All Chapters of Moonstruck Hearts : Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

The air still felt different.Even as I walked away, my skin prickled with awareness, like something had latched onto me. Like someone was still watching.I exhaled sharply, shaking it off. Get a grip, Elena.Claire didn’t notice my distraction as she prattled on beside me, launching into another one of her daily updates on school gossip. I tried to focus—really, I did—but my mind kept circling back.Jace Wolfe.The name felt wrong in my head, like I shouldn’t be saying it yet. Like it belonged to someone I already knew.I slid into my seat in English class, forcing myself to focus. The whiteboard, the students chatting around me, the distant hum of lockers slamming in the hallway—normal things.Then the door opened.The hush that fell over the room was almost unnatural.I knew without looking.A slow wave of something hot and electric crawled over my skin, the same sensation I’d felt in the ha

That night, the wind carried something unnatural.I felt it the second I cracked my bedroom window open, hoping for some fresh air to clear my head. Instead, an eerie stillness settled over the trees, the usual nighttime hum of insects gone.I wrapped my arms around myself, staring into the dark expanse of the woods behind our house. I’d grown up listening to the rustling of branches, the distant hoot of an owl, the occasional yipping of coyotes. But tonight, the woods were silent.A different kind of hush.The kind that comes before a storm.Or a hunt.I swallowed hard and stepped back, pulling the window shut. Maybe I was just imagining things. Maybe my mind was still tangled up in the lingering presence of Jace Wolfe.The way he had felt before I’d even seen him.The way his golden eyes had flickered with something unspoken when he looked at me.The way he had tensed the moment he saw my brother, like some invisible force had passed between them.It was ridiculous. I didn’t even kn

Jace didn’t speak right away. The moment the others vanished into the shadows, he just stood there—chest rising and falling, muscles locked tight. The glow in his eyes hadn’t fully faded, and neither had the tension in his stance. I could still hear it. That low, guttural growl that had torn from his throat just moments ago. I should have run. Any sane person would have. But instead, I stayed frozen, heart hammering, breath shallow, staring at the boy who wasn’t just a boy. The boy who had shifted right in front of me. The boy who had just saved my life. My voice barely worked. “What—” Jace turned sharply away, hands raking through his hair. “I didn’t want you to see that.” My stomach clenched. “Well, I did.” My voice shook. “And now you have to tell me what the hell is going on.” His jaw flexed. “Elena—” “No.” I took a step forward, fingers curling into fists. “Don’t Elena me. I just watched you—” I swallowed hard. “I just watched you turn into a wolf.” He flinched. Bu

The journey through the woods felt endless. The trees seemed to loom closer with every step, their twisted branches stretching like fingers toward the sky, blocking out the stars. Despite the chill in the air, I could feel the sweat collecting at the back of my neck. The heavy silence between Jace and me was suffocating, a stark contrast to the tension in the air.Theo led the way, moving through the forest with ease, his steps sure and confident. It was clear that he belonged here—that he was part of this world. But for me, everything felt like it was spiraling out of control.Every part of me screamed to run, to escape the dark forest and the danger that lurked within it. But every step I took brought me closer to something I couldn’t quite understand. And as much as I tried to ignore it, I could feel the pull toward Jace. It wasn’t just the attraction that had flared between us since that first night. No, it was something deeper.Something that terrified me.I glanced at him again,

The darkness pressed against me like a living thing, thick and suffocating. The air smelled of damp stone and something else—something old. My breathing was too loud in the silence, each inhale and exhale echoing off the unseen walls.I wasn’t alone.The glowing eyes remained fixed on me, unblinking, inhuman. A guttural growl rumbled from the shadows, vibrating through my bones. Whatever lurked in the depths of this cave was watching. Waiting.I took a slow step back, my heart hammering against my ribs. My foot slid against loose rock, and the sound was deafening in the silence. The growl deepened.Run.The instinct screamed in my head, but I stayed frozen. Running would make me prey. Running would make it chase me.“Elena.”The whisper sent ice down my spine.It was my own voice.I clamped a hand over my mouth. My name had drifted from the darkness, spoken in the same tone, the same breath as I would say it myself.“Elena.”Closer now.My pulse roared in my ears. The caves are playin