บททั้งหมดของ The Night Before I Became Luna, My Alpha Said He'd Choose His Childhood Friend: บทที่ 1 - บทที่ 10

Kane and I had been together for two years when we decided to hold our marking ceremony. The night before, he came over in person to confirm the final arrangements. Before he left, he placed the future Luna's silver crest in my palm and kissed my forehead."Don't be late tomorrow."He kept hold of my hand, a smile in his eyes. "I'll be waiting for you at the altar."Leah was Kane's childhood friend and also the daughter of my mother's younger sister. After her parents died, she stayed close to both our families. The next morning, though, I woke to an eerie silence in the villa Blackridge had prepared for me. The ceremonial attendants were gone. The car that was supposed to take me to the altar was gone. Even my mother, who had promised the night before to help me with my dress, had disappeared.I called her.She answered quickly, laughter filling the background. "Selena, why are you still at the villa? We're already at the Moon Goddess altar."There was only an hour left before the cer

Leah disappeared before dawn the next morning. She left a single message in the family group chat."I'm sorry. I ruined Selena's ceremony and made everyone laugh at her. Since she hates me this much, if I leave, none of you will have to keep fighting because of me."Blackridge found her in an abandoned watchtower on the northern slope with a cut across her wrist. Kane, my parents, and Rowan all went to the infirmary. My father called me back from Silverpine's border office. The moment I walked in, my mother shoved a phone in front of me. There were dozens of anonymous threats."Get out of Blackridge.""Having fun stealing someone else's Alpha?""We'll do what Selena can't do herself."Several of the accounts had logged in through the internal network at Silverpine's border office.My father's face was grim. "Explain.""It wasn't me.""The accounts were accessed from your office.""More than a dozen people can get into that office."My mother's eyes were red. "Selena, her parents are go

I attended my first joint council meeting the day after I arrived in the North.The regional coordinator took one look at the injury at my lower back. “You can take the day off.”“No need.” I set the files down in front of me. “I start today.”The meeting was about winter transport allocations after the blizzard. I had barely taken my seat when someone across the table let out a laugh.It was the same representative who had mocked me a few days earlier, using Leah’s video to question whether I was fit to sit at a negotiation table.His gaze moved from my face to the nameplate in front of me. “Ms. Wilde? I thought you resigned from Silverpine. I didn’t realize that still qualified you to sit here.”Several people looked up.He leaned back in his chair, clearly enjoying the attention. “Or does the North now let someone who couldn’t even manage her own marking ceremony negotiate for three packs?”The room went quiet.A few days ago, he had been the one to ask me, in front of an entire cou

When Leah woke, she found herself facing a formal investigation by both packs. At first, she cried."I was scared. After the video went up, everyone started attacking me. Selena doesn't want Kane anymore, and I felt like all of this was my fault."My mother instinctively stepped toward her. After two steps, she stopped. In the past, whenever Leah cried, my mother had always been the first person to pull her into an embrace.This time, she only stood there with red eyes and asked, "So you sent those threats yourself?"Leah's crying faltered. Kane stood by the window, his expression completely cold."Answer her."Leah gripped the blanket. "I just wanted you to believe that I never meant to hurt Selena.""So you hurt her again to prove it?"Kane's voice was quiet. I had known him for two years. The calmer he sounded, the angrier he was.Leah went pale. "Kane, I never wanted to steal you from her.""I know."He finally looked at her."You don't love me, and I don't love you. That's what ma

It took me a long time to settle into my new life in the North. Leaving Blackridge itself had been quick. I packed what belonged to me, got into a Northern Border Council car, and crossed the border in a single night. What took longer was getting used to waking up somewhere that had nothing to do with Kane, Silverpine, or the life everyone had once assumed I would live.The full moon was the hardest part. Around that time each month, my wolf grew restless. Sleep came lightly, and sometimes I woke in the middle of the night with the strange awareness that something inside me was listening for a sound that would never come. Then my wolf would lift its head toward the south, searching instinctively for Kane's familiar cedar scent.The distance frustrated it, especially on the nights when the moon was brightest. It would pace beneath my skin, unsettled by a bond neither of us had broken. But it was not agony. Nothing inside me was being torn apart, and I wasn't physically falling apart b