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The Unwanted Luna's Defiant Second Chance

Chapter 7

Word Count: 1056 | Released on: Today at 16:06

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ents of the evening churning in my mind. My head of household,

s head. "A delivery arrived

rapped boxes sat. Both bore the Kensington seal. O

ur "heroics" at the lake. A standa

ets his," I ordere

inspect the contents before dispatching it-a standard security procedure. Inside w

I tore the paper off with more force

n a bed of dark v

pine. The title was stamped in faded gold leaf: Arthur

caught in

military historians, a revolutionary text from a forgotten war, long out of print.

perhaps three ot

d with the force of a physical b

orn leather. The book was in remarkable condition, clearl

o a random pa

were fille

ine. Alys's. I recognized it from the few formal lett

st a gift. It

rhythm. I sank into the large leather armch

ere sharp, insightful, and at times, brutal

. In modern pack conflicts with rogue splinter cells, the 'front' is fluid. This maneuver risks over

nce with a floating reserve unit-that was so audaciou

new doctrine I had been developing in

ot a coincidence. This was not a lucky guess. This was a meeting of minds so profound

his premises, she praised his genius, all with a clarity and depth that I had never

allow, timid, an unremarkable noble da

f these brilliant, ruthless word

as an Alpha, not as a Duke, but as a mind. The feeling

s P

ngton training grounds. The yew bow felt like an extension of

ce. "You've been at this for hours. The doc

g my eyes off the distant

d to shatter Darius's perception of me, to plant a seed of doubt

a lesson my first life had taught me in the cruelest wa

n. That would be my first foundati

o the tiny red circle in the center

a sharp thwip, a whi

perfect bullseye, its shaft quivering just

heaving slightly. My muscles

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ting on the cover. The feel of the wor

Kensi

r my fiancée. It was a puzzle. A challenge. A

astonishment, that I

her family's estate. The cool, rational part of my brain, the part that governed

thing that was just me, didn't care. It

iant, dangerous version of Alys and look her in the

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Little Red Riding Hood Werewolf

“I was the fiancée of the powerful Alpha Darius, but to him, I was nothing more than a decorative statue. He publicly humiliated me, saving all his warmth for another woman. But my nightmare truly began at a family garden party. My own cousin Brandi shoved me over a stone balcony into the freezing lake. In my past life, I was pulled from the water sick and weak, but no one believed it was attempted murder. Darius visited me only once, his eyes filled with cold annoyance at the scandalous trouble I had caused. He exiled me to the remote Rosewood Cottage, a gilded cage where I wasted away from illness and died completely alone at twenty-four. Until my last breath, I couldn't understand why my lifelong devotion was met with such absolute cruelty. I didn't understand why my cousin wanted me dead, just because I had accidentally discovered her dirty affair with a stable hand. Opening my eyes again, the freezing water was filling my lungs. I was back at the exact moment I was drowning. Coughing up lake water on the grass, I looked at my cousin's fake tears and my family's panic, and pointed a trembling finger directly at her. "It was her. She pushed me." This time, I would send my murderer to the cells, and I would make the Alpha who discarded me regret it for the rest of his life.”