Lahat ng Kabanata ng The Alpha's Forgotten Luna: Kabanata 281 - Kabanata 288

The next morning, I woke up to the sound of laughter downstairs. It wasn't the kind of laughter that made me wonder what disaster had occurred. It was warm, familiar, and followed by the unmistakable sound of Nicholas shouting something at the top of his lungs. I smiled before I even opened my eyes. For the first time since coming home from the hospital, the house didn't feel tense. There was no constant silence around me, no one whispering whenever I shifted, and no Cassius pacing around as though he was personally responsible for keeping the entire world from touching me. He was still protective, obviously. That part of my husband wasn't going anywhere. But he had started listening when I told him I needed space, and I had started listening when he told me something genuinely mattered. It felt like we had finally found a balance.I slowly turned toward the other side of the bed and found it empty. Cassiu

Everything happened too quickly after Marianne told us the contractions were getting stronger. One moment I was sitting beside Sienna, holding her hand and desperately pretending that I wasn't terrified, and the next the entire room seemed to change. Healers began moving around us with a speed that made my stomach drop. Marianne checked the monitors again, her expression becoming more serious with every passing second. Sienna looked at me, frightened and exhausted, and I knew before anyone said it that something had changed. "What is happening?" I demanded. Marianne looked at me. "Cassius, we need to deliver the babies." My entire body went cold. "Now?" "Yes." Sienna's eyes widened. "No." Her voice was barely audible. "They're too early." Marianne immediately came closer. "We know. But continuing the labour has become more dangerous." "What does that mean?" I asked. "It means we need to get them out safely." Sienna started crying. "Cassius..." I leaned over her immediately. "I'm here.

The first thing I learned about fear was that it didn't always arrive screaming. Sometimes it sat quietly beside you and refused to leave. It settled into your bones, stole your appetite, made sleep impossible, and turned every sound into a reason to look up. I had spent years believing I understood fear. I had faced enemies, council threats, hunters, vampires, and battles where one wrong decision could cost lives. None of it had prepared me for sitting beside Sienna's hospital bed and watching her breathe. She had been unconscious since the surgery, and although Marianne kept telling me that her condition was stable, stable had become the most terrifying word in my vocabulary. Stable meant she was alive. It didn't mean she was awake. It didn't mean she was safe. It didn't tell me when she would open those beautiful eyes again and look at me as though I was the only person in the room. So I sat beside her, held her hand, and waited.The first twenty-four hours passed without any real

Thirty days changed everything. Not completely, not enough to erase the fear of those first terrible days, but enough to make our lives feel familiar again. A month ago, I had been lying unconscious in a hospital bed while our sons fought for every breath inside the critical care unit. Now I was sitting by the window of our bedroom with a blanket around my shoulders, watching the early morning light spill across the garden while the sound of tiny cries came from the nursery. I smiled before I even turned around. One of them had woken up. Then the second joined him, their voices overlapping in the sweetest little complaint. "They're awake," I whispered, already trying to push myself up. I barely got halfway before Cassius appeared in the doorway. "Absolutely not." I stopped and looked at him. He stood there holding a tray of breakfast, his expression already warning me against whatever foolish thing I was considering. "I wasn't doing anything." "You were getting up." "I was sitting up.