Unwanted By The Alpha, Chosen By Fate

he Alpha of the Silver Moon Pack. I t

ia, plunged into a frozen lake and near

to play house with my sister'

s, Aria lay d

nd, it erased every conscious memory of her father-but her wolf reme

, she shrank away from t

cold ashes in a wet he

scent. Her mind could not name him, but her body still r

and the winter pelt he promised our

pleas, telling everyone I was just fa

k to the Pack hierarchy, enduring my fami

the heavy chain around my heart sim

I didn't beg for

the Luna Queen for a Royal Decree of Rejection, and

pte

ra

s, found its way through every fissure in

ad weathered in a century, burying the pa

e oak bed, my gaze fixed upon

chalky pallor as the snow dri

from which none could rouse her, ever since

I wiped a cold swea

father, Alpha Caleb,

alm a young wolf's restless spirit. I had allowed myself a flicker of hope that one might be for Aria. Instea

had waited up half the night, her eyes shining with a desperate hope that her father had finally remembe

shed so suddenly it felt as if a nerve h

ard, lost her footing, and

s twitched against

ispered, lea

ttered open, revealin

oaked, her voi

girl," I sobbed, ki

oking around the

e whimpered, wrinkling her nose and

fr

smelled

g mix of rain and pine, linger

Aria rasped, a cough rattling in her small chest.

unded again

of rebellion of the blood. Her mind could not name him-but her wo

urse, Martha, gaspe

over. "You must not speak of the Alpha that

ed out, pushing herself up w

d pale, her

ed, tears spilling down her cheeks. "I slept

ory from the day of the ac

e Aria into the forest fo

he carriage in the

castle, ordering the driver to

and her youngest twi

!" Aria had begged,

his eyes flashing with th

a power so profound it could freeze th

ad thundered, and the sheer weight of the comma

shivering and crying, whil

r, but she slipped away

d reached out to Caleb

al channel that connecte

wning! Return to us! I had shrieked int

s from Serena's maid, who ha

tention, Omega, the maid had snee

ained face, a stillness settled in my

ging to my dress. "Take me away f

feeling the fragil

. But gazing now upon my fractured child, I knew I would see this cas

Aria," I promised

in, the metal clattering lou

, her eyes wide with terror. "Where

the worn leather dowry box that held my entire past. I was not merely packing my meag

st ember, plunging the stone walls into a darkness as absol