Chapter 2

I clutched my sides, struggling against the searing pain as my face turned as pale as moonlight.

Elara quickly shoved the Beta aside and knelt beside me, holding up my trembling body.

She struggled to contain her fury as she demanded, "What full moon ritual? Has your Alpha lost his mind? Can't you see how much Selena is suffering?"

The Beta snickered, pulled out his phone, and shoved a video in my face.

One glance was all it took for my soul to plummet into an icy abyss.

In the video, Damian stood at the center of the Moonshadow pack's sacred ground, holding fragments of my Moon Spirit Wolf.

At his feet, Lilith knelt, her tongue gently licking his fingers.

With a shaking hand, I pointed at the scene, a bitter smile twitching my lips.

"Elara, he's not only destroyed the symbol of my soul, but he plans to publicly mate with another she-wolf on the night of the full moon. This is sacrilege against the Moon Goddess, and the ultimate betrayal of the true mate bond."

"I'm powerless to change things now. The Moonshadow pack will have to face the consequences of their actions..."

No sooner had I finished speaking than Elara let out a heart-wrenching wail and collapsed unconscious on the ground.

With her out of the way, the Beta became even more brazen, grabbing me by the hair and dragging me to the car like a rag doll. When I was dragged into the full moon ceremony hall, a soul-crushing scene appeared before my eyes.

Damian was pressing Lilith against the sacred moon platform. Their naked bodies were intertwining in the moonlight, engaging in the most intimate union, heedless of the watching wolves.

I fell to my knees, feeling as if all the blood in my body had frozen solid.

Lilith noticed my arrival and deliberately let out even more wanton moans, her gaze challenging as she looked at me.

"Ah... Damian... you're stronger today than ever before... Is it because you've finally freed yourself from that fraud's constraints?"

She raised her eyes to look at me, full of malicious triumph.

Seeing me covered in silver blood, she let out a fake scream of panic.

"Damian! Why is she covered in blood? This is terrifying, is she trying to harm us with some kind of dark magic?"

Damian stopped his movements and looked at me coldly, his eyes gleaming dangerously.

He left Lilith's body and walked over to me, kicking me hard in the chest.

"Selena, are you still playing these tricks? Where did you get that fake blood from? Are you trying to scare Lilith during the full moon ceremony? You make me sick!"He roughly grabbed my collar, dragging me to the center of the sacred ground:

"This is your so-called sacred totem, now nothing but a pile of rubble! I've even taken out its core!"

He forced me to open my eyes and look: "Didn't you cherish this stone the most? Well, I'll give you one last chance! If you can repair it with your so-called 'Moon Goddess power', I'll acknowledge your abilities. Otherwise, I'll make you watch as it disappears completely!"

Damian sneered as he had someone bring over a burning brazier.

Lilith excitedly pressed herself against his bare back, her arms encircling his strong waist.

"Dami, burn it! Once that stone is gone, I'll never have nightmares again, and then I'll be completely yours..."

I wanted to stop him, but I didn't even have the strength to lift my hand.

I could only kneel on the ground like a broken doll, looking desperately at him, at the man I had once loved with my life.

Damian lit the brazier without expression and threw the fragments of the Moon Soul Wolf into it.

Instantly, the pain of the stone statue being consumed by flames spread throughout my body, the intense agony making me break out in a cold sweat.

I pleaded in a hoarse voice: "Damian, please stop..."The spirit wolf of the lunar soul is connected to my very being. If this continues, I will—"

Before I could finish, he angrily grabbed a handful of shards and smashed them violently on the ground.

"Shut up! You've been repeating this same story for three years. Aren't you sick of it yet? You're not some chosen companion of the moon goddess. My injuries healing have nothing to do with you! How long are you going to keep lying to me?"

I trembled, wanting to explain, when suddenly, two small silver glowing stone spheres rolled out from the burning statue fragments.

Damian curiously picked up the two stone spheres, playing with them in his hand.

I froze, instinctively touching my lower abdomen.

To heal Damian's severe wounds, I had been with him day and night, gradually infusing my lunar energy into his body.

I never imagined that I had already conceived two little lives...

Unable to control myself, I burst into tears, dragging my broken body to Damian's feet.

"Damian... please give them to me... don't touch them..."

Damian looked down at me, a cold smirk tugging at the corner of his lips.

"They're just two little stones. Why are you so worked up about it?"

As he spoke, he held one of them high, making as if to throw it into the fire.

I couldn't hold back anymore. With a pale face, I screamed:

"No! You can't do this! Damian, those aren't stones, they're..."That's our child!"