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 shook my head. “No, it won’t be. Not anymore.” 


I could cut the growing tension in the room with a knife, but instead, I savored it on my plate, delicately, deliciously, as though this were a thing that was long in the making. It hadn’t been that long, not really, since I had once stood in this same room on Victor’s side—when it was the two of us at the end of the pointed finger, the elder’s on the other end. 


It felt different now. I mean, it was different now. Now, he could barely look at me. I remembered before when Victor would console me before these meetings. I remembered being so anxious. 


The elders were a force to be reckoned with, there was no denying that, and although they themselves were pushing their own agendas and their own ideals about how the pack should have been run, it felt so much harder to sit on the other side of Victor than it ever did on the other end of the elder’s council. 


Chapter 174: Pasts Will Not Be Forgotten