Werewolf

At Midnight I Stopped Being His Luna

by Jasmine Flower

Everyone in our pack thought Alpha Rowan and I were the perfect mates.Every winter, the river along the northern border froze over, giving rogue wolves a way into our territory. Rowan led the patrols himself. Most years, he stayed until after New Year’s.For three winters, something had kept me from joining him.The first year, his mother was poisoned with wolfsbane. I fought through a blizzard to save her and lost the pup I had carried for five months.The second, a rogue ambush left more than a dozen patrol wolves wounded. I stayed to treat them and missed my chance to travel.The third, I learned my grandmother was dying just as I was about to leave.This year, a few weeks before New Year’s, I found out I was pregnant again.I told no one. I took the healer’s report north, hoping to surprise Rowan.Outside his border residence, I saw a three-year-old boy sitting on his lap, calling him Daddy.The woman beside the fireplace brought over a freshly baked cake.“Won’t your Luna be angry when she finds out?”Rowan shook his head, perfectly certain.“I’ll make it up to her. She loves me too much to leave.”I stood outside with one hand over my still-flat stomach.The report I had brought him slipped from my fingers into the snow.

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