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The Search Begins

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The morning was crisp, with a thin layer of mist hanging over the pack’s territory. Kyla stood at the edge of the forest, staring into the thick trees that stretched far beyond what the eye could see. She could feel the weight of the task ahead pressing down on her. The search for the artifact had begun, and failure was not an option.

Damian stood beside her, his hazel eyes scanning the treeline. Behind them, a small group of the pack’s best warriors were preparing for the journey. Each of them
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  • Winning His Ex-Luna's Heart   The northern line

    Dawn on the day of battle came in like a blade clean, cold, precise. The kind of morning that has no sentiment in it, that simply arrives and expects to be met.Kyla stood at the northern edge of the pack's territory with Damian on her left and Asher on her right, and behind them, stretching back through the treeline, two pack forces standing in organised readiness. The Blue Blood wolves: experienced, territorial, fighting for the ground beneath their feet. The Moondoe wolves: fewer but formidable, carrying the particular intensity of people who have something to prove. Together they were larger than Vance had planned for. The intelligence Eric had given them coordinates, timing, and the specific route Vance's forces were using to approach had allowed them to position themselves before dawn, before Vance's scouts could report back.They had the advantage of surprise. They would not have it for long."He'll know when his scouts don't return," Asher said quietly. He was in full Alpha po

  • Winning His Ex-Luna's Heart   Before the Storm

    Three days before a battle that could end, everything had a particular quality of time that stretched and compressed at once, each hour simultaneously too long and not long enough. Kyla moved through them in a state of sharp, specific aliveness, the kind where the ordinary details of things the weight of a cup in her hand, the sound of boots on stone, the exact quality of someone's voice when they're trying not to show they're afraid registered with unusual clarity, as if her senses understood that she was collecting something.The pack transformed around her.It was not dramatic, the way transformations in stories usually are. It happened in small increments in the way the training grounds went from organised to relentless, the sounds of combat and drills starting before dawn and ending well after dusk. In the way the kitchens worked in rotating shifts now, producing food in volumes meant for sustained effort rather than ordinary days. In the way the elders moved through the pack hou

  • Winning His Ex-Luna's Heart   The Reckoning

    Eric was already on the training grounds when Damian walked out to meet him.The morning was still raw at its edges, that particular quality of early light that makes everything look slightly unreal, like the world hasn't fully committed to being itself yet. A thin mist sat low over the grass. The pack house behind Damian was beginning to stir; Kyla could hear it from her position at the side window, the creak of floorboards, the muffled voices of wolves waking to what they assumed was an ordinary morning. None of them knew what the next ten minutes would change.Eric stood with his back to the pack house, surveying the roster board where the day's patrol assignments were posted. He had a mug of something hot in his hand. He looked, from where Kyla watched, entirely at ease the ease of a man with a clear conscience, or the ease of a man so practised at performance that the difference had long since ceased to matter.Damian crossed the yard at a pace that was neither hurried nor casual

  • Winning His Ex-Luna's Heart   The Weight of the Truth

    They came back through the trees at a run, and the forest was different on the return quieter, but not the quiet of emptiness. The quiet of held breath. The kind of silence a forest makes when it is paying attention. Kyla ran with her hand pressed lightly to her belly and her eyes ahead, and the medallion was gone from her hand she had felt it dissolve at the slot, absorbed into the stone, its purpose complete in whatever way she didn't yet fully understand. But the warmth remained. She thought it might always remain.They reached the pack house as the sky was beginning to lighten at its eastern edge that thin, tentative grey that comes before the colour does, when the world hasn't quite decided to be morning yet.Damian was on the porch.He had not been sleeping. She could see that from fifty yards out the rigid stillness of a man who had been sitting in one place for a very long time working very hard not to pace. He stood when he saw them break from the tree line, his eyes moving

  • Winning His Ex-Luna's Heart    What River Carried

    Kyla had never met River before tonight. She knew of her the woman who had been slated to be Damian's Luna before Kyla arrived and rearranged the order of things. She had imagined her vaguely, the way you imagine people who hate you: tall, cold, beautiful in a pointed way, the kind of woman who made rooms feel smaller when she entered them.She had not imagined this.River was all of those things and also, unmistakably, frightened.She stood at the mouth of the passage with her hands visible, empty, her dark eyes moving from Kyla to Asher and back again. There was a cut across her left cheekbone that was still bleeding, recent enough that the blood hadn't dried. Her clothes were torn at the shoulder. She had been running. And by the sound of the wolves above growing louder now, circling not fast enough."They followed me," River said, breathing hard. "I didn't lead them to you. They followed me.""Who?" Asher moved between River and Kyla in one smooth step."Vance's scouts. They've

  • Winning His Ex-Luna's Heart   Into the Dark

    Finding Asher at that hour was not difficult. He was the only person in the pack who wasn't sleeping — partly because no one had offered him a proper room, and partly because Kyla suspected he hadn't slept in days. He was seated on the low wall at the edge of the training grounds, his forearms resting on his knees, staring at nothing the way men do when they're having a very loud conversation with themselves.He heard her coming before she reached him. Of course he did. He was still an Alpha, whatever else he had become.He turned, and something moved across his face — not surprise, exactly. More like a man who had been bracing for something and wasn't entirely sure whether this particular thing was it."Kyla.""I need you to come somewhere with me," she said. No preamble. She didn't have time for it, and more than that, she didn't have the emotional energy to soften this. "Tonight. Now. I'll explain on the way."He studied her for a moment. His crimson eyes — so different from Damian

  • Winning His Ex-Luna's Heart   The Wolf in the Walls

    The silence that followed Eric's exit felt heavier than the night itself. Kyla sat with her shoulder pressed against Damian's arm, staring out at the darkness beyond the porch railing, listening to the forest breathe. Somewhere in those trees, something was watching them. She could feel it the same

  • Winning His Ex-Luna's Heart   Battle Lines

    The pack grounds were a war zone. The air was thick with the scent of blood and the sounds of battle: growls, snarls, and the brutal clash of bodies. Damian fought at the front line, his wolf form a blur of motion as he tore through the rogue wolves with relentless precision. Every movement was calc

  • Winning His Ex-Luna's Heart   The First Strike

    The day began in an unsettling calm. The pack had spent weeks preparing for Vance’s inevitable attack, yet as the sun climbed higher in the sky, the eerie silence only heightened their anxiety. Kyla stood at the window of the pack house, her gaze fixed on the distant treeline. The forest seemed stil

  • Winning His Ex-Luna's Heart   Difficult Choices

    The moon hung high in the night sky as Kyla sat on the porch of the pack house, her thoughts swirling like the wind through the trees. Inside, the pack leaders were still debating the situation. The revelation that someone in the pack might have betrayed them left a bitter taste in her mouth. Trust

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