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~ 26: I saw Mom
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The Ex-Luna's Return: No Longer His Doormat ~ 166
~ 166 ~~ Mia ~The morning sun had barely begun to filter through the frost-rimed windows of the Red Moon pack hospital when the quiet of my shift was shattered.One of Ariana's personal maids — a young eastern woman who had accompanied the delegation from the mountains — was brought into the third-floor clinic by a panicked nurse's aide. The girl was shaking, clutching her stomach, and gasping for breath, complaining of a sudden, severe wave of nausea, dizziness, and tightness in her chest.She couldn't have been more than twenty, pale beneath her travel-worn clothes, her eyes glassy with fear and discomfort. She kept apologizing between gasps, insisting she didn't want to be a bother, that her mistress would be cross if she made a fuss — the ingrained deference of a servant who had learned long ago that her own pain was an inconvenience to others. Something about that quiet, apologetic suffering struck a chord deep in my chest, an echo of a woman I used to be.Protocol was protocol
The Ex-Luna's Return: No Longer His Doormat ~ 165
~ 165 ~~ Ryker ~With the chaos of Nick’s fourteenth birthday finally behind us and a fragile, desperate window of quiet opening across the northern compound, I knew I could no longer put off the inevitable.The question had been eating away at the edges of my mind for weeks, lingering in the quiet spaces between council meetings, border patrols, and the endless administrative demands of a pack transitioning through a constitutional crisis. It was the heavy, unspoken shadow cast by Alexander’s uncanny physical presence, his striking resemblance, and the strange, inexplicable familiarity that had haunted me since the day we met. Every time I looked across a room and saw the way he carried his shoulders, or heard the distinct cadence of his voice, silent alarm bells had rung in the back of my skull, warning me of truths I had spent my entire life avoiding.Combined with the crushing emotional fallout of Lili’s unsealed bloodline, the need for absolute truth became an anchor I couldn't
The Ex-Luna's Return: No Longer His Doormat ~ 164
~ 164 ~~ Mia ~Elder Edmund crashed hard, his monitor shrieking a jagged, piercing alarm that cut through the sterile quiet of the high-dependency ward.I moved instantly, throwing my weight against the edge of the bed as I slammed the emergency crash call button. "Get the intubation tray! Now! Spiking intracranial pressure, prepare mannitol and push twenty milligrams of dexamethasone!"The trauma team swarmed the room in a blur of blue scrubs and rolling equipment. I forced air into his failing lungs with an ambu-bag, my hands moving with practiced, frantic precision. We fought for every single heartbeat, working against the clock to pull him back from the precipice of a fatal brain stem hemorrhage.But medicine has limits, and no amount of clinical skill or emergency pharmacology could solve the administrative wall standing right in front of us.Under the strict, unbending medical bylaws of the northern pack territories, invasive emergency neurosurgery required the direct, verified
The Ex-Luna's Return: No Longer His Doormat ~ 163
~ 163 ~~ Third Person POV ~Working in the high-dependency ward of the Red Moon pack hospital meant that emergencies rarely gave anyone room to breathe, but over the past week, a different kind of tension had begun to claim Mia's attention during the brief moments of quiet between rounds.She started noticing a distinct, recurring pattern around Alexander.Whenever he came to the medical wing to visit Elder Edmund, or stopped by her office to share a quiet cup of coffee between surgeries, his personal communicator would light up. It didn't just vibrate; it rang repeatedly, flashing with an aggressive, persistent rhythm that demanded notice. And every single time it happened, Alexander would ignore it, his jaw tightening into a hard, rigid line Mia had never seen on him before.The easy, polished charm that usually defined his demeanor would vanish instantly, replaced by a cold, guarded frustration.Mia didn't pry. Privacy was a hard-earned currency in their world, and Alexander had a
The Ex-Luna's Return: No Longer His Doormat ~ 162
~ 162 ~~ Mia ~It didn't take long for the rest of the East Lake entourage to infiltrate the northern medical complex.Ariana, who had followed behind Darian’s transport convoy when his mother was rushed to the emergency wing, arrived at the hospital in a flurry of expensive silk and sharp heels. Looking slightly slurry around the edges and carrying the unmistakable haughty attitude of an aristocrat inconvenienced by reality, she immediately announced to the administrative desk that she would also be extending her stay in Red Moon indefinitely. She offered a transparent, poorly constructed cover story about vague eastern investment portfolios and regional trade matters that required her personal oversight—a paper-thin excuse that fooled absolutely no one.Everyone in the lobby knew the truth: Ariana had no intention of leaving Darian alone in a territory that held his first wife, especially now that my true royal identity had upended the geopolitical board.She was terrified of losin
The Ex-Luna's Return: No Longer His Doormat ~ 161
~ 161 ~~ Mia ~I stood there in the sterile glare of the hospital corridor, the unspoken refusal hard and heavy behind my teeth, completely braced for the blow I knew was coming.I waited for the demand. I waited for Darian to cross the line, to lean on his status as an Alpha, to invoke our shared history, or to press every button he possessed to force me into taking personal charge of his mother’s terminal case. It was the only playbook I had ever known his family to use.Instead, Darian did something that completely disarmed my defenses.He didn't ask.He lowered his gaze to the medical chart in his hands, his thumb tracing the edge of the paper for a long, quiet moment. When he looked back up at me, his eyes were heavy with a quiet, hard-earned resignation."Don't take her case, Lili," he said softly, his voice remarkably steady despite the grief cracking his composure.I blinked, caught entirely off guard. "What?""I know what you're capable of," Darian continued, his tone devoid
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