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2026-03-23 04:12:38ELLARIA.
My Alpha forced me to sign a marriage contract: no love, no children.
He didn’t know I had fallen in love with him at first sight. And now, with only three months left until our contract expired, I was pregnant.
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“Luna! You’re having twins!” the doctor exclaimed.
The two tiny, beating hearts on the ultrasound screen left my mind completely blank.
“Should I call the Alpha now?” she asked.
“No!” I blurted, the word coming out as a sharp, sudden cry.
The doctor’s smile froze.
My voice unsteady, I tried to explain, “We’ve been wanting this for so long. I want to surprise him myself.”
Her expression softened at once. “Oh, how lovely!”
I fled the hospital almost in a run. I had lied to her. My husband, Arren, the Alpha, had never wanted a baby. He had made me sign a contract to ensure it.
Arren was the Alpha King of the entire Eastern Sector, a man wholly devoted to his duty. Four years ago, his father had died suddenly under mysterious circumstances, and an Alpha could only be officially crowned as Alpha King after he took a Luna. He chose me, a mere servant. In return, he gave me a roof over my head and promised to help me find my mother, whom I hadn’t seen for as long as I could remember.
Our arrangement was strictly temporary and only 90 days left.
Now two babies grew inside me. How was I supposed to tell my husband that I had failed him in every way he had expected of this marriage?
I stood in front of my car and stared at my reflection in the window.
My cheeks were flushed, my eyes red and puffy from crying.
I glanced down at my stomach.
Two little lives lived inside me. I imagined tiny fingers curling around mine, and a soft, sweet voice calling me “Mama.”
Maybe the babies could change everything. Maybe they could turn this fake marriage into something real.
As soon as I got home, I lay down on the sofa and drifted off to sleep, replaying every possible future scenario in my head.
What felt like hours later, his scent woke me. Pine and cedar, with something warm beneath it, filled my lungs before I even opened my eyes.
I whispered, “Alpha Arren.”
He sank into the seat across from me, his gray eyes blazing with intensity as he ran a hand through his dark hair.
He looked exhausted. Then, without a word, he leaned forward, his large hand reaching out to cup my nape, pulling me toward him.
He didn't wait for permission. He claimed my lips in a kiss that was both weary and possessive.
I stopped thinking and simply let myself feel, my fingers curling into his shirt, pulling him closer. His tongue parted my lips, and he sucked gently at my lower lip, sending a shiver through me.
His other hand slid down my waist, gripping me as if to ensure I wasn't going anywhere. But as his lips lingered near my neck, his breath hitting my skin in ragged bursts, he suddenly stiffened.
He stayed there, buried in the crook of my neck, breathing me in with a sudden, sharp focus.
“You smell different,” he muttered.
Every muscle in my body locked up.
The babies, I thought.
Before his wolf could sense the truth, I pressed my hand to his chest and put distance between us.
I wanted to lie, but as I looked into his eyes, the words caught in my throat and wouldn’t come out.
What if he would accept it...
“I feel a little sick,” I whispered weakly, that was a part of turth.
“You should see a healer.”
He pulled back, pushed himself to his feet, and turned toward the bathroom.
“Wait.” I grabbed the pregnancy report from under the cushion where I’d hidden it. “There’s something I need to tell you.”
He stopped and turned around. “What is it?”
This was it.
Goddess.
Okay.
The moment that would change everything.
I stepped forward, but his entire body went stiff before I could utter a single word. His eyes darkened as he stared into the void.
Someone was contacting him through a mind link.
He turned away from me abruptly, cupping a hand around his ear as if amplifying the voice on the other end.
“Are you okay?” He sounded genuinely worried.
Gentle… and loving. He would never use such a soft tone for pack business.
The warmth I’d clung to turned to ice in my chest.
Only a handful of wolves could reach an Alpha through a private link like that.
And I knew exactly who he was speaking to the second I heard the soft, feminine voice reply in a sorrowful tone.
His ex-girlfriend.
His fated mate.
Katerina Mikaelson.
