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Chapter Eighteen
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Bound By The Moon: The Alpha’s Regret Chapter Nineteen
Bella’s POVI later left for work and spent the whole day trying to clean as much as I could. Not as if it would add to my daily pay but I hoped that my boss might tip me. “You trust her too easily.” my wolf whispered in my head again. My wolf. Restless.“I don’t have a choice,” I replied telepathically, wiping down the counter with more force than needed. “She’s the only one who’s even looked at me like I wasn’t trash.”“You don’t know her. Her scent—she hides something.”“Then we watch. We stay alert.” I paused, pretending to scrub a tough stain while I focused inward. “I’m not walking away from a clean bed and real food because you're spooked.”“You’re spooked too,” my wolf snapped.“Yeah,” I admitted. “But I’m also tired.”The kitchen door swung open behind me. I jumped slightly, snapping out of my head.“There you are!” June’s voice was all sunshine and mischief. “I’ve been looking for you everywhere.”“I’ve been working,” I said, brushing hair out of my eyes. “The dishes don’t
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Bella’s POVJune pushed between two girls and got in front of them. “Enough!”Keisha shoved her. “Back off, dyke!”That did it.June didn’t flinch. “Try that again.”Jayla paused, chest heaving. Keisha stepped forward, but someone—finally—stormed in from the hallway. A shelter worker, tall and irritated.“Break it up!”Both girls were yanked apart. Keisha was dragged toward the office, still screaming. Jayla slumped to the floor, hand covering her face, shaking.“Are you okay?” I knelt beside her.“Fine,” she muttered, then sniffed. “She always targets me. I didn’t take her stupid stuff.”“Why didn’t you just tell someone?” I asked.“They don’t care,” she snapped, voice cracking.June crouched beside us. “They’ll separate you two now. You’ll have space to breathe.”Jayla didn’t answer. She just wiped her lip and looked away.Later that night, as things settled, June leaned against the wall next to me.“Fights are normal around here,” she said quietly. “People snap, no rules. Just surv
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Sage POV I could hear the wind. It brushed through the trees like whispers from a world that no longer wanted me. The forest stretched endlessly ahead, shadows were thick, the scent of damp soil and fallen leaves choked the air. I moved slowly at first, cautious. My limbs weren’t entirely mine. They obeyed, but there was a delay—like my beast and I weren’t completely synced. Still, I kept moving.A snap echoed through the woods. I froze and my ears twitched, nostrils flared. I heard footsteps.Far… but not far enough.I turned my head toward the east. There it was again. A shuffle. A crunch. The faint rustle of paws dragging over dry leaves. I sniffed the air. That scent—bittersweet and sharp like aged pine and copper.Malrick. And he wasn’t alone.I backed into the shade of a large tree and crouched low. My claws sank into the soft earth as I flattened my frame. They were closer now—still maybe half a mile off, but gaining. I heard their voices echo in my head as they spoke through
Huling Na-update : 2025-04-12Bound By The Moon: The Alpha’s Regret Chapter Twenty Two
Malrick POV The woods were quiet—just too quiet. The moonlight barely reached the forest floor, blocked by a thick ceiling of gnarled branches. I stood where we last caught his scent, my claws dug into the dirt, breaths fogged the air in short bursts. The others were scattered around, sniffing, pacing, looking to me for direction.“He couldn’t have gotten far,” I growled, more to myself than anyone else. But even I knew that was a lie. That thing Sage had become wasn’t just fast—it was unnatural.One of the guards, Daven, stepped up beside me. “We should’ve cornered him last night. We had the numbers.”“We didn’t know what we were up against,” I snapped.He fell silent. The truth was, I didn’t either. That form Sage took… It wasn't a wolf, it wasn't a Lycan. It was something else. Bigger. Stronger. Wrong. His eyes had glowed brighter than any I’d seen, like the moon itself had set up camp in his skull.I flexed my hands, trying to forget how it felt when he looked at me. Like I was p
