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Sophia. The mansion buzzed with life in a way it hadn't in months. Staff moved around the house with so much energy, cleaning every single marble counter until they gleamed, arranging fresh flowers in every corner, and ensuring every detail was flawless and good to go. It was a chaos that felt controlled, the kind that came with preparing for an Alpha's return. I stood in the grand foyer, watching the frenzy unfold around me. A smile tugged at my lips as I observed our head housekeeper directing the maids with so much caution. "The main house needs more cleaning." Mrs Chen, the head uttered to younger maids, pointing into the house. I loved how she had taken it upon herself to make sure that everything was sparkling and in place. But the question was, would he like it? She turned to me with a smile, as she had heard what i had said. "He will like, Luna. But not because of the flowers. He will be impressed because you are here, always." Heat crept up my neck as she pointed that ou

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Sophia.Seven days, that was how long I had been avoiding the place I once called home.I kept telling myself I was managing fine, that I could function, could do my job as Luna, could pretend everything wasn't falling apart. But the truth was much uglier, I wasn't sleeping, I wasn't eating. I was just existing in the spaces where Ethan wasn't.The Luna duties kept piling up on my desk. Pack matters, dispute resolutions, and charity events that needed planning. Things that used to energize me now felt suffocating, I would sit in my office for hours, staring at paperwork without actually reading it, my brain replaying that moment over and over like a broken record."The baby is mine."How long had it been going on? Days? Weeks? Months? Had he touched her the way he touched me? Had she heard the same words of love I thought were only mine?I had moved into the guest bedroom on the second night, telling myself it was temporary. Just until I could figure out what to do, but temporarily ha

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Sophia.I jerked my hand away from him like his touch burned. "Don't," I said, and my voice came out smaller than I wanted it to. But, at least I said something, and I was still standing.Ethan looked at me like I had slapped him. His jaw tightened, but he didn't move closer. He just stood there, waiting. Always waiting for me to be the reasonable one."Sophia, please," he said. "Just hear me out." He pleaded."I don't want to hear anything from you right now." I pushed past him toward the door, but his hand caught my wrist. His grip wasn't rough. He wasn't capable of being rough with me, but it was firm enough to stop me. Firm enough to remind me that he was still the strongest person in the room. That used to make me feel safe."Let go," I said, trying to pull away."Not until you listen to me." His voice had that alpha command in it, the one that made pack members obey without question. But I wasn't a pack member. I was his wife, or at least, I used to be."Fine, talk." I yanked my

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Sofia.I had been trying to convince myself that Victoria's pregnancy was fine. That it was fine my husband was having a child with someone else. But the truth was, it still gutted me.I kept telling myself it would be okay that once she gave birth and left, things would go back to normal with Ethan, except nothing felt normal anymore.There was this odd feeling in my chest, like something didn't add up. I couldn't explain it, but every time I tried to push it aside, it crept back in. I attempted to focus on my duties as Luna, but even that couldn't distract me from the sense that I was missing something obvious."Just focus," I muttered to myself, forcing my attention back to the stacks of paperwork in front of me. But focus was harder than it should have been.I overheard the maids talking as I passed them in the hallway. Their voices dropped to whispers, but I caught enough."She has no idea," one of them said."There's going to be a new Luna. Everyone knows it."I stopped and turn

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Kai. I had been smoking since I left the house, trying to calm my nerves in the one place where my father's voice couldn't reach me. The alley was dark, quiet, and blessedly empty. Taking a long drag, I let the smoke fill my lungs before releasing it slowly. It was late enough that most people had gone to bed, which meant I could finally think without someone demanding something from me. My father had been relentless today, more relentless than usual, anyway. First, it was the same lecture about how being single made me weak. How not having a wife would cost me my title. Then came the blind date he'd arranged without asking, which I'd deliberately sabotaged because I wasn't in the mood to pretend to be interested in another woman he'd picked out. The fight that followed was inevitable. "You keep this up and I am giving your title to your brother!" he had shouted, his face turning red the way it always did when he didn't get his way. "Either find yourself a wife from the women I'

