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Chapter 42: A Struggle Between Power and Shadow
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BETRAYED BY THE MOON Chapter 80: The Fractured Pack
Amara’s POVThe first screams came at dawn.Scouts stumbled through the gates, bloodied, eyes wide with terror. Their voices cracked as they tried to speak, but the stench clinging to them said enough. rot, smoke, the copper of spilled blood.“The Forsaken,” one managed. His knees buckled. “They’re… moving. Villages in the east ,they don’t leave corpses. They take them. Make them rise.”A ripple of horror coursed through the yard. Mothers pulled children inside, warriors gripped blades with white-knuckled fists, and the air itself seemed to freeze.Darius barked orders, his voice firm, dragging the pack into motion. Yet every glance I caught told the same story: fear, and beneath it, blame.Blame that pointed at me.In the war room, maps lay spread across the table, red stones marking villages already lost. Mira stood with her arms folded, jaw tight, while Elder Hanor leaned heavily on his staff, face ashen.“They’re not raiding,” Mira said flatly. “They’re harvesting.”The word twist
BETRAYED BY THE MOON Chapter 79 : Shadows Between Us
Amara’s POVThe council’s voices still rang in my ears long after the hall had emptied.The torches burned low, their smoke curling against the ceiling like fingers clawing for air. I hadn’t moved from where I stood at the far end of the table. My palms pressed flat against the cold wood, my breath uneven, though I would not let myself shake where others could see.Bind her. Cage her. Treat her like a weapon too dangerous to leave unchecked.The words had rooted themselves in me, twisting deeper the more I tried to ignore them.I had saved them. I had bled for them. Yet tonight, some would rather see me in chains than trust me to walk free among them.Darius’s hand touched my shoulder. Warm. Solid. Too careful. As though he feared even his comfort might break me.“They’re afraid,” he said quietly.I laughed without humor. “Of me.”“They don’t see what I see.” His voice sharpened. “They don’t see the woman who stood against Viktor when no one else could. The one who carried this pack o
BETRAYED BY THE MOON Chapter 78 : The Shadow’s Warning
Amara’s POVBy morning, the courtyard was scrubbed clean of ash.Not the smell, it lingered in the stones, in the wolves’ fur, in the air we breathed. But the bodies were gone, swept into pits outside the walls, burned before the sun rose. The flames had eaten the evidence, yet no fire could devour the memory of what we had seen.Or what they had seen in me.Everywhere I walked, the weight of their stares pressed against my back. Mothers pulled children aside as I passed. Warriors lowered their voices to whispers, their eyes flicking to my wrist. Reverence and suspicion had twined into something more dangerous than either alone.They weren’t asking if I would fight Lilith.They were asking if I already belonged to her.I kept my head high, but inside, my chest ached with every heartbeat. I wanted to scream at them, to demand they see me, not the shadows. But I couldn’t. Not yet.Mira found me near the outer wall, her blade strapped across her back, her hair pulled tight. She didn’t bo
BETRAYED BY THE MOON Chapter 77 : After the Ashes
Amara’s POVThe courtyard still reeked of rot and smoke.Ash clung to my skin, coating my lungs until every breath tasted like dust. Warriors moved in frantic bursts , dragging bodies, dousing the fires, checking the wounded , but their eyes never left me.Not one of them.They watched as though waiting for me to crumble. Or for the mark on my wrist to blaze again and turn against them.My shadows still lingered across the stones, twitching faintly, restless, reluctant to return to silence. I clenched my fists until my nails bit deep, forcing them back into the mark. It throbbed in protest, hungry, alive.“Amara.”Darius’s voice was low but carried across the yard. He strode toward me, blood streaking his arm, his jaw tight. Every wolf moved aside for him, but their stares didn’t shift from me.When he reached me, he caught my hand, not gently, not harshly, but firmly, as if reminding both of us I was still tethered to him, not the shadows.“Enough,” he said, though his voice cracked
BETRAYED BY THE MOON Chapter 76: When the Dead Break Through
Amara’s POVThe courtyard was a sea of faces.Warriors ringed the circle, their armor glinting in the gray light of dawn. Elders lined the raised platform, their expressions carved from stone. And in the center stood me ,bare-armed, unarmored, every whisper pressing against my back.The trial.I could feel their hunger for it, not the hunger for justice but for spectacle. For proof. Some wanted me to fall so their fears would be justified. Others wanted me to stand so they could cling to hope. But all of them stared as if my skin might peel back to reveal Lilith herself.Darius stood to my left, silent, his shoulders squared, his jaw locked. His presence steadied me even when his eyes betrayed the storm he fought to hide.“Begin,” Elder Hanor intoned, his staff striking the stones.A warrior stepped into the circle opposite me. Broad-shouldered, scarred, a man I had trained beside before mistrust poisoned his gaze. His knuckles whitened as he drew his blade, and though his eyes flicke
BETRAYED BY THE MOON Chapter 75 : Ashes Between Us
Amara’s POVThe courtyard still echoed with voices long after the council had dismissed us. I carried their stares with me, heavy as chains. Every whisper, every doubt had followed me out of the chamber and clung to my skin like smoke.I left the firelight behind, needing the cold. Beyond the walls, the forest crouched in silence, but the wind carried an acrid sting that did not belong to night. It was sharper, bitter. The smell of rot and fire ,the kind that clings to ruins after battle.I wrapped my arms around myself, though the air wasn’t cold enough to bite. The mark on my wrist throbbed in rhythm with the distant howls. They were not our wolves. The sound was jagged, broken, unnatural.The Forsaken.“They come for you, daughter.”Lilith’s whisper curled into my skull. I flinched, pressing a palm against my temple. She always knew when I was weakest ,when fear hollowed me out and left space for her voice to slip in.“You won’t have me,” I hissed under my breath.“You already belo
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