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Chapter Forty-Four
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2026-09-20 11:53:34
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Second Chance for the Discarded Luna Chapter Forty-Five
"Lock down every gate." Doran's voice cracked across the courtyard like a whip. "No one enters, no one leaves, until we've swept every corridor.""How did she get inside?" Rhys demanded, already moving toward the palace steps, his earlier exhaustion burned away by pure adrenaline."We don't know yet," the scout said, struggling to keep pace. "A servant spotted an unfamiliar woman near the eastern wing. Matched the description you gave after the safehouse.""The eastern wing." My stomach dropped. "That's near my chambers.""Elena, stay behind me," Rhys said, already drawing his blade."Absolutely not." I fell into step beside him instead, ignoring the sharp look he threw my way. "If she's here for me, hiding somewhere else doesn't make me safer. It just means I don't see her coming."We reached the eastern corridor at a dead run, guards already stationed at intervals, tension coiling thick in the torchlit air. My father emerged from a side passage, flanked by two of his personal guard,
Second Chance for the Discarded Luna Chapter Forty-Four
I carried the letter back into the main office myself, unwilling to let anyone else deliver news this damning secondhand. Corin rose the moment he saw my face, whatever color remained in his own draining fast."What did you find?"I set the letter on the desk between us, watching him read it, watching his eyes move faster and faster down the page until his hands had gone visibly unsteady around the parchment's edges."This isn't mine," he said, voice cracking on the words. "Elena, I swear to you, I never authorized any shipment delay. I never received any payment.""Your name is on it," Rhys said, stepping closer, something hard and watchful in his stance now. "Your authority, specifically named.""My father knows this office," Corin said, desperation creeping into his voice. "He knows how the correspondence is structured, how authorizations are worded. If he wanted to forge something convincing enough to pass casual inspection, he'd know exactly how to do it.""That's a considerable
Second Chance for the Discarded Luna Chapter Forty-Three
"That's not possible." The words left me before I'd fully processed what Doran had just read aloud. "Corin wouldn't.""The evidence says otherwise," Doran said, not unkindly, though his tone carried no room for argument either. "Partially burned correspondence, found in the safehouse of the woman orchestrating attacks against both kingdoms. It names Ashwood as a contact inside our own merchant houses.""There could be another explanation," Rhys said carefully, watching my face. "A relative. A rival house borrowing the name deliberately to cast suspicion on an innocent man.""Or he's exactly what the paper says he is," Kellan cut in, arms crossed, something hard in his expression. "Elena, you've trusted this man for weeks. Trust doesn't make someone incapable of betrayal. If anything, it makes betrayal easier."I flinched at that, thinking of Damon, of Lyra, of every carefully constructed lie that had nearly destroyed Blackthorn from the inside. Kellan wasn't wrong to raise the possibi
Second Chance for the Discarded Luna Chapter Forty-Two
"You're not seriously letting him go after riders in the dark without you," Petra said, hovering at the edge of Talia's chambers while the healer finished stitching the worst of the gash along Nessa's hairline."I don't have a choice," I said. "Doran split the party the moment the messenger reported those tracks near the eastern border. Half came back with us. Half went after the trail.""And Rhys went with the second half.""Rhys went with the second half," I confirmed, my voice tighter than I meant it to sound.Nessa stirred slightly on the healer's table, eyes fluttering half open. "You should be with him," she murmured, voice still thick with exhaustion. "Not sitting here fussing over me.""I'm exactly where I need to be," I said, taking her hand carefully. "You nearly died tonight. I'm not leaving until Talia tells me you're stable.""Stable enough," Talia said, tying off the last stitch with brisk efficiency. "She needs rest, food, and considerably less excitement than this part
Second Chance for the Discarded Luna Chapter Forty-One
Ashra's point of view"He's dead."My courier delivered the words flatly, kneeling in the shadow of the safehouse I'd kept hidden three days' ride from Blackthorn's border. I didn't look up from the map spread across the table."I'm aware," I said. "I watched the execution myself, from a considerably safer distance than you'd have managed.""Then why send me to confirm it?""Because confirmation and observation aren't the same thing," I said. "I need to know exactly how the pack responded. Grief. Fury. Relief. The particular flavor of their reaction tells me how quickly Marcus rebuilds trust with his own council."The courier hesitated. "Alpha Marcus led the execution personally. No hesitation. The council stood behind him fully."I set down my pen. That wasn't the answer I'd hoped for."He's stronger than expected," I said, mostly to myself."Do we still have anyone inside?""No." The word came out clipped. Two years of careful positioning, gone in a single ritual circle turned the w
Second Chance for the Discarded Luna Chapter Forty
"Form up." Doran's voice cut low and sharp through the dark. "Backs together. Elena, center."I didn't argue. Eight warriors closed ranks around me, blades drawn, eyes scanning the black tree line where the growl had come from. Rhys pressed close at my shoulder, every line of him coiled tight."One wolf," he said quietly. "Maybe two. Moving, not charging yet.""Waiting for an opening," Doran said. "Whoever it is knows we outnumber them."A twig snapped somewhere to the left. Every blade in the circle swung toward the sound."Show yourself," Doran called out, voice carrying command that didn't shake despite the tension in his shoulders. "You're outnumbered eight to one. This doesn't need to end badly."Silence answered him. Then, from the shadows past the drag marks, a low, ragged voice."Please. Don't hurt her."My heart stopped. "Nessa?""Elena, stay back," Rhys warned, but I was already moving, ducking past the ring of warriors before anyone could stop me.She lay curled against the
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