The Vow that Broke the Moon
Dinahrejected by beta but mated to the lycan kingthe lycan king's auctioned materejected but claimed by her four alphasmated to the lycan king
POV: Nyx
“Smile,” Elder Maren said. “Don’t speak unless spoken to. And whatever you do—don’t let him touch your bare skin longer than necessary.”
She came down the cellar stairs slowly, the white wedding gown draped over both arms like something offered in a ceremony Nyx hadn’t agreed to. The silk caught the light from the single hanging lantern and threw white across the walls. Nyx had memorized those walls on the first night—scratches in the stone, seventeen sets of them, some shallow, some deep enough to leave dust on the floor. She’d traced them with her fingertips in the hours before sleep. She’d wondered about the people who made them, whether they’d been afraid or simply past it.