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Chapter 9

Author: Hyacinth
On the day Ironwood Pack accepted me, three injured patrol wolves were brought into the border healer station.

One had a shoulder torn open by a rogue bite. One had a silver cut across his calf. The youngest had lost control during his first real combat shift, leaving one arm trapped halfway between skin and wolf.

The healer in charge pushed a medicine box toward me.

“Lyra Rowan, take the silver wound. I read your report.”

In Raven Hollow, people always attached Cassian’s name before mine. Here,
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    “Of course it wasn’t easy.” I looked at him. “It took me a whole life to learn how to put you down.”His breath shook.“I think every day about what would have happened if I had believed you, if I had investigated Seraphina, if I had seen sooner how much the bond hurt you.”“Cassian, those ifs cannot help anyone now.”His eyes reddened, though he still held on to the dignity of an Alpha.“Do you hate me?”I had hated him once. I hated him for telling me to be quiet when I needed to explain, for weighing Seraphina’s tears above my blood, for driving his fated mate to the edge with his own hands. Yet hatred, like love, still required keeping someone in my heart and touching the wound again and again.I wanted that space for myself.“I hated you before,” I said. “I don’t now.”That answer hurt him more deeply than anger would have.“You won’t even give me hatred?”“To hate you, I would still have to give you a place.” I closed the wooden box. “I don’t want to give you one anymore.”Outsid

  • The Second Life of a Rejected Luna   Chapter 11

    Three months later, the Moon Council’s judgment on Seraphina reached Ironwood.She was found guilty of using a wolfsbane mechanism to harm another wolf, falsifying a cursed silver wound, submitting repeated misleading accusations, and using the Voss family name to influence Raven Hollow’s internal rulings. The Council barred her from entering any pack’s inner circle of power, placed her under Council supervision until the wolfsbane charges were fully resolved, and stripped the Voss family of its Council seat for three years.The file arrived at the healer station while I was treating a young wolf after his first shift. He tried to keep a grown wolf’s dignity despite the tears in his eyes. I spread herbal paste over his shoulder, reminded him not to force his bones through the change next time, and accepted the crumpled piece of candy he offered as payment.After he left, I put Seraphina’s judgment in the drawer.Her ending had arrived, but my life no longer turned around her.Raven Hol

  • The Second Life of a Rejected Luna   Chapter 10

    The Moon Rejection Rite was set for three days later at the Moon Council altar on the border between Ironwood and Raven Hollow. The Council examiner, Alliance guards, and representatives from both packs were present. Because Cassian had continued refusing to accept the rejection, the Council classified the rite as a mandatory witnessed procedure.I stood inside the moonstone circle. The wound on my wrist had scabbed over, and the bruise on my face had faded. Nera was still weak, but she felt steadier than she ever had in Raven Hollow. Over the past few days, Seraphina’s case had thrown Raven Hollow into disorder. The Voss family was under Council investigation, and the pack elders had begun reviewing Cassian’s past rulings. When the news reached Ironwood, I was changing bandages for patrol wolves. I listened, then moved on to the next wound.Cassian arrived early. He wore formal Alpha robes, and his face looked worse than the last time I saw him. After he entered the altar grounds, his

  • The Second Life of a Rejected Luna   Chapter 9

    On the day Ironwood Pack accepted me, three injured patrol wolves were brought into the border healer station.One had a shoulder torn open by a rogue bite. One had a silver cut across his calf. The youngest had lost control during his first real combat shift, leaving one arm trapped halfway between skin and wolf.The healer in charge pushed a medicine box toward me.“Lyra Rowan, take the silver wound. I read your report.”In Raven Hollow, people always attached Cassian’s name before mine. Here, they called me Lyra Rowan.I took the tweezers and purifying herbs and began clearing silver fragments from the wound. The injured patrol wolf broke into a sweat from the pain, and I held his knee steady while telling him how to breathe. The silver had to come out cleanly. Any fragment left behind would keep burning through flesh after the wound closed.Half an hour later, the silver was gone and the herbal paste sealed the cut. He exhaled and gave me a nod.“Thanks, Rowan.”The name made somet

  • The Second Life of a Rejected Luna   Chapter 8

    After Lyra left, the hearing moved into its second phase. Because her case had been filed under Alliance protection, the Council ordered an emergency review of Raven Hollow’s archived complaints.Seraphina was ordered to remain. Her ring, the ritual silver blade, and three years of abnormal Raven Hollow records were placed under temporary seal.Cassian stood across the room, his expression dark. Seraphina tried to move toward him several times, only for an Alliance guard to block her each time.“I only want to speak to Cassian,” she said, her eyes red.The examiner opened an old file.“You should be speaking to the Council.”The first record concerned the herb-room fire at the pack academy.That night, Seraphina had been trapped inside the herb room. Lyra broke the door open and pulled her out, burning her arm in the process. The original record stated that Seraphina suspected Lyra of locking the door and setting the fire. Cassian, then the Alpha heir, requested the investigation be cl

  • The Second Life of a Rejected Luna   Chapter 7

    The Alliance guards arrived before dawn.I was taken to the Moon Council’s temporary hearing room near Raven Hollow’s border. The room held a long table, two Council examiners, an Alliance representative, two Raven Hollow elders, and the people summoned from the Alpha House: Cassian, Seraphina, Alistair, and Eleanor.The man in the raven mask stood beside me.When he signed the witness register, I finally learned his name.Darian Vale.One of the Council examiners paused when she saw the signature. Even the Raven Hollow elders straightened in their seats.Cassian looked at me first when he entered. His gaze passed over the bruise on my face and the bandage on my wrist before settling on Darian.“Why is she with you?”Darian did not answer.The examiner spoke before Cassian could continue. “Alpha Cassian, this hearing concerns Lyra Rowan’s request for Alliance protection, her pack transfer, and the injury allegations that occurred inside the Raven Hollow Alpha House last night. Please s

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