chapter: Chapter 53Chapter Fifty-Three: What It Costs to Begin:Two of the three border pack leaders wrote back within four days.The first response came from Alpha Senna of the Thornwall Pack, a brief and formally correct letter that expressed cautious welcome, noted several outstanding territorial questions that would require formal mediation once Valdenmere was operational, and asked, at the very end, in a sentence that was polite enough to be almost invisible, whether the new Alpha intended to reside in the territory or manage it from a distance.It was a reasonable question wrapped carefully in the particular language of someone who had been disappointed before and was protecting themselves from the experience of being disappointed again.I wrote back the same afternoon. Yes, I intended to reside. No, I had not yet determined the specific timeline. Yes, I understood that outstanding territorial questions required attention and I welcomed the opportunity to address them in person.The second res
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Chapter: Chapter 52Chapter Fifty Two: Where It BeginsThe paperwork for Valdenmere took six days.Cole managed most of it with the focused efficiency of someone who had decided that organising the documentation for an Alpha designation was a natural extension of the work he had already been doing and required no special acknowledgment beyond the occasional cup of something warm left at his elbow. Freya's legal team provided the formal framework, Maren, who had more knowledge of the historical record of Valdenmere's original dissolution than anyone else available, sat with Cole for three of those days providing details that had existed in no official archive because she had carried them in her memory for forty years.I signed the final designation document on the seventh morning with Freya as witness and Lyra as the second signatory, which was a requirement I had not known existed until Cole explained it to me the previous evening, and which Lyra had agreed to without a moment's hesitation before I fini
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Chapter: Chapter 51Chapter Fifty One: The Morning He LeavesKael found me before dawn.I was in the yard with a cup of something Lyra had pressed into my hands on her way past, warm and slightly bitter, standing in the particular darkness that comes just before the sky decides to become light, when his footsteps crossed the flagstones behind me and he came to stand at my shoulder the way he always did, close and without announcement."Early," I said."I have a long ride," he said.I had known this was coming. He had told me the previous evening, quietly and without making it into something larger than it was, that Moonfang could not wait much longer. His pack had been without its future Alpha for the better part of a month. His father had held things steady, but there were decisions piling up that required Kael specifically, and he had been away long enough that people were beginning to ask questions he needed to be present to answer.I understood all of that. I had understood it the moment he told me,
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Chapter: Chapter 50Chapter Fifty: The Last Thing Her Father LeftWe reached Freya's office in four minutes and she read the relevant pages of the slim volume in eight, which told me she was already familiar with some of what she was reading and had been waiting for the piece that completed it.She set the volume down."His name has been on my list for six months," she said. "I could not move on him without evidence sufficient to survive his committee. He sits on his own oversight structure." She looked at the volume with the expression of someone who has just been handed the key to a door they have been standing in front of for a very long time. "This changes that.""How quickly can you move?" I said."Within the hour if I send the right riders to the right people now." She was already on her feet. "The territorial wardens in his district are not part of his committee. If I go directly to them with this, he has no advance notice.""Do it," I said.She did.What followed was the particular organised urg
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