Lahat ng Kabanata ng When The Moon Hides Her Crown: Kabanata 41 - Kabanata 50

THIRD PERSON POVBehind the closed doors of the Alpha Instructors’ office, silence reigned. The air was heavy with unspoken thoughts until Alpha Hugo leaned back in his chair with a weary groan.“None of them are innocent.”Alpha Jude snorted coldly. “Like we didn’t already fucking know that from the beginning. Let’s not pretend. We’ve all known for a while, no Alpha in this Academy is pure. They’re beasts when we’re not looking.”Hugo nodded grimly. “But this time, it’s gone too far. This isn’t just bullying, posturing, or the usual in-fighting we might overlook. This is something darker—deliberate tampering, provoked ruts, violence that nearly escalated beyond control… and all of it buried beneath a web of lies too tangled to unravel without concrete proof or willing witnesses.”Jude’s jaw clenched, “This all has become difficult due to Ronan and Dante. I can clearly sense that Dante is the one who brought the berry into the mix but Ronan is not clean at all. He should have brought

SERAPHINA “Then…” he whispered, lips just a breath from mine, “should we go to bed?”The air between us thinned.My heart slammed against my ribs, wild and fast like it had forgotten every rule it ever followed. His words shouldn’t have curled down my spine like they did. They shouldn’t have awakened that low, aching pull in my stomach—or that terrifying warmth unfurling in my chest like a flare ready to ignite.“Have you lost your mind?!” I reached out to push his chest away but he pinned my hand beside my head. “To sleep, I have to lose my mind?” he asked, the smell of coffee on his breath filling my lungs as my entire body froze at being handled by him this way, “From now on… it’s just you and me behind this closed door. Every night. No one else.”Every night? I flushed hard—freaking burned—from my neck to my ears. “You-are you on drugs or something?! Let me go!” I struggled in his grasp and for some reason I felt no power in my limbs. What was this? I could easily break free bu

RONANBefore combat started that afternoon to claim the hierarchy room, Asher handed me a black folder I’d asked him to dig up—thanks to a few favors owed from internal staff. The Academy liked to believe its files were sacred. Sealed. Secure. But once the right offer is made—one too tempting to refuse—sacred and sealed lose all meaning.I flipped it open.There it was. The name I expected.Seth Darven. Pack of Ironshade Ridge. Age: 20. Only son of Alpha Benjamin and Luna Marrisa.I scanned the records. Combat experience. Evaluation history. Standard aptitude metrics. But something felt... wrong.Too clean. Too limited. Too polished.And the photo? Missing. Just a placeholder silhouette.Someone probably hacked into the records and smoothly crafted everything to deceive people. Or the data simply belonged to the real Seth Darven. It really had fooled the others… But me? At present, the door slammed with a sharp crack that echoed long after Seth—no, she—was gone.I remained on the

SERAPHINALily was silent for a long time as she listened to me. Then her voice was soft but sharp as a dagger. “Sera… is the Alpha who is suspicious of you the same one who triggered your heat?”I froze.“No,” I said immediately. Too fast. Too defensively.Lily narrowed her eyes. “Are you sure? You know heat is directly connected to a she wolf’s emotions and that is ninety nine percent triggered by a male that we are attracted to. I already told you that before. Of course, a girl like you that no male had not been able to attract so far is attracted to an Alpha here is a huge danger…”“I told you I am not,” I sharply cut her off. “How could he trigger my heat when I can't even pick up his scent due to my own perfume,” I reasoned. But the heat simmering under my skin told a different story.A flash of memory hit me—the faint scent under that cologne, dark and magnetic, pulling me under. The way my pulse raced when he was near. The way my control shattered when he touched my forehead

SERAPHINA“What the hell is going on here?” I slowly asked. It did not feel right on so many levels that all of them were here. Finn was the first to speak, his voice quiet but certain. “We were summoned by the Alpha instructor. Just like you.”I blinked, surprised. “Why? Shouldn’t you all be participating in the trial?”Ronan said nothing. Dante’s gaze didn’t waver. But Asher finally glanced my way, his expression taut.“You really want to know?” he asked with a clipped smile. “Everyone involved in the in-fighting scandal was punished. None of us were allowed to join the last two trials. Even me, despite the fact I barely had a role in it.”I blinked rapidly, the implications sinking in. That punishment would’ve impacted his rank too. No wonder he looked so pissed.I pressed my lips together, unsure how to respond. I snuck a glance toward Dante and Ronan, but both were still staring—Dante with that cold detachment, Ronan with his usual unreadable expression.I deliberately ignored t