All Chapters of The Luna Who Couldn't Shift : Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

CHAPTER ONE Sera’s POV The ceremonial platform feels like a stage built for my execution. Torches burn high in a circle, flames licking the night, throwing dancing shadows across the faces watching me. Two packs—Nightshade and Shadowcrest—stand divided by ancient boundary stones. The air bites sharp with pine and smoke, thick with the musk of wolves. I shouldn’t be here. I don’t belong here. But here I am, in the center of their world, in the center of their judgment. Alpha Kade Blackthorn stands three feet away—towering, broad-shouldered, dangerous. His dark hair falls over his forehead, his gray eyes glint like polished steel. His presence alone commands the clearing. He extends a hand toward me. Around us, murmurs ripple through the crowd. They came for blood, and they’re getting it. The Claim of Shame—a ritual that hasn’t been invoked in over a century. A pack can settle its debts by giving up its most worthless member as a mate. That worthless member? Me. Sera Nightshade. T

Chapter 3 The metal bites into my wrists as I sit on the bed, chains rattling. My hands won’t stop shaking. Kade’s voice keeps replaying in my head. What did you do to him? The problem? I don’t know. I’ve been touched before—accidentally, briefly—and nothing ever happened. No wolves lost their beasts because of me. But with Marcus… that contact burned. His skin against mine. That strange pull inside me like something alive and hungry. “This is impossible,” I whisper to the empty room. “That’s not how this works.” The moon outside gleams through the barred window, taunting me. I’ve never been able to shift, never felt the pulse of a wolf inside. I’m the broken one. But tonight, Marcus became something worse—human all because of me. I taste salt. I didn’t even know I was crying. Then I heard footsteps approaching. The pack house has gone silent, yet those steps echo closer. Heavy. Determined. The lock clicks. My stomach knots. The door swings open. Kade fills the doorway, fra

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

CHAPTER 9"Let me go!" I screamed, hitting him with all my strength, but that didn't stop him. Instead, he dragged me by my hair back to that room—his grip was iron-hard, unyielding, ignoring my struggles like I was nothing more than a disobedient dog.“I already made it clear that no one comes close to her. I cannot have a bunch of useless humans as a pack,” he snarled. “But Elena said you agreed to it,” I said, trying to loosen his grip.“I never approved of such a meeting.” “You already rendered my beta useless. Is it until everyone in this pack is useless before you are at peace?” He asked.I whimpered as he tightened his grip, making my scalp burn. Tears sprang to my eyes from the pain. I clawed at his hand and tried to dig my heels into the stone floor, but he was so much stronger. An alpha in his prime, and I was—nothing.He shoved me through the doorway so hard I stumbled, barely catching myself before crashing into the furniture. The door slammed shut behind us with a bang t