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Eighteen Seconds to Lose His Luna
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For three years, my mate complained that I needed too much of his attention. “Mara, my life does not revolve around you.” So I stopped asking whether he had eaten. Stopped checking when he would be home. At night, I turned off the lights and went to bed instead of waiting on the sofa. On the fourth evening, Declan came home early. “Is your phone broken?” I looked up from a studio contract. “No.” “Then why haven’t you sent me a single message today?” “I’ve been busy with the studio. I don’t wait up anymore.” He stood in the doorway without answering. Once, I would have put my work aside and asked whether he had eaten. That evening, I went back to reading. I had spent three years learning his schedule, keeping my evenings free, and accepting that pack business came first. Whenever I asked for more, he told me to find something of my own to do. Now I had. The design studio I had neglected. An apartment near my work. An appointment with an attorney. Declan had wanted me to stop arranging my life around him. He had never considered that I might stop planning a future with him, too. I opened Julia’s contact and typed: [I want to end our mate relationship and withdraw my registration as future Luna.]
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Six months later, my studio launched its new collection.The first production run sold out. By the time my team and I finally sat down, it was ten at night. Dozens of messages waited on my phone—from clients, colleagues, business partners, and friends I had not spoken to in years. I answered them one by one.Declan’s name was the last. [Congratulations.]I replied: [Thank you.]His answer came almost immediately. [Of course.]I did not reopen the conversation.At noon the next day, Naomi returned with two coffees and placed one on my desk. She studied me for a moment. “You finally look healthy again.”I smiled. “Was I really that bad?”“When you first moved out, you were as pale as the sheets at the medical center.”Her gaze dropped to my hand. I followed it. The pale line left by the mate ring had disappeared without my noticing.Naomi took the pen from my fingers. “Come on. Lunch.”“I still have two designs to approve.”“Approve them this afternoon.” She raised an eyebrow. “You used
Eighteen Seconds to Lose His Luna Chapter 9
Once the agreement was submitted to the Pack Council, a thirty-day confirmation period began. Declan did not come to see me during that month.Occasionally, he sent a message asking about my recovery. If I did not answer, he stopped instead of continuing to press. The respect I had once wanted most from him appeared only after I chose to leave.Rain fell on the day of the final confirmation. Declan and I sat across a long table in the Council’s mate registry and signed the last document. An official pressed the Council seal onto the page.[Public mate claim officially terminated.] [Mara Quinn’s future-Luna registration withdrawn with immediate effect.]Three years earlier, I had completed our mate registration in the same room.The same people. The same place. This time, neither of us smiled.I put the termination document into my bag. I felt neither the relief nor the grief I had imagined. It felt more like completing a task that had been delayed far too long.Outside the Council buil
Eighteen Seconds to Lose His Luna Chapter 8
After that day, Declan did not come into the studio again.He still sent messages every day. In the morning, he reminded me to eat breakfast. At noon, he asked how I was recovering. At night, he checked whether I had reached home safely. I sometimes saw them, but I rarely answered.It was not revenge. We simply had nothing left to say to each other.Once, he sent three messages in succession, followed by a fourth. [Reply when you see this.]I looked at those words and remembered how often I had sent the same request. Back then, he had never understood why waiting could hurt. Understanding now changed nothing.A week later, I went to Ironwood Holdings to collect design records from an earlier collaboration with my studio.The elevator doors had barely opened on the twenty-sixth floor when I heard an argument. Sloane stood outside the Alpha’s executive office, her eyes red. “You’re transferring me out of the Alpha’s office because Mara wants to end your mate relationship?”Declan’s voice
Eighteen Seconds to Lose His Luna Chapter 7
I moved into a small apartment near my studio.It had only one bedroom and a living room too narrow for a long dining table. The curtains were plain ivory. But the lease, the entry permissions, and every object inside belonged to me alone.I placed my cup in the cabinet and organized my work materials in the study. That first night, I slept uninterrupted until morning. No one needed me to leave a light on. I did not have to guess when someone might come home. No message deserved hours of my attention.The next morning, I returned to the studio. The familiar scent of wood, fabric, and finishing materials greeted me when I opened the door.After becoming Declan’s publicly acknowledged mate, I had devoted most of my energy to the duties of a future Luna. I kept only a few design projects and several long-standing clients.My business partner, Naomi, stared when she saw me. “You finally decided to come back?”I placed a proposal on her desk. “I’ll lead the new collection.”Naomi opened it.
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