Chapter 1
When Alpha Raymond’s precious fated mate, Charlotte, lost their pup, he didn’t grieve.
He stormed into my room with a poisoned silver dagger and sliced open my belly–eight months pregnant–just to rip my pup from
- me.
All because I carry White Wolf blood.
Raymond believed the Moon Goddess would save me with a miracle if I were pushed to the brink of death.
My baby, my little boy, came into this world limp and purple. He let out a single, broken cry before falling silent forever in my arms.
I lay in a pool of my own blood, my life
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draining fast.
Raymond, meanwhile, stood there smiling like he’d won a damn prize, clutching a glowing Moonflower petal, barking at the pack doctor to keep me alive.
“Charlotte isn’t like you, my sweet Luna,” he crooned in that nauseatingly soft tone of his. “She’s just a regular wolf. She couldn’t handle the pain of losing a child.”
I brushed the doctor’s hands away, my voice unnervingly calm despite the fire in my gut. “The dagger’s silver. The poison’s in my blood. Three hours at best, and I’m gone.”
For a split second, Raymond’s handsome face went pale… then he erupted.
He pointed at my torn, oozing wound that refused to heal, a cruel smirk twisting his
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lips. “Just a useless little pup,” he spat, voice cold as winter ice. “You’d spin such a ridiculous lie for that? Grace, you’ve got White Wolf blood! Even if I killed you, you’d crawl right back to life!”
Then he threw me to the floor like garbage, banned the doctor from touching me, and let the warriors outside start taking bets-
Would their Luna die tonight?
Or would I heal and crawl back to Alpha Raymond like the obedient bitch he thought I was?
But what Raymond didn’t know…
If I truly wished to die, not even the Moon Goddess herself could save me.
And when my death finally came, Raymond
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and his cursed Shadowmoon Pack would burn beneath Her wrath.
When Elder Javier burst into the room, I was drenched in blood, cradling my lifeless pup and softly singing a lullaby.
I kissed his tiny, cold hands… his stiff little feet… trying to memorize every inch of him before the Moon Goddess took him away.
Javier froze at the sight. The color drained from his weathered face, and his legs
buckled beneath him. With a guttural cry, he dropped to his knees, slamming his forehead against the wooden floor over and over, until blood slicked his brow.
“My Luna… for the love of the Moon Goddess… please… give Alpha another
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chance!”
It wasn’t until his skin split open and bone nearly cracked that I finally whispered, my voice tired and hollow,
“I’ve already given him enough chances.”
Too many chances. So many that even I’d lost count.
When he brought Charlotte into our pack and made me, his Luna, serve her like a worthless Omega.
When he swore he’d never let Charlotte bear his child… yet she and I both ended up pregnant at the same time.
Moon above knows how much pain I swallowed, how many lies I forgave, believing every damn promise Alpha
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Raymond made… only for him to slice me open with his poisoned silver blade and steal the life growing inside me.
Still, Javier wouldn’t give up. Trembling, he choked out, “Alpha Raymond betrayed you. I’ll rally the Council, strip him of his title! Just… please, my Luna, don’t damn the entire Shadowmoon Pack for his sins!”
I lowered my gaze to my pup. His tiny eyelids stayed closed, his body already turning rigid in my arms.
1 shook my head.
“It’s too late. The Moon Goddess poured every blessing, every strand of our pack’s future, into this child. And Alpha Raymond… he’s the one who killed it with his own
hands.”
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The words broke something in Javier. He collapsed to the floor, muttering in despair, “Is this truly fate? Is Shadowmoon Pack doomed to fall?”
Yes.
Alpha Raymond was supposed to be exiled as a rogue, banished to rot in the wilderness.
But I loved him. I saved him. I saved this crumbling pack again and again because I couldn’t watch him be destroyed.
If my pup had lived… Shadowmoon Pack would’ve thrived for three more centuries.
But my child is gone. And I… I have nothing left to hold me here.
When this body finally gives out, my wolf spirit will return to the Moon Goddess.
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Javier had to be carried away, his face pale and defeated.
I pressed my cheek to my pup’s frozen skin and finally let darkness take me.
I don’t know how long I was unconscious.
But when I woke again, it was to the sound of a door crashing open–loud, violent, and full of rage.
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