Characterization Traits

Bannie. Brisée. Trahie. Valérie n'a jamais demandé à être choisie par la déesse de la Lune. Elle n'a jamais demandé un compagnon qui se moquerait de ses cicatrices, raillerait son corps et l'humilierait devant sa meute. Lorsque Darius, son compagnon prédestiné, la rejette de la manière la plus cruelle qui soit, elle s'enfuit dans la nuit, blessée et seule. La mort aurait dû l'emporter. Mais le destin en décide autrement. Un puissant Alpha la sauve des renégats, pour découvrir l'impossible : Valérie est sa seconde chance de trouver un compagnon. Mais Brian n'est pas le seul à être attiré par elle. Ses trois frères, dangereux et enivrants à leur manière, se rapprochent, poussés par des forces qu'ils ne peuvent expliquer. Et dans l'ombre du royaume, les ennemis murmurent une prophétie... une prophétie qui désigne Valérie comme la clé d'un pouvoir plus grand que celui de toutes les Luna avant elle. Mais Valérie n'est plus la jeune fille faible qui implorait l'amour. Elle est le feu. Elle est la tempête. Elle est la vengeance incarnée sous les traits d'une Luna qui ne se laissera plus jamais briser. Et lorsque quatre hommes puissants se battront non seulement à ses côtés, mais aussi pour elle... le monde apprendra que la déesse de la Lune ne commet jamais d'erreurs.

I have known since childhood that I was destined to marry Kaden, the Alpha heir of the Moonstone pack. As the only one with the Moon-Blessed bloodline, I am the only person capable of breaking the curse that has haunted the Moonstone Alpha lineage for generations. A century ago, the Moonstone ancestor publicly insulted a fallen female Alpha during her funeral. He mocked her, saying, "She’s just a she-wolf. Why such an extravagant funeral? How could a woman ever protect our kind? She probably slept her way to the top." Goddess Selene was enraged. She cast a perpetual curse: every direct Alpha heir of the Moonstone pack would develop female traits on their eighteenth birthday, regressing into a lowly Omega. Only by mating with a Moon-Blessed wolf can the curse be lifted. I had been in love with Kaden for years and wanted nothing more than to save him. Maya claimed she also possessed the Moon-Blessed bloodline. Kaden tried to marry her, but I exposed her lie and stopped him. Forced by his parents, Kaden finally made me his Luna. After he marked me, Kaden didn’t regress into an Omega, but he didn't awaken his Alpha King bloodline either. That same night, a heartbroken Maya went for a walk in the woods alone, where she was cornered by a group of rogues and torn to pieces. My parents and Kaden hated me for it. They claimed I was a fraud whose bloodline was impure, which was why Kaden never truly ascended. They were convinced Maya was the real Moon-Blessed one. They believed my jealousy and lies had killed her and robbed Kaden of his chance to become the Alpha King. On a night of the full moon, Kaden tore my throat out in front of the entire pack. He tossed my body into a silver pool to let it corrode. The last thing I heard was his roar: "You lying bitch! Maya’s death is on your hands!" When I opened my eyes again, I was back to the day Kaden arrived at the Silver Moon pack to propose.

I was the future Luna, chosen and arranged by the current Alpha to be the mate of his son, Kelvin. But Kelvin—the heir to the pack—was unlike any other wolf. He had been blessed by the Moon Goddess with two mates. On the night of the full moon, he was confessed to by Amanda, the daughter of the Alpha from the Shadow Pack. Unlike the traditional, quiet, and graceful she-wolves from our own pack, Amanda enjoyed riding horses, hunting rabbits, shooting arrows, and drinking like a soldier. These wild traits deeply attracted Kelvin. But despite his obvious interest, Kelvin said, "Amanda is not quiet or considerate. With such a bold personality, she could never become the Luna of this pack." Even though he claimed to dislike her high-profile behavior, his eyes never left her when she was hunting in the forest. On his birthday, everything remained uncertain—until he declared that he would bond with Amanda and make her his second mate. However, Amanda rejected him outright, saying, "There's no tradition in our pack where the Alpha's daughter becomes a second mate. We can only be Lunas, and we deserve to be the only ones loved by our mates." Hearing this, Kelvin turned to me and said awkwardly, "Jenny, Luna is just a title. Could you give this title to Amanda? She's still young and doesn't understand our pack's rules. You're both my mates, and there's no difference between you. But since there can only be one Luna in the pack, let her have the title. You'll still be my true Luna—the one who actually handles all affairs of the pack." His words made my heart tremble. Tears welled up in my eyes. And at that moment, the moonstone ring he had given me as a symbol of our mate bond slipped off my finger, hit the floor, and shattered into pieces. Seeing that, I knew—our bond was severed. For good. But when he cried and howled, begging for his true Luna to come back... I was already gone, vanished from the pack entirely.

La prostitution n'était pas vraiment l'avenir qu'Ariella avait imaginé. Mais une série de malheurs l'a menée dans un bordel dont elle ne pouvait s'échapper. Jusqu'à ce que son salut arrive sous les traits de Killian Morozcov. Il se comportait comme s'il était le maître du monde et n'hésitait pas à abattre ceux qui le regardaient de travers. Il est entré dans le bordel et en est reparti avec elle, et malgré toutes ses supplications, il a refusé de lui en donner la raison. L'expérience lui avait appris que soit on poignarde quelqu'un dans le dos, soit on est poignardé dans le dos. Pourtant, Killian lui a révélé une facette de l'humanité qu'elle ignorait, et ses défenses sont tombées, donnant naissance à un amour dont ils savaient tous deux qu'il était voué à l'échec. Il était l'héritier d'un empire mafieux, et elle, une fille de bordel sans aucun soutien familial. Leur amour était condamné dès l'instant où Killian l'a sauvée. Surtout qu'il a sauvé la mauvaise personne. Il était allé au bordel en croyant qu'Ariella était sa sœur disparue, Stella Morozcov. Il s'était trompé, et en poursuivant ses recherches pour retrouver Stella, il était tombé amoureux d'Ariella. À tel point qu'il avait l'impression de ne plus pouvoir respirer sans elle. Leur amour n'était bâti que sur la douleur et le mensonge… des squelettes dans le placard. Ils cachaient tous deux des secrets qui pourraient les séparer. Mais le passé est étrange… on a beau le fuir, il finit toujours par nous rattraper.