The Wrong Mate: His Loyalty Was Not to Me
The night before the marking ceremony, Joanna Grant kills my father by running him down with her car.
At the same time, my fiance, Samuel West, breaks the pack's betrothal agreement and asks to end our engagement.
The next day, Samuel and Joanna show up at the marking ceremony that was meant for me.
With the entire pack as their witnesses, they pray to the Moon Goddess for her blessing.
Just then, I arrive at the ceremony with the surveillance footage from the crash, demanding that Joanna pay with her life for what she's done to my father.
Joanna is arrested by the Alliance guards, yet I am exiled from the pack and cast out as a Rogue.
Out on my own, hunted and mauled by wild beasts, I am rescued by the Alpha of the Redmoon pack, Alexander Rowe.
He saves me when I'm on the brink of death and then proposes to me, pulling me out of hell itself.
But after two years of marriage, I overhear a conversation between Alexander and his Beta, Marcus Hale.
"Alpha, you forgave Joanna in the Luna's family's name and helped secure her release. If this ever comes to light, the Alliance will arrest you, too."
"She'll never know," Alexander says. "Joanna has served a year in prison. That's enough. She deserves the chance to move on and find happiness."
So, the marriage I think saves me turns out to be Alexander's carefully planned trap all along.
I decide it's time for them to pay the price.