All Chapters of THE DORMANT LUNA Book 1: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

PrologueWhat do you do when you are a human in a wolf pack and your best friend is the next Alpha?You keep up. That's what. Or you try to keep up as much as a human body will let you.Neah and Caleb have been joined at the hip since the day they were born. Literally. Their mothers were best friends in college. The kind of best friends who did everything together, graduated together, and even went into labor on the same day in the same hospital. Neah came first by eleven minutes, a fact she never lets Caleb forget.Their moms built a studio together after college. Self defense classes and wellness programs for women, both human and werewolf. It was small at first, just a rented space above a laundromat, but it grew into something real. Something that mattered to both of them. Neah's mom ran the day to day operations while Diane stepped back after she met Marcus and became the Luna of the Iron Valley Pack.Being a Luna takes time. It takes everything, actually. But Diane never let go

NEAHThe first week of senior year went exactly how I expected. Classes were fine. Training was good. The mean girls were mean. Same old routine.What I didn't expect was how much harder the nightmares would hit.Every night that week I woke up screaming. Every night Caleb came running. By Friday we were both exhausted and snapping at each other over stupid things like who left the milk out and whose turn it was to pick the music in the car."You need to talk to someone about this, Neah. It's getting worse and I don't know how to fix it." Caleb said it quietly while we were sparring after school. The others were rotating in and out, working on his stamina for the Alpha transition."I've talked to every doctor your mom has sent me to. Nothing works except you being there." I ducked under his arm and landed a jab to his ribs. A good one too. He grunted."Then maybe you shouldn't leave for college." He tried to sound casual but I heard what was underneath it. Fear."Don't start.""I'm se

LIAMThe girl was staring at me like I had lost my mind. Maybe I had. The last seventy two hours were a blur of blood and running and a pull in my chest that wouldn't stop no matter how far I pushed my body.My wolf, Kain, had gone insane three days ago. Right in the middle of a council meeting with my ranked wolves. One second I was reviewing border reports and the next Kain was clawing at the inside of my skull, howling one word over and over.Mate. Mate. Mate.I told him to shut up. I had been telling him to shut up about mates for years. I watched my father lose his mind over my mother. Watched her twist him into a puppet until the pack nearly collapsed. I watched three other Alphas in our alliance fall apart because their mates were manipulative or weak or both. An Alpha with a mate was an Alpha with a leash. I wanted no part of it.But Kain didn't care what I wanted. He never did when it came to this.The pull started like a low hum in my chest. By the second day it was a rope w

NEAHGlass and wood exploded across the kitchen floor. Cold air rushed in and with it came a scent that made every hair on my body stand up. Wolf. Aggressive. Close.I grabbed my knife from where I had set it on the coffee table and moved in front of the couch without thinking. Liam tried to stand behind me and I heard him curse when his body refused to cooperate."Stay down," I told him."Like hell.""You can't even stand. Stay down and let me handle this."A figure stepped through the destroyed back door. Male. Tall. Lean but muscular. He was in human form but his eyes were glowing amber which meant his wolf was right at the surface ready to shift at any second. Behind him I could see a second shadow moving through the patio. Two of them. Just like Liam said.The first one scanned the room and when his eyes landed on me he smiled. Not a friendly smile. The kind that made your skin crawl. The kind that said he already knew he was going to win."There she is." His voice was smooth and

NEAHI didn't sleep. I sat on my bed with my back against the wall and my knife on my lap and I stared at the door until the sun came up. Every creak in the house made my hand tighten on the grip. Every shadow that moved across the window made my heart jump.Theo stayed downstairs. I heard him pacing for most of the night. Slow, steady steps that went back and forth across the living room floor like a metronome. He was thinking. Processing. Deciding who to trust and what to do next. That was Theo. He didn't react. He calculated.Shane and Miles rotated patrol shifts outside. I could hear them checking in with each other through the broken back door that they covered with a tarp and some boards. It wouldn't stop a wolf but it would slow one down. That was the best we could do until morning.Liam was on the couch. I told Theo to put him back in the clinic but Theo said he wanted everyone in one location. Easier to defend. I didn't argue because he was right, but knowing that man was sle