The Luna He Threw Away

Stories

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This story is complete and the first book in The Wolves We Choose Series .

This is a rejected-mate werewolf romance with pregnancy, pack politics, betrayal, slow-burn chosen love, and emotional healing.

Content notes: public rejection, exile, pregnancy complications, emotional manipulation, violence/battle scenes, grief, and childbirth-related danger.

Tria gave Silvercrest everything—her loyalty, her heart, and her life as Luna.

Then Alpha Delvan rejected her before the entire pack and chose another woman in her place.

Exiled, wounded, and secretly pregnant with the children he cast out before he knew they existed, Tria runs into Ironwood territory, where Alpha Ravin offers her something she no longer believes in: sanctuary without chains.

But the bond Delvan shattered is not done hurting her, enemies are circling sacred land, and Tria must decide whether fate deserves the power to define her children’s future—or whether love is only sacred when it is chosen.

Complete Chapters 42

Rating 4.9 ( 81 reviews ) Age Rating mature

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Chapter 1: The Summons

Tria had braided moonflowers into her hair.

But Delvan had summoned her to the central courtyard just before moonrise, and the old part of her—the part that had loved him before fate ever named him hers—had wondered if tonight would be different.

Maybe he had finally remembered her.

Not his Luna. Not the woman who sat beside him in council, soothed angry families, blessed newborn pups, and smiled until her face ached.

The girl who had once raced him barefoot through Silvercrest’s pines. The girl who had shared stolen honey cakes with him behind the elder hall.

When the mate bond awakened two years later, silver-bright and burning beneath her ribs, Tria had believed the Moon Goddess had only confirmed what her heart already knew.

Now, as she crossed the stone path toward the courtyard, that bond gave a faint, uneasy throb.

Delvan had not looked at her properly in weeks.

He still kissed her brow in passing. Still let her sit at his side. Still asked her to calm disputes and comfort widows.

But at night, his side of the bed had gone cold.

Tria pushed the thought away. Her wolf stirred, restless under her skin.

Tonight Delvan had called for her.

Silvercrest filled the courtyard from the raised Alpha platform to the outer ring of pine torches. Warriors stood shoulder to shoulder. Healers clustered in pale robes. Mothers held children close.

Their scents struck Tria at once.

A little boy lifted his hand to wave, then lowered it when his mother gripped his shoulder.

At the far end of the courtyard, Delvan stood on the platform in ceremonial black, the clasp of Silvercrest shining at his throat. Moonlight caught in his dark hair. He looked every inch the Alpha she had helped him become.

Selene, with pale gold hair loose over one shoulder. Selene, dressed in soft blue like sorrow made beautiful. Selene, whose lashes lowered the moment Tria looked at her, as if she were the one about to be hurt.

The ache beneath Tria’s ribs sharpened.

Her feet moved because stopping would have meant showing weakness, and Tria had learned early that a Luna’s pain belonged behind closed doors.

She climbed the three steps to the platform.

His gaze flicked to the moonflowers in her hair.

For one terrible heartbeat, something moved across his face.

Her name sounded formal in his mouth.

A whisper rippled through the pack.

Tria looked from him to the gathered wolves, then back again. “What is this?”

Delvan straightened. Alpha command pressed into the air, heavy enough that several wolves lowered their eyes.

“I have made a decision,” Delvan announced. “A decision for the future of Silvercrest.”

Beta Garian stood near the platform steps, arms folded, expression carved from stone. When his eyes met Tria’s, she saw warning there.

Her wolf pressed hard against her ribs.

Because Silvercrest was her home.

Because surely, surely, he would not make this cruel.

“For too long,” Delvan said, “we have bowed to old laws without question. We have treated fate as if it were command. As if the Moon Goddess’s bond should decide what an Alpha needs.”

A shocked breath escaped someone below.

Tria’s fingers curled into her skirt.

Delvan looked over the pack, not at her. “Silvercrest cannot be led by sentiment. We cannot confuse tradition with strength, or devotion with duty. An Alpha must be free to choose what protects his pack, even when that choice is difficult.”

Sharp and polished. Like a blade he had spent weeks convincing himself was honorable.

“He must not be chained,” Delvan continued, “to a bond that no longer serves him.”

The words slid under Tria’s ribs.

She waited for him to look at her.

Selene’s hand trembled delicately at her side. Her mouth pressed into a wounded line.

The perfect picture of reluctant sorrow.

Tria suddenly hated the softness of her own flowers.

The mate bond inside her reached for him on instinct, desperate and bright, like a hand stretching through darkness.

“I have chosen my true Luna,” he said.

An elder pushed forward, cane striking stone. “This is unprecedented.”

Delvan’s jaw tightened. “It is necessary.”

Her whole body had become one listening wound.

“Delvan,” she whispered. “Do not do this.”

For one heartbeat, she saw the boy from the creek. The boy who had pressed a golden heart necklace into her palm at sixteen and said, “When I am Alpha, you will never stand alone.”

The necklace rested against her skin now.

Delvan’s attention snapped to her. His hand went to her elbow, steadying her.

A raw line of agony opened behind her sternum.

Delvan faced the pack. “I, Alpha Delvan of Silvercrest, reject Tria as my mate.”

