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Chasing my Luna CHAPTER 32
CHAPTER 32: THE CLASH OF TITANSHell broke loose on the battlestorm of blood and steel.Wolves collided against the Order’s forces, a mass of claws and teeth and raw fury. Spells were warded and countered, unnatural energy cracklibg through the air as the air darkened with magic. The ground shuddered beneath the clash of battle, and the cacophony of conflict was a blaring cacophony of howls and death, of roars and fury, of metal thudding against scale and bone.I leapt forward, my wolf fighting beneath my skin as I barreled into the chaos. My blade bit into flesh, a hybrid warrior falling beneath my blow. They were like normal wolves, only stronger, and their movements were not quite right -- made mechanical. Something monstrous had been done to them by the Order.Ethan stood by my side, his blade dispatching another enemy. “Stay close!” he shouted over the din. “They’re trying to divide us!”I could see it happening. The Order’s troops weren’t just fighting with no direction in mind
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Chapter 33: Into the FireMy legs ached as I ran, my pulse pounding in my ears. The world faded into obscurity around me, the pandemonium of battle rushing into the background. My single thought, my sole preoccupation—My children.The warrior who bore them was swift, but I was swifter. I forced myself to move faster, weaving between bodies and blades, ignoring the pain flaring through my muscles. The sound of them crying pierced through the night, amplifying my desperation.“JESSICA!”There was Ethan’s voice, but I couldn’t stop. Couldn’t wait. Each second that ticked by was a second closer to losing them for good.The warrior burst into the treeline, his body blurring mid-step. He was attempting to shift to his wolf form, to run for the woods and beyond my tracking range.I decided I wasn’t about to let that go down.I jumped, pinning him to the floor. We slammed into the dirt, rolling violently. The hold he had on my babies slipped, and in that instant, I yanked them away from him,
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Chapter 34: Dust and BonesThe battlefield was engulfed in darkness.I could hear the war howling around me, but I couldn’t see. Breath coming in sharp gasps, I was at my feet, my wolf growling in confusion. The earth shook beneath me, the otherworldly force reverberating in the air like a flesh-and-blood thing.The Order’s spell had worked.A new nightmare had been created.Bryan’s laughter sliced through nothingness, smooth and mocking. "Do you feel that, Jessica? The weight of inevitability? You never stood a chance."I curled my hands into fists, my fingernails puncturing my palms. “I don’t believe in something being inevitable.”A sharp wind swept by me, bringing within it the smell of burning magic. Gradually, the shadow withdrew just enough for me to see the person at the center of all this.Tall. Cloaked in shadow. Their presence suffocating.Their eyes—The same golden sheen of my children’s.My stomach turned. "What did you do?"The figure stepped forward; the ground beneath
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Chapter 35: The Cost of WarJust outside the stone walls of Shadowfang, the fires burned low, casting eerie shadows along the stones. The atmosphere was heavy with the scent of blood and sweat, a bittersweet incense as warriors whispered to their wounds. A defeat was suffered, but the war was far from lost.I clenched the edges of the long war table, knuckles white. My children lay sleeping in the adjacent room, among some of the most loyal ever to serve a fortress. Their safety was all that was keeping me from falling apart.Ethan stood by my side, silent but always vigilant. Selene pushed against the far wall, crossed her arms, and peered into the room, as if waiting for another attack. Dorian roamed, his face a mask of less information. Rhea sat at the head of the table, wrapping a bandage around her arm, her gaze set and pensive.Finally she spoke up. “We need to discuss what happened out there.”I held my breath, my voice raspy. “And what do you mean by ‘how we were torn apart? W
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Chapter 36: The Path to RuinCallum’s words hung upon me like a crushing cloud. My mother had hidden me. They’d been hunting me long before I knew there had an Order out there in the world. And now, I was going to have my children.I clenched my fists. *No. They wouldn’t have them. *Ethan was next to me, his shoulders stiff. “Now, if what you’re saying is true, time is running out for us. Where do we find Elena?"Callum regarded us, his face impassive. “She doesn’t want anyone to find her.”Selene scoffed. "That’s not an answer. If she knows how to defeat the Order, she has to be found.”Callum exhaled sharply. "You think I haven’t tried? The second Elena knew what the Order was up to, she went into hiding. She cut off all contacts, retraced her steps, and was gone. “If she doesn’t want you to find her, you won’t.”Rhea leaned in, her voice layered with exasperation. "Then why are you here? If you can’t take us to her, what are you worth?Callum met her gaze evenly. “Because I can sh
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Chapter 37: The Devil’s BargainRadiating within the chamber, they felt the air become laden with power, embued with something that felt both ancient and malevolent. The torches danced around in the dark and cast shadows that appeared to move under their own power. We were frozen in place, muscles tensed, breaths constricted.At the far end of the room, Elias grinned from his throne-like chair, his fingers interlocked in fun. He had a suffocating presence, felt in his orbit, the aura pressing down on us like a weight, a kind of guilt to make us feel little.I refused to be intimidated.I took a step forward, my voice a knife. "You know who I am. You know why I’m here. So stop wasting our time and speak.”Elias gave a slow, sardonic laugh. "Impatient, aren’t we?" His golden eyes gleamed. “You think you have any power in this room, Jessica Rivera? You’re the one who came into my territory. That makes you mine."Ethan growled beside me. Take her, and I’ll rip you apart.”Elias tilted his
