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2025-04-04 19:25:06
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A Luna of Ice : Reborn for vengeance    Sacrifices
Kayla's POV I hadnât realized how empty my heart would feel until the silence settled in.Days had passedâor maybe just hoursâI couldnât tell anymore. Time didnât move the same without Adrian. Every second felt heavier, like it dragged its feet just to remind me that I was far away from him.I sat curled up on the cold cot in the far corner of the cave, arms wrapped around my knees, heart aching in a way I didnât think was possible. I hadnât spoken much since Hector and Ingrid brought me here. The girls were kind, but I was distant. Lost.I missed him.Goddess, I missed him.His scent. His voice. The way his arms wrapped around me like I was something precious. The way he said my name like it was his favorite word.Sleep didnât come easily, but when it did, I dreamed of him. Always him. His voice in my ears, his lips brushing my skin, his arms holding me while the world fell apart around us.I woke up with tears on my cheeks more often than not.âYouâre dreaming of him again, arenât
āļāļĢāļąāļāļāļĢāļļāļāļĨāđāļēāļŠāļļāļ : 2025-04-04A Luna of Ice : Reborn for vengeance    The climb
Kayla's first person POV The journey through the mountains felt like it was never going to end. Ingrid never told me it was going to be this tough, if she did, I wouldn't have been as enthusiastic about coming here as I was last night. Nothing would have stopped me from coming here though. The air grew painfully thinner as we ascended, the crisp wind cutting into my skin like sharp needles. I soon found myself gasping for breath, feeling each step strain my muscles. It was exhausting, but the alternativeâstaying behind like a coward while Hector, Ingrid, and the others trekked up without meâwas unthinkable. Plus I badly needed answers too. So, I pushed through, even though every part of me screamed for rest. âYou alright?â Hectorâs voice cut through the sharp mountain air, his face creased with concern as he glanced back at me. âIâm fine,â I lied, pushing myself harder, my boots scraping against the rocky ground. But I couldnât help the way my chest felt tight with each
āļāļĢāļąāļāļāļĢāļļāļāļĨāđāļēāļŠāļļāļ : 2025-04-05A Luna of Ice : Reborn for vengeance    The Oracle
Kayla's first person POV Suddenly, out of nowhere, There was a strange surge of power, an energy I couldnât explain, rushing through me. The air crackled with raw force, and suddenly, the ground beneath my feet seemed to pulse. I focused all my energy into a single thought: protect them. Protect my loved ones. A barrier of shimmering light exploded outward from me, knocking the wolves back with a deafening crash. The force of it sent the creatures sprawling, but they began to recover slowly, snarling and trying to get up. My heart pounded in my chest, but I didnât back down. This energyâit was like I knew how to use it, like it had always been there, waiting for me to tap into it even though I didn't know what it was. Hector and Ingrid stared at me, their eyes wide with disbelief. I couldnât explain what had just happened, but the sensation of power was overwhelming. âYouâĶ You did that?â Hectorâs voice was tight, almost fearful. I nodded, still trying to catch my breath. âI d
āļāļĢāļąāļāļāļĢāļļāļāļĨāđāļēāļŠāļļāļ : 2025-04-05A Luna of Ice : Reborn for vengeance    Facing the council
Adrian's POV I jolted awake from the nightmare, heart pounding, drenched in sweat.âKayla!â I gasped, reaching for herâonly to grab empty sheets.The nightmare still clung to me like a second skin. Her voice echoed in my ears, accusing, devastated."You didnât protect me, Adrian. You left me. you let them take me."Her eyesâĶ they had looked so real. So broken. I sat at the edge of my bed, head in my hands, trying to shake off the chill that settled into my bones. It wasnât just a dream. It was a warning of the future or guilt of that night, or maybe both.A loud knock came at the door. Logan entered without waiting.âAlpha, Theyâve summoned you... Immediately,â he said grimly. âThey are at the Council hall and Augustineâs leading.âOf course he is.I stood without a word, already pulling on my shirt. Logan followed behind, tension radiating off him.âWhat are they charging me with now?â I muttered.Logan hesitated. âTheyâre saying you're emotionally compromised. That Lady Kayla has m
āļāļĢāļąāļāļāļĢāļļāļāļĨāđāļēāļŠāļļāļ : 2025-04-06A Luna of Ice : Reborn for vengeance    The Oracle's sanctuary
