Lahat ng Kabanata ng CROWNED BY BLOOD: Kabanata 1 - Kabanata 10

The ivory silk of my wedding dress rustled like autumn leaves as I stood before the ornate mirror in the Silver Moon Pack's bridal chamber. My reflection stared back, eyes bright with anticipation, cheeks flushed pink with excitement, dark hair cascaded in waves down my back exactly as Marcus preferred. Tonight, I would become Luna of the Silver Moon Pack. Tonight, Marcus Steele would complete our mating bond and make me his forever."You look perfect, Luna," my best friend Victoria cooed from behind me, adjusting the delicate silver tiara that had belonged to Marcus's mother. Her fingers were gentle as they tucked a wayward curl behind my ear, but something in her tone made my wolf stir uneasily. "Marcus is so lucky to have you."I turned to face her, drinking in her reassuring smile. Victoria had been my constant companion through the three-year courtship, helping me navigate the complex politics of pack life, teaching me what it meant to be an Alpha's mate. Without her guidance, I

The days blend into each other, marked not by sunrises and sunsets, but by sweat, bruises, and power I’d never known lived inside me. Celeste trained me without mercy, her gentle grandmotherly mask long discarded. In its place stood a woman carved by battle, whose eyes held lifetimes of wisdom and pain."Again," she barked as I gasped for air, my palms bleeding as I pushed myself up from the forest floor. My muscles trembled, from exertion, my knees skinned raw, but I obeyed.Three months. of relentless training since the night Marcus broke me. Since I found out I was the last of the Moon Goddess’s royal bloodline. Since I was reborn.Each morning began before dawn. Celeste woke me with a bucket of cold water and a command. No time for grief, no time to sulk. She believed in discipline, and pain, and pushing beyond limits. It wasn’t about vengeance, she said. It was about power, about becoming what I was always meant to be.“You have the blood of queens in your veins,” she reminded me

The moon hung low and full over the clearing, casting silver light on the carnage left behind by the rogue attack. The air was heavy with the scent of blood, singed earth, and fear. Medics scurried among the wounded, and the once vibrant gathering grounds now resembled a battlefield. I stood off to the side, my cloak pulled tight around me, heart still racing from the adrenaline.I had revealed too much. The power I’d unleashed wasn’t something ordinary wolves could understand, certainly not something I could explain away. I expected whispers, suspicion, maybe even fear. What I hadn’t expected was for Kai Nightshade to seek me out the moment the dust settled.He approached quietly, his steps purposeful but careful. There was something calculated in his posture, not threatening, but deliberate. I could feel his presence like a gravitational force impossible to ignore.“You fought like you were born to,” he said, his voice low and steady. “Not just trained. That was instinct. Legacy.”

Working with Kai was both exhilarating and maddening. For weeks now, we’d tracked rumors, pieced together scattered clues, and interrogated everyone from smugglers to shady pack elders. The conspiracy surrounding my past and the threat to werewolf society grew more tangled by the day but so did the feelings I tried to suppress.It didn’t help that we were often alone, tucked into forgotten corners of the world. Tonight, we were holed up in an old safehouse in the Frostbone Mountains, poring over maps and stolen letters in front of a flickering fire. My legs were tucked under me on the worn leather couch, Kai at the table, shirt sleeves rolled to his elbows as he scribbled notes.My eyes kept straying to him. The way the firelight caught in the lines of his jaw, the scar just beneath his left ear, the slow, rhythmic tapping of his pen against his calloused fingers. There was something endlessly magnetic about him. And that was dangerous."Luna?" he asked, glancing up.I blinked. "What?

The path was quiet too quiet. The kind of silence that presses into your skin and squeezes the breath from your lungs. Kai and I moved as one, cloaked in shadows, every step calculated. We had followed a lead on an underground information broker rumored to be connected to Victoria’s network. It was supposed to be a simple recon mission. Find him, question him, and disappear before anyone noticed.Instead, we walked straight into a trap.The first arrow struck the tree inches from my head. I froze, instincts flaring. Kai held me to the ground just as a second arrow sliced through the air where my neck had been."Ambush!" Kai growled, pulling me behind a fallen log.Shadows exploded around us figures cloaked in ash-gray armor, faces covered in masks. They didn’t smell like wolves. Not fully. Something darker laced their scent."Hybrids," Kai muttered. "Assassins."My blood turned to ice. This wasn’t a random attack. They had come for me.Kai launched himself at the nearest hybrid, claws