All Chapters of The Day I Stopped Being His Luna: Chapter 1 - Chapter 8

By the time I got back to Blackthorn Keep, the rain had settled into my bones. I was burning with fever, shaking badly enough that I barely made it into bed.Sometime after midnight, the door opened and Kane came in smelling of cedar, wet leather, and winter air. The moment he touched my forehead, his expression changed.“You have a fever.”A day earlier, that might have softened me. Now it felt almost obscene.“How surprising,” I said. “The Alpha does know how to worry.”His jaw hardened. “Where were you tonight?”“Near enough to the council hall to hear the truth.” My throat hurt, but I made myself keep going. “Tell me, Kane. What am I to you?”For a moment he said nothing. At last he spoke in the calm, controlled tone he used when he believed he was being reasonable. “You are my mate. You are the lawful Luna of the Northlands. Your authority, your place in Blackthorn Keep, your standing before the council—none of that changes.”I looked at him and felt something inside me harden pa

By the time I walked out of the Moon Temple, dawn had broken cold and white over Silverpine.I wrapped a scarf high around my neck, used the last of my cash to hire a car, and told the driver to take me to Silverpine Regional Airport.The terminal was almost empty. A woman at the check-in desk looked from my passport to the scarf at my throat and asked, with the careful politeness people use when they sense trouble but do not want to invite it closer, “Do you have a destination in mind, ma’am?”I lifted my eyes to the departure board and chose the first southern flight that felt far enough away to matter.“Willowmere.”By the time she slid the boarding pass toward me, my hand was shaking badly enough that I had to steady it against the counter before I could take it. I made it onto the plane on pain and pride alone. When it lifted through the cloud cover, Silverpine disappeared beneath me without asking anything more of me.Kane received the dissolution papers two hours later.He had j

The truth found him before Elena did.Julian’s people had already been asking questions in the abandoned mining district when one of the handlers at the Omega Pens decided silence was no longer worth dying for. Kane drove out there himself.The place looked even worse in daylight: rusted fencing, cracked concrete, security lights buzzing weakly above old industrial ruins. He found three men in a side office that smelled of bleach, smoke, and wolfsilver.They did not confess cleanly. Kane had to drag the truth out of them in pieces, and every piece cut deeper than the last. Selena’s people had paid for Elena’s transfer. The wolfsilver collar had stayed on her throat all night. She had been told the Alpha’s protection no longer covered her, and the men in that place had heard exactly what they wanted to hear: she was no longer a Luna anyone needed to fear, only a collared Omega no one would come for.Kane killed the first man before the second finished speaking.He did not remember drawi

Three years later, word of Kane Blackwood’s death reached me on a quiet afternoon in early spring.By then I was living farther south than Willowmere, in a riverside town where no one knew me as anyone’s former Luna. I embroidered for a dressmaker three streets over, kept herbs in chipped pots along the kitchen sill, and shared the cottage with a half-feral cat who had appointed himself mine.A traveling merchant stopped at my gate that afternoon to ask for water. I brought him a glass from the kitchen and listened only halfway as he talked about washed-out roads, bad weather in the mountain pass, and a battle in the north that had delayed freight for weeks.Then he said, almost casually, “The Northlands lost their Alpha in it.”Something in my hand loosened.“Kane Blackwood?” I asked before I could stop myself.The merchant nodded. “Stayed behind so his soldiers could retreat. Took more arrows than anyone thought a wolf could survive.”The glass slipped from my fingers and shattered a