All Chapters of BOUNDED BY MOONLIGHT : Chapter 11 - Chapter 15

The night air was thick, heavy with the weight of unspoken threats, as Joel led Elora toward the Council Hall. The scent of tension was almost suffocating. Every step they took seemed to echo too loudly, drawing the eyes of every pack member lurking in the shadows. Wolves—both in human and shifted forms—stood rigidly along the path, their glowing eyes like burning embers in the darkness. “Why is she still here?” a voice hissed from somewhere in the crowd. “She’s a threat to us all,” another murmured, followed by a deeper growl. “She’s the prophecy. Can’t you feel it? The air itself trembles around her.” Elora’s stomach twisted painfully. Each whisper struck her like a whip, and though she tried to keep her chin high, her trembling fingers betrayed her nerves. Joel walked ahead of her like a living shield, his tall frame tense with barely restrained fury. His golden eyes flicked across the crowd, and at every glance, murmurs hushed and gazes dropped. When they reached the mass

The moment Elora’s boots touched the cracked earth, a wave of icy dread surged through her. It coiled around her spine like a living thing, sharp claws digging deep into her chest. She could feel it—a darkness that wasn’t just in the air but in her very bones. The world here wasn’t right. The sky churned above her like an open wound, streaked with black lightning that clawed at the blood-red clouds. Each flash illuminated the barren wasteland stretching before her, littered with jagged stones and twisted, skeletal and scanty trees. Elora’s breath came in shallow gasps. The silence was suffocating, broken only by the faintest whispers that seemed to seep up from the ground itself. “Eloraaaaa…” Dozens of voices layered over each other—male, female, childlike, monstrous—hissed her name with sickening familiarity and she was at a confused state. She took a step back, but the earth cracked behind her. Pebbles tumbled into the endless abyss yawning below, their echoes swallowed