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 in this house. It was then that I realized

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

engaged, but then my stupid daughter made a mistake, and

Dexter that his relationship with Adessa was merely an agreement. No

my best to kick Adessa from 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,

Dexter told me that Kael was falling in love with her and was

I panicked.

I began planting doubts in Adessa's head on days that Kael was not home by letting her hear

I heard her ask Kael where he'd been for most of the day, and he would just shrug

felt Kael was planning to divorce her. I thought she would leave on

her was approaching. I was running out of time,

tampered with his car, and the accident

a hawk, we knew we had no other way out but to wipe out his memory. Or he might end up marrying her again when he wakes up. Or

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 Adessa

up by Alpha

wake up.

tell him about her existence since Dexter had already wiped out all evidence that he was planning to propose and marry her including disposing of the

Kael woke up unexpectedly and with just a

it was better than remembering the

seemed he was still smitten with my daughter. Until Desiree broke the news to me, saying that she thought Adessa and Kael had been intimate. It was the scene Kael saw before I handed her Adessa's letter. Everything kept messing up.

an answer, so I abruptly turned my face to