THE REJECTED LUNA
Zayn El Amin found her. The Alpha of the Northern Pack, the most feared bloodline in New England, ruling from Beacon Hill with a reputation built on bodies. He trained her in his private estate outside Boston. He didn’t just wake up her wolf, he woke up a white wolf, a bloodline the packs thought had died out fifty years ago.
Now she’s back in Martha’s Vineyard on Zayn’s arm, and he’s not shy about calling her his.
Kaden’s wolf loses its mind the second he sees her.
Two years of not sleeping. Not marking. Not ruling right, because the mate his own wolf never stopped screaming for just walked back into his territory more powerful than he is.
He wants her back. Pack law says he can’t have her; a rejected mate reclaimed is a death sentence for both of them.
Zayn has no plans to share.
Amelia is standing between the man who broke her and the man who rebuilt her, and whichever one she picks is about to start a war between two of the most dangerous packs in the country.
Baca
Chapter: CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT- THE OLD OAK LIVING HEARTOld Oak that scattered me was not dead.I thought it was dead when it threw me. In Wolf Creek, old wolves say Old Oak is dead because Council cut it into pieces in White War to make fire that kills Whites. They cut branches, they cut roots, they cut heart wood that is blacker than dead body wood. They took pieces away on trucks to deep storage where fourth branch heart wood waits for crowned White blood that can light black flame that drinks even white flame.But Baba said Old Oak living heart is still alive mile back through woods behind White Village, behind Old Oak that scattered you, heart pool where First Mother was made when Moon was lonely. Heart pool inside Old Oak living heart that is still alive.How can heart be alive when body is cut into pieces.I found out when Jax White Guardian carried me through White Village on White ice that cracked a little as heart wood trailer on far bank took light even without flame.White Village cabins with fur roofs groaned as heart wood too
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Chapter: CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN- THE HEART WOODFourth branch was not a branch.When black tarp was pulled off flat bed trailer on far bank by silver gloved fire keepers who had run from Under Lake white claws and glowing blue water and three white flames warm that gave heat and melted White ice a little, what lay on trailer was not dead black wood like first branch and second branch and third branch that smoked black smoke that sank even before lit and burned black cold flame that drinks light and then white warm flame that gives heat after I anointed fire white through White ice and root water and Under Lake guard.What lay on trailer was heart.Old Oak heart wood is blacker than dead body wood, Baba had whispered once by fire when she thought I was asleep, blacker than dead body wood because dead body wood is branch that died, heart wood is heart that still beats even after tree was cut into pieces by Council in White War to make fire that kills Whites, heart that still beats under snow somewhere deep where Oak roots go deepest
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Chapter: CHAPTER TWENTY SIX- THE UNDER LAKEThe white claw that broke through White ice at the fishing hole was not a wolf claw.Wolf claws, even White wolf claws like mine now to shoulders with white fur that glows, even White Guardian claws like Jax now white fur and white eyes blazing with white lines that cannot slide off, even First Mother white claws that I saw in water reflection when Mara smiled sad, are curved and sharp and made to tear.This claw was straight. Long. Thick as my waist. White as White ice that I had anointed with full anointed blood and White Moon light. But not fur. Scale. Or ice that grew like scale. Or scale that grew like ice.It grabbed edge of White ice at fishing hole where glowing blue water bubbled and melted a little from warm white flames that now burned on two branches on far bank, and it pulled.White ice cracked, not like ice cracks under black smoke that drinks light, but like ice cracks when something underneath that has slept for hundred years wakes up because gray flame called it.Gray