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Chapter 38: Also There Is a Choice, and It Is Worse Than DeathElias’s words rang in my ears like a death sentence.*You have to wipe out what they made. You must erase your own bloodline from time. *My blood ran cold. My breath hitched. My body refused to move.Ethan reacted first, growling low enough to vibrate the stone walls of the chamber. "That’s not a choice. That’s genocide."Elias stayed composed, his face inscrutable. "Call it what you will. But the Order isn’t going to rest until your kids are theirs, Jessica. They will come for them, and when that happens, you won’t be there to save them.” Not forever."I forced myself to breathe. Made myself think beyond the horror tightening my chest. “And what is it, exactly, that you think I should do? Murder my children myself before the Order can get to them? Because you really don’t know who I am, if you think that."Elias sighed and shook his head. "No, Jessica. I doubt if you have the fortitude to do what needs to be done. That’s
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Chapter 39: The War We StartThe deal with Elias had the feel of a pact with the devil, but I had no illusions — we needed him. Every second lost was one second closer to the Order tightening its grasp over my children’s fates. I wasn’t going to let that happen.Our escape from the Obsidian Keep was a delicate dance of silence and urgency as we retraced our steps through the corridors. The Order would be searching for us soon, if they aren’t already.Ethan walked inches away from me, tension radiating off him in waves. "This was reckless. Even for you."I exhaled. “You think I don’t know that?His jaw tightened. "Then why agree to it? He’s dangerous."I halted and turned to face him completely. “Because we don’t know enough. We don’t have time to take our time. And because if we wait any longer, the Order wins.”Ethan’s eyes seared into me. “What if Elias betrays us?”I lifted my chin. "Then I’ll kill him myself."Ethan sighed, shaking his head, and there was a beat of silence between
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Chasing my Luna CHAPTER 73
Jessica stood paralyzed between Kade and Lucas, her heart hammering against her ribs and her past and future colliding before her.She should be relieved. After all these months running away, just trying to survive, desperately trying to stay alive—her pack had finally found her.But why did it feel so wrong?Lucas’s eyes were hopeful, craving for her to conform, to go back to what she used to be. Kade, however, remained unmoved next to her, barely shrouded dominance barely leashed, refusing to budge.She gulped, wavered on her feet. “Lucas… how did you find me?”His face gave nothing away. “We never stopped looking.”A twinge of guilt knotted in her chest. Had they really been searching for her all along? Or was there another reason for their mysterious re-emergence?Kade growled low next to her, catching Lucas’s ear. “She is not leaving without the truth.”Lucas’s jaw tightened. “This doesn’t concern you, Alpha. She belongs with us.”Jessica exhaled sharply. “I decide where I belong
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Chapter 72 – The AwakeningJessica’s body was weightless, floating between this world and another. This energy flowed in her veins as nothing she had ever known: primal, ancient, wild.Her wrists no longer ached. The burns had vanished, her skin as unmarred as if silver had never sullied her. But she knew better. She had experienced the pain, the torture. She had been tied up, powerless to struggle, could hardly breathe as her captors smothered her.And now?She was free.As she steadied herself, her breath came out in slow measured exhales. Lucian had run. Lucian had run from her. This man, who had tormented her, who had taken pleasure in her pain, had seen into her eyes and ran.Why?The question twisted tight in her mind, but just as she was able to settle into it, footsteps sounded in the corridor beyond.They were coming.Think, Jessica. Think fast.Her body may have healed, but she wasn’t naïve enough to believe she was invincible. Not yet. Whatever power had set her free, whate
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Chapter 71: The Trap We Never Saw ComingEmerging from the dense thicket of woodland, bursting through brush, my objective flashed through my mind, in a sing song sort of chant, skull, skull, skull. Kade was standing next to me, his fingers clenched around my wrist, his body rigid and prepared for anything. Elias trailed closely, his customary smirk replaced by grim concentration. The rogue Alpha, Maddox, hovered just outside of range, his icy gaze scanning the trees as if he were expecting a brawl.Because something felt off.The air too still, the forest too quiet. My wolf paced restlessly under my skin, her instincts prickling with that special kind of warning that got the hairs on the back of my neck to stand on end.I swallowed hard. “Something’s wrong.”Kade nodded, his silver gaze sliding over to me. “I know. Keep moving.”But the feeling just got worse.With every step we took, the discomfort tightened like a spring in my belly.We were stepping into something, and it has felt
