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Rejected Ex-Luna, Come Back to Me: Relationships at the Start

Noah Offers the Help Hayden Withholds

Meet them in the first five chapters See the ebook edition

This opening note focuses on the first paragraphs of chapter 1. The free reading sample contains five complete chapters.

Relationships in the opening

Noah Offers the Help Hayden Withholds

Charlotte describes years of trying to accommodate the people important to Hayden while receiving little care from him in return. After the fall, Noah's support is notably concrete: he helps her stand and reach the infirmary when she is struggling to move. Her wolf urges another attempt to explain, giving her a second source of encouragement, but neither form of support yet resolves the central problem that her mate refuses to listen.

Which acts of support address Charlotte's immediate needs, and which relationship continues to demand effort without reciprocating it?

Read the scene in chapter 1