THE LUNA’S CROWN

The first time Alpha Kael called me his Luna, I cried.Not because the title meant power, and not because it meant every wolf in Moonridge Pack would bow when I walked past.I cried because someone had finally chosen me.Before Kael, I had been invisible.An orphan with no family name worth remembering. No rank, no inheritance, and no future anyone envied. I had spent most of my life believing I would grow old serving wolves who barely remembered my name.Then the Moon Goddess laughed at fate and gave me the Alpha as my mate.The elders protested, the noble families protested even louder.“A future Alpha cannot mate with a nobody.”“She has no bloodline.”“She brings nothing to the pack.”Kael ignored every one of them.“I don’t need a powerful bloodline,” he’d said before the entire council. “I need my mate.”It was the first time anyone had ever fought for me.Two years later, I still remembered every word.Unfortunately, love couldn’t silence every whisper.For two years, our bedro

Three days, and that was all it took for my life to split into two.There was the life I had before Lily arrived, and there was the life I was learning to survive now.The packhouse hadn’t changed. The same stone corridors stretched beneath the morning sun. The same servants hurried from one task to another. The same guards stood at attention outside the entrance.Yet everything felt… different.The silence between Kael and me had grown heavier.Not because he loved me any less.At least, that was what I kept telling myself.He still sought me out every morning before training. He still kissed my forehead before leaving for the council chambers. Every evening, he joined me for dinner, asking about my day with the same gentle smile that had made me fall in love with him.He was trying and i saw it but trying didn’t erase the truth.Every night, after our dinner together, he would excuse himself.“I won’t be long.” He’d say.Those four words had become my least favorite sentence.I knew