Chapter 1-----Sorry I’m Late, Zoe

“Why… Lukas…”

Zoe’s breath caught as fingers tightened around her throat, her face flushing with strain. Tears gathered in her eyes, reflecting bewilderment and fear. Before her stood Alpha Lukas, Alpha of the Moonstorm pack. the man she had just married. He was also the man she had loved for more than ten years.

Zoe’s father Alpha Bryan Blackburn of the Moonstorm pack, had arranged for her to marry the only son of his Beta, Lukas who became Alpha Lukas after Zoe’s father transferred the Alpha power to him.

This was supposed to be their wedding night. The night when he finally marked her as his. Yet the gentle, attentive man from earlier that day had vanished, replaced by a stranger whose icy demeanor radiated unmistakable loathing. There was hatred deep in his eyes. It was as if he wanted nothing but to tear her apart limb by limb. She tried weakly to pull his hand away, but her efforts only provoked him to squeeze down on her throat harder. The edges of her vision darkened as the air left her lungs.