LUNAR LEGACY

My blood was spilling, but it had filled me with enough adrenaline to push the wolf off of me. I was now towering over it, my hand curled in a fist as I punched the snout and the face until I could hear the cracks of bones.When the face of the wolf was bloodied and unrecognizable, I got off and found myself sitting up against a tree with my teeth gritted in pain. I placed a hand over my chest, putting pressure on the wound and waiting for it to heal.“You’re in the danger zone,” Aera said from behind me, causing me to jump in fear at being caught out of the blue.“Here.” She handed me a bottle and encouraged me to open it and place it on my wound. “It’ll help you heal faster.”The sting that came with the liquid made me grunt as loudly as I could manage without being caught by one of the attacking wolves. Even though I tried to keep my screams under wraps, Aera slapped a palm over my mouth to keep me quiet.True to Aera’s words, the wound closed up faster than it was doing before, an

“Who are you?” Alpha Darius questioned, his eyes narrowed at me as he didn’t acknowledge the warrior who was still standing at the door in a panicked state.All I could do was lay there with nothing to say but a lot to say at the same time. What was the Moon Goddess thinking, pairing me in a mate bond with the man who had killed my brother?On one hand, I was livid. My brother’s murderer was right there, in front of me, and all I wanted to do was grab him by the neck and strangle him until the life would drain from his eyes. On the other hand, he was my mate, and that was the only thing I knew. The proximity between us was more than enough for me to go feral, but I knew I couldn’t.“ Just let me go, and I’ll explain everything,” I said as calmly as I could manage, hoping that the distinct scent that made me known as a rogue would not give me away. He probably had not realized it because of the mate bond. He most likely had another scent of me embedded in his brain.“I will only ask th

“You’re sentencing me to death?” I asked, not sure if he even heard me as I had lost my voice.“You’re a rogue. If I had let you stay for any longer without doing anything, I would be dead by now because you were sent to kill me. You don’t walk into a pack and try to kill the alpha of the pack without facing the consequences.”“That was before I knew you were my mate. You killed my brother. You took my best friend away. You deserve to die more than I do because your attack on us was unprovoked.” I knew my words were not helping me. If anything, he would only get angrier.With a scoff, Darius shook his head. “You don’t understand anything, do you? For every single rogue that’s roaming out there, there’s one more person in danger. Your kind killed my parents.”I stayed silent. I was not going to exchange more words with him. It wouldn’t go anywhere.“When do you plan to execute me?” I asked after a moment of silence.He looked at me with slightly raised brows as if he was shocked at my

“You’re hurting me,” I said to the man.As if considering it for a moment, his eyes narrowed and he soon asked. “If I let you go, are you going to run again?”“No. Just get off,” I said, and he finally let go of my hands as he rolled over and stood, offering me his hand to help me get up.Stubbornly, I picked myself up from the floor without his help. “This was a big mistake. I’m not your mate. Maybe the Moon Goddess is having some sort of…bad night. I mean, it’s the night of a festival. She has to be tired.”He folded his arms as he examined me. “I don’t think there’s ever been a mistake of that kind ever recorded. Are you a member of this pack? You don’t have the same scent they do.”From his words, I quickly understood that this man was not a member of the pack. Perhaps he was there to celebrate with the hosting pack.“You don’t have to know any of that. I’ll just be on my way,” I told him, turning around in my attempt to escape. This was going to put a whole dent on my plan to esc

“You can carry on with the festival,” Darius said to his pack members, more in a tone that told them that if they didn’t, there would be consequences.“How do you think you’re going to keep me locked up in your pack until he returns and possibly wages war against you?” I asked him with my arms crossed after everyone turned around and pretended like they weren’t worried.“It seems my guards weren’t as competent as I gave them credit for. You will be under my watch for the next few days. I want to see what my brother intends to do. You make an attempt to escape one more time, I won’t care what my brother threatens me with and you’ll find yourself in a less than honorable grave.”From the way he was looking at me, I could tell that he wasn’t bluffing. It didn’t take away the curiosity that I held on to.“Why didn’t you just give me up? You could have made me his problem instead of having me stay here. You don’t need me,” I said.“You have no right to know what I’m thinking. You’re coming