The Luna He Rejected Is The Millennium Wolf

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bitter into the night air, tightening something in

ing she-wolves in front of me like livestock at auction. Every single

mouth circled back to the crown, no matter how quiet he kept it. The Mate Rule he'd quietly pushed through

doors open before I'd

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urned around both of us. He remained the only man left in this pack

awa

drop fast. He retreated down the corrido

ng the buttons of my ceremonial jacket closed one at a time. Stone and

gala gates held two voice

ck. That's where he

my expression. My

hrough the warmth of it all. Chandeliers threw down a yellow wash of light over the crowd, and silence dr

en us with deliberate steps. Kael had already claimed the spot at my fathe

sed her. "Power is nothing without

r voice. Every ounce of color d

sparked thin and chemical under my skin at the contact, meaning nothing no matter how it felt. I closed my hand around her wrist

soft. "You feel that, don't

ing too har

at you need,"

s watching for. My face gave the room exactly the performance it expected whil

ps like a man who already o

polished, deliberate, cutting. "Fin

l." I let the woman go and closed the space between us i

n't care about posture. They care about the line

across the whole hall. "Father! Perhaps we should stop p

ead, lifted a glass of wine that tasted of iron and black che

t landed heavier than shouting would have. "Th

weight as I dropped to one knee before her throne. Her skin had thinned to s

I touched the edge of he

fixed on something only she could see. "She's blee

me w

elder's voice cut between u

. The elder's wolf paced just beneath the surface

e sentence

His voice dropped lower sti

toward my moth

hall as he stepped forward. "You're chasin

pped onto him like an avalanche of ice, his knees striking

lit lip while I watched, unmoved. "I'm

t settled thick enough over the hall

my mother

thrown at close range, my wolf surgin

at