Kayla's POV The Oracleâs sanctuary was unlike anything Iâd ever seen. Nestled between jagged cliffs and fog-kissed forest, it looked like something out of a dreamâan ancient village carved into the side of the mountain, hidden by thick trees and magic I could feel in the air. The wind here didnât just whistleâit whispered.Inside the stone structures, warm fires crackled, glowing crystals lined the walls, and soft voices murmured in languages I didnât understand. The womenâso many womenâmoved with laughter and freedom. Some were young, barely teenagers. Others carried themselves like warriors, scarred and strong.âThese womenâĶâ I whispered as I helped one of the girls settle into a room with a cot and thick wool blankets. âTheyâre like a tribe.ââThey are,â Ingrid said softly beside me. âThey protect those who canât protect themselves. Most of them were once like the girls we brought in. Broken. Scared. Hunted.âThe girl we tucked inâher name was Lyraâclung to my arm as I tried to
āļāļĢāļąāļāļāļĢāļļāļāļĨāđāļēāļŠāļļāļ : 2025-04-06A Luna of Ice : Reborn for vengeance    The council's order
Adrian's POV I stared at the council letter on my desk, barely reading the damn thing before I tossed it aside. Same message as beforeâ. âWe urge you to reconsider. Candice is the suitable choice,â âthe packâs stability depends on your union,â âLady Kayla is an unnecessary liability.â Liability, my ass. I leaned back in my chair and closed my eyes, trying to push the pressure out of my head before it split me in two. But a knock at the door shattered the quiet. âCome in,â I growled. The door opened and my mother stepped in. Regal. Cold. Dressed like she hadnât aged a day since she last manipulated me into something I didnât want. âI assume youâve read the councilâs latest suggestion?â she said coolly, shutting the door behind her. âYou mean their latest threat?â I snapped. âYeah. I read it.â She moved further in, clasping her hands. âAdrian, donât make this harder than it needs to be. Marry Candice, have a child, stabilize the power dynamic, and all of this goes away.â I lau
āļāļĢāļąāļāļāļĢāļļāļāļĨāđāļēāļŠāļļāļ : 2025-04-09A Luna of Ice : Reborn for vengeance    Control
Kayla's POV I didnât expect to find comfort in a place made in the mountains and with strange people, but the sanctuary slowly began to feel like something close to peace. The women hereâ a lot of them were wolfless like me, had built something beautiful in the ruins of everything that had been taken from them. Some had lost their wolves. Others never had one. But none of them were weak. They moved like a tribe, fiercely protective of each other. They trained, they studied, they guarded the younger girls like sacred flame. I found myself lingering near them more often. Helping with meals. Offering quiet words when someone cried in their sleep. It gave me something to doâĶ something other than sit with the ache in my chest. Hector, of course, kept trying to be everywhere I turned. âYou need help with those?â he asked, jogging toward me when he saw me carrying a crate of old books the Oracle had asked for. âIâve got it,â I said, shifting the weight in my arms. He didnât move awa
āļāļĢāļąāļāļāļĢāļļāļāļĨāđāļēāļŠāļļāļ : 2025-04-09A Luna of Ice : Reborn for vengeance    Adrian is stopped
Adrian's POV I barely slept last night. After the poisoning attempt, my instincts were on edgeâevery creak of the floorboards, every shift in the wind had me reaching for my blade. The healer I called to investigate the poisoned cup said the poison had been subtleâwolfbane laced with something stronger, a paralyzing agent that wouldâve made me collapse tonight or mid-travel. I wasnât dying. Not yet. But the betrayal from knowing that it was one of my pack members that did this burned hotter than the poison ever could. Morning came with an overcast sky. Fitting, really. Connor and Logan were already waiting for me at the courtyard. Logan checked the straps on one of the horses we would need to search the forest quickly while Connor leaned against a stone pillar, eyes flicking to every movement like a hawk. âYou sure youâre up for this?â Connor asked, watching me as I walked toward them. âI have worse problems than the thought of being poisoned,â I muttered, strapping on my sw
āļāļĢāļąāļāļāļĢāļļāļāļĨāđāļēāļŠāļļāļ : 2025-04-11
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A Luna of Ice : Reborn for vengeance    Kayla and the Orphanage again
