After suffering betrayal from the mate she trusted most, the True Luna is cast aside and left heartbroken. Once devoted to her Alpha and pack, she must now rebuild herself from the pain of rejection and discover the strength hidden deep within her wolf spirit.
As enemies rise, secrets unravel, and powerful Alphas fight for control, she unexpectedly receives a second chance at love, destiny, and revenge. But choosing between forgiveness and power won’t be easy when the man who shattered her heart suddenly wants her back.
True Luna's Second Chance is an emotional werewolf romance packed with rejected mate drama, Alpha obsession, revenge, pack politics, betrayal, destiny bonds, and fierce female empowerment. Perfect for fans of supernatural romance, wolf shifter dramas, and addictive emotional love stories.
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As enemies rise, secrets unravel, and powerful Alphas fight for control, she unexpectedly receives a second chance at love, destiny, and revenge. But choosing between forgiveness and power won’t be easy when the man who shattered her heart suddenly wants her back.
True Luna's Second Chance is an emotional werewolf romance packed with rejected mate drama, Alpha obsession, revenge, pack politics, betrayal, destiny bonds, and fierce female empowerment. Perfect for fans of supernatural romance, wolf shifter dramas, and addictive emotional love stories.
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00:00I was born with a scent that drove Alpha's feral, true Luna bloodline, rarest in three centuries.
00:07At my naming ceremony, I crawled past sacred objects and grabbed the crown prince between his legs.
00:14The Alpha King howled with laughter.
00:16She'll be a clingy little mate someday.
00:18They were wrong.
00:19Caleb and I became sworn enemies.
00:22For 17 moons, I watched his golden eye learn to flinch from my scent.
00:27On my 18th moon, the king summoned me.
00:30Tell me who you want, little wolf.
00:32Any Alpha in this kingdom, I will grant it.
00:35Before I could speak, Caleb's voice cracked like a whip.
00:39I'd rather be torn apart by rogues than take her as my Luna.
00:42Something in me snapped.
00:44Fine, I'd mate him out of spite.
00:46Then I choose him.
00:47Then go die a lot.
00:49I thought he was joking.
00:50The mating ceremony was beautiful, but Caleb didn't look at me once.
00:55That night...
00:56Sleep on the floor.
00:58Your scent makes me want to vomit.
01:00Moons passed.
01:01My womb stayed empty.
01:03The pack stopped bowing.
01:05She-wolf spit in my food.
01:07Tore my dresses.
01:08Whispered barren.
01:10Caleb watched and smiled.
01:12Then I overheard him.
01:14She forced this bond.
01:16She deserves everything she gets.
01:18You feel nothing?
01:22A moon later, Caleb threw me to the rogues.
01:26A harlot belongs in the pleasure dems.
01:28I died there.
01:30Beaten.
01:31Discarded like meat.
01:32My last thought was his face.
01:34Never looking back.
01:36Then, light.
01:37I gasped awake on cold marble.
01:40Tell me who you want, little wolf.
01:42I will grant it.
01:43The throne room.
01:44The gala.
01:45The scent of moon blossoms.
01:48I was 17 again.
01:49I would not waste it on Caleb Ironforge.
01:52Everyone knows Alara is obsessed with Prince Calum.
01:56She's practically in heat for him.
01:58Every eye pinned me.
02:00I inhaled.
02:01Your Majesty.
02:03The crown prince and I grew up together.
02:05I respect him only as a brother.
02:07I've never desired him.
02:09Caleb's head snapped toward me.
02:11His scent roared.
02:14My heart has always belonged to Alpha Silas.
02:17If I may mate with the Blood Moon Alpha, I will die content.
02:22The throne room exploded.
02:23I chose the king's own brother.
02:26The legendary Blood Moon Alpha.
02:28The wolf who had crushed the rogue uprising and put his brother on the throne.
02:34Alpha Silas was struck down one year ago on the northern front by an unseen blade.
