Lahat ng Kabanata ng The Alpha’s Moonbreather : Kabanata 231 - Kabanata 236

The Moonstone no longer screamed.It hovered above Elise’s open palms, weightless, steady, glowing with a clean white and silver light that did not burn or pulse violently, but breathed. Slow. Measured. Alive in a way that felt whole instead of hungry.Elise stared at it, her arms trembling from exhaustion, her lungs still burning from the last surge of power she had forced through herself. The square around her was almost unrecognizable. Stone lay cracked and split, towers reduced to jagged stumps, ash drifting lazily through the air like snow that had forgotten how to fall.She could hear nothing at first.No howls. No screams. No chanting.Just silence.Then the light expanded.It did not explode outward. It unfolded.A gentle wave rolled from the Moonstone, passing through Elise’s hands and chest without resistance, like warm water washing over a wound that had finally closed. The silver glow slid across broken streets and shattered walls, threading through cracks, sinking into sc

The battlefield did not smell like victory.It smelled like burned stone, wet ash, and blood that had no one left to claim it.Silence lay over Archview like a fragile skin stretched too tight, the kind that would tear if anyone spoke too loudly. The fires that had raged only minutes earlier were now dying down on their own, embers glowing weakly in the cracks of shattered streets. Broken weapons lay where hands had dropped them. Bodies, human and wolf alike, were scattered in unnatural stillness, as though the world itself had forgotten how to move.Elise stood in the middle of it.The purified Moonstone rested in her palms, warm and humming softly, like a living heart. Its light was no longer blinding or violent. It glowed gently now, white threaded with silver, steady and calm in a way that felt almost unreal after everything that had come before.Her hands were shaking.She tried to stop it. Tried to steady her breathing. Tried to tell herself that the danger was over, that the fi

The evenings by the cliffs were always quiet now.Not the tense kind of quiet that made Elise brace for something to break, but the kind that settled naturally, like the world finally exhaling after holding its breath for too long. The sea below reflected the moon in soft silver streaks, calm enough that even the waves seemed tired of fighting.Elise stood near the edge of the cliff, barefoot, the cool stone familiar beneath her feet. The wind tugged gently at her hair, carrying the scent of salt and distant fires from the city far below. Archview still bore scars, but it was rebuilding. Slowly. Carefully.Behind her, Kai finished setting down two cups of tea on the small table outside their cottage.“You’re going to catch cold standing out there like that,” he said, not sharply, just the way someone speaks when they know the other person won’t listen anyway.Elise smiled without turning around. “I’ve survived worse.”He came up behind her and slipped his arms around her waist, restin