LOGINFor three grueling years, Luna Serena kept Thornblood Pack on its feet patiently awaiting the return of her mate, Alpha Caden Thornblood, who was fighting valiantly on the front lines, leading his warriors. She knew she was unmarked but believed she was loved. That was until that illusion was shattered upon her mate's arrival with a rogue Lilliana, his fated mate heavy with pup. Cast aside by the very man she had given everything, she she leaves knowing his pack will crumble in her absence and when he comes for her she already stands beside the most powerful man in the continent, the Lycan King.
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I bathed myself in another cloud of lavender-his favorite scent.
Today my mate, my alpha forever , was coming back home, draped in victory and merits. My wolf swelled with pride
Smoothing over the little wrinkles on the bed, a smile played over my lips.
For 3 years I have held up the fort, managing pack affairs and keeping everything afloat.
"When I come back..." I slowly recalled his promise from 3 years ago, "I will make you mine truly fully mine.." I brushed over the shadow mark on my shoulder.
I told him I was ready for a real one, he refused saying anything could happen in the battlefield and he didn't want me moping forever.
Silly Caden, like I could even dream of loving someone that was not him.
Very few knew about his arrival tonight, that was intentional on my part. I wanted to have him to myself before I would have to share him with the pack, to add to the surprise I even told the warriors to the deceive him that I was unfortunately out of the pack for a territorial meeting with the alpha and Luna of our neighboring Pack then-
The screeches from hinges turning on the door made me jolt up, I zipped through the room with my insane speed that was known through the continent and hid in the wardrobe waiting to surprise him.
I had no idea that he would beat me to it.
The door flew open, first I caught a Caden scent but here's was not the only one in our bedroom chamber, there was a softer feminine one entangled in his.
My heart shot up to my throat, breath seizing for a moment.
Was this some kind of nightmare? And if it wasn't, how was the man I had waited for leading another woman into our bedroom?
Denial kept me planted in place, feeding me excuses that didn't fit as my heart hastened faster.
"Caden I'm scared, are you sure she won't show up?" Her voice, it sounded so dainty and fragile like she was on the verge of snapping.
"Don't worry I've asked the servants and the warriors they all said she was going for a meeting or something she won't be back for another 3 days at least," Caden said in a husky voice, something once reserved for only me.
I cupped my palm over my cheek as tears trickled over them.
This was the man I waited three years for, yearning for the day I would be in his embrace once more. His letters from the war front told me that my feelings were not one-sided, that my absence created a wound that no physical blow could measure up to.
The tears intensified as their lips molded into each other, hands explored and my wolf growled, demanding I tear them apart.
But I remained hidden even as he carried her into the bed we shared, stroking off her auburn hair from her face.
I needed to know just how far he had gone with her.
His lips came to her throat, and her screams shook the walls as he did so his fingers traveled between her legs while my heart split into two
The Caden I knew was not fond of foreplay, it wouldn't even be an exaggeration to say he despised it.
"We're not teenagers anymore, Serena." He would say while messaging his brow like he was explaining his displeasure to me as if I was a petulant child. "Besides..."He would continue not facing me, "Couldn't you be focused on your true responsibilities?" That's not so subtle a reminder that I had failed again and again to produce an heir for Thornblood would clip any complaints I had about our bedroom life.
He said all that yet had another woman squirming under him in OUR bed.
It was already devastating enough but if this was just a one time thing-a mistake yes- maybe I can for-
"I can't believe I'm finally here with you..." Caden said, it was a murmur in her ears but my Luna senses picked it up like he'd said it in mine.
The woman gasped as he tore off her skirt, "Caden, You're in such a rush! Easy...I already let you have me in the car, didn't I?"
My throat closed up
"I've had you almost everyday for the past three years and it's not close to enough," he breathed out. My tears were now blurring my vision.
He was about to dive in for another kiss then she pushed him back, her palm spread, her voice suddenly serious.
"Caden I'm scared, what if your pack doesn't accept me as their Luna?"her voice began to cracked
"You'll be perfect."
I was reaching my limit.
"Please don't flatter me, I know I could never compare to your true Luna and mate..." She started to cry, hiding her face. He pulled her hand away and said; "she's not even a fraction of a problem, just a placeholder that I would have tolerated for the rest of my life. Liana, she doesn't hold a candle to you."
That was where my patience snapped. I stormed out of the closet, both pairs of eyes jerked over to me, made a pretentious attempt to reach for the duvet but it was clear that she was giving me a good show of all the love marks he had left spread over her body.
Caden planted himself between us already protectively propped in case I let out my anger on her which only inflamed me.
