TASTE OF THE CURSED LUNA
Born a "Latent" into a lineage of apex Alphas, Emily is a ghost in her own home. To her parents, she is a failed investment. To her twin brother, Ryan, she is a social stain to be scrubbed away by the boots of his cruel pack. At the Lycan Academy of Runes and Warfare, she is "The Hollowed"—a girl without a wolf, a student with a brilliant mind trapped in a body the Moonlight Law deems worthless.
She has learned to survive in the shadows, nursing her bruises and burying her heart in ancient scrolls. Until the shadows start looking back.
First come the messages. Cryptic. Protective. Signed by The Watcher. Then come the gifts—a flask of hot chocolate to dull the pain, a mountain-runner to escape a beating. For the first time in nineteen winters, someone isn't looking at Emily’s lack of a scent. They are looking at her.
But the Academy is a meat grinder, and the Alphas are getting hungry.
When Lucas Montgomery, the lethally handsome high-tier Alpha, corners her in the campus infirmary, the air doesn't just turn cold—it ignites. He is everything she should fear: rich, ruthless, and radiating a dominant Essence-Aura that makes her knees weak. He claims he wants her for her mind, but the way his hands bruise her waist and his teeth graze her pulse points tells a much darker, hungrier story.
Trapped between a secret protector who haunts her phone and a silver-eyed predator who wants to break her on his bed, Emily is caught in a jagged crossfire of ancient pack rivalries and forbidden heat.
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Chapter: 35Do you prefer the roasted venison or the herb-infused bone broth?" Lucas asked as he detected the soft brush of her footsteps against the cedar planks, his back still turned to her."I... let me think," Emily replied, her voice still a quiet murmur in the thin mountain air."Great Mother!" Lucas exhaled, turning fully to face her. His golden eyes flared with a sudden, searing intensity as they swept over her."What is it?""You look like a vision of the Lunar Goddess herself..." he whispered, a rare, genuine smile breaking through his usual Alpha stoicism.Emily let out a small, breathless laugh, feeling the warmth of his praise more than the hearth-fire. Daniel, standing by the frosted window, offered a sharp nod of approval."It is a triumph to finally speak of your beauty to your face, rather than through a runic screen," Lucas murmured, his gaze lingering on the way the green wool clung to her frame."You truly must burn those oversized rags you used to wear, Emily," Daniel added
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Chapter: 34No, Princess… this isn't a shadow’s trick," Lucas whispered, his breath warm against my hair as he pressed a tender kiss to my crown. "This is the reality we’ve both hungered for. Our shared vision made flesh."He pulled back just enough to look at me, his golden eyes shimmering. "Do you truly have no inkling of how long I have been consumed by thoughts of you?"I stared at him, my mind spinning. Him? Consumed by me? It felt like a glitch in the Moonlight Law. The High Alpha heir, a creature of pure Essence-Aura, obsessed with a girl the Silver-Run Territories had discarded as Hollowed?"The first time I laid eyes on you was during a runic competition between our territories," he continued, his voice dropping to a low, melodic hum. "I was struck by the brilliance of your mind. Though my pack took the victory that day, I watched you fight with the tenacity of a lone wolf against an entire vanguard, even after your own team had surrendered to the frost. In that moment, I didn't fall for
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Chapter: 33The hearth-fire licked at the stones, casting flickering orange light over Lucas’s bare, corded back. He wasn't wearing a tunic, just his training leathers. There is a primal, unsettling beauty in a high-born Alpha performing a domestic task, his powerful muscles rippling as he tended the morning meal. Emily stood at the base of the stairs, her breath hitching in her throat."Is the view to your liking, Princess?"Emily nearly jumped out of her skin. Did the man have the heightened senses of a sentinel even when his back was turned?"I... I was just..." she stammered, heat rushing to her cheeks."How is your physical state this morning?" he asked, turning toward her.Emily’s gaze involuntarily dropped to the sheer, sculpted power of his torso—the "Essence-Aura" of a dominant male was almost suffocatingly attractive. She felt like a yearling caught in a predator's gaze."I... much improved," she managed to exhale."Good. I must cleanse the soot from my skin. There is fresh elk-milk in
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Chapter: 32"Right, right, we're leaving. Just let us go!" the pathetic cur nearest me scrambled, his scent sour with cowardice. In a frantic, clumsy retreat, the drifters fled into the frost-locked shadows. Some were so paralyzed by Lucas’s "Essence-Aura" they could barely find their feet, practically crawling toward the exit.I stood there, breathless, reeling from how quickly the tide had turned. But a new, sharper anxiety pierced through the shock.Lucas was closing the distance, his eyes locked onto mine. His face was flushed with a terrifying heat, and his gaze—usually so distant—was flooded with raw fury and a pain that looked almost physical.I don't know what destiny has written for me in the stars, but having the Alpha heir of the Montgomerys as my savior was the last thing I expected.Then, the realization hit me like a plunge into a frozen lake. I wanted the earth to split open and swallow me. I was nearly exposed; the drifters had torn my protective layers away, leaving me shivering
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Chapter: 31"Grant me another heartbeat of patience, Princess… I beg of you…""Very well…" I replied through the runic link, though my spirit was far from serene.Who could this shadow be? He held such weight in Lucas’s soul; they were clearly bound by a profound brotherhood. Perhaps his closest ally?Lucas Montgomery.No... it was a fragmented thought. Impossible. Lucas was a creature of ice and jagged edges. Whoever whispered to my soul via these messages possessed a warmth that could thaw the Tundra, a gentleness that made a girl feel like she was the only star in the night sky. Lucas knew only how to command through terror and presence. Yet... I recalled the stolen glimpses of his slate. He had images of me. Why would an Alpha heir hoard the likeness of a Hollowed girl?I searched for any logical explanation, but the only one that fit—that he was my Watcher—seemed the most absurd of all. For years, I had trailed after him like a lost pup, and he hadn't spared me a single glance. He had never
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Chapter: 30"That day," she started, her voice trembling like a leaf in a mountain gale. "You left the fortifying draught and the elk-meat on my training station when I stepped away for the Runic trials.""Ah... that morning," Daniel replied, a heavy sigh escaping him.So, he did remember.The confusion roared in her mind like a blizzard. Why would he deny the link now? Was this some cruel sport of the elite? But Daniel’s scent remained grounded, devoid of the sharp tang of deception. He seemed burdened by a truth he wasn't permitted to speak."I merely placed those offerings there because he commanded it of me," Daniel confessed.Emily’s breath hitched. "Commanded? Who has the authority to demand such a thing?""He was watching you from the shadows of the high balcony," Daniel explained, his eyes fixed on the frost-locked path ahead. "He saw that your 'Essence-Aura' was flickering from hunger, yet he knew your pride wouldn't allow you to break your focus. He had urgent matters with the Council o
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