All Chapters of THE DORMANT LUNA Book 1: Chapter 81 - Chapter 90

NEAH The gas hits my lungs and my body rejects it immediately. I drop to one knee, coughing. The golden light flares instinctively, creating a barrier around my nose and mouth. I can breathe again but barely. Micah throws his hands up. Golden shields materialize over the vents, blocking the gas flow. "That won't hold long!" Liam shifts back to human. "Theo, the doors!" Theo is already at the control panel, fingers flying over the keypad. "Locked from the outside. I need three minutes to bypass." "We don't have three minutes," Shane growls, slamming his shoulder against the steel door. It doesn't budge. Nathan watches us with clinical detachment. Like we're specimens in a controlled experiment. "The gas is a mild sedative. Designed to incapacitate wolves without killing them. We need you alive, after all." 

NEAH The broken syringe bleeds clear liquid across the desk. Nathan stares at it like I've just destroyed something sacred. Maybe to him, I have. His life's work. His failsafe. His ultimate control. Gone. "You have no idea what you've just done," he says quietly. "I know exactly what I've done. I chose myself. The version of me that you created but can't control." His jaw tightens. "You think you're strong enough to survive what's coming? The activation is accelerating. Your body is changing faster than your mind can adapt. Eventually the markers will complete whether you want them to or not. And when they do, there's a sixty percent chance your system can't handle it." "Then I'll be in the forty percent that survives." "Neah." Elena's voice comes through the reinforced glass. Weak but conscious. "Don

NEAH I wake up in a medical tent. The smell hits me first. Antiseptic. Blood. Sweat. Pain. I can smell all of it. Distinguish between fresh wounds and healing ones. Between wolf blood and human blood. My senses are sharper than they were before the accelerant. Everything is clearer. Louder. More. "You're awake." Liam's voice. Close. I turn my head and he's sitting beside my cot, hand wrapped around mine. He looks exhausted. Dark circles under his eyes. Jaw tight with tension. "How long was I out?" "Four hours." "Four hours?" I try to sit up. My body protests. Every muscle aches. "There are wounded. I need to help." "You collapsed mid-step healing your fourteenth patient. Your body gave out. You're not helping anyone if you're unconscious." "I'm fine now." "You

THEO The figure in the doorway steps into the light. Jax. Relief floods through me. Not the traitor. Just Liam's third-in-command checking on the war room situation. "You look like you've seen a ghost," Jax says. "Worse. A security breach." I turn the laptop around. Show him the threat message. "Someone remotely accessed my system. They know I found the operative list." Jax's expression darkens. "How long ago?" "Three minutes." "Then they're still close. Probably monitoring from inside the camp." He keys his radio. "All Shadow Peak security, Code Black. Lock down all communications. No one transmits anything until further notice." "That'll tip them off that we know." "They already know you know. Now we control the information flow." He looks at me. "You said y

LIAMI stand in the war room staring at Nathan Price's file.Every piece of intelligence we have paints the same picture. A brilliant scientist unraveling at the seams. A man who spent twenty years creating something extraordinary, only to watch it exceed his control.And now he wants it for himself."He's insane," Jax says from across the table. "Human physiology can't handle the accelerant without dormant markers. He'll die or worse.""He doesn't care about dying. He cares about being right." I close the file. "Gregor warned us. Nathan's ego can't handle being surpassed by his own creation.""Neah isn't a creation. She's a person.""Nathan doesn't see it that way. To him, she's proof of concept. And the fact that she developed abilities he never designed makes him obsolete. He can't tolerate that."Jax leans back in his chair. "So what's his play? Self-experimentation to replicate her abilities?""Or steal them. We don't know what the accelerant does to someone without hybrid DNA. I