All Chapters of When The Moon Hides Her Crown: Chapter 171 - Chapter 180

RONAN “Ronan…” My mother’s voice came from behind. The sound cut through the forest like a blade, stopping my heart for a fraction of a second. My blood boiled in my veins, every muscle locking tight, because I knew what it truly was. The curse. Twisting the one voice I hadn’t heard in years into a weapon sharp enough to pierce bone. Verkas growled, pacing in the shadows of my mind, restless and on edge. The snowy ground cracked beneath my boots, splintering as though the very earth wanted to outrun the nightmare stalking me. I didn’t need to look back, I could feel it. That suffocating presence pressed against my spine like a blade ready to strike. Cold seeped into my skin, crawling over me like frostbite, invisible yet undeniable. The curse was fucking real. I would not give it the satisfaction of seeing me falter. “This curse only stills when we meet another Alpha,” Verkas observed, his voice a low rumble. My jaw clenched. I had already noticed that. The first Alpha I crosse

SERAPHINA It didn’t take long for me to discover what kind of curse had been set upon me. It was silence. Not the kind of silence that soothes, but the suffocating stillness that has shadowed me my entire life. My curse wrapped itself around me, pulling me back into that heavy, airless void. Images rose unbidden, me standing alone and motionless beside my mother’s grave, frozen in grief that no one else would bear with me. I ran. Harder, faster, desperate. Each Alpha I passed, I pressed into the bond, but the curse only deepened, thickening like fog as it mirrored the very silence that had defined my existence. The silence of my father’s averted gaze. The silence of countless empty meals. The silence of rejection, over and over again. “You are my pack member,” an Alpha blurted, his voice trembling with panic as his own curse clawed at him. His words snapped me free from the vision. Another Alpha rushed toward me. I parted my lips, forcing the words out, anchoring myself in the

ALPHA HUGO’S OFFICEAlpha Jude burst into Alpha Hugo’s office, clutching an old, worn book to his chest. His face was stern, eyes frantic.“Alpha Hugo! I found this book!” he gasped, rushing to the desk and slamming it down. “Look, it says the curse can be killed!”“Really?” Alpha Hugo’s reply was calm, almost disinterested, too slow, too measured for the panic that had caused the Alpha instructors. Everyone was going mad and the Academy was in chaos. “Yes!” Jude insisted, pushing the book closer to him. “This could save the Alphas from their curses. They have to face their curse and kill it within ten seconds.” Hugo exhaled a long breath and crushed his cigarette into an ashtray already overflowing with butts from the stress he had been under since the Alphas disappeared. “Do you know what happened to the man who wrote that book?” he asked quietly, eyes shadowed with exhaustion.Jude frowned at the sudden change of topic, “No.” “He died eating those very pages,” Hugo’s tone was fl

THIRD PERSON POINT OF VIEW“RUN! RUN!! RUN!!!” Alpha Gideon’s voice still thundered through the mind-link, commanding the Alphas to run, to escape before the curses consumed them. When suddenly, the connection shattered.The mind-link that he could finally connect after so much struggle shredded like a frayed rope, leaving Alpha Gideon with silence where dozens of minds should have been.“Fuck!!!” His teeth ground together, fury flashing in his eyes. They had not heard the final command. The one instruction that could have saved them from their own ignorance.‘They don’t know they must never return through those doors once they enter’Rage and panic surged through him at once. Earlier Hugo came to him with the news that someone killed their curse but once they ran their quick investigation they found everyone bloodline and pack members were safe and alive. So it was impossible to tell who killed their curse. But killing the cruse meant they all had only a couple of minutes in the fores

SERAPHINA“Mate…” Phina’s voice trembled inside my mind, a whisper of reverence as she recognized the truth.The truth of the man I had lived beside for the past three months.The man who had chased me relentlessly since the first moment our eyes had met.The man now holding me in his arms, lips curved in the faintest smile, as if he had known this all along.My soulmate.My breath seized, my lungs refusing to work as my eyes widened in shock.We plummeted together into the consuming darkness as a door yawned open beneath us. Our gazes never wavered, bound as if nothing in the world, not even the void, could tear us apart. Yet, in the next heartbeat, another door appeared glowing white feathers unfolding behind us. It tore me from Ronan’s arms, wrenching me backward into its pull, even as he was dragged into his own.A gasp broke from my lips. Darkness swallowed me whole. My vision blurred, and then just as suddenly I was no longer in the Ghost Forest. I was standing in the Moonstone