PROLOGUE
My legs trembled as I stood before him, the mate bond between us shrieking in agony at his next words.
My heart stopped. In that single word, I heard my sentence being passed.
“I reject you! I will never accept you as my Luna!”
The force of his rejection slammed into me like a physical blow, shattering my soul. Just hours ago, these same lips had whispered sweet promises against my skin. These same hands had touched me with reverence. Now, Alpha Finn Foster looked at me as if I were something rotten, something despised. Something he hated with a passion.
“Alaric Blackstone’s daughter,” he spat the words like venom. “You deceived me.”
My mate, the man the Moon Goddess had destined for me, the man who had held me in his arms just a night before, now glared at me as if I were a
