All Chapters of Returning in Reverse After Betrayal: Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

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Chapter 41 Channels of Defiance 2

She threw the dagger.I reacted on instinct. Pulled power from one of my mental channels—the one I'd designated for combat magic—and created a shield.The Moonbane rune manifested instantly.Solid. Controlled.The dagger bounced off harmlessly."Again!" Thea threw three more.I deflected all of them. Each shield formed exactly where I needed it. No explosions. No wild surges.Just clean, precise magic."Excellent!" Thea was grinning now. "You're getting it. Now try something harder. Create and maintain three shields at once."That was trickier. I had to split my attention. Pull from multiple channels simultaneously.The first two shields formed easily. The third flickered. Unstable."Don't force it," Thea coached. "Let it flow. Trust the channels you built."I relaxed my mental grip. Let the power move naturally through the pathways I'd created.The third shield solidified.

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Chapter 42 Channerls of defiance 3

I glanced at Kael.He nodded slightly.Carefully, I pulled a small amount of power from one of my mental channels.Let it glow beneath my skin. Ice-blue light mixed with silver Moonbane runes.Cairn's eyes widened. "Moon Goddess. That's incredible. And you can control it?""I'm learning to.""Good. Because we're going to need every advantage we can get." She gestured to her warriors. "My scouts report Seraphine's army has grown. She's up to four hundred now. Maybe more."Four hundred. Against our two hundred and fifty.Not good odds at all."Then we'd better make sure we're ready," Garrett said."Agreed. My warriors will integrate with yours. We'll run joint drills starting tomorrow." Cairn looked at me. "And I'd like some of that Moonbane training you've been doing. Word is you're creating weapons that can counter dark magic.""It's still experimental.""Experimental is bet

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Chapter 43 Whispers in wind

The scout's frantic report hung in the air like a storm cloud.We reinforced the breaches on the spot, Moonbane flaring like stars against the encroaching dark.It was a grim reminder: time was no longer our ally. But as the immediate threat ebbed, Garrett refocused us on the map, his voice steady. "We adapt. The plan holds. Draw them in, break their lines, and end this with Sophia at the heart.""Fine!" I agreed.Garrett studied the map. "It's risky. But I don't see a better option. When do we implement it?"Tomorrow night. Last preparations. Then the next morning, we're ready." I straightened. "Everyone, get a rest. Eat well. Spend time with loved ones. Because come dawn the day after tomorrow, everything changes."The meeting broke up.People were left to handle the final preparations.Soon, it was just me, Kael, and Garrett."Can you really face her?" Garrett asked. "Seraphine's been alive

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Chapter 44 Forged in Moonlight

"I have to fight. You know that.""I know. Doesn't mean I like it." He pulled me against his chest, his warmth seeping through my tunic,"Two hundred and thirteen years I waited to find you. And now, less than a month later, I might lose you.""You won't lose me.""You don't know that. War is chaos. Anything can happen." His voice roughened, the ancient warrior beneath the mate cracking just a fraction."Then we make sure the right things happen." I tilted my head back to see his face, tracing the faint scar along his jaw from some long-forgotten battle."We fight smart. Fight together. And we win.""You make it sound simple.""It's not. But it's all we have." I touched his face, feeling the stubble rough under my palm."Kael... if something does happen. If I fall—""Don't." His voice went rough."Don't finish that sentence.""I have to. Someone has to take care of Erica. Promise me,""I

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Chapter 45 Dawn's Reckoning

"You're holding better than yesterday," she observed, wiping sweat from her brow."The channels are working. Feel the flow?""Like a river, not a flood." I straightened, flexing my fingers.The Tear hummed contentedly within, no longer a wild torrent but a directed current—cold, yes, but harnessed."But it's still... hungry. Watching for weakness.""That's its nature. Eternal vigilance, remember?" She placed a hand on my arm, her touch grounding. "You've come far, Sophia. From shattering gales in training to this precision. Seraphine won't know what hit her.""If I can get close enough.""You will." Her eyes sharpened, the shaman's foresight flickering."The Goddess doesn't choose bearers lightly. Trust that."I nodded, but trust felt fragile amid the clamor of the camp: warriors barking orders, scouts relaying positions, children like Erica being herded toward the shelters with packs on their backs. Helena oversaw

