REJECTED LUNA: FROM OUTCAST TO MOON QUEEN

lvermere Pack, casting long shadows across the ceremoni

t stone circle, acutely aware of thr

ulders; the ceremonial dress left

't why I w

my eighteen

upposed to shift f

ove I wasn't the family disappo

ia Veyt

boomed across the gath

coming of age. By the ancient laws of our kind, you will n

, stood to the right of the circle,

ce of pate

expect

I'd seen growing in hi

ian Blackmere, my betr

bly handsome in his formal bl

other to unite our familie

en years believin

ss the circle, I saw

old ass

, Aurelia," Elder

t place inside myself, the place w

ng for this momen

n, every painful training sess

ating the mantra I'd been taught since childho

thi

ling to the wolf t

ould hear the w

taking

have shifte

ss, don't

n my forehead d

nds tr

on my skin, could sense the pow

there was on

e where my wo

ure

ut through the murmu

re wa

spered, hating how s

y ha

ls digging into my palms

n helped

erately searching for any spark of the b

ged silently.

thi

thi

thi

inutes

T

open murmurs. Into bar

rmere heir

ectiv

of arrogance, she'

n Omega. She

s snapp

ing me ranged from pitying to

tood beside our mother, b

teenth birthday two years ago. A be

g I should

nou

rang out, the cr

, his boots clickin

edge of the circle,

d beside me like a s

dary, looked at me like

y voice crack

aw tig

hought I saw regret fli

rdened into someth

of the Blackmere Pack, hereby dissol

orld t

one g

upted in shoc

wasn't f

bind myself

ss the gathering, each

o cannot even claim her own beast. The Blackme

fec

my skull, drowning

ut my late development, the worried looks when I

believed i

s just a l

rcle under the mocking mo

as b

ian,

rd, he'd already

ed," he announced to the c

the Elders int

like

planning, of shaping my entire

on

father, desper

Comfort.

of the humiliati

dn't mee

," Elder Corvin declared, h

rate her wolf form. As such, she cannot b

cle suddenly f

spectacle a

Rejected