All Chapters of Marked From Birth: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

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CHAPTER 31: THE PRICE OF THE SUN

The silence following the Priestess’s declaration was more terrifying than the roar of the explosion. The Solar Heart sat at the center of the room, a jagged, dying star. The violet poison of the Sleeper was gone, but the crystal was now a dull, bruised purple-grey. It groaned, a sound of grinding tectonic plates that vibrated through the soles of Audrey’s boots."What sacrifice?" Lucas demanded, his voice raspy. He shifted his body, partially shielding Audrey from the Priestess, his Alpha instincts screaming that the danger hadn't passed with Vargos’s death. "We have given everything. We have bled for this mountain."The Priestess moved forward, her staff clicking against the scorched stone. She didn't stop until she was inches from the pulsating core. "The mountain is not a kingdom of stone, Alpha. It is a living conduit. The Solar Heart was forged from the breath of the First Luna and the blood of the First King. It is a balance. To stabilize a cracked sun, one must offer the very

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CHAPTER 32: THE HUMAN QUEEN

The ascent from the bowels of the fortress felt longer than the descent. Lucas refused to let Audrey walk, carrying her through the soot-stained corridors as if she were made of spun glass. To him, she was more precious than the mountain itself, but as they emerged into the High Hall, the reality of their situation began to set in.The High Hall was a wreck of shattered crystal and cooling ash. Alpha Silas stood in the center of the room, his war-axe resting against his shoulder, surrounded by his Iron Ridge warriors. Beside him, Elara was barking orders to the medics, her face streaked with blood and sweat.When they saw Lucas emerge with Audrey in his arms, a ragged cheer went up from the exhausted soldiers. "The Luna! The White Wolf has saved us!"But as Lucas set Audrey on her feet, leaning her against a stone pillar for support, the cheering faltered.The air around Audrey was different. The hum of power that usually vibrated off her skin—the golden aura that made the hair on a w

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CHAPTER 33: SHADOWS IN THE SILVER

The morning after the Sleeper’s visitation brought a sun that felt mocking in its brightness. Kharos was a hive of activity, but the atmosphere had shifted from the frantic energy of war to the heavy, oppressive weight of suspicion.Audrey stood at the tall arched window of the strategy room, watching the Iron Ridge warriors begin their drills in the courtyard below. Her hands were still wrapped in linen, the white fabric a stark reminder of her mortality. Usually, her wolf would have healed the Void-Iron burns in hours. Now, they throbbed with every heartbeat, a dull, aching rhythm that kept her grounded in her new reality."The council is gathering in the lower hall," Elara said, entering the room with a tray of medicinal tea and a heavy leather belt cinched around her waist. She looked at Audrey, her expression softened by a rare flick of sympathy. "They’re restless, Luna. The rumors are spreading faster than the Sleeper’s fire.""They know," Audrey said, not turning from the windo

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CHAPTER 34: THE GARDEN OF WHISPERS

The "Sleeper’s Root" was not a natural plant. It was a botanical nightmare, a parasitic vine that grew only in the places where the veil between worlds was thin—specifically, the Silken Glade within the Whispering Woods.Audrey stood at the edge of the forest, the cool morning mist clinging to her hair. In her days as the White Wolf, she would have bounded through these trees in minutes, her senses tuned to the heartbeat of every creature. Now, the forest felt vast, ancient, and indifferent. The towering pines looked like jagged teeth against the grey sky, and the silence of the woods was no longer a comfort; it was a warning."We shouldn't be out here," Lucas muttered for the tenth time.He was in his human form, dressed in rugged hunting leathers, but his Alpha aura was dialed to its highest setting. He paced the perimeter of their small camp, his nostrils flaring as he caught the scents of a dozen different predators. Beside him, Silas and a small contingent of Iron Ridge scouts st

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CHAPTER 35: THE BLOOD OF THE SISTERS

The forest seemed to hold its breath. The "whispers" of the trees died into a suffocating silence as Audrey stared at the woman—the creature—standing before her.Samantha looked like a nightmare reflected in a cracked mirror. The sister who had once been obsessed with silk and status was now a vessel for something ancient and hungry. The violet light in her eyes didn't just glow; it pulsed like a heartbeat, and the thorns in her crown seemed to be burrowing into her very skull."How?" Audrey whispered, her grip tightening on the hilt of her dagger until her knuckles turned white. "You were exiled. You were stripped of your wolf. You should have been a Rogue, scavenging for scraps.""Exile was a gift, Audrey," Samantha hissed, her voice overlapping with a low, distorted hum that made the air vibrate. "When Father threw us out, when you humiliated us, we wandered into the Grey Wastes. My wolf was gone, yes. But the Sleeper... he heard the sound of my screaming soul. He didn't see a 'wor