02:40Comatose ever since.
02:42The healers said he'd never wake.
02:44But I knew better.
02:45Last life, Silas woke in my third year of misery.
02:48When the Ironforge She-Wolves cornered me in the kitchens,
02:52a broken, half-crippled Alpha dragged himself out of his wheeled chair to stand between us.
02:57Little one, this would waste you.
03:00Let me choose another Alpha.
03:03One who can stand beside you.
03:05Speak back to you.
03:06I didn't lift my head from the stone.
03:08Your Majesty, I swore before the Moon Goddess herself.
03:13It is Alpha Silas, or no one.
03:15I slammed my forehead into the marble.
03:17A wet crack of bone on stone.
03:20If the Ashfield girl is truly set on our brother-in-law, let her have him.
03:25The Moon Goddess guides us in strange ways.
03:27The king looked at his mate, looked at me.
03:30So be it.
03:31Your house is gone.
03:34Silas cannot speak for himself.
03:36The mating will be arranged by the Queen herself.
03:39I pressed my forehead to the stone a third time.
03:42I am grateful beyond words.
03:44I rose on shaking legs.
03:46I did not look at Caleb.
03:48I could feel him, though.
03:50Sent violent.
03:51Let him burn.
03:52I would not mate Caleb again.
03:54I would not die in the rogue territories again.
03:57Silas was my answer.
03:59Last life, he spent his days in a wheeled chair.
04:03And still he gave me kindness.
04:05This life, we would walk out of hell together.
04:09I slept for three days after the gala.
04:12Deep.
04:13Dreamless.
04:14The sleep of the freed.
04:16Then came the knock at the Ashford gates.
04:19The Queen requests your presence at the Royal Den.
04:23Tonight.
04:24I went cold.
04:25Madam Voss led me through the Royal Halls at dusk.
04:28Moon blossoms perfumed the stone corridors.
04:30My heart beat slow and careful.
04:33Then Madam Voss froze and bowed.
04:35Your Highness, the Crown Prince.
04:37I lifted my head on the camera.
04:40His face dropped into my vision like a blade.
04:43Sharp.
04:44Cold.
04:45Beautiful in that cool Ironforge way.
04:48His scent hit me before his eyes did.
04:51Iron and jealousy spiking hot.
04:53He stared.
04:54Golden eyes raking me from crown to feet.
04:58Crown Prince.
04:59May the moon favor you.
05:01He knew my old pattern.
05:03Last life, I tracked his schedule.
05:05Baked him honey cakes.
05:07Engineered accidental meetings just to press them into his hands.
05:11He used to throw them to the hounds.
05:13Alara, stop this pathetic chase.
05:17You're mating my uncle.
05:18Have some dignity.
05:20You make me sick.
05:22Your Highness, I'm not chasing anything.
05:24At the gala, I told your father the truth.
05:27I have no feelings for you.
05:29Then you wandered into the Royal Wing by coincidence?
05:33The Queen summoned me.
05:35Ask Madam Vos.
05:38It's true, Your Highness.
05:40Caleb's scent turned volcanic.
05:43So she really wasn't here for him?
05:45My uncle is a corpse that breathes, Alara.
05:48You'll be a widow before the moon sets on your bonding night.
05:51Then I'll be the happiest widow in the kingdom.
05:53His pupils blew black.
05:55I've loved Alpha Silas for years.
05:57Awake or sleeping.
05:58I want only to be at his side.
06:00Caleb's face went black.
06:02The Queen is waiting.
06:03I walked away and felt his stare burning into my back.
06:06The Queen greeted me in her chamber with a smile that never reached her eyes.
06:11Alara, darling.
06:12Come sit.
06:13Your Grace.
06:14May the moon bless you eternally.
06:17So formal.
06:19And you came alone?
06:21Your Grace.
06:23There's no one left in the Ashford Den to walk me anywhere.
06:26Good.
06:27Two dates were inked on silk before her.
