Get Back The Abandoned Luna

lett

her before I sa

scent, the one that used to mak

like a brand of ownership, thick enou

childhood

d walked away to chase her dreams in the city, who'd ab

dn't even know wh

for my approval-p

already standing in my place, baski

room glittered

inking in toasts to our rise-from tenth p

ad bled for.

lebrating it with his

over. My fingers crushed the fabric of the garment bag I carried-the whit

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ld me the banqu

ed them li

fitting, I would've stayed in the dark. Excluded from my

shocked voice cut throu

he ballroom swi

s started i

ha say Luna

? You still beli

so both of th

a needle pie

fool wasn't

as the biggest

, snarled dee

eir thr

sed to be the bravest fe

couldn't move.

nd slid lower down Faye's back-

ng directly at m

often when they found mine across a ro

ene. You know w

st

hen Faye

rical surprise, her red lips form

esture of intimacy that made bile rise in my throat-and

ed at me agai

t. Victor

tc

possibly t

t ballroom floor felt li

tracked my

rsations cut off mid-sentence. Even the servers

ear spreading through

y should

d chosen Alexander as my mate when he was n

rial ceremony, had convinced my people to accept him

ft between him and my people, had even p

who had

liate me like this? What was his purpose in doing this? He wa

oss

would never to

nst marble-each step

cept me, stepping in fro

w, but I could see her peering around hi

tings-authoritative, dismissive, as if I were a subordinate i

ping in his jaw. Close enough to smell Faye's jasmine perfume

lroom. I looked past him to Faye, who had the audacity to meet my gaze with feigned inn

pte

lett

forward, "S

ble. "Or have you forgotten pack law so quickly? Any

draining so fast I could tra

her throat to clutch

wolf flashed

t, that'

rgotten that the authority he now pr

ed at me like I was a piece of

d, forcing th

ack members actually took a step

rojecting to every c

r this. Let them