Her Second Moon

After his fated mate died, Alpha Killian Thorne spent ten years resenting me.

I was the Omega healer he never chose—bound to him by duty, not love.

A substitute. A scar on a bond neither of us asked for.

No matter how deeply I healed his wounds, no matter how quietly I stayed by his side, all he ever said was:

“If you really want to please me, Clara… then disappear.”

But when death came charging, it wasn’t I who fell.

He did.

Bleeding out in my arms, Killian looked at me one last time and whispered:

“If only I’d never met you…”

At the funeral, his mother wept.

“He should’ve been with Selena. I never should’ve let him mate with you.”

His father’s glare cut through me.

“Killian saved you three times. Why wasn’t it you in that grave?”

Everyone regretted that he had bonded with me.

Even I did, too.

I was cast out of the pack with nothing—

No title.

No Luna severance.

No den to call my own.

And then… perhaps the Moon Goddess took pity on me.

She gave me one final chance to rewrite fate.

This time, I won’t beg for his love.

This time, I won’t tether him to pain.

This time, I’ll sever the bond before it begins.

I could already hear the gears of fate turning, and this time, I would move first.

After his fated mate died, Alpha Killian Thorne spent ten years resenting me.

I was the Omega healer he never chose—bound to him by duty, not love.

A substitute. A scar on a bond neither of us asked for.

No matter how deeply I healed his wounds, no matter how quietly I stayed by his side, all he ever said was:

“If you really want to please me, Clara… then disappear.”

But when death came charging, it wasn’t I who fell.

He did.

Bleeding out in my arms, Killian looked at me one last time and whispered:

“If only I’d never met you…”

At the funeral, his mother wept.

“He should’ve been with Selena. I never should’ve let him mate with you.”

His father’s glare cut through me.

“Killian saved you three times. Why wasn’t it you in that grave?”

Everyone regretted that he had bonded with me.

Even I did, too.

I was cast out of the pack with nothing—

No title.

No Luna severance.

No den to call my own.

And then… perhaps the Moon Goddess took pity on me.

She gave me one final chance to rewrite fate.

This time, I won’t beg for his love.

This time, I won’t tether him to pain.

This time, I’ll sever the bond before it begins.

I could already hear the gears of fate turning, and this time, I would move first.

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A blinding light burst from the hands of the Moon Goddess.

I squeezed my eyes shut, but Killian Thorne’s voice sliced through the brilliance like a blade.

“My parents threatened to die if I didn’t