The Alpha had abandoned his own marking ceremony.
Rachel became a laughingstock among all packs.
The pack elders tried to salvage the situation, declaring Rachel as Marcus’s chosen mate.
But Marcus brutally exposed their lies.
He sent a formal declaration to every Alpha in the werewolf world, proclaiming me as his only Luna,
Shared our marking ceremony plans, swearing on his Alpha power that I was his true mate.
Oliver was taken from Rachel and given to the pack elders.
Marcus threatened death to any who let Rachel near the pup.
He would destroy his entire territory, he warned, if she dared show her face.
The pack elders resisted, but even they couldn’t challenge their Alpha’s decree.
They were forced to obey.
Rachel’s dreams of being Luna shattered completely.
The situation turned violent.
She challenged for custody of Oliver through pack law.
But Marcus, as the pup’s Alpha father, remained coldly
aldly silent.
He had her locked in the pack’s prison.
Ordered silver injected into her veins the same fate she’d helped plan for me.
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The guards were instructed to show no mercy.
I watched the pack networks fill with criticism of Marcus’s cruelty.
But I understood him less and less.
All of this had been his choice from the beginning
I had removed myself to make way for his “perfect family.”
Now this display of desperate devotion… who was it meant to convince?
His wolf’s justice was brutal.
Rachel’s screams echoed through the pack bonds each night.
The silver slowly killing her wolf, just as they’d tried to kill mine.
Oliver cried for his mother.
But Marcus showed I no
mercy.
“Let her feel what Sarah felt,” he told the guards. “Let her know the pain of betrayal.”
The pack whispered that he’d gone mad with grief.
That losing his mate had broken something in him.
But I felt nothing.
