A Luna Prize For The Twin Alphas and Their Father のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 91 - チャプター 100

Ciara's POVThe time for the ritual had arrived, and it tasted like iron on my tongue.Two guards came for me in silence while I sat in the upper room. Their faces were hidden behind stoic masks, their grips firm but not cruel. I didn't resist. What was the point? They could drag my body anywhere, but the part of me that mattered had already hollowed out the moment I buried the necklace I had made for my unborn child in the cave.We walked through winding corridors where the air was thick with incense and stone. Every step echoed against the walls like a warning. When the doors to the ritual hall opened, the scent that hit me was sharp and metallic, like old blood mixed with smoke and sage.The witches were already waiting, whispering to one another as they formed their circle.Elder Syra stood among them, her face unreadable, but her eyes refused to meet mine. She had always been the one to offer fragments of truth, and now even that thread was severed. I felt a hollow ache in my che

Damon's POVThe ritual hall was packed.It seemed Ciara had brewed a storm that had caught everyone in the middle of it. A few minutes after I arrived in the ritual hall, Daryl came with the elders and several armed guards close behind him. They all wanted to know the cause of the magical alarm.Now, we were all gathered inside the ritual room.The council of elders, all dressed in their crimson robes, lined the dais. Guards flanked the walls in tight formation, while witches hummed low chants beneath their breath.Daryl and I stood shoulder to shoulder near the front. We were unmoving, almost like carved stones, but our eyes remained watchful. Yet despite the sheer number of bodies filling the room, it felt as though the chamber belonged to one person alone.Ciara.She stood in the center of the chamber with her spine straight and her gaze unwavering. She stood there like the eye of the storm, untouched by the chaos surrounding her. She did not look cowed or broken. If anything, the

Ciara's POVThe scent of smoke filled my nose, and I fell to my knees with such a loud thud that I thought my kneecap might crack. Not that I was bothered by it. My entire body felt insignificant compared to what had just happened.For one moment during the Trial by Power rite, I had felt everything. I had felt the pulse of the moon above me, the thrum of every life surrounding me, and the memories of everyone I had loved and everyone I had lost.Images flashed through my mind.Damon's hand gripping mine in the woods when he had saved me. Daryl's eyes locked onto mine. Then, the tiny heartbeat I had once carried beneath my own.What finally pulled me out of the trance and broke through my scattered thoughts was Elder Syra's desperate voice.She fell to her knees and shielded her eyes."Lunara, preserve us..."It didn't take long for the brilliance to fade, but I remained kneeling in the center of the destruction, taking sharp breaths as I tried to steady myself after everything that h

Luna Eleanor's POVThe moonlight spilled through the window of my chamber and bathed the room in an eerie calm that I couldn't feel.I listened closely, but the halls of the pack house were quieter than they had been in years. Yet beneath that stillness was a thick tension that seemed to hum through the walls.The urge to sleep had abandoned me long ago. All I could hear were the voices of my sons and the argument I had overheard at the intersection of the wings, with Ciara's name burning between their words.And the thing was, they had fought over her yet again.I sat by the window with my fingers laced together, my eyes drifting toward the garden below, where the last of the rain still glistened on the leaves.My sons were tearing each other apart over the same girl my husband had once sworn to protect.The irony gnawed at me because I had spent weeks believing Donovan's fixation on Ciara's mother, Lunara, was a betrayal of me, our family, and the vows he had made to me.But after w

Ciara's POVThe decree the elder had just read wasn't even surprising to me.I should have seen something like this coming.They had tried to do all sorts of things to me, and some of them they had succeeded in doing. They had imprisoned me, tried to bind my powers, put me through the Trial by Power rite, and now this.How funny.The elder's words echoed through the hall and through my mind like a curse I couldn't wake from."Whomever she chooses will ascend as the Supreme Alpha and ensure unity among our kind. The other shall leave the pack and relinquish all claim."I was being forced to choose between Daryl and Damon, the twin Alphas of BlackThorn Territory.Daryl, who had ordered my imprisonment.And Damon, who had betrayed me and turned me over to the very people who had feared me.I deliberately looked at everyone seated around the mahogany table.Were they even serious?I didn't know how they expected me to react, and I certainly didn't know what they thought I was going to do,