Bonded Beyond Lies by Ember Davis

Author:Ember Davis [Davis, Ember]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-10-03T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 10

SERENITY

I’ve been at Blood Rising for a week, and I have never felt more at home in a pack and that includes the time in Waning Moon before everything changed. After I was made an official member of Blood Rising, the feeling of being at home in my pack has only grown.

There is something about this place that calls to me. Maybe it’s because of my connection with Tristan. Maybe it’s something else. It doesn’t really matter either way.

I’m happy.

For the first time in so long, I’m happy.

I even had a good time going shopping with Cora. That woman can shop until she drops, rest a little bit, and then keep going. It would be inspiring, if it wasn’t so exhausting.

Everyone has been welcoming toward me, even the females who were scowling at me when I first arrived. I’ve been wary of them the most, but I didn’t give them enough credit. They love their pack and want their Alpha to be happy.

I was very surprised when one of the scowling women came up to me when I was in the food court in the mall with Cora. From the look on Cora’s face, I wasn’t the only one who was surprised. She looked like a fish out of water, and I had to stop myself from laughing at her.

“Good afternoon, Luna,” the woman greeted me and even though I expected to hear derision in her tone and had steeled myself for it, it wasn’t there. “My name is London.”

“Hello, London,” I tried to be cheerful, even through my wariness. From the way her shoulders slumped, I don’t think I did a very good job. I cleared my throat and tried again, for the pack’s sake, for Tristan’s sake. “Would you like to join us?”

She smiled at me, a genuine smile that was nothing like the sucking lemons face she made when I entered the dining hall on my first morning at Blood Rising. It made me like her a little more, but it was hard to forget the hard-earned lessons from Waning Moon. I wasn’t going to judge her, not yet, but I was trying to be ready for anything.

“Luna,” she murmured softly after sitting, “I just wanted to apologize to you.”

“What?” I shook my head, my eyebrows knitted together. “What do you need to apologize to me for?”

“I didn’t like you,” she admitted while grimacing which had Cora’s eyebrows shooting up to her hairline. “I didn’t want to like you even before you came here.” She sighed as if the weight of the world was on her shoulders. It was almost comical; almost. “Some of the she-wolves in the pack, me included, didn’t want to like you because Alpha Tristan is an attractive male. We’ve seen the way he has waited for you, always putting the pack first and never making your existence and his desire to wait for you a secret.”

I felt a blush creep up my neck. I knew Tristan was waiting for me and told his pack about me, but it was different hearing about it from a pack member.

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