Chapter Two: The Alpha’s Instinct

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• Alpha's Hidden Luna   Fifty Four: Checkmate

  Lucian stood and looked Xavier in the eyes, "Where's Rayne?"“I gave them her last known direction,” Xavier continued, admiring his nails like he was commenting on the weather. “Told them she was a rogue deserter. Said she needed to be contained. Of course, I left out a few details—like how she’s unarmed, alone, and banished for an identity crime.”Lucian stepped forward, fists clenched. “You bastard—”“She could die out there,” Xavier said smoothly. “And no one will know who she was. No one will care. The Council’s already wiped her from the records. As far as they’re concerned, Rei Valen or Rayne Valen never existed.”Lucian’s heart pounded, each beat a war drum in his chest.“What do you want?” he growled.Xavier’s grin stretched cruel and confident.“Forfeit.”Lucian stared hard at him.“Don’t show up to the Final Trial,” Xavier said. “Walk away. Let me take the win. Let the history books remember me, not you. And maybe—maybe—I’ll call my trackers off. Maybe I’ll let her live.”Lu

• Alpha's Hidden Luna   Fifty Three: Wolves In The Wild

  The storm rolled in fast.Rain slashed through the forest canopy like cold daggers, soaking Rayne to the bone as she sprinted through thick underbrush. Her limbs ached from days of nonstop movement, and her throat burned with every breath. But she couldn’t stop. Not now.Not when she sensed another pursuer.The tracker she wounded days ago must have sent others. And these new ones—whoever they were—were better trained, faster, and more relentless. She could feel them on her heels like wolves scenting blood.She darted into a ravine, slid down the muddy slope, and tucked herself behind a rock outcropping, pressing her body against the cold stone.Her pulse thundered in her ears.She wasn’t sure how long she stayed there, rain pounding the earth around her. Eventually, the footsteps faded into the distance. They'd lost her.For now.She forced herself to move, limbs trembling from cold and fatigue. Her boots squelched in the mud, and the forest floor was a treacherous path. She pushed f

• Alpha's Hidden Luna   Fifty Two: A Storm On All Fronts

  The wind tore through the hills, sending Rayne’s cloak whipping behind her like tattered wings. Dust clung to her boots, her skin, her lashes—but she kept walking. One foot in front of the other, hour after hour, down the cracked stone roads that stretched far from the mountain that once held her entire world.No destination. No allies. No map.Only shame and exile.The forest loomed ahead—tall, cold, unfamiliar.She’d crossed two borders already in the past week. Nights spent in barns or abandoned mills. Days walking, hiding, keeping her hood pulled low.Her mind spun constantly with what-ifs.What if she had done as her father had told her?What if she’d chosen to be the Luna she was meant to be?Now everything she sacrificed had been for nothing.Rayne wrapped her arms tighter around herself, forcing the thoughts away. She had to stay sharp. Alert. Alive.Because she was being followed.It started two nights ago.Twigs snapping just a little too rhythmically. Shadows lingering just

• Alpha's Hidden Luna   Chapter Fifty One: The Price Of Betrayal

  The morning came too soon at Blackmoon Alpha Academy, and the air was unusually still, like the academy itself was holding its breath.Jace heaved a deep sigh as he stepped out of his dorm. Timing was ticking, and Xavier was watching.He had to do it.It's now or never.The council was already seated when Jace arrived.Head Councilor Varric sat at the center, eyes sharp, hands clasped before him. To his left, Head instructor Calloway tapped his quill against his notes, and to the right, Master-at-Arms Thorne leaned back with arms crossed, always skeptical.Jace walked into the room with deliberate steps, his boots echoing loud against the polished floor. His face was calm, unreadable—but his stomach twisted with nerves.This was it.He had thought about doing what Xavier asked—about finishing what he’d started when he betrayed Rayne. It would have been easy to say Lucian knew. To push the final piece across the board and crown Xavier king.But he couldn’t do it.He couldn’t hurt Rayne

• Alpha's Hidden Luna   Chapter Fifty: The Strings

  The room was still.“Are you saying,” another councilor asked, arching a brow, “that despite sharing quarters with her for nearly the entire semester, you never once suspected she wasn’t who she claimed to be?”Lucian nodded once, keeping his voice steady. “She was private. Quiet. Focused on her studies. We barely spoke at first. And when we did, it was usually about training or trials. She kept her distance.”Another councilor leaned forward, skeptical. “But recently, you two were observed spending more time together. Sharing meals. Conversing during drills. You were even paired for multiple Trials. You expect us to believe there was no… intimacy?”Lucian’s jaw clenched—but he forced himself to play the role.“Whatever closeness you think you observed,” he said coldly, “was tactical. Strategic. We worked well together. That’s all.”“

• Alpha's Hidden Luna   Chapter Forty Nine: After The Fall

  The wind howled through the mountain pass, sharp and bitter as knives. It whipped Rayne’s cloak around her ankles and turned her hair into tangled lashes against her cheek, but she didn’t flinch.She couldn’t feel much of anything anymore.Not the cold.Not the ache in her limbs from days of sleeplessness.Not even the sting of rejection that had carved itself so deep into her chest it might as well have been bone.She just kept walking.One foot after the other.No direction. No destination.Just… away.From Blackmoon.From Lucian.From her father.From the life that was no longer hers.Her boots crunched against gravel as she descended the eastern slope, the last part of the academy grounds that bled into the outside world. No guards chased her down. No one called her name. No one fought for her.She had been banished, yes. But worse than that—she had been erased.Wiped from the academy’s roster like she had never existed. The quarters she once shared with Lucian were already being