I tuned out of the conversation as it continued behind me. Jordan and Orlando could engage with each other without my supervision.A Luna who is rejected by her Alpha does not do well in life afterward.What did that even mean, other than that he wasn’t in love with me anymore, if he ever had been? What was the nature of that specific threat?Looking out into the darkness of the outside world, I tried to imagine a path without Alpha Elroy in my life, let alone at my side.I could hole up in Moonshadow Keep. I could raise our pup behind the raised walls and keep Elroy from ever seeing either of us again. It would be a life bounded by fear, a coward’s life, while Emma and Elroy did Goddess knew what with the rest of Lunaris.But it would be safe. My child would be safe. The temptation to consider nothing else almost overwhelmed me. My various duties tore at me: Luna, wife, mother, Alpha, and daughter to an Alpha, one I had left back at the Palace.History would not judge me if I put the
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