Rejected for My Sister

Rafe chose my sister even after the Moon Goddess named him mine.

I am Nora, the dutiful daughter promised all my life to the heir across the treaty line, and one touch at the fire made our bond flare in front of everyone.

He rejected me for her, the pretty one, who was allowed to visit him while I stayed home working under the pack trucks.

Both of our fathers already knew the truth; I was the only person in that clearing who did not.

Since a rejection leaves the bond unbroken until I accept it, I refused to say the four words that would set him free and drove east with my tools.