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Chasing my Luna CHAPTER 58
Chapter 58: A Way Made Clear in DarkMorning came too soon.I barely slept.Not that I expected to.Not with all that transpired in the ruins. Not after the whispers, the visions, the figure with the golden eyes whom told me truths I hadn’t wanted to hear.Because even now, the sun rising beyond the horizon, warming the fortress walls, I could still sense it.”That shift inside me.The door that had opened.And I didn’t know how to close it.If I really am one of them, anyway, I amended as I stood at the lip of the courtyard, observing the others as they buckled their gear onto their packs.Instead, Elias checked his weapons, the mischievous smirk that was usually plastered to his face replaced with deep thought.Dorian did not speak, though he sharpened his axe, grim-faced.Selene was busy packing up medical supplies, sharp and efficient and when she thought I wasn’t looking, her eyes flicked to me.Rhea stood slightly away, whispering in Ethan’s ear.And Ethan—He stood at rigid att
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Chapter 59: The Haunted MirrorsThe figures were at the very edge of the firelight, their shapes only vaguely solid, roiling like shadows on water.Their voices were no more than a whisper in the darkness, but they filled the night like a choir of ghosts.“You are what you could have become.”The words landed upon me like a weight.Cold. Final.My fists tightened, I forced my breath steady.“Who are you?”The lead figure angled its head, its bright eyes inscrutable. “You already know.”Ethan moved in front of me reflexively, his sword glittering in the firelight. “If you want to tangle, you got one.”The figure didn’t move. “We are not here to fight.”Elias hummed from behind me. “That’s disappointing.”Selene shot him a glare. “Shut up.”This figure paid them no mind, their focus remained throughout on me.“You’re at the crossroads, Jessica.”I forced my voice steady. “I don’t believe in fate.”The figure let out his breath, a sound bordering on laughter. “It doesn’t matter what you
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Chapter 60 The Night the Wolves ArrivedLong after the figures turned to smoke, the warning echoed in my mind.“If you don’t claim your power… someone will.”It haunted me. Refused to let go, clung to me like a second skin.But I didn’t have time to think about it.Because the real nightmare was just getting started.The First SignWe made our way back to the fortress just ahead of dawn.The air felt… off.Too still. Too quiet.As if the whole world was on pause.Selene noticed it first. Beside me, the woman tensed, her predator green eyes going laser focused on the treeline. “Something’s wrong.”Ethan frowned. “I don’t hear anything.”“That’s exactly the problem.” Her voice was tight. “There are no birds. No insects. Nothing.”My stomach twisted.The woods were never silent. Not unless there was something to hunt.A chilling tingle shot up my spine.We weren’t alone.Elias spoke next, his signature smirk missing. “We need to move.”Rhea's violet eyes narrowed as she reached for her d
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Chapter 61: The Dark KnightThe silence didn’t last long.I had hardly started to register the presence there inside when the air began shifting.A growl. Low. Hungry.Not from within me.From the trees.I pivoted abruptly, my sore shoulder protesting the motion. Dark figures emerged from the shadows — rogues — and my breath caught.Four of them.I could see their eyes glinting in the moonlight, their bodies tight and tensed, ready to strike.I was bleeding. Injured.They could smell my weakness.I gulped and forced myself to my feet. My legs wobbled, my balance faltering, but I wouldn’t go down without a fight.One of the rogues—larger than the others—stepped forward, baring a feral grin. “Looks like we got a stray.”I balled my hands into fists, claws extending. “Turn around and leave.”The rogue chuckled. “Or what? You can barely stand.”I bared my teeth. “Try me.”His grin widened. “Gladly.”And then—He lunged.I barely avoided it, my injured shoulder screaming in protest. My cla
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Chapter 62: A Pack DividedThe morning came too soon.Sleep had been amist and impermanent, catching sand in my hands. My body was tired, but my mind was racing. I could feel the weight of Kade’s words, hear the golden-eyed figure’s whispers every time I closed my eyes, see the flames of my old home burning behind me.I wasn’t safe.Not here.Not anywhere.But I had nowhere else to go.Kade had saved me. He had taken me in.Now he was leading me to his pack.I was not sure if that was a blessing or a death sentence.The ArrivalKade’s pack was unlike any I’d ever seen.It was well into the mountains, tucked away in a large valley that rose to steep cliff faces. The land was broad with cabins and farms, but there in the center loomed a fortress — tall, ancient, hewn into the rock itself.A true stronghold.A pack built for war.Kade rode ahead of me as we entered through the gates, his silver eyes darting over the settlement. Wolves eyed us from afar, some shuffling from their human sh
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Chapter 63: A Figure in the DarknessThe air was thick inside the pack the day after Lucian left.Tense.Like the whole settlement was expecting something to happen.I felt their staring, the judgment burning through my skin each time I walked outside. The council didn’t trust me. The warriors maintained a safe distance.And while Kade had been there for me, I realized he couldn’t shield me from everything.Not forever.So that meant I needed to insulate myself.And it began with learning who in this pack was already working against me.I wasn’t stupid.Lucian had made himself clear — he was not giving up.And if he weren’t coming for me tonight, somebody else would be.Elias Shows Up When You Least Expect HimFor the rest of the evening I didn’t leave my cabin though I paced the cramped quarters mulling through my options.I needed a plan.I needed to know who in this pack wanted me dead.And if I couldn’t get that info out of Kade—I knew exactly who to ask.The knock on my door cam
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Chapter 64: An Uneasy PeaceThe meeting concluded, though the energy in the room did not.The council had no further quibbling, but its silence said a great deal. They weren’t convinced. They weren’t satisfied.They were watching.Waiting.For me to slip up. For me to prove them right.And I never doubted that when it came down to it, they wouldn’t give a second’s thought to turning on me.Elias walked beside me, his signature smirk still intact as we left the meeting hall. But I knew him too well now not to see the keen watchfulness behind it.“They didn’t say it,” he muttered, “but they still don’t trust you.”I exhaled. “I know.”He tilted his head. “And that doesn’t concern you?”I shrugged. “I don’t need their trust. I just need them to be scared of losing to me.”Elias let out a low whistle. “Now that’s the spirit.”We walked outside and the cool mountain air hit me like a breath of clarity. Kade was waiting, already, a few paces from the fortress wall, his silver eyes fixed on
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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
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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
Chasing my Luna CHAPTER 71
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
Chasing my Luna CHAPTER 69
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
Chasing my Luna CHAPTER 67
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
Chasing my Luna CHAPTER 65
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
