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Chapter 3

Author: Sea Sia
When I rose to leave, Ashton caught my wrist before I could step away.

Without a word, he led me into our chambers.

The room still carried the faint scent of cedar, moon herbs, and his Alpha pheromones.

As always, he pulled me into his embrace before lying down, one arm possessively wrapped around my waist.

The mate bond should have comforted me.

Instead, it suffocated me.

“You still have much to learn, Elena,” he murmured against my hair.

“I have already ignored the objections of the elders for your sake. I have defended you before the council more times than you know.”

His fingers gently combed through my hair.

“One day, when you stop letting your emotions cloud your judgment, you will understand that everything I do is for the good of Shadow Fang.”

He kissed the top of my head.

Soon, his breathing steadied as sleep claimed him.

He never noticed the silent tears soaking into his chest, nor the tiny tremors shaking my body until dawn.

The next morning, I left the Alpha Manor before Ashton awoke.

The manor was unusually quiet as I didn’t prepare any breakfast or bid him any farewell like a dutiful Luna standing at the gates to watch her Alpha leave for patrol.

I simply walked away.

By dusk, the trade negotiations between Shadow Fang and three neighboring packs had finally concluded. My purpose to roam each pack hiding my identity was to combine and solidify the Lycan throne’s power and today I had completed even that last step.

Someone proposed celebrating at the Moon Tavern and not wishing to go home immediately, I agreed without thinking.

The tavern overflowed with warriors, healers, merchants and patrol captains celebrating successful hunts beneath the full moon.

Someone noticed me refilling my cup.

“Luna Elena... perhaps you should not drink so much.”

“I am fine.” I emptied the cup in one swallow.

“I already lost my pup.The pack healer also told me I will never conceive another, so there is nothing left to worry about.”

Silence fell over the table as my subordinates looked at me in shock when a familiar voice drifted from the private room beyond the carved wooden partition.

“It’s not that I dislike children.” Ashton’s voice swayed by expensive scotch

“Elena just… wouldn’t be a good mother.”

My friend slowly turned toward me, horror filling her eyes.

“When she first came to Shadow Fang,” Ashton continued with a helpless chuckle, “she knew nothing about pack life.”

“She couldn't even tell healing herbs from poisonous ones.”

“Without a mother, she never learned how a Luna should manage an Alpha's household. When we first became mates, she could not even prepare a proper victory feast.”

A few warriors chuckled.

“She nearly burned an entire stag during the Winter Hunt banquet. Burned meals, messed up the pack deals…” He gave a short, humorless chuckle. “She cried the entire night because she thought she had embarrassed me.”

Another warrior laughed.

“I still remember last Winter Moon Festival! Lady Elena nearly burned the ceremonial mooncake offering!”

“Oh, don't remind me!”

“She was trying so hard to shape it into a wolf.”

“It looked more like a wounded rabbit!” A rumble of understanding laughter from his circle.

“It was...a bit bad, but it's fine..” His smile was confident and real.

A smile I had spent three years trying to earn.

Just then a soft laugh echoed through the room.

Victoria entered carrying a steaming clay pot filled with fresh moon-deer stew and herbs and placed it before Ashton with an embarrassed smile.

“Ashton... I heard you skipped dinner after today's council meeting and Elena was out with her friends, so I prepared your favorite stew.”

The pack beta laughed loudly.

“Alpha, Lady Victoria understands you better than anyone.”

Another elder nodded approvingly.

My fingers froze around the cup.

Everything inside me shattered.

For a moment...I was no longer inside the Moon Tavern.

I was three years old again in the middle of the Lycan wars, rogues surrounding us from every direction.

My mother's white wolf threw herself over my tiny body and as her final howl echoed through the mountains, she fought till her last breath before dying to protect me.

Five hours before our mating ceremony. I had taken Ashton to kneel before her Moonstone grave.

I remembered placing white moon lilies at the foot of the memorial.

“Mom, please bless our mating ceremony, please watch over us.”

I truly believed that after hearing my story Ashton finally understood me.

How foolish.

My past was nothing more than another amusing story to share over drinks.

“Luna… please…alpha doesn’t mean it….” My subordinates sat frozen, no one reached for another drink.

No one laughed.

Then, I smiled, almost feeling that I had no tears left to cry.

“I attended today’s meeting to inform you all that I am leaving the Shadowfang pack. You all have served me with loyalty and love for the past five years, consider this my last farewell to you.

As soon as the Moon Temple approves my separation from Alpha Ashton, I will cease to be his mate."
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