All Chapters of Parting Under the Moonlight or Bonded by Moonlight: Chapter 1 - Chapter 8

“Alison,” Leah said sweetly, voice dripping with false concern, “I know you want Mrs. Hart to see you happy, but you shouldn’t use her illness to pressure my brother. Your engagement with my brother isn’t even official yet, and my mother has already fallen ill again, all because of you!”Then she turned toward my mother, trying to look gentle and saintly.“But don’t worry, Mrs.Hart. I promise that this year I’ll find the best healer, and I won’t cause any more trouble. Just hold on a little longer, okay? You’ll see them bonded by moonlight soon. They will be mates.”Her words were honeyed, but her eyes gleamed with triumph.My mother went pale. Her gaze cut to me, trembling. “Alison… is that true?”I glared at Leah. “What are you doing here? I said it already. I’m not bonding him! How hard is that to understand?”My mother’s hands shook, her breathing uneven. The black marks along her neck, signs of the curse, darkened even more. Panic surged through me.“Get the healer!” I shouted.I

For two days, I didn’t leave the forest cabin. I sat by my mother’s side, keeping vigil while the curse pulsed faintly beneath her skin.Logan never came.Instead, the pack gossip was that Leah was laughing in town, boasting about how Logan ran with her under the moonlight and how they hunted together as if the world already belonged to them.I didn’t care anymore. I packed in silence. No anger. No tears. Just purpose.On the third morning, the communication crystal lit up, and Lynn’s signal came: Confirmation.I dressed my mother gently, wrapping her in her favorite shawl. She looked up, puzzled. “Where are we going, darling?”I smiled softly, pushing her wheelchair toward the door. “To meet someone. To fulfill a promise that’ll make you proud.”We traveled by carriage to the Werewolf Temple. The sacred stones shimmered faintly in the morning mist.Mother frowned. “Why here?”“To complete my bonding ceremony under the moonlight,” I said.She stiffened, worry creasing her face. “Aliso

I looked at Lynn.He understood instantly. One hand came to rest protectively at my back, the other pressed firmly against Logan’s chest, pushing him aside.“Step away,” Lynn said, voice even but edged with command. “We’re here to sign the Moonlight Covenant. Don’t stand in our way.”Under Logan’s stunned glare, Lynn handed his pack insignia to the registrar, along with a moonstone ring that matched the one he’d given me. I guided my mother’s wheelchair toward the side chamber where the ceremony would be held.Logan trembled, frozen in disbelief, before grabbing my arm.“Alison, enough!” His voice cracked with desperation. “You’re really going through with this? You’d bond yourself to him, under moonlight? You don’t even know who he is! What do you know about his pack, his bloodline, and him? Have you forgotten what a Moonlight Covenant means? It’s permanent. Breaking it comes with a price you can’t afford. Are you truly that desperate to punish me? You’ve gone mad!”Leah stepped for

I once believed the endless wilds of the North could bury the past forever.But I never imagined that on a quiet winter afternoon, when peace finally felt real, Logan would appear, torn and broken, at the gates of our current residence.I was on the terrace, waiting for Lynn, the table set for a simple dinner.Then, a shadow burst past the guards and slammed against the iron fence below.“Alison! I’ve finally found you!”I froze.He stood there, gaunt, bleeding, his eyes wild with desperation. The cold wind whipped through his torn clothes, but his voice still carried that maddening mix of arrogance and pleading.“Alison, please, come home! Don’t look at me like that. I know I was wrong. I shouldn’t have let Leah torment you. I shouldn’t have made you apologize. You were right to hit her. She deserved it!” “Come back with me, please. These days without you… I’m losing my mind…”I stared down at him, silent and unshaken. My heart didn’t flinch. My pulse didn’t quicken. There was nothin