Moonlight Pact
Aria never thought the forest behind her house was anything more than a place to breathe. But the night the moon burned white and the world fell silent, something inside her woke up — claws under her skin, a heartbeat that wasn’t only her own, and a stranger with gold eyes waiting at the edge of the trees.
Kai is next in line to lead the Blackthorn pack, and he knows what Aria is before she does: rare, powerful, and exactly what their enemy wants. If Darius gets to her first, she won’t just be claimed — she’ll be used as a weapon.
But Aria isn’t anyone’s pawn. Under Kai’s watch, she learns to control the fire rising inside her — to breathe, to choose, to fight. Each lesson pulls her deeper into the pack’s world… and closer to the Alpha-to-be who swore to keep her safe.
The forest hums with danger, rival packs are closing in, and the full moon is coming. Aria must decide if she can trust the bond growing between her and Kai — before the next pull drags her across a line she can never uncross.
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Chapter: Chapter 3: The First Night(POV: Aria / Kai / Darius)AriaThe neighbors’ yard lights blinked off one by one, like tired eyes closing. I stood at the kitchen window until the dark felt settled again.Maya had texted earlier — u alive? — and I’d sent a single thumbs-up. Anything else would’ve meant questions I wasn’t ready to answer.The hum under my skin hadn’t left. It was quieter than last night but not gone — like a radio tuned just off-station, buzzing softly in the background. Pretending all day had been exhausting. I’d eaten, showered, even laughed at something Mom said at breakfast, but night stripped away all the pretending.He was already there.Kai stepped from the tree line the way smoke slips from a fire — quiet, inevitable.“You said we’d start,” I said, hugging my arms around myself.His eyes swept over me once, like he was making sure I was whole. “Shoes you can run in. Good.”“I’m
Last Updated: 2025-09-22
Chapter: Chapter 1: The Awakening(POV: Aria)The forest had always been my refuge. When the noise of life pressed too close—deadline fever at school, customers at the bookshop who arrived five minutes before closing with twenty minutes of errands, the way our small house could feel crowded with silence—I came here. The path behind our backyard wasn’t just a place I walked; it was a route my body knew without thinking. The maple that leaned like a drunk over the trail. The old oak with roots like knuckled fists. The log split clean down the middle, as if a giant had tried to bite it. I knew where puddles formed after rain, where the mushrooms came up like tiny ears. It was predictable. It was mine.Tonight, nothing felt predictable.The moon had risen huge and white, not soft but stark—like a coin hammered flat and nailed to the sky. Its light made edges cruelly clear. The moss didn’t blur into shadow; it glittered with frost. My breath came out in
Last Updated: 2025-09-22
Chapter: Chapter 2: Shadows in the Woods(POV: Aria / Kai)AriaMorning should have been normal. Sunlight creeping past my curtains, Maya humming in the kitchen, the faint rattle of pipes. I tried to let it be normal, moving slow, pretending last night hadn’t happened.It didn’t work.The hum under my skin was still there — low and restless, like a light left buzzing in an empty room. The kettle whistled downstairs, too sharp, too loud. I smelled the toast burning before Maya scraped it into the sink. Even the soft cotton of my t-shirt felt wrong, every thread dragging against my skin.“You’re fine,” I whispered. But I wasn’t.The night replayed in flashes — the heat, the claws, the gold in his eyes. You’re not entirely human, are you?By the time Maya knocked, I had managed to sit up with the blanket around my shoulders. “You alive in there?” she called.“Barely.”She peeked in, hair sticking out. “You look like you fought a bear.”“Feels like I did.”Her frown softened. “Bad night?”“You could say that.”I didn’t tell her
Last Updated: 2025-09-22
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