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The Devils desperation

Author: Eboh
last update publish date: 2026-02-14 16:57:45

The Luna’s Revenge

Chapter 33: The Devil’s desperation

The northern forest was nothing like the territories Evander had spent decades building his empire in.

It was older here. Wilder. The kind of forest that had never been tamed or claimed or marked by any pack because something in the ancient trees and the dark soil and the way the shadows moved between the roots made even the most powerful wolves uncomfortable.

Evander had always considered himself above such discomfort.

Tonight he was learn
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  • The Luna’s Revenge    Grove

    Morning came three days after Aria’s burial, and Nyx woke knowing she had to return to the grove. She’d barely left their rooms since the funeral, couldn’t face the corridors of the residence or the eyes of the wolves who lived in Ashville or the weight of everything that had happened. Theron had stayed close, neither of them speaking much, just existing in the space where their daughter should have been. Through the bond she felt his grief matching hers, felt him trying to hold himself together while falling apart at the same time. But the grove was calling to her, the three small graves beneath the oak tree pulling at her like a physical weight, and she knew she couldn’t avoid them any longer. “I need to go back,” Nyx said quietly, and Theron nodded without asking where she meant because he already knew through the bond. “I’ll come with you,” Theron said. They dressed in silence and walked through the residence toward the forest. It was early enough that few wolves were awake,

  • The Luna’s Revenge    Preparation

    Night fell and Nyx couldn’t leave the grove.Theron had tried to get her to come back to the residence after they’d finished filling in Aria’s grave, had told her gently that she needed rest and food and time away from the three mounds of earth that held everything they’d lost. But Nyx couldn’t make herself move, couldn’t make herself walk away from her children even though she knew staying wouldn’t change anything.“Please,” Theron said quietly as the last light faded from the sky. “Come back with me. We can return tomorrow.”“You go,” Nyx said. “I need to stay here a little longer.”Through the bond she felt his reluctance to leave her alone, felt him weighing whether to insist or to give her the space she was asking for. Eventually he nodded and stood, telling Caelum and Elara to return to the residence while he stayed with Nyx.When they were alone, Theron sat down beside her and they both looked at the graves in silence. The moon was rising through the trees, casting pale light o

  • The Luna’s Revenge    Aftermath

    Nyx held Aria’s body for hours after she died, unable to let go even though she knew she should.The small form had grown cold in her arms, the warmth that had radiated from her feverish body during the night fading until there was nothing left but the terrible stillness of death. Aria’s face was peaceful, her tiny features relaxed, and if Nyx didn’t look too closely she could almost pretend her daughter was just sleeping. But the chest that had struggled so hard to breathe didn’t rise and fall anymore, and the small hands that had clenched into fists when she cried lay open and motionless.Theron sat beside her on the bed, one hand on Nyx’s shoulder, and through the bond she felt his grief matching hers. It was different from the grief they’d shared after Lyra and Kael, sharper somehow, more devastating because they’d had Aria. They’d held her while she was alive, had fed her and soothed her and loved her for eight days. Eight days of hope and fear and the desperate belief that maybe

  • The Luna’s Revenge    Fading

    By nightfall, Aria’s condition had worsened. Her temperature continued to climb despite the cooling cloths Elara applied, and her breathing became more labored with each passing hour. The strange high-pitched crying had given way to weak whimpers, and Nyx held her daughter close, feeling the heat radiating from her tiny body and knowing with horrible certainty that they were losing her. “What’s happening to her?” Theron asked, his voice raw with fear and helplessness. “I don’t know,” Elara said honestly, her hands moving over Aria’s small form with practiced efficiency. “Her lungs sound congested, like she’s fighting some kind of infection. But she was fine this morning. Babies don’t decline this fast from normal illness.” “The curse,” Nyx said flatly. “This is the curse. The moon goddess said any child born of my body would be tainted. This is how it’s manifesting.” Elara didn’t argue, just kept working, preparing herbs and tinctures that might help with the fever and the breath

  • The Luna’s Revenge    Watching

    The first day with Aria was the longest day of Nyx’s life. She held her daughter almost constantly, afraid that putting her down would somehow jinx whatever miracle had allowed her to be born breathing. The baby nursed weakly at first, her tiny mouth struggling to latch onto Nyx’s breast, but Elara helped guide them both through it and eventually Aria figured it out. When she did latch properly, she fed with surprising determination for someone so small, her little fists clenching and unclenching against Nyx’s skin. “She’s doing well,” Elara said after examining the baby thoroughly that first afternoon. “Breathing is steady, heart rate is good, color is healthy. Everything looks exactly as it should for a full-term baby.” “Finally,” Nyx said, and felt Theron’s hand tighten on her shoulder. Through the bond she felt his relief matching her own, felt him wanting to believe that finally meant they were safe, that the curse had been defeated. But Nyx couldn’t quite let herself believe

  • The Luna’s Revenge    Born

    At thirty-eight weeks, Nyx woke to her water breaking. It happened in the early hours before dawn, a sudden gush of fluid that soaked through the sheets and woke her instantly. She lay very still for a moment, processing what had just happened, her hand going instinctively to her swollen stomach where the baby had been moving just hours ago. The dampness spreading beneath her was unmistakable, and then the first contraction hit, low and deep and rolling through her abdomen like a wave. Labor. She was going into labor at thirty-eight weeks, two weeks past viable, further than she’d ever made it before. This was it. After Lyra at twenty-four weeks and Kael at twenty-eight, after months of waiting for the curse to manifest and take this child too, labor was finally starting and there was no going back now. Through the bond she felt Theron wake immediately, felt him register what was happening before she even said anything. The mate bond carried her fear and her pain and her desperate

  • The Luna’s Revenge    The Hunt

    The decree spread like fire through dry grass. By dawn, it had reached the mountains; by dusk, the river valleys. From the smallest den to the grandest stronghold, wolves whispered the same words in the dark: Evander hunts for the Crest. What had once been a relic of unity now birthed fear. Packs

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  • The Luna’s Revenge    The Shadow and the Flame

    The witch’s cave seemed alive with whispers. They bled from the cracks in the stone, hissed from the burning roots that fueled the cauldron’s smoke, sighed from the runes etched into the walls by hands older than history. Nyx stood at the threshold, her cloak heavy with damp, her shadow stretchin

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  • The Luna’s Revenge    Ashes of Judgement

    The silence after the shattering was not the silence of peace. It was the silence of a battlefield after the last cry has been torn from a throat. The Crest’s fragments hung in the air like burning snow, each shard glowing green for the span of a heartbeat before dissolving into nothing. For a bre

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  • The Luna’s Revenge    Birth of the Doppelgänger

    The night was cruelly quiet, the kind of silence that pressed down on the chest until breathing became labor. Nyx sat alone in the clearing, a fire guttering weakly before her. Sparks spiraled upward, swallowed quickly by the dark, and the shadows of the trees closed in like waiting wolves. She did

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