Page 1 of Claimed By My Fiancé's Brother

CHAPTER 1

ELEANOR

“Ican’t believe you’re leaving me alone in this shitty pack.”

Micah’s voice was lazy and teasing. Her chestnut-brown eyes twinkled with mischief as her luscious auburn hair splayed across my pillow.

My heart clenched in my chest as I realized that this would be my last night in the pack I’ve called home my entire life. My wolf, Lara, coiled within me anxiously.

Placing my hand over Micah’s, I met her gaze with a smile.

“You’re my best friend, Micah. You know you can come visit me whenever you want.”

Micah grinned at me ruefully.

“With that open invitation, you’ll never be able to get rid of me,” she chuckled.

“Is that supposed to be a threat?” I teased.

Micah shrugged and flipped onto her back, tilting her face up to the twinkling glow-in-the-dark charms hanging above my bed.

“Luna of the Nightshade Pack,” Micah mused. Her gaze seemed a touch wistful in the dim lighting. “Even your dad won’t be able to mess with you now.”

“Future Luna,” I corrected, rolling onto my back as well. “Dylan isn’t the alpha yet.”

But Micah wasn’t completely wrong. After the bonding ceremony tomorrow, I would finally be free of Father.

Sometimes calling him that felt like a bit of a stretch. In all my twenty-two years living with him, he’d never really been much of a father to me.

To him, I was just a bastard from one of his many affairs who his late luna, Athena, had been stupid enough to take in after my birth mother abandoned me in the Red Moon Pack.

After Luna Athena died in labor when I was a few months old, Father kept me as his daughter in his mate’s memory. But over the years, he showed me exactly how repulsive he foundtaking careof the “whore’s daughter” who’d been foisted on him.

“...your older brother-in-law is looking for a mate?”

Micah’s words jolted me out of my thoughts.

“What?”

Micah sat up on my bed, facing me with an excited gleam in her eyes.

“Isaid, can you imagine me mated to Alexander?” She squealed. “We’d be sisters for real!”

“No, you can’t,” I blurted out, my voice coming out harsher than I’d intended.

A chill swept through me as the memory I’d worked so hard to bury suddenly resurfaced—a memory I’d been unable to share with anyone, even Micah.

Micah stared at me and I cleared my throat, softening my tone.

“Trust me, Alexander is an asshole. He doesn’t deserve you, Micah.”

I shivered at the thought of the frosty ocean-blue eyes that simmered every time we made even the barest eye contact. That wolf…no. Micah should stay far away from him.

My best friend’s expression hardened and for a moment, it felt like I barely knew her.

“Because I’m not an alpha’s daughter?”

My jaw dropped.

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