Betrayed Luna: The Alpha's Claim のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 81 - チャプター 90

Elena pov The morning after the escape came with no alarm bells. No pounding boots. No screaming guards. No locked-down halls. Just silence. Too much silence. Like the calm before a storm. I woke early, as expected. Dressed slower than usual. Checked every inch of my reflection twice. My wounds had scabbed over thank the gods but my hands still shook when I tied the apron. The weight of the scroll I’d hidden days ago beneath the floorboard now burned like fire beneath my bed. They hadn’t found it. Not yet. But I knew something had shifted. The castle was watching. By the time I entered the prince’s chambers, I could feel it. Tension. Subtle. Unspoken. The air was thicker. The guards at the door stood straighter. Their eyes scanned longer. Lady Dimitri wasn’t there. Which was its own kind of warning. Cael sat on the edge of his bed, feet swinging, still in his nightclothes. But when he saw me, his eyes lit up the same way they always did. “Elia!” he grinned. He jumped

Elenas pov I lay awake in the silence of Cael’s chamber, listening to the quiet rhythm of his breath. Every so often, he’d murmur something in his sleep a half-word, a sleepy protest. He was still a child. Still innocent. And somehow, it was the only light left in this crumbling, cursed palace. The only reason I hadn’t burned it all down already, he was the one making me second-guess my choices. He was just a child. My fingers trailed lightly across the sheets, mind racing. Every tick of the clock outside his door sounded like a countdown to something final. Something irreversible. Kairos tested me today. Pushed me as close to the edge as he dared. He didn’t know who I was. Not yet. But he was circling. Getting closer. And he suspected me. And the Keeper… He would not make the same mistake twice. Eira whispered through the bond again, her voice sharp and low: “He’s watching your fear. That’s what they always want. To see if you’ll break first.” “I won’t,” I whispered

Lykans pov Nights used to be soothing with her. Not silent. Never silent. Even when Elena wasn’t talking, she filled the world with presence with glances, sighs, and sharp wit wrapped in warm defiance. She made silence feel like a conversation. But now? Now the silence screamed. It crawled through my veins like a poison I couldn’t name, like something eating away at the edges of who I used to be. Because she was gone. And I didn’t know if she was safe. Didn’t know if she was cold. Or afraid. Or hurt. Didn’t know if she still smiled when she thought no one was looking. Didn’t know if she still whispered to Eira in the dark. I just didn’t know. And it was killing me. I sat in the snow tonight, away from the flickering tents and clicking blades and whispered war plans. The moon hung heavy over the valley like it knew. Like it was mourning with me. Fog spilled through the forest, curling around the base of the castle like fingers dragging everything into the abyss. She was

Elena pov “It's time,” I said as I hurried out of the kitchen where I had just thrown in the last dry hay and wood. The smoke had already started coming out of the windows from the store and pantry where I had first set fire.The flames catch quicker than I expected. Dry hay and old wood crumble under the blaze like paper to a storm. I watched them dance from a safe distance. Red and gold against the night sky, and for a moment, I let the heat kiss my cheeks like a promise. This is the signal.“Lykan…….please come fast.” I nutter under my hot breath.I turned my back on the flames and raced through the winding corridors of the eastern wing, the smoke already crawling through the halls like a snake around a tree. One thing was on my mind as I ran, The scroll. I needed the scroll; without it, the truth of the prince’s death would die with me and with him, my clan’s last claim to justice.My boots hit against stone as I ran, each step echoing louder than it should have. At that momen

Lykan pov "Well, I got cut up in something," Dominic says sporting his signature smirk. I keep my eyes on the Alpha. "Seems Elena is doing OK." He says with much sarcasm.Elena, I look for her around the field. She has her hand around the keeper's neck.That's my girl."Then shall we kill the Alpha Kairos," Dominic says. And my smile widened. It's been so long since we fought together. "We shall." I immediately leap towards the Alpha, my beta Dominic going to the left.We would corner him, He released some energy from his hand. I dodged quickly. Dominic went behind him, managing to graze him with the dagger."Now kairos, you have underestimated your opponent," I say, pointing my dagger at him. He bares his teeth at me. He looks nothing like a wolf but more like a monster cause of the corruption from the blood moon witch."No, young pups. You overestimated yourselves." He smirked, at least I assume. Then, from his palm, he creates a ball of energy. He shoots the energy at m