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2026-10-28 06:45:00How do you grieve the absence of something you spent months insisting you didn't want?
Rowena asked herself that question more than once in the days following her return, usually in the quiet hour after sunset, when habit pulled her gaze toward the oak tree out of pure reflex before memory caught up and reminded her there was nothing there to see anymore.
For a while, Dean had simply been a fixture of her days, not welcome, not invited, but present in a way that ha
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No Longer Your Luna C133
"How bad is it?"Rowena shouted the question over the roar of wind and panic as her horse crested the final ridge overlooking the outcast roads, and the answer didn't need words. Smoke rose in thick black columns against the dusk sky, three separate fires marking where caravans had been torched, their wreckage scattered across the dirt road like broken ribs. Families who should have been settling in for the evening instead ran in every direction, some clutching children, others dragging what belongings they could carry, all of them moving with the particular, desperate panic of people who'd never expected protection and now found even that absence catastrophically confirmed."This bad," Bellamy said grimly, reining his horse beside hers.Rowena didn't slow. She rode straight into the chaos, her voice carrying over the screams and crackling fire with an authority that cut through panic like a blade."Moonfang! To me!"For a terrible, suspended moment, nothing happened, just more runni
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"How many are attacking?"Rowena didn't wait for formal reports as she strode into the barracks' war room, the question cutting through the chaos of wolves shouting over each other, maps half-unrolled across tables, messengers still catching their breath from the hard ride south.Bellamy met her at the door, his face grim. "Reports vary. At least two hundred. Possibly more.""Two hundred." Rowena's mind raced through the implications. "That's not a raiding party. That's an army.""It gets worse." Bellamy pulled her toward the map table, jabbing a finger at the territory markings sprawled across old parchment. "They're not acting alone. Our scouts confirmed it an hour ago, Shadowfang survivors, the ones who scattered after the old council's power collapsed, have joined forces with rogue packs from the Wastelands. Wolves with nothing left to lose, united under whoever's left of Shadowfang's old leadership."Rowena stared at the map, at the territory lines marking Mooncrest's borders, u
No Longer Your Luna C131
"Tell me you didn't do this."Rowena's voice cracked across the small sanctuary chamber like a whip, the scroll clutched so tightly in her fist that the ancient parchment crackled in protest. Dean stood across from her, still bearing the marks of his captivity; a split lip, bruising along his jaw, the particular pallor of a man who'd spent days chained in a cold cell before Moonfang's forces tore through his captors to retrieve him.He hadn't even had time to properly recover before she'd summoned him here."Tell me you didn't do this," she said again, when he didn't immediately answer."I don't even know what this is." Dean's voice came out hoarse, confused, his eyes moving from her face to the scroll she held like a weapon. "Rowena, what are you talking about?""This." She thrust the parchment toward him, close enough that he could see the faded ink without taking it from her hands. "Your name. Signed on an authorization order. Dated weeks after I was taken to Ironfang."Dean's eyes
No Longer Your Luna C130
"What do you mean he never arrived?"Rowena's voice cut through the cold night air sharper than she intended, her hand still gripping Dean's folded letter as though it might somehow explain what Mara had just told her.Mara straightened, still catching her breath. "A rider came from Blackwolf an hour ago. Dean was expected back three days past. He never crossed the border. His escort found no sign of him on the main road.""He could have taken a different route. He could have stopped somewhere ….""Rowena." Mara's voice was gentle but unflinching. "You don't believe that any more than I do."She didn't. Some cold, instinctive certainty had already settled into her chest the moment Mara spoke the words, a dread that had nothing to do with hope and everything to do with the particular, practiced fear of someone who'd learned the hard way how quickly the people she cared about could vanish into other people's plans."I'm not going after him."The words left her before she'd fully decided
No Longer Your Luna C129
How do you grieve the absence of something you spent months insisting you didn't want?Rowena asked herself that question more than once in the days following her return, usually in the quiet hour after sunset, when habit pulled her gaze toward the oak tree out of pure reflex before memory caught up and reminded her there was nothing there to see anymore.For a while, Dean had simply been a fixture of her days, not welcome, not invited, but present in a way that had become its own strange constant. She'd grown accustomed to the particular rhythm of his existence just beyond her door; the smoke from his small fire in the evenings, the quiet sound of him moving through the trees at dawn, the simple, undeniable fact of him being there, whether she acknowledged it or not.Now there was only silence.She told herself the silence was a relief. She told herself this often enough, in fact, that she began to suspect the repetition itself was a symptom
No Longer Your Luna C128
What do you call a wound that doesn't heal, but somehow makes you stronger anyway?Velka asked Rowena something close to that the morning after the full moon, studying her with an expression that had shifted entirely from the careful, clinical concern of their earlier sessions into something closer to fascination."Your eyes," Velka said. "Do they still feel strange to you?"Rowena blinked, testing the sensation the old healer meant. The silver glow had faded by dawn, settling back into her ordinary brown, but something beneath the surface still hummed faintly, present in a way it hadn't been before last night."They feel like mine," Rowena said slowly. "Just more mine than before, somehow. I don't know how else to explain it.""Let me try." Velka drew her chair closer, the morning light catching the silver in her own hair as she leaned forward. "I examined you again while you slept. What I found wasn't what I expected.""The bloodroot didn't regenerate.""No. That's still gone, and I
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CASTIEL CROWE POV"You are a very strange girl, do you know that?"Alpha Castiel Crowe covers my mouth with his heavy palm right away. His eyes look very dark. "Be quiet! Most girls scream when they fall. You stay completely silent when you fall, but now you scream just because I am holding you!""
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ROWENA MOONFANG POV"Hey, Rowena! Move your lazy feet and get up to the sixth floor, VIP Room, QT Wolfe!The door of my tiny cleaning stall bangs open. An ambitious young wolf glares at me and taps her foot. "Hurry up! Even the top Luna Court Maidens do not make people wait as you do!"I do not say
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ROWENA MOONFANG POV"Step out of the Ironfang Prison Keep right now and do not look back."The iron gates made a loud screeching sound as they opened up. I walked past the stone walls very slowly. My old white dress felt too big for me, hanging like an old piece of cloth. It was the same clothes I
No Longer Your Luna C1
ROWENA MOONFANG POV“I didn’t do it! Why won’t you believe me?” My hands kept shaking while I gripped the wet glass of the pack transport. Rain hammered down, so loud I could barely hear myself think. I caught a glimpse of Dean’s face inside, sharp and terrifying. Mud squelched under my feet. I sh
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