"Caden!" I had so much to say but it just broke out in intense emotion, he was already down to his boxers yet he told me; "this isn't what it looks like."
My muscles became taunt, "are you sure because it definitely looks like you are taking another woman to town on our bed!"
"Serena, calm yourself, this is not befitting of a Luna!"
"And I suppose dragging a common w**** to our bed is what is benefiting an Alpha?"
His mouth went short then just before he could speak the woman she just called Liana clutched to him and said;"Caden the pup is coming.”
Serena’s POVIn the days that followed, the palace learned a different kind of quiet.Not the brittle peace that had settled after Kieran’s imprisonment, when too many questions still lived in sealed files and unfinished roads. This quiet was heavier and more honest. It had blood on the inner hall floor behind it, an empty bassinet in recent memory, and a truth large enough that neither kingdom could pretend the border still protected them from each other.Alaric and I made the decision together on the second night, with Elara asleep between us and the bond open in the dark.“We do not bury this,” I said. “Not again. Secrecy is what let the Final Watch grow into a strike team and what let someone older than Kieran work against the seal while every house watched the wrong threats.”“Agreed,” Alaric said. His hand rested over Elara’s back, a continuous confirmation that she was still present. “Honesty, then. Controlled, deliberate, and wide enough to deny the next faction the advantage
Serena’s POVVess was moved to deeper isolation under a combined guard of Obsidian blades and the matriarch’s loyalists. No one trusted a single chain of custody with a man who still believed murdering a child was a form of maintenance. Alaric gave the orders for the inner hall to be cleaned and the wounded tended, then turned the full weight of his attention toward the northern presence now standing inside our walls by necessity rather than invitation.The matriarch herself arrived before the next full day had burned out.She came with a smaller escort than her rank might have justified and with Elder Mirek already under restraint in the north, a fact Gale confirmed in a short private report before the formal meeting convened. The Final Watch had been cut hard at its command root. What remained were believers, scattered logistics, and the ideology Vess had spoken into our side chamber like a curse that expected to be thanked.We met in the private council room rather than the great h
Serena’s POVThe bar on the connecting door held for less than a minute before Liliana moved.“If he falls in that hall while we listen through wood, your daughter still dies the next time a quieter team arrives,” she said. She was already at the bar. “You can detain me after. Or you can use every blade still willing to keep the Final Watch away from that cradle.”Belinda looked at me. The captain of the escort hesitated between Alaric’s last order and the sound of steel on steel through the door. Elara shifted against my chest and made a small unbroken sound that decided more than any argument.“Open it,” I said. “Liliana goes out first under Belinda’s watch. The rest hold this room as the last fall back. If the hall is lost, this door seals again and does not open for anything except Alaric or Gale.”The bar lifted. The door swung into a hall that had already become a killing ground.Alaric was still on his feet at the center of it. Two of the Final Watch were down. A third was acti
Serena’s POVWe did not have the luxury of a full reckoning in the abandoned holding room.The horn from the upper inner hall sounded again, closer and more specific. Alaric issued orders in a continuous stream while one hand remained at my back, as if contact alone could keep Elara from disappearing a second time. Half the team peeled upward toward the contact call. The rest closed around us for the climb out of the servant levels. Liliana was placed between two guards without chains only because she still might be useful and because carrying a restrained prisoner through a live breach was a stupidity none of us had time to commit.“You will walk,” Alaric told her. “You will answer every question I put to you while we move. If you deviate one step from the line, the asylum conversation ends permanently.”“I already told you the part that matters,” Liliana said. She kept pace without struggling. “Final Watch team. Outer grounds after nightfall. Nursery pattern. I moved the child befor
Serena's POV Hearing your own mate talk about falling in love with another 'woman' was an out of body experience. But that was the last thing I needed to hear to completely dissolve the rest of my feelings. Instantly I was emptied of all the burning passion I had for him, and I dumped the ashes
Serena's POV "We're here to see Liliana Rosemary."Even her name sounded gentle and sweet, it didn't match the conniving image that was her. My mother-in-law grabbed my arm again leading me from the receptionist counter after we had been told where to find Lillian My mate's mistress It was such
"Pup, what pup?!" I roared from within, utterly inflamed eyes shifted between my mate and his mistress. Liliana's face scrunched with pain as she folded over Caden's thigh, in a single breath he scooped her from the bed like she was made of ice. "My moonlight..." He said looking into her face as
Caden's pov I thought she would beg to stay. Yes. Lilliana still had to take the Luna Chambers to begin solidifying her position but I thought Serena would put up a fight, then I'd offer her the basement, a bit of dusting here and there and it would be fine. Instead she decided to be petty. St






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