LOGINSienna was born the Alpha’s daughter, yet she grew up like a shadow in her own pack. After her mother’s death, love became a privilege she was never granted. Her stepmother’s cruelty was quiet but constant, her stepsister adored while Sienna was trained to obey, not to lead. Power flowed in her veins, but she was taught to shrink until she believed she was worth nothing more than her silence. Cassius was her only constant. The future Alpha, the boy who stood in front of her when others sneered, who promised protection with bloodied knuckles and fierce eyes. But packs do not run on childhood promises. As they grew, the elders whispered that Sienna was weak, unworthy, a liability. Lies spread, carefully crafted to rot her reputation from the inside out. When fate revealed them as mates, it should have been a blessing. Instead, it became a weapon. Cassius’s claim to the Alpha seat trembled, and the pack demanded a stronger Luna. Sienna overheard their plans and began pulling her heart apart stitch by stitch, preparing to disappear. At the mate recognition ceremony, Cassius hesitated. And in that pause, everything shattered. He rejected her publicly, accused her of manipulation, and broke her wolf before the entire pack. Sienna did not scream. She simply broke. Then came the secret. A child growing inside her. A life she would protect at any cost. She fled. She survived. She rose. Years later, Sienna returns no longer weak, no longer begging, with a child whose eyes mirror Cassius’s soul. The bond reignites, but she is done being chosen last. This time, Cassius must burn his world down to earn her back.
View MoreMy eyes found her in the sea of people who had gathered in front of us. The entire Blood Moon pack was here. Gathered on the auspicious full moon night to witness the announcement of the new alpha.
Their alpha.
And there she was. Standing as one among the people. She should have been here. Beside me. Like she always did. But today, I did not have the courage to call her here. She smiled at me softly, assuring me with her eyes. Her eyes shone with a sense of pride that made my heart swell and clench my gut. I swallowed. I couldn’t bear to look at her. Yet I continued to keep looking at her as I didn’t know where else to look.
My father rose from his chair after the announcer announced his name.
“Thank you all for joining us. I am extremely grateful to all of you for staying by our side, putting your faith in us and trusting us to be your Alpha and Luna.” He looked at my mom who was seated in a chair beside the one assigned to my dad. She smiled at him.
My heart flipped. All my life I wished for love for myself. And I had it too. But now….I don’t know.
“With the same promise and determination, I now announce to you the new Alpha and the protector of this pack, Alpha Cassius Knight." Cheers erupted around me as people threw flowers and garlands towards me. I stood up from my chair and walked towards the place where my dad was standing.
My eyes roamed around the happy, waving, cheery mass of people before it rested back in the place it belonged. Locked with hers.
She smiled, chuckling, wiping her cheeks.
Of course she would be crying with joy. After all, only she knew the hard work I put in to come to this stage. To be worthy of this title. Being the firstborn son of the Alpha meant that the throne was destined to be mine, but another member from the pack challenged my strength and ability. I had to prove myself before I could be the Alpha. I lifted my hand and waved back at the crowd that erupted even louder. Happiness filled my mind at the sight.
This is what I wanted. This is what I had strived so hard for. This was where I belonged. Being the Alpha of my pack.
“Luna.”
“Luna”
“Luna”
The crowd began chanting ‘Luna’ asking me to announce my Luna. My fated partner. My mate. The one who would stand beside me and help me complete my oath.
Taking a deep breath I began. “Thank you everyone for gathering here. As dad said, we are always grateful for the faith and trust you have put in us. And I promise to cherish and respect the love and kindness you have always given us. And with that I swear in as your new Alpha.” Cheers erupted again.
“And as your Alpha, I now introduce you to your new Luna. I now introduce you to Eloise Lockwood, daughter of Dashiell Lockwood, the Beta of the Silver Deity pack.” My eyes automatically found hers even though I tried my best to avoid her gaze.
They were lifeless. As if all the life had been sucked out like a vampire sucks out blood. People cheered celebrating this new beginning but everything inside me was sucked away with the betrayal that hung to her face. I hadn’t chosen her. My Luna, my love and my mate. Instead I chose someone else. Not just anybody, her stepsister. The same vile woman who had hurt my mate on multiple occasions.