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Malrick’s POV The smell hit me first—burning fur, blood, and rage. I shoved through the underbrush, shifting fully into my wolf form, claws extended, senses heightened. The screams ahead made my heart pound, but not out of fear. Out of fury."Move!" I barked at the guards flanking me. "Circle the east wing. Don’t let any of those bastards slip through!"They growled in unison, taking off toward the dense trees where the rogue scent was thickest.I launched myself onto the ridge overlooking the eastern wall. Chaos below. Smoke curled into the dawn sky, and wolves clashed in frenzied combat. Elders ran, children shrieked. The rogues were coordinated—too coordinated for mindless beasts.“What the hell…” I muttered, eyes narrowing.A large wolf slammed into one of our guards below, snapping its neck in one move. I growled and lunged from the ridge, landing hard beside the corpse.“Bastards!” I grunted. I tore into the rogue’s side, claws raking deep, fangs locking into its throat. It di
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Malrick’s POVI summoned the guards and we all went out in search of Sage. The fabric was torn, muddied, half-buried beneath a bed of leaves. But I’d know that scent anywhere.“Sage,” I muttered.The guards behind me caught the scent too. Joran shifted closer, sniffing the air. “It’s fresh. Hours old, maybe.”I crouched, my fingers brushed the darkened cloak. It was soaked—part blood, part mud. But what caught me was the claw marks—deep, violent tears across the chest. He was injured. Badly.“Fan out,” I ordered, rising. “Stay in your wolf forms. Follow the blood. He’s close.”We shifted almost in unison, the crack of bones and stretch of limbs swallowed by the night. My wolf surged beneath my skin, hungry for the scent. Betrayal stung like acid in my gut. Sage, my Alpha, my friend once. But that creature he’d become? It wasn’t him anymore. He needed to be stopped.We moved in silence through the trees, the scent trail sharp now. Blood. Sweat. Burnt flesh.“He’s slowing,” Laren’s vo
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Malrick’s POVLuthor began. “You believe Sage is a threat.”“I do.”“Yet you brought him back alive.”“Because we’re not killers. We give every wolf a chance to defend himself.”Mireya folded her arms. “So defend your position.”I laid it out: the beast form, the attack on my guards, the rogue-like behavior, the erratic aura Sage had been radiating for weeks.“This isn’t the wolf we trained with,” I said. “He’s something else. Maybe cursed, maybe bitten by something we don’t understand. But if we wait until he loses control inside the pack house, we’ll all regret it.”“Do you suggest exile?” Brannic asked.“No,” I said. “Containment.”Their eyes shifted.“You’d make a prisoner of your Alpha?”“He’s no Alpha,” I said firmly. “Not anymore.”The room fell silent. Then Mireya nodded slowly. “We’ll see what he says tonight.”“He won’t talk,” I muttered.“Then that will speak for him.”The meeting ended at dusk. I walked back to the basement with a grin that wouldn’t leave my face.This was
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Bella’s POV“Are you sure you’ve got everything?” June asked, holding the shelter door open with her hip.I nodded, hoisting the strap of my worn duffel bag higher onto my shoulder. “Yeah… this is all I’ve got.”“Well, come on then.” She grinned, stepping out into the morning light. “Let’s go.”The air was chilly, and the sky was pale gray, like it hadn’t decided what kind of day it wanted to be yet. I followed her down the steps, heart pounding. This was it. No more shelter. No more freezing in alleys or hiding who I was. Maybe. Hopefully.We walked to the bus stop in silence. My wolf stirred in the back of my mind, restless. “Are you sure about this?”“We talked about this," I replied telepathically.” We agreed to trust her.”“ I still don’t like how easy she trusts humans.” “ Then be ready if it turns south, I told her. I doubt she knows what I really am so we cannot assume. But let’s not sabotage this before it begins.” June nudged me when the bus pulled up. “Come on. Two seats
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Bound By The Moon: The Alpha’s Regret Chapter Seventy
