Lahat ng Kabanata ng Divorced Luna: Carrying The Alpha's King Baby: Kabanata 41 - Kabanata 45

VESPERAS POV The arrow hit my shoulder—not deep, just a graze, but the pain was immediate and blinding. Fire spreading from the point of impact, my arm going numb below the wound.I gasped but didn't stop."Almost there," Kael said through gritted teeth. "The wall—"It loomed ahead. Massive stone, forty feet high, topped with parapets and guards and the kind of security that said nothing was meant to get in or out.Kael shoved me against the base of it, locking his hands around my foot. "Climb. Now!"I reached up, finding handholds in the rough stone. My injured shoulder screamed protest but I pulled anyway, using wolf strength I barely understood, hauling myself up inch by inch while Kael boosted from below.More arrows. One embedded itself in the stone next to my hand. Another grazed Kael's arm—I heard his sharp intake of breath, and then I felt him falter."Keep going," he snarled.I wheezed painfully and reached the top.Below, the palace courtyard swarmed with guards. Above, the

VESPERAS POV I was exhausted. Bleeding from a dozen cuts that hadn't healed right. My shoulder still burned where the arrow had grazed it. The baby inside me was growing too fast, taking energy I didn't have, making my body do impossible things just to keep us both alive.But I shifted.The transformation came easier now than it had in the wildlands. My body knew the shape of my wolf, knew how to fall into that other form without fighting every step. Bones rearranged. Fur sprouted. The world shifted into sharper focus, scents blooming around me in vivid detail.I stood there in my wolf form, smaller than most of them but glowing faintly—a golden shimmer around my edges like dawn breaking.The watching wolves murmured. Uncertain. Something in that glow making them uneasy.The scarred woman shifted too.Her wolf was massive. Battle-scarred. Missing that eye in wolf form too, the socket just as ruined. She circled me once, twice, her single eye tracking every movement.Then she attacked

VESPERA'S POV I woke to the sound of screaming.I was on my feet before I was could fully be conscious, my heart hammering wildly against my chest, the shelter's canvas walls doing nothing to muffle the sounds pouring in from outside. Steel on steel. Wolves snarling. The particular crack of wood giving way under something heavy."Stay inside, Vespera. You can't cone out here," Kael's voice growled from outside the door, tight and controlled. My eyes widened as I hirriedly move towards the door. "Wh— What's happening—""Soldiers! They're Julian's men," he started to say then paused where I heard him shift position. I heard the sound of his blade clearing its sheath. "You need to stay hidden, Vespera, and that's not a suggestion."And before I could protest, he was gone, leaving me confused.I pressed my eye to the gap in the canvas, hoing to see some clue on what was going on.I saw them. They came like a flood. Dozens of soldiers pouring into the camp from three directions at once