The Rise of a Forsaken Luna

SERAPHINAThis couldn’t be happening.He wouldn’t come back with a pregnant woman clinging to his arm—not after everything we had been through.Don’t jump to conclusions, I told myself, even as my chest tightened painfully.Kia gritted at me, “No, Sera. She’s right there, so open your damn eyes!”I snapped them open, and to my dismay, she was still there beside him, her hand wrapped possessively around Rexton’s arm. She was gorgeous for someone who was heavily pregnant. So much better than I looked.My ache in my chest spread quickly when her long black hair fell over Rexton’s shoulder, and he did nothing to peel her off him. I stood still, watching everyone cheer and welcome him back home. Not once did his eyes shift to me, not even accidentally. It was as if he had forgotten that I was waiting for him. Yet, I kept waiting.“Seraphina.” The sound of him saying my name after months of heartache melted my confusion long enough for me to walk into his arms and take the hug I had been

SERAPHINA“Seraphina.”I used to love the way he said my full name—soft, intimate, meant only for me.But this time, it sounded wrong. Nothing like the warmth he used to whisper into my hair.I shook my head slowly, my voice coming out unsteady before I could stop myself.“W-what… what are you doing?”Rexton withdrew his hands from Dahlia’s legs and stood up at once.“I’m just helping her, Sera,” he said quickly. “Her feet are swollen because of the pregnancy—”“Because of her condition…” I echoed, the words tasting bitter on my tongue.“Her condition!” My chest tightened—not with anger, but with something far more fragile.I remembered how I learned to endure the ache in silence while carrying his child, telling myself he was busy, that the pack needed him more.“I didn’t know you did this kind of thing for anyone,” I said quietly, my hands curling at my sides.“Seraphina—” Before I could tell him not to say my name like that, Dahlia did the one thing she knew how to do best. Burst

SERAPHINAI forced a messy, painful shift, the golden wolf emerging once more.With Kia’s energy completely drained, I shifted back into my human form the moment I crossed the border.Cold. Naked. Shaking.All I wanted was Celeste.But the moment I stepped into the main hall, the air turned lethal.“Where,” Rexton’s voice thundered, “have you been?”I barely looked at him. I just kept walking.I found Celeste in the nursery, and the second I held her, my chest loosened—just a little.“Put her down,” Rexton said coldly behind me.I froze.“Arlo is sick,” he continued. “You’re coming with me. Now.” "What does that have to do with me?" I ignored him.Rexton looked hesitant. "They said," he paused.“The boy carries an omen of the next Alpha. But his spirit is fractured. To heal him, he requires a blessing from both Alpha and Luna.”He turned to me, his eyes desperate but hard. "You will do this, Seraphina. For the sake of the pack."I stared at him. For a heartbeat, I almost laughed.I wa

ALPHA REXTON~~“Dammit!” I roared, hot fury blazing through my being like lava.Fuck, it burned. Not the whiskey I have been pouring down my throat for the last hour, but the memory of the embarrassment. “They are Lycans, Alpha…” Ethan’s voice still rang in my head even after thirty minutes. My Beta had looked at me with pity and terror as he delivered the report after my moment of shame, “We confirmed the scent markers and the one who c—challenged you… He has the command only a Lycan Royalty carries.”Lycans. Legend has it that they stay in the frozen Highlands, far from the borders of my pack. Yet they had walked into my pack, looked me in the eye, and humiliated me.My muscles still felt weak, but my pride was weaker. “You deserved it,” Kane, my wolf, snarled in the back of my mind. “You let them take our female. You let a stranger touch what belongs to us.”“She wanted to go!” I snapped out loud, pacing the room. “Did you see the way she looked at him? She didn't just run

SERAPHINA~~“There’s no way.”I couldn’t stop uttering those words under my breath. Not even when I sat at the long glass table to dine with the three people whose words and world have stunned me speechless. I stared at the lavish spread of food—delicacies I hadn’t seen all my life—but my stomach was in knots. Across from me sat Queen Serena and Kieran, while to my right sat the man who claimed to be my blood brother. The Lycan King.“It’s impossible.” Kia hummed with confusion. “I’m simply a wolf spirit, not a Lycan spirit.”Her statement forced words out of me. I muttered to no one in particular, “I’m an Orphan whom the Beta family of Crimson Moon Pack adopted. How could I possibly have a family?” A family like this?Queen Serena leaned forward, her hair shimmering under the chandelier. “Nineteen years ago, the Kingdom was attacked by forces we hadn’t learned to control. We were all so young, but you were the youngest.”“Our parents were slaughtered during the attack, and you