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CHAPTER 152: Held Captive
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2026-10-14 23:29:23
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The Luna He Never Deserved CHAPTER 153: The King Goes Home
CASPIANI left BloodMoon Pack at dawn, the way I had left every place that ever hurt me. Without a goodbye.The convoy waited at the foot of the VoxTin steps, black cars lined up like mourners. Elric held the door of the lead vehicle. Behind him, the building rose into a pale grey sky, forty floors of glass that had held the only warm six weeks I'd known in years.I did not look up at it.Roger had come to see me off. Of course he had. He stood at the bottom of the steps in a charcoal suit, hair combed, face arranged into a respectful sorrow he'd clearly practised in a mirror.“My king,” he said. “I'm sorry for the circumstances. I hope you'll reconsider returning to inspect the Eastern division next quarter.”“VoxTin remains yours,” I said.Surprise flickered over his face, quickly smothered. “My king is generous.”“Your numbers are improving. Whoever's been correcting them has done good work.” I let the sentence rest between us a second longer than was polite. “I would hate to disru
The Luna He Never Deserved CHAPTER 152: Held Captive
NARAYAOn the fourth day, the lock turned in the middle of the afternoon.I was sitting on the floor with my back against the bed, counting cracks in the ceiling plaster, because counting was the only thing left that Roger couldn't take. My cheek had gone from purple to a sick yellow-green. My ribs hurt when I breathed. The window was nailed shut from the outside. Ava had gone quiet days ago, curled tight around the small, stubborn flutter beneath my navel, and I had stopped asking her for comfort because she had none to give.Food came three times a day through a guard who never met my eyes. Roger came at night. He sat on the edge of the bed and told me about his day in a soft, reasonable voice, and I stared at the wall until he left.So when the key scraped, I assumed it was early.I did not stand.The door opened a few inches. A woman slipped through it and closed it behind her with great care, and I looked up into a pair of green eyes I had expected to see on the other side of a l
The Luna He Never Deserved CHAPTER 151: The Second Time
CASPIANNaraya didn't come on Monday.I glanced at the empty desk outside my door, the neat stack of files she'd left on Friday, the cold mug at the corner that nobody had cleared. I told myself it was nothing. A cold. An appointment with the midwife. She had earned a day.She didn't come in on Tuesday either.By Wednesday I had stopped pretending. I stood in the doorway of my own office at half past eight, watching the elevator doors slide open and closed on strangers, and felt something in my chest tighten with every one that wasn't her."Delphine," I said. "Where is Miss Veils?"Delphine looked up from her screen. She had that careful, cornered expression people get when they know the answer is going to land badly."Alpha Brimstone called on Monday morning, my king. He said she was unwell.""Unwell how?""He didn't say.""Has she called?""No, my king.""Has she answered her phone?"Delphine's silence was an answer.I went back into my office and shut the door and stood very still
The Luna He Never Deserved CHAPTER 150: The Truth He Concealed
MELISSAI heard her before I understood what I was hearing.It was past ten, and I had only come downstairs for water. The twins were asleep, Brian curled around his stuffed wolf, Jennie sprawled sideways across her pillows like a small starfish. The house had that settled, creaking quiet that big houses get at night, and I was halfway down the hall when a voice came out of Roger's study.A woman's voice. Low. Steady. Furious.“...since the first day. Every lie. Every signature. You didn't just trap me, Roger, you built the trap before I even knew I was walking into it.”I stopped.I knew that voice. I had never heard it in my life.I knew it anyway, the way you know a face in a crowd after years of seeing it only in dreams. It was the voice that should have been behind Naraya's careful little notes, the one I'd imagined, idly, when she wrote _thank you_ on her pad and smiled at me over the twins' heads.Lower than I'd expected. Warmer. And absolutely unafraid.The door was open a few
The Luna He Never Deserved CHAPTER 149: What the Whiskey Said
NARAYAI stole from him on a Thursday.Roger had been very clear about what he wanted. Not much, he said, nothing that would hurt anyone. Just the shipping manifests for the southern trade route, the ones Caspian kept in a locked drawer in his study, and any correspondence with the Northern Pack. Insurance, Roger called it. So we know where we stand.I sat at my desk for two hours before I made myself do it.Caspian had gone to a council meeting on the thirty-second floor. Delphine was at lunch. The corridor outside his office was empty and the whole floor hummed with that thick, expensive quiet that makes every small sound feel like a confession.The drawer wasn't locked. That was the part that broke something in me.He had given me a key to the study three days earlier without a word of explanation. Just set it on my desk with the morning coffee and said, “In case you need to work in there.”I photographed eleven pages with Zilla's old phone. My hands were so steady I hated them. Th
The Luna He Never Deserved CHAPTER 148: The Lesser Devil
NARAYARoger was in the kitchen when I came down the next morning, humming.That was the first wrong thing. He never hummed. He stood at the counter in his shirtsleeves with a cup of coffee, the sun spilling over his shoulders, looking like a man who'd slept well and woken up generous. The crack in the hallway wall had already been plastered over. The shattered glass was gone. There wasn't a single trace of last night left in the house.Except the way my wrist still ached.“Sit,” he said, pulling out a chair. “I made breakfast.”“I'm not hungry.”“You're eating for two.” He smiled, soft and sad, and set a plate of eggs in front of me. “Please, Naya. I owe you an apology.”I sat. Slowly. Ava was on edge beneath my ribs, her hackles up, whispering that this was worse, this was so much worse than the wall.“I lost my temper,” Roger said, taking the chair across from me. His silver eyes were clear and tired. “I was cruel, and I scared you, and I'm sorry. It's just… when you said his name,
The Luna He Never Deserved CHAPTER 5: Play Along For A While
NARAYA“Tell me you are joking, Raya.” Zilla's eyes widened behind her glasses. I lowered my gaze, suddenly picking interest in tracing the lines in my palm.“I’m not.”“Geez, Raya, you are twenty-three, not eighteen. How could you let that happen?”Neither of us spoke for a moment as we let the mu
The Luna He Never Deserved CHAPTER 4: Hell No!
NARAYAMost wolves reluctantly settle for the option of a chosen mate only when they have completely exhausted all hopes of finding their fated mate after decades of waiting. Or perhaps when their true fated mate passes from this world—that’s also after years of emptiness and loneliness.But those
The Luna He Never Deserved CHAPTER 3: Don't Take It To Heart
NARAYA“Roger… where are you?” Melissa's voice drifted down the corridor. Her heels echoing closer.The aggressive heat in Roger's eyes melted into a cold panic. He dropped his hand from my shirt, stepping back just enough to break the intimate space between us.“Play along,” he whispered, his orbs
The Luna He Never Deserved CHAPTER 2: You Are Mine
NARAYA“Daddy? Who is this woman?”A cold, unexplainable ache ripped through my chest as the little boy’s words echoed in my head for a few seconds.My Roger... Daddy?I stared at Roger, waiting for an explanation. A laugh. An indication that the pup was lying, joking, or even wrong.But his face w
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