Evelyn
As Alexander and I finally take one step after another down the hallway toward our Luna Ceremony, I’m overcome with emotion.
This isn’t my first Luna Ceremony. That one was interrupted by Lucas leaving me for my best friend who he believed at the time was carrying his pup. That day ended with him rejecting our mate bond and all but banishing me to be our pack’s annual Lycan King Sacrifice.
His actions, which up until then were the cruelest I’d ever endured, brought me here.
To my second-chance mate. Alexander.
Now here we are, hand-in-hand, choosing each other again and again.
But this day is still not the day I always dreamed of.
My mate may be perfect, smiling down at me with his shining blue eyes, but our environment is not. The palace is beautiful, but it’s also a target.
