Chapter 5

Damian glanced at me.“Don't be ridiculous.I don't have a mate.That contract should have been torn up long ago.”

Even now,my heart ached as if gripped by an icy claw.

Damian was different from the others in the pack.He had been my companion when I was a stray in the human world.

An enemy pack had broken his leg,and he was barely surviving in a human city as a lone wolf.

I pretended to be human and took care of him.

He couldn't walk,so I stole food for him and fought off the bums who bullied him.

One winter,a few thugs stole his only crutch to use as firewood.

I shielded him with my body,and they hung me from a tree and threw rocks at me.

My head was bleeding,and my blood was everywhere.

Damian held my freezing body and cried all night.

He said,“Ilara,when I get my strength back,I'll become the strongest Alpha and protect you.”

I smiled,half-conscious,and I believed him.

Later,when my pack found me,the first thing I did was ask them to accept Damian.

To let an outsider stay,I guaranteed it with my own pure bloodline and proposed we become destined mates.

Kyle called me a slut for wanting a lone wolf right after returning.

I knelt at the altar for seven days and nights without food or water,my knees bleeding on the sharp stones,just to get that mate contract.

It wasn't that my parents and brother disliked Damian.It was that they thought his bloodline was weak and unworthy of me,their“tool.”They wanted me to marry into a more powerful pack to be a stepping stone for Selena.

The day I went to get Damian,his eyes were red.He held me tight and swore to the moon goddess:

“Ilara,once I have a place in the Silver Moon pack,I will hold the grandest ceremony for you!”

But he never did.