All Chapters of Luna's Rejection: Draven's Dirty Secret : Chapter 61 - Chapter 70

107 Chapters

Chapter 61: Draven's Growing Paranoia

DRAVEN THE NEXT MORNING "Check the western patrol again," I ordered, pacing the command room. "Silas could already have people inside the outer lines. I want their names." Marcus nodded and left fast. Kai watched me from the table, a line of concern shaped on his face. "You checked them two hours ago," he said. "The reports are good. You need some sleep." "I want to be sure," I shot back. "Sleep can wait till later." Buttercup spoke, her expression caught somewhere between worry and frustration. "Draven, you're running on nothing. The bonds feel frayed through you. Talk to us, please." I looked at her, and the fear hit again...the same fear from the nightmares. Her face in Silas's hands. The burning safe house, the lost child, All of it because I was not fast enough, not careful enough...The thought from those imagined failure hunted me. "I'm fine," I said. "Just focused." "Your energy is spiking in unstable patterns," Asher said. "The shared anxiety is feeding back t

Chapter 62: Buttercup Confronts His Darkness

BUTTERCUP "Open the barriers, Draven. Right now." I slammed both palms against the invisible wall he had thrown up around the room. "This is not protection. This is you losing control, and I refuse to watch it happen." He stood on the other side of the barrier, his eyes too bright, breath too fast, shoulders drawn up like a man bracing for a blow that had already landed a dozen times in his mind. "I can't. If I open it, you'll leave. And Silas will get the opening he needs. I saw it happen. I saw you die in my dream." "You saw a nightmare," I snapped, panic clawing at my throat. "Not the truth. Look at me Draven. I am still here. I've refused him. I chose this bond, every piece of it, and you are the one building walls between us now?" Through the trinity link I shoved the words harder, letting him feel the anger and the desperation tangled together, refusing to let either one soften into something he could dismiss. Kai's presence slammed into the bond next with alarm, a jagged

Chapter 63: Healing Through Therapy

DRAVEN "I do not like this." I sat across from the healer in the other side room. "Alphas do not sit and talk about feelings while an enemy prepares to attack." Elowen, the healer Mira had brought in, watched me without flinching. She was older, calm, with eyes that had seen too many broken wolves pass through rooms like this one. "Alphas who refuse to look at their own damage get people killed," she said. "You already locked your mate behind barriers. We'll start from there." Buttercup stayed near the door at first, her arms crossed loosely, as though she wasn't sure whether she belonged inside the conversation or outside it. "I'll wait outside if you need the space," she said. "But I'm not leaving the hall." "Stay." The word came out rougher than I meant, with a need I hadn't planned to reveal. "That's the first honest thing you've said since you sat down," Elowen said, unbothered by the rawness in my voice. "Tell me what the barriers felt like when you put them up." I s

Chapter 64: The Safe house is Under Attack

BUTTERCUP ***LATER AT NIGHT "They're hitting the western wards!" Lila shouted as the first impact shook the ground. I ran toward the outer line with Draven and Kai close behind, my heart hammering against my ribs. The air smelled like smoke and fear. Shadows that did not belong to any tree stretched across the new buildings, reaching like fingers toward the people we had promised to protect."Get the residents to the inner circle!" I yelled, my voice laced with urgency. "No one should stay in the open!"Rose appeared at my side, her hands already glowing faintly with the healing magic she had only recently learned to control. "I'll help move the ones who freeze. Marcus is already pulling people from the cottages."A blast of dark energy slammed into one of Lila's ward stones. The barrier flared bright, then cracked, it made the sound like a gunshot across the compound. Two of Silas's pairs pushed through the gap, their movements were precise. These had once been people. Someone's

Chapter 65: The Hostage Negotiation

KAI"I'll take the meet," I said, strapping a short blade under my jacket. "Silas wants to talk through a middle point. I know how these games work. You three stay here and keep the wards tight."Draven's jaw locked so hard I heard his teeth grind, and for a moment I thought he might actually put his fist through the wall. "I should go. I'm the Alpha.""You're also the one Silas wants rattled," I told him, holding his gaze. "You go, and he doesn't even need a plan, he just watches you unravel. I spent years as a rogue. I know how to walk into a trap and still walk out. Let me do this.""That's not a comfort, Kai. That's a disaster waiting to happen."Buttercup grabbed my arm before I could answer, her grip fierce enough to bruise. "Derek is only there because I promised him safety. That promise is mine to keep, not yours to gamble with. If there's a way to get him back without handing me over, take it. But don't you dare trade yourself either. I swear Kai, if you don't come back...""

