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~ 27: Political Marriage
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The Ex-Luna's Return: No Longer His Doormat ~ 43
~ 43 ~~ Mia ~A shockwave ripped through my chest.Truly loves her.My heart skipped a violent beat. I had asked Ryker to play a part, to act as a convenient political shield, but the raw, absolute conviction in his words was entirely unscripted. It wasn't the tone of an ally putting on a show; it was the sacred vow of a warrior laying his soul bare.I forced my expression to remain carved of ice, refusing to let the utter bewilderment in my chest show on my face in front of Darian.Darian’s fangs descended, his eyes bleeding into Alpha crimson as he stepped violently toward the barricade. "You dare…""Alpha! Stop!"A frantic voice cut through the mounting bloodshed.Kade sprinted around the corner of the avenue, followed closely by Fanny, who was clutching a damp woolen shawl around her shoulders."Alpha, you have to come right now!" Kade shouted, out of breath as he caught Darian’s arm. "The lower dam at the south reservoir is failing! The flash floods have breached the residential
The Ex-Luna's Return: No Longer His Doormat ~ 42
~ 42 ~~ Mia ~The glass doors of the delegation lobby slid open with a soft hiss, and the autumn breeze hit my face.Across the paved courtyard, pacing like a caged beast before the line of Red Moon sentries, Darian stopped dead in his tracks.The moment his dark eyes found me, a look of raw, staggering relief washed over his face. His shoulders dropped their defensive hunch, his features softening in an instant into naked, undisguised joy.He moved forward, his long strides eating the pavement until he stood mere feet from the security threshold, separated from me only by Ryker's unyielding wall of armored guards."Mia," Darian breathed, his voice thick with ragged emotion, his gaze drinking in every inch of me — from my blouse down to the steady stance I forced into my boots. "You're awake. Thank the Goddess. Come with me. Let's get you out of here and back to the estate."He reached a hand past the barricade line, fully expecting me to step into his grasp.I didn't move an inch."
The Ex-Luna's Return: No Longer His Doormat ~ 41
~ 41 ~~ Darian ~I stared at the glowing screen, my jaw clenching so hard the bone popped.The Red Moon heir?How had an orphaned, wolfless foundling from East Lake become entangled with the royal family of the most powerful pack on the continent?Why was the future Alpha of the north putting his own military escort between her and her husband? What had happened to her in the four years she was gone?Every answer I thought I had dissolved into a vast, impenetrable fog.I read the report again, hoping I had somehow misunderstood what I was seeing. But the words remained the same. Mia wasn't simply alive. She had returned with a status and protection that placed her far beyond the reach of anyone in my pack. The realization sat heavily in my chest."Alpha."A soft, hesitant voice broke the quiet.I turned to find Fanny stepping out from the shadow of the escort vehicle. She was wrapped in a beige cashmere shawl, her face delicate, her eyes wide with carefully masked anxiety.She had cau
The Ex-Luna's Return: No Longer His Doormat ~ 40
~ 40 ~ ~ Darian ~The door at the end of the administrative corridor clicked shut, sealing Mia behind a wall of foreign royal guards, and my breath tore out of my throat in ragged, violent gasps.My chest was on fire. The golden tether of the mate bond whipped through my veins like live wire, screaming with an intensity that rattled my bones.For ten years, I had believed the Moon Goddess had cursed me to walk this earth without a fated mate. I had believed my father had shackled me to an unwanted, wolfless orphan out of pure spite, using my birthright as a weapon to force a hollow union. And now, the universe had delivered the most agonizing, cruel punchline in history.Mia was my mate.She had been sleeping in my bed for eight years. She had poured my tea, washed my shirts, and looked at me with those quiet, pleading eyes, carrying the divine spark of the Goddess the entire time — and I had spent nearly a decade treating her like a burden.Fury and bewilderment warred in my mind. Ho
The Ex-Luna's Return: No Longer His Doormat ~ 39
~ 39 ~~ Mia ~My mind was a tangled, chaotic mess, buzzing with static that made it impossible to string two clear thoughts together. Every time I closed my eyes, the memory of Nick's tear-streaked face and the suffocating, magnetic pull of Darian’s Alpha aura crashed over me in sickening waves."We need to go on the offensive," Zane said, crossing his arms and leaning against the windowsill. "If we publicly reveal your true lineage—that Dr. Liliana Quinn is the legitimate royal heir of the Red Moon Pack—East Lake won't dare touch you. Diplomatic immunity becomes an absolute iron wall.""He's right, Lili," Hailey agreed eagerly, nodding. "Once the entire continent knows who your mother and father are, Alpha Darian won't be able to step within ten feet of you without risking an international tribunal.""No," I refused immediately, shaking my head with sharp finality. "We can't do that."Hailey frowned. "Why not? It’s the ultimate shield.""You don't understand how the East Lake Council
The Ex-Luna's Return: No Longer His Doormat ~ 38
~ 38 ~~ Mia ~Behind me, the corridor dissolved into pure chaos of Nick’s ragged sobbing, and Darian’s furious, possessive roars.Inside me, Olga thrashed in absolute agony against my mental walls. The suffocating weight of eight years of buried trauma hit me all at once. The floor tilted upward, and the last thing I felt was Ryker’s arm catching my waist before everything went black....When my eyes fluttered open, I was staring at a stark white ceiling.The scent of rubbing alcohol and the beep of a heart monitor filled the air. For a terrifying second, it felt uncannily like the morning I first woke up in the Red Moon central surgical wing years ago.A wave of dizzying fear washed over me. What if none of it was real? What if I had never found my biological family, never made friends, and never built a new life? What if the past five years had been nothing more than a dying dream while I waited alone in a cold clinic for the tumor in my head to finish me off?"Liliana!"The heavy
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