All Chapters of The Broken Wolfless Luna : Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

Rael’s PovI woke up the next morning and felt different. Like something inside me had burned away during the night and left nothing but ash and hatred in its place.Corvin had betrayed me. My own mate had arranged for me to be kidnapped and tortured. Every kiss had been a lie. Every promise had been false, every moment of our life together had been tainted by his plan to destroy me.I got dressed slowly and looked at myself in the small mirror on the wall. My face looked thinner than before, and there were dark circles under my eyes, but what struck me most was the emptiness in my gaze. I looked dead, like a ghost wearing my skin.Maybe that was what I had become. The old Rael who trusted and loved and believed in people was gone. What remained was something darker and colder and focused only on revenge.I left my room and went downstairs to get breakfast because I needed to keep up appearances. I needed everyone to think I was grieving and weak and not a threat. That was the only wa

Rael's PovThe sun was high in the sky when I finally saw the cabin through the trees. It looked the same as I remembered. Small and cozy with a stone chimney and a front porch where my father used to sit and smoke his pipe. The garden my mother had tended was overgrown now, but I could still see traces of the plants she had loved.I walked up to the front door and tried the handle. Locked, of course but I knew my parents had kept a spare key hidden under a loose stone near the back entrance. I went around and found the stone, and sure enough, the key was still there all these years later.I let myself in and stood in the doorway looking at the interior. Everything was covered in dust, and some of the furniture had been moved, but it was still recognizable as the home I had grown up in. The fireplace where we gathered on cold nights, the kitchen table where we ate meals together. The bookshelf is full of my mother's favorite novels.I set my bag down and walked through the rooms slowl

Rael's PovI was frozen. Completely and utterly frozen as the masked men surrounded me in the cabin. My body wouldn't obey my commands, my mind was screaming at me to fight or run or do something, but I could not move.One of them stepped closer and grabbed my arm roughly. His grip was like iron, and the touch sent me spiraling back into memories I could not control. "No," I whispered, but the word came out so quiet I barely heard it myself.Another one grabbed my other arm and they started dragging me toward the door. I tried to struggle but my body would not respond. My muscles felt like they had turned to stone. All I could do was stare at the mask of the man holding my left arm.He wore black fabric, two eyeholes. A mouth opening, just like the masks they had worn in that cell. Just like the guards who had watched while I screamed and begged and bled.I could not look away from that mask. My entire world narrowed down to those two eyeholes and the cold eyes behind them. Eyes that

Rael’s Pov“It’s better than to be your prisoner again.”“I am not making you my prisoner. I am offering you protection. Those men were sent to kill you and there will be more. You need help whether you want it or not.”“Protection.” I laughed and it came out bitter and broken. “You stood there and watched while they broke me. You did nothing. And now you want me to believe you’re trying to protect me?”His jaw tightened and something that might have been guilt flashed across his face. “I know. I know what I did and what I did not do. I know I am the last person you would trust. But right now I am all you have.”“Then I have nothing.”“You have rage. You have the need for revenge. You told me yourself that your cousin and your mate arranged your kidnapping. Do you want them to win? Do you want them to live happily while you die in the dirt?”His words hit something deep inside me. The part that wanted to see Corvin and Nyra pay for what they had done. The part that refused to let them

Rael’s PovWe walked in silence for a few more minutes before I spoke again. “You said you are the only thing keeping me alive. What does that mean exactly? I didn't really get it and I've been thinking about it.”“It means what it sounds like. Those assassins tonight were not random. They were hired professionals sent specifically to kill you and there will be more.”“How do you know that?”“Because I have been tracking the people who want you dead. I know how they operate, one failed attempt means they will send better trained and equipped people. They won’t stop until you are dead or until I stop them.”A chill ran down my spine. “So I am being hunted.”“Yes.”“By who? Nyra?”“Most likely, yes. But she is not working alone. Someone with resources and connections is backing her, someone who wants you dead badly enough to spend serious money on it.”“And you think you can protect me from that?”“I know I can. I have resources of my own. People who owe me favors. Safe places where no