LOGINI became Luna of the Shadowfang pack, bound to an Alpha who treats me like a stranger. The only one who sees me is his Beta—and our forbidden connection could destroy us all. Two months ago, I was an ordinary wolf. Now I'm Elara, Luna of the Shadowfang pack, mated to the most powerful Alpha in the territory. But the title means nothing when my mate, Damon, won't even look at me. He says he's protecting me from threats lurking beyond our borders. He says his coldness is for my own good. But every night I fall asleep alone, wondering if I'll ever feel his touch again—the way I did on our wedding night, when he held me like I was something precious. Then there's Caleb. The Beta. Damon's best friend. The only one who treats me like I matter, who listens when I speak, who makes me feel seen. With his warm smile and patient eyes, he's everything Damon isn't—and everything I shouldn't want. But when danger closes in and secrets surface, I discover that the line between love and betrayal is thinner than I ever imagined. My heart belongs to two men—one who claims me as his Luna, and one who makes me feel like a woman. And the choice I make could tear the pack apart. In a world of ancient loyalties and shifting shadows, one Luna must decide: follow the rules of the pack, or follow the wild beating of her heart. Perfect for fans of werewolf romance, forbidden love, and stories where passion battles duty—and the heart refuses to be tamed.
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I opened the huge safe behind my wedding portrait and brought out the gun I had always kept hidden. It was one of the valuables my mother had given me before she died. Now I was going to use it. Not to protect myself, not on an enemy, but on my own husband. I was going to make him sign our divorce papers while aiming this at his bloody head. The irony wasn't lost on me; the portrait above the safe showed us smiling on our wedding day, young and hopeful. What a lie that had been. *TWO DAYS EARLIER* "I'm resigning, Ma'am." That was Grace, the new house help I had just hired barely a week ago. She looked scared, shaken, and tired, like someone who had been carrying a burden too heavy for her shoulders. I should have said okay and allowed her to leave, but something in me felt uneasy. The way her eyes darted around, the way her hands twisted together. She might have been going through something. So I asked her about it and if she needed any help. She burst out in tears the moment I did. "I can't do this anymore. You're just too kind and innocent. You don't deserve what they're doing to you." That grasped my attention. I guided her to sit down, comforted her, and asked her what she meant. "Madam Isla and Sir Caspian... they do a lot of bad things when you're not around. They paid me a lot of money not to say anything about it. I thought I could keep quiet, but I just can't. You deserve to know the truth." My blood ran cold. Isla, my cousin, whom I had brought here a year ago when she was homeless, and Caspian, my husband of five years. The two people I had trusted most in the world. I didn't immediately believe Grace, but I took her seriously. After she left, I did something I hadn't done in months. I went into my husband's room. Two months after Isla had started living with us, Caspian had told me he was tired of sharing a room with me and needed his privacy. I was the type to never complain, the type to swallow every hurt and smile through it so I accepted without questions. And since then, I had never stepped into the room. Only the maids were allowed to go into it for cleaning. I had convinced myself it was respect for his boundaries. Now I saw it for what it really was; willful blindness. I turned the knob and it opened slowly. I almost lost my footing at what I saw. Her underwear was everywhere, her makeup scattered on the same vanity table that used to be mine, and her clothes filled the closet. There were packs of condoms right beside the bed, displayed so carelessly it made my stomach turn. They hadn't even respected me enough to be discreet. All this time, they had both been sharing a room. Isla and Caspian. They had done so under my very nose, in my own house, with my own money keeping the lights on. Had I been so foolish? Or had I just had so much trust in my husband that I didn't see this coming? Everything that didn't make sense before began to actually make sense. Anytime Caspian had a business trip, Isla would also give an excuse to travel too. Whenever I wasn't home, they were both always at home together. But I had never questioned anything because Caspian hated questions. And I had loved him too much to risk angering him. I didn't give myself time to cry or hate myself. All I wanted right then was to leave that goddamn marriage. That same day, I drove to Jenny's firm. When she saw me walk in with glossy eyes and my fists clenching so hard my nails dug into my palms, she knew I needed her not as a friend but as the ruthless divorce lawyer that she was. "I want to kill him. I want to kill them both so badly." But she patted my hands and gave me a reassuring smile. "That's against the law, sweetheart. But you know what's not against the law? It's you taking back all your goddamn money and leaving them to rot in their miserable lives." And she was right. Caspian and I had gotten together through an arranged marriage. My stepfather had wanted me out, and he didn't care how much he had to spend to make it happen. Meanwhile, Caspian's family had been bankrupt and they had needed money to pay their debts. After the marriage, I had fallen in love with Caspian, and I had made myself believe he loved me too. What a fool I had been. "For you to get back all your money, sweetheart, you need him to sign some papers. And I doubt he's going to do that willingly." I looked down at the papers, both the transfer of funds and the divorce papers. I had to make him sign both. I looked up at Jenny again, determined. "Leave that to me. Give me three days and I'll get them signed.”Damon had been restless for weeks.It started subtly—a shorter temper, a tendency to snap at Ayla over small things, a reluctance to sit still during meals. Elara noticed it first, as mothers do, cataloging the changes with a mixture of concern and recognition. She had been young once, had felt her own wolf stirring, had struggled to contain the wildness that came with growing up.But Damon's restlessness grew worse as the weeks passed. He stopped eating as much, pushed food around his plate, claimed he wasn't hungry. He slept poorly, tossing and turning, sometimes waking with a gasp as if emerging from a nightmare he could not remember. He spent hours alone in the forest, returning with scratches on his arms a
The years passed as years do—slowly when you were living through them, quickly when you looked back. Damon's tenth birthday came and went with the usual celebration: a feast, some gifts, stories told around the fire. Ayla turned seven a few months later, her celebration smaller but no less joyful. They were growing, both of them, in ways that Elara noticed every day and Caleb pretended not to see.Damon had lost the roundness of early childhood, his face sharpening, his body lengthening. He moved with a confidence that had not been there a year ago, his steps sure, his decisions quick. He had made friends among the pack's other children, formed bonds that would last a lifetime, learned to navigate the complicated social waters of a community that was both family and something more.
The first time Ayla healed someone, no one realized what had happened.It was a small thing, almost nothing—a scratch on Damon's hand from a sharp branch, bleeding lightly, stinging enough to make him whimper. Elara was busy with Kael, who had been fussing all morning, and Caleb was outside chopping wood. Ayla, three years old and always watching, toddled over to her brother and put her small hand over his cut."Better," she said, with the certainty of a child who had not yet learned that the world did not always bend to her will.Damon stopped crying. He looked at his hand, then at his sister, then
Damon had been waiting for this day since he could walk.The pack's traditions were clear: at six years old, a child was old enough to join their first hunt. Not as a hunter, not yet, but as a participant, a learner, someone who would watch and listen and begin to understand what it meant to provide for the pack. The actual killing would be done by the adults, the child's role limited to observing and perhaps tracking, but the experience itself was a rite of passage, a threshold crossed.Damon had been counting down the days for months, waking each morning with the same question: "Is it time yet?" Each time, Elara or Caleb would remind him that the hunt was held in the autumn, when the deer were fat and the weather w
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