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Chapter Seventeen: The Enemy Within
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2026-09-03 00:07:53
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The Billionaire Lycan's Second Chance Luna Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-One
GerbranoA dead man had walked out of the dark and tipped his hat to my wife, and my first thought was that the poison in my blood had come back to finish what it began.I felt it before I understood it. The silver scar that Leo and Alexia had burned across the muscle of my heart gave a hard, painful lurch, and the numbness crawled along the edge of my jaw as though somebody had trailed a cold finger there. I gripped the iron bars of the gate until the old metal bit through my palms, and I forced myself to breathe slowly through my nose, because Dr. Varga had warned me that panic would cost me more heartbeats than any wound."I killed you with my own teeth in front of a hundred witnesses, and I felt your throat break," I said, and the words scraped out of me like gravel."You killed my brother, Alpha Moretti, and I thank you for it from the bottom of my heart, because the man was a bore and a bully and a sentimental fool." The stranger smiled, and the smi
The Billionaire Lycan's Second Chance Luna Chapter One Hundred and Thirty
AlexiaThe kitchen of the convent smelled of warm bread and lavender soap, and I had never been so glad to be standing in a wedding gown with flour on the hem.The little girl sat at the scrubbed oak table with both hands wrapped around a mug of hot milk that Sister Constance had pressed on her, and she drank it with the grim concentration of a child who had learned never to waste a swallow. Her coat hung from the back of the chair like a deflated tent. Beneath it she wore a gray pinafore patched at both elbows, and a pair of boots so cracked that I could see the pale gleam of her stockings through the leather. The ragged stuffed rabbit sat in her lap with one ear folded against its cheek, and she kept her free hand clamped over its middle as though it might escape."You may tell me your name whenever you feel ready, and you may tell me nothing at all until you have eaten," I said, and I slid a plate of buttered toast across the wood."My name is Wren, an
The Billionaire Lycan's Second Chance Luna Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Nine
LeoFrom the burning floor of the hall, I watched my mother fall through the fire, and I understood for the first time that a heart can break without making any sound at all.I had been dragged down the minstrels' stair by Margaret in the very last instant before the loggia tore loose. She had flung herself across my chest at the iron door, thrust me back into the stairwell, and screamed at me to run for the ground. I had tumbled out of the arch at the bottom into the smoke-filled hall just as the whole balcony ripped away from the wall and plunged toward the marble, shedding oak and iron in a rain of sparks.Two bodies hung in the air at the center of the wreckage. Lucian clutched my mother against his chest with one arm, and the other hand was fastened in her hair, and behind them a great black wolf shot down through the flames with his jaws wide and his fur blazing. Gerbrano struck Lucian in the shoulder with the full weight of his body, and the three of them
The Billionaire Lycan's Second Chance Luna Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Eight
GerbranoA thousand candles do not fall quietly, and the sound of them going down was a long, tearing roar that I will hear in my sleep until the end of my life.The remote had barely clicked when thin wires strung through the crown of the Great Candelabra spat blue sparks, and the oil-soaked wicks along its tiers flared from white to a furious orange. Burning wax rained in sheets across the dock and the elders' bench, the velvet drapes along the lower gallery caught in a single breath, and the screams began a heartbeat later. Outside the sealed doors the chains rattled on, and beneath that clatter I could hear the muffled laughter of men who believed that they had won.I tore the silver collar from my throat with both hands. The metal seared my palms to the bone and shrieked against my skin, and I hurled it into the wardens who had been guarding me, and they fled with their halberds clattering behind them. A strange cold numbness had been creeping along my lips
The Billionaire Lycan's Second Chance Luna Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Seven
AlexiaThe doors of the archive swung open with a sound like a long indrawn breath, and the cold dawn wind poured down the stair to meet us.I climbed the shaft with Leo's hand locked in mine and Gerbrano's body at my back, and every spiral step felt like a rung on the ladder to a scaffold. Dexter walked behind us with his good hand on his pistol and his eyes fixed on the back of Margaret's head. Osric Vane stayed below beside his desk with his transparent hands folded, because the steward of the Lantern may never cross the threshold of the sea gate. At the last turning I looked down and saw him lift one hand in a slow farewell.The granite causeway lay beneath a sky the color of pearl. The tide had begun to creep back across the flats, and the blackened stumps of the Coldharbour pier stood in a spreading sheet of silver water. A hundred wardens of the Alliance in gray tabards ringed the opening in a double line with their silver-tipped halberds leveled, and bey
The Billionaire Lycan's Second Chance Luna Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Six
GerbranoThe silver doors would not yield to my shoulder, my fists, or the full weight of my wolf. After the fifth attempt I stood with my forehead pressed against the cold metal and listened to the blood pounding in my ears. Every bolt on the other side had slid home with the finality of a coffin lid, and the carved crescent at the center of the panels gleamed back at me with a serene indifference that I could have wept over."You may continue to strike it, Alpha Moretti, though I assure you that those doors have survived worse tempers than yours," Osric said from the dais. "The archive opens in two ways, and neither of them involves a battering ram.""Then tell me what they are, and tell me before my wife and son lose another hour of their lives," I said."The first is the word of the heir, spoken aloud after he has read the Founding Charter from its first line to its last, because no keeper may command this place until he understands what he guards." T
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