Rejected Under a Silver Moon

by Lyra Thorne

Heat 4 / 5 · 21+Novel · 25 chapters73,157 words5h 18m read~8h 8m listen

Under a veiled October moon, the Cascades breathe cold and wet around Moonveil lodge, and Thea Dunne finds a cream-dyed scent collar on the porch rail — its wax-red sigil humming like a threat she can’t yet name. She has spent three years muting her bond with discipline and bitter teas, mapping borders instead of trusting the instincts that once cost an omega everything. Tonight, the pack challenge changes all the rules.

When the alpha council invokes an ancient clause — resolve your bond or be forfeited to the victor — Thea’s carefully guarded half-muted tie to boundary enforcer Boden Pereira becomes a political weapon. Boden, the alpha-born heir who once rejected her on this very porch to satisfy the council’s agenda, is back from patrol with rival blood on his shirt and their shared scent surging through every wall she built. He offers to stand as her witness if she refuses him. She doesn’t know whether to believe him. She doesn’t know if she can afford not to.

Together they walk the storm-dark ridgelines to reinforce the warded boundary before dawn, and the closer they move, the more the lies between them unravel — tampered wardlines, a traitor inside the pack, and a rejection that may never have been his choice to make.

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