The Bloodmoon Pack was already a dominant force, but when Landon made a move–it was swift, merciless, and absolute.
Within a single night, multiple allied packs suddenly severed all ties with Carter’s pack. In the human world, his company’s stock plummeted like falling stars.
I sat in bed with the TV tuned to the finance channel, watching Carter’s company stock plummet. I made a mock “nose dive” gesture with my hand, a small smirk curling on my lips.
The satisfaction was sweet.
But just as I was enjoying the spectacle, my phone lit up.
Carter.
My smile vanished.
The moment I saw his name, my stomach turned. My fingers curled around the edge of the phone, muscles tensing involuntarily.
I didn’t even hesitate.
Iblocked the number.
Across the sea, Carter stared at his phone in disbelief as the call failed. No warning. No ring. Just an automated message–and then silence.
His face darkened instantly, the weariness on his brow giving way to cold, sharp rage.
He flew back from France, storming into the pack house only to discover the news that made his
blood boil.
Tobias had let me go.
Furious, Carter demanded him be banished from the pack immediately.
Tobias–his father’s Beta, the one who had helped raise him–looked at him with disappointment clouding his tired eyes.
“Before I leave, Alpha,” Tobias said quietly, “there’s something you need to hear.”
“Luna is a good woman. She’s never hurt anyone.”
“When the company nearly went bankrupt, when the pack was falling apart–she was the one who
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went out and negotiated with other Alphas and Lunas, day and night. She barely slept. She bled for this pack.”
“She saved all of us. Including you.”
“You’re going to regret this one day.”
“Enough!” Carter roared, hurling a vase across the room. It shattered against the wall.
“She’s the reason Mila suffered so much, and you’re still defending her?!”
Tobias said nothing more.
He simply shook his head and walked away from the pack he’d spent twenty years protecting
Alone in his study, Carter was swarmed by chaos.
Bad news piled up like a flood.
People he once considered allies were ghosting him. Business contacts ignored his calls. Some cen mocked him outright.
“You reap what you sow,” they said.
He clutched his temples, trying to block it all out.
“Harper… how the hell did she pull this off?”
The table in front of him was covered in files, but none of them offered a way out. No miracle contract. No easy bailout.
He couldn’t help but think angrily, back when the company was on the brink of collapse, how did 1 manage to bring it back to life?
Frustrated beyond belief, he kicked over the chair beside him and paced,
For the first time, the silence got to him.
He sat down heavily, staring at nothing, a strange unease creeping into his chest.
Where had I gone?
He started digging. Reached out to old informants. Called every source he could think of.
But there was nothing.
No trace.
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When I became his Luna, I had cut ties with Landon and claimed to be an orphan. No one knew my real origins. And now, my disappearance was gnawing at him like a festering wound.
Then his phone buzzed.
A message.
For one brief, pathetic second, he thought it might be me. Maybe I had finally come to my senses. Maybe I was ready to come home.
But no.
It was an alert from his bank.
The secondary credit card–one he’d gifted Mila–had just exceeded its 20 million limit. A single transaction for 6 million had triggered the overdraft.
He stared at the screen in disbelief.
He couldn’t help but think of me. I never spent like that! I used to wear the same few outfits for years. I never bought myself expensive things.
He used to mock me for it–called me boring, plain, unfashionable.
Yet now… those memories seemed oddly comforting.
Just as the thought struck him, his phone rang.
Mila.
Her syrupy voice now grated on his nerves.
“Carter, the card’s not working. Can you give me another one? There’s a bag I really want…”
He pinched the bridge of his nose. “Mila, the pack and the company are both in crisis. I can’t free up funds right now. Can you-
”
“What?! All this over a little money?” she snapped, instantly irritated, “You’re so stingy! I don’t care. Just give me a new card. I’m coming back to get it myself.”
She hung up before he could reply.
No discussion. No compromise
Carter sat frozen in place, phone still in hand, for a long, long moment.
For the first time, he felt it
Annoyance.
Not at the situation.
At Mila.
The woman he had once found so gentle and perfect now felt like a stranger.
He leaned back in his chair, drained, exhausted, and utterly defeated.
And in his mind–unbidden–rose an image he couldn’t shake.
My pale face. My resolute eyes. The way I looked at him the last time we met.
“Harper…” he murmured, voice hoarse.
But there was no one to answer.
The news played on in the background, anchor voices detailing the collapse of his empire, investors panicking, analysts predicting disaster.
Bad news came like a tidal wave. And he couldn’t breathe.
Meanwhile…
Landon and I were enjoying dinner in a Michelin–starred restaurant, bathed in candlelight and soft
laughter.
