FATED TO THE ALPHA I HATE

el

came through the pack

the territory. Female. Injur

did not just collapse on Shadowfang land by accident. This was eithe

ven reached the clearing. Fresh blood and a lot of it mixed with something else that made my w

ugh the trees

her clothes and pooled beneath her leg. She was small and pale and her silv

e ever crossed into our territory-not alone, and certainly not wounded. The cold night wind stirred her pale hair acro

her, the moonlight fell across her features, revealing a face far younger than I expected. Something about

actly who

oonshadow," Aria

ow,"

ard with sudden intensity. I shoved it back because this woman was the daughte

respassing

d ever seen. Violet like amethyst and they looked right t

said. "I did not

he did not beg or cry even though s

injured

ked me," she said. "

pain and something else I could not name. This was not a trap and she

t properly and everyth

ryone said was an embarrassment to her bloodline and who wa

had traveled through every pack for years-whispers of the girl born to a legendary bloodline who never shifted, the one the elders spoke of with

he moon. If the rumors were true, she was meant to become the future Luna of the powerful Si

ding was suppo

Moonshado

lashed in her eyes but

" she

onshadow,

rip her throat out right here. It would be justice in a way becau

wrong about this

elf to one of the strongest packs in the region. Instead, she was half dead on my terr

and looke

k house," I said. "P

and her tone held warni

dying on my territory which makes her my

final. She knelt beside Elara and scooped her up carefully and the woman d

s. "Tell them we have a guest

u planning?"

know yet

of my enemy and her presence here was either a gift from the moon or a curse waiting to happe

head to prepare a secure room. The healer met us at th

," the healer said. "I will

. "But she does not leave this p

Alpha," the

ying to figure out what game Darius was playing. Sending his wolfless daughter into m

he made was calculated, every decision serving a purpose that only revealed itself later. A man like that would

as a desperate attempt to discard a weakness from his bloodline, or there was something far more dan

ct Moonshadow P

found his daughter trespassing and

dded and left to make the call. I walked to my office and poured a

dow was not w

he golden child with a strong wolf and perfect control and she was everything a Moon Chosen heir should be. Ela

aw tonight did no

d like a

g for mercy and when she looked at me with those violet eyes I

atever this feeling was it did not matter because Elara Moonsha

and her face told me every

Darius say

er wedding after Adrian Silverclaw rejected her and claimed Celestia instead. He sai

because that made

oned her?

id. "He did not even

rius was ruthless but this was different. This was

that made him throw

is talking about how she attacked Celestia in a j

lieve that

r a moment and th

tonight was running for her life,

t I kept th

e talks to her without my permission.

planning, Kael

and oldest friend an

roof and no leverage," I said. "Now his daughter is in my territory and he does no

sion went car

is innocent?

Moonshadow," I said.

. I walked to the window and looked out at the forest and thought about viole

ther be my greatest