The Warden Wore No Mark

Wealth Pjb Paranormal

For five years, Selene Marsh did everything Luna was supposed to do. She ran Ashwood Pack's affairs while her husband hunted, she nursed the pack's sick through two winters, she smiled through every "any news yet?" whispered behind pack-house doors. What she couldn't do was give Alpha Kane Ashwood an heir. So on the eve of the pack's Founding Moon, in front of the same elders who'd once blessed their mating, Kane rejected her, citing "pack necessity," and took the hand of Priya, a visiting Alpha's daughter already three months pregnant with what he called "proof the bond still works for me just not with you." Selene didn't scream. She'd learned, over five humiliating years, that pain performed loudly gets you pity and pain carried quietly gets you out the door before anyone notices you're leaving. She signed the divorce rites herself. What Kane doesn't know, what nobody knows, because Selene found out four days after he rejected her is that the reason she never carried a pup wasn't biology. It was a suppression curse laid on her by his own mother, to keep the "unsuitable outsider bride" from ever securing her place. Two years later, Selene returns to pack territory as the newly appointed Regional Warden, a rank that outranks Alpha in matters of pack law, pregnant, mated to no one, and carrying a secret that will unmake everything Kane thinks he knows about the wife he threw away.

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