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r
d to be the happi
as finally going to stand before the entire Blackthorn Pac
about handsome warriors and powerful Alphas, I had always wanted something simple. I wa
had been askin
adjusting the back of my dress. "You look beautiful. I'
ugh the mirror and m
as the better daughter. She had a wolf, beautiful clothes, an
had never
to a sister, and I wanted to b
nk I'll find my ma
"Who knows? Maybe you'l
"Someone powerful w
y shoulder. "You never know wha
to beli
n most werewolves could shift, but my wolf had never awakened. My father had taken me to he
, he stopp
a disappointment I was. She gave Selena the best things in
never st
had been alive. She disappeared when I was a child, leaving me with not
fused to tal
ions, he told me to st
ned to ke
y was di
ht finally give me somethin
id, taking my hand.
her out o
s stood in neat rows, while the elders gathered near the stone altar. The A
stood Alpha Da
eath
nd his cold nature. Even other Alphas respected him. His black hair w
him from a dis
aught him looking in my direction. Once, when a warrior p
red that mome
I had wondered whether the
at him, my hear
he was
man like Darius would never
yes met mine, he
art s
d. Some discovered their mates and embraced them with tears in thei
ything with tr
lder calle
a Va
wd fell
er my dress. The elder placed his hand o
reveal the one whose s
nt, nothin
p pull stru
rabbed the fro
ody. It was unlike anything I had ev
te wa
s the crowd until t
staring
nected us, growing stronger
he wor
" I wh
expressio
a moment. His jaw tightened, a
step toward him, he walked o
id carefully. "The Moon Godd
kno
oked dire
breathe. I wanted him to smile. I wanted
rned to face t
announcemen
owd qu
oman I intend to
idn't understand
ed at
she were embarrassed by the attention. But when s
mach t
could
The Moon Goddess h
omfortable. "The bond has already be
ware of
voice w
take a wolfless
uck me harder
ered. Others stare
unable to accept
riu
oked
spered. "You ca
showed no
I reject you
ded throug
if something inside me had been ripped apart. Tears blurred my vi
claimed didn't exist, le
ything we
ook against the ground, and I struggled
ched witho
t come t
t even l
head. "Why are you doing this?
asked for anything, yet the Godd
of pain was
egan to mur
me, calling me unlucky, weak,
round to open
na steppe
's side and slipped
eath
gentle expression that
he said. "I never wa
hand resting o
u k
faltered f
't make thi
he was going
dn't a
was e
e break that had nothing
epsister
ged me to hope, all while knowing that the man I ha
nd, but my leg
y from me and add
er out
rds app
ne reached for my ar
k," Dariu
very breath hurt. I would not give him
me away, I looked
ready turned
resting on her waist. She leaned agains
tood somethi
ess had chosen for me
e than a mistake
f the ceremonial grounds, a stra
top
y dress, my mother's silv
the faint red light spr
as hap
ut the pendant grew hotter. A sharp pa
ent, I heard a vo
dmoon he
od ran
enger rushed into the ceremonial grounds. He dropped t
e the seal
drained fr
it?" Sele
ard the place
y, there was something oth
e
slowly. "He's demanding pa
ger lowere
moon, Alpha. If the debt remains unpaid, Blac
ed the lette
eyes retu
inking, but the look on his
me in front of
d me suffer w
at me like I was sud
his Beta and spok
g is still accepting a personal
d turne
al off
met min
new I had every re
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