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Chapter 40: The Strategy Session
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2025-12-22 09:22:53
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Alpha's Regret: The Forsaken Luna CHAPTER 116: AFTER
Rhiannon's POVThey carried me back.I want to be clear that I argued against this. I was upright. I was functional. My legs worked entirely adequately when called upon to do so.Nyx said: "You will ride back and you will let someone help you off the horse and you will go to bed."I said: "I walked out of a vampire fortress with broken ribs and—""Yes," she said. "And this time I'm here. So you will ride."I rode.Darius rode beside me with the particular alertness of someone who has decided not to hover but is maintaining a very short response radius just in case. Sera rode behind, one eye on me at all times. Marcus—who had insisted on coming despite his shoulder—rode at the rear and did not pretend he was watching the tree line.I was fine. I was also, I was discovering, significantly more depleted than fine usually felt. The ritual had taken what Sera had calculated it would take—significant, controlled, manageable—and the manageable part was contingent on me resting immediately an
Alpha's Regret: The Forsaken Luna CHAPTER 115: THE ANCHOR
Darius's POVThe light that came from her was not silver.It was older than silver. It was the colour of the sky in the moment before dawn when all the dark has gone but the light hasn't fully declared itself yet—that precise in-between that doesn't have a name because it's too brief to require one.It rose from her skin slowly. Not explosively, not the desperate flare of the mountain or the Bloodletter fight. Controlled. Exactly as Sera had calibrated—a flow rate, not a torrent. The Primordial layer opening like a door held steady rather than broken down.I stood at the meadow's edge and did not move.The bond told me what she was feeling more clearly than her face, which had gone still and inward the way it went when she was doing something that required all of her. Not pain—not quite. Something more like effort of a kind that doesn't involve muscle. The particular concentration of doing something that only you can do, doing it correctly, doing it for the people who need it done.Ma
Alpha's Regret: The Forsaken Luna CHAPTER 114: MALACHAR'S DOMAIN
Rhiannon's POVThe clearing was different in daylight.Not the forest clearing where we'd met before—Caelum had arranged something closer to Malachar's territory this time, a high meadow at the mountain's eastern base where the treeline opened into a wide flat space with the peak visible behind it and the sky enormous overhead. Neutral ground of a different kind. More deliberate.Malachar was already there.He stood alone, as he had before, but the posture was different. Less the ancient thing waiting for what it had decided would happen. More the person standing at the edge of a decision they've made and are trying to understand what the other side of it feels like.Caelum was beside him. Not as a guard—that configuration was obviously finished. More as what he'd described himself as: something that had been a soldier for four centuries and was trying out something else.Our group was small. Rhiannon and me, Nyx and Sera. No warriors—this wasn't that kind of meeting. A healer on stan
Alpha's Regret: The Forsaken Luna CHAPTER 113: THE NIGHT BEFORE
Darius's POVI couldn't sleep.This was not unusual—there had been perhaps a dozen nights in the last two months when sleep had arrived without negotiation. But tonight was different from the others. Tonight was not the sleeplessness of dread or calculation. It was the sleeplessness of someone standing at the edge of something enormous, looking at it, trying to understand the shape of it before they had to walk into it.Tomorrow we went to the forest clearing. Tomorrow Rhiannon offered her Primordial blood to sever a two-thousand-year anchor. Tomorrow Malachar either let Isolde go or the ritual failed and we began the search for another answer.I lay in the dark and felt Rhiannon two rooms down through the bond—not asleep but not awake the way I was awake. Something quieter. The particular stillness of someone who has made their decision completely and is simply being with it before the morning arrives.I got up. Went to Soren's room first.He was asleep, which was not a small thing.
Alpha's Regret: The Forsaken Luna CHAPTER 112: BEFORE THE RITUAL
Rhiannon's POVThree days before the ritual, Nyx came to find me in the training yard.I was running forms—not combat, just the meditative sequence Nyx herself had taught me in the second year after the Forbidden Zone, the one she'd said would keep my channels clear and my magic well-directed. I ran it every morning now. Had for years. It was the thing I reached for when I needed to be precise about where I was in my own body.She watched me finish the sequence.Then she said: "I need to tell you something about what the ritual will feel like."I turned. Read her expression. "Sit down," I said.We sat on the training yard wall—an odd position for the conversation we were about to have, perched on old stone in the early morning light with the packhouse at our backs and the forest ahead."The ritual is not violent," she said. "I want to establish that first. It is not like the burnout. It is not like forcing smoke form. What you will feel is—closer to opening." She chose the word carefu
Alpha's Regret: The Forsaken Luna CHAPTER 111: THE ANNOUNCEMENT
Rhiannon's POVSoren found out at breakfast.He noticed the ring before I said anything—he noticed everything before anyone said anything, which was a trait I recognised and which was going to cause me significant trouble when he was older. He stopped with his spoon halfway to his mouth and looked at my hand and then looked at Darius's hand and then looked at me."You did it," he said."We did," I said.He put his spoon down with the deliberateness of someone setting aside a lesser concern."Both of you?" he said."Both of us.""At the same time?""Roughly simultaneously, yes."He absorbed this. "I told him to," he said. "He told me he was going to do it properly. I told him what properly meant for you.""What did you tell him?""That you don't like fussing." He picked his spoon back up. "Was I right?"Darius was watching him with the expression that had no name. "You were right," he said.Soren looked satisfied. "Good. I've been watching for a while. I know things."He went back to b
Alpha's Regret: The Forsaken Luna CHAPTER 44: PACK REACTION - THE COUNCIL CONVENES
Rhiannon's POVThe news spread like wildfire through dry grass.By noon, every wolf in Crescent Moon knew. The Phantom was Rhiannon Ashwood—the wolfless omega they'd mocked five years ago. And she had a son. The Alpha's son. A hybrid child with Chimera blood.I felt the shift in the air before I sa
Last Updated : 2026-03-29Alpha's Regret: The Forsaken Luna CHAPTER 39: SOREN'S DISCOVERY
Rhiannon's POVI returned from the eastern border patrol to find Sera pacing outside my tent, her face pale."What's wrong?""Soren tried to leave." She grabbed my arm, voice urgent. "Ten minutes ago. Said he wanted to see the packhouse. I barely caught him before he got past the wards."My blood t
Last Updated : 2026-03-28Alpha's Regret: The Forsaken Luna CHAPTER 36: FACE TO FACE
Rhiannon's POVCade pushed open the war room doors.The air left my lungs.Darius stood at the head of the table, bent over maps and reports, his back to us.Five years. Five years since I'd seen him, and even from behind he looked—different.Thinner. The ceremonial Alpha robes hung loose on should
Last Updated : 2026-03-27Alpha's Regret: The Forsaken Luna Chapter 38: First Mission Together
Rhiannon's POVThe eastern border was exactly where the attacks had been concentrated.I crouched in the underbrush, Marcus to my left, Sera to my right. Behind us, five Silver Claws waited in perfect silence. And beside them—unfortunately—six Crescent Moon warriors led by their Alpha.Darius had i
Last Updated : 2026-03-27
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