Ellie’s POVI couldn’t wait to get home after school. After I had rejected Dominic in front of his parents, the rumor mill had started running about how I had lost my mind and had made Dominic turn on his own parents.No one wanted to get near me; even Leslie, Sally, and Sarah kept their distance fo
Dominic’s POVI did not want to go home after school. I did not care about the rumors that swirled around me, about how everyone at school contemplated why I would defy my own parents in public or why I would storm off from a ceremony that was supposed to be for me.All I cared about was how my pare
“That’s nice of you to say, but I do mean what I said,” Ellie insisted. “I don’t want to be Dominic’s Luna. I have rejected him as my Fated mate, multiple times, and he just has not accepted it. I want to be a Healer, not someone’s trophy mate.”I thought that some of the potential Lunas were going
Dominic’s POVOf course, they had to pick her. They only picked Ellie because she was my Fated mate. That had to be the reason. There was no way that they were impressed by this so-called “humility” and “honesty”.Ellie obviously didn’t care about this ceremony; she hadn’t even dressed up for it lik
They stepped up to the first potential Luna. She practically bounced in place from excitement.“What’s your name, sweetheart?” Dominic’s mother asked.“Hazel Applegate,” the young woman replied. She held out a rectangular box, meticulously wrapped in glittering silver packaging and topped with a whi
Ellie’s POV“Will the following students please report to the courtyard,” was announced over the speaker. “Hazel Applegate…”I had been dreading this day ever since the mating ceremony when Dominic did not accept my rejection. His parents had finally returned home, and they had come to the school to