All Chapters of From Torment to Luna : Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

**POV: Aria**The moment Aria Voss walked through the gates of Crestmoon Academy, she made herself small.It was not something she thought about anymore. It was instinct, like breathing, like blinking. She pulled her brown hair over her shoulder, dropped her gaze to the ground and moved through the crowded courtyard the way water moved around stone. Quietly. Without disturbing anything. Without being seen.But she was always seen."Watch where you are going, omega."The shoulder that slammed into hers sent her books scattering across the concrete. Laughter erupted around her, sharp and careless, the kind of laughter that did not care who it cut. Aria dropped to her knees and gathered her things quickly, her fingers trembling just enough to be annoying. She hated that her hands still shook. Three years of this and her body still had not learned to stop reacting."She is literally on her knees." A voice floated above her, smooth and sweet like honey poured over glass. "How fitting."Ari

**POV: Aria**His hand was still around her wrist.Aria stared down at his fingers wrapped around her skin and felt the bond surge between them like electricity finding its path. It was not painful. That was the thing nobody ever warned you about. They always described the mate bond like something gentle, something warm and golden and full of light. Nobody ever told you it would feel like being struck by lightning and surviving it. Nobody told you it would feel like your entire body had been waiting for something it did not know it was missing.She looked up at him.Caden was already looking at her.This close she could see things she had never noticed from a distance. The sharp line of his jaw. The way his silver hair fell slightly across his forehead. The grey of his eyes was not flat like she had always thought. Up close it had depth, layers, like storm clouds with something moving underneath them.He was looking at her like he was trying to solve a problem.She pulled her wrist ge

**POV: Aria**She did not sleep.She lay in her small bed in her father's cottage and stared at the ceiling while the moon moved across the sky outside her window and the bond sat in her chest like a living thing, warm and restless and completely unbothered by the fact that she needed it to stop.Every time she closed her eyes she saw grey ones looking back at her.She pressed her pillow over her face and groaned into it.This was not supposed to happen to her. Girls like her did not get chosen by the Moon Goddess for something like this. Girls like her survived. They kept their heads down and their expectations low and they found quiet corners of the world where nobody could reach them. They did not get fated to the most powerful boy in the pack. They did not spend the night after the most shocking ceremony in Silvermoon Pack history lying awake feeling a bond pulling at their ribcage like it had somewhere it desperately needed to go.She heard her father moving in the kitchen before

**POV: Aria**Mara never called back.Aria tried three more times before dinner and reached voicemail every single time. She told herself it was nothing. A dead battery. Poor signal on the edge of pack territory where Mara lived. Mara was always forgetting to charge her phone and always laughing about it afterward, showing up with a borrowed charger and absolutely no apology.It was probably nothing.She kept telling herself that all the way down the long corridor to the dining room.The dining room was the kind of room that made you immediately aware of your posture. Long dark table. High-backed chairs carved from wood so old it had gone almost black. Candles were burning in a centerpiece that had no business being this formal on an ordinary evening. Alpha Ryker sat at the head of the table like a man who had never once eaten a casual meal in his life and had no intention of starting. Luna Sera sat to his right, composed and warm. Zane was already seated when Aria arrived, nodding at

**POV: Selene**She had been careful.That was the thing Selene kept coming back to as she sat in her car outside the Silvermoor mansion gates the following morning watching the pack guard change shifts. She had been careful and precise and she had not rushed anything and yet somehow the rock through Mara's window felt sloppy in a way that sat uncomfortably against everything she prided herself on.She had not ordered that.That was the part that kept nagging at her like a stone in her shoe. She had not told Kael to move yet. She had been explicit about that in their last exchange. Her terms. Her timing. She had made that the foundation of everything they had agreed to and he had sent her back three words of confirmation and she had believed him.She took out her phone and opened the encrypted channel."The window," she typed. "That was not sanctioned."His response took four minutes. Long enough that she had started to wonder if he was going to pretend it had not happened."A show of