Kayla's POV I really didnât know where I was going at first. Not really. My feet just kept moving, dragging me farther away from the palace, from the pack... from Adrian. Every step felt more gut wrenching than the last, like my body wanted to turn back even though my heart refused to. Where do I go? I paused in the shadow of an old bakery, pressing my back to the cold brick wall as I hugged the jacket tighter around me. My breath was beginning to puff visibly in the cold evening air, and the wind cut through my clothes like icy knives.I would go to mountain, I finally decided. It was the only place I knew where I would be accepted by someone.I obviously couldn't go back to Xavier's pack but it was the only other place I knew, so the Oracle's sanctuary was my best vet.Plus If there was any place I could find answersâor strengthâit was with her. Maybe I could even finish my training. Maybe I could finally understand why I wasâĶ this. Why I couldnât control my power or trust my
A Luna of Ice : Reborn for vengeance    Kayla leaves
Kayla's POVI sat on the cold marble floor, clutching one of Adrianâs shirts to my chest, tears streaming down my face like a damn faucet I couldnât turn off.How could he do this to me? After everything. After all his promises to always fight for me. To never let me feel alone again.He spent the night with her.Candice.It took one fight, one misunderstanding, and he ran straight to her. I didnât even need to ask anyone. The moment Connor hesitantly told me the truth, I saw it. Clear as day. The shattered pieces of my heart lay scattered around the room like the vases Iâd broken last night.The bed smelled like him. The sheets, the pillows â all of it haunted me. His scent, his warmth... gone. Just like that.âHe was never going to choose you,â the necklace whispered in that low, silky voice that made my skin crawl. âMen like him choose women like Candice. Pretty, obedient. The kind that donât challenge them.ââShut up,â I muttered, dragging myself up to the bed to unzip the duffe
A Luna of Ice : Reborn for vengeance    Adrian loses Kayla
Adrian's POV I tried hard to remember last night but my head soon began to hurt from the effort and I still came up blankPanic was quickly beginning to seize me until I suddenly heard Candice's voice. "Relax Alpha," she said from across the room, her legs tucked under her in a chair by the window with a mug in her hand. "You don't need to try hard to remember what happened last night.""Huh?" I asked in confusion.Candice smiled. "I can read your emotions on your face, and what I meant to say was Nothing interesting happened." I blinked blearily at her. "What...?" "You passed out last night after drinking that extra bottle I told you not to drink," she said simply. "I didnât want the entire palace gossiping about how their great Alpha canât hold his liquor so I brought you to the guest room in my quarters. I just brought coffee for you this morning." She gestured to the tray on the table. I let out a breath of relief. I didn't betray Kayla because nothing had happened between us
A Luna of Ice : Reborn for vengeance    Adrian revealing his feelings
Adrianâs POVI'm an idiot, I know that. I'm an idiot who's hopelessly in love with a woman but still too scared of his feelings for her.These last few days have really wrecked my mental state and drinking with Candice made me forget my worries for just a few hours.But even that, didn't last long. Because once my eyes landed on Kayla, everything came flooding back.She had made lunch and brought it to me, which meant that she had been thinking of me and probably tried to reach me earlier but I had blocked her.I just wanted time to process thoughts without interruptions or guilt. But that turned out to be impossible because the second I saw the look on Kaylaâs face when I refused the food she brought, a bitter knot formed in my stomach. Her smile faltered and was replaced by something smaller, tighter. Hurt. She held the tray down carefully, almost as if she were afraid it would shatter if she moved too quickly.Then she offered to make dinner but I turned it down too and I could
A Luna of Ice : Reborn for vengeance    Adrian and Candice's quarters
Kayla's POV "It's not any of your concern Kayla. I suggest you drop it... for your own good."What nonsense was he saying. Xavier was my ex husband and very obvious enemy of Adrian. What did he mean it was non of my concern?I was very confused now. Didn't Hector say he had nothing to do with Xavier? Didn't he say he was going to change his relationship with Adrian for the better? What was he hiding now? I pressed on. âYou know meeting with him, especially after everything that happened, is only going to make things worse with Adrian. Do you really want to make things more complicated?â He turned his head toward me, his expression hardening slightly. âI donât care anymore what Adrian thinks. Heâs never cared about what Iâve done, and he never will. Besides, I donât see the problem with talking to someone who actually listens to me.â I felt my heart twist in my chest. âI know youâre upset, Hector, but you promised meâeven before I stopped Adrian from banishing youâthat youâd stop w
