Getting Back My Secret Luna

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f antiseptic clinging to every breath. Beneath me, stiff hospital sheets rustled as I

ith kind eyes approached

f pain forced me back down. "What hap

llapsed in a storage room." She paused, as if choosing words that wouldn't break me. "After the exam, we confirmed you were severely maln

ords. My mind tried to translate them i

they

a

tbeat s

t stut

ng enough for the silen

he absence felt physical, like someone had scooped

ne's mournful voice resonated within

, Jas." My lips barely moved. Even s

phone on the bedside table.My Alpha mate,

. *He never has. Fenrir doesn't feel ou

umber. The screen blurred-either from tears or th

ri

ri

re

ng made my stomach clench, as if my body s

is voice was ice. "

ospital," I managed,

annoyed. Like I'd interrupted something impor

e off sharply. "Don't distur

the phone until my knuckle

urself." The

ment, I couldn't breathe. Not because of the pain-because of the humiliat

smine whimpered insi

hands. "He never wanted her either." My voice cracked on the last word,

retly adored Lucian Storm since my student days-the most popular Alpha heir in our academy

ifying hours, it was his keen werewolf hearing that had caught my muffled

ly why I said yes too fast-when Alpha Victor Storm of

the one to find him and staunch his bleeding long enough for the pack healers to arrive. His gratitude was powerful and

to take me

adn't chosen me. He resented me. Not because I'd done something wron

e actually wanted. Our marriage happened only because his powerful grandfather demanded it as

ejected-for his wolf to ever truly feel mine. He saw me not as a partner, but as an inc

ing to cleanse the ache gnawing inside me. It sat behind my ribs

nger. The walls of the hospital room seemed to be c

I stayed still, I was af

edge, grimacing at the pain that radiated through my abdomen. It wasn't sharp an

hroom," I told her when she

itting her brows. "Luna

d convincing even to me. My hands slid along th

t my room was close to the nurses' station. The hallwa

ee. A soft squeak followed every step of my socks against the

I was almost there when familiar voices dri

We can get a second opinion if you're n

the wall near the corner. Lucia

lse l

dered a weakness in the pack hierarchy-no one

t, it became my g

peered aroun

ms. Lucian's arm was wrapped protectively around He

cern, with gentle care that

the sight tha

him-reserved, apparentl

ke she was made to be comforted. "Thank you for coming with

roat tightened until swallowing felt impossib

didn't I?" Lucian's voice lowered

dn't even listen to me for five seconds when I called to tell him abo

lamped over my mouth to stifl

ingers curling into Lucian's shirt, possessive and

an-Lucia

as I wiped at my cheeks, but the tears kept coming. The dull ache in my abdomen flared with e

*We are not lesser wolves. We deserve a

light blur into a watery halo. Somewhere between o

ered, voice low and let

aped my

left

pa

led around my spine

y belly-no longer gentle

he two words felt like a

till. *And if

steadied. One

m not the Luna he can abandon. I'm t