All Chapters of REJECTED BY THE MOON : Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

Incomplete.That single word was all it took to stop three hundred wolves from breathing at once, and I felt it before I even understood what he'd said, the whole clearing going still around me like the moon itself had flinched.Kieran's hand was still wrapped around mine when his mouth finished shaping the sound, the same hand that had walked me into the marking circle ten minutes earlier like I was something worth being careful with, and now that same grip felt less like a promise and more like a manacle closing slowly around my wrist."Say that again," I whispered, because some small, desperate part of me had convinced itself that I must have misheard him over the wind moving through the trees.His jaw tightened instead of softening, and his eyes, the same eyes I had been quietly dreaming about since I was fourteen years old, refused to hold mine even for a moment."I, Kieran Candle Funeral, reject you, Aurora Devine Wood, as my mate," he said, and the words landed like a blade slid

Hybrid for SaleThe tallest of the eight figures raised one gloved hand, and I felt every hair on my body rise at once, because that single gesture carried more authority than anything Kieran had ever shown me in the entire time I'd known him, as though this stranger had been giving orders to armed men his whole life and expected nothing less than instant obedience.Kaiden shoved me hard behind him without a single word of warning, positioning his own body between mine and the circle now tightening around us both, and for one absurd, fleeting heartbeat I actually believed that might be enough to keep either of us alive through whatever came next."Stand down," the tall figure said, his voice carrying easily across the small clearing despite how quietly he'd spoken it. "We have no interest in you, Kaiden. Only in what's standing behind you.""She's under my protection," Kaiden said, and something in his tone had shifted into a register I hadn't heard from him yet, low and dangerous in a

The Mortuary Alpha's CastleHe didn't speak to me even once during the entire ride to his castle, and I sat bound inside that windowless carriage replaying every second of the marking ceremony over and over in my mind, desperately trying to understand how the same man who had rejected me in front of three hundred witnesses could now legally own me, purchased like livestock with currency I refused to let myself think too carefully about.The castle itself rose out of the darkness like something deliberately built to bury secrets rather than shelter a pack, black stone stretching toward a starless sky, long iron fences disappearing further than I could see in the dim light, and somewhere near the rear grounds a stench drifted toward us that turned my stomach before I'd even climbed down from the carriage."Untie her," Kieran said flatly to the waiting guards, his voice utterly devoid of anything I recognized from the boy who had once smiled at me across a crowded gathering. "Take her ins

The Forgotten ClaimThe passage in the wall groaned open again before either of us had fully recovered our breath. The heavy stone scraped against itself with a low, grinding complaint that seemed to echo the unrest still coiled tight in my chest.Kieran stepped back through it alone, his expression carved from something colder and harder than anything I had seen on him yet, even standing in that auction hall with blood still staining his gloves from whatever he had done to earn those souls he had traded for me. The residual heat of the marking circle still clung to my skin, a phantom burn that refused to fade, and the air in the room felt thicker now, charged with the weight of whatever news he carried.“Someone knows you’re here,” he said without preamble, crossing the room in three long strides that ate up the distance between the hidden entrance and where I stood. His boots struck the floor with deliberate force. “A rival alpha. He’s sent a formal claim through the regional council

The First CollisionThe courtyard erupted into chaos before I even finished processing what I was watching. Kieran’s own guards poured out of the castle’s lower doors to meet Shane’s men in a standoff thick enough with tension that I could feel it pressing against the glass of the window itself, like the whole night had suddenly grown teeth. Torchlight flickered wildly across steel and armor. Shouts rose from below, sharp and overlapping, the kind of sound that promised blood if either side took one step too far. From three floors up I could see the tight formation of Shane’s men holding their ground while Kieran’s forces formed an answering line, neither side willing to break first.“We have to move,” Akira said suddenly, pulling me back from the window with a strength I hadn’t expected from someone so small and so clearly terrified. Her fingers dug into my arm hard enough to leave marks. “If this turns into a real fight, this room is not safe anymore, no matter what the Alpha told us