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Chapter: CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE- THE SECOND BRANCHMara in water reflection smiled but her eyes were sad.She knew what it cost to anoint fire white. She had anointed ice once to save baby Eliza when Silas Guardian died holding black flame off with his body. She had become empty White after, Baba told me by fire when she thought I was asleep. Empty White who cannot anoint again for long time, who cannot make White ice, who cannot heal burned palms fast, who is just White with white hair and white eyes but no First Mother light inside chest.Empty White can still be loved. But empty White cannot save village and lake and Guardian whose wolf is going quiet because moon is gone.I knelt at edge of White ice island where my palms were in white smoke that had turned black smoke white, where White ice under knees melted a little into glowing blue water that smelled like snow and moon and Mara hands, where reflection showed young Mara twenty five years ago with Silas behind her.Behind me, Jax four lines dimmed to almost nothing, yellow eyes
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Chapter: CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR- FULL ANOINTEDWater that has waited under White ice for hundred years does not taste like water.It tastes like snow that never fell, like moon that never set, like Mara hands when I was six and she washed my hair in basin and sang old tongue song that mother said was nonsense but was not nonsense, was First Mother song.I drank.One handful, then another, because once mouth touches First Mother water under lake that is connected to Oak roots, white wolf inside stops howling fight and protect and howls more.Cold hit my throat, then heat, then cold again, then light.Light poured down throat into chest into belly into hands that had been burned by silver net and silver knife and were healing and burning and healing.Light poured into moon mark on neck where Jax had left Guardian moon to keep me alive when I should die in warm lands where anointed Whites get sick.Light poured into white hair down to waist that had been half anointed after I poured over head inside Oak instead of drinking.Light pou
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Chapter: CHAPTER TWENTY THREE: THE ANOINTING OF ICEI had never anointed anything before.I poured light over my head inside the Old Oak and that made my hair go all white and my eyes go white and my claws come out up to elbows. I gave light to Jax through a bite on his neck and that stopped his bleeding and made his four lines glow steady instead of bleeding light. But anointing ice was new. White wolf inside me howled the words and my hands knew before my mind knew and now my palms were flat on cracking ice island that was shrinking under me and Jax and light was spreading.Not bright light like moon mark on neck. Thin white light, like watery milk, running across ice in veins, following cracks, filling cracks, freezing cracks shut again.Where white light touched black smoke that sank from Old Oak fire branch on far bank, smoke hissed and pulled back a little, like it did not like light that came from anointing instead of from burning.On far bank, Elder Selene in white cloth council coat, white hair cut short like Council, not long
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Chapter: CHAPTER SEVEN- THE PRICE OF THE FILEThe file in my hands didn't belong to my father.It belonged to him.I stared at the header on the first page and my blood went cold.PROPERTY OF: REID MANHATTAN GROUP — CONFIDENTIAL ACQUISITION FILE #0471Subject: Thomas Crane.Status: Defaulted.Collateral: All assets including primary residence.My father's name typed in cold, black ink. Like he was a business deal gone wrong."What is this?" My voice cracked.Damien didn't look up from his whiskey. He was standing by the floor-to-ceiling window of the penthouse, his back to me, like he couldn't even be bothered to watch me fall apart. "I told you not to go into my office.""You told me a lot of things. You didn't tell me you owned my father."Finally, he turned. His eyes were that impossible grey that had made me say yes at the altar two weeks ago when I thought I was marrying someone else. Now they just looked dangerous."I don't own your father, Elena. His debt does."The file shook in my hands. Page after page of loans, missed
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Chapter: CHAPTER SIX : THE FILE WITH MY FATHER’S NAMEI do not sleep.I sit on the floor behind my locked bedroom door in the red dress until sunrise paints Manhattan gold through the glass. My lips still burn from his kiss. My mind keeps circling back to his words about collecting me like art.At six in the morning I hear his bedroom door open. Footsteps. Then the soft chime of the private elevator. He is going down to the gym on floor seventy nine. Mrs. Alvarez told me once that he goes every morning at six and doesn’t come back for an hour.An hour is enough.I wait until the elevator closes, then run barefoot to his study. The black door is still unlocked from last night. He forgot to lock it after our fight over the painting.The painting of me still hangs behind the black velvet curtain, my younger self smiling with paint on her hands. I cannot look at it right now. I look at the desk instead.There is a drawer, half open, the lock hanging loose. Inside it, the file I glimpsed yesterday with my father’s name on it. I pull it out wi
