Chapter 1

My childhood sweetheart Alpha Logan promised to mark me after my first shift at eighteen.

But on the day of the First Shift Ceremony, he marked my stepsister Serena's neck in front of everyone.

And Alpha Cain, the most powerful Alpha from the neighboring territory, walked up to me while the crowd was still in shock, dropped to one knee, and asked if I'd be his Luna.

For three years after the mating, he treated me like I was everything. I thought it was the Moon Goddess's way of making it up to me.

Until I opened his safe.

Inside were over a thousand photos of Serena. And a letter in his handwriting—

"Serena, since I can't make you my Luna, I'll protect you for the rest of my life."

So that's why he'd kept me away from herbal research for three years. It wasn't because he was worried about me overworking myself. He was afraid my talent would overshadow Serena and threaten her position as chief healer.

So I planned a fake death.

If you love her that much, then let's never see each other again.

But when he saw my "body"—why did he lose his mind?