Todos los capítulos de The Alpha's forgotten Luna: His Loss, her throne: Capítulo 41 - Capítulo 50

Noah's POVI stood there and watched them wrap the chains around her and told myself it was necessary.It was necessary. Ivy was not the woman I married. The woman I married would never have looked at me the way this Ivy looked at me, with that specific fury in her eyes that had no apology in it, no softening, no door left open. The woman I married used to flinch when I raised my voice. Used to smooth things over before they became confrontations. Used to find a way to make herself smaller so the room stayed comfortable. This one scared me and I was not going to say that out loud to anyone alive.I told myself the chains were about keeping her safe. Ivy would hurt herself if she saw an opening. I knew that about her. I knew the way she thought when she was cornered and I knew that she meant it when she said she would rather die than come back and that was not something I was willing to risk, not because I was soft about it, but because a dead Ivy was a useless Ivy and I needed her fu

Ivy's POVMy back was on fire.The chains had been cutting into the same spots for hours and I had stopped feeling my fingers a long time ago and the cold of the cave floor had moved past uncomfortable into something that lived in my bones and just sat there. I couldn't call anyone. I had no link with Liam, no mind link, no way to reach through the bond that didn't fully exist yet and say come now, come right now, they are going to kill me. I had the tracker. I had pressed it until my thumb was raw and now I couldn't even feel my thumb and I didn't know if the signal was still transmitting or if the chains had blocked it or if Liam was even looking at it.I had never felt this alone in my life and I had felt very alone in my life.Amy came back after Noah left.She walked in slowly, no rush, no urgency, the way people move when they know you are not going anywhere. She pulled a chair from the corner of the cave and set it in front of me and sat down and looked at me with the expressio

Ivy's POVDelinda was already talking before we even fully crossed the threshold.She was standing dead center in the corridor, arms folded, chin lifted, dressed like she had been waiting for this exact moment and had rehearsed it three times in front of a mirror. Beautiful in the specific way that people who grew up knowing they were important always are. And she was looking at Liam like I wasn't even there, like I was something he had tracked in on the bottom of his shoe, and honestly every single part of my body hurt too much for me to pretend to be unbothered."Liam." Her voice was controlled and tight. "Are you seriously telling me you broke the law? It hasn't even been twenty-four hours." She spread her hands. "I was in your room. I was right there trying to figure out how to fix this, how to protect the pack, how to give you a real solution, and you just — left. For her."I raised my hand slightly. "Hi…I'm here and still bleeding. Just so we're all aware."Her eyes moved to me f

Noah's POVThe map was the size of my entire desk and I had memorized every line on it three days ago but I kept staring at it anyway because staring at it felt like doing something and right now doing something was the only thing keeping me sane.Blue Elite Pack. Liam's territory. Every border patrol, every checkpoint rotation, every river boundary and forest entry point laid out in front of me like a puzzle I had been quietly, carefully, patiently assembling for months without anyone knowing I was assembling it. I traced the eastern border with one finger and thought about what it would take. What it would actually take. Not to fight him. Not yet. But to match him. To stand across a table from the Lycan King and have enough chips in front of me that he had to listen.And for a moment, just a moment, the doubt crept in.Was I even doing this right?Because Liam was not a man you miscalculated. He was something else entirely. I had seen what he did in the Ironveil river cave, I had h

Ivy's POVI made it through the bath without embarrassing myself…barely.Liam had been careful and deliberate. Every touch measured and controlled like he was running a clinical operation and not sitting in a bathtub with his hands on my skin, and I sat very still and kept my mouth shut and told my body firmly and repeatedly that this was not the time and my body told me firmly and repeatedly that it did not care.When I finally told him everything, every detail, the pole and the chains and Amy's voice saying throw her in deep, his hands had gone still on my shoulders for one long second. He was still with no expression. Nothing on his face. And that nothing was the scariest thing I had seen all night because I had now seen enough of Liam to know that the emptier his face got, the more dangerous the thing running underneath it was.He didn't say anything. He just finished and got out and called the doctor and by the time I was wrapped in a towel he was already dressed and on his phon