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Chapter Nine
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2026-09-01 14:49:36
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Second Chance for the Discarded Luna Chapter Fifty
"Missing isn't dead," I said, forcing the words out steady despite the terror clawing up my throat. "Where did you last see him?""Near the eastern ridge," the scout said. "He went after two fleeing attackers alone, after the main fighting ended. No one saw him return.""Then we go after him," I said, already moving toward the door."Elena." My father's voice carried enough authority to stop me mid-stride. "I understand. I do. But you are not riding into unknown territory where enemy stragglers may still be armed and desperate.""I can't just sit here," I said, voice cracking."You won't have to," Doran said, appearing in the doorway himself, one arm bound in a fresh bandage, his face pale but steady. "I organized a search party before I even let them bring me back for treatment. Six warriors, combing the eastern ridge as we speak."Something in his immediate action loosened the tightest knot in my chest, though the fear underneath remained entirely present. "Thank you," I said."He's
Second Chance for the Discarded Luna Chapter Forty-Nine
"You're not riding out there," my father said, before I'd even fully voiced the request forming behind my teeth. "Elena, I understand the instinct. I won't allow it.""Then let me do something," I said, pacing the length of his study while Kellan and Corin stood near the door, equally helpless. "I can't simply sit here while Rhys and Doran ride into an ambush we practically handed to her.""You can wait," my father said, gentler now, though no less firm. "And trust the warriors we've trained for exactly this kind of danger to do their work."I hated how reasonable that sounded, and hated even more how little it actually helped the fear churning through my chest. Rhys had left with Doran's reinforcement party less than an hour ago, riding hard toward the pass with whatever speed their horses could manage, though Doran's own grim assessment still echoed through my mind. Not fast enough.I found the old, faded thread of the mind-link tucked in the back of my consciousness, the one I'd us
Second Chance for the Discarded Luna Chapter Forty-Eight
"That's impossible," I said, snatching the messenger's report from his trembling hands. "I never sent anything to the southern merchant house.""The seal matches yours precisely," the guard said. "Or close enough that the merchant house had no reason to doubt it."I scanned the forged letter's contents, my own supposed words accusing my father's council of tampering with the merchant's cargo for political gain, urging them to refuse the decoy arrangement entirely and ship their full valuable cargo along the original, unprotected route instead."She's unraveling our plan before we've even executed it," Rhys said, reading over my shoulder, fury tightening his voice."Worse," Doran said, arriving at a near run, his own copy of the merchant's response already in hand. "They've complied. The merchant house is refusing the decoy arrangement. They're sending the real cargo along the original route, tomorrow morning, exactly as Ashra apparently wants them to."My stomach dropped entirely. "Th
Second Chance for the Discarded Luna Chapter Forty-Seven
"Two days isn't enough time to properly fortify an escort," Doran said, pacing the length of the council chamber while my father listened with grim, focused attention. "Not for a convoy this size, carrying this much value.""Then we need to know exactly what we're defending against," my father said. "Elena, you've spent more time inside this conspiracy's evidence than anyone else in this room. What does the timeline shift tell you?"I stood at the head of the table, the salvaged correspondence spread before me, and forced myself to think through the pattern rather than simply react to the mounting dread. "She knows we're onto her," I said. "The safehouse raid, the failed frame against Corin, cornering me and Rhys in the palace itself. Every plan she's built has been unraveling faster than expected. Moving up the convoy's departure isn't strength. It's desperation.""Desperate people are considerably more dangerous," Rhys said from his position near the door, arms crossed. "Not less."
Second Chance for the Discarded Luna Chapter Forty-Six
Nessa sat propped against a stack of pillows in the healer's recovery chamber, color finally returning to her face after a week of careful rest, the small wolf pup curled tight against her side exactly where it had refused to leave since the night we found her."You look better," I said, settling into the chair beside her bed."I feel considerably better than I did," she admitted. "Talia says the ribs will still ache for weeks. The rest is healing faster than expected."I studied her a moment, searching for the right way into a conversation I'd been circling since the night we brought her home. "Have you thought about what comes next? Whether you'll stay here, once you're strong enough to travel again."Something flickered across her face, grief and uncertainty tangled together. "There's nothing left for me at Blackthorn," she said quietly. "Not anymore." Her hand drifted absently to the pup's fur, a gesture that seemed to steady her. "My brother was the only family I had left there.
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,
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