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Chapter 19
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2026-05-08 16:42:03
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Luna's Reckoning Chapter 24
Aria's POV The howl died away and the compound went quiet again.Too quiet.Marcus stood completely still for a moment with his eyes closed. I had noticed he did that sometimes when he was processing information. Like he needed the stillness to think clearly.Then he opened his eyes and looked at the guard who had reported the border crossing."Send confirmation back," he said. "I want to know exactly where they crossed and which direction they moved after."The guard nodded and disappeared.Marcus turned to me. We were still standing in the middle of the compound where I had brought him the note. Dara was three steps behind me the way she always was. Close enough to intervene immediately. Far enough to give the illusion of privacy."False alarm?" I asked."Probably a scout," Marcus said. "Someone testing our border response time.""Kael?" I said."Possibly," he said. "Or someone working for him. Seeing how fast we react. How many wolves we send north. Where our gaps are."I pulled
Luna's Reckoning Chapter 23
Aria's POVThe handwriting on that page looked back at me like an accusation.I had stared at it so long the letters were starting to blur. Elena had gone quiet beside me. The kind of quiet that means even she did not know what to say and Elena always knew what to say.Marcus's handwriting. In the margin of Mira's oldest injury record. Written in small careful letters like someone who had not wanted to be noticed but had needed to leave a mark anyway."There has to be an explanation," I said."I know," Elena said. But her voice did not sound like she fully believed it.I folded the page carefully and held it against my chest."Where is Mira?" I asked."Her cabin," Elena said. "She found it twenty minutes ago and came straight to me.""Take me to her," I said.We walked quickly through the compound. The afternoon had turned gray and heavy with clouds sitting low over the pine trees. A few of Marcus's wolves nodded as we passed. One of them opened his mouth like he wanted to say somethi
Luna's Reckoning Chapter 22
KAEL'S POVThe meeting with Creek had gone well.Better than well actually.I sat behind my desk after he left and poured myself another glass of whiskey and thought about how cleanly everything was still moving despite what Aria believed she had accomplished.She thought invoking the Right of Truth was a masterstroke.It was not. It was desperation dressed up as courage.I had seen it the moment she opened her mouth in that corridor. The trembling she tried to hide behind a straight spine and loud words. Six years of living with me and she still had not learned that loud words without real power behind them are just noise.I finished my whiskey and stood up.It was late but I was not tired. I never slept well when things were in motion. My mind stayed running even when my body wanted to stop. It had always been that way.I walked out of my study and down the corridor toward the east wing. The pack house was quiet at this hour. Most wolves asleep. A few guards at their posts who strai
Luna's Reckoning Chapter 21
Six vehicles. Regional council markings on every single one of them.I stood at the compound entrance beside Marcus and watched them roll through the gates one by one. The morning air was cold and sharp. Around us Marcus's wolves had gone very still in that way trained warriors do when they are not sure yet if something is a threat.The lead vehicle stopped.The door opened.Thomas Creek stepped out first. He was a broad man, mid fifties, silver hair cut close, wearing the formal dark jacket of a regional Alpha. He looked exactly like what he was. Someone who had spent decades being important and knew it.He looked at Marcus and nodded once. Polite. Careful.Then the passenger door of the same vehicle opened.And Dr. Cross stepped out.I felt Marcus go rigid beside me.Cross looked smaller than I imagined from everything I had heard about him. Thin, pale, gray hair going in several directions at once. He had a narrow face and small eyes behind thick glasses that made him look like som
Luna's Reckoning Chapter 20
The training grounds were empty at this hour.I had been sitting on the low wooden bench at the edge of the grass for almost an hour with Mira's list in my hands and the morning cold biting through my thin shirt. I did not even remember walking here. My feet had just brought me somewhere quiet and open while my head tried to make sense of everything.The dates matched.The three days my father visited the healing house alone were the exact three days those injury records went missing.I kept turning it over and over looking for another explanation. Some other reason those pages would be gone. Some other person who could have taken them.But I kept arriving at the same place.My father.I heard footsteps on the grass behind me. Unhurried and familiar.Marcus sat down on the bench beside me. He did not say anything right away. Just sat there looking out at the empty training grounds with his hands loose between his knees.That was something I had noticed about him. He never rushed to fi
Luna's Reckoning Chapter 19
My legs carried me to the main house before my brain fully caught up with what Garrett had just said.My father had signed the letter moving up the trial.My father. The same man who had just sat across from me with guilt heavy in his eyes and promised to tell the whole truth at trial. The same man who had held my hands and told me he was done failing me.Marcus was standing at the table when I walked in. The letter was open in front of him. Victoria stood beside him reading over his shoulder.Neither of them looked up immediately. They were both studying the letter like they were hoping the words would rearrange themselves into something that made more sense."Tell me this is not what it looks like," I said.Marcus finally looked up. His expression was careful and measured the way it got when he was trying not to show how serious something was."Sit down Aria," he said."I do not want to sit down," I said. "Tell me what that letter says."Victoria straightened and crossed her arms. "
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