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Chapter 3

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“What announcement?” Tessa leaned forward eagerly. “Don’t tell me you’re finally naming your Luna.”

Color rose in Chloe’s cheeks, but I didn’t prompt Ronan again. I simply waited.

I had given him enough chances to delay. Tonight, I waited for him to tell the truth.

Ronan set down his glass. His gaze moved from me to Chloe and back again.

“Sera has been by my side for years,” he said at last. “She is the person I trust most.”

For one reckless second, hope rose inside me.

Then he looked at Chloe.

“But no, Blackridge does not currently have an appointed Luna.”

The hope inside me died.

Every word was technically true. Ronan and I had accepted our mate bond five years ago, but he had never named me publicly.

He had found a careful way to say I mattered without telling them what I was.

His mate.

A murmur moved around the table.

“So she isn’t his Luna.”

“After all these years?”

“I thought she was only his adviser.”

My wolf pushed against the bond, hurt and angry. Ronan shut me out at once.

He didn’t want my pain getting in the way of Chloe’s night.

Chloe stared at him, unable to hide her delight. “So there really is no Luna?”

“No one has been named,” Ronan said.

His voice entered my mind a moment later.

[It’s only for tonight. Chloe thinks we lost our chance because of a mistake. I’m not humiliating her in front of everyone.]

[So you’ll humiliate me instead?]

[Sera, you know you’re my mate. You share my home and my bed. You know every part of me. Nothing that happens tonight changes that.]

Suddenly, I understood.

In Ronan’s eyes, I already had everything that mattered. I had his love, his trust, and our bond. Chloe had nothing but an old regret.

So he believed he could give her the public moment he had promised me.

He was certain I would still be there when it was over.

Chloe crossed the room with her glass and stopped in front of me. Her smile was gentle enough to look sincere.

“I never understood why you hated me, Sera. I had no idea a misunderstanding like this stood between us.”

“I don’t hate you.”

Her smile faltered.

“I just don’t believe that letter went into the wrong bag.”

Her fingers tightened around her glass, but she quickly recovered.

“It was eight years ago. Who can say what really happened?” She glanced at Ronan. “At least he believes me.”

She was right.

Ronan wasn’t only believing her. He was hiding me so she could keep believing she still had a chance.

He came to my side and reached for the water pitcher.

“Don’t turn this into a scene,” he said quietly. “She wants closure. That’s all. Nothing between us has changed. When we get home, I’ll make it up to you.”

“What if I don’t want to let this go?”

His brow tightened, as though my refusal was the only unreasonable thing that had happened all night.

“She lost eight years because of a mistake,” he said. “You and I have a lifetime. Don’t ask me to humiliate her just to prove something you already know.”

I studied the man I had loved for most of my adult life and smiled.

“You’re right.”

Dead things weren’t worth fighting for.

He simply didn’t understand that we were talking about two different graves.
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  • The Luna He Refused To Name   Chapter 11

    I arrived at the Moon Council ten minutes before the hearing.Ronan was already seated across the conference table. He looked tired, but he was composed. There were no flowers, no Luna crown, and no ceremony papers waiting beside him.He had finally stopped trying to purchase my forgiveness with the thing he should have given freely.The moonstone bracelet rested in my coat pocket. I had carried it with me since the reunion, unsure whether I wanted to keep it, return it, or throw it away.The Council officer reviewed the severance terms and asked Ronan whether he still objected.He looked at me. “I don’t want the bond to end, but I won’t obstruct the procedure.”The officer nodded. “You requested permission to speak.”Ronan folded his hands on the table. “I thought the private parts of our relationship were the real ones. You shared my home, my bed, my mind, and every plan I made for the future. I told myself a public title couldn’t matter as much as that.”His voice roughened.“The tr

