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CHAPTER NINE : THE MARKED AND THE DAMNED

Author: Tummy
last update Last Updated: 2025-06-16 01:57:59

To be chosen by the moon is not a blessing. It is a reckoning.

The Academy library was silent, but Ava’s pulse thundered like a war drum.

She stood before the restricted vault, her hand glowing with the silver crest the Moon-Blessed mark had become. Only the marked could enter.

“Don’t do it alone,” Silas had said.

But Ava had to. Someone had tampered with the bond. Someone had stolen her blood.

And she was going to find out who.

The vault opened with a whisper of ancient magic.

She stepped inside, and it felt like crossing into another world.

Scrolls. Sealed tomes. Moonlit artifacts locked behind obsidian glass.

Then she saw it:

The Book of the First Moon-Blessed.

Sealed in crimson wax. Titled only in runes.

She broke the seal.

And the book bled.

The pages weren’t written in ink.

They were written in blood.

Her breath caught as she read:

The first Moon-Blessed was named Liora.

She was loved by the Alpha of the North.

She was betrayed by the Alpha of the East.

And
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