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 stared at Victor for a long time after he had spoken his last words. My eyes filtering between his own: left, right, left, right, left, right. I watched as his nose flared, then his mouth twitched and opened, then closed. As though he were itching to say something, itching to do something. 


I didn’t know what, in that moment, he could say or do. It felt like he had said every word in the English language and yet still, despite it, I failed to understand what he was talking about. What was his meaning? What could he possible have thought about when this ran through his head?


We stayed silent and I contemplated everything up until now. Running away from home, running into Victor, becoming what I am and having my auspice– then everything that had happened at the Eclipse, the trial, finding being captured and finding Lycosidae, killing Luke and imprisoning Sidus… all of it. All of that. And the elder council only, still, saw me as a tool to be used.


Chapter 124: A Phantom Pain