  • The Luna He Refused To Name   Chapter 10

    Chloe closed the door slowly.“I regretted choosing Ethan,” she said. “When I saw you again, I wondered what would have happened if I had made a different choice.”“Did you regret Ethan, or did you regret not recognizing the future Alpha?”Her eyes hardened. “At camp, you had no name, no position, and no future anyone could see. Ethan was already going to be Beta. Choosing him was reasonable.”“It was.” Ronan’s voice stayed cold. “You had every right to choose the safer man. You didn’t have the right to rewrite your choice and let everyone blame Sera.”Chloe gave a short, bitter laugh. “You don’t get to put all of this on me. You were the one who said you wanted me. You put that crown on my head while your mate sat across the room. I lied, but you were happy to believe me.”Ronan went still.“You wanted to hear that I would have chosen you before you became Alpha,” she continued. “For one night, you wanted to feel like the boy you used to be hadn’t been rejected. Sera paid for that fan

  • The Luna He Refused To Name   Chapter 9

    Two weeks before the severance hearing, Ethan Reed, now Pinecrest Pack’s Beta, contacted Ronan.They met in a conference room at Pinecrest Pack’s administrative center. Ethan arrived carrying an old envelope in a protective folder.“The letter was never misplaced,” he said. “Chloe handed it to me herself.”Ronan opened the folder.The first line was unmistakable.[To Ethan Reed, Pinecrest Pack’s future Beta.]The letter praised Ethan’s secure position and described Chloe’s plans to join Pinecrest after training. It said nothing about Ronan.“We dated for nine months,” Ethan said. “She made a practical choice. There was nothing wrong with that.”Ronan kept his eyes on the page. “The lie came later.”“Yes.”“Does Sera know?”“I sent her a photograph the night of the reunion. Someone had posted a video, and I saw people accusing her of switching the letter.”Ronan looked up. “She had this proof before she filed the rejection?”“She did.”“Why didn’t she send it to me?”Ethan’s expression

  • The Luna He Refused To Name   Chapter 8

    The Moon Council gave me a protected apartment for the first week.It was small and impersonal, with plain walls and furniture chosen for no one in particular. I slept badly the first two nights, but when I woke, I no longer had to wonder whether Ronan would introduce me as his adviser, his old friend, or nothing at all.I resigned from my position in the Blackridge administration by email. My supervisor accepted it that afternoon and reassigned my remaining work.Blackridge continued without me, exactly as it should. I had left because staying beside Ronan was no longer the life I wanted.On my sixth day away, I submitted an application for a policy position with the Moon Council’s community-relations office. It wasn’t a grand promotion or a reward for rejecting an Alpha. It was simply work that would belong to me, under my own name.Four days later, I returned to the Council building for my final interview. Blackridge was also required to submit my resignation records that morning, s

  • The Luna He Refused To Name   Chapter 7

    Before sunrise, Ronan published a statement through Blackridge Pack’s official account.[Sera Vale is my fated mate. We accepted our bond five years ago. I deliberately kept that bond private, and at last night’s reunion, I failed to acknowledge her when I should have. Sera is the only woman I have ever chosen to share my life with.]He reposted it in the old training group.The chat fell silent before messages began appearing one after another.[Sera was your mate the entire time?][Then why did you let us treat her like she was only your adviser?][You put Chloe in the Luna’s chair while your actual mate watched.]Ronan didn’t answer. He sent the statement directly to Sera.[I have told everyone the truth. Come home, and we’ll settle the rest together.]The screen flashed a system notice.[Message not delivered.]She had blocked him.Ronan tried the house staff’s phone and then the pack office line. Neither call went through.At nine that morning, he went to the Moon Council office h

  • The Luna He Refused To Name   Chapter 6

    Ronan returned to the Alpha residence shortly after two in the morning.He had called Sera twelve times since she left the reunion. The first call had been declined. The rest went straight to voicemail.By the time he opened the front door, irritation had pushed aside the first edge of unease. He was already planning what he would say. The crown had been a game, nothing more. He had never touched Chloe like a lover, and Sera knew exactly where his heart belonged.The key on the entry table stopped him.It lay beside the photograph they had taken when they first moved into the house. In the picture, Sera was laughing into his shoulder while he held her around the waist.Ronan went upstairs.Half her clothes were gone. The books she had collected over the years had disappeared from his study, and every gift he had bought her remained neatly arranged in the bedroom.She had taken only the things that belonged to her before him.Ronan called again and listened to the automated message.[Th

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