BANISHED BECAUSE I CAN'T BARE AN HEIR:I HID HIS HEIRS FROM HIM

"I, Darius, Alpha of the Hellfang Pack, reject Maeve as my Luna and mate."



"Don't. Please—" I grabbed his shirt like it could hold him here. "Don't do this to me."



He shoved me off. In front of everyone.



Three years I was his Luna. Three years I hid the mark on my neck, hid every insecurity, prayed the pack would stop looking at me like a curse. It wasn't enough. He rejected me for a woman carrying a child that was never his—and I found out the truth too late to matter.



I should have died in those woods that night. Instead, I found something I never had: a family. A father who never stopped searching. Brothers who'd burn the world down for me. A power sleeping under my skin that turned "cursed" into "chosen" overnight.



And a secret growing inside me that changed everything.



Years later, Darius found me again. Found my sons. Watched his own eyes staring back at him from two boys he didn't know existed.



"They're mine." His voice cracked. "Maeve—tell me they're mine."



I looked at the man who once threw me away in front of everyone I loved, now standing in front of the sons he never knew he had.



What was I supposed to say?