DAISY'S POVAs the days went by, the weaker my wolf got. I asked my uncle about it, but he constantly dismissed my concerns. "You've been through a lot of traumas, Daisy. And the effects of these traumas are draining your wolf's energy. You will gain your strength when you grow older, or when you find your destined mate," Uncle John had repeatedly assured me.But it didn't feel like just trauma. I knew it was something worse. My wolf was withering as though she were being poisoned, as though wolfsbane ran through my veins instead of blood.In my uncle's household, I was reduced to the cook, cleaner, gardener, and housekeeper. I was forced to juggle with multiple house chores and when I would complain, I would be left with no other option than to stay hungry. With a grumbling stomach and weak bones, I was still threatened to work day and night, ensuring that the entire pack was clean to perfection.And even through all of this, I found a way to do my degree online. I got a scholarsh
DAISY'S POVHis scent was intoxicating, my head was spinning from his presence. His aura was so overwhelming and the heat from his body seeped into my skin like hot lava. He kept growling softly as he sniffed the air, loving what he was smelling. He sank his nose into the crook of my neck. I lifted my chin, like I was gaining him access, refusing to step back. "What do you think you're doing?" I had to at least sound like I wasn't into this. "Do you want me?" he asked bluntly, as though discussing another one of his business deals. He pulled back now, wanting to see the reaction on my face. His gaze dropped to my lips."What...?" I raised my eyebrows, pretending to be confused."You can tell me," he murmured. "It will be our little secret." He was caging me against the mirror on the wall. Before I could snap out a response, he lowered his nose to my cheek, his fingers ghosting over my neck, tilting my face up to his."I have no clue what you mean," I whispered, my voice lacking t
ZORDON'S POVDaisy was really nervous about what I'd say next. But mark her? I never even thought about doing that, because I didn’t want to force her to have my mark if she was not genuinely interested in this marriage with me. We only had a contractual relationship, plain and simple. Marking her would feel like I was crossing the ultimate line. When everything settled down, I thought about freeing her, but if she had my mark, how could I just walk away? She would be bound to me forever, well, not forever, we would have to reject each other if we decided to go our separate ways. "Zordon. Say something." her voice was enough to pull me from my stupor. “Daisy, you have no idea what you're asking for. I can't mark you," I hissed. "Yes you can. Please, I beg you, don't reject me like everyone else in my life," she pleaded. I could taste her desperation and my heart went out for her. "This way, you can see and feel my every move. You'll be able to know what's on my mind and in my thou
ZORDON'S POVI felt the way her heart raced, the manner in which her eyes glowed because of her extraordinary wolf.But I thought she had a weak wolf.She stared at me for some while as though struggling for the right response. Her eyes were clouded with something I couldn't quite decipher.Was it fear?Pain or hesitation?"Daisy?" I prompted, my voice lower than intended. "Say something. I thought you said you couldn't shift anymore."She struggled to speak, but then she closed her mouth as though shutdown by an unseen force."I haven't since that one time when I was sixteen. I don't know what's happening now," her voice was cracked with pain, her eyes welled up with tears. "What can I do to make it better? Do you want me to call the pack healer?" My hand went to her shoulder and just like that, she relaxed, and her shift seemed to have stopped. Her eyes slowly slipped back to forest green."No. This is embarrassing. I don't want another person to ridicule me or mock me," she drawle
DEXTER'S POVIt was the day of the gala party, an event that united different packs. Alpha's and their Lunas, betas, gammas, and even omegas weren't left out in the celebration.Appreciation was to be rendered to the Moon Goddess. Gifts were to be exchanged between one another and awards were to be given to those who deserved it.I walked through the grand entrance of the Wolfberry Hotel where the gala was taking place, each of my steps commanding attention.The flashing lights of cameras lit up the crimson carpet, reflecting in my sharp, midnight-black suit.My presence alone was enough to silence murmurs, guests parting instinctively as if making way for a king.Behind me was Kendra, her hands gripped tightly to mine.Owing to the fact that every Alpha who had found their mate was mandated to come with their Luna, I had no option than to let her tag along.She was basking in the euphoria of the attention she was getting, sending away reporters and photographers who she termed spies.
