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Chapter 8

Author: Maia Levone
last update Last Updated: 2024-11-07 20:19:09
Connor

Watching my mate suffer was not in my life plans.

Just before I felt the call of the Temple, I was drinking with Aris and told him about the problem I was having in my pack: the council was pressuring me to accept an alliance with another powerful pack through marriage.

The fact that the Elders were putting an ancient practice on the table so that at last my pack would have a Luna was insulting, but for them to entertain the possibility that I would never have a mate was humiliating.

I didn't know how to really feel, my wolf wanted to kill everyone for the audacity of forcing us to resort to a fake relationship. The sad thing was to see Aris' reaction was grim.

“Do they really want to marry you off like that?” asked Aris in horror.

The old vampire had been a friend of my family for centuries and saved my great-grandfather in the last supernatural war, so he forged a strong bond with my family that was nearly broken by my father but which I regained. If there was anyone who could
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