06:30The third of the sixth moon.
06:31The nineteenth of the tenth moon.
06:33My blood iced.
06:35The nineteenth of the tenth moon was my mating date with Caleb.
06:39Last life.
06:40Auspicious, the packs had called it, until the sky split open and drowned the ceremony in rain.
06:46The bonding procession arrived, soaked to the bone.
06:49The pack whispered for years, cursed, ill-omened.
06:53A wolf who would bring ruin to the royal line.
06:56I think the nineteenth is perfect, the Queen said gently.
07:00It's very kind, Your Grace.
07:02But I prefer the third of the sixth moon.
07:05That's only two months away.
07:07Too rushed, surely.
07:08I can't wait to be at Alphacelus's side.
07:11Behind me, the chamber door opened.
07:13Caleb had followed.
07:14He heard every word.
07:17His teeth ground loud enough that I caught the sound.
07:20Caleb, come help me reason on her.
07:22The Queen trilled.
07:24Caleb's eyes raked me, cold as the northern wastes.
07:28If she's so desperate to mate my uncle, why stop her?
07:31Drug it to autumn and she'll have the whole court howling rumors.
07:35The crown prince speaks wisdom.
07:37The third of the sixth moon, then.
07:39You must attend the ceremony, Your Highness.
07:43I have matters to attend.
07:45Excuse me.
07:50Oh, Ilarra.
07:52Silas can't perform the escort himself.
07:54Tradition requires an unbonded royal alpha to fetch the bride from her den.
07:57I thought Caleb would be perfect.
07:58The crown prince is far too important.
08:00Lord Torrin, the Riverstone heir, is unbonded.
08:02Nineteen.
08:02Perfectly suited.
08:04As you wish.
08:05The trap was so obvious, I almost admired it.
08:09If Caleb escorted me, he'd have every excuse in the kingdom to humiliate me on my mating day.
08:15Spill the sacred bonding wine.
08:18Arrive late.
08:19Dress in mourning colors.
08:21Last life, I'd have walked into it eyes shining.
08:25This life?
08:26Never.
08:27The carriage rattled home through twilight streets.
08:31Old memories surfaced like bodies in a river.
08:34My grandfather had been the royal claw, Caleb's mentor.
08:38He'd dragged me into the royal den from the time I could walk.
08:42Caleb and I had been inseparable once.
08:45Sneaking past guards.
08:47Running wild through the human city below the mountain.
08:50One day, a runaway cart came thundering down the cobblestones.
08:55I shoved Caleb out of its path.
08:58The wheel caught my left hand.
09:00Bone met stone with a sound I still hear in nightmares.
09:05Caleb's face was wet with tears and sweat.
09:08He gripped my hand so hard my fingers went numb.
09:12I'll take care of you forever, Alara.
09:14I swear it on the moon.
09:16When had that boy died?
09:18I didn't know the answer.
09:19I'd never find out, either.
09:21And this life?
09:22I'd stopped caring.
09:24The moons flew.
09:25The royal den, Blood Moon Manor, and the Ashford estate prepared feverishly.
09:30Crimson banners, silver lanterns, moonblossom petals raining from every beam.
09:36Caleb sat in his chambers, surrounded by his uncle's bonding colors.
09:40His cousin Torrin arrived with news.
09:42The queen had chosen him, not Caleb, to escort me from the Ashford gates.
09:47Once she had refused him.
09:50Maybe she thinks you're overworked.
09:52I've got nothing to do.
09:54Easier for me.
09:55About what happened back then, Alara was innocent.
09:58You know it was never her fault.
10:00Hating her for that was never fair.
10:01Torrin, didn't you have somewhere to be?
10:03Torrin fled.
10:05Caleb burned.
10:06That night, Caleb fell ill.
10:09He dreamed he was the groom.
10:11He dreamed rain lashed his procession, that his cloak and boots were drenched through.
