Semua Bab The Rejected Blood Moon : Bab 1 - Bab 4

KIMBERLYTime splintered into crystalline shards around me."She will be my future Luna."Five words. Five simple words that had just taken a wrecking ball to my entire life.Alpha Derrick’s hand — thick, callused, deadly — seized Mona by her delicate wrist, pulling her arm up over her head like a victory flag. The crowd erupted into cheers, their faces contorting into a grotesque carnival of excitement and relief. Relief that their daughter wasn’t the one being discarded. That Blood Alpha had found his match, was part of an attached body.I couldn't breathe. My lungs wouldn’t expand, as if the air itself had become poisonous. This was beyond rejection — it was obliteration.My father’s face suddenly caught my eye from across the room. For a brief moment, I glimpsed pure fear in his eyes before he shrouded it in Alpha ennui. He knew. He knew what this would mean.Alpha rejections had more consequences than simply being humiliated by the own一 and in this case return to where they came

Kimberly POVMy mouth flooded with the taste of copper as Alpha Derrick’s hand swept across my face. The noise reverberated through the suddenly quiet hall like a gunshot.“How dare you touch my chosen with your filthy hands?” His voice was low — terrifyingly low — but it reached to every corner of the room. “You, daughter of a Beta, thought you could damage what’s mine?”I pressed my fingertips to my split lip, the bright red blood a harsh contrast to my skin. My eyes met his—a mistake. That rage deep in those amber depths was not merely fury, it was cold, methodical contempt.“I never touched her,” I murmured, my voice quavering no matter how hard I tried.Alpha Derrick laughed, and it sounded empty. "Still lying? Even now?" He gestured to Mona, who quaked at his side with tears streaking her perfect face, the red lines on her wrist seeming more intentional than accidental.Marks I never put there.“Take her,” Alpha Derrick ordered, his voice descending an octave, the Alpha timbre r