Chapter 66: The Mansion Under Siege

LILA "They're near the other wall!" I shouted as the first wave of dark magic slammed into my outer wards. The stones under my hands vibrated hard, sending tremors up through my bones. "Draven, take the line. Kai, keep them off my left. Asher, cut whatever links you can. I need more time!"The mansion shook, And Somewhere in the pack, the pack members yelled ordersButtercup ran up beside me on the upper balcony, her boots skidding on the marble floor. "Lila, the other corridor is already breached! People are moving to the inner hall!""Then keep them moving," I snapped through my teeth, not daring to look away from the shimmering light before me. "If I drop concentration these wards will fall and the whole place opens!"Kai's voice came up from the stairs. "There are at least eight wolf pairs! They're hitting in groups, not random!"Draven's roar carried from the courtyard. "Hold the gate! No one should reach the main doors!"I poured more power into the lattice, feeling it drink fr

Chapter 67: The Breaking Point

DRAVEN "Stay on my right," I snarled, shifting fully into wolf form. My bones reshaping into a wolf bone, fur bursting through my skin. "Asher, take the high ground and cut their links."Kai's golden wolf slammed into the first controlled pair that broke through the courtyard. "They're trying to split us!" he snarled through the bond. "I won't let them touch her."Asher's voice cut through the bond more than the air, firm despite the chaos. "Their coordination is forced. Break two links and the rest will stagger. Trust me, or else we'll all die finding out I'm wrong."I tore into the next attacker with pure force. My bones cracked under my jaws. Blood filled my mouth, with a taste of copper mingling on my tongue. Through the bond I felt Kai's sharper, faster strikes and Asher's precise bursts of disrupting magic, each sensation distinct yet violently woven into my own.It was powerful. It was also unbearable, like trying to breathe through someone else's lungs while running for your

Chapter 68: Buttercup's Awakening Power

BUTTERCUP "Kai is bleeding out and Lila is still down!" I shouted as I ran into the courtyard, my lungs burning from the sprint across the compound. The shared pain through the trinity bond hit me like a second heartbeat made of knives, each pulse a fresh reminder of how close we stood to losing everything. "I am done watching! Do you hear me? Done!"Draven, still in his wolf form, was covered in blood. Then he turned toward me. his eyes was flashing with a warning. "Buttercup, get back inside." He ordered. "He already proved he can hurt us through one body. Do you want to give him three?"Kai was on the ground with his hand pressed to the deep wound in his side. His voice came out tight, strained around the pain he refused to let win. "She's right to be angry." He coughed, blood flecking his lips. "Just don't burn yourself doing it, Buttercup. I mean it."Asher stood over them both, his brow furrowed in concentration, sweat cutting tracks through the grime on his face. "The bond is

Chapter 69: Silas Revealed II

ASHERI sat against the courtyard wall, blood still drying on my sleeve from the shared injury. "The magic from Buttercup's surge is still in the air. If I read it now, I can see what he truly is."Draven crouched, his eyes locked on the tree line. "Then do it fast, because I am done watching people I love bleed for information." He didn't look at me. "Kai is stable but not strong. Lila is still unconscious. We cannot take another hit tonight, so whatever you're about to see had better be worth the risk."Buttercup knelt in front of me, her marks still faintly glowing from the power she had burned. Her voice shook, not from fear but from fury. "I saw something under his skin."Kai, propped against a broken pillar with a heavy bandage pressed to his side, forced a grin that didn't reach his eyes. "Prepare the full horror report while I can still hear it. Assuming nobody else decides to keel over first.""Nobody's keeling over," Draven snapped, not even glancing at him.I closed my eyes

Chapter 70: The Difficult Choice

BUTTERCUP "What are we going to do." I stood in the damaged room with Draven, Kai, Asher, and Lila. Kai was still bandaged and pale. Lila sat propped against pillows, awake but weak. "Silas is not going to stop. If we wait, he wins by wearing us down. If we release the Shadow Keeper, we might stop him and lose everything we are. There's no clean path." Draven muttered. "Clean path? There is no time for clean paths." He slammed his palm against the table, and the sound made Lila flinch. "I suggest we release it and end him. I will not watch him claim you." "Nobody is claiming her," Kai muttered. "I want him gone too. But has anyone here actually thought this through? Once that thing is free, do we even know if we can put it back? We trapped it once when it was weaker and we were desperate. This time it wakes up inside a full Vessel web. That is different, and you know it." "I know exactly what it is," Draven shot back, rounding on him. "I know it's a weapon sitting right in fro

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