A Luna of Ice : Reborn for vengeance    Joining the dark side
Kayla's POV I couldnât get Xavierâs smug face out of my mind as I stormed down the hall. I needed to get away from him. From all of it. Adrian, Candice, Xavier... everything felt like it was crashing down. But I still had something to do. I walked briskly toward the holding cells, tray of food in my hands, trying to ignore the flutter of doubt and anger in my chest. I had come this far. I wasnât going to let Xavierâs words, or my own jealousy, ruin everything. When I reached Hectorâs cell, I paused for a moment. The guards were standing nearby, looking bored as usual. They didnât even seem to notice me at first, so I took the chance to slip past them. But then one of them suddenly stepped in my path, a scowl forming on his face. âWhere do you think youâre going?â he sneered. I blinked. âExcuse me?â âYou canât bring food to him,â the guard snapped, his tone rude and dismissive. I frowned. âActually, I can. And I will. Iâm Lady Kayla the Alphaâs fiancÃĐe, and Iâll bring food to
A Luna of Ice : Reborn for vengeance    Taking lunch to Hector
Kayla's POV My heart sank at Adrian's words. He didn't even want to talk to me this morning but he was here laughing his ass off and eating with Candice.I forced a smile, but it didnât reach my eyes. âOf course,â I muttered. âI didnât mean to interrupt.â Candice beamed at me, clearly in a much better mood than I was. âItâs good to see you again. Iâve really missed you,â she said, taking another bite of her food. I stood there, frozen, trying to ignore the bitterness that crept into my thoughts. Why was she so comfortable here? Why was she eating with him like they did this every day? And why had Adrian invited her to his office when he wouldn't even talk to me?Candice noticed the awkwardness and tried to bridge the tension. "Come sit with us! We have so much to catch up on, but we also have all the time in the world since I'm back living at the palace now!"That made me freeze.âWhat?â I asked, voice a little higher than I intended.Candice beamed. âAlot happened when you were aw
A Luna of Ice : Reborn for vengeance    Jealousy and doubt
Kayla's POV Adrian had left so early this morning that I didnât even get a chance to really talk to him and find out if he was okay. He came back drunk last night so I was really beginning to worry.I calmed myself down by telling myself that maybe he just needed some time to cool off after last night, but when noon came and he still wasnât back, a sick feeling started growing in my stomach.I paced around our room like a caged animal, glancing at the door every few seconds, hoping to hear his footsteps. Breakfast came and went. Then lunch. Still nothing.He wasn't even bothering to eat. Was he that hurt?Finally, I gave up waiting and tried to mind-link him."Adrian? Have you eaten yet?" I asked softly, sending the thought across our bond.Nothing.I tried again."Please answer me. I'm worried about you."This time, I could feel the block. Solid and cold, like a wall had been thrown up between us. I gasped quietly, clutching my chest. He never blocked me before. Not even during ou
A Luna of Ice : Reborn for vengeance    Adrian drinks and Candice
Adrian's POV I was waiting for Logan's answer but he was hesitant to look at me."Logan? Why shouldn't I talk to her?"âBecause I donât trust her,â he finally snapped. âYou shouldnât either.â I leaned back in the chair, watching him. âNo that's not it... I think You hate her. But I what I want to know is why?â Logan crossed his arms, his whole body tense. âBecause I donât like women who choose power and money over love.â For a second, I just stared at him. That wasâĶ personal. Before I could ask more, he shook his head like he regretted saying anything and muttered, âDo what you want, Alpha. Permission to patrol the border sir!" He requested. I waved him off and called for a guard. âSend for Candice. Now.â Logan cursed under his breath but didnât stop me. Candice arrived not long after, dressed too perfectly for the late hour, her blond hair in place and a smile that didnât reach her eyes. âYou called for me, Alpha?â she said sweetly, walking in with a little too much sway in
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