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heart hammered a frantic rhythm. After all the whispered doubts, the pitying glances, the years of waiting f
hamber. It was our sanctuary for the next three days, a place to complete the s
me didn't shatter my
ngled in the silken sheets of the ceremonial bed. And beneath him, her bl
air seeped into my bones. I couldn't move, coul
er lips. It was a look of pure, venomous triumph. Kaelen followed her
cherished for the past year. He didn't even have the d
was a broken whis
like a satisfied cat, "is what happens when a
ou said you loved me and would wa
h. The Moon Goddess doesn't make mistakes, they say but looking at you at a wolf who can't even summon her other half after three years..." He shrugged, a careless, brutal motion. "Perha
t, the words tasting lik
r perfect, curvy body. The body that had already shifted. The body that was worthy. "The Alpha's first daughter unable to fu
my sides, my nails digging int
we looked alike but where I was the quiet, diligent shadow, she was the radiant, demanding sun. Now, I saw the rot beneath the radiance. "He was weaken
iber of my being. The man I had dreamed of building a
mate." He recited the words as if reading from a grocery list. "I don't love you. I never did
that had been a source of hope, a golden thread connecting my heart to his, snapped. I stumbl
st time I had truly felt her, it was i
ughter, who was supposed to be strong but in tha
ntered over her bare feet silent on the stone floor. She leaned in, her
would know the difference." Her smile widened, a predator's grin. "Since your mateship is over before it began and mine has just begun... why don't we switch back places? You can go to the
xplain to Father and the entire pack why the future Alpha chose me over his defective, unshifted, worthless firstborn? Thin
ung in the air
e in my own erasure. I stared at her, at her triumphant face, at Kaelen's impas
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