All Chapters of The Alpha's Secret Twins: Rise Of The Rejected Luna: Chapter 81 - Chapter 90

KILLIAN."Play it again," I ordered, my voice rough as the screen went black. "I need to see it one more time."Claude didn't argue. He restarted the footage immediately, the glow of the laptop casting dark shadows across the abandoned hunting cabin. Watching it a second time changed nothing, but every frame hurt more. Candice recognized Marcus, stopped fighting, and willingly climbed into his vehicle after spending three painful days away from her children. I watched her face change from anger to shock, then to something that looked too much like reluctant trust. My chest felt like it was being crushed.I turned to Adrian, my fists clenched at my sides. "What could Marcus possibly have said to make her trust him after four years of believing he was dead? Tell me everything you know about him. Don't hold anything back."Adrian slowly rubbed his jaw, his eyes fixed on the frozen image. "Candice loved Marcus like family once. He was there during the hardest years after she took control

CANDICE.I woke with the taste of wolfsbane bitter on my tongue and a burning sensation beneath the skin above my heart. The pain was sharp and constant, like someone had pressed a hot brand against my chest and left it there. I tried to sit up, but iron restraints circled my wrists, each one coated with enough silver to keep my wolf weak and whimpering in the back of my mind. The underground room had no windows, no clocks, no changing light. I had no idea how long I had been unconscious. Hours? Days? The uncertainty clawed at me worse than the silver. "Hello?" I called, my voice rough. "Marcus! I know you're listening. Get in here and face me!"The last thing I remembered clearly was Marcus showing me live security footage of Leo and Lia inside Crescent Moon Pack. Someone wearing Miller Security clearance had accessed the children's protected files while I watched, helpless on the screen. Marcus had leaned close in the car and told me Lia had already been identified. I entered his ve

KILLIAN. I was halfway across the northern forest when the mate bond died. One moment my wolf was following the faint pain Candice had sent through our connection, a desperate thread pulling me forward, and the next there was nothing. Absolute, terrifying nothing. The emptiness hit like a physical blow, knocking the air from my lungs. "Candice?" I called, pressing a hand against my chest. "Candice, answer me." Nothing. My wolf lost control immediately. The shift tore through me before I could warn Claude, bones cracking and reforming in a violent rush. My Alpha wolf crashed into the trees, snapping branches and attacking every unfamiliar scent in his path. Rage and grief fueled every leap, every snap of my jaws. Candice was gone from me. The bond that had anchored me for months had been severed. Claude shifted and tried to block me, his big brown wolf planting himself in my path. Through the pack bond, his voice hit me hard. Killian, stop. You don't know what happened to her. I thr

CANDICE.My first instinct was to tell Elias I did not care about thirty-two strangers when my children were being hunted, but the words died before they left my mouth. If Lucian had already broken thirty-two mate bonds, then the Circle had been perfecting this monstrous binding process for years. Lia was not their first target, and I could not destroy the threat to my daughter by simply escaping one underground room. The realization settled over me like cold water, forcing me to think beyond immediate escape. Survival had always been about more than just me. It was about Leo and Lia. It had to be about them now more than ever.I asked quietly, keeping my voice low enough that only the ventilation gap would carry it, "Are the wolves prisoners?"Elias answered after a pause. "Some are. Others no longer remember they were taken. The binding does that to you after a while. It rewrites what your wolf believes is natural.""How long have they been down here?""The oldest prisoner has been

KILLIAN.I stopped moving the moment Candice told me her wolf did not know me. Every instinct inside my own wolf demanded that I close the distance between us, pull her against my body, and cover her in my scent until whatever the Circle had done finally broke. He wanted to remind her wolf of the bond the Moon Goddess had created between us, but Aldric's warning returned before I could take another step. If I pushed my Alpha aura against the artificial binding, I could force Candice's wolf deeper beneath Lucian's command instead of bringing her back to me.So I did the one thing that felt completely unnatural for an Alpha standing inside enemy territory. I lowered my eyes first and forced my wolf to settle, even when he fought me hard from within. Candice went still, clearly surprised by the action, and the grip she had on the stolen weapon loosened slightly."I won't use my Alpha command on you," I told her quietly, keeping my hands where she could see them. "I won't force your wolf