They Called My Pups Bastards—Until the Alpha King Arrived

Everly served twenty years in Moon Wolf Palace as a lowborn Omega maid. On her final night, she was sent to the Old Moon Temple with hot water and clotting salve. The Alpha King lay injured after his blessing ritual, and the room smelled of poison. She pulled a blade from his chest. What happened that Blood Moon night bound them in a way no palace record would ever admit. By dawn, she was gone—not knowing she carried his pups.

Six years later, she lives in a broken hut at the edge of her brother's village, raising twins Noah and Elara alone. Noah's eyes are changing, his Alpha aura bleeding through whenever someone threatens his mother. The villagers call them fatherless, unclaimed, a stain on the pack. Then the Grand Luna's decree arrives: every pup six or younger must stand before the Moonstone in the Royal City. Sir Gideon, the royal envoy, sees Noah freeze a grown man with his aura and orders them brought to the capital. Everly has no choice but to return to the palace she fled.

Inside the temple, the crowd closes in. Cora, Everly's cousin, leads the accusations—no mate bond, no sireline, a servant who returned pregnant with bastards. The Grand Luna demands answers Everly cannot give without exposing the King. When the court sentences her to twenty strokes before the Moonstone, Noah steps forward. He calls the Grand Luna a tyrant to her face, quotes pack law in a child's voice, and refuses to kneel. The guards move to strike. The blade rises. Then the doors open. The Alpha King has arrived. And the scent he has searched for since that Blood Moon night is finally in front of him.