As Eloise placed her palm on my bicep, I snapped out of my thoughts and turned to look at her. She smiled at me, victoriously, as if hinting that I had made the right choice. I nodded and removed her palm from my arm, hating the way her skin felt against mine. I hated the ick it gave me. It lacked the warmth Sienna gave me.
My eyes went back to her, but she was nowhere to be found. I wanted to apologize. Apologise for putting her through this. She had to know why I did this.
The high priest called us for our blood oath, where we swear in as the Alpha and Luna of the pack, sealing our fate until death parts us. It also symbolizes a marriage in the werewolf community.
‘I shall shower you with so much love that you shall never feel left out.’ My own words echo in my head as I close my eyes for the ritual.
Shutting them out, I force my eyes open and slice my palm with the sacrificial knife. Eloise does the same and we join our palms together, letting our blood mix and drip into the water basin below.
“With the blessings and the power from the Moon Goddess, may you be ever successful and together forever.” The high priest blessed us, sprinkling the holy water on us.
Forever?
‘I was, I am and I will always be yours. Forever.’ That was what I had told her. Not once, not twice but every single time she questioned herself and us.
And now, I was never hers.
I could never be.
With that thought I left the chamber with Eloise and joined the pack for celebrating tonight.
I tried my best in searching for her. She has to be here. As I moved through the crowd of people, Eloise already lost somewhere behind, I headed to the packhouse, where I felt I could find her.
She shall forgive me when she hears my apology.
Little did I know that that would not be true.
Ten years had passed, and yet there were moments when I could still remember the tiny fingers of my children curled around mine as though it had happened yesterday. I stood at the edge of the great hall that morning, watching the kingdom gather for a ceremony I had once believed belonged to some distant future. Today, my little girl was eighteen. Not the little girl who used to chase Kane through the gardens or argue with Nicholas over toys, but a grown woman standing at the centre of the hall with her head held high. Selena was about to take the throne as the first female Alpha our pack had ever known, and I wasn't sure whether I wanted to cry, laugh, or simply run forward and hug her like the mother I still was beneath the Luna's crown.The hall was overflowing with pack members, elders, warriors, families, and representatives from neighbouring territories. The banners of our pack hung high above us while sunlight poured through the tall windows, illuminating the polished stone bene
Thirty days changed everything. Not completely, not enough to erase the fear of those first terrible days, but enough to make our lives feel familiar again. A month ago, I had been lying unconscious in a hospital bed while our sons fought for every breath inside the critical care unit. Now I was sitting by the window of our bedroom with a blanket around my shoulders, watching the early morning light spill across the garden while the sound of tiny cries came from the nursery. I smiled before I even turned around. One of them had woken up. Then the second joined him, their voices overlapping in the sweetest little complaint. "They're awake," I whispered, already trying to push myself up. I barely got halfway before Cassius appeared in the doorway. "Absolutely not." I stopped and looked at him. He stood there holding a tray of breakfast, his expression already warning me against whatever foolish thing I was considering. "I wasn't doing anything." "You were getting up." "I was sitting up.
I had stopped counting the days.At some point, the numbers had become meaningless. Morning and night had blended together beneath the harsh hospital lights, and the only thing that mattered anymore was whether Sienna was awake and whether our sons were still fighting. I had slept in the chair beside her bed, if what I had been doing could even be called sleep. Most of the time, I simply closed my eyes while keeping one hand wrapped around hers, waking at every change in her breathing or every movement of her fingers. That morning was no different. I was sitting beside her with my head resting against the mattress, staring at our joined hands when something changed.Her fingers moved.I lifted my head immediately."Sienna?"H
The first thing I learned about fear was that it didn't always arrive screaming. Sometimes it sat quietly beside you and refused to leave. It settled into your bones, stole your appetite, made sleep impossible, and turned every sound into a reason to look up. I had spent years believing I understood fear. I had faced enemies, council threats, hunters, vampires, and battles where one wrong decision could cost lives. None of it had prepared me for sitting beside Sienna's hospital bed and watching her breathe. She had been unconscious since the surgery, and although Marianne kept telling me that her condition was stable, stable had become the most terrifying word in my vocabulary. Stable meant she was alive. It didn't mean she was awake. It didn't mean she was safe. It didn't tell me when she would open those beautiful eyes again and look at me as though I was the only person in the room. So I sat beside her, held her hand, and waited.The first twenty-four hours passed without any real
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