10:16He dreamed of walking into the bonding chamber and finding me sitting on the bed.
10:21Dark hair coiled high.
10:23Silver coronet woven with moonblossoms.
10:27Crimson mating gowns stitched with silver phoenixes.
10:30Dream me smiled at him.
10:32Caleb couldn't look away.
10:33Only the hammer of his own heart.
10:35He woke.
10:36Drenched in sweat.
10:37Fever raging.
10:39What day is it?
10:39The third of the sixth moon, my prince.
10:42Alpha Silas mates the Asheville girl tonight.
10:44Something carved a hole in his chest.
10:46The queen swept into Caleb's sick room.
10:49She sat beside his bed, a cool hand on his forehead.
10:53Thank the moon that messes off my hands.
10:56Now we can focus on your mate choosing, my darling.
10:59That Asheville pup was trouble from the day she was born.
11:03Always dragging you into danger.
11:05I never liked her.
11:07After her house fell, she clung to you like a leech.
11:10If the Asheville name hadn't still held weight, I'd have driven her out years ago.
11:14Now her whole pack is dead.
11:16She's nothing.
11:17Mating Silas was her smartest move.
11:18Blood Moon Manor is a nest of vipers.
11:21Silas' cousins circle his Komoko's body like carrion.
11:24Without me smoothing this mating through, she'd never have survived the approval.
11:27She'll suffer enough there.
11:28Trust me.
11:29Rest, my love.
11:31I'll choose properly this time.
11:33With me as Luna Queen, no one takes your crown.
11:36She swept out.
11:39Caleb stared at the ceiling.
11:41Somewhere across the capital, at that exact moment, I was being carried out of the Ashford gates on Torrin's back.
11:49Drums.
11:51Drums.
11:52Silver horns.
11:53Silver horns.
11:53A procession vast enough to make the Crown Prince's own mating last life look like a funeral.
11:58As if Blood Moon Manor had waited years for this day.
12:02Luna, Alara.
12:05Kalia was sick.
12:06We're hiding it from the Pax.
12:08He's been fevered for a week straight.
12:11Torrin.
12:12I don't care about the Crown Prince anymore.
12:15The past is past.
12:17I'm looking forward now.
12:19And next time, call me Aunt Alara.
12:24Inside Blood Moon Manor.
12:27Luna, I am Commander Zane, Silas's second.
12:30The Alpha has slept eight moons.
12:33He's thinner, but otherwise whole.
12:36A separate chamber is prepared for you across the hall.
12:40No.
12:41He is my mate.
12:42Where would our bond rest?
12:44Sleeping in separate rooms?
12:47Starting tonight, I share his bed.
12:50Across the manor, on the mating bed, Silas's fingers twitched.
12:55Neither of us saw.
13:00I walked into the bonding chamber, where the candles burned low and gold.
13:04He lay where they had placed him.
13:06Sharp-boned.
13:08Fierce, even in sleep.
13:09A sheathed blade of a man.
13:12Too pale.
13:13Too thin.
13:14His scent filled my lungs.
13:17Cedar, blade oil.
13:18A storm over the mountains.
13:20A warrior's scent.
13:22Hot-blooded.
13:23His pulse running high, the way my fathers and brothers always had.
13:28I'm sorry I mated you while you slept.
13:30But I swear on the moon goddess.
13:33I'll take care of you.
13:34I'll be a Luna worth waking up to.
13:38And across the kingdom, Caleb dreamed of me again.
13:42Caleb, go on.
13:43Climb higher.
13:46Not in the mating chamber this time.
13:48But in a garden.
13:50Laughing, he woke sobbing.
13:52And didn't know why.
13:55Luna, you didn't sleep?
14:00I'm not used to the bed.
14:03And there's a very large alpha next to me.
14:06Luna, Madam Thorne sends for you.
14:09New Luna tradition.
14:11Present yourself to the alpha's aunt on your first morning.
14:14I went still.
