All Chapters of The Alpha's forgotten Luna: His Loss, her throne: Chapter 61 - Chapter 70

Liam's POVIvy's face went pale. The kind that happens when someone hears something that strips every layer of armor off in one clean pull and leaves them completely exposed in the middle of a crowd. I watched the color drain from Ivy's face and felt something in my chest tighten so hard it was almost physical.There was no way out of this.I knew it the moment the voice rose from the crowd. These people, my own pack, would not let us walk into that building until they had what they wanted. And what they wanted right now was blood wrapped in procedure and dressed up as tradition.The Blood Vane men had turned back around and their red eyes were lit up with renewed interest and that alone made me want to tear something apart with my bare hands.Ivy straightened beside me. She pulled her shoulders back and lifted her chin and smiled, and I was the only one standing close enough to feel how hard she was working to do it."I'm curious," she said, her voice carrying easily across the crow

Ivy's POVMy lips were still burning.I pressed them together and stared at the wall across from me and tried to look like a woman who had not just been kissed twice in front of her entire pack and half a vampire delegation and was currently failing at thinking about anything else. The warmth was still there, sitting in my mouth like something that refused to cool down, and the worst part was that Liam was right beside me and I could feel him without looking at him.He was not looking at me either.The Blood Vane men had excused themselves to the side of the room to discuss quietly in their own language and the brief silence between Liam and me was the loudest thing in the building."You're going to get yourself in trouble," he said, low, like he was commenting on the weather.I kept my eyes forward. "Excuse me?""Stop making it so obvious." He was not looking at me. His jaw was set and he was staring at the far wall with the expression of a man concentrating very hard on not concent

Ivy's POVWhen I opened my eyes the room was dipped in the orange light of evening and Kel was sitting in the chair across from me like he had been there the whole time and was completely unbothered by that fact.I blinked. I sat up and looked at him."Why are you still here?""Good evening to you too.""Kel….You have a whole pack. You have duties. You have a life that exists outside of this room, I assume so don't tell me you've been watching me sleep."He shrugged. "Someone has to be here while Liam is out chasing the Jade Key or whatever it is he's doing.""I can watch myself.""Right." He leaned forward with his elbows on his knees. "Is that why you were almost thrown into a river last week? Because you were watching yourself so well?"I opened my mouth and closed it."Thought so." He stood and handed me my shoes. "Come on. You haven't eaten. Get up."I wanted to argue but my stomach chose that moment to make its own point loudly and Kel's mouth twitched and I took the shoes witho

Noah's POVArguing with Liam was the most dangerous thing I could do right now and I knew that before he even sat down. He walked in and everything recalibrated around him without his permission being asked. It was the most infuriating thing about him and it had always been the most infuriating thing about him and sitting across from him in my own office in my own pack while he looked at me like I was a minor inconvenience was doing things to my blood pressure that I could not afford right now.Waging a war against Blue Elite Territory was a risk I could not carry. Not with the pack still rebuilding, not with the council watching every move I made, not with Amy's situation already complicated enough to sink me twice over. So I did what I had always been good at. I set my feelings aside, locked my rage somewhere it would not interfere with my thinking, and I negotiated.When he told me to release Ivy's uncle I laughed."That would be impossible," I said."You don't want a war with me,

Ivy's POVI opened the envelope.It's a cheque. Folded neatly behind it, a set of land documents. I read the heading on the first page and then I read it again because I wanted to be absolutely sure I was understanding what I was looking at.Iron Veil Territory.I looked up at Athena.Then I laughed. Not because anything was funny. Because sometimes the only appropriate response to the sheer audacity of something is to laugh directly in its face."Iron Veil?" I held the documents up. "You went to all this trouble, you flew into this pack, you came in here with your chest out and your threats ready, and the lands you're offering me are in Iron Veil?" I tilted my head. "Why not Blue Elite? Why Iron Veil, Athena? That's interesting. You were so available, so deeply invested in fixing things, that you went behind my back and coordinated with my ex-husband to give me land that already belongs to me."Athena's expression did not change but something moved behind her eyes.Delinda scoffed. "