Bella’s POV The next morning, June was already up when I stepped into the kitchen, pacing in her new black flats and whispering something under her breath. Her blazer sleeves kept slipping past her wrists, and she didn’t bother fixing them. Her hair was frizzing at the ends from nerves, and her coffee sat untouched on the counter.“You’re going to chew a hole in the floor,” I said, stifling a yawn as I reached for a mug.She turned, eyes wide. “Do I look like a secretary? I feel like a toddler playing dress-up.”I grinned. “A very professional toddler. You’ve got this.”She laughed—barely—and took a shaky sip of coffee. “I keep thinking they’ll take one look at me and realize I have no idea what I’m doing.”“That’s what starting anything feels like,” I said, patting her shoulder. “Just smile and pretend you know exactly where you’re going. That’s ninety percent of any job.”June’s nervous energy buzzed around the apartment, but it was a good kind. The kind that came from a normal day
Bound By The Moon: The Alpha’s Regret Chapter Sixty Nine
Bella POVThe smell of strong coffee hit me before I even opened my eyes.Harper’s blend—bold, nutty, with just a hint of something sweet—wafted from the kitchen. Somewhere in the apartment, Liam was butchering a pop song, his voice cracked in the hallway like an off-key siren. June was mumbling something about not having anything to wear, and the kettle whistled in the background.This morning, I didn’t wake up reaching for a weapon. Didn’t wake up braced for screaming. Or smoke. Or blood.I stretched slowly, the sheets tangled around my legs. My bones didn’t ache. My wolf didn’t whisper warnings. I just... existed. In the softness of the morning. In the warmth of our apartment."Coffee’s hot, toast is questionable!" Harper called out."I swear if it's burnt again, you're banned from the toaster," I replied, dragging myself upright and walked barefoot across the wooden floor.Liam stood shirtless by the sink, flipping the toast like it was a pancake and grinning like a kid. “Perfectl
Bound By The Moon: The Alpha’s Regret Chapter Sixty Eight
Sage POV I didn’t move for hours. Could’ve been a trap. Probably was. But the food didn’t rot. It stayed warm. Clean, no flies, no magic stink. Just food.And I was starving. I didn't realise when I rushed to the food and ate it. The meat was rich, real—flavored with something faintly herbal. I devoured it before I could think too hard about the consequences.She came again the next night. Same time. Same place. Same food. No words. No questions. Just her.I watched from higher up in the trees that time, cloaked in shadows. She sat longer. Sang a different song. This one was... sad. My wolf leaned forward in my head, ears perked.She smelled like memory. Like something I should know.It kept happening. Dusk after dusk. She never brought fire, never wore shoes. Her breath fogged in the cold, but she didn’t shiver. The forest began to settle around her. Birds followed. Deer peeked from the edges of the trees. Even the cursed places began to slow their spread.She was changing somethin
Bound By The Moon: The Alpha’s Regret Chapter Sixty Seven
Sage POV Something felt wrong the moment I stepped into the clearing.It wasn’t just the cold or the silence—this quietness ran too deep. The kind that seeps into your bones and warns you you’re not alone. My paws sank into the frostbitten soil as I crept forward in beast form, every muscle tensed. The scent hit me a second later.Rot, decay and worse—blood magic. I froze instantly. The trees ahead weren’t just dying—they were blackening. The bark split and blistered, oozing dark sap like blood. Leaves had withered mid-branch, and the ground was slick with a sickness that pulsed through the earth. I growled low in my throat.Someone was poisoning the forest. Not randomly—no, this was deliberate. It must be a message.Malrick. It had to be him. Who else would twist the land like this just to force me out of hiding?I should’ve turned around. Everything in me screamed to leave. But this was my territory. Mine. I’d hunted here. Bled here. Howled under a hundred moons. I couldn’t just w
Bound By The Moon: The Alpha’s Regret Chapter Sixty Six
Sage POVThe snow is deep tonight, it clung to my fur like frostbite waiting to happen. I move low to the ground, my body slink between trees that creak with cold. Every breath foghed the air. I haven’t shifted back in months—not since the dungeon. Not since Malrick.My beast form keot me safer out here. More muscle, better speed. The downside? I’m losing pieces of myself. Human thoughts came in fragments now—disjointed, buried beneath the instincts that snarl louder with each passing day.A branch snaps up ahead causing me to freeze, every muscle locked tight. My ears twitch. A low rumble builds in my chest, a warning to the night. I heard another snap, it was softer this time. Just wind or something watching?I sank back into the shadows. The patrols have been thicker lately. Malrick’s voice—his commands—they ride the wind like old songs I can’t stop hearing. I don’t know how many men he’s sent. Five? Ten? More? Doesn’t matter. I stay out of sight. Always watching. Always moving. Th
