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

The rain beat down on my body as furious as the hail. And my paws burned each and every time they dug into the ground beneath me. They forced me to become aware of the idea, the reality, that I was running away from one of the very few places in this world that I had considered home.


Home wasn’t where people who lied and betrayed lived, home wasn’t with Victore anymore.


I shut my eyes as I pushed forward, forcing the image of his naked back out of my mind, forcing the image of her laying beneath him, giggling and smiling beneath the man who—


I choked, then I tripped and I fell into the muddy earth beneath me. Somewhere in the back of my mind, I heard a resounding crack of something, but I paid it no mind. How could I when there was a pain in my heart that made me feel like I was dying?


Worse, like everything I had done up until now—staying beside him, loving him, having him love me—meant nothing?


Chapter 144: Dearest Uncle, I Ache