14:16Blood Moon Manor was a nest of vipers.
14:19And I had just slid into the middle of them.
14:22The matron at my door reeked of jasmine and condescension.
14:26I knew Blood Moon Manor's politics well.
14:29Silas and the king were full-blooded brothers.
14:31Born of the great Luna Seraphine.
14:34Her younger brother had died fighting beside Silas in the north.
14:37Out of guilt, Silas had moved his uncle's widow and children into his manor.
14:42Aunt Thorne, the dead warrior's mate, had seized the household keys.
14:48She had tried to mate her youngest daughter to Silas.
14:52Silas had refused.
14:53Now I had arrived in her place.
14:55She hated me before she met me.
14:58The Luna just woke.
15:00Why such urgency?
15:01Of course.
15:02A general's daughter, the king's own pick, wouldn't stoop to greet a humble widow.
15:08I never said that.
15:09If you can't keep your mouth straight, shut it.
15:12Well, Luna?
15:14So Madam Thorne wanted first blood on day one.
15:21Of course I should pay respects to Madam Thorne.
15:24Luna misunderstands.
15:26Not respects.
15:28Just a visit.
15:29Her husband died, saving my mate.
15:32His widow deserves deep honor.
15:34My visit to her is a sacred duty.
15:37So, please go to the royal den and inform the king.
15:46The royal den?
15:48Yes.
15:49Tell his majesty that I must pay respects to a fallen warrior's widow before I present myself at court.
15:55She apparently outranks the king in my morning's duties.
16:02Luna jokes.
16:03Of course the king and queen come first.
16:10Then tell Madam Thorne I'll visit when my schedule permits.
16:15Luna, are we really going?
16:19Of course.
16:20She's an elder.
16:22But I choose when, not her.
16:25I ordered the carriage.
16:27As I stepped into the courtyard.
16:33Not drunk.
16:34Old Damien could do three more barrels.
16:42Do you know who I am?
16:45Silas is my cousin.
16:46The great Luna raised me.
16:49I've looked the king in his face.
16:53That's Simas' cousin?
16:55Yes, Luna.
16:57Damien Thorne.
16:59Known in every brothel in the capital.
17:01Pleasure Dems, Moonshine, gambling pits.
17:05Your mating ceremony was last night.
17:07As the royal relative, he didn't show up and slept in some she-wolf's bed.
17:13Silas, what kind of kin did you take into your manor?
17:16I climbed into my carriage without acknowledging him.
17:20Who is that?
17:21Why haven't I seen her before?
17:23That's the new Luna, my lord.
17:25Right.
17:26Cousin Silas had mated yesterday.
17:29Cousin's still asleep.
17:31She'll be sleeping empty sheets for years.
17:34I didn't see any of it.
17:35I went to the royal den to pay my respects to the king and queen.
17:39I timed it perfectly.
17:40The concubines would have finished their morning bow.
17:43The dawn council would nearly be over.
17:45I'd sip tea with the queen until the king appeared.
17:47I missed one calculation.
17:50At the royal gates, I walked straight into Caleb.
17:57Torn had said Caleb was ill.
17:59That's why he wasn't at council.
18:01None of my concern.
18:03Crown Prince.
18:06A bonded Luna in crimson silks.
18:09Last night's dream.
18:11Alara, does it feel good?
18:14Mating my uncle?
18:18No.
18:19You should address me as Aunt Alara.
18:22Caleb stared.
18:23The delay before his brain caught up was almost funny.
18:27Calling me by my given name is a breach of protocol.
18:30Show some manners.
18:32You are happy, aren't you?
18:35This mating is what I asked for.
18:37Of course I'm pleased.
18:39Why do you ask what you already know?
18:42The crown princess is still ill.
18:45Rest.
18:46Medicate.
18:47I have the king and queen to greet.
18:49That morning in the royal den, I sipped tea with the queen.
18:53The king arrived from council in shockingly high spirits.