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Sophia. My eyes opened to white ceiling tiles and the steady beep of a monitor I couldn't quite locate. For a moment, I just lay there, staring at nothing, trying to remember how I'd ended up here. My head felt like someone had taken a sledgehammer to it. When I tried to move, pain shot through my skull in waves. I pressed my palm against the side of my head and felt bandaging, thick, professional bandaging. Where the hell was I? I sat up slowly, taking inventory of my body. Everything hurt. My ribs were tender when I breathed, my left arm was wrapped, and my legs felt like they belonged to someone else entirely. But I could move, I could think, even if thinking made my head throb. The room was small and clinical, a medical room, clearly. Machines I didn't recognize lined the walls. There was a window, but it showed me nothing than trees and sky. It wasn’t my pack's territory, or anything I recognized. I swung my legs over the side of the bed, testing my weight. The floor was co

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Kai I walked out of the bathroom before I could say anything else I'd regret. The strange thing was, I'd gone in there with no real plan. Drew had mentioned she was awake and mobile, and something in my chest had tightened at the thought of her wandering around the compound in her condition. So I'd made up some excuse about checking on her recovery and walked straight into her bathroom like I had any right to be there. I didn't even know her name then. That was the part that bothered me most. In my twenty eight years, I'd never felt this pull toward someone I didn't know. Women weren't something I'd ever given much thought to, they were just people who existed in the periphery of my life. Necessary for continuing bloodlines, maybe, but not for me. Not for anything that mattered. So why couldn't I stop thinking about the way she'd tried to cover herself? Why could I still see the fear in her eyes when she'd realized I was there? I sat at my desk and tried to work, but it was usel

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Sophia I held my breath all the way out of Alpha Kai's office. Only when I was halfway down the hallway did I finally let it out, trying not to let the disappointment show on my face. I'd known what he was going to say before I even asked. I could see it in his eyes, that wall of indifference, the way he'd kept his distance like I was contagious. Women belong in the kitchen and the bed. The words shouldn't have stung. I'd heard worse from Ethan when he was angry. I'd heard worse from people I'd known my whole life. But coming from Alpha Kai, they'd felt different somehow. Worse, maybe, because I'd foolishly thought he was different.Beta Drew appeared beside me, and I forced a smile. A fake one, the kind I'd perfected over years of being Luna. "He said you'd help me move out," I said quietly, hating how small my voice sounded. Drew's expression shifted into something apologetic. "He's not usually like this. He's just... he's been through a lot. His father was just here, and,"

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Kai I didn't sleep. That wasn't unusual. Most nights, I lay in bed and stared at the ceiling until dawn broke. Sleep was just another luxury I'd given up a long time ago, right around the same time I'd learned that the people who were supposed to protect you would destroy you without a second thought. My mother's face flashed in my mind, a memory I'd been trying to bury for thirteen years. I'd been fifteen, desperate and crying, begging her not to leave. She'd looked at me like I was a stranger. Maybe I was. Maybe she'd never known me at all. I pushed the thought away and got out of bed. The shower helped. The hot water and the faint scent of lavender from the candles I kept in there created a space that was just mine. Growing up, the bathroom had been my only refuge, the only place my father couldn't find me when he was in one of his moods. The only place that felt remotely safe. Even now, as an adult with my own territory and my own power, the bathroom was still the one place

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Sophia My feet were in the wrong position again. I could feel it the moment Beta Drew corrected me, the way my balance was off, the way my weight wasn't distributed right. Simple stuff, the kind of thing that should have been easy to fix, but after three hours of training, nothing felt simple anymore. "Your stance," Beta Drew said, walking around me in a slow circle. "It's defensive. You're protecting yourself instead of preparing to fight. Those are two different things." I tried to adjust, shifting my weight to my left foot. That was wrong too, apparently. "Better," Beta Drew said, which was his version of encouragement. "But you're still thinking about your revenge. That's going to cloud your judgment. You need to separate the anger from the action." I understood what he was saying, but understanding and doing were different things. The anger was exactly why I was here. It was fuel. How was I supposed to let it go? "I'm trying," I said, frustrated. My legs were already shaki

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