All Chapters of Rejected Luna: The Alpha’s Regret : Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

The first warning was silence, the kind of silence that meant something had already crossed the line. I felt it before anyone spoke. My instincts sharpened instantly, this wasn’t a distant threat anymore. It was a movement.The air itself felt altered, like the forest had exhaled and forgotten to inhale again. Even the usual background noise of the perimeter, distant patrol shifts, settling leaves, low night insects had thinned into something unnatural. A guard near the eastern ridge shifted, then froze mid-motion like he had just realized movement itself was a mistake. No alarm followed. That was worse than any sound.“Lyra.”Ronan’s voice came from behind me, low and precise. There’s a shift in the perimeter, he said. No scouts lingering this time. They’ve advanced.“How far?”Too close for observation,”Darian answered as he stepped into view.A slow breath left me.So he’s stopped waiting. Ronan’s gaze shifted slightly. He already knows you’re here.Darian stepped closer. “If Ironc

The first mistake wasn’t loud nor was it dramatic. It was a hand tightening too fast around a weapon, I saw it before anyone else didAn Ironclaw wolf, young, impatient, shifted his weight wrong, fingers closing around the hilt at his side. He wasn’t acting under command or any order, it was just a decision he took by himself.“Don’t,” Kael said sharply. But it came a second too late.The wolf lunged forward straight for Darian. Darian met him head-on, knocking the blade aside with a brutal twist of his wrist. Their bodies slammed together, boots tearing into the earth as they struggled for control.The wolves around reacted, my people moved to intercept, they didn’t charge forward blindly, they adjusted positions, cutting angles, and blocking advances.Ironclaw answered immediately, more stepped in, then three more. And just like that the clearing became a fight.“Stand down!” Kael’s voice cut through the noise. Some of his wolves hesitated. Mine didn’t because there were defending t

The smile on the stranger’s face didn’t fade, if anything it felt like this exact moment was the one they had been waiting for.“Three leaders,” the figure repeated, voice smooth, almost amused. “How convenient.”No one answered, because we all felt the looping danger now.“Fall back,” Darian muttered under his breath.“Too late,” Ronan replied quietly. He was right, because the forest behind the stranger… moved deliberately and coordinated.They’ve surrounded us,” Kael said, and he just stated the fact. My mind moved quickly to our positions, numbers and distance. The exit routes were blocked too.“On my mark,” I said slowly. Ronan didn’t look at me, but I felt the shift in his stance, ready and listening.Kael glanced at me, just once and that look said everything we weren’t saying out loud, “ we don’t have a choice.” Good, because I wasn’t giving him one. The stranger took one slow step forward, measured and calculated, like they weren’t worried about what we might do.“You’ve bee

The silence after they left didn’t feel like peace, it felt like something unfinished. No one moved immediately, not my pack, not ironclaw, not even Kael.The clearing still carried the weight of what had just happened. You, It echoed again.“They’re gone,” Darian said quietly. “No,” Ronan replied. I didn’t look at either of them because I already knew. “They’re watching,” I said.“Pull back,” I ordered. My warriors moved instantly, gathering, checking for injuries, re-forming into controlled structures. Ironclaw took longer, not because they couldn’t because they were watching Kael and waiting for his order.He didn’t give the order immediately, his gaze was on me.“Kael,” Selene’s voice cut in as she approached from the far side of the clearing and just like that, another problem walked in. Her eyes swept the scene quickly then they landed on me.“What happened here?” she demanded. No one answered her.Selene’s gaze flicked to Kael again. You left the borders exposed for this? Kael

No one spoke immediately after the wolf went still. The clearing felt different now, like a trap that hadn’t finished closing.Darian was the first to move. He crouched beside the fallen wolf again, checking his pulse, his breathing, anything that would suggest he was still there.He’s alive, Darian said. But there was no relief in it because we all knew that didn’t mean much anymore.Restrain him properly,” I ordered. My warriors moved fast, binding his wrists, securing him tighter than before. I stood slowly, my look watching carefully over the clearing, my pack and over Ironclaw, because now everyone was a threat.Kael stepped closer. You heard what he said, he said, voice low. “I did,” turning to face him fully. We don’t have enough information to start tearing each other apart.That wasn’t what I asked. “No,” I replied calmly. “It’s what you need to hear.” For a second, he looked like he might argue, then looked past me. He looked towards my pack and the others, I saw that he was