All Chapters of Marked By The Moon: Tied To The Four Alphas: Chapter 131 - Chapter 140

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130. The Elders Are Here

PRESIDENT RYDERI went to my office. The walk felt longer than it was. Each step echoed in the stone halls. Students moved out of my way without being told. They saw my face. They knew better than to speak. I closed the door behind me. Locked it. For the first time in years. Ruby. Her name was a blade in my throat. I’d held her when she was born. Small, red-faced, screaming. She’d wrapped her whole hand around my finger and refused to let go. She was the one good thing I’d made in this life that had nothing to do with politics. Nothing to do with the elders. Darius had her. I sat at my desk. My hands were steady. That was training. That was decades of swallowing fear and serving it back as orders. I pulled out parchment. Academy seal. Black wax. *To the Esteemed Circle,* *The omega has surfaced. It is bonded to Lucian, Alpha of the Northern Pack. It is in the possession of Darius. Location unknown, but we have a lead. We move in five days, on the eve of the red blood moon. I wi

131. The Elders Are Here

PRESIDENT RYDERThe sky was wrong. Red, blue, yellow, black, orange, green. Not the regular colors. The elders never came in person. They sent letters. They sent judgments. They sent death. But they never came. Not unless the world was about to end. Or unless they didn’t trust you to end it yourself. I left the yard. The wind was up now, pulling at my cloak, making the flags snap like gunshots. The troops watched me go. I felt their eyes. I felt Lucian’s most of all. He knew what that light meant too. I went to the gates. They were already open. Six figures stood just beyond the threshold. No horses. No carriage. They’d walked. Or appeared. With them, that was the same thing. Five in gray robes. Faces hidden. Hands hidden. Silent. One in red. He was taller than the others. Not by much. But it was enough. His robe moved like it was alive, like it was drinking the light around it. The cowl was deep. I couldn’t see his face. I didn’t need to. I’d see it in my nightmares anyway.

132. Tomorrow Would Be Mine

DARIUSThe stone was cold under my back. It always was. This deep. This far from the sun. The cave didn’t care that tomorrow was the day. It didn’t care that in less than twenty-four hours the moon would go red and I would carve the power out of the omega’s veins and pour it into mine. It was just stone. Old. Hungry. But I cared. god, I could feel it. In my bones. In my blood. In the place where Elara used to sit before I killed her and took her name out of my mouth. The anticipation was a fever. It made my teeth ache. It made my hands shake. Tomorrow. Tomorrow I stop being Darius Vale, the broken brother, the shadow, the second son. Tomorrow I become what I was always meant to be. A god. The sound of footsteps pulled me out of it. Not Isla’s. She was on the island, chained at the ankle to the bed. Not with iron. Iron was for men. She was chained with warded silver and bone, etched with words that burned if she shifted. She hadn’t spoken in hours. She just lay there, staring

133. I’d Bring Her Home

LUCIANThe sky hadn’t healed. It was still broken. Red bleeding into black, orange eating the edges, yellow like old bruises. The elders’ light. It hung over the column as we moved, and every man with a wolf in him felt it. It made our teeth itch. It made the air taste like metal. War was coming. I could feel it in my bones. Not the good kind. Not the kind you train for. The kind that ends bloodlines. We rode north. Hard. Eighty men. Six carriages. Outriders circling like crows. The academy guard in front, volunteers behind, the elders’ carriage in the middle like a tumor we couldn’t cut out. The horses knew. They didn’t need spurs. They ran because the air told them to. Jace rode to my left. Elias to my right. Caelan behind me, watching the elders’ carriage like it might sprout teeth. No one talked. What was there to say? Ryder rode behind us. President. Headmaster. Father. Traitor. He kept his distance. Smart. If he’d come closer, I might have pulled him off his horse. Migh

134. Stop It Both Of You

LUCIANThe water let go of me like a fist unclenching. I surfaced into black. Not the black of night. The black of deep places. The kind that lives under mountains, under oceans, under skin. It was cold. It was wet. It smelled like iron and salt and something older—something that had been bleeding for a very long time. I dragged myself onto stone. My lungs burned. My hands were numb. The knife was still in my fist. I didn’t remember holding onto it. The cavern opened up. It was huge. Bigger than the academy’s great hall. The ceiling was lost in shadow. The walls wept water. In the center, a lake. Black. Still. Like glass poured over the world. And in the middle of the lake, an island. Small. Bare. And on the island, her. Isla. She was on her knees. Her wrists were shackled above her head, chained to a spur of rock that jutted from the ground like a broken tooth. The chains weren’t iron. They were bone. Etched. Glowing faint red. Wards. They burned where they touched her skin.

