All Chapters of Another Chance : Chapter 1 - Chapter 6

The Alpha’s Choice Josh’s POV There was no guilt in my heart. Not even a flicker about my choice. Just silence. Cold, but deliberate silence. The moment Rissa stepped forward said her acceptance—“I accept your rejection, Alpha”—the bond snapped, and I felt it. There was a shift. A notable break. I felt something ancient and sacred tearing in the universe, but it didn’t shake me. Not at all. It should have, maybe based on all those fairytales. But it didn’t. She fell to her knees, clutching her chest as though she was in so much pain, but I didn't move. Didn’t flinch. Didn’t help. I just watched her wail in pain all by herself. The truth is… I had made peace with this moment a long time ago, sadly how she just gets to realize now. The moment I realized I was shackled to someone the Moon Goddess mistakenly tied to me. A half-human mate. Weak. Powerless. Unworthy of the Black Moon Pack's throne. She was obviously a mistake. She was a soft whisper in a world that needed thunder

The Gift Awakens Rissa's Pov I groaned and sat up, heart still thudding from the realization that Mark was nowhere to be found. Stupid! “He ditched me” Although what I was expecting, I just wanted some fun and he gave me just that. Why am I hurting that he was also gone? The effect of Josh's rejection still lingered in everything, even in the way I started perceiving things and people. Then there was a knock on the door. The knock came again. Harder this time. Probably it was one of the motel attendants. I wrapped the blanket around me and moved close to the door of the tiny motel room. My body ached. My thoughts were still a swamp of fatigue and fragmented memories. I opened the door just a crack. And to my greatest surprise, it was no one other than Josh's closest beta. Lucan. “What are you doing here? “How did you find me?” He didn’t even wait for an invitation. He pushed in, face tense, eyes wild. “Your scent is rare and quite traceable, I could always find you.”

The Depths of the Knowing Rissa’s POV The smoky motel room was dusty and filled with the rays of the morning light slipping faintly through the motel window covered in dirt, the worn carpet painted with the long streaks of gold, I barely noticed it's effects . My thoughts spun in relentless circles, knotted with emotion, resentment, confusion, and something else I didn’t want to name. Hope, maybe. The kind that flickers when everything else has gone dark. Mark’s voice still echoed in the fragile silence. His words like smoke choking my mind, impossible to hold and harder to ignore. “You don’t have to face this alone Rissa.” But I had been alone. Since the day I felt the bond shatter, since Lucan turned his back on me and the title of Luna twisted into a chain I didn’t ask to wear, I’d carried this weight by myself. The Knowing stirred beneath my skin. I didn’t ask for this power. No one ever asked for the Knowing. It came uninvited, a haunting inheritance passed down through blo