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 woke that night with a start. I did my best to hide it as long as we were traveling together, but on the second night, I got up from the camp we made beside the car and ran as far into the woods as I could before I wretched the blood that was being held in my throat. 


There was little I could do to stop the sounds that escaped me, and I just prayed hard enough that I was far away enough and that Tara was in a deep enough sleep that she wouldn’t hear me—that she wouldn’t find out. 


Those hopes were crushed however, because I heard a leaf crunch behind me, and when I turned back, there she was. The bright fire we had made at our camp illuminated her, casting a glow around her frame. There was something in her eyes that I couldn’t read through the blurriness of my own. 


Her next words were small and simple and gutted me.


Since I started drinking that potion the wretched witch gave me, I thought to myself. 


Chapter 184: Victor’s Pain