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: 62“Emily… I comprehend your stance. If the subject was an alternate student within the Academy, zero conflict would exist. But the target is him… Tyler Brooks…”“I recognize, Ethan, that the instructor’s aura frequently registers as malevolent. But does that negate the necessity for compassion when his spirit is fracturing under such a weight?”“Your processing lacks the full cache, Emily… That male is a predator disguised in familiar patterns. He is extremely lethal…” he retorted.“How do you possess data on his nature outside the Academy lecture halls? Why does your tone suggest an archive of information that remains classified to my access?”“This is not the watch for that retrieval, Emily… Dispatch a secondary transmission. Inform him that your arrival is impossible due to strict directives from the lineage elders…”“I cannot execute that, Ethan. I cannot inhabit such a hollow role. Besides, he likely already dispatched the transport vehicle for my transit…”“What the fk? Did you au
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Chapter: 61“Does the lineage register stability? The matriarch and sire are operating under normal parameters, correct?” Emily queried, her sensory nodes tracking the deep, heavy frequency of his voice with intense focus.“Affirmative… their physical states are optimal. The sire encountered a complex obstruction within his territorial trade-logistics, and he required my presence to navigate the resolution,” he answered.“Then the situation is acceptable… My internal wolf was projecting a state of high anxiety, assuming a threat had breached your perimeter…” she admitted.“Negative… maintain your calm, my little cub… So, what data does your daily log contain?” he asked.Should her lips disclose the traumatic event involving the instructor’s matriarch and his subsequent link to her frequency? Negative… His system was already navigating an intense structural conflict. She could not permit her internal wolf to introduce additional friction into his matrix.“My daily logs track the standard cycle, Lu
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Chapter: 60“Instructor Brooks… please… terminate the deployment of those thoughts… Your line must maintain maximum structural density for both the memory of your lost mate and the failing matriarch… Does your intellect calculate that their spirits derive satisfaction from witnessing this collapse of your alpha frame?” finally, her processing nodes managed to assemble a coherent interrogation.“The data remains completely obscure to my mind, Emily… I cannot isolate the correct tactical maneuver… My system feels entirely uncalibrated… My office is currently consuming your primary timeline as well… Your vanguard is required to report to the hearth-house for the shift, correct? My spirit releases an expression of regret; my hand has detained your form for an excessive sequence,” he offered, his frequency reflecting internal friction.“Let that variable drop from your calculations. My station can execute a bypass of the maintenance shift. The disruption carries a zero weight. My frequency remains onl
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Chapter: 59The golden-haired female was the solitary companion Emily retained within the fortress walls outside of Lucas and his closest warrior ally, Ethan. Her system could not absorb the loss of this connection.“The configuration is fully clear to my tracking system, Emily… Ethan delivered the full operational breakdown to my parameters…” Sally articulated, her vocal frequency dropping to a softer register.“My spirit releases an expression of deep remorse to your station, Sally,” Emily stated, her emotional balance fracturing with sorrow.“Allow your internal wolf to settle, Emily… My spirit registers a sense of relief because his lips executed that disclosure. My consciousness has channeled the entirety of its emotional currents toward his form for an immense sequence of winter cycles. Consequently, the transition will not execute easily within my system. But at absolute minimum, my analytical nodes recognize that his choice did not reject my form due to an alignment with a rival female…”
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Chapter: 58By the ancestors, Lucas, my wolf reviles your habit of masking these critical operations from my sight…Your office should have initiated a direct vocal explanation before your vanguard evacuated the quadrant.Hurling silent curses against his name, she accelerated her stride toward the valley transport platform.As her boots cleared the path, she recorded Lucas’s lighter transport sled parked adjacent to the public platform. This visual data accelerated her internal alarm. Has a severe blow fallen upon Lucas’s line? What strategy brought Lucas’s close comrade to this position at the dawn watch?She calculated he had registered her approach through his side scrying glass. He flashed a hand signal.She literally sprinted to the armored sled, fracturing the passenger threshold before his hand could assist.“May the moon grant you a bright sunrise, Emily…” he greeted her, his posture relaxed.“May the dawn bring strength. Isolate the current coordinates of Lucas,” she demanded, ignoring
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Chapter: 57“Affirmative…” the female mumbled, her thoughts tangling in a web of deep confusion. Why in the name of the ancestors had the campus favorite invaded her sanctuary at this hour to cross-examine her regarding Tyler Brooks? Had a boundary fractured during their evaluation watch on the high dais? “Did his scent track any queries regarding my line?”“Regarding your line… What parameters does your intellect assume by that statement?”“Cease the deflection, Emily… Did his tongue execute queries regarding my status, regarding your direct twin bloodline?” the Alpha-in-training roared, his posture expanding with raw, entitled heat.“The instructor parsed data concerning our domestic unit. But his office did not isolate a specific interrogation regarding my twin brother,” she answered, keeping her aura strictly contained.“You delivered the confirmation that my elite form shares your wombline, correct?” he then demanded, his pupils constricting as he anchored his glare onto her face.“What? Neg
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