All Chapters of Betrayed Luna, Claimed by the lycan King : Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

~Nyra~I’m lost.I’ve fallen and I can’t get back up. Night is closing in fast, and it’s starting to overwhelm me. My soft sniffles are the only sounds breaking the silence around the trees, the damp soil, and the heavy air. How did I even end up like this?All I wanted was to save my teammate without putting her in danger. As the leader, losing her feels like a failure on my part too.You’d think I’d be calmer since I knew the map, right? Well, the map only went up to the exit. After that, we’d been stumbling blindly for at least half a mile with no real idea where the actual exit was. It was crushing.This forest… the darkness… it terrifies me. Once night falls, all the dark creatures come out. I could get mauled by a werebear, torn apart by rogue wolves, or eaten by something even worse. I didn’t want my life to end like this. It was genuinely scaring me.For a moment, nothing else mattered. I let myself sob quietly. As

Nyra VirellionIt had only been a few hours since the trial ended. We’d made it back from the labyrinth by transport, though some of the witches had to step in and help the remaining contestants get out. Three trials were done, and a handful of us had earned our spot in the fourth.I was still so out of it that I couldn’t even focus on the view outside the jeep window. “Huh…? What’s going on?”Thankfully, Oryndor Blackveil was sitting right beside me with a couple of the teammates he’d gotten to know during the trial. It was surprising that he’d let his group head off without him, trusting them with his articles while he stayed back to check on things. The chaos from that land kraken had pulled his attention, but I was honestly just grateful he’d been there. It takes real guts to drop your own trial requirements to help someone else.And finding out he was the white wolf I’d already gotten close to? That was one of the best surprises I’d had in a long time.“What’s… happening?” I aske

Vaerith[THE NIGHT BEFORE]Who ever listens to a guy’s side of things anyway? People always assume men don’t have feelings, but we do. Our thoughts and opinions matter to us, even if the rest of the world doesn’t care.I trailed quietly behind them, following as Vaerith wait, no, I was the one doing the following. I watched Nyra Virellion slip out of the palace and head toward the gate. My chamber overlooked the citadel’s grand entrance, the long path that stretched two miles straight to the main gate separating our Pack from the wild beyond. Those tall compound walls had protected us for decades, and they’d keep doing so as long as we respected them.My focus shattered completely when I spotted Oryndor Blackveil breaking away from his friends on the palace grounds. He was near the gate while Nyra had already passed through after the guards confirmed her as a contestant. This was actually happening, right in front of me.Oryndor didn’t seem to be deliberately following her. He looked

Nyra Virellion[Few moments before]Oryndor Blackveil stood right beside me while I endured the weight of all those judging stares from the crowd. My outfit already had me feeling exposed enough, but his occasional reassuring squeezes on my hand helped ground me. Still, I couldn’t shake the heavy thoughts swirling in my head about how my past could never be erased.“Whoa. Look at the audacity of this girl. After having such a great time with other men, especially Zephyros, she quickly jumped to another man. She couldn’t even invite him to the banquet without cheating on him!”“I guess the rumors about her were true, then. She really is a cheating scumbag. She’s a bad label to all us women who are trying to make a living. You won’t believe that she’s become the standard of comparison in our pack lately. If any woman misbehaves, her name comes up instantly!”The merciless women laughed behind my back as I walked past. Oryndor must not have heard what they said. Otherwise, our newfound f

NyraMy whole body locked up as he leaned in toward me, slow and dangerous.The words wouldn’t come out, even though my mind was screaming at me to say something, anything.I kept telling myself to just slip out of his reach and run, to forget this entire night and everything that had happened.These guys were distractions I couldn’t afford.I couldn’t let myself fall for a man I already felt guilty for turning down twice before, even if those had just been innocent requests for a dance back when I was a completely different person.I’m only eighteen.The world still feels way too big and scary for someone like me.Most girls my age in this generation of wolves or even humans would be over the moon if someone like Lycan Alpha Vaerith showed real interest in them.And yeah, part of me felt a little proud that he actually had feelings for me.But at the same time, it was Alpha Vaerith confessing to me.I didn’t like him.I hated that he was forcing himself on me like this.The weight of