135. Darius End

LUCIANThe boulder fell like a judgment. It was bigger than the carriage we’d ridden in from Blackstone. Bigger than the gate at the academy. It came down slow, or maybe that was just my head, the way time stretches when the only thing that matters is about to be crushed. Isla was under it. Chained. Bone shackles burning her wrists. No way to move. No way to shift. Her eyes went wide when she saw it. Not scared. Resigned. Like she’d been waiting for something to finally finish the job. Darius saw it too. We both moved. Not at each other. For the first time since I’d hit that water, we weren’t enemies. We were just two things running toward the same girl. He was closer. He was faster. He should have gotten there first. He didn’t. I don’t know how. The bond. The wolf. Something older than both. My body hit the air and it bent. I was across the island in a step that wasn’t a step. I hit the chains with my claws, with my teeth, with everything I had left. The bone wards screamed

136. The End

LUCIANThe heart hit the stone with a sound I will never forget. Wet. Final. Eya was gone before it stopped beating. One breath she was there, her small hand red to the wrist, her black eyes calm. The next, the air folded in on itself and she wasn’t. No light. No smoke. Just empty space where a girl who could kill a god had been standing. Darius didn’t move again. For a long time, no one did. The lake was still. The cavern was quiet except for water dripping from the broken ceiling, and Isla breathing against my side, and Ruby sobbing into her father’s chest. Then Jace exhaled. Loud. Like he’d been holding it for years. “Is he—” “Dead,” Caelan said. He was standing over the body. He nudged it with his boot. No reaction. “He’s dead.” The words didn’t land right away. Dead. Darius Vale. The brother who lived for three hundred years wanting to be a god. Dead on a wet rock with his own heart three feet away from him. I felt Isla’s hand tighten in mine. “It’s really over,” she

137. New Story Alert

SynopsisShe gave him her heart. He gave it to another.For five years, Ava Smith endured a loveless marriage to Jeffrey Jones—the cold heir who only married her to spite his high school sweetheart, Cassandra. Scorned by his family, humiliated at every turn, and secretly carrying his children, Ava finally breaks when she discovers Jeffrey and Cassandra in a passionate affair. She walks away, vowing never to look back.Five years later, Ava returns—not as the weak wife everyone mocked, but as a powerful heiress with three beautiful triplets at her side and a billionaire who adores her. But Jeffrey isn’t ready to let go. Regret burns, jealousy consumes him, and the battle for Ava’s heart and children ignites.Chapter 1Ava sat in the cozy office of Dr. Patel at Oakwood General Hospital, surrounded by cream-colored walls and plush carpeting.The warm glow of the lamp on the doctor's desk cast a comforting light on the space. Ava's eyes were fixed on Dr. Patel's face as he delivered the n

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Chapter 2But her words trailed off as her gaze landed on the scene before her. Her eyes widened in shock as she took in Jeffrey's arms wrapped around another woman, his lips locked in a passionate kiss with none other than…Cassandra Adam’s.Ava stood frozen in the doorway, her eyes fixed on the scene before her. Jeffrey immediately separated from Cassandra, his face pale and guilty. He hastily straightened his shirt, trying to compose himself.Cassandra, on the other hand, seemed almost amused by the situation. She gazed at Ava with a sly smile, her eyes lingering on Ava's shocked expression. "Oh, Ava, you're here," she said, her voice dripping with sarcasm.Ava's face contorted in confusion and anger. "What's going on here?" she demanded, her voice shaking with emotion.Jeffrey tried to regain his composure, his voice defensive. "Ava, what are you doing here? Why didn’t you call before coming?" he asked, attempting to shift the focus away from his infidelity.Cassandra intervened, h

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Chapter 3Jeffrey's face froze in shock as he took the paper from Ava's hand, his eyes scanning the contents with a mix of disbelief and desperation. "Divorce?" he whispered, his voice laced with denial.As he read through the document, his expression transformed from shock to confusion. Looking up at Ava, he said, "I thought we've already agreed...it's not what you think it was. Stop being dramatic."Ava's face remained resolute, her voice firm. "I don't want to listen, Jeffrey. I've made up my mind. I don't want to be a second choice, a stand-in until you can get back to your high school sweetheart. Now that Cassandra's back from the States, I'm free to leave, and you can go back to her."Jeffrey's expression darkened, his voice taking on a scoffing tone. "Is that what you think? That you're just a stand-in? Something that can be easily replaced?" His words were laced with indignation, but beneath them, Ava detected a hint of hurt and defensiveness.Jeffrey's face twisted in anger a

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