All Chapters of The Rise of a Forsaken Luna: Chapter 181 - Chapter 190

KIERAN~~“Claire found her.”Those three words from Jesse slammed into my chest like a blow, instantly shattering the suffocating weight of the panic that had been clawing at my throat for the past seventeen hours.But that relief lasted only a minute. Because the moment I looked up at Jesse, the stern tightness around his mouth told me that finding her didn’t mean she was safe.“Where, Jesse? Where is she?” I demanded, my hands clenching into fists as my system used every bit of strength I had in closing the distance between Cekeste and me. But it still didn’t feel like I was running fast enough. “Yes, we aren’t,” Alan grumbled within me, his nerves falling apart just as much as mine. "We have barely over an hour left… the sky is changing and—" My Lycan didn’t get to finish that statement before Jesse gave the other part of the news that Claire, his favorite warrior and the only one he would trust with searching for Celeste while we battled, had shared with him. “She was sig

KIERAN~~I… I failed. I failed Celeste… and– and Ina. My body shook with a squeezing pain that left me no choice but to crumble right before the barrier that remained unbroken, even though we had spent the last hour trying to take it down. Sweet air left my lungs, as if my body had decided that I do not deserve to breathe anymore… and it would be right because how could I? How could I inhale when Celeste was dying? How could I have failed her like this? How could I let her down? Let her die like she wasn’t a very important part of my life. Like she was some being that could be sacrificed and replaced after…. “Argh!”The guttural scream tore past my lips, ripping my throat raw as I slammed my bloody fists into the dirt. Completely useless. Dead weight. Just like me.I could feel all the Lycan warriors, including Jesse, giving up. I could feel them withdraw. I could also feel the quiet but very strong celebration from the witches we failed to stop before this very second. I co

KIERAN~~“We should move out!” If Jesse didn’t speak, I would have remained frozen before the witches' broken ancestral altar with Celeste wrapped in my arms. Tightly. I would have stayed there, my eyes glued to her face, watching the slow rise and fall of her chest just to prove to my racing heart that she was truly, undeniably alive.Her nickname for me still vibrated through my soul, like a fragile thread of gold that had pulled me right out of the pitch-black abyss of my failure. She was looking at me, her small fingers weakly curling into the fabric of my torn shirt, completely unaware that she had just survived a death sentence. Or maybe she knew, but she was fighting the weight of reality to console me. I could see the fatigue in her fluttering eyes. “Rest, Princess,” I whispered, my voice cracking as I gently pressed a kiss to her forehead. Her skin was still freezing, a brutal reminder of how close the coven had come to putting her out permanently. “You are safe now.

SERAPHINA~~“You should get some rest, Princess Seraphina.” Nicola’s voice was what took my attention and eyes off my daughter after I embraced her and relished in the fact that she was truly safe in my arms. “Rest? How long have I been out?” I asked, my eyes finally settling on someone other than Kieran and Celeste since I regained consciousness. That simple movement of my eyes didn’t satisfy the curiosity burning within me. In fact, it triggered more questions because I got to see so much more than Nicola’s tired face. I saw Remi sitting on the other bed, which I knew was in the lab before I passed out, and Ethan was right by her side. Of course, I wanted to ask if she was okay and knew why they were in the lab, but then my eyes found another familiar body. And this one was lying on a bed that had been placed where Nicola’s huge research table used to be. Rexton… and he looked like–“A dead body?” I heard Kia’s voice for the first time, and of course, she completed my thou

SERAPHINA~~“No.”The word tore from my throat before my brain could even process the cold finality of Nicola’s words.I threw the wool blanket that Kieran had placed over Celeste and me off my legs, ignoring the sudden protest of my healing muscles as I swung my feet over the edge of the metal bed. The floorboards felt like solid ice beneath my bare feet, but the freezing shock was nothing compared to the roaring fire that suddenly flared to life inside my chest.“Ina, what are you doing? Stay down!” Kieran’s voice slammed into our mind link, sharp with panic as his hands instantly reached out to catch my shoulders, stopping me from placing Celeste on the bed.“He can’t be gone, Kieran!” I snarled back through the link, my voice echoing with a fierce, royal authority I didn't even know I could summon right now. I pushed past his arms, my eyes locked on the flatlining monitor across the room.I didn't care if Rexton was a monster. I didn't care if this was his ultimate manipulati