Pain exploded through the bond, white and blinding. Her wolf howled inside her, but the sound lodged in Tria’s throat. The courtyard spun. Hands reached from below, then stopped, because no one dared climb the platform.

No one dared touch a Luna being destroyed by her Alpha.

Not in front of the children she had held through fevers. Not in front of the elders she had served. Not in front of the warriors whose wounds she had stitched.

Delvan continued, voice lower now.

“I strip her of the title of Luna.”

Warriors shifted. Mothers clutched children. Omegas began to cry. Somewhere, a young wolf growled until an older one pulled him back.

“But she is our Luna,” someone whispered.

Delvan heard it. His scent soured with anger, though his face stayed controlled.

“There is no room for two Lunas in Silvercrest,” he said.

Garian stepped forward. “Alpha.”

Delvan’s eyes cut to him. “Stand down.”

“The council has not agreed to exile.”

The word struck Tria harder than rejection.

Delvan looked back at her, and this time she saw the truth.

Maybe not the full cost. Maybe not how deep the wound would go.

And he had decided it was worth it.

“By dawn,” Delvan said, “you will leave Silvercrest territory.”

For one heartbeat, no one breathed.

She wanted him to flinch. Wanted him to bleed. Wanted him to take the words back, swallow them, choke on them.

Instead, he stood there with Selene at his side.

Selene finally raised her eyes.

Tria looked into that pretty, sorrowful face and saw nothing soft at all.

Fur rippled beneath her skin. Her bones ached with the need to change, to run, to bite, to do anything but stand on that platform and be carved apart by the male fate had given her.

“Say something,” Delvan said quietly.

His scent wrapped around her, familiar enough to be unbearable. Pine smoke. Cold rain. Every night she had believed love was sacred because the Goddess had made it so.

“I hope she was worth the pack you just broke.”

Tria turned before either could answer.

The pack parted as she descended. Not because she commanded them. Because grief moved like a blade, and no one wanted to be cut.

She crossed the courtyard with rejection burning through her blood and moonflowers trembling in her hair.

Maybe they were waiting for Delvan to call it back.

Some foolish, bleeding part of her waited for his hand on her wrist. For his voice to crack. For him to say her name the way he used to.

Behind her, Delvan’s voice rose, wrapped in Alpha command.

The last thread of hope inside her went quiet.

There was no room left in her human body for that much pain.

Her dress tore as she shifted. Bones snapped and reformed. Fur burst over skin. The moonflowers scattered across the stone like little white deaths. Her wolf hit the ground hard, claws scraping, the golden necklace tangled in the thick ruff at her throat.

She bounded through the arch and past the herb gardens she had planted, past the nursery den, past the council hall where her handwriting filled records Delvan had never bothered to read.

Silvercrest had been her home from the first breath she remembered taking.

Now it spat her out beneath the moon.

The forest swallowed her at the edge of the village. Branches whipped her face. Earth flew beneath her paws. The torn bond dragged behind her like a chain hooked into her chest, but her wolf ran harder.

Until the torches became sparks between the trees.

Until only the moon remained above her, and agony inside her.

Then, faintly, carried through the dark by the bond that still refused to die, she heard Delvan’s voice.

For one terrible heartbeat, the girl with honey cakes and muddy knees looked back from inside her.

1 Chapter 1: The Summons 2 Chapter 2: The Luna Who Ran 3 Chapter 3: The Border Wolf 4 Chapter 4: Ironwood 5 Chapter 5: For the Babies 6 Chapter 6: The False Luna 7 Chapter 7: Sanctuary, Not Chains 8 Chapter 8: A Pack Without Its Heart 9 Chapter 9: The Necklace 10 Chapter 10: Cracks in the Crown 11 Chapter 11: The Pain That Remains 12 Chapter 12: The Sacred Water 13 Chapter 13: The Pack That Sheltered Her 14 Chapter 14: The Pack He Broke 15 Chapter 15: Toward the Moon Pool 16 Chapter 16: The Moon Pool 17 Chapter 17: No Longer His 18 Chapter 18: The Border 19 Chapter 19: The Exile of Selene 20 Chapter 20: A Daughter's Failure 21 Chapter 21: The Old Story Cracks 22 Chapter 22: The Warning That Does Not Come 23 Chapter 23: Those Are My People 24 Chapter 24: March to Silvercrest 25 Chapter 25: The Pack She Saved 26 Chapter 26: The Moon Pool War 27 Chapter 27: After the Howling 28 Chapter 28: The Alpha Who Bowed 29 Chapter 29: I Choose 30 Chapter 30: The Alpha Reckoning 31 Chapter 31: The Alliance 32 Chapter 32: Ironwood's Future Luna 33 Chapter 33: The Necklace in the Earth 34 Chapter 34: The First Kiss 35 Chapter 35: The Letter 36 Chapter 36: Blackridge Without Darius 37 Chapter 37: The Pups Without Fate 38 Chapter 38: Before the Birth 39 Chapter 39: Born Too Soon 40 Chapter 40: The Cry That Woke Her 41 Chapter 41: A Father's Place 42 Chapter 42: The Chosen Ceremony

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