18:56The first time in years, the civil wolves and warrior wolves had agreed on something at council.
19:03They had praised my mating.
19:05In the courtyard, I saw Zane leading two servants into Silas' chamber.
19:10What are you doing?
19:12Luna, it's time to dose the alpha.
19:15A clay medicine jar steamed on her tray.
19:17Luna, please wait outside.
19:19It takes time.
19:20The alpha is hard to dose.
19:22I'll come too.
19:24Luna, with us?
19:25Yes, I'm his mate.
19:26Caring for him is my duty.
19:28Show me today.
19:28From tomorrow, I do it.
19:31Luna.
19:32The alpha cannot swallow willingly.
19:34He forced the drapes down.
19:36He vomits half of it.
19:38It's not pleasant.
19:54Zane.
19:55You're wasting most of it.
19:57You're wasting most of it.
19:57Let me.
19:58Give me the bowl.
19:59All of you, step back.
20:01Luna, we'll wait outside.
20:02Why?
20:03Luna, surely you'll want to feed the alpha mouth to mouth.
20:08Don't be absurd.
20:09There's no such custom.
20:10I took the bowl.
20:12Felt the warm clay ground me.
20:13I remembered a technique my sister-in-law had taught me.
20:16In deep unconsciousness, pressing the philtrum can trigger a brief reflex opening of the mouth.
20:21I slipped the spoon between his lips, tilted his chin with my free hand, stroked his throat until the reflex
20:28carried the draft down.
20:30It worked.
20:31A little still escaped, but most of it stayed inside.
20:34By the time I emptied half the bowl, my hairline was damp with sweat.
20:39I set the bowl down.
20:41Silas' throat worked.
20:42His brow creased.
20:44My heart lurched.
20:45I leaned in close.
20:47His lashes trembled.
20:49He didn't open his eyes.
20:50But something had moved.
20:52Luna, that was incredible.
20:55I didn't answer.
20:56My own stomach was still fluttering.
20:59Last life, Silas woke fragile.
21:01Years of botched dosing had hollowed him.
21:04He'd never fully recovered his strength.
21:07This life, if I was his mate, he wouldn't suffer that again.
21:11Every day, I fed him the draft myself.
21:14I bathed him, massaged his wasted calves, his sword-calloused hands.
21:19The manor whispered.
21:21A general's daughter doing servant's work.
21:25She shames the Ashfield name.
21:27Let them whisper.
21:28One afternoon, Aunt Thorne came herself.
21:31Found me kneading the cords of Silas' thighs.
21:35Alara, darling, let the servants do this.
21:38You're the Luna.
21:39What will the Pax say if you grind yourself down like a maid?
21:44Aunt, forgive me.
21:46Caring for my mate is my honor.
21:49Alpha Silas fought all his life on those legs.
21:52They're his foundation.
21:53Only I can be trusted to tend them.
21:58But, Aunt, you must be exhausted, managing the whole mansion on top of visiting me.
22:04Let's go over the household ledgers together soon.
22:07I noticed a few entries lift.
22:09Tangled.
22:10Her scent curdled.
22:12She had run those ledgers for years.
22:15I knew she had skimmed.
22:17She knew I knew.
22:18She made an excuse and fled.
22:21No need to trouble the Luna.
22:23I'll have them cleaned up.
22:25She never sent another matron.
22:27But Damien Thorne?
22:28He was another problem.
22:30Damien began haunting the manor.
22:33Visiting his cousin, he said.
22:35His eyes lived on me.
22:37Oily.
22:38Lingering.
22:39Appraising.
22:40One afternoon, he caught me alone in the garden.
22:43Moon wine thick on his breath.
22:45Aunt Alara.
22:47Cousin's been asleep forever.
22:48You must be so lonely.
22:51Lord Damien.
22:53Mind yourself.
22:54The Luna is your elder by rank.
22:57Speak with respect.
22:59Elder?
