All Chapters of The Alpha Crippled Luna: Chapter 1 - Chapter 5

I stood frozen beside the window.My fingers tightened around the curtain as I looked down at the scene unfolding outside.Seraphina had returned. And judging from the crowd gathered around her, it seemed as though the entire pack had been waiting for her.She looked exactly like the woman I remembered.Beautiful. Confident. Untouched by the years that had passed.Several servants surrounded her, while warriors and pack members greeted her enthusiastically.Then I saw him.Kael.He had just stepped out of the pack house. The moment Seraphina saw him, her face lit up."Kael!" She ran toward him without hesitation.My breath caught.Kael didn't move away. He opened his arms and caught her. Seraphina threw her arms around him, laughing as she buried her face against his chest. And Kael smiled.I stared at him through the window. That smile...I had never seen it before. It wasn't the polite smile he sometimes gave the pack. It wasn't the faint smile he gave me whenever I thanked him for

I sat alone in the back seat of the car, staring through the window without really seeing anything.My eyes were still burning from crying.My hands wouldn't stop shaking.Yet I refused to let go of the exam certificate.I held it tightly against my chest, as though it were the only thing keeping me from falling apart.Ronan's laughter kept replaying in my head.The way he had imitated my walk.The way everyone had laughed.The way Seraphina had leaned against Kael while asking if I really walked like that every day.And Kael's silence.That silence hurt the most. I closed my eyes.I had known.For a long time, I had known.Kael's friends and some of the pack members talked about me behind my back.They mocked my injured leg.They questioned why Kael had married me.They wondered how someone like him could have a Luna like me.I had heard whispers before.I had caught people staring.Sometimes, I even heard their voices when they thought I was too far away to listen.But I never told Kael.Not once