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Chapter 1 Elera POVThe continuous sounds of footsteps woke me up before the day broke, and I quickly sat up and pulled my blanket around my body, my heart rang loud, if the guards met me still sleeping later, I would be seriously punished.I ran out from my small room behind the kitchen. The air was cold. My bare feet touched the stone floor. I picked up the wooden bucket and started mopping the hall. And I heard voices laughing out loud, which meant the Alphas and Betas were awake and I knew I had to move fast.“Hey, wolfless girl!” a maid shouted from across the hall. “Don’t be lazy, the Alpha doesn’t want to see dirt anywhere today.”I nodded quickly. “Yes, ma’am.”“I wish I had a wolf,” I whisper to myself.Someone hears me. “Keep wishing, curse girl. The Moon Goddess forgot you.”It was Rina, she was another maid and she was older, and louder, and she likes to hurt me all the time with her words.I then bit my lip. “Maybe she didn’t forget me,” I said quietly.Rina laughed. “K

Chapter 3Elera POVI woke up slowly, and my body was a bit hard. It was like it was made of rocks and the room was cold, and the blanket didn’t cover me much, my head hurt, and my chest hurt, and..infact everything hurt.I tried to sit up, but my hands shook, and my legs were so weak and then remembered the festival, his words, and his eyes.“I reject you,” The memory made my stomach turn and I wanted to cry, but no tears came.I heard whispers outside the small door.“Look at her,” someone laughed. “The cursed mate.”“Ha! She carries his mark, but he hates her!”Days went by, and Alpha Damon didn’t look at me. He walked past like I was not present there.But anytime he moved, my chest felt broken, and so hurt.I sat by my small window, and my hand was on the glass.“Moon Goddess make mistakes?” I whispered, my voice was low and shaking.I tried to eat, but the food was not going and my head was just ringing. My hand dey shook and I lay down, but everything was just running fastOne

Chapter 5 Elera's POVThe pain was terrible and my whole body shook. “Lucien!” I screamed. “It hurts!”He ran into the hut and his eyes were wide. “It’s time,” he said quickly and he quickly called the old midwife who lived closer to the forest.I gripped the blanket and screamed again and my stomach screamed of pains and sweat ran down my face and my hands shook so bad that I couldn't hold anything.Lucien knelt beside me. “Breathe, Elera. You can do this. You’re strong.”“I can’t,” I cried. “It hurts too much!”“You can,” he said again, and his voice was calm but firm. “You must.”The old midwife rushed in, her hands were already full of herbs and cloth. “Hold her steady,” she said to LucienThe pain kept coming, and then I bit my lip until I tasted blood and the fire in my body grew stronger and the air was hot“Push, child,” the midwife said. “Push now.”I pushed, I screamed and my body shook. The world around me turned white and red and the sound of the wind mixed with my crie

Chapter 8 Elera’s POVThe name fell from his mouth like a knife.“Elera.”The sound broke the air and cut me and I could not breathe.Damon was sitting up now and his eyes were open now, fully opened, they were dark and sharp, it was like a storm that had found its way back home and then he stared at me as if I was something pulled from his blood.My legs locked and my heart beat so loud that I feared he could hear it and then Lucien moved first.“He is burning,” Lucien said fast. “The poison is still working in him.”Damon did not look away from me.“Elera,” he said again and it was gentler this time, it was like the name was a wound he kept touching.I then forced my lips to move.“You are confused,” I said and my voice sounded thin, like glass that was about to crack. “I am not who you think I am.”His brow pulled together and pains flashed across his face.“I know that name,” he said. “I know her.”Lucien then stepped closer to the bed. “You are mixing dreams with the present, A