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Chapter: CHAPTER FIVE: THE PAINTING# Chapter Five: The PaintingThe limo ride home from the Met is silent, but it is not the same silence as before.Before it was cold and empty. Now it burns.Alexander sits across from me instead of beside me, his tuxedo jacket gone, his bow tie hanging loose. His eyes stay locked on me like he wants to devour me and punish me in the same breath."You spoke to her."Not a question."Yes." My voice shakes, but I do not look away. "In the restroom.""What did she tell you?""That you have a painting of me. That you watched me for years before you destroyed my father. Is it true?"He does not answer for a long time. City lights slide across his face through the glass, on and off, on and off.The limo stops on Fifth Avenue. The driver opens the door. Alexander steps out and offers his hand. I ignore it and climb out on my own, the red dress flashing under the streetlights.We ride the elevator up in silence, eighty floors, my heart pounding loud enough that I am certain he can hear it.Th
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Chapter: CHAPTER FOUR:THE RED DRESS# Chapter Four: The Red DressI wake to Mrs. Alvarez knocking on my locked door at seven in the morning."Mrs. Knight. Your dress for tonight has arrived."I open the door. She is holding a long garment bag and a black box stamped Cartier.She lays the bag across my bed and unzips it.Red.Not soft red. Not sweet red. The kind of red that makes men look twice and women look away first. Off the shoulder, a slit cut high up the side. The kind of dress that has never once hung in a closet in Brooklyn. The kind that belongs to women who live on Fifth Avenue and never think about rent."Alexander ordered it." Mrs. Alvarez keeps her voice low. "He said you'll wear this tonight. He said you'll wear nothing else.""What does that mean?"She opens the black box. Diamond earrings, and a necklace that catches the light like ice catching fire."He said no other jewelry."I stare at the dress and the diamonds until my hands start to shake.By six thirty I am ready. Hair curled and pinned. Lips pai
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Chapter: CHAPTER THREE: DINNER AND THE MOTHER# Chapter Three: Dinner and the MotherDinner is at eight exactly.I stand outside the dining room in the black dress he left for me, and I cannot make my feet move. My hands are cold. My throat is tight. The dress fits too perfectly, like he measured me while I slept.The doors are open. I can see him.Alexander sits at the far end of a long black table with a glass of red wine in his hand. He has changed into a dark shirt, sleeves rolled up, and looks relaxed and powerful and entirely at home in this glass kingdom.He looks up and sees me."Come here."One word. Not a request.I walk in. My heels echo against the marble, and he watches me the whole way, his eyes moving slow from my face down to my feet and back up again. I feel bare even though the dress covers everything it should."You're late.""I'm not." My voice comes out thinner than I want. "It's eight on the dot.""You kept me waiting thirty seconds." He says it without looking up. "In my house, thirty seconds is late."I wa
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Chapter: CHAPTER TWO: THE PENTHOUSE RULESThe elevator does not stop until floor eighty.I stand in the corner of the glass box in my wedding dress with my arms wrapped tight around myself, trying not to touch him. Alexander stands beside me with his hands in his pockets, watching the numbers climb. He has not said a word since the car.The doors open.I forget how to breathe.The penthouse is not a home. It is a kingdom. Floor to ceiling windows show all of Manhattan lit up at night. Black marble floors. White walls. Art that costs more than my entire life stacked up so far. Everything is cold and perfect and untouchable, just like him.He steps out. I stay inside the elevator.He turns.“Are you going to stand there all night, Mrs. Knight?”I hate how he says it, like he already owns the name.I step out. My borrowed heels click against the marble, too loud in the silence.A woman appears from a hallway. Older, in a neat uniform. She looks at me, then quickly looks down.“This is Mrs. Alvarez.” Alexander does not look at he
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