The Forgotten Luna by Cassandra M

Chapter 16

MIRANDA.

Even before I found out Dexter was my mate, I was already attracted to him. But he was just a Beta, and I dreamed of bigger things.

I wanted to be a Luna.

Dexter was smart enough not to tell anyone that I was his mate until we were able to find time to talk.

Since Khalid and I were not fated mates, even if in the end he marked me, he was not able to feel my infidelity. The same way Dexter never felt anything whenever I had sex with Khalid.

Only fated mates who marked each other could feel their mate's infidelity. Without the bond sealed by marking, everyone was free to fuck around.

So I fucked around behind my husband's back.

Sex with Dexter was explosive. From the get-go, I knew I wanted him, but I also wanted this pack. So there was no way I was leaving Khalid for him.

I did my best to make him understand. I swayed him to continue with our pretension that we had nothing while formulating a plan together. Besides, Dexter didn't want to step down from his position. Like me, he dreamed of bigger things. Khalid entrusted me to Dexter during my trips outside of the pack. He had no idea I scheduled those trips so I could have a taste of Dexter without interruption.

Then, the day I'd been waiting for finally came. Khalid died. Given that Kael was only twenty-four at the time, the right process was for Dexter to become Alpha until Kael turned twenty-five, the ripe age for handling a pack.

But I thought that once Dexter stepped up as Alpha, we could cast out Kael.

However, I underestimated Kael. He raised his concern with the Alpha King and sent proof that he was capable of handling the pack, and his request was granted right away.

still stay

the Luna, at least my daughter would be, and I would still

at the beginning. They got engaged, but then my

with Adessa was merely

Kael's life and from this pack. I even resorted to sending rude letters signed by her to establishments and businesses within the territory so they would hate her more. But regardless of how the people see her, Kael didn't budge.

falling in love with her and was planning to propose to her. Kael began preparing everything needed to renew their

I panicked.

to come back from traveling with her boyfriend, and I began planting doubts in Adessa's head on days that Kael was not home by letting her hear

and he would just shrug his shoulders. He told her she

that. I knew she felt Kael was planning to divorce her. I

I was running out of time, so I had no

his car,

wipe out his memory. Or he might end up marrying her again when he wakes up. Or worse, he would realize someone had broken his car, and that could be our

while unconscious, Dexter had been injecting Kael with high doses of banned solutions that could alter a person's memory. With the number of injections he gave him, I was expecting him to lose his

thought

by

could wake up.

her existence since Dexter had already wiped out all evidence that he was planning to propose and marry her including disposing of the new ring, canceling the

unexpectedly and with just a memory

was better than remembering the last

the news to me, saying that she thought Adessa and Kael had been intimate. It was the scene Kael saw before I handed

an answer, so I abruptly turned my face to the side before pushing him off me. "What now?" He