All Chapters of Beneath The Moon's Bite: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

LUCA'S POV “Mom, what are you talking about? I thought…….my….” I stuttered, incapable of forming a complete sentence. "I know what I told you." Her voice was barely audible.  "That he was unknown, that I didn't want to speak of him." She swallowed. "I lied." “You lied? How? Why? Who is he?” I pressed asking multiple questions. “Enough Luca, one question at a time.” Rafe chided gently. “It's alright Rafe, he has every reason to know.” She said timidly but I could see the raw pain in her eyes. "Alpha Cain is your father." She spat looking tired.  Something shifted in Cain's face. Not softening, nor cracking, more like shock, a hairline fracture in the ice. “What do you mean Elara?” “

LUCA'S POV Cain raised the catalyst crystal, the shards of it had reformed in his palm, pieced together like a broken mirror.  I didn't understand how, I didn't understand anything anymore. One moment he was confessing, broken and human, telling us about Theron and love and twenty years of grief.  "Let me show you what your 'bond' really is." He laughed. His voice was calm, steady, the voice of a man who had already made peace with his choices. "What it was always meant to be." He clenched his fist and Rafe screamed. It was not a sound I had ever heard from him, not during the fight with Caleb, not when the silver cuffs burned his wrists, not when the Seer unraveled our bond in the Grove. This was different, this was the sound of something inside him being torn out by the roots. I caught him as his knees buckled, his body convulsed against mine, rig

RAFE'S POVOnce, long ago, they called me Selene.” She said in a faint voice and the light vanished.We were falling again, tumbling through darkness and memory and the echo of an ancient voice.Then my knees hit solid ground, and I was vomiting silver light onto frost-covered grass, and Luca was beside me, gasping, crying, laughing.The mountain rose behind us, silent and sealed.The path to the Whispering Caves was closed.And ahead, in the valley below, the lights of Duskwind glowed against the dark.The pack territory smelled wrong.I noticed it the moment we crossed the border. Luca walked beside me, his hand loose in mine, his eyes were distant, focused on things I couldn't see. Ever since the Weaver's gift, he'd been looking at the world differently. I felt it through the bond, the constant hum of information, threads and connections and truths he'd never noticed before."It's worse than I thought.” He said quietly. "Corruption, it's everywhere."I nodded in acknowledgment, I d

AUTHORESS'S POVZayne moved ahead of the main force, a shadow among shadows. He'd spent years hunting rogues, tracking Cain's agents, learning the territory like the back of his hand. The sentry posts, the patrol routes. The blind spots where a knife could find its mark before a scream left a throat.He took them down one by one, a quick strike to the temple, a chokehold until they went limp, a drag into the underbrush where they'd wake hours later with nothing but a headache and confusion.Cain's wolves weren't the enemy, they were prisoners, same as the Omegas in the compound. Same as he'd been, once, before he learned to hate.Zayne bound a guard's hands with a rough cord and moved on. Behind him, two hundred souls followed.RAFE'S POVThe forest grew quieter as we pressed deeper into Duskwind territory, even the birds seemed to hold their breath, sensing the change in the air.Luca touched a gnarled oak, and its branches shifted slightly, creating a gap in the canopy. Moonlight sp

DUAL POV AHEAD)LUCA'S POVThe pack stood frozen in the square, staring at the body of their Alpha.Cain lay crumpled on the stone, his blood spreading dark and slow across the ground. His eyes were open, empty, still fixed on something none of us could see, his hand was still raised, frozen in that last gesture toward his son.Caleb stood over him, the silver blade dangling from his fingers. His face was a mask of triumph, terror and something that looked almost like grief, all mixed together until none of them were recognizable."I did it." He whispered. Then louder, his voice cracking "I DID IT!"He looked around the square, at the pack, at the elders, at the warriors who had served his father for twenty years. His eyes were wild, desperate, searching for their recognition and approval. "I'm Alpha now." He announced, his voice rising. "I killed him, the power passed to me. I'm…."No one moved, neither did anyone speak,the silence was worse than any rejection. It was the silence o