23:00Cousin might never wake.
23:02Shall Aunt Alara waste her whole life as a breathing widow?
23:06My business is not yours.
23:08If you have nothing to do, leave.
23:10You're cluttering the view.
23:11His face flushed purple.
23:13He slunk off.
23:14I marked him.
23:15Damien was a viper.
23:16I would need to watch him.
23:18That night, I set guards on every corridor that touched my chambers.
23:23Every day, draft, bath, massage, reading aloud.
23:26I read Silas his own annotated war treatises.
23:30Poetry.
23:31The old histories of the Blood Moon pack.
23:33I talked to him like he could hear me.
23:35Some nights, I thought he could.
23:37Caleb recovered from his fever.
23:39And began asking, quietly, constantly, about Blood Moon Manor.
23:44About me.
23:44He heard I fed Silas by my own hand.
23:47That I ran the household.
23:49That I'd broken Aunt Thorne to heal in under a month.
23:52The news poisoned him in ways he couldn't name.
23:55A royal feast came.
23:56As Luna of the Blood Moon, I had to attend.
23:59I wore the deep crimson of a bonded Luna.
24:02Hair up.
24:03No blush.
24:04No trembling hands.
24:06A different woman entirely from the girl who'd chased him with honey cakes.
24:10Caleb crossed the hall to me.
24:11His voice was rough.
24:13Alara, be honest.
24:15Is life in that manner truly good?
24:17By the Crown Prince's grace.
24:19And very well.
24:20Well?
24:22Nursing a corpse.
24:23Doing servant work.
24:24You call that well?
24:25Your Highness misunderstands.
24:27I chose Alpha Silas willingly.
24:29He is asleep, but he is a good man.
24:31He deserves my care.
24:32Unlike some who wear fine silks and carry cold blood in their veins.
24:36I let a pause land between us like a blade.
24:40Unlike some who wear fine silks and carry cold blood in their veins.
24:46His face went bloodless.
24:48He knew exactly who I meant.
24:50Enough, enough.
24:51Family feast.
24:52No grim faces.
24:53Elara, I've heard you tend my brother with your own hands.
24:58It moves me.
25:00Your Majesty is too kind.
25:03It is only my duty.
25:04The King patted my shoulder and moved on.
25:07Caleb stared after me like he'd been struck.
25:10I didn't look back.
25:12Moons rolled on.
25:13The autumn deepened.
25:15That afternoon, I sat by Silas' bed, reading from his own annotated war treatise.
25:20The handwriting in the margins, fierce and sloping.
25:24Something brushed my palm.
25:26I jerked my head up.
25:27Silas' fingers had curled.
25:30His eyelids trembled.
25:31Alpha.
25:32My voice shook.
25:34I reached for his pulse.
25:36His eyes opened.
25:37Those eyes.
25:38The eyes I had imagined in every quiet hour.
25:42Elara.
25:42Elara.
25:44Doctor!
25:45I've heard everything.
25:49My blood froze.
25:52Heard?
25:52Silas had been conscious inside his body this entire time.
25:56He had heard Zane tend him.
25:58Heard Aunt Thorne's scheme.
26:01At the gala.
26:02You said you wanted me as your mate.
26:04I froze.
26:05What?
26:06I never knew.
26:07Silas spoke slowly.
26:09The words I prayed for.
26:13I heard them while I couldn't move.
26:15Seven years ago, at a royal garden feast, a ten-year-old Ashford girl had slipped on the
26:21mossy stones and fallen into the lotus pond.
26:24A wounded warrior on leave, him, had fished me out.
26:29Ashford she-wolves aren't afraid of water.
26:31I had stood, soaking wet, chin up, snarled.
26:35That stubborn, electric little creature had burned herself into him.
26:40He'd shipped out to the northern front soon after.
26:42But he'd sent wolves to watch over me every year since.
26:46He knew I liked riding, archery, sword work.
