Semua Bab The Luna Who Couldn't Shift : Bab 1 - Bab 7

CHAPTER 1 Sera’s POV The ceremonial platform feels like a stage built for my execution. Torches blaze in a perfect circle around the clearing, their flames casting dancing shadows across hundreds of watching faces. Two packs stand witness tonight—mine and theirs—separated by ancient stones that mark the boundary between Nightshade and Shadowcrest territories. The autumn air bites cold against my skin, carrying the scent of pine smoke and wolf musk so thick it coats the back of my throat. I don't belong here. I shouldn't be standing in the center of this sacred space, but here I am anyway, caught in the middle of something I still don't fully understand. Alpha Kade Blackthorn stands three feet away from me. He's exactly what an alpha should be—tall, broad-shouldered, with that aura that makes lesser wolves nervous. Dark hair falls across his forehead, and his eyes are the color of steel in moonlight. Everything about him screams danger, from the casual way he holds himself to

Chapter 3I sink onto the edge of the bed, chains clinking softly. My hands are shaking again. I can't make them stop.Kade's question echoes in my mind. The problem is, I genuinely don't know. I've been touched before—briefly, sometimes accidentally—and nothing happened. Pack members would bump into me and flinch away, but their wolves remained intact, but with Marcus, it was different; he grabbed me, skin-to-skin contact for several seconds.I close my eyes and try to remember the moment. That surge of abnormal inside me. The way it reached toward Marcus like it was hungry and wanted something. “That's impossible,” I said to the empty room, shaking my head. That doesn't make sense, although in my defense, nothing about me makes sense. That's been true since my first failed shift. The window shows the moon—full and bright, mocking me with its perfection. Somewhere out there, Marcus is learning what it means to be human in a wolf's world. Learning to live with the hollow space wh

Chapter 5The single word cracks across the clearing like thunder. Every head turns toward the tree line on the western edge of the ceremony grounds. The border between Nightshade and Shadowcrest territories runs through that forest—marked by the ancient stones placed by the first alphas, back when packs were still forming alliances and drawing boundaries.A figure steps out of the shadows between the trees. Alpha Kade Blackthorn of the Shadowcrest Pack.Even from a distance, his presence is unmistakable. He moves with that predator's grace all alphas possess, but there's something else about him—a coiled danger, like a blade waiting to be drawn. He's dressed in black, practical fighting leathers, and even though he's technically on neutral ground, his hand rests casually on the knife at his hip.Behind him, eleven more figures emerge from the forest. His warriors, also in black, fanning out in a loose formation that somehow manages to be both non-threatening and absolutely intimida

Chapter 7I looked at the window before I continued. "Three years ago. The traditional ceremony when I turned nineteen." I wrap my arms around myself, suddenly cold despite the morning warmth. "I'd been preparing for months. Meditation, physical training, and studying the shift process. I knew the theory backwards and forwards.""But theory and practice are different things," Elena says gently."I know that,” I blurted out before I continued.“I stood in the ceremony circle and called for my wolf like I'd been taught. Reached for that place inside where the wolf should be." I close my eyes, remembering. "And there was nothing. Just... emptiness. This vast, cold space where something should exist but doesn't.""And the subsequent attempts?""Same thing. Except—" I hesitate."Except what?""Except the emptiness felt less empty. The second time, I could swear I felt something in that space. Not a wolf, but... a presence. Something watching and waiting." I open my eyes to find Elena stu