“I thought Mike wasn’t like other Alphas, but I never thought…” My mother’s voice was thick with regret.Up until tonight, I believed it too.On my eighteenth birthday—the day my wolf woke up—I felt Mike.We bonded almost right away.As Alpha of the Moon Shadow pack, Mike was one of a kind. Not arrogant or bossy like the rest—he was gentle, respectful.For ten whole years, he stayed completely faithful. Even Luna herself saw us as the pack’s perfect pair.But tonight’s engagement party shattered all that. A decade-long dream, gone in a second.Mike had invited the one person I never wanted to see—Sandy, my stepsister, an omega.Seeing her felt like a punch to the gut. All those old, painful memories rushed back, which were cold and sharp.I remembered every daily humiliation from her and her mother.Although I was a warrior werewolf, my stepmother, as a Luna, she had the right to punish me at anytime.My wolf stirred, agitated, and before I knew it, I’d crushed my wine glass.Startled,
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