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 swallowed hard and took in a deep breath. “When I was captured, Luke would visit my cell,” I began, and watched as his body tensed. But he didn’t move away from me, he didn’t move an inch. He just listened. “He… would taunt me with the same thing, over and over and over again. He said he knew about my past.”


“About Kate and your step-father? How would he know that?” Victor asked, and I shook my head.


“No, not them. Further back… he said he knew what happened with me and my birth parents.” I watched as Victor dissected the information.


“He could have been lying.” Victor suggested in an attempt, I knew, to soothe the anxiety that was slowly beginning to build up inside of me. But I shook my head in disagreement.


“He wasn’t,” I told him. “I was listening to his heartbeat the entire time. It didn’t go up, and it didn’t go down. It was steady the entire time, Victor, he had to be telling the truth.”


“Yeah, or he’s just a really good liar, Tara.”


Chapter 71: You’ve Always Been Tara