Semua Bab The Stand-In Luna: Bab 161 - Bab 170

Ashley The battlefield shifted, spreading into a land of red and black under the cover of the night. I no longer cared if the Moon Goddess watched or not, all I wanted was for everything to come to an end. Power. It burned through my chest, flames and heat consuming all of my entirety, begging me to unleash it. Amy's voice pierced through it every now and then, as she tried to get me to release her, so that she too could tear into the flesh of our enemies. I kept her inside, because I wasn't ready to lose control just yet. I wanted to watch it all, and experience everything fully. Especially the way I was going to take Elena and Jace down.Where once the Tribe had buckled beneath the onslaught of rogues, now the tide turned like a river breaking through stone. The Great Houses surged into the fray, their banners whipping in the smoke-filled air, their warriors moving with a precision born of centuries of training. At the front of the calvary, I saw the ones who had once looked at

Ashley I threw myself to the side, rolling across the earth as the blade slammed into the ground where I had been standing. The earth cracked, fire and lightning bursting upward in a spray of molten energy. The shockwave hurled me back a few metres, and my body slammed into the dirt, the breath ripped from my lungs forcefully. The world split for a second, until I blinked and shook my head.I gasped, staggering to my feet just as he came at me again. Strike after strike, relentless, furious, his strength enough to shatter stone. The cursed axe howled with every blow, the ground trembling beneath his fury, and the sky cracking with his mercilessness. I barely kept ahead of him, dodging, ducking, the heat of each swing singing the air too close to my skin. Lightning fell, chasing my footsteps as though we were in a kind of wild, untethered dance. My feet were lighter, and moved with a speed even I couldn't fathom, all I knew was that whenever I thought of escaping, my body would mate

Ashley There was a way to save him. She could call him back, tether his existence to her own, at a cost. “The physical may die, but out spirits extend beyond our physical bodies. I can still feel his wolf, struggling underneath it all. He's calling out to me, and it hurts to see him so broken, but I know I can solve this…”“How?”“I already told you. I'll bind us together with an eternal vow, Ashley. It's like a mating bond, but while a mating bond brings the physical together, this vow brings our spirits into one existence. We would be one.”I immediately understood the implications. “But that would mean—”“I would technically lose my presence in you to some degree. Since a shared spirit cannot be in two places at one. The unity will connect us, but…”“It's also very risky. I could lose you forever.” I looked down at my hands, covered in the dried blood belonging to Zane. I had promised that we would never be separated again, and I was telling the truth. I wasn't going to let him d

Ashley “What are you doing?” I asked.“You did not just fight,” she said, her voice raw from shouting commands during battle. “You bore the burden of prophecy, and you carried us to survival. Without you, this war could not have been in our favour.”I swallowed, my throat tight. “I only did what was necessary, it's what any of us would have done if the roles were reversed.” I murmured, though the words felt small against the weight of what had just happened. “The safety of the tribe is over anything else.”A small smile tugged at the woman's lips, softening her usually sharp face. “Spoken like a true Lycan Queen.” She turned to Zane. “You made the right choice in the end.”“I never doubted it for one moment,” he replied, wrapping an arm abroad my waist and pulling me close with a roguishness that made me blush. Another voice followed, Sir Lazarus. He didn't look like he had fought much, because his clothes were still intact, somehow. His eyes, sharp and proud, softened as he looked

SeleneLater, when gentle music filled the night sky and the feast spread out before them, Ashley found herself sitting with Zane a little ways from the crowd on a warm patch of grass. Lanterns cast a golden glow over his magnificent features, highlighting the strength in his jaw, the endless blue depth of his eyes. He looked like the man she had fallen for all over again: fierce, stubborn, but endlessly loyal. Just like how I created him to be.Ashley's thoughts had been gnawing at her all night, and finally she let them spill into the open like a cracked egg on the ground.“Zane,” she began softly, her fingers brushing the back of his hand, which she had placed on her thigh as she sat in front of him cross legged. “There’s something I need to tell you.”He turned to her instantly, always attuned to the subtle shifts in her tone. “What is it?”She exhaled, staring at the stars above, meeting eyes with me but oblivious to that fact. “I was afraid. Not of you. Never of you. But of wha