26:50He knew I'd stitched a mating gown dreaming of Caleb.
26:54He knew what the Ironforge pack did to me in the life before this one, because when he
27:00finally woke that life, he'd searched the whole kingdom for me, and found my body in
27:05a rogue territory pleasure den.
27:07I stopped breathing.
27:09I asked for the northern front to prove myself worthy before your 18th moon.
27:13I meant to return and ask the king for you, but I was struck down the night before victory.
27:18Not in battle.
27:20Betrayed.
27:22Betrayed?
27:22By who?
27:24Kale's inner circle.
27:26He feared I'd eclipse him at court.
27:28Feared worse that I'd return and take you.
27:32Alara.
27:33Your father's death.
27:35Your brother's deaths.
27:36That was not simply a lost battle.
27:39Someone leaked the Silver Vanguard's march route to the rogue warbands.
27:43That someone was the Queen Bloodkin.
27:47The world tilted.
27:48Caleb believed, wrongly, that your father's death was my doing.
27:52Some poisoned whisper in his ear in the year of the morning.
27:54He turned that hatred on you.
27:57And he hated me more for loving you.
27:59Last life's venom rushed back.
28:02You make me sick.
28:03You harlot.
28:05You cursed thing.
28:07All of it rooted in a lie.
28:09A lie soaked in conspiracy.
28:11A lie his own mother had fed him.
28:14Last life, when I finally woke.
28:16Two years after your maiden, I searched for you.
28:18I found your body in the rogue territories.
28:20I dragged myself to the throne and laid every truth before the king.
28:23The Queen's kin were hunted down to the last place.
28:26Caleb was stripped of his mind.
28:27Caged in the royal den until he rotted.
28:29But I couldn't save you.
28:31His voice broke.
28:32This life, Alara.
28:34This life, I will never fail you again.
28:36Two lifetimes of pain broke open inside me.
28:39Tears fell silently.
28:41Soundless.
28:42The healers.
28:43Let me hold you first.
28:44He pulled me down against his chest.
28:46His heart beat slow and strong beneath my ear.
28:50Alive.
28:51Alive.
28:52Alive.
28:53For the first time in two lifetimes, I let myself cry.
28:57The healers flooded the chamber within the hour.
28:59The blood moon Alpha had woken.
29:01And the blood moon Alpha had talked.
29:04He told the king everything.
29:06The betrayal on the northern front.
29:08The blade that had come from his own side.
29:10The leaked march route that had slaughtered the entire silver vanguard.
29:14The old case was reopened.
29:16Every court wolf who had ever touched the queen's bloodline was dragged before the royal tribunal.
29:21Ledgers pulled.
29:23Messengers tortured.
29:24War pigeons traced back through three years of smuggled correspondence.
29:28The evidence was overwhelming.
29:30The queen's uncle, the war minister, had sold the march route to a rogue warlord for a chest of northern
29:37gold
29:37and a promise to weaken Silas' influence.
29:41My father.
29:41My three brothers.
29:43Eight hundred silver vanguard wolves.
29:47Sold.
29:47The queen's bloodline was condemned.
29:50Exposed.
29:51Cried.
29:53Executed to the last pup within seven days.
29:56The queen herself was stripped of her crown and locked in the high tower to await trial.
30:01And Caleb, Caleb learned that his hatred of me, his disgust at my scent, his cruelty across two lifetimes,
30:09had been built on his mother's lies.
30:12That I had never betrayed him.
30:14That I had never had anything to do with the northern front disaster.
30:18That the girl who'd shoved him away from a runaway cart at eight years old and broken her own knee
30:24doing it
30:25had been the one wolf in the whole kingdom who'd ever loved him with nothing asked in return.
30:30And he had thrown her to rogues.
30:33In one life, anyway.
30:35In this one, he had only destroyed her with words.
30:39But words, in the end, had destroyed him too.
30:43He shattered.
30:44He ran for Blood Moon Manor.
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