The Wolf Comes Crawling After the Bond Is Broken
At the Luna Ceremony, my mate—Alpha Ares Grant—appears at the altar with his lover in his arms.
He disdainfully throws the Snow Wolf hide, which has been enshrined on the altar, onto the muddy ground.
It's something my mother left for me before she died, and it's also a sacred relic passed down through generations of the Moonriver pack.
Legend says that if one's mate personally drapes this wolf hide over their shoulders, they will live in harmony and be granted a blessed future.
For three years, this is the moment I had been waiting for.
The next moment, he turns and places the Luna's Crown on Arthene Smith's head.
"I swear on the Moon Goddess that Estella is impure, disloyal, and a fraud. I refuse to accept such a filthy she-wolf as my mate. From now on, my Luna is the pure Arthene, and nothing else," he says.
I stare at the scene before me in disbelief and sorrow. "Ares, I'm your fated mate, your one and only Luna—"
A heavy slap lands fiercely on my face.
Ares strikes me down from the altar.
The moment I tumble down the steps, I hear his cold, bone-chilling voice say, "You think a whore like you is worthy of being the Luna?"