Luna Challenges Alpha's Rule

Synopsis

I woke to darkness pressing against my chest like a physical weight, my wolf Luna whimpering deep within my consciousness. The sensation was wrong—fundamentally, terrifyingly wrong. In ten years of being mated to Amir, I'd never experienced this hollow ache that seemed to gnaw at the very core of our bond. The sheets beside me were cold. Again. Sitting up slowly, I pressed a hand to my stomach as another wave of nausea rolled through me. Luna paced restlessly in my mind, her distress bleeding into my own awareness like poison seeping through cracks in stone. Something was fracturing inside us, something sacred and irreplaceable. "Where is he?" I whispered to the empty room, though I already knew the answer would only deepen the growing pit of dread in my stomach. The past month had been a blur of Amir's excuses—late pack meetings that ran until dawn, urgent territory disputes that required his immediate attention, sudden emergencies that always seemed