CLAIMED BY THE RIVAL ALPHA
READING AGE 18+
When Alpha Ryder, my mate moved his dead brother’s widow into our home, I told myself it was temporary. A duty. A kindness for the grieving woman and her pup.
Then I watched him hold the child as if he belonged to him.
I watched him smile at her in ways he no longer smiled at me.
And slowly, painfully, I realized I had become a ghost in my own mating bond.
Humiliated. Ignored. Forgotten.
Until the night the Lycan King cornered me against a wall at a gathering meant for Alphas only, his dark eyes roaming over me with a hunger that made my pulse tremble.
“You smell abandoned, little Luna,” he growled against my throat. “That makes dangerous men like me impatient.”
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SELENE'S POV
5 years later...
Death had a way of changing the sound of a place long before it changed the people living inside it. I noticed it the moment I opened my eyes that morning, before I had even fully shaken the remnants of sleep from my mind, before I had remembered what day it was or why the ……
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