Reborn as Betrayed Luna
when those wide, terrified eyes looked up into mine.
It hadn't just stung my pride. It had broken something inside my chest. She hadn't looked at me with the shyness of a young lady meeting an Alpha. She had looked at me with a raw, shattered betrayal – as if I were the monster who had torn her life apart.
Beside me, my Beta, Torin, pulled his warhorse a half-stride closer, breaking the suffocating spiral of my thoughts with a short, amused chuckle.
“You’ve been scowling at the treeline for three miles, Asher,” Torin said, shaking his head. “I didn't think a simple diplomatic visit to a southern lord would rattle you this badly.”