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My Alpha's chosen mate thought I was his secret lover. "I'll send you and your bastard pup straight to the Shadow Realm!" she snarled, her claws fully extended. She left me bleeding on cold stone, my face in ruins, my pup gone. Through the haze of pain, I heard my mate's voice through the mind-link. He was comforting her. "My poor moon, did she hurt you? Did she scratch you?" But when he realized the "intruder" his chosen one had destroyed was me— His fated mate, his bonded Luna— He shattered. --- The Silver Moon Pack hosted its Blood Moon Gala at the packhouse estate—a sprawling manor nestled in the redwood forests north of San Francisco. Under normal circumstances, it was a night of celebration, of territorial toasts and ancient rites performed beneath the crimson moon. Tonight, I shouldn't have been there at all. Caleb—my mate, my Alpha, the wolf whose soul was bound to mine through the Moon Oath—had asked me to stay hidden. As always. "Our bond is... complicated for the pack to understand right now," he'd told me a hundred times, his golden eyes soft with that practiced warmth. "Just give me a little more time, Seren. I'll announce you as my Luna when the moment is right." I'd believed him. For three years, I'd believed him. Tonight, I'd crept into the gala wearing a borrowed dress and a veil of human perfume to mask my scent—anything to see him, even from across a crowded room. I was carrying his pup, barely two months along, and the loneliness was eating me alive. I just wanted to be near him. The grand hall was lit with amber chandeliers, the air thick with the musk of dominant wolves and the sharp undertone of expensive alcohol. I found a quiet corner near the bar and watched Caleb from across the room. He looked magnificent, as always—tall and broad-shouldered, his dark hair swept back, his posture radiating the effortless authority of an Alpha at the height of his power. But he wasn't alone. Tiffany Reed clung to his arm like a silver br
