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: CHAPTER 5"Where the hell are you going, Emily?"Ryan’s voice bit through the thin, mountain air like a frost-tipped arrow. He didn't look at her; he was too busy leaning against the obsidian pillars of the Academy entrance, tossing a jagged piece of flint between his hands. The Locker Room Circle stood behind him, a wall of Alpha-scent and arrogance.Emily didn't answer. She couldn't. Her voice was a dry rattle in her throat. She focused on the library's heavy stone doors. If she reached them, she was safe—the library was neutral ground under the Moonlight Law. No shifts. No blood.She limped past them, her right knee buckling with every step. The bone-deep throb was a rhythmic reminder of the morning’s "lesson.""The professor's little lap-bitch is in a hurry today," Tyler Brooks sneered, loud enough for the passing Betas to hear. "Maybe Arnold needs his ink-wells refilled with something more... personal."The laughter followed her inside, heavy and mocking. Emily didn't stop until she reache
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Chapter: CHAPTER 4"Who are you? Tell me how you even know my name."The message hissed out of Emily’s fingertips as she gripped her cracked device. She stood by the jagged obsidian gates of the Lycan Academy, her pulse thrumming against her throat. The "Watcher." The name felt like a phantom limb.No answer."Dammit," she muttered, staring at the 6:30 AM timestamp. Three hours late. In the Silver-Run Territories, three hours was the difference between a successful hunt and starving in the frost. A girl like her—a "Hollowed" with no internal compass to guide her through the mountain mists—had no right to be this careless with the only person acknowledging her existence.She shoved the phone into the pocket of her frayed wool trousers and broke into a jagged run toward the Hall of Runes. The thin air burned her lungs, tasting of ancient pine and the musk of a hundred shifting Alphas."Look at the little stray go!"The sneer cut through the wind like a bone-handled knife. Emily didn't have to look. The sc
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Chapter: CHAPTER 3"Where the hell were you?"The voice hit Emily before she even cleared the heavy oak door of the Carter manor. Her mother, Lisa Carter, stood by the hearth, her silhouette jagged against the dying embers. The scent of sour wine and unspent shift-frenzy hung thick in the air."I was at the Academy, Mother. Studying for the—""Studying? You useless, scentless whelp." Lisa surged forward, her hand blurring as it connected with Emily’s cheek. The blow sent Emily staggering into a hall table. "Your brother is the pride of the Five Great Packs, and you? You can't even shift to hunt a rabbit, yet you have the nerve to disappear when the household needs tending? We had to eat cold leftovers because you weren't here to skin the elk."Emily didn't look up. She focused on the copper taste of blood in her mouth. "Dad said he'd handle the—""Don't you dare bring your father into this!" Lisa’s eyes flared a dull, sickly yellow. "Get to your hole. I can't stand the sight of your flat, human face."E
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Chapter: CHAPTER 2"Where the hell is the tribute?" Tyler Brooks barked, his voice echoing through the obsidian rafters of the Lycan Academy’s lower vaults. He backhanded Emily Carter, the force of his Alpha-born strength snapping her head to the side. "You’ve got no scent, no wolf, and now you’ve got no manners? Your brother Ryan told us you were a parasite, but I didn't think you were a thief too."Emily hit the frost-slicked floor, the jagged ice biting into her palms. She didn't have the "Essence-Aura" to fight back. In the Silver-Run Territories, she was nothing—a "Hollowed" mistake."I don't have anything, Tyler," Emily rasped, her lungs burning from the thin, mountain air. "My parents... they don't give me a coin. Check the ledgers. I'm a scholarship Latent. I have nothing.""You have a pulse, don't you?" Adam sneered, stepping out of the shadows of the Locker Room Circle. He kicked her in the ribs, a dull thud followed by the sharp crack of a bone giving way.Emily curled into a ball. She didn't
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Chapter: CHAPTER 1"Get up, you hollowed piece of trash!"The roar of Tyler Brooks’ voice bounced off the obsidian walls of the Lycan Academy’s lower training vaults. He didn’t wait for Emily Carter to find her feet. His heavy, fur-lined boot slammed into her ribs, the crack of bone sharp against the whistling mountain wind.Emily skidded across the frost-slicked floor, her breath hitching in a throat raw from screaming. The Silver-Run air was thin, tasting of iron and old pine, but she couldn’t get enough of it into her lungs."Please," she rasped, her fingers clawing at the jagged ice on the floor. "Tyler, stop. I didn't do anything.""You existed," Tyler spat. He was an Alpha-born, his Essence-Aura a suffocating weight of heat and aggression. He smelled of fermented honey-mead and the sharp, chemical tang of 'Moon-Dust.' He was wasted, his eyes glowing a fractured, jagged yellow. "A Carter who can’t even shift? You’re a stain on the Five Great Packs. Your own parents call you a mistake, Emily. Why sh
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