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FORTY SIX
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2026-07-29 20:51:25
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CHASING HIS DEAD LUNA SIXTY ONE
ARIAHe stayed until past midnight. And it was not in the way I’d been afraid of, not in the way that would have required explaining to Eli in the morning, just sitting on the edge of my bed while I sat in the chair across from him, both of us talking in the low quiet way you talk when there’s a child sleeping nearby.The rest of the house was silent, it was the most honest conversation we’d had since any of this began, which wasn’t saying much given the week, but it felt like something.He told me about his father’s call, the exact words, the threats Aaron had made about the Council seat and the pack’s political standing and the alliance money.I imagined all of it being delivered in that flat, cold voice Aaron used when he wanted you to understand the full weight of what he was prepared to do.I listened and felt the familiar cold of it, the cold audacity of a man who planned Adrian’s future c the way other people arranged furniture.“He’ll follow through,” I said.“Some of it,”
CHASING HIS DEAD LUNA SIXTY
ARIA’S POVI stared at him.“The only thing you could live with,” I repeated, and my voice came out strange, like it belonged to someone standing slightly outside the room watching this happen to someone else. “Adrian, do you understand what you just did?”“Yes.”“The Council—”“I know.”“Your father—”“I know, Aria.”“Liana is not the kind of woman who walks away from something like this quietly,” I said, and I heard the panic in my own voice and couldn’t stop it. “She has things, she has photographs, she has resources and people and she made threats that were very specific and I have a son—” I stopped.“I have a son who has been through enough and I cannot have her coming after us because you said no to a marriage in my bedroom at six in the morning —”“She’s not going to touch Eli,” he said.“You don’t know that.”“I do know that,” he said, and his voice was steady in a way that mine wasn’t. “Because I know things about Liana’s father and his arrangement with the Council that he wo
CHASING HIS DEAD LUNA FIFTY NINE
ARIANobody moved. Liana stood in the doorway in her suit with her hand still on the door handle and her eyes moving between me and Adrian with that particular sharpness that had nothing to do with confusion and everything to do with calculation, taking in the scene with a speed and precision that told me she’d already understood exactly what she was looking at before she’d finished asking the question.Adrian’s hands were still on my shoulders. He dropped them. Not quickly, not guiltily, just deliberately, and stepped back, and I watched him do it and felt the cold rush in where the warmth had been and wrapped my arms around myself and looked at the wall beside Liana’s head because looking at either of them directly felt like something I couldn’t afford right now.“Liana,” Adrian said, and his voice had done the thing it always did, assembled itself back into something controlled, all the rawness and vulnerability from sixty seconds ago packed away somewhere invisible. “This isn’t
CHASING HIS DEAD LUNA FIFTY EIGHT
ARIAThe silence was the answer. I didn’t need anything else, didn’t need words, didn’t need explanation, just that silence, just the way he stood there with his mouth open and nothing coming out, and I felt it move through me and settle somewhere permanent and cold. I stepped back.“Aria—” His voice came out slightly broken, something rough at the edge of it that I hadn’t heard before, and I turned away from him completely because I couldn’t look at his face right now, couldn’t look at the thing in his eyes and keep myself together at the same time.My chest was aching in a way that was almost physical, a pressure behind my ribs that had no release, and my throat had gone tight and thick and I was fighting it, fighting the tears that were sitting right there waiting for me to stop clenching my jaw long enough to let them through, and I was not going to do that, I was not going to stand in my own room and fall apart in front of him.“Leave,” I said, and it came out whispered and broke
CHASING HIS DEAD LUNA FIFTY SEVEN
ARIAAdrian pressed the phone to his ear and I watched his jaw tighten around whatever his father was saying, watched the color drain slightly from his face the way it always did whenever that man's voice reached him through a wire, and for a second I thought about walking away, giving him the privacy the moment deserved, but something in the way his eyes found mine and stayed there kept my feet rooted to the floor."I understand," he said, flat, controlled, nothing like the man who had been standing in my doorway a minute ago pulling his whole chest open for me to see. "No. I already told you what I decided. There's nothing left to discuss."Whatever answer came back made something flicker behind his eyes, quick and dark, and his hand came up to rub at his temple like he could physically push the words back out of his skull."Then take it," he said, quieter now, and there was a finality in it that made my stomach turn over slowly. "I don't want it enough to keep lying to get it."He
CHASING HIS DEAD LUNA FIFTY SIX
ARIAThe knock came before my alarm did, sharp, three times, and I surfaced out of a sleep that hadn't been deep enough to begin with, my whole body still holding the memeory of last night, his hand on my jaw, the two inches of space that had almost closed. I looked at the clock before I looked at the door. Six in the morning. Nobody knocked on anything at six in the morning unless something was wrong.I crossed the room still half tangled in the thought of him, and opened the door without thinking about what I looked like, without thinking about anything except the possibility that Eli's monitors had gone off somewhere down the hall, and it wasn't a nurse standing there, and it wasn't Cassian.It was Adrian.He'd clearly come straight from his own room, no shirt, just a pair of pajama pants sitting low on his hips, his hair still doing whatever it did when he'd been running his hands through it all night instead of sleeping, and for one full second neither of us said anything, becaus
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