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Author: Tai Kavari
last update publish date: 2026-04-19 23:41:17

ARREN.

The council room was packed.

More people than the space was designed to hold. Healers lined the walls. Doctors stood near the back. Council members filled the chairs around the table.

And everyone was talking at once.

I sat at the head of the table and listened to voices overlapping. Accusations flying. Blame being thrown in every direction.

Someone from the supply team was defending their process. One of the healers was arguing that the dosages were correct. A council member was demandi
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  • His Contract Luna Says Goodbye    52.

    ELLARIA.They dragged me through the forest for what felt like hours.My arms hurt from where they gripped me. My legs were shaking from exhaustion and fear and the effort of keeping up with their pace.Every time I stumbled one of them would yank me upright without slowing down.The sun had set completely now and darkness pressed in from all sides. I could barely see where I was stepping. Tree roots caught my feet and I went down hard twice before they started being more careful about pulling me along.Not because they cared if I was hurt but because it was slowing them down.I listened to them talk as we walked.They were discussing routes and timing and whether anyone would have found the Alpha yet. Whether he was still alive or if he'd bled out in that cave.My stomach turned every time they mentioned him.I didn't know if Arren was still alive.These bastards wanted to use me as ransom but they didn't even let me make sure the man they wanted to negotiate with was still breathing

  • His Contract Luna Says Goodbye    51.

    ARREN. She was screaming. I could hear her screaming my name but my body wouldn't move. My legs were dead weight. My arms hung useless at my sides. The man had her by the hair. Dragging her backward into the trees. She was clawing at his hands and fighting with everything she had but he was too strong. "Arren!" Her voice was raw. Desperate. "Arren please!" I tried to run to her but my feet wouldn't cooperate. Tried to call out but my throat had closed up. The man looked at me over her shoulder and grinned. Then he pressed a knife to her throat. I watched the blade bite into her skin. Blood ran down her neck in a thin stream. "No—" The word finally tore out of me but it was too late. He dragged the knife across. Her scream cut off. Her eyes went wide and found mine. Stayed there while the life drained out of them. I jolted awake. My whole body jerked and pain exploded through my side. I gasped and my eyes flew open. Darkness surrounded me. Dense and heavy. I blinked har

  • His Contract Luna Says Goodbye    50.

    ELLARIA.I stared at them and tried to control the fear climbing up my throat.Five men stood in the forest with guns pointed at me. Arren lay unconscious at my side.I tried not to look at him because it would show just how helpless I felt right now.He was unconscious and dying likelyAnd I wouldn’t get to him in time.He wouldn’t heal if the silver shard was still lodged inside him. If these bastards left him alive and alone in these woods with no one but me and his attackers aware of his location, he wasn’t going to make it. He’d bleed out or the infection would take him or wild animals would find him before anyone else did.The unmasked one stepped forward and walked over casually. He kicked Arren’s legs hard.They didn’t move.Arren didn’t even flinch or make a sound. His body just lay there motionless against the rock.“Our orders were clear,” the man said. His voice was flat. “The Alpha needs to be negotiated with. We’ll leave him here.”He gestured to one of the masked men

  • His Contract Luna Says Goodbye    49.

    ELLARIA. I was still staring at Arren when he pushed himself up off the body. He rose to his full height slowly and his hand went immediately to his side. His face twisted and he let out a sound that was half groan and half curse. Blood seeped through his fingers where he pressed against the wound. My eyes locked onto his hand. Onto the dark red spreading across his skin and dripping down to his hip. “Let me see it,” I said. “No.” His voice came out rough and hard. “We don’t have time.” I looked down at the body lying in the sand between us. At what used to be the man’s head but was now just a mottled mess of blood and bone and broken flesh. My stomach turned over and I had to look away. I swallowed hard and tried to push down the bile rising in my throat. Arren was already moving. He grabbed my arm and pulled me to my feet. His grip was tight enough to hurt but I didn’t complain. “We need to go.” He was already pulling me toward the trees. I nodded because I couldn’t fi

  • His Contract Luna Says Goodbye    48.

    ELLARIA.I stared at Arren and my heart was in my throat.His eyes locked onto mine and they were dark. Darker than I’d ever seen them. Layered with danger and cold anger that made the air between us feel heavy.His absolute rage at the situation was the only thing keeping me breathing right now.His eyes shifted from me to the man standing above me and that darkness spread across his face.“Ah ah.” The man’s voice came from directly above my head. “Don’t think of doing anything funny.”The barrel of the rifle pressed harder against my temple.My eyes squeezed shut and I felt the cold metal digging into my skin.That rifle had been tearing up the ground on the road. Ripping through dirt and trees and anything in its path.It tore through Arren’s side.Which meant it had to be loaded with silver bullets.My heart was racing so fast I thought it might give out.“Get up,” the man said.I opened my eyes and moved to stand. My legs were shaking so badly I didn’t know if they’d hold me.My

  • His Contract Luna Says Goodbye    47.

    ELLARIA.We hit the ground and kept going.The world turned sideways and my body slammed into rock. We were tumbling again.We were falling down a slope.Branches tore at my arms and scraped skin off. The sting bit through even with the panic flooding me. Rocks bit into my legs and my hip. My shoulder crashed into something solid and white pain exploded through me.I tried to grab onto something but my hands found nothing. Just air and leaves that ripped away the second I touched them.Everything was moving too fast.Arren’s grip on me broke.My stomach dropped and it felt like my insides were trying to escape through my throat.I was alone in the fall for one horrible second. Tumbling through empty space with nothing to hold onto and no way to stop.Then his arm hooked around my waist and yanked me back against him.The relief hit so fast I almost sobbed.His chest slammed against my back and I felt how solid he was. His other arm came up and locked around my head and shoulders.He w

  • His Contract Luna Says Goodbye    25.

    ELLARIA.Arren had disappeared somewhere between the third and fourth round of formal greetings.I’d watched him head out with a group of Alphas, all of them moving with the energy of men who had just found a good reason like a necessary meeting to leave, and I didn’t blame him. I’d have done the

  • His Contract Luna Says Goodbye    23.

    ARREN.She opened her eyes and found me there.I was still on the sofa with the dead rose between my fingers, and for a moment she just looked at me.Not with surprise exactly. More like she'd half-expected this and was deciding what to do with my presence.Then she sat up slowly, pushing her hair

  • His Contract Luna Says Goodbye    29.

    ELLARIA. Three weeks had passed and I couldn't stop thinking about the patient. The one who'd bled from his eyes and ears and walked out of my hospital before I could study what had saved him. The one who’d said people were dying in Arren’s pack by the hundreds. I'd tried to let it go and focus

  • His Contract Luna Says Goodbye    16.

    ARREN.Katerina's wound wasn't deep.The clinic staff cleaned and wrapped it. The whole thing took twenty minutes, and I stood by the window the entire time with my hands in my pockets and my mind somewhere else entirely.When they were done I drove her home.She invited me in and I went because it

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