All Chapters of REJECTED LUNA MARKED WITH A CURSE: Chapter 1 - Chapter 6

~Seraphine ~I did not walk into Shadowmere with hope. I fell into it with blood on my hands, ash in my lungs, and the echo of rejection still ringing through my bones.Shadowmere Forest was not a place spoken of in Night Fang halls unless someone wanted to frighten pups into obedience.The name alone used to be a threat. When I was small, my father would lower his voice and say it slowly, like a curse: Shadowmere pack. He told us disobedient children were thrown there, that it was a graveyard for stray wolves, angry ones rejected by their mates, cursed ones abandoned by the Moon. A place where broken creatures rotted and tore each other apart. I never even imagined I would stand at its edge someday.Staring into the dark stretch of twisted trees, I wondered what I had done to deserve a life carved from cruelty and why the Moon Goddess watched and stayed silent.My breathing turned ragged as I crossed the boundary. The deeper I went, the colder it became, as if the forest itself was t

~ Seraphine ~I have spent years in the Shadowmere Forest training, learning basic combat and how to bring down wolves stronger than we are. We fed on hunted beasts and stray animals that wandered into Shadowmere. I grew stronger, ready to unleash on anyone foolish enough to challenge the Shadowmere pack.I opened our territory to stray wolves; betrayed, discarded, and hunted out of their lands just as I had been. Within three years, Shadowmere was no longer a refuge for outcasts but a formidable force, a growing pack of loyal wolves who followed my command without question.…..The day began like any other. We had been training for hours, my body moving fluidly through attacks and counters, learning the rhythm of blades, the angles of momentum, and the lethal geometry of combat. Thalor and Kaelis flanked me, each movement synchronized as if our silent communication were instinct. Even without a wolf of my own, I felt the pack respond to my direction.Our training and drills had just

~Seraphine~Ever since I regained my voice, my loyal wolves had been restless with curiosity. They wanted answers as to why I chose silence for three long years, whether it had been deliberate or born of something deeper.Their questions followed me like shadows. I hesitated each time they demanded to know. Seven days passed, and still, I avoided the truth. I never wanted to burden them with the ruins of my past or stain our present with old wounds.But on this fateful day, something within me shifted. My wolf stirred gently, urging honesty. I realized it was time. Time to release everything I had buried.I looked at them as they sat near me, letting out a breath I hadn’t realized I was holding. The gathered wolves of Shadowmere watched me silently, waiting patiently.“You need to understand why I stayed silent all these years,” I began. “I… was broken. Rejected by the ones I was fated to love: the Triplets, the ones the Moon Goddess had promised me. They spat on me, humiliated me, an