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Chapter 50: The Quiet Before The Storm
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2026-03-29 18:44:56
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Shadows Of The Rejected Luna Chapter 53: The Morning After The Mistake
~KAIROS’ POV~My head felt like it had been split open from the inside.I groaned, my throat was dry and rough, like I hadn’t had water in days. When I tried to open my eyes, the sunlight coming through the curtains hit too hard and too bright that I shut them again immediately, my head spinning.What the hell happened?The last thing I remembered was sitting in that chair. The voices in my head wouldn’t stop talking about the ruins, about Kael, about the crown. Then…..the door had opened. I remember the smell of lilies. A glass of wine that tasted like a Northern summer.After that… nothing clear.I shifted slightly, my body was heavy and slow to respond.And then I felt it. Someone else was in the bed.There was this warmth beside me. A soft breathing that wasn’t mine. For one brief, stupid second, a desperate, hungry hope hit me so hard it hurt.Elara.My chest tightened as I turned toward the warmth, reaching out without thinking, already expecting her—her hair, my fingers searchi
Shadows Of The Rejected Luna Chapter 52: The Sleeping King
~GENEVIEVE’S POV~I stood at the chambers of the king's room for a moment, the silver tray trembling faintly in my hands, the soft red silk of my robe brushing against my ankles like a warning I refused to hear.I knocked. Twice.Nothing.The silence on the other side pressed in, thick and suffocating, like the room itself was holding its breath. My heart pounded hard enough to hurt. What if he had locked me out? What if the Shadow-sickness had dragged him so deep he wouldn’t even answer my voice?“Kairos?” I called gently, smoothing my tone into something soft, something sweet, something false. “It’s me. Genevieve. I brought you something from the North. A wine… to help you sleep.”Still nothing.My fingers tightened around the tray as I reached for the handle, my palms damp with sweat. I pushed.To my surprise, the latch gave out easily. Meaning the door wasn’t locked.The room beyond was swallowed in darkness. Only the faint glow of dying embers in the hearth gave any light at a
Shadows Of The Rejected Luna Chapter 51: The Bitter Seed
~GENEVIEVE’S POV~The air inside this pack clinic felt thick and suffocating as if something heavy and unseen was pressing down on my lungs and making every breath a quiet struggle.I leaned back against the cold, whitewashed stone wall, trying to steady myself, but my fingers curled into the mortar instead, gripping so tightly until my nails began to ache. I had told my handmaid I was just feeling weak from the Northern heat, a lie and a flimsy excuse, I was surprised she didn't see through it. She just accepted it without question. But now, standing here now in the small examination room, staring at nothing, I knew the truth had nothing to do with heat. The cold sweat gathering along my spine told a very different story.The door creaked open behind me.I didn’t turn immediately, but I knew who it was. The pack doctor, Heryn. Old, gentle, harmless Heryn, with the graying fur along his forearms and that soft, unguarded smile that made him seem incapable of cruelty.“Princess,” he s
Shadows Of The Rejected Luna Chapter 50: The Quiet Before The Storm
~ELARA’S POV~Two weeks.Fourteen days of watching the sun rise and set over the broken ruins. Fourteen days of staring at my hands, watching the black marks slowly spread toward my knuckles like something alive.I was no longer the palace maid. I was the Ghost of the Ruins. The servants who brought our food didn’t even look at me anymore. They would leave the baskets at the edge of the clearing and hurry away, whispering prayers to the Moon like just being near me would bring bad luck to their children."You’re doing it again," Lila’s voice cut through the silence.I blinked, realizing I had been staring at the black stains on my skin for the last ten minutes. "Doing what?""Worrying about things you can’t change yet.” Lila sat beside me on the stone bench and handed me a piece of bread she had warmed over the fire. "Eat. You’re getting as thin as the whatever you keep thinking about."I took a bite, but my eyes drifted back to the palace towers. "I’m not obsessed. I’m just… wait
Shadows Of The Rejected Luna Chapter 49
~ELARA’S POV~The stone walls of the cell where Kael was were damp. Jace had told me what happened at the Council. He hadn't told me the details, but he told me enough. Kael had been framed and my mother’s name had been dragged through the mud again. And Kairos... Kairos had admitted his secret to the Elders.The secret he had whispered to me in the dark was now a weapon the whole pack could use against him."I can only give you ten minutes," the guard at the cellar door where kaell was, whispered. He was one of Jace’s men, his eyes darting around the hallway. "If the Queen Mother finds out I let you in here...""She won't," I said, my voice cold. I didn't feel like the same anymore. I felt like something sharper and dangerous.When the heavy iron door opened up. The cell wasn't the pit but it was still a cage. Kael was sitting on a low wooden cot, his head placed in his hands. The silver chains were gone and now replaced by heavy iron ones, but his skin was still red and blistered wh
Shadows Of The Rejected Luna Chapter 48: The Hidden Blood
~KAIROS’ POV~The Council Room smelled like dust, old paper, and stone that had never known warmth.My mother sat beside me, Elder Mara, composed as always. Back straight. Hands folded. Looking all perfect and untouchable.But I could feel it. The tension.It rolled off her in sharp, invisible waves. Anyone else might have missed it, but I didn’t.“Bring him in,” I said.The doors groaned open. Kael didn’t walk in but he was dragged.Four guards, gripping him like he was something dangerous. The silver chains around his wrists glowed a dull blue, reacting to the wolf blood in him. His face was bruised, his body worn from whatever fight he’d put up at the ruins.But when he looked at me, his eyes were like cold steel.“Kael of the Blackthorn line,” one of the Elders began, his voice thinner than usual, “you are accused of working with the High Temple to sabotage the Trial of the Moon. How do you plead?”Kael didn’t even look at him. His gaze went straight to my mother.A slow, bloody s
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