LOGINShare
Chapter 45: Elara Returns Home
publish date:
2026-05-05 23:02:34Theo returned five days after leaving for the Sisters' Haven.
Not alone.Twenty-one wolves traveled with him. All female. All watching the Strong Black Clan territory with wary eyes.Jasmina stood at the packhouse entrance. Waiting.She'd received Theo's message yesterday. Short. Direct. "Bringing them home. Arrive tomorrow. Elara wants to meet you first."Now here they were. Twenty exiled women. Coming home after years of isolation.Led b
Latest chapter
The Luna With Ruin Chapter 125: What To Do With Him
Stefan's casualty report came at 0510.She read it in the command room with her hands on the desk and took it in slowly.Four wounded seriously. Fourteen with minor injuries. No deaths.She read the last line twice.No deaths.Three battles. She'd lost three people in the first. Zero in the second. Zero now.She put the report down and pressed her palms flat on the desk for a moment. Just that. Feeling the surface of the desk.Then she stood up and went to work.---Gareth was being held in the secured room in the main building's east wing.Stefan had put two warriors on the door—not as a formality, as a practicality. A wounded Alpha in a room was still an Alpha.She went at 0630, after the medical team had assessed him.He was sitting on the floor against the far wall with a bandage on his right shoulder and a split above his eye that had been stitched. He'd shifted back from wolf form during the fight and taken a significant hit to the shoulder before Damoew had brought him down.He
The Luna With Ruin Chapter 124: Ash Crossing
They came at 0300.Not four days. Not two days.Thirty-six hours after Fenwick called.The scouts at the eastern ridge sent the signal at 0247—three short bursts on the radio, the code for confirmed movement, large force, eastern approach. Jasmina was already in the command room. She'd slept in two-hour intervals since the briefing and she'd been awake for the last one.She picked up the main radio."Stefan.""I have it." His voice was alert and flat. "They're moving fast. He accelerated.""Crossing team in position?""Confirmed at 0215." He'd positioned them early. Of course he had. "Eastern woodland second line confirmed at 0230."She stood up and looked at the map.Ash Crossing was four kilometers from the main compound. In the silence before a battle four kilometers felt like nothing."Numbers?" she said.A pause—he was listening to something else. "Scout says 180 minimum. Could be 200. They're coming in column, not spread."Column formation for a river crossing. They'd funnel at
The Luna With Ruin Chapter 123: Before
The briefing ran at seven in the evening. Not just the leadership—everyone. Warriors, alliance fighters, support staff, the senior women's council members who weren't on the warrior roster but would be managing civilian movement if the compound came under pressure. Two hundred and forty people in the main yard.Jasmina stood at the center.She didn't use notes."Three days ago I received intelligence that Gareth of Ironwood was accelerating his timeline," she said. Her voice carried across the yard the way it always carried now. "This morning the last piece of his coalition defected. By tonight he knows that." She looked out at the yard. "He'll move. Probably within forty-eight to ninety-six hours."The yard was very quiet."You know what's at stake," she said. "We've held this territory twice. The third time is different. He's not coming with a coalition that has political standing to lose. He's coming with contracted warriors and Ironwo
The Luna With Ruin Chapter 122: Sunday
Sunday came cold and clear.Jasmina was in the office at eight. Elara had the morning brief at nine but she'd moved it—told Elara to push it to eleven, she needed the morning.She sat at the desk and worked through the supply line documentation Jetstar had been building. It was thorough—six weeks of elevated operation covered, formal agreements with four of the six alliance Alphas already signed, two more pending. She signed the pages that needed her signature and set them in the return folder.She looked at the radio.Fenwick had said Sunday. She hadn't said what time.She worked.---The call came at ten-seventeen.Fenwick's voice was different from Friday—more resolved. The tiredness still there but under it something that had settled."I talked to my senior council," she said."And?""They want what I want." A pause. "They also want my word that you can deliver the recognition. Not a promise—a realistic assessment.""Realistic assessment: I've supported two recognition applications
The Luna With Ruin Chapter 121 : The Call
Fenwick called on a Friday evening. Jasmina was in the nursery. Kira had been fussy for the past hour—not magic, just a baby having a bad evening—and she was walking her slowly around the room while Damoew sat in the corner chair with the patience of a man who had learned that sometimes the walking was the only thing.The radio on the side table crackled.Jetstar's voice: "Alpha Supreme. There's a call on the direct line. She says her name is Fenwick."Jasmina stopped walking.Damoew was already on his feet, hands out, taking Kira without being asked.She went to the radio.---Fenwick's voice was not what she'd expected.She'd built a picture from the intelligence reports—an isolationist Alpha, twenty-plus years managing Harrow's neutrality, deliberate and careful and hard to read. She'd expected someone guarded.Fenwick sounded tired."Alpha Supreme," she said."Alpha Fenwick." Jasmina kept her voice neutral. "I wasn't expecting this call.""I know." A pause. "I heard about the Gree
The Luna With Ruin Chapter 120 : Greenveil
Ord called on a Wednesday. Not his Beta, not an intermediary. Ord himself, direct line, which meant he'd either done his research and found the Alpha Supreme's administrative channel or someone had given it to him. From the way Vincent had been working the situation, she suspected the latter.He introduced himself—Alpha of Greenveil Pack, sixty-one years established, affiliate council status. His voice was the voice of a man in his late forties who was holding himself very carefully."I know about your support letter for our recognition application," he said."Good.""I want to understand why."She'd expected this. "Because your territory is being used as a payment promise in a conflict you withdrew from. You deserve protection that matches the situation you're in."A pause. "We withdrew quietly. We didn't make a statement.""I know.""Gareth—he hasn't taken any action against us directly. Not yet." Ord's voice was careful. "I'm concerned that talking to you changes that.""Talking t
The Luna With Ruin Chapter 119 : Three Months
Kira turned three months old on a Sunday. Not a ceremony—they didn't mark it formally. But Jasmina noticed it, and Damoew noticed it, and Lyanna arrived in the morning with food that she claimed was for no particular reason, which meant she'd noticed it too.Sable noticed it differently. She came t
The Luna With Ruin Chapter 118: Fenwick
The idea came to her at three in the morning. She'd been lying awake with the intelligence reports in her head—the shape Stefan was trying to find, the Harrow Pack joint training, the Alpha named Fenwick who had met with Gareth's people for four hours and then started running exercises on the weste
The Luna With Ruin Chapter 117: The Shape of What's Coming
Stefan came to the office on a Tuesday with three reports instead of one.He put them on the desk in order—oldest first, most recent last—and sat down without being invited, which meant the content warranted it.Jasmina read them in sequence.The first was two weeks old: Gareth had made contact wit
The Luna With Ruin Chapter 116: What Holds
The Grand Council dismissed Gareth's appeal on a Friday morning.The ruling came through the council registry at nine—two pages, formal language, final determination. The backdated boundary claim was upheld. The Corvin vote was found procedurally sound. The appeal was dismissed in full with a notat
You may also like
The Broken Warrior's Daughter
Cooper1.9M viewsMated to the Alpha Knight
Elizabeth Jane670.3K viewsRejected By My Mate
LorreignneScarr1.4M viewsThe Alpha's Moon Princess
Raelyn Karson490.5K viewsRejected Queen
Kath Oma97 viewsThe Lycan King's Silver Mate
OTHNIELLA43 viewsThe Alpha King’s Unwanted Omega
Judith GW200 viewsRejected by the Alpha’s Son
Grandeza18 views
