All Chapters of THE LUNA HE THREW AWAY: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

12 Chapters

The Betrayal

I walked into Moonstone Hall and instantly knew I was in trouble. It wasn’t intuition or some wolf sense; I don’t have those. It was the smell. Usually, the place smelled like cedar and old power, but tonight it felt like a funeral for someone still alive. That someone was me.People stared at me like I was a car wreck they’d been waiting to see. They didn’t look at me as a person, more like I was just gossip. The whispers kept going, a soft hum that always meant a pack execution was coming."Look at her," someone breathed. That was Sarah, a girl with a noble wolf but a nasty attitude. "No mark, no jewelry, no decent shoes. Does she think Kael will claim a human?"I smoothed my dress. My mom had spent three nights fixing it, her eyes red and her hands quivering. She'd sewn her hopes and concerns into the seams, trying to make me look like a Luna. I knew I looked like a girl in a costume that didn't fit.The Hall was a joke. It had arched windows, soft moonlight, and white candles. It

Last Updated : 2026-04-02

The Taste of Copper

I’m not sure how long I stood there after Kael left. The fog thickened at the doors, cold against my skin. The whispers started again, loud and merciless, scraping at the raw edge inside me. Someone laughed, sharp and bright like a match striking. That sound cut right through me.A heat started low in my stomach, something I’d never felt before, like I’d swallowed an ember. At first, I thought it was grief or the mate bond breaking, burning as it went. But it didn’t feel like losing something. It felt like something inside me was waking up. My hands shook, not from fear, but from trying to hold back whatever wanted out. My vision sharpened. The candles looked too bright. The voices were too loud. I could hear every heartbeat in the room, each one like a separate drum. I pressed my nails into my palms and tried to breathe. Was I shifting? No. It wasn’t that simple. My bones didn’t change. There was no fur, no muzzle, no wolf coming forward. What rose in me was older than any of that. I

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The Old Growth

I turned my back on him. I didn’t wait for a reply, or for the Beta or guards to recover enough to speak. I walked out of Moonstone Hall with my head high, my dress swishing at my legs like a battle flag.The doors closed behind me with a sound like a gavel.The night air hit me, cold and sharp, cutting through the leftover heat. For one perfect heartbeat, I felt invincible, my skin tingling and my pulse racing. Then the world tilted, the adrenaline faded, and I staggered ten steps past the archway before my knees buckled.I hit the grass hard, my palms sinking into the cold, wet earth. The power drained out of me like a tide going out, leaving only the hollow ache of a body pushed too far. My vision blurred at the edges. My heart still roared. The woods pressed in, dark and thick, watching. The fear I hadn’t let myself feel in the Hall came rushing back all at once.Hands grabbed my shoulders, rough and sudden. For a terrifying second, I thought Kael was coming after me. I started to

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The Price of a Seat

The forest didn’t care that I was shaking.I’d been running for ten minutes, or maybe it was more or less. Time felt strange since the Hall. The trees didn’t slow down for me. They just kept coming, dark and close, their branches scraping my arms and the hem of my mother’s ruined dress. Mud tugged at my shoes with every step, almost like it wanted to decide for me. Go back. Sink down. Stop.I kept moving.The power that had filled the Hall was gone. Whatever that force was, the one that made a thousand wolves kneel, it had pulled back into the deep, leaving me hollow, cold, and painfully human. For a moment in that room, it had felt like a river bursting through my veins, moonlight burning just under my skin, humming with a language older than words. Now, it was just absence, a shadow where something wild and ancient had been. My lungs burned. My ankles felt rooted to the ground. The locket Jax gave me knocked against my collarbone with every step, and I clung to its sound like a hear

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Power

I didn't think. I didn't have time to find the 'power.' I just brought the kitchen knife up and buried it in the creature’s shoulder.The wolf slammed into me, knocking me back into the muck. The weight was crushing, the smell of its rot filling my lungs. I scrambled in the mud, trying to find my footing as the Feral snapped at my face, its teeth clicking inches from my nose.A flash of silver blurred past my vision.Fen didn't use a knife. He didn't even seem to shift. He just grabbed the Feral by the back of the neck and ripped. There was a sickening sound of cartilage tearing, and the creature went limp, falling to the side like a discarded toy.Fen stood over me, not a drop of blood on his tattooed skin. He looked down at me, sprawled in the mud, clutching a dull kitchen knife and shaking like a leaf."Lesson one," he said, reaching down and pulling me to my feet with one hand. "The Old Growth doesn't care about your trauma. It doesn't care about your mate bond. It only cares if y

