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Chapter 19: What Are You Hiding From Me?
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2026-09-21 07:15:05
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THE CHUBBY LUNA THEY REJECTED Chapter 19: What Are You Hiding From Me?
Aina's POV The dying attacker's words follow us the entire way back to the residence, *they'll kill her before the next full moon*, sitting heavy and unresolved in the space between Osborne's silence and my own racing thoughts.He doesn't let me out of his sight once we're inside, hovering close in a way that feels less like comfort and more like a man bracing for another attack he can't predict. I let him, for now, mostly because I'm too shaken to argue about it, but the moment we're alone in his study, I finally let the questions loose."Who were they?""I don't know yet." His jaw works, frustration clear beneath the exhaustion still clinging to him. "Rogues, but organized. Someone's paying them, or directing them. That kind of coordination doesn't happen by accident.""Why did he call me something?" I press, the half-finished word still ringing in my ears. "The Moon, he said. The Moon what?""I don't know that either.""Why does Varg respond to me?" My voice rises now, frustration
THE CHUBBY LUNA THEY REJECTED Chapter 18: Blood on the snow
Aina's POV *Just don't expect me to stop anyone else from coming after you.*His words are still sitting heavy in my chest hours later, and maybe that's exactly why I ask Kade to walk the outer boundary with me instead of staying locked inside those walls like Osborne clearly expects me to. Some stubborn, wounded part of me needs to prove, if only to myself, that his warning doesn't get to decide how I live now. I've spent two years shaped entirely by what a man decided I was allowed to do. I refuse to let another one draw the same lines around me, however real the danger behind his warning might actually be.Kade doesn't argue when I ask. He simply falls into step beside me, watchful in a way that tells me he's taking Osborne's warning far more seriously than I'm willing to admit out loud.The cold bites harder than I expect once we're past the tree line. I needed this. After everything with Osborne, the walls of that residence had started pressing in tighter than I could stand, and
THE CHUBBY LUNA THEY REJECTED Chapter 17: You Are Not My Prisoner
Aina's POV I'm still turning over what he said about eleven years of silence when he tells me, flatly, that I'm not to leave the residence anymore."For your protection," he adds, like the words alone should be enough to settle the matter.Something cold settles over the warmth still humming faintly in my chest from moments ago. "You rejected me as a prisoner?"His jaw tightens. "That's not what this is.""Isn't it?" I fold my arms, refusing to let the shift in the room, the strange, unguarded honesty from a minute ago, soften what he's actually saying now. "You're telling me I can't leave. That sounds exactly like what it is.""I didn't bring you here to imprison you." He says it like it costs him something, low and rough, but the words don't change the fact standing between us."Then why am I not allowed to leave?"He doesn't answer right away, and the silence stretches long enough that I understand, watching him, that he doesn't actually have a good answer to give me. Or rather, h
THE CHUBBY LUNA THEY REJECTED Chapter 16: Varg's Warning
Aina's POV The summons comes before I've even had time to process what Mara told me.A servant finds me in the corridor, tells me Osborne wants me in his study now, and something in her tone makes it clear this isn't a request I can politely decline. I go anyway, mark still burning faintly against my collarbone, questions still tangled and unanswered in my chest. I haven't even had time to decide what I'll tell him, if anything, before I'm standing outside his door with my hand raised to knock.He's waiting when I arrive, standing rather than seated, arms crossed, jaw tight enough that I can see the muscle working beneath his skin. The room feels smaller than it did the last time I stood in it, though nothing about its size has changed."You went to Mara," he says, no greeting, no preamble."I did.""What did she tell you?"I hold his gaze steady, even as my pulse picks up. "That's between me and her."Something flashes behind his eyes, fast and sharp. "Nothing in this house is separ
THE CHUBBY LUNA THEY REJECTED Chapter 15: The Mark
Aina's POV The headaches start two days after the courtyard, dull at first, then sharpening into something closer to pressure behind my eyes, like the ache Osborne wears every morning has somehow found its way into my own skull.I finally go to Mara when the pressure comes with something worse, a strange, sudden pull of feeling that isn't mine at all, brief flashes of unease that pass through me and leave just as quickly, like weather moving through someone else's sky."Sit," she says, once I've explained enough of it to worry her. "Let me look at you properly this time."She checks my eyes first, then my pulse, careful and thorough the way she's been with every ache and worry I've brought her since I arrived. Her fingers pause at my collarbone."Hold still," she murmurs, tilting my head slightly, and I feel her fingers press gently against my skin, right where my collarbone meets my throat."What is it?"She doesn't answer right away. Instead she touches the spot again, firmer this
THE CHUBBY LUNA THEY REJECTED Chapter 14: The Woman Watching Her
Osborne's POV I'm still turning her face over in my mind long after the hall empties.Not gratitude. Not the quiet relief most wolves show when I intervene on their behalf. Suspicion, sharp and unmistakable, the same look she's worn since the night I claimed her. I shut down an Elder in front of the entire gathering, and she looked at me like I'd done something to be questioned rather than trusted.It bothers me more than it should.*She is hurt,* Varg says, low and unfamiliar in my own skull."Be quiet," I tell him.*You hurt her too.*I go still at my desk. Varg has never once cared what another person felt. Eleven years of violence and hunger and rage, and not once has he spared a thought for anyone's pain but his own need to survive it. Hearing him name hers, unprompted, settles into my chest like something I don't have the tools to examine yet.I summon Kade before I let myself sit with that discomfort any longer."Everything we know about her," I say, when he arrives. "Since sh
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