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Chapter Seventeen: Old Ground, New Fear
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The Alpha Cursed Luna Chapter Eighteen: The Cost of Mending
Damien's POVWhen the three of us arrived, Elder Mackenzie was waiting in the pack's private archive room, with a stack of ancient texts spread across the table in front of her, their leather bindings cracked with age, making even the air in the room feel heavier."Sit," she said without hesitation, and something about her tone made none of us disagree."Tell us what you found," Eze said, settling into the chair across from her, his usual composure fraying at the edges.Mackenzie's fingers traced the edge of the oldest text with care and reverence. "Two hundred and eleven years ago, a Guardian named Ayo fully mended a fractured bond—not just eased the curse, but completely restored it, healing both parties as if the rejection had never happened at all." She paused, considering her next words carefully. "The records indicate she died within a week."The room became very still."How did they die?" Dara's voice was tight and controlled, as if she were holding herself together with sheer
The Alpha Cursed Luna Chapter Seventeen: Old Ground, New Fear
Dara's POVEze found me at dawn, exactly where he said he would, at the edge of the training grounds where the grass hadn't yet burned off the morning dew."You didn't sleep," he said, studying my face with the kind of unbothered honesty only family gets away with."Neither did you, from the look of it." I nodded toward the dark circles shadowing his eyes. "Long night?""A long few nights." He exhaled slowly, glancing back toward the tree line as if looking for something or someone. "I notified the enclave about the meeting. Regarding the threat I mentioned. I have not heard back yet, and the silence is beginning to worry me more than an answer would."Something cold settled in my stomach. "What kind of silence are we talking about?""The kind that usually indicates someone is being cautious about what they put in writing." He shook his head, as if he were attempting to physically remove the worry. "Let's not borrow trouble until we've earned it. Today, we'll start with something simp
The Alpha Cursed Luna Chapter Sixteen: Standing Beside Him
Damien's POVThe meeting ended with no resolution, only more questions piled on top of the ones we'd begun with, and I could feel exhaustion pulling at the edges of my vision by the time Corinne's advisors filed out and the great hall emptied."You shouldn't have come," Dara's voice, quiet and close, said. I hadn't heard her cross the room."Probably not." I pressed my hand against the table, hoping the room would stop its slow, unpleasant tilt. "But I wasn't about to let my mother and your cousin make decisions about my own survival without me present.""Stubborn." But there was something almost fond beneath the word, softer than she probably intended it to sound."You say that as if it were new information." I managed to smile, albeit at a higher cost than necessary. "How are you?" Really. That was a lot to hear all at once—enemies you didn't realize you had, threats to your bloodline, and your cousin essentially confirming your entire childhood was based on a lie."Something flicke
The Alpha Cursed Luna Chapter Fifteen: Enclave and Alpha
Dara's POVI hadn't expected the pack house's great hall to feel this small.Eze stood beside me, composed in a way I envied, while Lady Corinne sat across the long table, flanked by two of her senior advisors, her expression polished into something diplomatic and completely unreadable. Elder Mackenzie took the seat closest to the door, presumably to referee whatever happened next. "Thank you for agreeing to this meeting, Lady Corinne." Eze's voice carried the careful formality of enclave training, every word measured. "The Guardian council felt it necessary, given recent events, that our two houses speak directly rather than through rumor and inference.""How generous of your council," Corinne said, dry as old parchment, "to finally recognize our existence after generations of silence.""The silence was mutual, Lady Corinne, and not without reason for either party." Eze did not flinch at her tone. "However, silence no longer serves either of our interests. Not with a bond broken so
The Alpha Cursed Luna Chapter Fourteen: The Weight of Waiting
Damien's POVTwo days passed without word from Dara, and each one felt longer than the last, stretched thin by pain that had begun creeping back the moment her presence stopped easing it.Elder Mackenzie kept careful track of my condition, her frown deepening with each check. "The relief her proximity offers isn't permanent, Alpha. It buys time. It doesn't heal the wound itself.""I'm aware." I shifted against the pillows, the ache in my chest a constant companion now, dull but insistent, like something gnawing patiently at the edges of my resolve. "Any word from the cabin?""Kai mentioned her cousin arrived. Someone named Eze, from the Guardian enclave." Mackenzie's expression sharpened with interest. "If the enclave has sent someone directly, that confirms more than I'd dared hope — it means they're taking the situation seriously enough to intervene personally.""Or it means they see her as a threat too." The thought settled cold in my stomach. "You said yourself, Guardian bonds uns
The Alpha Cursed Luna Chapter Thirteen: A Guardian's Blood
Dara's POVI woke to the smell of chamomile gone cold and the particular ache of a body that hadn't slept properly in days. Sunlight cut thin lines through the cabin's shutters, and for one disoriented moment, I forgot where I was, forgot everything that had happened — the ceremony, the rejection, the black veins spreading up a throat I used to know as well as my own.Then it all came rushing back, the way grief always does, unrelenting in the mornings."You're awake." Chidi appeared in the doorway, a steaming mug in each hand. "Good. Eze is here. He says it's important.""Eze?" I sat up, confusion cutting through the last fog of sleep. "My cousin Eze? He hasn't visited in years.""He's waiting outside. Says he came the moment he heard what happened." She handed me the mug, her expression carefully neutral in the way it got whenever she was bracing me for something. "Dara — he's Guardian enclave. Full-blooded. If Elder Mackenzie's right about your bloodline, he'll know more than any o
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