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The Void

The tree was still bent in half when Fen came back.I sat in the dirt in front of the tree, staring at the split trunk as if it could explain itself. My hands had stopped shaking a few minutes ago. Still, tension gripped me. The shock lingered, leaving me suspended, caught between a cold numbness and a sudden, creeping panic that pressed at my chest."Still staring?" Fen dropped beside me. "You break things and expect apologies."“I didn’t mean to break it that much,” I said.“You never mean to.” He picked up a piece of bark from the ground and turned it over in his hands. “That’s the whole problem.”I wiped mud off my cheek. "Why are you helping me?""You asked me that already.""You didn't answer."He looked at me sideways. "I answered. You just didn't like it."I hadn’t liked his answer. When he talked about debts and old stories, my confusion swelled into frustration. Each time he muttered about a river crossing in winter or flinched at the scars on my wrist, new questions crowded

Last Updated : 2026-04-02

Silver Cells

The air cracked.The oak folded in half. It didn’t snap; it bent, as if something had grabbed it in the middle and forced it down. The roots tore up with a scream. I hit the ground on my hands and knees, my vision going white at the edges."You’re trying to destroy it," Fen said. He pulled me back up by the collar. "Command it. There’s a difference.""What’s the difference?""One of them leaves something standing afterward."Fen’s head snapped toward the tree line. His tattoos started moving again, slow spirals up his forearms."He's here," Fen said."The bond," he said, low and fast. "I can see it. Right now, it looks like a chain left in the rain for 20 years. Corroded. Kael's been holding it together by sheer stubbornness." He looked at me. "When he walks in, he's going to use your name. That's how he'll try to pull you back. Don't let him."For a split second, I remembered what bonds meant for us. They weren't just feelings or old promises; they were living things, spun in the mar

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Alpha’s Chase

The bolt hit Kael in the shoulder.Not me. Him.He threw himself sideways, not to avoid the bolt but right into its path. The silver tip sank just below his collarbone. He made a sound I’d never heard from him before. It was low and animal, but not like a wolf. It sounded more human.He went down on one knee.Serena stared at him. For one second, she looked like she hadn’t planned for this either.That second was all I needed.I didn’t use the power. I just moved. I took three steps across the clearing and drove my elbow into her jaw so hard I felt it in my teeth. She turned, and the crossbow spun out of her hands into the mud. Without thinking, I kicked it farther into the dark.Serena looked up at me from the ground, blood on her lip, and for the first time since I’d known her, she looked genuinely afraid.“Don’t,” I said. That’s all.She didn’t move.I turned around. Kael was still on one knee, holding his shoulder. His gold eyes watched me with an expression I couldn’t name. The b

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The Hollow

I didn’t look back. I ran harder.Fen moved through the Growth like he was part of it, ducking branches without looking and stepping across roots without slowing. I was getting better at following him, though not perfectly. Kael kept pace behind me, breathing hard as the silver worked through him. Every few minutes, I heard him stumble and catch himself, and each time, I had to fight the urge to slow down. The bond was gone; I’d severed it and felt it snap. Breaking a bond like ours, the one that ties two spirits together, alpha to mate, wolf to wolf, was supposed to free me, to untangle that deep, instinctive pull we shared. But the habit of caring about him hadn’t faded yet.“Almost there,” Fen said.“You keep saying that.”“I keep meaning it.”Then the trees opened up, and I stopped.The Hollow wasn’t what I expected. I’d pictured something gloomy, like the rest of the Growth, full of rot, murk, and things with strange eyes. But this was different. The trees here were old, older th

Last Updated : 2026-04-02

Aldric Thornridge

Nobody slept.Kael leaned against a thick root, eyes closed, and jaw clenched. Fen had disappeared into the darkness an hour ago and still hadn’t returned. I sat three feet from the pool, close enough to see my reflection but far enough to pretend I wasn’t thinking about it.The water stayed still. No wind, no current. It was black and calm, as if it were waiting for me. Once, Fen had told a story about the first Sovereign who tried to claim the Hollow- a legend about a pool that never froze or dried, filled with memories the earth couldn’t keep buried. Some said the pool was older than the walls around us. Others whispered that its surface was a door, not a mirror, meant for secrets, not wishes. I didn’t know what to believe, except that it felt like looking into a place that remembered everything.I’d been staring at it for an hour. Maybe more.“You’re going to look eventually,” Kael said. His eyes were still closed.“I’m not looking for your commentary.”“That wasn’t commentary. Th

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