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Chapter 38: First Mission Together
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2025-12-22 09:22:01
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Alpha's Regret: The Forsaken Luna CHAPTER 99: TWENTY-SEVEN DAYS
Rhiannon's POVThe war council reconvened on day four.Not the rescue team this time—broader. Thorne was there, which would have been unthinkable three weeks ago and was now simply fact. Cade. Moira, for the medical perspective. Marcus, upright and present and visibly committed to maintaining both conditions through force of will. Sera. Nyx. Darius and me.Soren was in the training yard with two Silver Claws and a set of wooden practice blades, which he had lobbied for so persistently and with such tactical sophistication that the decision had essentially made itself.Twenty-seven days left on Malachar's clock."What do we know?" Darius said."We know the ritual requires hybrid Chimera-wolf blood," Nyx said. She'd spread documents across the table—her Archive notes, the monastery records, pages of her own analysis in handwriting so small it required proximity to read. "We know Soren's blood is the closest natural match to the original requirements. We know that using it would likely k
Alpha's Regret: The Forsaken Luna CHAPTER 98: SOREN'S NIGHTMARES
Rhiannon's POVIt started on the third night.I was awake before he made a sound—that maternal instinct that had never fully slept since the day he was born, the part of me that monitored his breathing the way a sentry monitors a border. The change in rhythm was subtle. Not quite a sound. Just a shift in the quality of the silence coming through his door.I was in his room before the first cry.He was sitting upright in bed, both hands fisted in the blanket, eyes open and not seeing the room. They were seeing somewhere else. Something else. The particular horror of dreams that have more truth in them than most waking hours."Soren." I sat on the bed beside him, one hand on his shoulder. Not pulling him toward me—offering contact, letting him come when ready. "Hey. I'm here."He came back slowly. The eyes refocused. The blanket loosened fractionally."It was loud," he said. His voice was very small."What was loud?""The alarm. When you came. The whole building changed. All the light w
Alpha's Regret: The Forsaken Luna CHAPTER 97: THE FIRST NIGHT
Rhiannon's POVSoren slept until noon.Moira checked on him twice and declared him healing in all the ways that mattered, then chased everyone except me out of the wing with the particular efficiency of a woman who has been a healer long enough to know that rest is its own medicine and crowds are its enemy.I sat beside his bed and watched him breathe.It was not a small thing. It kept being not a small thing no matter how many times I confirmed it. The rise and fall of his chest, the slight sound he made when he shifted, the wooden sword tucked in beside him because he'd asked and no one had been prepared to say no to that particular request—all of it kept landing like fresh news. He's here. He's safe. He's breathing.Darius came back at midmorning carrying food I hadn't asked for and wouldn't have thought to ask for, which was its own category of information about the last two weeks. He set it down on the table near the window and didn't make a production of it, just left it there t
Alpha's Regret: The Forsaken Luna CHAPTER 96: AFTERMATH
Rhiannon's POVThe healer's wing smelled like fresh linen and herbs and the particular clean antiseptic smell that meant someone competent had prepared for our return.Elder Moira met us at the door. She took one comprehensive look at all five of us—Soren first, then Marcus, then me—and her face did the thing experienced healers' faces do, which is show nothing except efficiency while internally triaging everything at once."The boy first," she said.They took Soren into the examination room and I went with them and he submitted to the healer's assessment with the particular resigned dignity of a child who has learned that fighting adults over this particular category of thing is not worth the energy expenditure."Does this hurt?" Moira asked, pressing gently along his ribs."No.""This?" His shoulder."No.""This?" His hands.He considered. "My feelings hurt," he said.Moira stopped. Looked at him. Then looked at me over his head with an expression that said: this child will give me
Alpha's Regret: The Forsaken Luna CHAPTER 95: THE RETURN
Rhiannon's POVThe crowd parted.Not quickly—the way crowds part for something they want to see rather than something they want to avoid. They pressed back on either side and left a corridor of open ground, and we walked through it with the morning light behind us and the packhouse ahead, and I felt every eye the way you feel weather—not a pressure that could stop you, but present. Real.I'd walked this path before.Last time, I'd walked it masked and armoured, the Phantom's reputation preceding me like a physical force. Strangers pressing back against buildings. Fear doing the work.This time I was walking it as myself. Bruised. Bleeding from three separate things I'd decided not to mention. Carrying a four-year-old who was technically asleep again but kept lifting his head to check the scenery.I looked at the faces as I passed.The cook who'd watched me arrive as the Phantom and seen nothing of the girl who'd washed her dishes. She saw it now. I watched the recognition move across
Alpha's Regret: The Forsaken Luna CHAPTER 94: THE LONG ROAD HOME
Rhiannon's POVDawn found us eight miles from the mountain.Not enough. Not nearly enough. But dawn came when it came, and all we could do was keep moving into it.I carried Soren. Had been carrying him for five of the eight miles, shifting him from hip to shoulder to front as the muscles required, refusing every time Darius reached for him. Not from stubbornness—or not only—but from some deep animal need to keep him in contact with me. To feel his weight and his warmth and his breath against my neck. To keep confirming what my hands had to confirm again and again: here. He's here.He'd woken twice. Both times briefly, checking his location, checking my face, going back to sleep. The third time he woke he asked me to tell him about the mission and I did—the tunnel, the storage chamber, the vampire in the dark—and he listened with the intense attention he brought to everything, and when I got to the part about him using his magic to shield us on the stair he got very quiet."I didn't k
Alpha's Regret: The Forsaken Luna CHAPTER 49: PACK REBELLION BEGINS
Darius's POVWithin an hour of meeting my son, the gathering had grown from whispers to a roar.I stood on the packhouse steps, watching warriors flood the grounds. Forty. Fifty. More coming every minute. Some I recognized—loyal fighters who'd served under my father. Others were younger, angrier, t
Last Updated : 2026-03-31Alpha's Regret: The Forsaken Luna CHAPTER 48: THE SUPERVISED MEETING
Rhiannon's POVDarius was already waiting at the training grounds when we arrived, sitting on the grass.Marcus and Sera flanked us, hands ready on weapons. I'd chosen neutral territory deliberately—not his packhouse, not my camp. Somewhere I could leave at any moment.He looked like he'd barely sl
Last Updated : 2026-03-31Alpha's Regret: The Forsaken Luna CHAPTER 50: SOREN'S POWER EPISODE
Rhiannon's POVDawn came with blood on the horizon.I'd left Soren with Sera. Told him to stay in the tent. Promised I'd return after the challenge.He'd nodded. Said nothing. But his eyes had been too wide, his breathing too shallow.I should have stayed with him.But I'd needed intelligence. Need
Last Updated : 2026-03-31Alpha's Regret: The Forsaken Luna CHAPTER 47: MEETING HIS SON - FIRST TIME
Darius's POVI shouldn't have been there.I knew it was wrong. Knew Rhiannon would be furious.But I couldn't stay away.The camp was quiet past midnight. I moved through shadows, using every stealth technique I'd learned. The tent wards shimmered but didn't activate—basic protections that recogniz
Last Updated : 2026-03-30
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