LOGINHe called me disposable. The Tribunal called me property. They both forgot what Lunaris does to cages. I was the Alpha’s kept woman for five years—his secret, his softness, his sin. Then, the night his missing Luna returned, Alpha Daire Vhaloren stood on the balcony with a cigarette dangling from his fingers and told me, without even looking, “You should go” So I did. Obedient. Quiet. Disposable. I left with his gifts, a deed to a house… and a secret I never planned to carry. Three months later, headlines screamed that Daire’s empire had collapsed. Frostveil Manor sealed. Nightmoor Covenant assets set for auction. The woman he “chose” over me, Calista Dravenne, smiled for the cameras like she hadn’t just burned his world to the ground. I tried to stay gone. Until the High Howl Tribunal branded me a recoverable asset and announced a “live appraisal” of Lot One—the pregnant omega they swore belonged to them. I went back for answers. What I found wasn’t the untouchable Alpha who dismissed me. It was a man with stubble on his jaw, a hunted kind of murder in his eyes… and a voice that made my knees weak when he said, “Why are you here, Elowen?” Because he rejected me once. Because he replaced me. Because he doesn’t know the truth. And because the bond he tried to throw away is coming for us both—along with the child he never knew I was carrying. Now Daire wants a contract marriage to save what’s left of his pack. I want revenge… and protection. But when an Alpha realizes the woman he discarded is his fated mate—and the lost heir of House Lunaris—he doesn’t beg politely. He hunts. ---
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A letter arrived for Elias Chai, an acceptance to the First Class International Scholarship at Lupin Royal College. His heart soared as he read the words, eyes flicking across them again and again, not quite believing it. After weeks of waiting, the dream was real. He had already begun packing. Soon, he’d be flying from Thailand to America, toward a future his family had only dared to imagine. “I know you’re not a fan of same sex relationships,” his mother said cautiously as she folded a shirt into his suitcase. “But I advise you to keep that opinion to yourself. Things are different over there...they’re... more open. You don't want trouble, do you?” Elias didn’t reply. She wasn’t wrong. “You're a freshman,” she continued. “And freshmen are easy targets. Especially werewolves like you, those from humble backgrounds. Lupin is filled with powerful bloodlines. Lycans. Royals. That school isn’t made for people like us.” He looked up, eyes dark and unreadable. He knew the truth in her words, he wasn’t naïve. But none of it changed what he had to do. His goal was simple: study hard, stay out of trouble... and maybe...just maybe find his mate. “Don’t just bury yourself in books,” his dad added, smiling. “Make friends. Live a little.” “You don’t have to hide it,” he teased. “We know you're hoping to find your mate.” Elias chuckled softly. “Maybe.” “I hope it’s someone of high status,” his mother said with a smirk. “A Luna would be perfect. That could protect you and elevate our bloodline.” The humor drained from her face. “But I’m serious. Someone with status could shield you. That’s the only way you’ll survive there.” “I understand, Mom. I’ll be careful.” The advice echoed in his mind even after his plane landed. When Elias arrived in America, two college agents were already waiting at the airport. As they drove through the city toward campus, his gaze wandered to the skyline, the polished buildings, the manicured streets. Everything was so different. So vast. He spotted a couple holding hands near a crosswalk and felt a sharp pang in his chest. “Will I find love here?” he wondered aloud. He sighed and rested his head against the window. So much was uncertain. He thought of the job applications he’d sent out before leaving Thailand—quietly, without telling his parents. He hoped to earn money and ease their burden. But he hadn’t wanted to get their hopes up. He wasn’t even sure if a werewolf like him would be hired. “I’ll tell them once I get the job,” he promised himself. So deep in thought, Elias didn’t realize the car had come to a stop. “What are you waiting for? We’ve arrived,” the driver said sharply. Elias blinked and looked out the window. His breath caught. The grand, sprawling entrance of Lupin Royal College rose before him like something out of a dream. Ivy covered stone, golden lettering, soaring gates. “Lycan Royal College...” he murmured with awe. “This is really happening.” He stepped out of the car, drinking in the sight. His scholarship had opened a door into a world far beyond his reach and now, he was standing at the threshold. The driver honked again. Elias reentered the car; they weren’t done yet. Soon, they arrived at the freshmen residence hall. As they walked, agents explained the layout and schedule. Elias listened politely, taking it all in. From across the courtyard, a few upperclassmen glanced over and whispered. “He looks excited. Let’s see how long that lasts.” “He has no idea what he’s walking into...” Elias heard them, but their words meant little. He didn’t yet understand the layers of hierarchy or cruelty in a place like this. One of the agents patted his shoulder. “This school is tough,” he said. “You’ll need to be tougher.” Elias frowned. Their warnings were piling up fast. “There aren’t many foreigners or werewolves here,” the agent continued. “Make the most of this chance. If you can connect with a lycan especially a senior with influence it could change everything.” “Not just any lycan,” added the woman walking with them. “You need someone with authority.” “She’s right,” the man nodded. “It won’t be easy, but it’s worth trying. And if your mate turns out to be one of them... well, you’ll have hit the jackpot.” They guided him to his dorm, helped him