Rain

Behind me, Caleb stills.

I will do anything.

Caleb begged me the same yesterday when he asked me for a chance.

“You have a pup to think of. I, Rain Stillwater, accept your rejection, Jordan Reed. I also reject you and renounce being the future Luna of Crescent Moon Pack and the Guardian of the Portal to the Diamond Realm.”

I expect to feel pain, but there is none. If anything, I feel… free. Jordan is gripping his shirt hard. For a short while, he made me happy.

“You rejected him.” Caleb seems surprised.

Letting go of him, I start to walk away. “I would never let a child grow up without a family the way I did,” I say over my shoulder to Caleb.

When I walk past Jordan, he says to me, “I contacted Caleb as soon as I saw the videos, but he told me you were not in his pack. He lied to me. If he had told me the truth from the beginning, I would not have wasted so much time begging the Council to grant me permission to enter his territory. Maybe if Caleb had told the truth, you would