MI

ter that was now making my stomach hurt. I remained on the floor of the dark room in

ldn't get out of it. The whispers that drifted into my ears from outside the wind

it c

ried her but then, he did and sh

e that many years keeping her aroun

re a nobody like her eve

was too much to bear. I had nothing to hold on to and I thought of ending it all until the sound of their lau

e in the garden, loving up as if they d

sed the second I got to them,

ven't you heard enough? Why do you keep do

as Zane. Something must h

t you've never loved me. T

elusional, Camile. No man will ever want you. Don't you look in the mirror? You're so shapel

existing. My eyes

r loved you, touched you... not even as a prank. Sh

. I shouldn't have come here. I shouldn't be li

but he pressed on, desperat

then Emma got pregnant, and we found out that our baby might have a weak heart. It clicked then that I should keep you around and make you raise him so you could donate a part of your heart to him, because I

but coldness and detachment, and he sounded like I was

hat wor

ked away, but not before I heard Emma whisper, "Are yo

s ready to end it all. I couldn't deal with this

ve to get our revenge on him. We have to m

g. How could I make an alpha, no matter h

Zane; I was keen on building myself. I wanted to rediscover myself. I wanted to love myself. I wanted to

Moonfall that made Whitebrock look inconsequential. I was discovering the magic tha

them together. I no longer wake up with caked tears on my face. I cleared out my quarter to make it more habit

anding your own body. I've always taken whatever Zane had to gi

e gown, did a little makeup, and ordered Uber to the club. I instantly regretted my decision the second I got in. The girls here were sizes 6 and 8. Nob

ed her command and standing at the other side of the bar and watching me were two people I didn't recognize at

most simultaneously, and

cognized them. They were Kael and Arlo, infamous best frien

ane always talked about them. He hated them. Hated everything they represent. Hated how he couldn't mea

ugly undertone of someone who coveted w

se they were my e

g Moonfall's Alpha's gala, and I had accompanied Zane as his Luna. All the attention in the hall had then been on them; the

sed in a black suit, while Arlo was casually dressed; you'd think he was the leader of some motorbike gang, not an al

was one of the weakest alphas in Moonfall, and e

re, because they wanted me? That was highly unlikely, too, but the me

una of Whitebrock pa

e that they knew me. People like them -powerful and influentia

d sound that went to the wrong part of my body. He was looking

l asked, "Dressed like you want someone to press you

n the same casual tone someone would use to describe the weather. He doesn't look like someone

one person. It was by the two of them. I sat up straighter, m

brief look with his friend before he f

just asked you a

could hear it. My answer was at the tip of my tongue,

ice so low that I could

made me more self-conscious. Zane said I was undesirable, and they were people who had th

moke towards my ear, and suddenly, we were all alone. The rest of the

your ex-husband, dressed in that long pink gown, we've wanted

ing shewolves. They wouldn't have noticed someone like me. But they did. They even remember the color of

lmost impatient edge to his voice. He was looking at me... more like he was un

fore I could help myself, and

fucked simultaneously in your mo

exchanged another look, a bemused one, and I knew they could tell what was wrong with me. Of course

ile," Kael leaned over the barstool, "so tell