unpack, offered advice long past what their roles required. Perhaps it was kindness or perhaps they knew what he was about to face. Elias had one advantage they admired: a near genius IQ of 230. They wanted to protect that. It would be a shame to see someone so promising crushed by court politics or caste cruelty. When Elias saw the massive dorm room, complete with two beds, his curiosity peaked. “I have a roommate?” he asked. The agent gave a small smile. “Technically, yes. But don’t worry, he rarely stays here.” “Why?” “He lives in the palace.” Elias’s heart jumped. “The palace?” he repeated. “Yes,” one of them said vaguely. “You’ll understand soon enough.” And with that, they left him at the door of his new life.The Tribunal did not fall in a single dramatic day.It eroded.Crowe’s testimony and the auction feeds shattered its aura of neutrality. Soryn’s decrees and the packs’ new warrants cracked its structure. Lunaris teams followed the ledgers like blood trails, cutting off funding, and burning reallocation routes that had once been secret as veins.It took months.Courthouses that had once flown tribunal banners now flew local sigils or Lunaris crescents, or nothing at all. Offices where clerks had filed “asset evaluations” now housed independent advocates and pack councils.Birth‑claim devices were confiscated and dismantled, their scripts carefully reversed and recorded, so no one could ever pretend the old “necessities” hadn’t been cruelty.And in Nightmoor, life went on.Roads were repaired.Supply lines rerouted.New pups were born without anyone weighing their worth against a ledger.***Spring came soft that year.Elowen felt it first in the air—the shift from sharp winter cold to
For one wild heartbeat, Elowen thought she would have to get up again.To stand between her newborn and the world. To command through the haze and blood and exhaustion, to turn Lunaris power outward one more time.But before she could even lift her head, Daire was already moving.He turned on the guard with a snarl—not at him, but at the words.“Out,” he said. “Now. Seal this door. No one gets in here who isn’t Mae or Soryn or Kieran.”The guard swallowed, nodded, and bolted.Daire looked back to Elowen.She saw the war in his eyes for a second—pack outside, mate, and child here. The pull in both directions that had torn Alphas apart since packs first howled.She tightened her grip weakly on his wrist.“Go,” she whispered. “They need teeth. We’re… we’re okay. Mae will gut anyone who looks at us wrong.”Mae snorted. “Understatement.”Daire’s hand cupped her jaw for the briefest instant—rough thumb, brushing a tear track.“I’ll come back,” he said. It wasn’t a promise made lightly anymo
They got her off the moonstone by force of will and coordinated muscle.Soryn walked ahead, power shimmering in a low, dense shield that bent the crowd aside without flinging anyone. Kieran and Rae cleared a physical path with bared teeth and knives, snapping at anyone slow to move.Daire half‑carried, half‑supported Elowen down from the dais and across the bowl, his arm locked around her waist, her weight leaning into him as another contraction dragged her forward with a grunt.“Almost there,” he muttered. “Just get inside. Just—”She squeezed his forearm so hard he winced.“Stop saying ‘almost,’” she hissed between breaths. “You’ve been saying ‘almost’ for three chapters.”He huffed out something like a laugh, frayed at the edges.“Fine,” he said. “We’re… in motion. How’s that?”Another wave rolled through her, this one with that deep, unstoppable *pressure* that made her body want to bear down, to open.She bit it back with a low sound.“Seal’s not going to wait much longer,” Mae s
For a long moment after Elowen’s whisper, the clearing held its breath.Moonstone light haloed her; Calista stood locked in place, stripped, empty‑handed. The shattered relic and gutted Cradle sparkled like broken teeth at their feet.Then, the rest of the world rushed back in.Voices.Engines ticking as they cooled.The thin, brittle sound of someone sobbing—one of the donors, finally realizing the ledgers couldn’t save him.Mae’s shout cut through it all.“Elowen.”The healer’s tone—sharp, urgent—snapped Elowen’s attention back to her own body.Another contraction ripped through her.This one didn’t just band her abdomen; it gripped low and deep, a rolling pressure that made her legs tremble and her breath hitch.She sucked in air, hand flying instinctively to her belly.The baby answered with a resounding shove downward.Mae was already moving, shoving through a knot of Lunaris and Nightmoor wolves to reach the edge of the dais.“Seal’s done negotiating,” she snapped, palm pressing
Silence held for half a breath after the relic shattered.Then, everything moved at once.Calista’s eyes went wild, whites showing all around the irises as she stared at the glittering fragments on the moonstone.“No,” she breathed. “No, no, no—”Her fingers spasmed.She dropped the useless hilt, m
War didn’t pause just because a body needed to.But in the barn, for a few precarious minutes, they made it.---Mae and the second healer moved with brutal efficiency once the warning crackled through the comm. They propped Elowen on the cot in a half‑reclined position—pillows wedged behind her ba
The silver blast tore a hole in the ritual.It didn’t last long.It didn’t have to.***For a few heartbeats, everything was noise and falling light.The lattice overhead shattered in jagged streaks—shards of brightness that hit the air and dissolved before they touched stone. The runes at the dais
For a heartbeat after Calista’s whisper, the world held its breath.Then, it exhaled in blood.Daire sagged forward, only the relic’s hilt and Calista’s hand on his shoulder, keeping him from collapsing completely. Blood dripped off the blade in slow, obscene beats, pattering dark onto the trampled






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