All Chapters of Runaway Luna Rider: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

Kiera's POV "You look like hell warmed over, sweetheart."The gravelly voice cut through the fog in my head as I lifted my face from the sticky bar counter. A huge man had just spilled my drink and I wasn't finding it funny. Two weeks on the road had turned me into something I barely recognized. My leather jacket hung loose on my shrinking frame, and my hair felt greasy against my neck. The pregnancy wasn't helping, every morning brought a fresh wave of nausea that left me weak and shaking.The man standing beside my barstool looked like he'd been carved from leather and cigarette smoke. His gray beard was braided with silver rings, and tattoos crawled up both arms like living things. The patch on his vest read "Steel Vultures MC" with "President" stitched underneath."I'm fine," I muttered, though we both knew it was a lie. The five dollars in my pocket wouldn't even cover the beer I'd been nursing for the past hour.He snorted. "Right. And I'm the Pope." He signaled the bartender.

Kiera's POV "Mama, those bikes sound different."Eli's words cut through the morning air like a blade. I froze in the middle of packing his lunch, my enhanced hearing picking up what his young senses had detected first. In the distance, still miles away, came the rumble of engines. Deep. Heavy. Powerful.Not the familiar sound of the Steel Vultures' machines.My blood turned to ice as recognition hit me like a physical blow. I knew that sound, the synchronized roar of custom Harleys ridden by beings who were more than human. The mechanical heartbeat of a pack on the hunt."Go to your room," I whispered, my voice barely steady. "Right now, Eli. Lock the door and don't come out until I say. Just go take a short nap"His dark eyes went wide at my tone. In five years, he'd never heard that particular note of terror in my voice. Without argument, he dropped his coloring book and ran.My hands shook as I reached for the burner phone, but it was already too late. The distant rumble was gett

Kiera's POV "Mama, are we running from that scary man?"Eli's voice barely carried over the roar of the Harley's engine as we tore down the empty highway, but his words hit me like a physical blow. In the side mirror, I could see headlights in the distance, too far back to be certain, but close enough to make my wolf pace frantically beneath my skin."Hold on tight, baby," I called back, twisting the throttle harder. The speedometer climbed past ninety, the white lines on the asphalt blurring into a continuous streak.But it wasn't the pursuit that had me shaking, it was what had happened back at the clubhouse. The moment Darius walked through that door, something inside me had awakened that I'd spent five years trying to bury. The mate bond. That primal connection that tied wolf to wolf, alpha to luna, created by forces older than reason or choice.My body had responded to his presence like a tuning fork struck against stone, every cell recognizing him despite everything he'd done.

Darius's POV "We should have torn their throats out while we had the chance."Ronan's voice carried the barely controlled rage that had been simmering in him since our retreat from the warehouse. He paced the length of the Black Howl's war room like a caged animal, his massive frame radiating the kind of violence that made even our own pack members step carefully around him.I didn't look up from the map spread across the table, though every instinct screamed at me to put my enforcer in his place. The red pins marking Steel Vultures territory seemed to mock me, such a small area to hold so much of what I wanted."Sit down, Ronan," I said quietly."Alpha, we had them. Thirty of our best against a handful of humans, and we let them slip through our fingers because…""Because I said sit down." The alpha command rolled out of me like thunder, and Ronan's legs buckled before he caught himself against a chair. His eyes flashed with resentment, but he obeyed.The silence that followed was t

Kiera's POV The Harley's engine purred beneath me as I moved from the dark mountain roads leading to Black Howl territory. Three in the morning, and the world was painted in shades of silver and shadow under the full moon. Perfect hunting weather, my wolf whispered, stirring restlessly in my chest after years of forced dormancy.I'd left the Steel Vultures compound while everyone slept, leaving only a brief note for Sable explaining where I'd gone. Not why, I wasn't sure I understood that myself. Maybe it was the memory of Eli's claws extending for the first time, the way his eyes had glowed gold with inherited power or it was the knowledge that every day we delayed meant more danger for the people who'd become my family, or I was just tired of running.The turnoff to the old Ironfang territory came up faster than I remembered, marked now by a new sign: "Black Howl MC - Private Property." The familiar scents hit me as soon as I cut the engine, leather, motor oil, and underneath it a