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Chapter 70: Giving In To FateUnlike most of the time though—I was half the way through the black sticky forest when I felt the knot between Kade and me, deluging the space with the pulse of connection, thick and unyielding. Whenever I walked away, it pulled me back. It was all I ever wanted, and every time I tried to shove it down, to ignore it, the damn thing flared hotter, burning up my veins like wildfire. I hated it. Hated how my body reacted to him, hated how my wolf purred in response to his presence, how she wanted him regardless of what he was.Elias must have felt it, too, because he sighed dramatically behind us. “So, are we all just not going to acknowledge how you two are giving off enough sexual tension to burn this whole forest down, or —”“Elias,” I snapped, my patience already threadbare.“What? All I’m saying is, if you two don’t deal with this, like, soon, I’m going to have to step in and —”A growl ripped through Kade’s throat so fast, so savagely, that Elias actua
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Chapter 69: Bound in Blood and FlameWe doubled up and ran through the very green forest, the plants meeting us and loosening up. It was sharp air, full of damp earth and pine, the wind cutting through my cloak as we staggered toward the unknown.We’d been running for hours at a punishing speed, which I didn’t mind at all. Every second I spent was another second closer to losing my kids.Kade jogged next to me, his silver eyes raking the shadows for threats. He made no sound, just concentrated, but I could sense him， a fire licking my skin. The mate bond throbbed between us, raw and undeniable, a tie neither of us had asked for but could no longer ignore.Elias matched me on my other side, the usual smirk gone. Even he knew the stakes now. The rogue Alpha—who’d finally introduced himself as Maddox—lagged just behind, studying us with inscrutable eyes.The tension was thick. We all knew what we were getting ourselves into.But we did not speak it openly.Not yet.The Moment the World C
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Chapter 68: Tethered by Destiny, Severed by DesireKade’s utterance lingered between us, dense with unvoiced weight. Come back with me. Three little words, and yet they pierced like a knife to the ribs. My pulse thundered in my ears as I fought to suppress the heat in my chest, ignore the primitive fire burning all the more brightly in his silver gaze. I had run from one betrayal to another for years, had spent my entire life knowing how to survive without depending on anyone. Now fate was brazen enough to gift me a second mate? And not just anyone—Kade. An Alpha. A man I couldn’t afford to let into my life.I clenched my fists. “You do not get to demand this of me.”Kade’s jaw ticked. “No right? Jessica, you disappeared. No warning. No explanation. You gift me with a pack council on my heels defending you as you marched straight into rogue territory armed with a fucking dagger and nothing else but your stubbornness.”“I didn’t ask you to defend me,” I hissed, my voice slicing the air
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Chapter 67: Into the Lion’s DenAs we drew closer to the river, the noise of rushing water grew louder, the current filament weaving between dense foliage like a silver snake under the moon.As Elias and I passed through the bank, we looked around. The air was heavy with the smell of damp earth, pine, and something else — something unnatural.“We’re almost there,” I gasped, the adrenaline surging.Humming, Elias rubbed the back of his neck. “Yeah. Too close.”I frowned. “What do you mean?”He shot me a look. “I mean, we’ve been walking through rogue territory for hours, and no one’s tried to kill us yet.”I exhaled. “You sound disappointed.”Elias smirked. “Not disappointed. Just… suspicious.”I didn’t blame him.Rogues weren’t the sitting-waiting kind. If they knew we were coming — and I had no doubt they did — then why hadn’t they revealed themselves?I glanced at the area again, my wolf stirring under my skin.Something wasn’t right.As I stepped forward, a deep voice came from the
Chasing my Luna CHAPTER 66
Chapter 66: On the Road to the UnknownThe fire was low, crackling quietly in the still night. The weight of exhaustion lay against my bones, but sleep just wouldn’t. Not when my brain wouldn’t shut up.Not when I saw my children’s faces every time I closed my eyes.Elias had settled easily into the rhythm, gazing into the flames with a dazed sort of concentration, but I could tell he wasn’t entirely at ease either. He was waiting. Watching. Not for threats — though those would surely come — but for me.He was there waiting for me to crack.I wouldn’t want to give him the satisfaction.Instead, I curled in tight at the knees and looked into the darkness past the firelight. The forest surrounding us was silent, but it was a deceptive kind of silence. The kind that listened.That waited.“We should leave at first light,” Elias murmured, breaking the stalemate of silence.I exhaled. “Agreed.”“Unless, of course, you’ve suddenly decided to head back.”I shot him a sharp look. “You know th
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Chapter 65: A Mother's SacrificeThe fire crackled quietly and threw fluttering shadows on the trees. The night was quiet but my mind was anything but.I sat with my back to a fallen log, my cloak tightened around me, the flames dancing in my eyes. The heat barely reached the chill lodged deep in my chest.Because I allowed myself to think of them for the first time in days.My babies.My heart squeezed painfully at the vision of their little faces; I curled my fists.Their smell was still fresh in my mind — soft, new, unhindered by the world. The way they curled into me while they slept, the way their little hands grabbed for me outside of their understanding of what was happening.And I had left them.I had left them.Some nights, the guilt was unbearable.Like now.“Elias moved next to me, eyes fixed and unreadable on the fire. He had been quiet for some time, but I could feel his curiosity, how he was waiting for me to say something.I exhaled slowly. “They’re safe.”Elias looked
