All Chapters of The Alpha's Fading Moon: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

Kaelen turned and strode out of the room, as though afraid I might refuse before he could escape.My phone lit up with a message from him.【Please don't make a scene right now. I am only giving Roslyn a formal status. I delayed our bonding because I was waiting for the right moment to give you a grander ceremony.】The right moment. I had been hearing this particular lie for five years.I had stayed by his side and watched him claim the position of Alpha of Dawnlight Pack, step by step. I had waited through more than a thousand nights. Waited for him to place this Luna crown on my head before the Moon Goddess. Waited for him to write my name beside his in front of the entire pack.In the end, he gave that place to someone else.Kaelen, I no longer want to wait for you. We were never from the same world to begin with.A moment later, he recalled the message. He was probably afraid Roslyn would see the promise he had made me.I stared at the notification "Message recalled" and let out a

I looked at Kaelen, and in that one second I understood: nothing he said or did could wound me anymore.I was leaving soon regardless. I might as well play out this final scene with him, a closing act for five years that deserved an ending."Fine. I'm sorry."My sudden compliance made Kaelen think he had regained control. He finally looked down and noticed the blood running freely from my ankle.He panicked at once and rushed to the storage room for the first-aid kit.The moment Kaelen was gone, Roslyn dropped her fragile act. She lifted her chin, her eyes full of malice."You're really something to be pitied, Selene. No matter how much you've done for him, you will always be his shadow.""Tomorrow night, all of Dawnlight Pack will watch me stand at his side. And you will never be worthy of being Luna.""Kaelen told me that even if the pup isn't his, he will always favor me."I lowered my eyes, unwilling to waste words on her.Whether or not Kaelen had betrayed me no longer mattered.I

Kaelen had imagined the bonding ceremony with Selene countless times.He would have the roses of Dawnlight Pack bloom for her, have every wolf in the pack bow before her, and under the blessing of the Moon Goddess, make her the happiest woman in the world.He always told himself to wait until things were more settled, until the timing was right.He always said later, and never noticed that all those delays were slowly cooling his mate's heart.The black SUV screeched to a halt outside the security center.Before the vehicle had fully stopped, Kaelen shoved the door open and strode into the hall."Where is the supervisor for the villa's surveillance footage?"The warrior on duty answered with a trembling voice: "Alpha, please wait. I'll contact Zane immediately."Minutes later, Zane arrived in a hurry, his expression complicated as he looked at Kaelen."Kaelen."Kaelen's gaze turned cold, like a thin layer of ice had settled over his eyes."What happened in that living room before Selen

The days that followed were deeply unsettling for Kaelen.He began losing sleep night after night, numbing himself with hard liquor.The old wound on his shoulder had started to ache again.Out of habit, he reached for the second drawer on the left side of his desk, searching for the healing herbs.Empty.Inside lay only a note Selene had left behind:"Remember to tell me when the herbs run out. And drink less. That old wound of yours will act up."He had found her fussing tiresome at the time and shoved the note into a corner.Now the herbs were gone, and there was no one to remind him.When the council meeting was called, he rifled through the files twice looking for the treaty documents. They were nowhere to be found.Without thinking, he picked up his phone and sent Selene a message:"Selene, where did I put the treaty?"No reply came. The severed Mind-link held nothing but silence.He stood still for a moment before it hit him. She had vanished from his world entirely.The elders

Every day when I left home, I would see Kaelen at the border of the Moonshade Pack's territory.He stood there holding roses of every kind, and when he caught sight of me, he would hold them out.I never took them. He never lost heart, returning the next day with a different flower.My patience finally broke. "Stop sending them. I don't want to see you."He seemed not to hear a word of it, standing there in silence, staring at me with hollow eyes.He was commanding and cold, untouchable in his authority. I had never seen him lose composure as an Alpha.Yet in that moment, he seemed to have returned to that bitter winter night — alone, as though the whole world had cast him out."Kaelen, don't come looking for me anymore. I truly loved you once.""But now, I want nothing more to do with you."Kaelen finally vanished from the border.The days of recovery at home passed quietly. I followed my father, learning to handle pack affairs, filling the hours.Then came the news.The Dawnlight Pac