LOGINLyra“W-what?” I stuttered out confused. Is he crazy? I can’t be his mate. We don’t even know each other. Plus we already have mates. Oh. My heart turns into a tight fist in my chest at the thought of Dylan and Emery. I stood in stunned silence, having an internal war with myself. “I am sure there are many women in your pack who would be happy to be with you. Why me?”“I would not put another wolf through the pain of losing his mate.You already lost your mate and you were supposed to be a Luna anyway.” He says matter of factly.I am still trying to find the right words when a delicious scent hits me. Dylan! What is he doing here? Did Xavier invite him? Was this some kind of test?The familiar scent hits me hard as my wolf and body still recognise and react to him. My wolf recoiled, no longer reacting with the excitement she previously had. This breaks something in me. Xavier’s eyes sharpen when they narrow on Dylan, who just stepped into the clearing.My stomach drops at the sight
LYRAI’m not going to go. Going to meet a potentially— albeit breathtaking— stranger in the woods is crazy. Isn’t it?I battle with my thoughts as I lie awake staring at the ceiling. I use the face and thought of the beautiful stranger to distract myself from constant pain I feel from the severed bond. . I’m not going.He’s a stranger. He watched me through my window for goddess knows how long. He appeared on an empty path and basically ordered me to show up tomorrow like my time was his. I don’t know anything about him besides his name.I’m not going. I fall asleep with that thought in mind. I wake up in pain.Not the chest pain that came with the rejection, that has become so familiar I barely recognise it now. This is a gut wrenching pain I feel in my stomach. The nauseating pain that means Dylan is having his fun with Emery and the moon goddess decided I need to know about it at four in the morning.I press my face into the pillow trying to breathe through it slowly, the way I h
LyraI couldn’t sleep that night.Knowing you’re about to lose your home would do that to you. But that didn’t stop my mind from returning again and again to the grey eyes of a man I do not even know. I think about the way its stare woke my dormant wolf up. I don’t know what it means but it scares me just as much as it excites me. My wolf went quiet again after he disappeared, but thankfully not like before. Now I can still feel her presence and for that I’m grateful. Although it seems like she’s just waiting for him to come back.The first light of the day filtered through the window as I pull my hair back. Looking at the mirror I see the blue and purple bruises beginning to form on my stomach from my mates affairs with his girlfriend. Not wanting the rejection to take over my life I decided to start my day very early. Pushing the past few days to the back of my mind, I make my way out the door. Before I can get far though I hear my name. It’s Priya, one of the unmated wolves l
LYRAI wake up on the floor of my room and for one brief, merciful moment I don’t remember why. That is of course until it all rushes back to me. My brief happiness and the immense pain that followed. My wolf’s silence and everything else. You don’t know how fortunate you are till misfortune hits. You don’t realize just how easy everything was till things get harder. You don’t think of how much you have till you don’t anymore. These are the thoughts that find me as I sit up slowly looking around my room. The sun rays filter through the gap in my curtains making me look down. My dress is wrinkled beyond saving, my face feels swollen and my whole body aches from spending the night on the hardwood floor. Somewhere in the pack house I live in someone is moving around in the kitchen, the usual sounds of a morning that has arrived without asking if I’m ready for it.I’m not ready for it.I press my palms flat against the cold floorboards taking steady breaths, I feel my wolf stir within m
LYRA“Don’t say it.” My voice comes out all wrong. Too small, too exposed and not like I had imagined this moment would be. But then I had never imagined a moment like this. Not exactly like this. Not to me.The Alpha’s hall is warm and full of people. The low buzz of conversations, the smell of food and the smoke from several candles fill the room. I had been standing at the edge of the room as I always did at gatherings like this, not wanting to be noticed. That was until his eyes met mine. I could still feel the sparks where his hand closed around my wrist. Couldn’t he feel it? Why then is he doing this?The greatest thing that could happen to any werewolf happened to me just twenty minutes ago.I found my mate. The one person picked for you by the moon goddess. The one who is supposed to love and care for you for the rest of your life.At least I thought that was how it was going to be.One minute I am standing at the edge of the room trying my best not to be noticed, the next