DEXTER'S POVA bitter taste settled on my tongue. The whole thing was just unacceptable to me.The audience clapped, oblivious to the fury brewing beneath my calm exterior. My pride was a beast clawing inside me, demanding answers. I could feel the weight of my pack's eyes on me. Their trust, their loyalty was shattered.How could I let this stand?I exhaled sharply, my jaw locking. Whoever Luna Deathclaw was, she had just become a problem.The clapping thundered in my ears, each applause a mockery, a dagger twisting deeper into my pride.The moment she stepped forward, the air was sucked from my lungs.The world slowed as she emerged from the crowd, gliding toward the stage with the same grace I once knew too well.Kendra's grip tightened, her nails biting into my wrist, but I barely felt it.Because there she was.Daisy? I had to rub my eyes with the back of my hand because I couldn't believe my eyes. It was Daisy. No. Luna Daisy Deathclaw.My ex-wife. I meant ex-fiancée. The woman
DAISY'S POV A gentle but firm touch on my lower back broke through my spiralling thoughts. "Breathe, Luna." Zordon's deep, commanding voice grounded me instantly. I turned slightly, my eyes meeting his piercing gaze. He wasn't smiling, but he didn't need to. The warmth in his swirling silver eyes was enough. I let out a breath I hadn't realized I was holding. "I'm fine." His lips quirked in a way that told me he didn't believe me. "No, you're not," he murmured, shifting his stance so his body subtly blocked me from the prying eyes of the crowd. "I can hear your heart racing. You're thinking about him, aren't you?" I stole a quick glance at him. Zordon had always known. He knew the weight of my past, the scars I carried from the life I had been forced to leave behind. And he had never once pitied me for them. Instead, he had made sure I never had to face them alone. His fingers brushed over mine, his warmth seeping into my skin. "He has no power over you anymore, Daisy." I swa
DEXTER'S POVThe moment my feet moved, I knew I wouldn't stop until I was in front of her.I barely registered Kendra's gasp as I shoved past the crowd, my pulse pounding in my ears. The applause was still deafening. A relentless reminder that I had lost control of something that should have never been taken from me, and that was Daisy.I forced my face into a mask of control, though rage simmered beneath the surface. Each step I took carried the weight of my pride, and the regret which boiled deep down in my heart.Daisy had no right to that name. She had no right to stand beside Zordon Deathclaw, let alone be addressed as his Luna. He was supposed to send her off to work somewhere on a fishing boat or his famous barracks, but this, this was outrageous. How dare he make her his Luna? And how dare she accept his proposal to become his when she knew she belonged to me? She was mine. She would always be mine. My jaws clenched as I reached the stage, brushing past the guards as if the
DAISY'S POVA few nights later, the palace felt almost too quiet.Just the hush that comes when everyone else has gone to sleep, and you're left alone with your thoughts.Zordon lay beside me, already half-asleep. One arm was draped across me and our son, the weight of his hand warm and steady. He always slept that way now. Like he thought he could protect the baby even in dreams.I wasn't tired. Or maybe I was, but the exhaustion felt too big to settle. Like my body didn't know how to turn off yet. My brain kept replaying the day on a loop, our vows, the sound of the crowd, the gold circlet still pressing faintly into my forehead like it had left a mark.A crown. A child. A future I could barely begin to understand.Eventually, I drifted off. Not gradually. It was more like falling, like one blink and the world shifted beneath me.******I was standing in a field I'd never seen before.Moonlight poured from the sky like rain, so bright and clean it made everything shimmer. The grass
DAISY'S POVThe forest had changed since the war, but only just.New green pushed up through old ash. Flowers bloomed where fire once scorched the earth. Trees whispered again, not in warning, just in welcome.Zordon and I walked hand in hand along the narrow path, the one we'd taken long ago when everything between us had been tension and doubt. Back then, I wasn't sure I believed in fate. I wasn't sure I believed in us.Now?His hand was warm in mine, steady and strong. My feet moved slower than they used to thanks to the weight I carried, but I didn't mind. The baby kicked every so often, reminding me that time was short. That soon, we'd be three."You're quiet," Zordon said softly, brushing a low-hanging branch out of my way."I'm thinking.""Dangerous."I gave him a sideways look, but I smiled. "What will we name him?"He paused. "I don't know. I thought you should do the honors, since you are the one who will birth him.""I see," I said, exhaling.The wind stirred through the le
DAISY'S POVThree days after Zordon proposed, I stood at the edge of Mooncliff Summit, dressed in white and shaking in my boots.Well, technically I was barefoot. The seamstress had tried heels, but I had nearly broken my ankle so we settled on soft, woven sandals that I'd kicked off somewhere near the top of the cliff. My feet pressed into the warm stone now, grounding me in a way nothing else could.I kept my hands over my belly, partly out of instinct, partly because it helped me breathe. The baby was quiet this morning. Still and peaceful. Maybe he sensed the magnitude of today. Maybe he was waiting, just like the rest of the world.Thousands had gathered below. Wolves from every surviving pack. Elders. Witches. Seers. Even some humans who knew of our existence. People who had once hated each other now stood side by side. I wasn't sure if it was unity or just exhaustion, but either way, they came.They came to see us.To see me.I still couldn't wrap my head around it.Zordon stoo
