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CHAPTER EIGHTY‑NINE– Enemies Within and Without

작가: Mercy V.
last update 게시일: 2026-04-09 20:47:08

Lilah

Storms don’t always start at the horizon.

Sometimes, they start in your own walls.

The first sign is small.

A latch is not set.

Naomi finds it on morning perimeter checks—east‑side service gate, the one used by kitchen staff to dump scraps and by pups to sneak out to dare each other to climb the old trees.

The bar is resting in its hooks but not dropped into place.

She jiggles it. The wood rattles.

“You’ve got to be kidding me,” she mutters.

When she tells me, my stomach goes cold.

“Could
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  • The Alpha’s Rejected Human Luna   CHAPTER NINETY-FOUR – BREAKING THE SCRIPT

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  • The Alpha’s Rejected Human Luna   CHAPTER NINETY-TWO – THE MOMENT OF CHOICE

    The world narrows.Every instinct, every plan, every calculation I’ve ever made collapses into the single point of her gold eyes, the tilt of her jaw, the arc of her spine under Jax’s hand.Not again.Not like before.The curse coils around my mind, twisting, whispering. Split. Divide. Save everyone. Lose nothing. I can hear it in the rhythm of my heartbeat, feel it in the pull of the bond, and see it in the tiny line of tension in the pups huddled behind Malric’s platform.You can’t. You never could.A heartbeat later, the memory arrives: the Hall of Ancestors. Fire. Smoke. Screams. The echo of Lilah’s face, pale, terrified, asking silently why I didn’t choose her first. Wolves gone. Pack shattered. And me, a shadow in the center of all of it, trying to be everywhere at once and failing.Every piece of me—the Alpha, the warrior, the protector—wants to calculate, to divide forces, to split myself like I always have.The pups. The pack. Malric’s blade. The throne room. The walls that c

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    LilahThe moon rises wrong.It’s not just full—it’s swollen, hanging low over the treeline like an eye that’s been watching too long. The edge that was silver last night is rimmed deeper now, a faint red bloom creeping across its face as it climbs.The air knows.It’s thick, hard to pull into my lungs, and charged like the seconds before lightning. The wards around the compound hum at a pitch that sets my teeth on edge. Every tiny sound—boots on stone, metal on leather, the distant call of an owl—lands too sharp.War drums outside. War drums inside. And under both, a third rhythm—the curse, thrumming in my bones.I stand on the ridge where Ronan and I watched the sky last night.Below, the pack is in motion.Warriors at their posts. Scouts at the outer lines. Evacuees sealed in safer hollows under Morwen’s newer wards. The air is threaded with the scents of sweat, steel, adrenaline, and something older: the particular ozone‑sharp tang of big magic waking up.My chest tightens.The

  • The Alpha’s Rejected Human Luna    CHAPTER NINETY – The Night Before Everything

    LilahThe pack is too quiet.Not in the way it was when I first arrived—suspicious, simmering. This is different. The quiet of braced muscle, of lungs, held somewhere between inhale and exhale.By sunset, patrols are doubled. Evacuation routes are set. Non‑combatants have been moved to deeper holds under new wards Morwen carved herself.The sky is painfully clear. Stars pricked sharp overhead. The moon is not quite full—but close enough that my skin feels stretched too tight over bone.War drums outside. War drums inside.Naomi and Bella and I hole up in the guest room for a while, pretending we’re just three women killing time, not three threads tied into the heart of a curse.Naomi sprawls on her bed, head hanging off the edge, hair nearly brushing the floor. Bella sits cross‑legged against the headboard, sketchbook open but blank, pencil idle in her hand.I sit on the floor between them, back against the side of the bed, legs stretched out, fingers picking at a loose thread in th

  • The Alpha’s Rejected Human Luna   CHAPTER FIFTEEN – Heat in the Dark

    *Lilah*He walks me back to my room in silence.Leo falls in behind us without a word. The tension in the corridor follows like a ghost—cracked stone, torn fabric, the echo of a boy’s scream, and the memory of Ronan’s hand on my face.My heart hasn’t quite figured out how to calm down yet. It stutt

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  • The Alpha’s Rejected Human Luna   CHAPTER TWENTY – Proof of the Curse

    *Ronan*I don't sleep.After Malric's shadow retreats down the corridor, I carry Lilah to the bed, settle her under the blankets, and sit in the chair by the window until the moon sinks and the first gray light bleeds across the sky.She sleeps fitfully. Sometimes, her fingers twitch, nails flicker

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  • The Alpha’s Rejected Human Luna   CHAPTER NINETEEN – The Hybrid Glitch

    *Ronan*For a breath, all I can do is stare.Half‑moon grooves scar the floorboards where her nails dug in. Her fingertips are tipped in blunt, half‑formed claws. The air in the room crackles with the echo of her scream.And her eyes—Gold. Not a flicker. Not a trick of the light.A full, predatory

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  • The Alpha’s Rejected Human Luna   CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE – An Invitation from Thorn

    *Lilah*I'm halfway through my morning training session with Cassian when I hear the name."—Jax Thorn sent it himself," Leo is saying to another warrior at the edge of the field. "Official seal. The works."Cassian's fist stops an inch from my face.I blink, belatedly remembering I was supposed to

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