All Chapters of After I Gave Up My Luna Token, the Alpha Panicked: Chapter 1 - Chapter 8

At the banquet, Serena drifted into the center of the hall in her designer gown, holding up her hand so everyone could admire the moonstone ring on her finger. A little crowd swarmed around her, fawning."Serena's so pretty and so sweet. No wonder the Alpha fell for her.""That ring finally found its rightful owner.""Right? Honestly, even the Luna can't hold a candle to you."She basked in it, chin tilted upward. She shot a taunting little glance at me in my corner and smiled to herself.Then she came over and toyed with the necklace at my throat, eyes bright with mischief. "Aurora, what a gorgeous necklace. I think it'd go perfectly with my ring. Be a dear and hand it over, won't you?"That was a rare diamond necklace. Damien had outbid half a room for it on my birthday once.An Alpha keeping someone on the side isn't exactly news, so as long as it never reached me, I looked the other way. But open provocation I never let slide.There was a she-wolf once who thought she'd climb into

My clothes were always too big, too long, enough to hide the terrible scars on my stomach and my legs.Five years ago, a pack of rogues swarmed Damien. In the half-second that mattered, I was the one who stepped in front of him, then fought them off with one arm while shielding him, half-dead, with the other, until the guards arrived. I came out of it shredded. The rogues' claws were coated in wolfsbane, so I was left with scars that will never close as long as I live.When Damien and I were together, I could never look at my own body. I thought the scars were hideous. But he didn't mind them, not back then. He used to kiss every wound, reverent, looking at me like I was everything."I'll never forget what you gave up for me. These aren't scars. They're proof of how much you love me."But the scars never healed, and his love curdled long ago.The next morning I did as he'd told me and carried the gown to Serena's room. She'd made sure the door was wide open. As I passed, she pitched

The guard took my suitcase, draped his black coat over my shoulders, and helped me into the car with great care."The Alpha King's plane is about to land. I'll take you straight to him."He turned the heat all the way up, and slowly the feeling came back into my stiff limbs.In the rearview mirror he caught the state of me, and his hands tightened on the wheel. "Miss, we came too late. You should never have had to go through any of this. ""That Damien actually dared treat you this way. Don't worry. The Alpha King will pay him back a thousand times over for every wound."Ever since I'd learned who I really was, none of it had felt real. I'd gone from an orphan with no one in the world to the Alpha King's daughter overnight. There were moments I'd wondered if it was all a dream.It was only now that it finally settled into something solid, that I finally understood what it was to have someone to lean on.Behind us the whole procession followed, the Alpha King's own cars, the kind no amo

Word that the Alpha King had found his long-lost daughter spread fast, and the reception to present me was set for a month out.Every Alpha among us, and the royal family besides, was invited. Damien came too, Serena on his arm.Over that month, every partner who'd ever worked with Damien pulled out. Investors yanked their money. Projects ground to a halt. He had no income left. Worse, he was buried in debt, and the stomach pain tortured him daily.A month without a decent night's sleep had left him gaunt, with the first gray hairs at his temples. He spent his days trying to put out the fires in his collapsing pack and trying, somehow, to find me. He even called the Werewolf Council, but they'd long since had the Alpha King's word, and they wouldn't tell him a thing.I'd vanished from his world completely.That dress Serena had wrecked, he'd tracked down the original tailor and had it restored to exactly what it had been. He kept it in my closet and sat staring at it every night."Ca