After Mia told Thomas what had happened at the clothing store, he assured her she didn’t need to wear the dress Eleanor gave her. Instead, he bought her a new pink dress which exuded innocence and delicacy.Mia couldn’t wait to see the look on Eleanor’s face when she saw her. She was happy that Eleanor and her friend had harrassed her at the store. It made Thomas get close to her and get even angrier with his Luna.With Thomas’s support, she didn’t need to worry about fighting back against Eleanor. He would fight all her battles, and that would make her victory so much sweeter.When Thomas got to the party with Mia not his Luna, many men paid attention to her. Mia enjoyed the attention secretly–she couldn’t openly show that she was thrilled to be here. She clung close to Thomas, acting like a kitten scared to leave its master’s side.“Are you okay?” he asked, looking down at her with worried eyes. Nobody had ever looked at her the way he did. How lucky she was, to not only have an Alp

A while later, Eleanor returned to the house and went to her room. She had hoped going on a little walk would make her feel better, but she was still upset.How much longer was she going to take such treatment from Thomas? She wished she was in the position to divorce him right away. His behaviour towards her was only going to get worse, and she couldn’t bear it.She hadn’t forgotten why she was here, why Selene had offered her a new chance at life. She knew what Thomas was capable of, and she wasn’t here to save their love.But she couldn’t stop her heart from breaking when the man she had loved turned violent against her. She was mad at herself for feeling hurt.It should no longer matter what he said or did. He didn’t love her. She knew that. But her stupid heart was still vulnerable to him. That’s the only reason his earlier outburst hurt her.It would take time to stop getting affected by the memories of their good times, but one thing was sure–she was never looking back.Once sh

Mia sat in her seat beside Thomas, jealousy swirling through her as she looked at Eleanor on the podium.When she had first found out that Eleanor would be giving the speech, she had hoped Eleanor would make a fool of herself. Instead, the reception to her speech was quite positive, and everyone seemed to be pleased with her.But that wasn’t even the worst part.It was that Thomas didn’t even seem to realise what was going on.That woman was trying to outshine him, and yet he was looking at her with the same captivated expression everyone else around them was.Mia couldn’t stand it. It would be harder to get rid of her if everyone thought Eleanor was the model Luna.“Is she trying to replace you or something?” she muttered to Thomas. “She looks like she wants more to be recognised as Alpha rather than Luna, does she?”Thomas looked at Mia, a small furrow between his eyes. “What? Why would you say that?”“Look at her, talking about herself and everything she has done for the pack. Now,

“What are you doing? Where are you going?” Ethan’s wolf, Kyle, demanded as Ethan hurried away from the restaurant’s entrance, headed for the parking lot.Ethan shook his head and kept going.This couldn’t be happening.It had all happened so fast, and his first instinct had been to get the hell out of there. He didn’t even know her, but he knew she wasn’t the one he wanted.“She is our mate!” His wolf was excited. While Ethan wanted to run away, Kyle wanted to go back and claim her. “She is ours.”Ethan heard footsteps behind him then, and he turned to find the woman following him. His entire body went alive again, the way it did a few moments ago inside the restaurant.He felt an invisible, strange force drawing him to her. A force he couldn’t fight, and he hated it.He had never given much thought about finding his mate. At least not after he met Eleanor. The idea of being with another woman, mate or not, never occurred to him. And now, when there was a chance he could get closer to

Throughout dinner, Sophia could see that Eleanor was dying to find out what had happened between her and Ethan.So she was not surprised that the moment they got back to the Alpha’s villa, her best friend dragged her to her bedroom and immediately asked about it.If finding her mate had gone differently, she would have been over the moon and excited to share the news with Eleanor. But given how it had gone, she decided now was not the right time to break the news to her best friend.There was already so much going on. She didn’t want to make Eleanor worried about her. It was enough that one of them was already going through love troubles.“Nothing,” she said, walking to the window and peering outside. “He mistook me for someone he knew.”“Really?” Eleanor asked. She sounded unconvinced.Sophia dared not look at her. It would be so much harder to lie if she did. “Yeah. I know, it’s ridiculous. I saw how he looked at me when he ran out of the restaurant, and that’s why I followed him. W