Charles’ breath quickened, and his movements became more urgent. “I’m close,” he gasped in my ear, his voice breaking between moans. My own pleasure surged, and I couldn’t hold back the scream that tore from my throat. A wave of electric tingles swept through me, my temples throbbed, and the world around me faded into white…
Every pore on my body felt wide open, heat radiating from me in waves. It was surreal, as if I were in a dream, feeling everything but grasping none of it…
I could hardly believe it—I had married this man, the infamous Alpha of the Black Valley Pack, Charles McLean, and I had just slept with him.
But there was no love between us. We weren’t fated mates.
Since his first shift at eighteen, Charles McLean had never found his fated mate. And after one engagement after another, each of his fiancées had died under mysterious circumstances. Rumor had it that he wore a mask to conceal his hideous face and that he was a cruel, violent man who would kill without hesitation. People whispered that he had murdered his previous fiancées.
His last fiancée—my sister—was terrified of him. Horrified by the stories, she had vehemently refused to marry him. And just before the wedding, she found her fated mate. So, without warning or preparation, I was forced to take her place, pushed into marrying Charles in her stead, to stand as his wife in name only and the unacknowledged Luna of the Black Valley Pack…

A Substituted Bride But A Fated Luna

As the car sped off down the road of the Red Moon Pack, I looked at the scenery going backwards, thinking back to what had happened since I arrived at the Black Valley Pack, and I felt a little wet in my eyes--the past few months, in retrospect, it seems as long as my life.


Tonight I left the Black Valley Pack as if I had never been there. On the surface, it makes no difference whether the Black Valley Pack has me or not, but I know my heart changed after everything I've been through. I'm not the same person I once was.


I leant back in my seat, eyes closed, and the cold look that Charles gave me came into my mind.


"Selena, the car will be in the Red Moon Pack soon," Nyx blurted out when I was at a loss. "What are you going to do when you get back there?"


Nyx asked the question. I casually replied: "To tell the truth, I do not know. Anyway, go back first!"


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