I lay on my bed restlessly, staring at the wooden ceiling as if the answers to my torment were carved into its lines. My chest rose and fell unevenly, every breath dragging the ache deeper into my bones. Sleep refused to come. Peace had abandoned me the moment Kael spoke those dreadful words.“I, Alpha Kael of the Moonfall Pack, reject you Aria Star as my mate.”Those words echoed like a curse, replaying again and again until the tears refused to stop. How could he? After years of love, of whispered promises beneath the moonlight, of dreams of me standing proudly at his side as his Luna. He had shattered it all.“We were supposed to be his choice,” Karina, my wolf, growled bitterly inside my mind. Her voice was sharp, wounded, and furious. “Fated or not, he swore he would choose us.”“I know,” I whispered back, curling my arms around myself. “He swore he’d never let me go.”But even as I remembered his rejection, something about his eyes lingered. They weren’t cruel. They weren’t fill
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