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CHAPTER 36: THE MEMORY OF SILVER

The ride back to the Silver Citadel was a descent into a private hell. The Storm-Runners’ hooves thundered against the jagged mountain path, but for Audrey, the world was silent except for the shallow, rattling breaths of the man slumped across the saddle in front of her.Lucas was slipping.Every few miles, his body would seize with a violent tremor, and a soft, violet light would pulse beneath his skin, tracing the veins like a map of poison. But the physical decay wasn't the worst part. Through the frayed remains of their mental bond, Audrey felt the "rooms" of his mind going dark. Memories of their wedding night, the scent of the first forest walk, the sound of her laughter—they were being snuffed out one by one, replaced by a cold, oily fog."Hold on, Lucas," she whispered, her voice cracking as she pressed her cheek against his leather-clad back. "Don't you dare let go of me."By the time they breached the gates of Kharos, the sun had dipped below the horizon, leaving the sky th

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CHAPTER 37: THE GHOST OF A BOND

The return to the physical world felt like being slammed into a wall of ice.Audrey’s eyes snapped open, her lungs gasping for air that didn't taste like violet smoke. She was slumped against the side of the stone plinth, her forehead resting on the cold edge. For a terrifying heartbeat, she couldn't remember where she was or why her chest felt like it had been hollowed out with a rusted blade.Then, she felt the hand.A large, warm hand was resting on her head, fingers tangling gently in her dark hair. Audrey looked up, her vision blurring with fresh tears.Lucas was looking at her. The violet veins had receded to his collarbone, and the deathly grey tint had left his skin. But his silver eyes weren't bright; they were tired, swimming with a confusion that broke Audrey’s heart."Audrey?" he whispered. The name sounded like a question, a tentative reaching out across a vast distance."I'm here," she choked out, catching his hand and pressing it to her cheek. "I'm right here, Lucas."H

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CHAPTER 38:THE ARCHIVES OF THE FALLEN

The silence of the Great Archives was different from the silence of the forest. Here, it felt like the weight of a thousand years was pressing down on Audrey’s shoulders. The room was a vast, subterranean cathedral of knowledge, with shelves carved directly into the mountain’s obsidian marrow. The air smelled of parchment, old wax, and the faint, metallic tang of silver-dust used to preserve the scrolls.Audrey sat at a heavy stone table, a single lantern casting long, dancing shadows across the floor. Her hands, still tender and wrapped in clean linen, hovered over a leather-bound tome that felt uncomfortably cold to the touch.Across from her, Lucas sat in the shadows. He had insisted on coming, though he remained quiet, watching her with a clinical curiosity that made Audrey’s chest ache. He wasn't the man who had looked at her with a hunger that could melt winter; he was a King observing a puzzling riddle."You’ve been staring at that page for ten minutes," Lucas said. His voice w

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CHAPTER 39: THE CRIMSON SEAL

The red light from the locket didn’t fade immediately. It pulsed like a dying ember against Audrey’s skin, leaving a warmth that felt oddly heavy, almost like a physical weight sitting on her chest. In the center of the devastated archives, surrounded by shredded history and the scent of ozone, Audrey felt the first stirrings of a terrifying realization: her mother had not been a victim of the Moon Shadow Pack. She had been their greatest secret.“Are you hurt?”Lucas’s voice was steady again, the brief spark of recognition from moments ago tucked back behind a wall of Alpha stoicism. He stood up, brushing the dust of ancient scrolls from his shoulders. He didn't reach out to help her up this time. The hesitation in his hands was a silent scream that the bond was still fractured.“I’m fine,” Audrey said, her voice sounding hollow. She stood up, tucking the still-warm locket back into her tunic. “But the archives are not. Valerius... he said I was the ‘Daughter of the Void.’ Lucas, he

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CHAPTER 40: THE GREAT ESCAPE

The Silver Citadel was never truly asleep. Even in the deepest hours of the night, the mountain hummed with the movement of sentries and the rhythmic pulse of the Solar Heart. But tonight, the atmosphere was different. The air was thick with the scent of ozone and the unspoken tension of a pack that had realized its Queen might be its greatest enemy.Audrey stood in the center of her chambers, dressed in her darkest traveling leathers. She moved with a silence she hadn't known she possessed—a grace that felt less like a wolf and more like a shadow.She looked at the massive oak bed where she and Lucas had once shared dreams of a peaceful future. Now, the space felt cold, as vast as a canyon. Lucas wasn't there. He was still in the war room, or perhaps pacing his own study, trying to reconcile the woman he remembered with the "Daughter of the Void" the Priestess had described."The guards shift at the second bell," a voice whispered from the balcony.Elara stepped into the room, hooded

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