THE FORGOTTEN LUNA novel 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.

I had no choice but to pretend I was happy for him so I could still stay in this house. It was then that I realized I needed to push Desiree further.

If I couldn’t be the Luna, at least my daughter would be, and I would still not be disregarded.

Everything went well at the beginning. They got engaged, but then my stupid daughter made a mistake, and Kael ended up marrying Adessa.

Kael admitted to Dexter that his relationship with Adessa was merely an agreement. No emotions attached.

So, for the last whole year, I’d been trying 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, Kael didn’t budge. He remained faithful to her.

Until Dexter told me that Kael was falling in love with her and was planning to propose to her. Kael began preparing everything needed to renew their vows.

I panicked.

I asked Desiree 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 that Desiree was back.

I succeeded. I heard her ask Kael where he’d been for most of the day, and he would just shrug his shoulders. He told her she would know one of these days.

I saw Adessa cry after that. I knew she felt Kael was planning to divorce her. I thought she would leave on her own, but she stuck around.