REJECTED BY THE ALPHA, CHOSEN BY HIS ENEMY

the night I discovered that my e

ual Moon Ceremony. Music filled the royal courtyard, expensive dresses shimmered beneath the lante

sn't cel

terr

s my age had already discovered their wolf identities, I remai

fective. Others c

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king like someone i

blonde curls fell over her shoulders, and

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g birth to me. I had grown up in the Blackwood Kingdom under the car

other was a small silver bracelet wi

it ev

and imagined that somehow, somewhe

cement interrup

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s dark blond hair was neatly styled, and his golden eyes reflected the moonlight.

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come stronger. Please,

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at me with pity. Ot

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day, they'll regre

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face them

to face anyone

e me until my brea

lver bracelet and examined the

spered, "why di

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bracelet agai

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nt symbol

rough the bracelet, and a sharp

asp

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handed me a smal

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g roar shoo

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ful emerged bet

before them, its silver e

lowered t

and the forest seemed to

wo attackers disappea

the ground,

olf turned

light surrou

a tall man sto

is forehead. His expression was cold, but his silver

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my injured

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the Voss Kingdom, the most

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should I g

at my wris

ve been lied to your enti

began p

you know

held

ns are correct, Darius Blackwood has jus

red me

d before a

s the carriage, I look

ieving I was nothing more th

e existence was connected to a secret

saved me was the enemy

ual about Arabella. What is the secret behind her mysterious crescent mark? And why does her past see