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Chapter Twenty-Five
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2026-05-10 23:52:18
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Bound by the Moon Chapter Twenty-SIX
Skylar sat cross-legged on my bed like she’d been doing it for years.I wasn’t sure when this had become normal – her appearing off-duty, settling into my space as it fit her, talking about things that weren’t pack business or training reports. It had happened gradually, and it felt good.“Caia was furious,” she said, with so much satisfaction.I grinned, “I noticed.”“Half the pack noticed.” She shook her head. “The other half were too busy trying to figure out what happened.”I pulled my knees up on the bed and thought about that. It didn’t feel like victory exactly. More like a door opening that I hadn’t known was there. Even I was trying to figure out that moment.“And Rosalind?” I asked.Skylar was quiet for a moment. “Rosalind is complicated.”“That’s not an answer.”“It’s the most accurate one I have.” She shrugged. “She's not your enemy, or an ally either. Her sole interest has always been the Alpha.”I thought about Rosalind’s face in the courtyard. “And Damon?” I cleared m
Bound by the Moon Chapter Twenty-Five
Skylar found me the next morning. She appeared at my door with a careful expression. Like someone who had news they weren’t sure how to deliver.“The spy,” I said, before she could speak.She looked at me. “How did you know that’s why I’m here?”“Because it’s the only thing unresolved from yesterday.” I stepped back from the door to let her in. “What happened to him?”Skylar came inside. Stayed standing. “He died this morning.”I waited for the rest.“In the holding cell. No marks. No sign of a fight.” She paused. “Unknown causes.”The words sat in the room between us with more weight than their size warranted.“Unknown,” I repeated.“That’s what the report says.”“He was sent,” I said. “To find something specific.”“Possibly.”“And someone didn’t want him to have the chance to say what he found.”Skylar stared at me for a long moment. “The trial is at midday,” she shook her head, ignoring what I’d said. “Eat something first.”Then she left.I stood in my room and thought about the
Bound by the Moon Chapter Twenty - Four
Rosalind glared daggers at me.Of course, it was Rosalind.She stood in the corridor, her hands folded in front of her, her expression reminding me of my foster mother. Disapproval of a woman who had been waiting for an opportunity and had just found one delivered to her door.“Eavesdropping,” she began. Not a question. Just the word, dropped like a stone.“I was walking past—”“You were standing outside the kitchen door listening to pack staff discuss private matters.” She tilted her head slightly. “You will come with me.”It wasn’t a request.Damon was in his study.I knew this because Rosalind walked me there, knocked once, and opened the door before he answered. This told me she was one of perhaps three people in Silvercrest who could do that without consequence.He was at his desk. Papers spread in front of him, a lamp burning at his elbow, the look of a man in the middle of something that required concentration and was not interested in being interrupted.He looked up.First a
Bound by the Moon Chapter Twenty- three
The day of the second test came.No crowd this time. Only Damon. But he wasn’t alone, and if I could sense them, he could too. A smaller audience of senior pack members, elders – Rosalind – was there. Hiding behind pillars or spying through windows. There was no spectacle and I preferred that. Although it was just him and me, he spared me no glance and – arms crossed – he stood far away from me.Caia was there too. Watching like the rest.“You are strange.” His voice echoed through my spine. “I do not like that. These tests will tell me if you’re enemy… or waste.”I swallowed. I was neither. Yet, I didn’t know what I was either.Strange? That I was. Lately, it was more pronounced how odd it was to make of what I could do. Although it felt good sometimes to have a… A what?Well, something that he saw as useful. Something in me that I could use to stay away from the ruins and rot of this world. It also terrified me. The feeling that there was more. More.And I wasn’t sure I was
Bound by the Moon Chapter Twenty- Two
He watched her run.The corridor was empty and she was already around the corner and he was still standing in the space she had just occupied. Still. Unmoving. As if something in the air had yet to settle.His wolf shifted beneath his skin. Not agitation.But a mild, prickly recognition that made him want to avoid the omega forever.It was doing something he had been telling it firmly not to do for several weeks now.She smelled different.He had noticed it days ago. The dungeon smell – the filth – was gone. He had noticed gradually. Uncontrollable attention has been drawn to her scent over the past few weeks.Whatever had been carved into her there – fear, decay, submission–had worn away.He growled when his wolf leaned in. Like he craved a sniff from her new scent that lingered. He pulled back, with a grunt, and turned away.As he walked she stayed with him.Recently, he had developed a habit he hadn’t asked for and couldn’t seem to stop. It had become… inco
Bound by the Moon Chapter Twenty-one
He released my waist and stepped around me. Walked away while I stood exactly where he had left me. Then I exhaled. Telling myself with absolute conviction that I was completely fine, and the warmth still sitting at my waist from his hand was simply body heat. Before I could stop myself I looked back. He didn’t turn around. He was gone, his presence blending easily with the shadows. That was yesterday. At the moment I was at my first war council. It was the first time I’d seen most of these people up close and without their disgust toward me. Although I was not yet their Luna, there will be more tests. Rosalind called the first luck and found a way to convince Damon too. Or maybe he agreed because I wasn’t entertaining enough. I shook my head. Trying to keep the enemy away from my thoughts. Whatever they wanted to throw at me I was ready to catch it even if I stumbled. I had seen the worst of what existence could offer and I was done being its number one co
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