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Chapter 6: Old Wounds
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2026-08-21 18:21:28
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The Lycan King's Rejected Luna Chapter 6: Old Wounds
Ronan gave me the rest of that day to myself, which I suspected was less about kindness and more about giving me room to fall apart somewhere he didn't have to watch it happen. I spent most of it curled in the window seat of the eastern quarters, watching guards move through the courtyard below, turning Selene's words over and over until they'd worn smooth and ugly from repetition. Manufactured bond. Blood magic. Debt forgiveness. None of it fit with the father I thought I knew — stern, proud, distant, but never someone I'd imagined selling his own daughter through old magic for money. Except. Except I kept circling back to little things. The way he'd never once explained why Kane's family had suddenly taken interest in ours after years of quiet dismissal. The way my mother's smile at the ceremony had looked more relieved than happy, like something dangerous had finally been avoided rather than something wonderful achieved. The way nobody — not one person in my entire life — had ev
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For a moment nobody in that room said anything at all. I heard the fire crackling somewhere behind me, heard my own pulse pounding hard enough that I was half convinced everyone else could hear it too. A Lycan bonding. Between you and me. The words just sat there in the air, too big and too strange to actually process. Selene recovered first, and when she laughed, it wasn't a real laugh — sharp, brittle, designed to cut. "You can't be serious." "I'm entirely serious," Ronan said, not taking his eyes off me. "She's a rejected pack wolf, not some prize you can just claim because it's convenient for your politics." Selene's voice climbed, the composed mask slipping for the first time since she'd walked in. "There are laws, Ronan. Even you don't get to rewrite centuries of treaties because you've taken a sudden interest in someone else's discarded mate." "Watch how you speak about her." His voice dropped low, quiet in the way that felt more dangerous than shouting ever could. Selene
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I didn't sleep that night. I lay there staring at the ceiling of a room that wasn't mine, in a bed that smelled like cedar and smoke instead of home, replaying those two guards' voices over and over until the words stopped making sense from repetition. He didn't have a choice. Orders. Someone had ordered Kane to reject me. In front of the entire pack. On our bonding night. By the time the first gray light of morning crept through the window, I'd made up my mind. I wasn't going to sit in this beautiful, borrowed room and wait politely for answers to be handed to me. I was going to get them myself. I found Ronan in a room down the hall that looked like some cross between a war room and a library, maps spread across a long table, guards speaking to him in low voices that cut off the second I stepped through the door. He looked up, and something in his expression shifted when he saw me — not quite a surprise, more like he'd been expecting this exact confrontation eventually, just not
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The eastern quarters turned out to be nothing like what I expected from creatures the packs whispered about like nightmares. The room they led me to was warm, lit with soft amber light, a fire already crackling in a stone hearth like someone had known I was coming before I did. A woman with kind eyes and steady hands cleaned the cuts on my feet without a word of judgment about the state of me — torn dress, ruined makeup, hair still half-pinned from a wedding that had ended in less than an hour. She wrapped my ankle where I'd twisted it running and left a change of clothes folded neatly on the bed before disappearing without asking a single question. I should've felt relieved. Instead I just sat there on the edge of that unfamiliar bed, staring at the fire, waiting for the other shoe to drop. Because kindness like this always came with a price. I just didn't know what mine was yet. The door opened without a knock. He filled the doorway the way some people just naturally do, not beca
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I don't know how long I stared at that wolf before my legs remembered how to work. Every instinct screamed at me to run, but running from a predator that size felt like a joke my body was too smart to attempt. So instead I just sat there, back pressed against the oak tree, watching those molten gold eyes watch me back, and waited for whatever was going to happen next. What happened next was worse than anything I could've imagined. More shapes emerged from the tree line behind the massive wolf. Four of them, then six, all shifting mid-stride into human forms the way only the strongest wolves could manage without breaking pace. Tall men in dark clothing, moving with the kind of coordinated silence that told me exactly what they were before anyone said a word. Guards. And not pack guards. Something else. "You're on Ashgrave land," one of them said, stepping forward, his voice flat and clipped. "Trespassing here carries a death sentence, regardless of pack affiliation." Ashgrave. My
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The ballroom smelled like roses and lies. I stood at the center of it in a white dress that felt more like a costume than a wedding gown, watching two hundred pack members stare at me like I was something they'd found stuck to the bottom of their shoe. My hands were shaking. I pressed them flat against my thighs so nobody would notice, but wolves noticed everything. That's the whole problem with being surrounded by people who can smell fear. Alpha Kane Voss stood three feet away from me, close enough to touch, far enough to matter. He hadn't looked at me once since the ceremony started. Not once. His jaw was tight, his eyes fixed somewhere over my shoulder like I was furniture blocking his view of something more interesting. I'd told myself all morning this was a good thing. An honor, even. The disgraced Hart bloodline, finally elevated by a mate-bond to the strongest Alpha in the territory. My mother had cried happy tears while lacing up my dress. My father hadn't cried at all — h
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