His Discarded Luna, the Rival's Obsession

His Discarded Luna, the Rival's Obsession

Author：Lila

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Werewolf

#Adult #BG #Werewolf #Hybrid #Luna #Special Ability #Goodgirl #Kicking
Introduction
"No wolf. No family. Harmless. Useful. The second I am done with her, the Luna title is yours." Eira Crawford heard those words through her husband's office door. For four years, she had been Sebastian Hale's hidden mate. She managed his household, entertained his relatives, cleaned up his messes, and lived on the three thousand dollars he gave her each month like charity. Even buying a new coat required an explanation. But for his first love, he casually prepared three hundred thousand dollars in research funding. To Sebastian, Eira was nothing more than a wolfless Omega from an orphanage. A quiet, obedient wife with no pack, no power, and no value beyond being useful. He had never introduced her publicly as his Luna. His family treated her like a servant. His sweetheart mocked her as a woman who could only survive by clinging to an Alpha. So Eira stopped crying. She recorded the affair, filed for mate dissolution, and placed the divorce papers in front of Sebastian. Even then, he thought she was throwing a tantrum. He signed without hesitation, certain she would come crawling back once she realized no one else would want a discarded, wolfless Omega. He was wrong. The woman he left at home washing dishes was a Stanford-trained electrical engineer. The "useless" wife he ignored was the hidden chief engineer behind a national self-developed chip project. Her movements were classified. Her disappearance could alert the federal authorities. Her name, once revealed, was enough to shake the entire scientific community. And Sebastian knew nothing. After walking out of his house with nothing but her freedom, Eira crossed paths with Killian Sterling, the coldest and most powerful Alpha in the north. He did not know her name yet, but his wolf recognized something in her that everyone else had missed. Meanwhile, Sebastian finally realized that Eira was not bluffing. He searched the entire city like a madman. For the first time in four years, he publicly called her his wife. He demanded she return. He begged for another chance. But by then, Eira was no longer waiting in his house. She was seated at the Sterling Pack's dinner table, dressed with quiet confidence, while the most feared Alpha in North America stood beside her. In front of everyone, Killian Sterling placed his hand at her back and said coldly, "Eira is not anyone's discarded Omega." "She is my Luna."
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The sterile air of the Silix Institute's clean room broke apart in a wave of noise.

"We did it!"

Someone shouted first. Then everyone was shouting. Gloves slapped against shoulders. On the main screen, a single green word flashed over the final simulation chart.

SUCCESS.

Eira Crawford stood beside the main computer, her fingers still hovering above the keyboard. The chip diagram glowed on the screen in front of her, tiny and unreal, like a star trapped inside glass.

Power surged inside her. This tiny chip could stabilize private energy grids, power border defense systems, and make remote Pack territories independent from human-controlled suppliers. It meant America would get its own energy. It meant big changes for the army.

This chip would change everything.

Professor Davies pushed through the crowd and grabbed her by both shoulders. "Eira! Look at the numbers. Look at them!" His voice cracked with joy. "This is it. A real game changer."

Another researcher laughed from behind him. "National pride, military contracts, obscene money. Dr. Crawford, you just made half the country rich and the other half nervous."

Davies set her down gently, pulling her close so his voice could cut through the noise. "Eira," he said quietly, "your husband... he's the Alpha of Hale Pack, isn't he? This technology could mean everything for his Pack. Perhaps... he should be the first to know?"

She nodded, already picturing his face.

Alpha Sebastian had a particular way of going still when something impressed him—no smile yet, just his eyes sharpening on her like she'd finally done something worth looking at.

She wanted that look tonight. She'd wanted it for four years, if she was honest, and tonight she had finally earned it with something too large to dismiss as "a wolfless omega."

Because that was the joke of her life. In werewolf society, an Omega's worth was measured in bloodline, strength, fertility, and obedience. A Luna was expected to soothe the elders, produce heirs, support the Alpha's decisions, and never become the loudest person in the room. By that math, Eira had almost nothing. No wolf. No shift. No powerful family standing behind her. No instinctive Pack authority that made other wolves bow their heads.

What they did not know—what she had never once been invited to say out loud at the Hale family dinner—was that the same head they treated as decorative had just cracked a problem the federal government had thrown money at for ten years. The badge in her bag opened doors that men with centuries of bloodline could not touch. If she brought this technology to Hale Pack, she could drag Alpha Sebastian into meetings other Alphas would bleed for.

She wanted to do that for him.

She signed out through three layers of security, changed out of her clean-room suit, and placed the certification documents inside a black folder. Her name sat at the top of the first page.

Dr. Eira Crawford.

It looked strange and beautiful there, official enough that no one could laugh it away.

The VIP elevator took her straight to the top floor of Hale Tower an hour later. Alpha Sebastian used the private suite for late business meetings, and sometimes he slept there when he claimed Hale Group's work ran too late. Eira had brought him dinner there more times than she could count.

This time she brought him a future.

She stepped out of the elevator with the folder held against her chest. The hallway was quiet, thick with expensive carpet and soft yellow wall lights. She was twenty feet from his office when her steps slowed.

Her nose knew before her mind did.

Cedar. Sharp, familiar, warm in the way only Alpha Sebastian's scent could be. It was the scent she had fallen asleep beside for four years, even when his side of the bed stayed cold too long.

But under it was something else.

Sweet. Floral. Not hers.

Eira stopped.

The office door was not fully closed. A thin line of light spilled through the gap, and with it came the mixed scents of two people standing too close.

Then Alpha Sebastian spoke.

"Serena, you know I've always loved you. She means nothing."

The folder slipped slightly in Eira's grip. She caught it before it fell.

Serena's voice came next, soft and wet around the edges, but there was a thin blade of amusement underneath. "If you love me, why did you let that Omega orphan become your Luna? Why didn't you come after me when I left?"

Alpha Sebastian gave a low laugh. Eira knew that laugh. He used it when he wanted someone to feel foolish for doubting him. "You're jealous?"

"Shouldn't I be?" Serena asked.

"I chose her because you left," Alpha Sebastian said. His voice softened, but the softness made it worse. "I needed a Luna. The elders wanted the position filled, and Eira was harmless. No family. No wolf. No one to challenge me."

Harmless.

Eira stood outside the door, unable to breathe.

Serena made a small sound of disgust. "And now?"

"Now she's useful." Alpha Sebastian sounded almost bored. "She runs the house, handles Pack accounts, keeps my mother from turning every dinner into a war. Why would I throw away a tool that still works?"

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