Novels by Allutifi writes

Akira's POV“Hey, don’t die ooo.” The voice was rough, amused, and entirely unconcerned with my comfort.I groaned as I wondered who could be. “That’s… a terrible way of greeting someone”Then a low chuckle, which kind of amused me. “Good. That means you’re still alive.”Light found its way to my eyelids. Neon, very harsh and unforgiving. I turned my head and hissed as pain flared behind my eyes.“Easy,” the voice said. “You passed out so hard.”“Where am I?” I croaked, my voice unrecognizably. “Blackveil City.” The words landed on my ears heavily.I forced my eyes open immediately. Concrete walls were around me, the ones I can't remember entering. “This isn’t Crimson Moon land,” I whispered quietly.“No,” the man said. “And if you’ve got any sense left, you won’t dare say that name too loudly around here.”I tried to sit up on hearing that, but pain had its way in exploding through my ribs. “Ah,” he said. “There it is.”I clenched my teeth in agony. “Who are you exactly?”“Kade,”

Akira's POV“Keep moving.”Rough muscular hands tightened around my arms, jerking me upright when my knees buckled.“I am moving,” I replied weakly. “You don’t have to drag me like a criminal.”“You stopped being one of us the moment the Alpha said so,” a guard replied.I laughed weakly at his funny joke. “That's very funny. Yesterday you bowed when I passed.”“That was yesterday, not today.”Stone paths turned to dirt beneath my bare feet. And as we continued silently, Crimson Moon Clan slept peacefully, already forgetting my name.“Where are you taking me to exactly?” I asked, though I already knew.“Beyond the eastern markers, where you belong.”Exile? Permanently exile?I swallowed hard. “At least give me shoes, that would be much appreciated.”Silence followed, as none of them showed me mercy. Another guard scoffed. “Shouldn't you have thought of that before failing the Moon.”I twisted my head toward him, completely taken aback at his abuse. “Say that again.”He leaned closer,

Akira's POV “Get up.”The voice wasn’t gentle, nothing has been gentle lately.I blinked as I flung my eyes open, stone pressed cold into my cheek. My body felt wrong...now lighter somehow, like something essential had been carved out of me.“Get. Up.”I lifted my head and immediately found Maelis standing over me. She was still dressed in white, in the ceremonial white. She was too perfect, untouched like a queen, untorn unlike me. “You shouldn’t be here,” I croaked, my voice failing me. “Go stand beside your Alpha.”She flinched...or rather, she pretended to. “Akira… don’t make this harder than it already is.”I laughed, a broken sound that scraped my throat. “Harder? You’re wearing Luna white on the night I was rejected.”Her eyes roamed around the courtyard, where the last of the pack still gathered, pretending not to stare. “Lower your voice.”“Why?” I demanded. “So they don’t hear what you did?”“I didn’t do anything,” she said quickly, too quickly for someone not guilty. “Thi

Akira's POV “Lucien,” I said, my voice breaking the suffocating silence, “what are you doing?”Every head in the courtyard snapped toward us, waiting for his final decision.Lucien Stormcrest didn’t answer immediately. He stood one step inside the ritual circle now, shoulders squared, Alpha's presence all over him. The same presence that used to make me feel safe now threatened to take my last breath.“You failed the Awakening, disappointing those that had their fate in you,” he replied calmly.A laugh slipped out of me before I could stop it. It sounded wrong entirely to me. “That’s it? That’s what this is after all? Sometimes the Moon...”“...does not delay to confirm their own,” Elder Thane cut in sharply. “It has never delayed since I was little.”I turned to face him. “You taught me the rites to be done yourself. You said...”“I said the Moon answers those it accepts, and doesn't waste time on doing that,” he replied, avoiding my eyes.A murmur rose again, this time, very much l

Akira's POV“Stand still for once, Akira. If you move again, I swear by the Moon, I won't hold back from sedating you.”I let out a hearty and breathy laugh. “You talk as if you don't know you already tightened the clasps three times, much harder than they should, Elder Mira. If I inhale too deeply, I’ll definitely pass out, and that would be right before my own Awakening.”“That would be really unfortunate,” she muttered, her fingers still glued at my back, magically working at the silver threads of my ceremonial gown. “A Luna seen fainting on the night of her most cherished day, which is her Ascension would be… so symbolic. And this time, not in a good way.”I calmly met my reflection in the well polished obsidian mirror. The girl staring back at me doesn't look troubled, but calm. Poised, and of course, Luna-perfect.But somehow, right inside, my chest felt hollow.“Do you feel it yet?” Mira asked quietly, reviving our conversation. “The stirring?”I hesitated for a few seconds. Th