All Chapters of Luna's Reckoning : Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

Victoria's words hit the room like a stone thrown through glass.Alpha Thomas Creek was flying in tonight to meet privately with Kael before tomorrow's council session.Nobody spoke for a moment.Marcus pushed off the wall where he had been standing and said, "How certain are you?""Certain enough to drive here tonight instead of waiting until morning," Victoria said. Her ice blue eyes moved to me then back to Marcus. "Thomas Creek has been close to Kael for years. If he meets with him privately before the council convenes, he can work on the undecided Alphas before Aria gets a single chance to speak."I looked between them. My feet were freshly bandaged. My whole body still ached from running through the forest. But none of that mattered right now."Can you stop it?" I asked Victoria."I can object," she said. "But Thomas Creek holds the same regional authority I do. I cannot physically stop him from going where he wants.""So Kael gets to poison another person," I said. "Just with w

I was on my feet before Elena finished the sentence."What do you mean someone got to Mira?" I asked. "What happened to her?""I do not know yet," Elena said, still looking out the window. "The wolf is at the gates. He is barely standing."I moved toward the door but Elena stepped in front of me."You are not going out there," she said firmly. "Not until we know what is happening.""Elena that is Mira we are talking about.""I know who it is," she said. Her voice was steady but her eyes were not. "And if someone attacked Mira to send a message, then walking outside right now is exactly what Kael wants you to do."She was right. I hated that she was right.I pressed my back against the wall and waited.The shouting outside grew louder then suddenly stopped. Footsteps came fast down the path toward my cabin. Three sets, maybe four.The door swung open.Marcus came in first. His face was tight. Behind him was a young wolf I did not recognize, breathing hard, a long gash running from his

Elena came back with Mira just before midnight.I heard them before I saw them. Quiet footsteps on the path outside, hushed voices, the soft creak of the compound gate closing behind them.I had not slept. I was sitting at the small table in my cabin with a candle burning low when the door opened and Mira walked in.She looked smaller than I remembered.Mira had always been the kind of woman who filled a room without trying. Warm and steady and certain. But the woman who stood in my doorway now had dark circles under her kind hazel eyes and a cut above her left eyebrow that someone had bandaged badly.I crossed the room and wrapped my arms around her before she could say a single word.She held on tight."I am okay," she murmured into my shoulder. "I promise I am okay.""You have a cut on your face," I said."I have had worse," she said. "So have you."We pulled apart. Elena came in behind her and closed the door. She looked tired but alert, her hand still resting near the knife at he

The name left Mira's mouth and just hung there in the cold night air.Your father.I stood very still on the path outside the main house. The darkness around us felt heavier suddenly. Like it had pressed in closer without me noticing."Say that again," I said.Mira hugged the envelope against her chest. "I am not accusing anyone Aria. I am telling you what I know. The only people who had full access to where I kept those records were Elena and your father. Everyone else I only ever showed the front section. The injuries log. Never the full documentation."I looked at Elena.She was already looking at me.Her expression was unreadable which on Elena meant she was feeling too many things at once to let any single one show."I did not touch those records," she said. Her voice was flat and certain. "I knew where they were. I never went near them without Mira present.""I know that," Mira said quickly. "I know Elena. I am not saying it was you."The three of us stood there on the quiet pat

My legs carried me to the main house before my brain fully caught up with what Garrett had just said.My father had signed the letter moving up the trial.My father. The same man who had just sat across from me with guilt heavy in his eyes and promised to tell the whole truth at trial. The same man who had held my hands and told me he was done failing me.Marcus was standing at the table when I walked in. The letter was open in front of him. Victoria stood beside him reading over his shoulder.Neither of them looked up immediately. They were both studying the letter like they were hoping the words would rearrange themselves into something that made more sense."Tell me this is not what it looks like," I said.Marcus finally looked up. His expression was careful and measured the way it got when he was trying not to show how serious something was."Sit down Aria," he said."I do not want to sit down," I said. "Tell me what that letter says."Victoria straightened and crossed her arms. "