DAISY'S POVThe morning after Luna Evelyn's visit arrived with golden sunlight and the smell of cinnamon drifting through the air.Zordon had already left the bed by the time I woke up. I stretched, my hand resting lightly on the curve of my belly. A quiet flutter reminded me that our little one was growing stronger every day.Slipping on a robe, I padded into the sunroom and stopped in my tracks.Zordon was there and he was shirtless, barefoot, and standing over a small table set for two on the balcony. Steam curled from two mugs. Plates of fruit, eggs, fresh bread, and that cinnamon I'd smelled were perfectly arranged. Wildflowers in a simple jar sat in the center."You cooked?" I asked, blinking in surprise.He shrugged. "I bribed someone to help. But I did stir the eggs."I laughed and moved toward him, kissing his cheek before sitting down.We ate slowly, talking about everything and nothing. For a while, it was just us again. No Luna Evelyn. No war. No titles."Come take a walk
DAISY'S POVTwo months had passed since the war ended, yet the air still carried the scent of smoke and death.We had won. The bloodshed was over. But peace wasn't as quiet as I thought it would be. It pulsed beneath the surface like the earth was still bracing for another storm.Dexter's trial had finally ended. He sat alone in the depths of Pine Hollow, sealed away in a cell built for the worst of our kind. Silver-lined walls, enchanted locks, constant guard rotations. But the Council and the Pinewood people had chosen something far worse than death for him.He had been stripped of his wolf.The bond to the moon, the magic in his blood, the power that once made him Alpha, it was all gone. Just like that. No more shifting. No more heightened senses. No more pack. They carved the beast out of him and left only a man behind.And his sentence? To live as the man he truly was. Weak and cruel and hollow. Then I topped off his sentence by sending him to work in the very barracks he once se
DAISY'S POV"She wasn't supposed to die for you!" Xavier kept grunting. "Godfrey was going to win. He had already won. I thought he would finally give me her hand in marriage if I stood with him. I thought if I protected his plan, he'd give her to me.""She wasn't a thing to be given," Zordon growled."Either way, she's gone," Xavier whispered, crumbling over Kendra like a man finally realizing he was hollow inside. Xavier looked up at Zordon with wild eyes. "She didn't even know I was her true mate."I stepped forward but didn't speak. What could I say to a man who seemed like he had lost the only thing that mattered to him?I was bracing for him to go berserk and strike, but then, behind him, a strange sound caught my attention. Branches were cracking, and I also heard careful steps punching into the soft earth.We turned and saw Dexter emerging from the shadows.His armour was clean. It had no bloodstains, dirt, or sweat marks. He stood tall, refusing to fade into the background. H
DAISY'S POVZordon was in wolf form, and his eyes were locked onto Jezebel. She raised her staff again."You'll never win," she hissed as Zordon stalked forward, his growl low and feral. "Your mate will fall. Your child will belong to—"She didn't finish.With a roar that split the air, Zordon lunged. His massive jaws clamped around her throat, silencing her forever. Jezebel's eyes went wide, her staff falling from her hands, and then I heard a crack as Zordon ripped her apart. Blood sprayed the ground. The dark witch who had haunted so many dreams lay limp and lifeless, her neck crushed between the teeth of a king.‘Nice bite,’ I whispered through the link, and Zordon growled in reply.From the left, I caught movement as Dustin and Olivia stood side by side, their furs soaked in blood and ash.‘Olivia!’ Dustin shouted through the packlink. It felt good to have had him join our pack. ‘If we survive this, you wanna go out with me? His wolf bit off another wolf's right paw.’She spun, c
DAISY'S POVAlpha Godfrey was standing there, looking at me through marble-black eyes that shone like laser beams.My claws stayed out, my body ready to strike, but something inside me needed to know.I took a slow step forward, my voice steady despite the storm churning in my chest."Why?" I asked him. "Why are you doing this?"Godfrey didn't answer right away. He studied me with his dark and ancient eyes, like they'd seen too many winters and too much blood. He looked at me the way someone might look at an insect they couldn't quite squash, curious, detached, and completely without mercy."It's nothing personal, child," he said finally, his voice low and almost... kind. "It never was."My jaw clenched. "You're trying to kill me and take my child, and you think that's not personal?"He gave a small, cold smile. "Well, you're at war with mine, and I'm not taking it personal." He casually gestured to Kendra. A low chuckle spilled from his chest. His gaze slowly crawled to my belly, and
DAISY'S POVZordon didn't wait.He charged forward with a growl that sent a shiver through the ground. His body twisted midair, fur ripping through skin, bones reshaping as he shifted faster than I'd ever seen. When he landed, the black wolf that emerged was massive, terrifying, and entirely focused on blood.Isla was right behind him. Her armor clanged to the ground as her body folded into itself, reshaping. Grey fur that seemed silver at first glance bloomed across her back. She hit the dirt running, a flash of steel and teeth.Then Stefan. He let out something between a battle cry and a roar as he leapt, his russet form exploding forward, golden streaks lighting his fur as he collided with a corrupted wolf mid-sprint.Just like that, the front line was chaos.Wolves clashed. Witches shouted spells. Steel met shadow, and blood sprayed into the night air.But I hadn't moved.I stood there, heart pounding, breath caught in my throat.She was awake.My wolf.For the first time in years