Todos los capítulos de The moon goddess chose wrong: twice: Capítulo 151 - Capítulo 160

EnzoThe council reports from Crestmoon arrived every forty eight hours.I had been reading them since Petra assumed the interim Alpha role with the particular attention of someone who felt she was responsible for what happened in that territory during the transition period and was taking that responsibility seriously.I wished she wouldn't be so hard on herself, Dexter was a tyrant, there was nothing she could do even if she knew.The reports she gave were honest, That was the first thing that struck me about them. Not diplomatically shaped. Not the particular careful language of a new leader managing impressions with the authority they were reporting to. Just an accurate accounting of what was happening and what was being done about it and where the gaps remained.She addressed all the issues that came up and I was sure everyone was comfortable as they could be in the pack.Three power struggles are addressed. Tribunal cooperation achieved. Administrative council split and both elem

EnzoThe tribunal session on Thursday morning opened with everyone focused and ready to proceed. This had dragged on for too long and they knew it. At some point we had to tell them of Dexter's death, they had reached their final stage and knew it.Elena’s documentation had been presented on Tuesday. Rowan had spent Wednesday reviewing it with the remaining honest council members and the tribunal observers and the pack legal representative that the regional authority had sent when the scope of the case became clear enough to require one.The legal representative was a wolf named Sable, not the Elder Sable who had been present in the earlier sessions but a younger woman from the eastern territories who had the particular precise manner of someone who had spent fifteen years in tribunal law and had stopped being surprised by anything and was now simply focused on doing the work correctly.She had read Elena’s documentation in four hours and emerged from the review room with an expressio

Nina He found me in the garden. I had come outside after the east wing, not to escape but to think, I think it would help me organize large amounts of new information. I was sitting under the old oak with the journal and the afternoon light and I felt Enzo through the mate bond, he was close, the next minute he crossed between the garden as he walked towards me. He sat beside me on the stone bench. “You already know,” he said. “I read Sable’s bond connection before we went up there,” I said. “I had a hunch of what was on the other end.” I paused. “After you talked to him I had the name.” “Through the bond,” he said. “Through the bond,” I confirmed. We sat for a moment. “Are you alright?” he asked. I thought about how to answer honestly. “The person in that property,” I said. “The person the Foundation has been protecting for years. The person Aldous Crane built a secondary residence for in the human world and who has been living in it under a false name with the Foundatio

EnzoThe front door of the property was unlocked.That was the first thing, I noticed Not forced open, not broken. Unlocked. As if the person inside had decided at some point in the past hour that locking it was no longer the point, or it was a trap.Max went through first. Kai second. The warriors took the perimeter.I went through third with Nina beside me and the particular focused quality of someone who was about to meet the person who had ordered the death of Nina’s mother and was managing the full range of what that meant by concentrating entirely on the work.The ground floor hallway was empty.Lights on in the room to the left.A sound from that room. Not movement, everything was quieter. The particular sound of a very old person breathing in a room that had been occupied long enough to have the specific quality of long habitation.Max pushed the door open.The room was a study.Books on every wall, a collection assembled over decades rather than for appearance. Maps on one w

EnzoWe left the property as early as six in the morning, we had to leave before they came back for her. Mira came with us, willingly, no restraints were required because there was nowhere for a ninety one year old woman to run and no inclination in her to try, she was a wolf but even at that she would not out run us, She rode in the second vehicle with two of the warriors and Kai, who had spent the drive back asking her the specific operational questions that would matter to the tribunal, names and dates and the structural details of the placement mechanism that Elena’s documentation had mapped but not fully completed.Nina rode with me, She was quiet for the first hour of the drive, working through everything she had heard, and I let her have the quiet because some processing required space rather than conversation, she needed to calm down on her own, and I had no idea what to say.I could wrap my arms around her and pull her into a hug or I could leave her to process her emotions