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Chapter 46 The first meet

"Terrified.""You don't look it.""Practice." He took my hand, his calluses rough against my skin. Through our mate bond, I felt his truth: a storm of fear roiling beneath iron resolve, laced with love that burned brighter than any dawn. "Remember the plan?""Every detail." Draw them in with feigned retreats at the flanks, let the combat runes thin their numbers, then the flare to lure Seraphine to the central field for the confrontation."And if things go wrong?""They won't.""Sophia."I turned to face him fully, the wind whipping my hair like frantic spirits. "If things go wrong, I improvise. I've gotten good at that."Despite everything, he smiled—a rare, crooked thing that softened the warrior's mask."Yes, you have."The first clash came as swiftly as a thunderclap.Horns blared from our lines, and Marcus led the right flank in a controlled pullback, baiting the vanguard into a kill zone.As they surged, claws extended, shadows coiling like living whips, our runes ignited.Silve

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Chapter 47 Her Last Card

The ground trembled, air ionising with raw magic, as the true reckoning unfolded amid the chaos of war.Her shadows surged like a tidal wave; I met it with a glacial wall, Tear-fueled ice shattering against the void, Moonbane silver cracking the dark.The impact slammed into my chest like a physical blow.I staggered back, boots digging trenches in the blood-soaked mud.Pain flared along my arms where the runes burned white-hot, but I held.Seraphine did not stagger.She walked forward through the haze of steam and shattered energy, black robes untouched, blood-moon eyes gleaming with amusement.“Is that all?” she asked aloud, her voice cutting through the distant screams and clashing steel.“After all your careful planning, all those pretty runes… this is what you bring against me?”I tasted blood.My glacial wall had fractured; shards of ice-blue light rained around me like broken glass.The Tear inside me roared, demanding I unleash it fully, but I held the leash tight.Not yet.“N

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Chapter48 The Name She Buried

The Monster’s roar shook the walls of my skull.I stood alone in the open center of the field as it barreled toward me, each footfall an earthquake.The ground split beneath its weight.Claws longer than swords raked the air.Behind it, Seraphine watched, arms folded, expression unreadable.Everyone else, pack, cultists, even the wind, seemed frozen.My heart hammered, but I did not run.Not yet.The containment circle was ready.Twelve master runes hidden beneath the grass, placed last night in secret.Thea and Kael knew their positions.This was always the backup, if the flare brought something worse than Seraphine herself.I let the Tear glow in my eyes, ice-blue light cutting through the haze.“HEY!” I shouted, voice amplified across the field.“You want the Tear? Come get me!”The Monster halted mid-stride.Turned its massive head. Burning eyes fixed on me.It roared again—rage, hunger, pain—and charged faster.I ran.Not toward safety. East, toward the open heart of the circle.

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Chapter 49 The Silver Tide

The corruption fought back like a living thing.Dark magic clung to every cell, burning my hands, searing my veins.I poured in Moonbane purity, Silvermane blood, the Tear itself—ice-blue and silver light flooding Dane’s body.He screamed.I screamed.Pain beyond anything I’d known—bones shattering and reforming, soul on fire.Through the bond, Kael flooded me with strength, with love, refusing to let me fall.Let go, I told the darkness.Release him.Layer by layer, centuries of knots unraveled.Burned away.One final knot.I seized it.Tore it free.Light exploded—silver-white and gold, divine and blinding.The cage rattled. Outside, warriors shielded their eyes.When it faded, the Monster was gone.In its place knelt a gray wolf—large, but normal.Then shifting to human: a man, maybe forty, strong features, utterly exhausted.He looked up at me with clear brown eyes.“Thank you,” he whispered, voice cracked from disuse.“Two hundred years… screaming. Thank you.”Then he closed his

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Chapter 50The Mark from Birth

I woke to pain—not exhaustion, but sharp, burning, centered on my left shoulder.The old Luna Mark. The scar Leighton had carved when I escaped his pack. I’d stopped looking at it months ago.Now it glowed silver-white, pulsing like something alive beneath the skin.I sat up fast. The room spun.“Easy,” Kael said from the chair beside the bed. He’d kept watch all night. “You’ve only slept six hours.”“My mark.” I pulled down my nightgown collar. “Look.”The twisted scar shone, light seeping through cracks like molten silver, trying to break free.Kael’s face went carefully blank. He knew something.“When did it start?”“An hour ago. Thea saidLett it happen.”I swung my legs over the bed. “Let’s see what happens.”He reached out. Hesitated. “May I?”I nodded.His fingers brushed the mark.Light exploded—brilliant white. Energy surged between us, older than the mate bond, deeper.Visions flooded my mind:An ancient ceremony under moonlight. A crown placed on a young Lycan King—Kael’s fa

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