Mated to the wrong Alpha, reborn as the strongest Luna
I blinked hard and ran my thumb along the carved wolf’s back.
“It’s beautiful,” I said, and meant it. "Truly."
Elias smiled — quick and bright, the careful hope in his face opening up into something unguarded.
Then he pointed at the folded paper.
I set the carving gently back in the box and opened the paper.
It was a drawing — done in careful, earnest lines with what looked like charcoal. A group of figures standing together in a space I recognised as the garden. Lucian. Amira. A woman and a man, standing beside a small figure that was clearly Elias and the whole pack spread out around them in a loose, joyful sprawl. And at the centre, a taller figure that was unmistakably meant to be me, su