Lahat ng Kabanata ng Pregnant Luna - Lawful Rebellion : Kabanata 331 - Kabanata 340

DECLAN - Suki stretched out on the rock beside me, legs extended, fingers tapping idly against the stone. She wasn't in a rush, and that only made everything worse for me."Why are you upset?"I stared at the dirt, exhaling hard. "You don't want to know.""Please. You rejected me. Nothing else you say can be worse than that."That shouldn't have hit as hard as it did. My hands tightened against my knees, but I kept my voice even. "Yeah... Sorry for that too."She shrugged like it didn't matter. "You did what you had to do. That doesn't mean I can't tease you about it."She smiled, not mean, not teasing, but something about it still made it impossible to ignore. I didn't push. Couldn't. Not right now.Some of the pressure in my shoulders eased. "You're handling it better than I thought.""What, did you expect me to run off crying?" She kicked a loose rock down the slope. "I don't do the whole helpless thing."I huffed. "I know. Takes a lot of strength to live out here on purpose all t

DECLAN -The trees blurred past as Gaia ran, powerful and sure beneath me. I gripped her fur tighter, not because I was afraid but because I had never felt anything like this. The wind cut sharp against my skin, my pulse pounded in my ears, and my body moved in sync with hers like we were built for this. Everything in me buzzed with adrenaline, with the rush of speed, the sheer force of her muscles coiling and flexing beneath me. Then I saw it. A shadow slipped between the trees, fast and silent, keeping pace with us. Suki. Not now. Not like this. I silently begged her to stay back, to leave this moment alone, to not push this any further than it had already gone. But she didn't. Her wolf stayed just on the edges of my vision, always there, always lingering, never letting me forget what was still tangled inside me. The pull. The connection that refused to break, no matter how much I willed it to disappear. Then Gaia saw her. Her muscles coiled. A ripple of tension passed through

Ian didn't wait for my answer. He turned, moving fast toward the packhouse, Suki limp in his arms. I stood there for half a second, torn between Gaia and Suki. One was my mate. One I shouldn't care about. One had nearly killed the other. But standing there, body wrecked, blood still thick in the air, I didn't feel like running after Gaia. Not this time. I turned and ran after Ian. The packhouse was already chaotic when we got there. Someone must have smelled the blood. Ian pushed through the doors, heading straight to the medbay. I stayed on his heels, breath still too ragged, my ribs screaming with every step. Mom and the pack healer were already waiting. Ian laid Suki down carefully, stepping back as Mom pressed a hand to her forehead. "Her breathing is steady. She'll be fine." I didn't move. Couldn't. Suki looked too pale. The blood stood out too harshly against her skin. I forced my body to stay still even though every muscle screamed to pace. "She's healing fast," the he

I walked back to the packhouse with the shredded pieces of Suki's wolf stuffed deep in my pockets, my head a mess. The anger hadn't faded. The confusion had only gotten worse. Gaia had done this. She had known exactly what it meant to Suki, had known how much it would hurt her, and she still ripped it to pieces.I should have gone straight to my room to deal with her. That's what the mate bond was screaming at me to do. It kept pulling at me, feeding me the quiet hum of her emotions. She was asleep now. I could feel it. The exhaustion in my own body told me she had finally shut down. It should have made it easier. Should have let me put this aside for a little longer. But it didn't.The bond wanted me to go to her, to push past my anger, to make sense of what had happened. But I couldn't. Not yet. I needed to put Suki's things back in order first. Needed to do something that actually made sense because nothing else did. I needed to hold onto my own choices for a little longer before t

DECLAN - We walked back to the packhouse slowly, neither of us in a rush to break whatever this was between us. I glanced at her out of the corner of my eye. "So... how the hell did you even survive out here alone?"She smirked slightly, adjusting her grip on the torn-up wolf. "What, you thought I just slept in the dirt and hunted for raw meat all the time?""Honestly? Yeah."She rolled her eyes. "I had a system. Knew what places to avoid. Knew where to get food. Knew when you were in school and when your practices happened. If Mom didn't see me for a couple days, she'd bring out a box of food and other supplies." So Mom knew about her apartment too. Of course she did. Her, Dad, and Linc never kept anything from each other. I understood that now. But why hadn't anyone told me?Then again, why would they have? No one owed me that. I had two feet. I could have gone out and seen where she was living at any time. But I didn't. I never even asked. I honestly hadn't cared enough.That wa