Rejected by my Mate, Chosen by his Enemy
"You are the most valuable thing inside three hundred miles. We do not kill the well because we are thirsty. We dig it deeper."
Cold moved through me, slow.
"Your blood, Miss Moongale." He folded his hands on the table. "Do you truly not know what you are? What runs in you?"
He told me. In the flat voice a man might use to read a shipping manifest, he told me what eighteen years of not-knowing had cost me. Moonborn blood, he said, was the rarest thing in the old magic. With enough of it, in the right hands, you could forge a mate bond where fate had granted none. You could grow an heir in a womb that had never quickened. You could take an Alpha, the proudest wolf in any pack, and thread a le