All Chapters of Alpha's Hidden Luna: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

The sun rose like a blade over Blackmoon Alpha Academy, slicing through the veil of night with a pale, golden chill. Rayne stood among the other trainees in the main courtyard, her limbs sore from yesterday’s match but her mind sharper than ever.Lucian stood across the formation. He hadn’t looked at her once.Not since last night.Not after the words they’d shared.Words she couldn’t stop hearing. “I can feel it. I know it. Who are you, Valen?”Rayne forced herself to focus. To breathe. To stand as Rei Valen—Alpha-born, rogue-raised, and very much a boy in the eyes of everyone present.Their training instructor, Alpha Draven, paced in front of the assembled trainees. His heavy boots thudded with purpose.“All of you have trained hard,” he began, voice booming across the square. “You’ve bled, bruised, and endured.”Rayne stood straighter, ignoring the sting in her ribs from yesterday’s spar.“But next week,” he continued, “you’ll be tested in a way that separates the wolves from the

The full moon rose like a watchful eye above Blackmoon Forest, pale and pitiless.Beneath its light, the students stood silent, lined up in perfect rows outside the Trial Gate. No one spoke. No one dared.Rayne's hands were fists at her sides, her heart galloping. Her wolf paced within her, teeth bared. Not from fear—but from anticipation. Blood was in the air. The kind that stirred instinct.Across the clearing, Lucian Wolfe stood like a statue carved of obsidian. Commanding. Still. But his golden eyes, glowing faintly in the moonlight, weren’t still at all. They burned—and they were fixed on her.Head Instructor Rhys Calloway stepped forward, his voice like stone cracking.“The Moonrise Trials,” he began, “are not for the faint-hearted. They are not a game. Not a test to see who’s the strongest in combat, or who can throw the farthest punch.”His gaze swept the crowd, cold and unblinking.“They are a reckoning.”Rayne held her breath.Calloway continued, “As tradition dictates, the

The sun had barely risen the next day when the academy bells rang louder than usual, their deep chimes echoing through the stone halls of Blackmoon Academy. The air was still crisp from the lingering chill of the Moonrise Trials, but a strange current rippled beneath the surface of the morning silence—a hum of energy, excitement, anticipation.In the central courtyard, students began to gather, bleary-eyed and bruised from the night before but drawn out by the unmistakable sound of the head instructor’s voice projected through the academy-wide speaker rune system.“All students who survived the Moonrise Trials,” came the deep, commanding voice of Head Instructor Rhys Calloway, “congratulations. You have proven yourselves worthy of the title Alpha in training. Your strength, instinct, and endurance have been tested under the full moon’s gaze, and you’ve emerged victorious.”Cheers erupted across the courtyard, scattered but spirited. Rayne stood at the edge of the crowd, hidden beneath

Rayne barely had time to breathe before the air between them shifted—charged, trembling. The warm flicker of torchlight danced across Jace’s face, casting shadows in his dark eyes, and for a moment… something else shimmered there. Not just concern. Not just friendship.Something deeper.Something dangerous.“Jace?” she asked, voice tentative.He didn’t answer.Not with words.In the space of a heartbeat, he stepped forward, his hand rising to cradle the side of her face. His thumb brushed her cheekbone—gentle, reverent—and then his lips were on hers.Soft. But sure.It wasn’t a lustful kiss. It wasn’t instinct-driven.It was something far more terrifying.It was honest.Rayne’s eyes flew wide, her breath catching as the world around her blurred and vanished into that single point of contact. She didn’t move—not away, not closer—frozen in the shocking press of Jace’s mouth against hers.And then, just as quickly, he pulled back.Silence.Rayne blinked up at him, lips parted, utterly du

Lucian said nothing for a long moment, and the silence between them was deafening. His jaw was tight, his hands clenched at his sides. But his expression—gods, his expression— It was like he’d caught her mid-transformation.