Luna's Return: For Revenge, for Herself

Just as I was about to bring Alpha Rufus the joyous news—the heir who would continue the bloodline of the Emerald Earth Pack—I was struck by a bitter truth. For three years, I had stood by his side, believing I was loved. Yet our togetherness shattered in an instant, crushed beneath the weight of the lies he had kept hidden all this time.

But that was only the beginning.

Never in my darkest nightmares did I imagine my heart would be stolen—death had claimed me. The mate I had chosen, the one destined for me—Alpha Rufus—allowed his adoptive mother to tear my heart from my chest, only to offer it to his first love. He did not choose me. He chose someone else.

To bring me back to this world, my mother sacrificed her own life. In an act of boundless love, she placed her heart within the Moonbound Casket to replace the one that had been taken from me. I lived, but not because of love—rather, because of vengeance and a blood debt that must be repaid.

I have little time to exact retribution for every betrayal, every wound they have carved into my body and soul. I swore to the Moon Goddess, pleading for her blessing of justice. If love was not enough to save me, then let vengeance be my reason to keep breathing.