CLAIRE's POVI felt my heart stop in my chest as I stared at her. My heart stopped and every good thing that I ever witnessed in life turned sour.She was the real and hidden definition of beauty. Her hair was a lovely mixture of brown and golden honey, eyes a very pretty and unearthly shade of light gold.Hatred, jealousy and extreme sadness bloomed in my chest as I took in her tanned body with the perfect cheekbones and well proportioned body.Her name was Sorcha.Dominik said her name was Sorcha and she was to take my place as luna.I had thought things between I and Dominik would change. I thought things were changing when his wolf had nudged Elide, asking for forgiveness, we had given him our forgivenesses and I now realized I was a fool for allowing that. Once I had opened my heart and forgiven him, the mate pull had yanked so hard on our cords, wanting us to mate. I felt his stiffness and want and he had scented my need.I was overcome with need by the time he had shifted and

CLAIRE's POVI sat glumly in my room, yes, my room, not Dominik’s. I had been transferred to a new private room a week ago, since the figure head luna, Ms. Sorcha arrived.This time, I was not the one being pushed away yet again. I made the decision to stay alone after that day when Sorcha was introduced to me. After I had gone into my room, heart broken and a wolf in pain, Luis had come into the room to comfort me as much as he could. But I could not be comforted. I was past that. My heart was shattered in a million pieces and I did not even get to have a say in how or why it would be like that.I was broken, almost literally.Elide had been really quiet and drained inside me, I did not feel her anxious badgering for a run. I did not feel her occasional horrible thoughts towards people. She did not even call out for her mate. I knew she was also hurt and dejected but I also knew she needed to be close to her mate but she was just staying strong for me. I knew she was getting weaker

CLAIRE's POVI frowned at the tone of his voice. What the fuck was he going on and on about? Trying to rant?What? Did he except me to never leave my bedroom and wallow alone till I die while he was going everywhere, hanging his Luna like a designer’s hand bag and fucking her to stupor at night?At the sound of fucking someone else, Elide reared her head up in anger, effectively pushing me towards that line as well, yanking hard at my cords and I glared up at him, eyes blazing hard.“Yes, I was messing around with Luis or is that forbidden as well? While I am stuck here, am I forbidden to be happy?” I seethed, making sure to show how angry I was and somewhere in my mind, I saw Luis take a soft and conscious step backwards like he could not afford to be caught in the crazy storm that was me and my mate.“What did you just say?” Dominik took a threatening step forward, eyes darkening and even though I felt a jolt of fear at that, Elide would not allow me to back down.Instead of cowerin

CLAIRE's POVLuis took a hasty and concerned step backwards as I stared at Dominik, heart in my stomach.What did he think he was doing here? He had been ignoring me all fucking day, what was I saying? He had been acting like I never existed at all for almost a week now, so why was he here now?Since our angry clash in that forest, Dominik had taken a trip away from the pack. No words to me, no nothing.I had been really hurt about that but I used the excuse of rigorous pack trainings to put my mind off the troubles I was feeling. I used it to shift the heartache away from me. I had needed it just as much as Elide had needed the distraction. We took it hard, working ourselves into oblivion both in the human form and wolf form. We both worked hard during the day sweating both water and blood form the rigorous trainings. And at night, we both nursed our wounds alone, both heart and body. We had really missed our mate but it did not seem like Domink cared one bit so we had thrown all o

CLAIRE's POVI could not believe he actually allowed me participate in the game. The excitement I got made me practice even harder today.'It is not like we needed his permission anyways.' Elide tilted her head up. Pretty stubborn thing."We did not but, now Luis is off my back about the whole -I do not want you to get hurt - issue. It is a win-win." I muttered.I felt Elide scoffed in answer to that. Could wolves scoff?I was on my way to the park house and I could not just shake off the happiness that I finally got to participate in the contest and the immense pleasure Dominik gave me the night before made the feeling all the more blissful. I got to the pack house and entered the common room. Almost immediately, I saw Sorscha sitting at the end of the room with some of the females in the packs.Seeing Sorscha's face and the thought of her being close to Dominik riled me up. "Just ignore her Elide," I muttered when I realized she wanted an out to snap Sorscha'a neck. "I do not w