Anna's POV: He once bled his hands raw working as a lumberjack for me. He carved wounds into his own flesh to stand against the Pack Elders for me. And under the moonlight, he swore to make me the most honored Luna. But one "I'm running away" tantrum from Susan—his childhood friend—was all it took for him to hang my parents upside down from a thousand-foot cliff, using their lives to force a confession out of me for a crime I never committed. I gave them a false address under duress. He turned around and spoiled Susan rotten, and demanded I kneel and apologize for "driving her away." Turns out every bit of his devotion was a lie. I burned every token of our past. I smashed our wedding statue. I swore to the Moon Goddess to break our bond. And in a blaze, I faked my death and disappeared. This time, I will leave his world forever. Aeon's POV: I once shed my Alpha heir's robes and worked in the logging camps until my hands were raw, just to marry Anna, a commoner. I defied Pack law and scarred my own body to protect her. I swore before the Moon Goddess that she would stand beside me as my Luna. But I let Susan's tears blind me. I hung Anna's parents from a thousand-foot cliff. I forced Anna to kneel and beg Susan for forgiveness. Only after Anna was gone did I learn the truth: Susan had force-fed her wolfsbane to make her miscarry. Susan had staged her own runaway all along. Now the manor is nothing but ash and shattered stone. The mind-link I severed can never be reconnected. I kneel alone on the Moonlight Meadow, calling her name over and over. But the girl who used to run into my arms will never come back. Anna. I was wrong. Please come back.