Breaking the Bond That Broke Me

I gave everything to save my fated mate, Alpha Austen. I even lost our pups. Twice.

But he gave all the credit to his adoptive sister, Seraphina. He called me weak. Useless.

He always chose her tears over my scars.

He even stood by as her poison shattered my wolf spirit.

As I lay dying, I watched him hold my killer and whisper, “I know it wasn’t your fault. This was her fate.”

Then I opened my eyes. And I was back. Back before it all went wrong.

This time, I’m done explaining. Done sacrificing.

Right in front of him, I disguised a potion that would sever our mate bond as a "blessing elixir" and held it to his lips.

“My love,” I said, “drink this. It’ll help you comfort your poor little sister.”

He drank it without a second thought.

In thirty days, under the Blood Moon, our mate bond will be severed for good.

But only when I was truly gone did he finally regret it.

He knelt before me, again and again, calling himself my fated mate. Begging me to take him back.

I lost our pup trying to save my fated mate, Alpha Austen. But he gave his adoptive sister, Seraphina, all the credit. He decided I was weak, unfit to be his Luna.

Later, he let her poison me. Stood by and watched as my wolf spirit shattered.

I died in agony. The last thing I heard was Austen, holding Seraphina in his arms.

"She brought this on herself," he whispered to her. "You were more than good to her. It's not your fault."

"No!"

I shot up, gasping, awakened from the nightmare. The room was familiar, yet strange.

This was the pack's main house, where I lived when I was still Luna.

I stumbled to the vanity, my own reflection staring back. My cheeks were healthy, flushed with life. No trace of the poison that had rotted me from the inside out.

I was... reborn.

Back to a time before my wolf had shattered, right after Seraphina had poisoned me for the first time.

A sharp cramp twisted in my gut. I felt the tiny life inside me.

This was before I lost my first pup.

The memory of Austen's betrayal, the way his scent mingled with Seraphina's, sent a familiar stab of pain through my chest.

I took a deep breath and got out of bed.

No time to dwell on the past. I quickly changed into a long black dress and threw on a cloak.

Twenty minutes later, I stood before a dilapidated hut deep in the forest.

"I need a Moon-Eclipse Potion," I said, my voice was flat. "One that severs a mate bond."

The witch pulled a black vial from a shelf. "The potion takes thirty days to work. On the night of the blood moon, the chains of your fate will be broken completely."

She pushed the vial toward me. "The price is a single drop of your heart's