The Luna He Rejected Is The Millennium Wolf

na's

ame Luna of t

r a long time. Longer

han I expected. I held my breath and waited for the moment to

time. I should have felt something like pride wearing it. Instead it pulled wrong at

kids running through these halls. He told me I was the re

I hea

st skin. Wet. A rhythm I recognized

the door, ahead of the rest of me, while some o

fume, thick enough that I could tast

k, her throat bare, her mouth working low against his

was calm. "Tell me whos

ow it i

he used to end an argument wit

sideways to the dresser, to the box of hairpins finished that morning for m

dn't move after that. I just stood

lled her closer, and something crossed his fa

Nobody down there knew yet that

and something that wanted to hurt me, at the academy, in the pack hal

ver prote

decidin

move. Then one sob broke out of me, too loud for the

e'd given me. My father, driven out while the whole pack watched and looked away. I stood the

l. I bit down on the inside of my cheek until I tasted

ndle turn before I

s stayed on the rug the whole time he crossed the room. He shru

still up,

ng. "Lucas, after everything we've sha

once. "The ceremony was a chore. I

cho

ve out, slow, like a hel

t tonight

ooks at a door right before they

Fang, reject you," he sa

d didn'

e. All

down into my collarbone, and for a second

against the stone beneath it. My hands reache

atter, though the gown sti

the sound of my knees hitting the fl

discussing the weather. "You will keep the title publicly. People

hy

art on its way o

I love

was close to mine. Cedar and her

he said. "A broken wolf. You

t long enough

will keep the son

vy

before I understo

Luna's robe. My robe. She looked down at me on the floor the way

s shook, and my hands kept

thing closer to fury now. "How dare

t, Si

a Co

king every muscle at once. My cheek hit the marble. Dust filled

hen you speak to my

ipped my face up. She studied me the way someone s

gentle. "Is it starting? Your

I wanted to. My throat was still locked shut. I lay there and looked a

ght moved somewhere above her head, and I couldn

out from the sh

d looked the day they drove my father out of the pack lands. Calm. The calm of s

oug

. Fi

honing needs to begin before dawn

me. The world just cut out, be

s Lucas's footsteps, walking away

hing. Ju

longer