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Chapter Ninety-Six: What Remained to Mend
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THE ALPHA'S FORBIDDEN LUNA Chapter Ninety-Six: What Remained to Mend
Three weeks after Rosalind’s defeat, Ashwood still smelled of fresh-cut timber, wet mortar, and smoke trapped in the cracks of damaged stone.Rebuilding was slow. Some mornings, Selene hauled broken beams from the courtyard until her palms ached. By afternoon, she was buried in council correspondence about Rosalind’s trial, sorting through reports that seemed to multiply whenever she looked away.Evenings were different. For the first time in months, no disaster demanded every minute of her attention. She could sit beside a window without watching the door or eat a meal without someone arriving with urgent news.She was still learning what to do with that kind of freedom.The pack had thrown itself into repairing Ashwood. They had spent so long protecting what remained that building something new felt almost unfamiliar. Yet every repaired wall and replaced window made the future a little easier to imagine.Then Marcus and Lyra got married.Their ceremony took place in the partially re
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“It’s closed.”Veyra kept both hands against the black stone, watching silver light settle into its veins. Her fingers trembled from the strain, but the glow held steady.“Fully sealed. She can’t breach it again. Not after this.”Selene released a breath she hadn’t realised she was holding. The air smelled of frost and damp stone. Around her, pack members formed a loose circle, their eyes fixed on Rosalind, who stood motionless in the centre of the chamber.No one approached her.For a thousand years, Rosalind had made other people move according to her plans. Now she stood surrounded by people who had every reason to fear her and no reason to trust her.“A thousand years,” Rosalind murmured.Her gaze stayed on the sealed door.“A thousand years of patience, calculation, sacrifice. And a child’s stubborn kindness undid it in a single afternoon.”“It wasn’t just Aria,” Selene said.Rosalind looked up.“It was all of us. Together. That’s the part you never accounted for.”For once, Rosa
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The door widened another inch.A dry groan rolled through the chamber as the black stone shifted. Frost spilt from the gap and crept over the floor, whitening the edges of Selene’s boots. Cold seeped beneath her sleeves and made her fingers ache.Beyond the opening, something stirred.Selene couldn’t see it. She could feel the attention turning toward them, old and hungry, as if the thing on the other side had been waiting for the smallest sign that their hold was failing.“Aria, no—”Kael’s warning came too late.Aria had closed her eyes. Her hand remained locked in Selene’s, but the girl’s fingers trembled against hers. Beneath Aria’s skin, a faint violet-blue glow flickered, barely visible now, a remnant of the connection she had surrendered when the Wardens took her place in the binding.Selene tightened her grip.“Aria, you don’t know what will happen if you reach for it.”“I know I’m not going back inside.” Aria’s voice strained around each word. “I’m just… knocking. Reminding i
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The celebration stopped before Selene understood why.A moment earlier, the chamber had been full of shaky laughter and relief. Now every face had turned toward the black door. Gold still ran through its silver and violet veins, but the light kept faltering, brightening and dimming as though something beyond the seal were testing it.Veyra pulled her hand from the stone. The glow around her fingers thinned.“That’s not possible.”Selene looked from Veyra to the door, still trying to believe the binding had worked—that she and Aria were no longer carrying its weight.“The binding is sealed,” Veyra said. “Three Wardens, properly anchored. Nothing should be able to breach it.”“Nothing except another Warden.”The voice came from inside the chamber.Frost spread across the floor, branching around the bases of the old pillars. The temperature dropped so quickly Selene felt it in her teeth. In the open space between the door and the gathered pack, a woman took shape.Rosalind stood as if sh
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They rode through the night without stopping.By dawn, Selene’s thighs were numb and her throat raw. Each stumble jolted her spine, but her mind kept returning to one question.What if Rosalind had reached Aria?She had left Fenna with guards at every entrance and strict instructions to keep Aria close. But Rosalind had hidden inside Ronan’s walls and escaped a collapsing passage. Selene had no reason to trust Ashwood’s defences.She tried not to picture an empty room or Fenna standing in a doorway with terrible news. Her fingers tightened on the reins.She could face Rosalind. She could face the binding, the doors, even the possibility that the Wardens’ theory would fail. What she couldn’t bear was arriving too late and discovering that all her efforts to protect Aria had only delayed the moment she lost her.The keep appeared through the thinning dark.Selene searched the walls for smoke, the gates for splintered timber, the watchtowers for signs of a fight. The stone stood scarred
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They rode through the night without stopping.By dawn, Selene’s thighs had gone numb, and her throat was raw from the wind. Every time her horse stumbled, pain jolted up her spine. She barely noticed. All she could think about was Ashwood—and what Rosalind might have done while they were gone.The keep appeared through the thinning dark, its walls scarred but standing. The gates remained intact beneath the watchtowers. Relief hit Selene so hard her hand slipped on the reins.She had spent the ride preparing for smoke, broken stone, and guards carrying news she could never undo. Instead, the courtyard lay quiet beneath the pale morning light.Fenna came through the gate with Aria at her side. Selene barely waited for her horse to stop before swinging down. She landed badly, caught herself against the saddle, then crossed the courtyard and pulled Aria into her arms.For a moment, neither spoke. Selene felt Aria’s heartbeat through their clothes and smelled soap and woodsmoke in her hair
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