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The Bastard Luna: His Unwanted Mate Twenty five
Elara's POVThe announcement came through a business contact on Thursday morning.Not deliberately, she hadn't sent it with any awareness of its significance to me. Jana was a logistics coordinator for a mid-sized pack three territories over, a professional contact I'd built through the brokerage work, and she forwarded pack news bulletins as a matter of course when they contained commercial implications. The Wolfe Pack's formal engagement announcement had commercial implications because it signaled the beginning of a Luna selection period, which historically affected pack trade priorities and external cooperation appetite.Jana's email said: FYI — Wolfe Pack ceremony was last weekend, expect their commercial division to go quiet for the next quarter while internal politics settle.Attached was the official announcement. A single page, formatted with the spare formality that pack documents used for significant events — the kind of writing that was designed to be read aloud in a hall r
The Bastard Luna: His Unwanted Mate Twenty four
Elara's POVNessa arrived without warning on a Friday afternoon, which told me everything before she said a word.She was not a woman who arrived without warning. In the months since I'd left the pack she had communicated through careful, coded letters delivered through intermediaries, each one timed and routed with the methodical caution of someone who understood that contact itself was a risk to be managed. That she had come in person, to the new office address that I had given only to Caden and Petra, meant that the caution had been overridden by something more immediate than caution.She looked smaller than I remembered. Or not smaller — compressed, the way people look when they have been carrying something for too long without a place to set it down. Petra brought her in and I sent Petra home early and locked the outer door and put Renn, who was asleep in the cot with his characteristic total commitment, in the corner where I could see him, and I sat across from Nessa and waited.
The Bastard Luna: His Unwanted Mate Twenty three
Chapter 23 Damian's POVThe second refusal arrived on a Monday.Marcus brought it in person this time rather than filing it through the standard commercial correspondence route, which told me he considered it significant enough to warrant a conversation rather than documentation. He sat across from my desk with the careful posture of a man delivering news he had not fully made sense of and set the letter on the surface between us."She met with us herself this time," he said.I looked at the letter without picking it up. "The director.""She came as her own representative. Introduced herself as the company's director of strategic operations — didn't offer a personal name, which is unusual but not unprecedented in independent brokerage work." He paused. "She declined the revised proposal. Same position as before — misalignment of strategic direction. But the way she declined it—" He stopped again."Tell me.""She restructured our own proposal back to us," Marcus said. "In the meeting.
The Bastard Luna: His Unwanted Mate Twenty two
Elara's POVIt happened on a Wednesday, in the stairwell of my building, at seven in the morning.I was carrying Renn in the carrier and my laptop bag over one shoulder and the specific distracted quality of a woman calculating three things simultaneously — a supplier call at nine, Petra's schedule conflict, whether I'd remembered to confirm the courier pickup which is to say I was not paying the kind of attention I should have been when I opened the stairwell door and found the man on the landing.He was wolf. I registered that in the first half second, the way I always registered it now, the scent beneath the human-world clothing, the particular quality of stillness that wolves maintained even when they were trying not to. He was not particularly large or particularly threatening in his appearance, a man in his thirties in a gray jacket with nothing remarkable about him except that he was standing in my stairwell at seven in the morning and he had been waiting there.I stopped. He l
The Bastard Luna: His Unwanted Mate Twenty one
Chapter 21 Elara's POVThe historian lived at the end of a road that stopped being paved about a mile before it reached her house.Caden drove. Renn slept in the carrier against my chest with the absolute commitment of a six-week-old who had decided this particular motion was acceptable and intended to make full use of it. Outside the window the landscape had gone from town to farmland to something older and less managed — trees close to the road, the occasional stone wall half-swallowed by decades of undergrowth, the specific quality of land that had been left to its own devices long enough to develop opinions."She doesn't receive many visitors," Caden said, navigating a rut in the unpaved stretch with practiced care."You said that already.""I'm saying it again because I want you to understand that her agreeing to this meeting is significant. She turned down three requests before yours.""What was different about mine?"He glanced at me sideways. "I told her what you were carryin
The Bastard Luna: His Unwanted Mate Twenty
Selene's POVI have been happy before.I know what it feels like — the specific lightness of it, the way it makes ordinary things more vivid, the way you catch yourself smiling at nothing in particular because nothing particular is sufficient. I have been happy at specific moments in my life and I remember those moments with enough clarity to use them as a reference point.I check against that reference point regularly now. It has become a habit, the way checking a compass becomes a habit when you're not entirely sure of your direction.The checking goes like this: I look at my life — the Alpha's house, the Luna's title that will be formally mine after the ceremony, the pack that defers to me with a respect I was raised to expect and have received and I measure it against the reference point and I ask myself whether what I am feeling constitutes happiness.The answer is usually approximately.Approximately is not nothing. I am not a naive girl who expected the world to be simple. I u
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