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His Contract Luna Says Goodbye EPILOGUE I
ARREN.I woke up before she did.That was a first. Most mornings of our marriage I'd been gone before the sun came up, and the few times I wasn't, she'd been up first, making coffee I didn't have time to drink.Now I was lying on my side with every inch of me aching, watching her sleep.She was on her stomach with her face turned toward me, one arm tucked under the pillow. Her hair was everywhere. There was a crease on her cheek from the sheet. Her mouth was open a little, and every few breaths she made a small sound that wasn't quite a snore.I wasn't going to tell her that. I valued my life.The light coming through the curtains was pale and early. The house was quiet. My ribs hurt when I breathed, my hands throbbed under the bandages, and my face felt like someone had driven over it more than once.I didn't care about any of it.She was here, and I was here. I'd said the words out loud last night, over and over, and she'd said them back.I reached out and moved a piece of hair off
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ELLARIA.He turned his head and kissed my palm, then the inside of my wrist, then the sensitive skin of my forearm as he worked his way back to my mouth.The second kiss was deeper. Hungrier. I arched up into him and felt him smile against my lips before he started a slow, devastating path downward.He kissed my jaw, lingering at the spot just beneath my ear that had always made me shiver. His tongue traced the line of my throat. He spent long minutes at the hollow of my collarbones, tasting, nipping lightly, soothing with open-mouthed kisses until I was restless beneath him. When he finally reached my breasts he looked up at me once, checking, and then took one nipple into his mouth with a slow, wet heat that made my back arch off the bed.“Arren—”“I’ve got you,” he murmured against my skin. “Let me take my time. I’ve waited years to do this right.”He lavished attention on first one breast and then the other, alternating between soft suction and the light graze of his teeth, the fl
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ELLARIA.I didn’t let go of his hand.We sat at that kitchen table with our fingers laced together and the tea going cold between us, and for a long time neither of us moved.The house was quiet in the particular way houses get after a day that has taken too much.Somewhere upstairs my mother and my aunts slept curled together like they used to when storms rattled the windows. Tate was safe in his bed with a dinosaur bandage on his neck and the steady breathing of a child who finally believed the worst was over. The longest day of our lives had ended, and somehow we were still here, still breathing, still holding on to each other across a scarred wooden table.Arren’s thumb brushed once across my knuckles. The bandage on his hand was rough against my skin. I looked at the places where blood had started to seep through and felt something tight and fierce and protective rise in my chest.“Come upstairs,” I said.He lifted his eyes to mine. There were shadows under them deep enough to fa
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ELLARIA.The front door had barely clicked shut behind Caden when I saw him walk past Arren.He stopped at the bottom of the steps. The two of them looked at each other for a long moment.I couldn't hear anything through the glass. Caden said something short. Arren nodded once. Then Caden kept walking down the path and out through the gate, and he didn't look back.Arren didn't move from the post.I stood at the window with my hand still on the light switch, and my heart was going so hard I could feel it in my fingertips.He'd seen. There was no way he hadn't.I made myself walk to the front door. I opened it just enough to lean out, and the night air came in cold against my face."Arren," I said.He lifted his head."Do you…" I cleared my throat. "Do you want to come in?"He didn't answer right away. He looked at me, then past me at the lit hallway, then down at his bandaged hands."I'm not sure I should," he said.His voice was flat and tight. He was standing so stiffly it looked li
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ELLARIA.Tate fell asleep halfway through his second story.I kept reading anyway. I read all the way to the end of the chapter about the rabbit who wanted to be a dragon, because if I stopped, I'd have to get up, and if I got up, I'd have to think.When I finally closed the book, the room was quiet except for his breathing.He was curled on his side with one hand tucked under his cheek. There was a small bandage on his neck where Gregory's claw had scratched him. It was tiny. It was barely anything. I'd cleaned it myself and put a bandage on it with dinosaurs printed on it, and he'd told me very seriously that it was the best bandage he'd ever had.I looked at it for a long time.Then I pulled the blanket up to his chin, kissed his forehead, and made myself leave the room.The hallway was dark. I stood outside his door with my hand still on the knob and breathed.It had been the longest day of my life. I'd watched Arren shot twelve times. I'd watched him beaten. I'd pulled magic out
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ELLARIA.I didn't think. I just moved."Okay," I said. I lifted both hands up in front of me, palms out, the way I'd approach a frightened animal in the woods. "Okay. I'm coming. I'm coming with you. Just don't hurt him."Gregory's eyes narrowed. "Slowly.""Slowly," I repeated. "I'm going slow. See?"I took one step toward them. Then another.He took one step back.He was dragging Tate with him. My son's toes scraped across the ash as Gregory hauled him backward, deeper into the ruined ward. His arm was still locked under Tate's chin. His claws were still resting against that soft little throat.Tate's eyes found mine over Gregory's forearm.They were so wide. They were grey-blue and wet, and he was blinking hard like he was trying not to cry, like crying might make things worse.I held his gaze.I'm here, I tried to tell him without saying it. I'm right here. I've got you."Keep coming," Gregory said.I kept coming.He kept backing up. His bad leg dragged behind him with every step,
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ELLARIA.He told me to stop making a fuss and walked away.Katerina at his side and the little boy trotting along between them, and the three of them moved down their path together like a unit, like something complete, like something that had existed long before I came into the picture and would ex
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ARREN.Kade came in and dropped into the chair across from my desk with the energy of a man who'd aged five years in the last two hours."Katerina's taken the boy in," he said. "He's down for the night.""Good."He looked like he had more to say about the evening's events. After something like the
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ELLARIA.“Then you can say goodbye to your job.” His jaw tightened.I'd given my all to this hospital, and he knew it.I had no wolf and none of the healing abilities the other doctors possessed. All I had was myself, and the skills I had forced into my bones over the years, once I realized the wor
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ELLARIA.My heart slammed against my ribs. But Arren barely glanced at it before tossing it onto the side table."Don't bring patient files home, Ellaria. You know the rules."The paper slipped off the table and scattered across the floor.The front door closed behind him and a few seconds later I
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