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The Moon Goddess gave me a second chance at life.
But she gave one to my mate, Alpha Caiden, too.
In my first life, he chose to save me and our unborn heir.
His childhood sweetheart Doris died, and his love curdled into a resentment so cold he fed me to a starved bear.
This time, when Doris pushed me from a cliff, he made a different choice.
He left me, his pregnant mate, broken and bleeding in the cursed wilds.
“Ignore her. She's just a distraction to slow you down from reaching Doris.”
He thought I would perish.
He was wrong.
I survived, severed our bond, and patiently waited until I could shatter his world with the truth.
When his precious Doris was exposed as a murderer, he crawled back to me, his mind finally broken by regret.
“Lidia, please give me another chance. Let us start fresh.”
But I just smiled, my hand resting on the pup he thought was long dead.
“Don't be ridiculous. I will never be shackled to you again.”

Cliff, Broken Bond, And A Luna Never Looking Back

I had never tried to defend myself. However, the less I spoke up, the more the pack assumed I was culpable.


[This must be the truth. If it weren't, she would have demanded a truth-hearing before the Elders ages ago.]


[Indeed, her silence proves her guilt. If she doesn't face judgment, we should run her out of the territory ourselves.]


No matter what Doris claimed, she had no hard evidence, so the pack enforcers never approached me.


One evening, as I exited a human grocery store and walked through the parking garage, a zealous young warrior from Doris’s pack suddenly appeared, shoved me down a flight of concrete stairs, and fled.


I tumbled down the steps, my head colliding with the wall, leaving me disoriented.


I promptly called for an ambulance and filed a report with the human police.


Chapter 8