The Ugly Luna
READING AGE 18+
For eleven years, Ellie has worn a lie like a second skin.
On her mother's dying wish, the daughter of the Moon Wolf Alpha hides her beauty behind a homemade ointment and plays the clumsy, worthless girl her family already believes her to be. Her stepmother dresses her in rags. Her half-sister uses her as an ugly mirror to shine in. Her father looks straight through her. She endures all of it, because her mother promised her one thing: when your wolf wakes, everything changes.
Then, on her eighteenth birthday, in a rotting gown at a ceremony meant to crown someone else—it does.
Adrian, the ruthless Alpha of the Sun Wolf Pack, came to the Moon Wolf lands to seal a political marriage he never wanted. What he finds instead is a once-in-a-century Golden Wolf, hidden in plain sight, and a scent that tells him what the Elders' Council never could: mine.
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ELLIE
I cross the yard to the main building and take the elevator up. His office door is open.
He's behind the desk. Ivy is in the chair across from him.
They both look up.
"Ellie." Adrian is already on his feet. "I didn't know you were coming."
"I needed something from the ward." I come in and hold up my ……
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