All Chapters of The Luna He Never Deserved: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

The slippers were the first thing I saw when I came through the front door.Grey, women's, too small for me, set neatly beside the shoe rack with water still beading on the toes.I reached to unbutton my coat and stopped with my hand at the collar. The hall smelled of jasmine, and nobody in my house wore jasmine."Mrs. Delaney?"She came in from the kitchen wiping her hands, and she stopped a step short of me. Her eyes went to the wall behind my shoulder."Luna.""Does the Alpha have company?""I—" She started to answer, then didn't.Bare feet came across the floorboards behind her, unhurried, someone who wasn't listening for anyone.Rosalie walked into the living room with her hair down and damp at the ends, a towel over one shoulder, drying it as she came.She was wearing my pajamas. Cream silk with pearl buttons, the pair I kept in the third drawer of our bedroom dresser.Those pajamas lived in the third drawer of the dresser in the room I shared with my husband. Not the guest wing.

My bag was still open on my lap when I looked up and found Isaac at the end of the bar, watching.His eyes went from Rosalie's hand on my husband's sleeve to me, then back again, and he put his glass down without drinking out of it.Finally he came over."Mrs. Hale."Rosalie didn't lift her face off Darius's chest."I know tonight is difficult for you," Isaac said. "But you're holding on to the Alpha in front of his men, and your Luna is sitting at this table.""I understand," Rosalie said into the shirt."Mrs. Hale." He waited until Marek set his bottle down, and by then most of the near end had stopped talking. "She's sitting right there."Rosalie came off him slowly, the way you do when you want a room to see how hard it is. She wiped under both eyes with the heel of her hand."I'm sorry. Grief doesn't ask if it's a good time." She smoothed her skirt over her knees. "Darius is one of the only people left who knew Gideon properly. Who knew all three of us, back then."Then she turned

My phone had come out of my coat pocket when I went down, and it was lying under the edge of the cabinet with the screen still lit.I got two fingers to it and dragged it across the tiles.The pain came up through my side every time I moved my arm, so I stopped moving my arm and used my shoulder instead, and it took three tries to get her name on the screen.It rang."Aurelia, Finally yo—""Tamsin."I heard her chair go back. I heard her say my name again, and then something else after it, but the words had started coming apart before they reached me and the phone slid out of my hand and hit the floor by my face.She was still talking when everything went dark.I opened my eyes to a dark ceiling.There was a line taped into the back of my hand and a pull down my left side when I breathed, and I got my palm onto my stomach before I was properly awake.I stared around with a sinking disappointment.Nobody came.The chair beside the bed was empty and pushed against the wall, and there was

She didn't move. Her eyes went down to the suitcase, then came back up to my face, and she waited there for me to take it back."Say that again.""My marriage to your son is over. I'm rejecting him, and I'm—"Her hand came across my face.PA!My head went round with it. Heat spread up my cheek and my eye watered on that side, and I stayed exactly where I was standing.Aurelia. My brother came through the link hard enough that I lost the next breath. What's happening!?Wait.Aurelia—This one's mine. I'll reach for you if I need you.He didn't answer. His anger pressed through the connection, but I closed it from my side before he could feel anything else. If I needed him, I knew how to open it again. Darius's mother was still holding her scarf in her other hand."Who put this in your head?" she said. "Because it isn't yours. A wolfless Omega, standing in my son's hall, talking about rejecting an Alpha.""I've said it. You can hear it as many times as you like.""You should be on your

The wheels wouldn't run straight on the gravel, so I carried the case as far as the gate, then dragged it, and every pull came up through my side.My cheek had stopped burning and settled into a dull ache. His scent still clung to my collar and hair, heavy enough to taste at the back of my throat. Even the cold air couldn’t strip it away.Two guards came off the wall at the border entrance and stepped into the road in front of me."Luna." The younger one looked at the suitcase, and then at my face, and then somewhere over my shoulder. "It's late to be out this side.""Move.""Nobody crosses without the Alpha's word." The older one said it more carefully. "You know that better than any of us. If you'll wait, I can have somebody ring up to the house—"“I’m not asking you as your Luna,” I said. “And I’m not your Luna.”He had nothing for that. For five years, both men had stood whenever I entered a room. Nobody had told them what to do when their Luna walked out at eight in the evening w