Bound By The Moon: The Alpha’s Regret Chapter Sixty Five
Bella’s POV The morning after I got my first A, I woke up to the smell of cinnamon and burnt toast.“Who let Liam near the stove again?” I called from the stairs.“I resent that,” Liam’s voice echoed up. “I’ll have you know this is a controlled culinary experiment.”“Controlled by what? Gremlins?” June giggled.I walked into the kitchen, rubbing sleep from my eyes. June was perched on the counter in mismatched socks, waving a spatula like a conductor’s baton. Liam stood proudly beside a skillet full of what looked like... slightly-charred pancakes shaped like wolves.“Are those ears or legs?” I asked, squinting.“Both,” he said without hesitation.“Harper, you’re seeing this, right?”She entered from the hallway in her oversized cardigan, her eyes were still soft with sleep. “I’ve learned not to question Liam’s methods before coffee,” she said, reaching for the pot.June held up a plate. “These are for you. Nurse Bella needs fuel.”“They’re actually really good,” Liam added quickly.
Bound By The Moon: The Alpha’s Regret Chapter Sixty Four
Bella’s POV The sky was ash when I found her again—June, leaning against the porch railing, a wool blanket wrapped tight around her shoulders. She didn’t look up when I stepped outside, just sipped from her mug like the world hadn’t tried to break her.“You’re gonna freeze out here,” I said, nudging her lightly.“I like the cold,” she replied.I didn’t have a response for that, so I just stood beside her and let the silence settle between us. Sometimes that was better than pushing. And lately, silence didn’t feel so heavy.Inside, Harper’s laughter drifted from the kitchen. She and Liam were cleaning up after dinner, arguing over who forgot to defrost the chicken. It felt normal. Safe. Like the council hadn’t carved messages into our door or hunted us through ancient forests.But even in that peace, a small ember inside me kept burning—restless, searching, quietly desperate for something more.I didn’t tell them right away.Weeks passed since we decided to stay. Weeks of healing, adj
Bound By The Moon: The Alpha’s Regret Chapter Sixty Three
Bella’s POV We left the house to a hotel to spend a few days and not raise any suspicion. The air in Ålesund felt different the moment we returned. The ferry ride back had been quiet—too quiet. June barely spoke, and Harper’s silence was thick with tension. Even Liam, usually steady, kept glancing over his shoulder like something was breathing down his neck.Now, standing on our front porch again, everything felt wrong.The snow hadn’t fallen naturally. It clung to the trees in odd clumps, too heavy, too still. The ravens had returned in droves, black feathers scattering across the drive like a warning. One perched on the porch railing, staring straight at June until she shooed it away with a flicker of energy that crackled in the air.“Don’t,” Harper said, voice sharp. “They're watching.”“They?” I asked.“Not just the Council. Something older. Something waking up.”Inside, the house was just as we left it, but colder. I could smell unfamiliar scents mixed into our own—cologne, swea
Bound By The Moon: The Alpha’s Regret Chapter Sixty Two
Bella’s POV The pendant flared white-hot. The ground beneath her feet cracked. Trees bent back like something had exhaled violently. Birds scattered from the branches, screaming into the sky.Liam lunged forward, grabbing her shoulders. “June! You have to control it!”“I don’t know how!” she screamed.Wind howled. Real wind. Not the kind from storms, but something summoned—something born.Harper raised her hands, murmuring an incantation. Runes lit beneath her fingers in sharp blue flickers. “Bella, keep her steady!”I rushed forward and grabbed June’s hand. She was trembling violently, her breath coming in gasps.“I don’t want this,” she cried.“But it’s already yours,” I said. “Let it in. Or it will tear you apart.”The pendant cracked down the middle, releasing a pulse of energy that knocked all of us back. I landed hard in the snow. When I sat up, June was on her knees, her chest was heaving—but calm. For now.The snow around her had formed a perfect ring of frost, etched with ru
