Elmielos

"Hi, yes you aren't dreaming, it's the chubby Kelly," I say inwardly as I see the unhappy face expression of Jason who is disheartened. 

The guests laugh at us. They call our couple all sort of names. "The prince charming and the pancakes' eater Kelly" is one I can sadly remember."

"I, Jason Bentley of the South pack, reject you Kelly Thompson as my mate and the Luna Queen," he declared fiercely.

***
Kelly Thompson, an eighteen-year-old curvaceous and wolfless she-wolf, has been quietly admiring Jason Bentley, the heir apparent to the throne of the dominant South pack, for a number of years.

Unfortunately for Kelly, she doesn't get the same attention in return from Alpha heir Jason, as the handsome daughter of his old father's Gammas, Betty Nord, is already the love of the pack's future Alpha. But, the plump Kelly has an advantage over the skinny Betty because of a strong vow made by Jason's father, the Alpha King Don Bentley, that his son will marry the daughter of his Betas who gave their lives two years ago in a fight against the North pack's fiercest adversaries in order to preserve the life of the Alpha heir.

But clearly, nothing goes as smoothly as Kelly imagines.

The Rejected Curvy Luna Queen

Its surface reflects a sky that doesn’t exist—a perfect, endless blue that feels more like a cage than freedom. The sand beneath our feet is shards of obsidian and quartz, each step crunching like broken promises. Lumi walks ahead, the black rose clutched in her hand, its thorns digging into her palm. Her silver scars are dull now, the light within them dimmed after the Veil’s collapse. Jara limps behind us, her rifle slung over her shoulder, her gaze locked on the horizon where the desert fractures into jagged spires of glass. 


**“This place feels wrong,”** Jara mutters. **“Like it’s waiting for something.”** 


The shadow inside me stirs, its voice a low growl. *It’s waiting for us.* 


Lumi pauses, her fingers brushing the rose. **“It’s not a desert. It’s a wound.”** 


The glass desert