LOGINShare
Chapter 23
publish date:
2026-04-12 22:38:34
Latest chapter
The Blood Moon Prophecy Chapter 168
POV: AnaraIt began at the third hour of the morning, which she later thought was entirely appropriate, because the third hour of the morning had been theirs since the beginning, since bathroom floors and warm baths and conversations they had not planned to have, and it was the correct hour for something this large to begin. She felt it the way she felt all large things now, through the bond first and then through her body, the bond alerting the body before the body had finished deciding to alert itself, and she lay in the dark for one breath and then she said, simply and clearly, "It is time."Kaelen was already up before the sentence was finished."I know," he said."You knew before I said it," she said, not a complaint, simply an observation, because even now, even in this, she was cataloguing the ways the bond worked between them."The bond," he said."The bond," she agreed, and then everything shifted, and the cataloguing stopped, because the body had fully committed now and it h
The Blood Moon Prophecy Chapter 167
POV: KaelenDr. Caran came at the fourth hour of the afternoon and examined Anara and looked at Kaelen with the expression she had that communicated a great deal with very little effort and said, "Before the week is out. Possibly considerably before." Then she gave them a list of instructions he already knew by memory because he had read every piece of writing on the subject that existed in the pack library, and she left, and he and Anara stood in the room looking at each other in the particular way of two people who have been preparing for something and have just been told that the preparation is over."Well," said Anara."Well," he said."That is soon," she said."That is very soon," he agreed.She sat down on the edge of the bed and looked at her hands. He watched her face move through several things quickly, the competent face and then the honest face and then the face she only had in private, the one that was simply her, unmanaged. "I am not afraid," she said, and this time he be
The Blood Moon Prophecy Chapter 166
POV: AnaraIt was a Tuesday morning in the kitchen, which was where Liora did most of her important talking, because Liora was a woman who trusted motion, who trusted the occupation of hands, who found that the things she needed to say came more easily when there was something practical happening around the saying of them. She was telling Anara about the herbs that helped in the final weeks, the specific ones that eased the lower back and the ones that helped with the specific kind of sleeplessness that came from a body too large and too full to find a comfortable position, and she was thorough and precise about it the way she was thorough and precise about everything."The blue herb from the northern garden is the most useful," she was saying, her hands moving over the bundles she had laid out on the long kitchen table. "Not the dried. Fresh, steeped for ten minutes. Your midwife Caran knows it. She has been using it correctly. You can trust her with it." She paused. "I know these th
The Blood Moon Prophecy Chapter 165
POV: KaelenDr. Caran had said it would be within the week. She had said it with the calm professional certainty of someone who had attended enough births to speak about their timing without either alarm or performance, and she had looked at Kaelen when she said it in the specific way she looked at people she suspected were going to make her life slightly more complicated than it needed to be, and he had nodded and told her thank you and then spent the next three days being incapable of leaving the pack house for more than two hours at a stretch.He was not anxious. He was clear on this in his own assessment. Anxiety was a specific quality that he recognised in himself and this was not it, not the restless worried quality of someone imagining disasters. This was simply a preference. He preferred to be where she was. He had developed this preference over months and it had intensified in the final weeks into something that overrode most other considerations, including the council meetin
The Blood Moon Prophecy Chapter 164
POV: Anara The balance session with Zephyr had been going well, which she had learned over months of working with him was the precise moment to brace for something unexpected, because Zephyr's idea of a session going well and her idea of a session going well were not always the same thing. He had the ancient quality of someone who had been having conversations with the universe for long enough to understand that good news and difficult news were often the same information delivered from different angles, and he offered both with the same unruffled serenity that she found alternately deeply calming and extremely aggravating. Lyra was in the room with them, seated in the chair by the south window in the contained and upright way she sat everywhere, present but apart, watching the session the way she watched most things, with the careful evaluating attention of someone cataloguing what they could not yet interpret. Zephyr had suggested Lyra attend several weeks ago and neither of them h
The Blood Moon Prophecy Chapter 163
POV: Anara She woke at midnight and the first thing she was aware of was that she was uncomfortable in the specific comprehensive way that had become her constant companion in the final weeks, the kind of discomfort that was not pain exactly but was the insistence of a body demanding constant negotiation. She shifted. She shifted again. She put a pillow here and removed it from there and told herself she was fine and turned over and found that she was not fine and was approximately equally uncomfortable in the new position, and she lay in the dark and stared at the ceiling and had a brief and deeply felt argument with the universe about the general injustice of the situation. "Tell me what you need," Kaelen said, from directly behind her, his voice entirely awake. "I was not going to wake you," she said. "I know," he said. "The bond woke me thirty seconds before you started shifting. You were not going to wake me and yet here we both are, awake. What do you need?" "I need," she sa
The Blood Moon Prophecy Chapter 146
Kaelen"You are not telling me something," I said.She looked up from her correspondence. The bond had been carrying a quality for several days that I had not been able to name precisely, which was unusual because the bond was generally specific. Not distress. Not anxiety. Something that had weight
The Blood Moon Prophecy Chapter 145
Anara"Say it," he said."Say what?" I said."You know exactly what," he said.We were in the bedroom on a Saturday afternoon with the curtains drawn and the room carrying the particular warm atmosphere of a room that had been fully decided upon. He was above me with the expression that had stopped
The Blood Moon Prophecy Chapter 144
KaelenThe tree was exactly as I remembered it.That should not have surprised me and did anyway. The split at the base into three separate trunks. The particular arrangement that had made it the best climbing tree on the entire territory when we were children, because the split gave you a standing
The Blood Moon Prophecy Chapter 143
AnaraHe came on a Tuesday afternoon.I was at the window above the entrance hall and I was not admitting to myself that I was waiting there on purpose, though Seraphis found this particular self-deception quietly amusing in a way she was not attempting to conceal from me.Kaelen was at the gate wh
You may also like
Alpha Gray
C.J. Primer1.2M viewsAlpha Dante
Crystal L541.0K viewsAlpha Leo and the Heart of Fire
Moonlight Muse849.3K viewsMated To Big Brother-in-law
AlisTae930.2K viewsBound To The Rejected Lycan King
Ager D.79 viewsThe Omega He Banished
Reina104 viewsThe Lycan King Faceless Mate
Author Salah 134 viewsTHE ALPHA’S RUNAWAY LOVER
Steph Avery97 views
