Chapter 1

"I can be your Luna, and we can go to the Moon Goddess and swear an oath right now."

My voice was calm and firm, as if announcing an irreversible fate.

William obviously hadn’t expected me to agree so straightforwardly. His golden pupils shrank slightly, like a wolf stalking its prey in the dark. A playful smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, revealing sharp canine teeth. He stretched out his hand and his fingertips brushed across my cheek. The rough touch carried the intense heat unique to werewolves, as if it could burn my skin.

"Then you wait for me to marry you?" His voice was low and hoarse, with an unquestionable majesty.

"What? Are you really willing?" He was stunned for a moment, and then asked incredulously, "I am tyrannical and abuse women. Won’t you reconsider?"

I looked straight into his eyes and nodded. His smile instantly widened, revealing more sharp teeth, like a wolf that finally caught its prey.

"Then it's settled!" There was a hint of excitement in his voice, "But don't worry, after all, you are my Luna. I have to prepare well. I will come to pick you up after I have begun prepare the preparations for our wedding ceremony in five days."

After that, he turned and left, his steps light, like a wolf running in the moonlight. His back disappeared outside the tent, leaving only a faint earthy scent.

Is such a man really as cruel as the legend says? A trace of curiosity arose in my heart, but another emotion-dread soon overwhelmed me.

"Harper, are you there?" Jonah's low voice came from outside the tent, interrupted my thoughts.

The next moment, he directly lifted the curtain and walked in. His figure was tall and familiar, but at this moment it made me feel extremely strange. His silver-gray pupils flickered in the dim light, like an uneasy wolf.

"Who... who were you talking to just now? What wedding ceremony?" There was a hint of tension in his voice, as if he smelled some kind of threat.

I rolled my eyes in annoyance. "What's it got to do with you? You're a wolf with a partner. Why are you looking for me?"

He took a step forward and stretched out his hand to pull my hand, but I dodged it sideways. His fingertips paused in the air, then clenched into a fist, and his knuckles turned white because of the force.

"Harper, I know you're still angry with me." His voice was low and hoarse, with a hint of pleading, "But I really can't sit idly by and watch Emma's matter. After all, you know those rumors about William. I just couldn't bear to see her being tortured by William, so I took her away."

I lowered my head, and a sneer appeared at the corner of my mouth. He couldn't bear to see Emma being tortured by William? So, he had the heart to watch me being criticized and wronged in vain?

Jonah and I were designated as destined partners, three years ago. We have been getting along as partners, and everyone knew that I was to be his woman in the future. But I didn't expect that he would mark someone else before the bond ceremony!

What will the other people in the wolf pack think of me? A female werewolf abandoned by her destined partner; I would become the object of everyone's ridicule! How could he not see the grievances I had suffered! For Emma? ​​Didn’t he care about my life or death. I didn’t want such a man!

Jonahwas still explaining incessantly: "Harper, I have always loved you the most. Can you give me a little more time? I marked Emma just to let her escape from William's clutches! After Emma finds her true partner, I will release my mate bond with her, and then mark you, and compensate you with a grand bond ceremony."

I listened to his light words, and my heart became completely chilled.

We have been dating for so long, and he chose to wrong me for Emma, ​​and still said he loved me? What a hypocritical wolf!

"I won't wait for you. I have found my destined partner, Jonah. Put away your cheap love!"

Jonah's face sank, and his pupils shrank into a thin line, like a wolf about to attack. There was a hint of a threat in his voice: "Harper, don't be ungrateful. I am the Head Beta of thepack. As long as I say a word, no one will dare to marry you! When the time comes, you will come back to me, obediently?"

I stared at him with my eyes wide open in disbelief. I didn't expect that my mate who I had grown up with together would say such shameless words.

"Jonah, are you so sure that I will let you do whatever you want?" My voice was cold and sharp, like a knife unsheathed.

Jonah sneered, revealing his sharp canine teeth: "What else can you do? If you don't obey, you will end up alone!"

I was so angry that I trembled all over, and the wolf instinct in my body almost broke through the shackles of reason. My nails grew longer, unconsciously, and there was a tingling pain in my fingertips.

"Get out of here!" I growled, with the roar of a werewolf in my voice, "Even if I don't marry for the rest of my life, I will never marry you again! You hypocritical Beta!"

After that, I pushed him out of the tent. His figure looked particularly embarrassed in the moonlight, like a wolf driven out of its territory.

The tent was silent again, with only my rapid breathing. I looked down at my hands. The wolf claws on my fingertips had retracted, but the anger in my heart could not be calmed for a long time.

I knew that from this moment on, my fate would no longer be controlled by anyone. Neither Jonah nor William could make me surrender. I am Harper, a female werewolf of the Moon Shadow Pack, and my fate belonged only to me.