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MOONBORN: THE REJECTED MATE'S RISE CHAPTER 38
Aria's POV The raven came just after sunset. No sound. No flapping wings. Just a shadow slipping through the canvas of the war tent and landing softly beside Kael’s cot.Its eyes glowed faint blue. Not natural.Its feathers shimmered silver in the firelight.It didn’t caw, didn’t move. Just held something in its beak.A scrap of cloth.Old. Torn. Marked with blood and ink.I took it with steady hands. The second I touched it, heat pulsed into my palm, like the parchment had been sleeping—and my touch woke it.RUNE OF SACRIFICE.The blood-mark flared faintly in the dark, forming words only I could read."Eclipse Eve. Blood Daughter. Power turned vessel. Womb turned gate. She who bears my blood shall carry my end—unless she is claimed first.”The raven vanished in a blink.I dropped the cloth immediately, my stomach dropped, as my heart thudded in my chest.Lilith was planning a ritual. A sacrifice. And not just anyone’s child.Only mine. “She’s going to sacrifice her daughter during
MOONBORN: THE REJECTED MATE'S RISE CHAPTER 37
Aria's POV They called it a coronation.But even from miles away, I could feel the lie in the bones of the land.Magnus, in his decision, had chosen the ruined capital of Astrid for his stage—what was left of it. Its temples were so scattered into pieces, and its banners were all burned to ashes. Still, it stood, just barely, like a corpse propped up for one last dance.We watched from a high ridge cloaked in mist. I had a spyglass holding in one hand and a blade in the other. I couldn’t breathe right. The air smelled of iron and rot.Cato stood silently to decide for me. His jaw was tight, his eyes narrowed. Elias lingered in the shadow of a stone archway behind us, muttering wards under his breath. Even he looked shaken.I lifted the spyglass. There it was. The stage.Draped in black silk, and Iit shaped like a throne circle, surrounded by red torches that burned without firewood—enchanted, no doubt.At its center stood Magnus. Robed in night, tall, gaunt, hollow-eyed and smiling l
MOONBORN: THE REJECTED MATE'S RISE CHAPTER 36
Aria's POV The scar behind Kael’s ear glowed for the first time three nights later—under a full, white moon.I had barely slept. The doppelgänger was gone, but its shadow still clung to everything—my voice, the tent walls, my son’s silence. He hadn’t spoken since the collapse. Not even to me.Until that night.We were sitting by the fire. Elias and Cato had gone quiet, watching the smoke rise. I had Kael wrapped in a thick wool blanket, his body warmer now, his skin no longer feverish. But his eyes stayed hollow. Watching something I couldn’t see.Then the moonlight hit him through the open flap of the tent.And the scar began to glow.Faint at first—like moonlight soaked into flesh.Then brighter. Pale silver, shaped like a crescent. It shimmered just beneath the skin, pulsing in time with his heartbeat.And then the air changed, as the fire dimmed. The night fell silent.And I saw it. It was a vision.I stood on a battlefield of ash and broken steel, and I was alone.The bodies of
MOONBORN: THE REJECTED MATE'S RISE CHAPTER 35
Aria's POV Immediately, I stepped back into the Shadow Labyrinth. I knew that this time was going to be different.It wasn't fear clawing at my chest anymore. It was a purpose.I came to destroy her—the doppelgänger. The one wearing my voice. My memories. My face. She had played with my son’s trust, walked among my soldiers, and killed a man I once bled beside.No more running. No more confusion.I was done hiding from the shadows.The forest inside the labyrinth shifted as I moved. And all the trees turned blacker, taller, and the air pressed in tight, like I was walking through someone’s breath.I clutched my blade tightly. It wasn’t just for fighting. It reminded me that I was still real. Still me. And I feel confirmed.The fog thickened ahead. And then I saw her.The first version of me.She stood in the clearing, barefoot, trembling.Her hair hung limp across her face, her skin pale. Her voice was soft—too soft—as she whispered, “I can’t do this. I was never strong enough. We sh
MOONBORN: THE REJECTED MATE'S RISE CHAPTER 34
Aria's POV The first sign that something was wrong came when I looked into the mirror and saw myself smiling—before I did.It was a small thing. A flicker. A blink of a moment.But it was real.And it chilled me more than any battlefield ever had.The dreams had already begun to twist. I was used to nightmares all the time—flashes of fire, screams from the past. But this was different. I would wake up convinced I’d spoken to someone I hadn’t, or walk into a tent I swore I’d just left.The camp smelled like smoke and steel, same as always, but it felt… hollow.And then Kaelen vanished. Again.We found his little boot prints near the edge of the woods, and my heart dropped into my stomach. Just like before, no one had seen him leave. There were no cries. No struggle.Only this time, we didn’t find a trail of ash.We found a feather. White, not black.And it was warm.Cato stood beside me as I stared at it, twisting it between my fingers.“He’s not just wandering off,” I said quietly.
MOONBORN: THE REJECTED MATE'S RISE CHAPTER 33
Aria's POV We don't have to stay. We rode in silence as no one said a word beneath a bruised sky, the forest whispering with every gust of wind. I could feel the Moonwell calling me, and pulling at something deep in my chest like a string wound too tight.Kael was not here anymore; he was gone. The traitor was still hidden among us. But I was starting to feel some changes like I didn’t know who I was anymore.Elias rode beside me, his eyes locked on the trail ahead, but I knew he was watching and observing me too. He always did.The moment we reached the old grove, I didn't waste time; I slipped off my horse and stood still. My boots echoed into the soft moss. This place hadn’t changed.The olden trees stood like silent sentinels around the clearing. The Moonwell itself shimmered in the center—a round spring of still, glowing water. No one comes here anymore. Not unless they had a reason.I had one.I knelt beside the water, staring into its silver surface. My reflection rippled. I
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