ログインSerena Hale believed fate had finally chosen her when she discovered that Alexander Blackwood…the future Alpha of her pack…was her fated mate. But destiny can be cruel. Before Serena can claim the bond, Alexander publicly announces his chosen mate… her own twin sister, Sophia. Worse, Sophia is carrying his child. Accused of trying to steal her sister’s mate, Serena is abandoned by everyone she trusted…her parents, her pack, even the Alpha himself. Branded a homewrecker, she is forced to watch as the man meant to be hers prepares to mark another woman. Broken and humiliated, Serena begins to realize one painful truth: The pack never intended to choose her. But fate isn’t finished yet. As mysterious powers awaken inside her and a dangerous Alpha from another territory begins to notice the girl everyone cast aside, Serena’s story is far from over. Because the wolf they betrayed today… may become the Luna they kneel to tomorrow.
もっと見るAlpha Victor Blackwood had a way of making rooms feel smaller than they were. Not through size, he wasn’t a physically imposing man, but through the specific quality of his attention. He looked at you the way a surveyor looks at land he is already planning to develop. Assessing. Deciding. The decision made before you even opened your mouth.I had been summoned to his study at ten in the morning, four days after the gathering, with a note slipped under my bedroom door that said simply: Please attend at your earliest convenience. Which in pack language meant: Come now. Bring nothing. Say less.I dressed carefully. That was the only act of defiance available to me, so I made it count.The study smelled like leather and old wood and the faint mineral cold of the stone walls beneath the paneling. Victor sat behind his desk with a folder open in front of him that he didn’t look at once during the entire meeting. Alexander sat to his father’s left, in the chair that meant second-in-command,
My mother kept her secrets in a room no one was supposed to know about. I had known about it since I was twelve.The pack archive sat at the back of the administrative building, behind a door that looked like a supply closet and smelled like old paper and cedar oil and the specific dry cold of a room that never quite warmed up. I had found it by accident as a child, following a cat that turned out not to exist, and I had never told anyone. Not even Sophia. Especially not Sophia.I went there at two in the morning, three days after the gathering, because I couldn’t sleep and the silver light in my hands had started to feel less like a warning and more like a compass pointing somewhere I hadn’t figured out yet.The lock was old. The key I’d copied at fourteen still worked.I slipped inside and pulled the door shut behind me.The archive was floor-to-ceiling shelving on three walls, boxes and folders organized by decade, pack census records and alliance agreements and birth registries go
By breakfast, I had already been tried, convicted, and sentenced by people who weren’t there.I heard it before I saw it. Two pack women talking outside the communal hall, voices low and pleasant the way voices get when the gossip is particularly good. I caught my name and slowed without meaning to, pressing close to the wall of the corridor with my tray in my hands and my stomach already tightening.“…cornered him in the hallway, apparently. Right after the announcement.”“No.”“That’s what Dena said. She was practically throwing herself at him. In front of everyone.”“She’s always been obsessed with Sophia’s life. Remember when they were teenagers and she—”I didn’t wait to hear what I’d done as a teenager. I pushed through the side door into the cold morning air and stood on the path with my untouched tray and breathed carefully through my nose until the urge to go back in there and say something passed.It passed. Barely.The communal breakfast hall held about sixty people on a no
My room felt smaller than it had that morning. I sat on the edge of the bed with my shoes still in my hands and the party still going somewhere across the pack grounds, faint music carrying on the night air, and I tried to do the thing you're supposed to do when your life rearranges itself without your permission. I tried to be rational. I tried to list the facts. The bond exists and he knows it and he chose her anyway. She is three months pregnant. She knew. She must have known and she said nothing. She gave me that smile.My hands started shaking and I put the shoes down carefully so I wouldn't have to think about why.And then something else happened.It started at my fingertips. A warmth. No. Not warmth exactly, more like pressure that had no source, building at the edges of my palms, and when I looked down there was light. Silver light, faint as a held breath, dancing at the tips of my fingers like static electricity that had decided to be beautiful instead of sharp.I had never
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