Lahat ng Kabanata ng Luna's Reckoning : Kabanata 41 - Kabanata 50

Aria's POV New evidence.A witness who watched me kill someone six years ago.I stood outside my cabin door and let those words settle over me like ice water.Creek had requested an emergency meeting with all five judges. Tonight. Right now. Which meant he was not running scared. Which meant he was not panicking about anything unraveling around him.Which meant he had no idea we knew about my mother.He was still playing offense."Where is Marcus?" I said to Dara."Already been notified," she said. "He wants you in the main building."We moved quickly.Inside Marcus was standing at the head of the table with Victoria beside him. Both of them looked exactly the way I felt. Controlled on the outside. Something harder and more alert underneath.Garrett was near the door. My father was in the corner chair looking like a man watching something he had been dreading arrive exactly on schedule.I sat down."Tell me everything you know about this witness," I said.Marcus looked at me careful

AriaThe second name on that page was one I knew.Not a stranger. Not someone from my mother's time that I had never met. Someone alive. Someone breathing. Someone who had been sitting in rooms with me recently and looking me in the eyes without flinching.I read it three more times because my brain kept refusing to accept what my eyes were seeing.My father crossed the room and looked over my shoulder at the page.He went completely still."That is not possible," he said quietly."It is written right there," I said."I know what is written there," he said. "I am telling you it does not make sense."I looked at Celeste.She was watching both of us carefully with that steady gray green gaze of hers."You already knew," I said to her. "You read this before you gave it to me.""Yes," she said."And you gave it to me anyway," I said. "Tonight. Right now. When we are days away from trial and I have no time to process anything properly.""There is never a good time for something like this,

AriaMarcus's scent was unmistakable.Every wolf has a scent signature as unique as a fingerprint. Six weeks of living in close proximity to someone burns their scent into your memory permanently. I could pick Marcus out of a crowd of a hundred wolves blindfolded.And his scent was all over the path leading to the evidence room. Recent too. Within the last hour.I stood completely still and let my wolf process it fully. She was not alarmed exactly. Marcus's scent never triggered her threat response the way Kael's always had. Even in those early days when I had not yet decided whether to trust him, my wolf had remained calm around him in a way that my human mind had taken much longer to catch up to.But this was wrong. The evidence room should have been locked and untouched at this hour."Stay here," I said to Dara."Absolutely not," she said.We moved toward the evidence room together with the two guards from our run falling in behind us. The door was closed. Locked. Exactly as it sh

AriaNora Reeves.I sat on the edge of my bed and turned that name over in my head while Dara stood in my doorway telling me I needed to stay inside and wait for Marcus to handle it."I am not going anywhere," I said. "But I need to know everything she said at the border."Dara looked at me for a moment then stepped fully inside and closed the door behind her. She pulled the small chair from the corner and sat down across from me. Two guards outside the door. Cabin locked. Everything exactly as protective custody required."The border wolves said she came on foot," Dara said. "No wolf form. She shifted back to human before she even reached the boundary line. Hands visible. Moving slowly. Everything a wolf does when they want to show they are not a threat.""She was not running," I said. "She was surrendering.""Deliberately," Dara said. "She told the border wolves she had been trying to find a safe way to cross for three days. She knows Kael has wolves watching the roads. She went thr

AriaPetra was nineteen years old and she was sitting in a Moonridge cell because she had tried to help me.That thought sat in my chest like something with sharp edges all morning. I could not put it down and I could not make it hurt less and I could not do anything about it from inside this cabin with guards at my door and two territories worth of forest between me and her.My wolf felt it differently than my human side did. She did not process guilt the way humans do. She processed it as a wound. A physical thing with location and weight. Right in the center of my chest where the mate bond also lived, that dull persistent ache that reminded me constantly that Kael was still breathing and still my mate and still capable of hurting people I had never even met simply because they chose to stand on my side.Marcus had been on the phone for two hours straight. I could hear his voice through the cabin wall. Low and controlled and very serious. Garrett had left immediately after deliveri