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 was much better today, though I suppose the fact that I had almost internally combusted a few hours prior and the fact that Tara was in the same room as me now, played equal parts in that reason. 


I still couldn’t look at her, and so I stayed focused on the piece of paper that Kia had given me. She was Tara’s Beta—it was something that was said in the first few moments of the meeting, when we had all given our official titles and reasoning for being here. 


It was somewhat strange to me how this room was filled with the people I cared about most in the world, and we were discussing diplomacy and politics as though we hadn’t all been kids together, once. 


Granted, when we had all met, there was a plethora of horror between all of us—enough to build our own special circle of hell. But we were younger then, we didn’t hold the titles we now did. Both Tara and I weren’t Alphas, we were barely people, barely wolves, honestly. 


Chapter 173: The Second Meeting