บททั้งหมดของ The Luna on a Chain: บทที่ 121 - บทที่ 130

Maura The ringtone of an incoming call filled the room. Egor let out an irritated sigh and answered. “Yes.” I slowly opened my eyes and sat up in bed. Dawn was breaking beyond the window — the beginning of a new day. Who could possibly be calling this early? “What is it?” I asked when Egor ended the call. The werewolf rose from the bed and began dressing in silence. His expression was stern, almost threatening. Turning toward me, he said, “I need to step out on business. Maura, I’m asking you — please stay home.” “Did something happen?” “Gromov has made his move. Before, he didn’t know I was working against him, but now our dear Alec has reported everything.” “What are you going to do?” “I have to meet with my pack and the people you were staying with recently. It seems the moment has finally come — there’s no sense in postponing the inevitable any longer.” “Please, be careful.” At last, Egor smiled and sat down on the edge of the bed. “Are you actually worried about me,

MauraMy sleep shattered abruptly at the creak of steel doors opening.Was it him again?Alec entered the room carrying yet another tray. After setting it on the table, he sat down on the bed. I closed my eyes and turned away.“Masha, you didn’t eat anything yesterday, so today I’m not leaving until those plates are empty.”“Go to hell, Alec,” I shot back.“Don’t you care at all about our child?”His words forced me upright. I stared at him, seriously questioning his sanity. Alec was sober — clearly not under the influence of anything — so what kind of nonsense was he spouting?“This is my child. Egor’s and mine.”“By the way, I have excellent news for you,” he said with a broad smile.“I highly doubt it.”“Tomorrow, you and I are leaving. I’m taking you to another city until Gromov and Dennis finish handling everything.”“As if. I’ll escape on the way.”“Masha, why do you think none of Gromov’s victims have ever escaped?”“No idea.”“They don’t just drug them with psychotropics — the

Egor didn’t even notice when he drifted off in the armchair while drafting the plan. The werewolf was left undisturbed — more than once already, he had nearly bolted from his seat, ready to run after his destined mate.“My people have already prepared gas masks and the equipment necessary to infiltrate the territory,” Oksana said, studying the map marked with the three locations they would strike that very night.“We’re ready as well,” Ruslan added. “Since we’re dealing mostly with humans rather than werewolves, we should be able to avoid unnecessary casualties. The weapons will be loaded with sedatives. I hope we won’t need this, but…”He placed several ampoules filled with red liquid on the table in front of her.“One ampoule can save the lives of four werewolves on the brink of death.”“Where did you get something like this?” the woman asked in surprise.“As much as we trust you, we can’t say. Use it wisely.”“Thank you,” she replied, slipping the mysterious medicine into her pocke

Alec carefully set me down on the road and shoved me behind his back. Was he seriously planning to protect me? Some hero.Without hesitation, he shifted into his beast and let out a threatening growl at the wolf standing across from us.It was foolish—no matter how you looked at it. The wolf facing us was twice his size and far more ferocious. I studied the animal intently until a sudden realization struck me like lightning.It was Egor.But his scent was slightly different from what I remembered, and the werewolf himself was much larger than before. Those terrifying red eyes—the kind that made your entire body tremble—were something I had never seen on him.The massive wolf lunged at the smaller one and, in a single instant, tore away a clump of fur—and, judging by the smell, a piece of flesh along with it.Alec whimpered pitifully and collapsed to the ground. It had been idiotic of him to attack such a colossal opponent. But Egor had no intention of stopping there. He struck again.

Because Egor and I hadn’t fallen asleep until dawn, waking up turned into a true ordeal. Vera tried to rouse us first, grumbling irritably outside the door. Soon Tamara joined her, and together they dragged me out of bed and practically shoved me into the bathroom.“Maura, hurry up,” my friend knocked impatiently.I managed to make myself look somewhat presentable, but the exhaustion lingering in my eyes refused to disappear.Meanwhile, Egor remained sprawled across the bed, smiling in obvious satisfaction. When I shot him an angry look, he immediately turned toward the wall and pretended to be asleep.The moment I began plotting my revenge, Tamara and Vera hauled me out of the room and spirited me away from the house.As it turned out, Lena wasn’t the only one waiting for me at the mall — Margarita was there too. The woman fixed the blonde with a displeased stare, while Lena continued smiling back at her with almost comical sweetness.“Maura,” Margarita said warmly, rising from her s