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

I thought back to the butler's words last night, "You'll understand everything in the morning." I had a growing sense of foreboding.


I left the bedroom as fast as I could, and ran to my father's room.


I ran to the door of my father's bedroom and knocked on it a few times. No one answered. "Dad, it's Selena. Are you in the room?"


As soon as my voice fell, the sound of something falling came from the room. It seemed that there was someone in the room.


I was worried that something had happened to my father. As I was about to turn the knob and enter the room, the door opened from the inside and the butler's face appeared before me. "Selena," He said.


"It's you?" I asked curiously, seeing he open the door for me. "What are you doing here? Is my father in the room?"


“Alpha is having breakfast in the room, Selena. Please come in.” The butler opened the door completely and let me into my father's bedroom.


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