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EIGHTY FIVE
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2026-08-30 23:08:56
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CHASING HIS DEAD LUNA NINETY ONE
ADRIANThe property was exactly where Cassian said it would be, an empty stretch of land at the edge of the border with a single building sitting back from the road behind an iron gateFor one second I thought we had come to the wrong place because there was nothing about it that suggested anyone was inside, no cars, no lights in the windows, no movement anywhere, just the headlights of our car cutting through the darkness and the gate standing open as if someone had been waiting for us. Aria saw it too.“They’re letting us in.”“I know.”“You think that’s a good thing?”“No.”She looked at me, and despite everything, despite the fear still written all over her face and the way her hands had been shaking since we’d left the restaurant, there was something almost familiar in the look she gave me, the same look she’d given me a hundred times when she thought I was about to do something reckless and was deciding whether to argue with me or simply come along and make sure I survived it.“
CHASING HIS DEAD LUNA NINETY
ADRIANI heard Eli scream my name and the world stopped making sense. One second I was walking toward the valet stand, laughing at something the kid had said, turning back to look at them the way I’d been doing all evening, just checking, just that reflex I’d developed without noticing, and the next second there was a van I didn’t recognize and two men moving with the efficiency of people who had done this before, and Aria was already screaming, already fighting, and Eli was already off the ground.I ran. I’ve never run like that in my life. Not on a training field, not in any situation where running had ever mattered before, nothing came close, because nothing before had ever been this, this specific horror of watching the two most important people in your world being taken while you were standing twenty meters away laughing at a joke you can’t even remember.I covered the distance in seconds and it wasn’t fast enough. The man holding Aria was already at the van, and she was fighting
CHASING HIS DEAD LUNA EIGHTY NINE
ARIAIf I had known that morning was the last easy one we'd get for a long while, I think I would have stopped time right there in the kitchen and just stayed. Syrup on Eli's chin.Adrian burning the eggs the way he always did, insisting every single time that it was intentional. Nine days left until the hearing, and for one entire Saturday, none of us said a word about it.The house had that particular Saturday quiet to it, the kind that only exists in a home where nobody's rushing anywhere, sunlight coming in slanted through the kitchen window, the smell of coffee and burnt eggs mixing together into something that already, somehow, smelled like home."Dad, you're doing it again," Eli said, watching smoke curl up off the pan with the weary patience of a child who had seen this exact disaster play out a dozen times before."It's a crust," Adrian said. "Adds character.""It's burnt.""Character."Eli rolled his eyes so hard his whole head went with it, a gesture he'd clearly picked up
CHASING HIS DEAD LUNA EIGHTY EIGHT
ADRIANCassian was already waiting outside my office when I got in Monday morning, a folder tucked under his arm, his face doing the neutral thing it only did when whatever he was about to hand me was worse than he wanted to say out loud."You should sit down for this," he said."I don't want to sit down. I want to know what he filed." He handed me the folder anyway, and I stood there in the middle of my own office and read it standing up, the way I read everything that mattered, because sitting down for bad news had always felt like giving it permission to settle in.It took less than a page to understand exactly how far my father was willing to go.A formal petition for a Fitness Review. My conduct as Alpha, questioned on the grounds of what the document called a pattern of behavior inconsistent with the responsibilities of leadership, specifically naming an ongoing relationship with a member of household staff while legally married to Liana Ashcroft.Below that, a second request, f
CHASING HIS DEAD LUNA EIGHTY SEVEN
ADRIANI woke up before the alarm, the way I always did now, and for a second I just laid there listening to the house. Aria's breathing beside me, slow and even. Eli's door creaked open down the hall, the small familiar sound of little feet on wood echoed through the hallway and I found myself smiling at the ceiling before I'd even opened my eyes properly.Six years ago I woke up alone in a house full of people whose only job was to remind me what I owed everyone else. Now I woke up to this. I still hadn't gotten used to how much that difference could hurt and heal at the exact same time.There was a version of me that used to be good at mornings like the old ones. Cold water, sharp suits, a mirror that only ever showed me the parts of myself the Council needed to see.I'd built that version carefully over the years and for a long time I actually believed it was the only version of me that was real. Everything else, the boy who chased pigeons, the man who wanted things he wasn't all
CHASING HIS DEAD LUNA EIGHTY SIX
ARIAHe showed up at my door in jeans, which was the first thing that threw me, because in six years I had never once seen Adrian Blackwood in jeans, and he stood there grinning like he knew exactly what my face was doing."What?" he said."You own jeans.""I own a lot of things you've never seen." He held up a bag from a bakery down the street, still warm judging by the smell coming off it. "I brought breakfast. Eli's with Cassian for the day. It's just us.""Just us doing what?""I'm taking you out." He said it simply, like it was the most obvious thing in the world, and something in my chest went soft and confused at the same time. "I've known you six years, Aria. I've never once taken you anywhere. Today I'm fixing that."I stood there a second too long, trying to find the version of myself that knew how to answer something like that, and eventually I just grabbed my jacket, because some things didn't need a clever answer, they just needed you to go.We started at the market near
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