The Cursed Wolf King: A Fated Mates Wolf Shifter Forbidden Romance (Shadow Moon Shifters Book 1) by Harley Hunt

Author:Harley Hunt [Hunt, Harley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lumina Nox
Published: 2025-04-03T00:00:00+00:00

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LOGAN

The moon was high, spilling its pale light over Orion lands with a peacefulness that only the Shadow Moon Goddess could give, but I couldn’t sleep.

Not with her so close.

From across the village, I felt her unrest, a faint ripple of energy tugging at me like the pull of a distant tide. Eve was pacing in the bungalow. The muffled sound of her footsteps reached me through the quiet night, her movements restless, as though her thoughts had tangled themselves into knots she couldn’t undo.

My wolf stirred, his irritation flaring. Go to her. My wolf was annoyingly insistent. Soothe her.

“I’m not soothing anyone,” I muttered under my breath, pushing the heel of my hand against my temple. He didn’t care.

Touch her, he pressed, his tone turning carnal, possessive. Claim her. She’s ours.

“Enough,” I snapped.

The silence that followed was deafening, but my wolf wasn’t gone—he was just waiting, watching, smug in the knowledge I wasn’t getting any sleep either.

I threw off the covers, swung my legs over the side of the bed, and sat there for a long moment, staring at the shadows stretching across the floor. I couldn’t ignore her presence. Couldn’t ignore her.

I dressed quickly and slipped out of my cabin into the night, the cool air brushing against my skin. I calmed my heartbeat and silenced my steps. The last thing I needed was to face Rhys or one of the others right now. I carefully took a back pathway, one I knew well from my childhood that led to the bungalow.

It had been my grandparents’ home once, a place that smelled of a crackling fire and baking bread, where the walls echoed with laughter and the occasional reprimand when we were caught raiding the fridge. I remembered climbing the roof with Rhys, Wyatt, and Nash, daring each other to jump off to see who’d chicken out first. This house had been a place of safety, a haven of unyielding love, even when we’d pushed every boundary.

How I’d loved my grandparents.

How I missed them.

They were taken in one of the first raids during my father’s alpha reign. The bungalow had been empty of residents all these years, as no one dared to step into it, knowing what the place had been to our family.

When Eve arrived, I knew right away. It was hers.

My mate.

The word still felt foreign, wrong in my head. Everyone knew the Great Separation shattered the concept of fated mates, severing bonds that had once been undeniable and absolute. Fated mates were myths, relics of a time long gone.

So why did every part of me—every instinct, every nerve, every ounce of my being—rebel against that knowledge?

It’s no mistake, my wolf growled, his confidence irritating me.

“She’s manipulative,” I murmured. “She’s played me, lied to me…” I trailed off, unsure of who I was trying to convince.

Even as I thought it, I couldn’t reconcile those actions with the woman I’d seen these past days—the woman who resisted Grayson’s commands, who carried a weight in her eyes that spoke of wounds far deeper than the ones on her skin.

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