The Rejected Luna's Second Chance

of my life sta

ispered as she braided my hair. "The moon godd

believe her.

ll for my eighteenth birthday cerem

t lookin

looking

er hand resting on his arm like she already

es watched me. My parents. My friends. The pack I had kno

I had loved since I was twelve years old. The boy who used to sneak m

," he

art s

reject you as my

dn't think. Couldn't move. I just stood there waiting for him to laugh. Waiting f

dn't

lf. The pain was so sharp I couldn't even scream. I just fell. My knees

ut broken. Desperate. "

me. And I saw nothing. No love. No gu

ever enough

sed herself against him and smiled down

sister," she said. "I

too. The pack that had raised me. The people who had eate

for my

other was crying, but she didn't mo

s al

remember slamming my bedroom door or falling onto my bed. I just remember the pain. It was e

e sh

ration continued without me. I could hear music. Laughter. Cheers

finally went qu

ing. But my mind was clear for the first

ney I had saved from working at the pack store. A knife my grandfathe

er and left it

e. I'm not your d

ht air was cold against my fur. The forest was dark and quiet. I d

couldn't feel the bond anymore. I ran unti

I kept

year

ike fog. I wiped down the counter with a rag and igno

slurred. "You look fa

t look

you somewhere. Yo

k he didn't ask for and pushed it towa

else, but his friend grabbed his ar

e brown eyes. But everything else was different. I was leaner now. Stronger.

walls so high nobody could climb them. I had a new name. A new life. A new

w I was a

hey wore the colors of the Blood Moon pack, one of the largest an

across his face. He scanned th

pointing. "You'r

ss I was holding.

, but it wasn't friendly. "The white wolf. The one

t. Everyone was s

reached under

move,"

embedded itself in the wall inches from

ut from behind the bar, "that if he w

orm. My white fur gleamed in the moonlight. My wolf w

edge of the trees and looked back at the bar. The Blood Mo

e years. I had been carefu

old me my hidin

wind. Something was com

ind me, I heard the howl of a wolf. It was dist

w tha

ree years tryi

ad fou

e, I wasn't

g to make