Of course her mother could never have been Luna. A human as Luna of a respectable werewolf pack would have been an unforgivable shame. Kaela had never known exactly how her mother died, but once she was old enough to think, the suspicion that her father might have been responsible never fully left her. He had been a prideful man. Prideful men did not tolerate visible faults. From the day four-year-old Kaela was brought into Ashclaw, he had made it clear that her mother had been nothing more than a dalliance—despite the mate bond. He claimed he was only being responsible by taking the child in. The pack had echoed the same poisonous story: the Moon Goddess had made a rare mistake, and the Alpha should have rejected the human from the start instead of producing a half-blood. He had never

