บททั้งหมดของ Rejected Plus-Size is now a Second Chance Luna: บทที่ 1 - บทที่ 6

JadeFor several seconds, I just stared at her. My chest seized, and I couldn't catch my breath. Janet hadn't just stolen my mate. She hadn't just taken the life I had prepared for since I was a little girl. She had spent years systematically poisoning Carter’s mind against me. "He was so easy to twist," Janet sneered, her voice full of dark pride. "Every time you ate, I made sure to mention it to him. Every time you wore something nice, I laughed behind your back and pointed out how tight it was on you. I convinced him that the pack would laugh at him if he made you Luna. He cares way too much about his reputation to ever love a fat girl." She took another step closer, her eyes gleaming with satisfaction. "And tonight, I win. I am going to sleep in your Luna chambers, Jade. I am going to wear the crown that was supposed to be yours. And I am going to give Carter the strong, beautiful heirs you were never worthy of carrying." Something inside me snapped. Years of pain, self-

Alpha Asher I stood inside the royal infirmary, my hands clenched so tightly into fists that my knuckles turned white. Around the central treatment bed, four of our best healers worked in hushed, panicked whispers. Aster lay pale and completely motionless under the harsh lights, his broad chest covered in thick, clean bandages. On a silver tray nearby sat several glass bowls filled with blackened, bloody water and jagged pieces of silver that had just been pulled from his body. Watching my twin brother’s chest rise and fall in shallow, weak breaths, a crushing weight of fear and guilt settled into my chest. I never should have let him go alone. Aster had insisted on personally riding out to negotiate a private territory deal near the border of the Free Man’s Land. I wanted to send an entire unit of royal guards with him, but Aster had refused. He argued that arriving with an army would make the other party think we were coming for war. I had eventually given in. He was an Alpha

Asher I stood beside Aster’s bed, my eyes glued to the place where his pale, scarred fingers were wrapped tightly around Jade’s hand.I told myself that the sudden relief loosening the tight knot in my chest was only because my brother's breathing had finally become steady. But as I stared at their joined hands, a strange, painful twist of possessiveness flared deep inside my gut.It was a sick, wrong feeling, and it made no sense.She was possibly Aster’s fated mate. Even entertaining a single thought about her in any other way was a betrayal to the brother I had sworn to protect with my life.I felt a surge of anger at myself for even noticing her. But despite her matted hair, the dark purple bruise blooming on her forehead, her bare feet, and that hideous, oversized prison gown, I couldn't stop looking at her. She didn't look anything like the refined, heavily perfumed noble she-wolves who constantly paraded around the royal court. There was something raw and striking about her—th