Selena’s POV
I never wanted to be a Luna.
I never wanted to be anything to him.
I didn’t want to be his wife.
Yet here I was, standing before the coldest man I heard about, with a silver ring binding me to a future I never asked for.
The great Alpha Karren Theo, ruler of the most feared pack in the region, regarded me as nothing more than a necessary evil, a demon girl forced into his world by an alliance neither of us could refuse.
His icy blue eyes met mine, sharp and unreadable.
If he felt anything about this arrangement, he didn’t show it.
“You belong to me now,” he said, his voice devoid of warmth. “And don’t mistake this for love. You’re only here because I need you to be.”
His words shouldn’t have hurt.
I expected them. I wasn’t surprised.
I was the daughter of a demon an
