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Penulis: Sharon Smallwood
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Elenas pov

Lykan carried me into the room. Dropping me on the bed

I stood up from the bed staring at him.

"You need sleep, Elena." His voice was low. He was right. I did need sleep, but I couldn’t sleep when war was coming.

My head had been hurting lately.

But this time, it was worse.

I couldn’t feel myself.

“My eyes… they feel heavy,” I murmured, the words slipping past my lips like fog, my voice barely audible.

“Lykan… something’s wrong.”

My legs buckled beneath me. My body went cold from the inside out.

“Elena?” his voice rose sharply. “Elena—hey—stay with me!”

I could feel him grab me before I hit the ground, his arms wrapping around me, holding me close. His scent pine, warmth, and home surrounded me, but I couldn’t breathe it in. I couldn’t speak.

I was slipping.

Falling.

‘Eira?’ I reached for her desperately. ‘Eira, answer me… please'

But all I got was silence.

A terrifying, suffocating silence.

And then nothing.

---

The world around me was wrong.

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  • Betrayed Luna: The Alpha's Claim    72

    Elenas pov The walk from the gate to the castle was long. Eerie. And far too quiet. The air shifted the moment I stepped past the rusted gate. It was heavier—cloaked in something old, oppressive. Like the ground itself remembered every scream ever buried beneath it. The stench came next. It does not rot, exactly. But close. Damp stone, mildew, sweat, and something metallic, probably blood. And beneath all that a stench from when I first visited mixed between. My boots crunched lightly on the gravel as I passed several small, crooked sheds, their windows shuttered, their doors creaking with the weight of silence. Then, voices. I crouched low, pressed myself against the side of a crumbling wall, and peeked around the corner. A row of people all in plain clothes, faces drawn and tired stood shoulder to shoulder beneath a flickering torchlight. Most were women. A few older men. Their expressions were blank. Trained. Maids. Servants. I adjusted my hood, dirtied my cloak a bit

  • Betrayed Luna: The Alpha's Claim    71

    Elenas pov Lykan didn’t flinch. He didn’t try to calm me or talk me down. He just looked at me. And in his eyes, I saw it as an unshakable truth. He wanted the same thing. “Then we kill him,” he said. “Together.” A sharp knock at the door broke the silence. Dominic’s voice filtered through, urgent but restrained. “Mira says the council’s gathering. They want to see Elena.” Lykan glanced at me. “You up for that?” I nodded once, wiping the last of my tears. “I’m done running. They need to hear what I saw. What’s coming.” He helped me to my feet, but I stood steady on my own. The ache in my bones, the heaviness in my chest, it was still there. But beneath it all, something new pulsed inside me. Resolve. Seraphine’s strength. The Blood Witch’s truth. The tree’s power. And my own fire, simmering just beneath the surface, waiting to burn. Lykan opened the door. The council chamber was thick with tension. I stood at the center, eyes locked on every leader, scout, and r

  • Betrayed Luna: The Alpha's Claim    70

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  • Betrayed Luna: The Alpha's Claim    69

    Lykan pov “Elena!”I shook her harder, voice cracking as her body went limp in my arms. Her head rolled against my chest like a puppet whose strings had been cut, her skin growing clammy by the second.“Elena, gods wake up,” I begged, brushing her hair back. “Come on, baby. Stay with me. Please.”No response.Her breathing was shallow. Too shallow.“Dominic!” I roared. “Get Mira. Now!”He didn’t ask questions. Just vanished in a blur of shadow.I carried her back to the bed, every step agonizing. Her body felt light—too light. Like the soul inside her was fading fast.“Stay with me,” I whispered, laying her down. “Come on, Elena. Just open your eyes. Give me something.”Still nothing.“Where’s Mira?” I growled toward the doorway.“I’m here!” she burst in a second later, arms full of vials and pouches, two rebel healers trailing behind her. “What happened?”“She collapsed,” I choked out. “One second she was talking, then she just dropped. She’s not waking up. Eira isn’t responding eit

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