Tara Landon has never experienced love–even worse–she’s endured a lifetime of beatings. After reaching her breaking point, she decides to run away to start a new life without anyone pinning her down or holding her back. 

However, not far into her journey, she is intercepted by soon-to-be alpha Victor Bane, a brooding, mysterious, emerald-eyed man. The thought of him scares Tara as much as it arouses her. 

She doesn’t think much of the encounter until she learns that…oh, she’s destined to be Luna of Victor’s pack. The freedom she sought is quickly ripped away from her and she must make a decision: to accept or reject her fated mate.

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“I have you for a lifetime, Tara. I can be patient,” he relayed with an erotic moan.

He looked me in the eyes, as I gestured for him to unbutton my blouse. I whispered, “You might be patient, Victor. But, it isn’t polite to keep a woman waiting.”

“What will it take for you to say yes?” he asked lustfully.

“Something you can’t give.”

The Alpha and His Outlander Luna

I didn’t know what I could say to him, but it seemed I was lucky, because he continued to speak instead.


“I don’t… I can’t even imagine—when I pieced it together that something had happened to you Tara, I—f*ck, I didn’t know what to do. It wasn’t like losing Logan and dad, this was… I would have killed anyone in the room with me if I knew you—if you had been—”


“I wasn’t.” I told him. Straightforward and hard and true. It was the truth. Because whatever Sidus and Luke had done to me while I was captured, that was just it. I wasn’t captured anymore. I had escaped and I had run and I had done it with Luke's blood dripping from my paws.


I had left them worse off than they had done me. And I had felt powerful doing it, and I had done it for this—to be back with Victor. To keep my promise to him, that I wouldn’t be killed, that I would stay with him. 


“They couldn’t kill me and I escaped. That’s all that matters.”


Chapter 69: Time to Heal