The Luna He Never Marked
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My water broke, and I was rushed into the operating room at Ashgrove Clinic.
Just as the healers prepared to deliver my baby, my husband, Alpha Ronan Hale pulled out his phone and showed them the birth window his trusted Seer, Seraphine Vale, had predicted.
"Sera says our son has to be born within ten minutes," he announced. "If we miss the Naming Window, he'll never be recognized as a Hale heir."
I stared at him in disbelief.
Then Ronan gave me a reassuring smile and strapped a red digital timer around my wrist.
"Ten minutes, Iris. That's all we have."
I fought through contraction after contraction, barely able to breathe.
One of the healers grabbed a pair of surgical scissors and made a desperate cut to get the baby out.
The pain was so unbearable that my vision went black.
My heart stopped.
Outside the operating room, Ronan was practically beaming. "It's a boy! I knew Sera wouldn't get the Naming Window wrong!"
Then, without a second thought, he added, "We'll have to postpone our bonding ceremony again. Sera has read a new date for us."
That made nine times.
For seven years, I'd waited for Ronan to make me his Luna. Nine times, we'd planned our bonding ceremony, and nine times, it had been pushed back. I'd fought with him, cried, and begged him to stop putting Sera's predictions ahead of our future.
But this time, I wouldn't argue.
I wouldn't beg him to choose me.
Because I'd already died on that operating table.
And dead Luna don't need bonding ceremonies.
Just as the healers prepared to deliver my baby, my husband, Alpha Ronan Hale pulled out his phone and showed them the birth window his trusted Seer, Seraphine Vale, had predicted.
"Sera says our son has to be born within ten minutes," he announced. "If we miss the Naming Window, he'll never be recognized as a Hale heir."
I stared at him in disbelief.
Then Ronan gave me a reassuring smile and strapped a red digital timer around my wrist.
"Ten minutes, Iris. That's all we have."
I fought through contraction after contraction, barely able to breathe.
One of the healers grabbed a pair of surgical scissors and made a desperate cut to get the baby out.
The pain was so unbearable that my vision went black.
My heart stopped.
Outside the operating room, Ronan was practically beaming. "It's a boy! I knew Sera wouldn't get the Naming Window wrong!"
Then, without a second thought, he added, "We'll have to postpone our bonding ceremony again. Sera has read a new date for us."
That made nine times.
For seven years, I'd waited for Ronan to make me his Luna. Nine times, we'd planned our bonding ceremony, and nine times, it had been pushed back. I'd fought with him, cried, and begged him to stop putting Sera's predictions ahead of our future.
But this time, I wouldn't argue.
I wouldn't beg him to choose me.
Because I'd already died on that operating table.
And dead Luna don't need bonding ceremonies.













































