All Chapters of The Lycan king's Unwanted Luna : Chapter 61 - Chapter 70

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Chapter 62:The Hunt Begins

Kael's POV"My King, it isn't safe for you to leave the Citadel." My captain fell into step beside me as I reached for my horse. "Let the scouts....""The scouts don't love her." I mounted without waiting for his answer. "I'm not sending men to find her. I'm going myself."He didn't argue further. He simply mounted his own horse and followed, and I understood, riding out through the gates I'd ordered closed only hours before, that I had stopped acting like a king the moment her letter reached my desk.We found the first sign an hour into the forest. A branch snapped clean at eye height, too high to be an animal's passing. Further on, a footprint pressed deep into soft ground, the toe dug in hard enough to show she'd stumbled there and caught herself.Near a narrow stream, my captain pulled up short and pointed to a thorn bush. A scrap of pale fabric hung caught in its branches, torn from a cloak.I recognized the color before he said a word.She'd come this way. And she wasn't far ahe

Chapter 63: What the Bond Knows

Kael's POVI stared at the blood on the leaves, my hand tightening around the hilt at my side.Someone had fought here. I didn't know if the blood belonged to Seraphina. I told myself it didn't.Then something twisted hard beneath my ribs.I staggered a step before I caught myself. My captain looked at me. "My King?"I ignored him. It wasn't pain exactly. It was fear. Raw. Crushing. It wasn't mine.The feeling slammed into me with brutal familiarity. I had buried the bond beneath duty for months, pretending distance could silence it. It hadn't.I couldn't tell where she was. I only knew, with a certainty that settled into my bones, that she was alive, and that somewhere in these mountains she was terrified.We rode through the night without stopping. The tremor beneath my ribs came and went in waves, sometimes faint, sometimes sharp enough to steal my breath. Each time it flared, I pushed the horse harder.My captain finally rode close enough to speak. "My King, are you injured?""She

Chapter 64: The One Who Bled

Kael's POVThe pain came again as we crested the ridge, sharper this time, radiating from a point just below my collarbone. I pressed my hand against it without thinking, my fingers curling into the fabric of my coat."Your Majesty." My captain had slowed his horse beside mine, watching me with open concern. "Are you—"I looked down at my own hand, gripping my shoulder exactly where the fresh wound must have opened on hers."She's hurt," I said.I didn't need tracks anymore. The bond had already answered."How badly?" my captain asked."I don't know." I nudged my horse forward again, faster, the wet pine needles crushed silent beneath its hooves. "But she's still moving. That has to be enough for now."Seraphina's POV>>>>>>I stopped when my legs finally refused to carry me another step, sinking down against the base of a wide tree, my shoulder throbbing in time with my pulse. I couldn't run forever on an open wound.I tore a strip from the hem of my dress. My hands shook as I tied it

Chapter 65: The ones Who Never Died

Kael's POV"That can't be," my captain said, his horse sidestepping nervously beneath him."I heard it once before." The memory surfaced unwillingly, sharp after years of staying buried. I was a boy the first time, no older than ten, when my father ordered every northern patrol to avoid an entire stretch of forest without ever explaining why. I remembered asking him once. He'd told me some things were better left undisturbed, and never spoke of it again.They weren't extinct. They had only disappeared, deliberately, into a corner of the map my own father had marked as forbidden.If the hunters had found them first, blood would already have been spilled. And some wars only needed a single drop to begin again."Which way?" my captain asked.I was already turning my horse toward the sound. "Toward the howl."Seraphina's POV>>>>>I made it as far as a narrow river before my legs finally gave out beneath me, my knees striking wet stone hard enough to jar through my whole body. I couldn't s

Chapter 66: The Truth He Could No Longer Deny

Kael's POV"Did you come here as her king," the elder repeated, "or as her mate?"I studied him a long moment, weighing whether there was any answer that wouldn't cost me something. His silver eyes gave nothing away, his face unmoving, though I understood, somehow, that he already knew."I came because she's under my protection," I said.He smiled, faint and unimpressed. "That wasn't what I asked."Beside me, my captain shifted, his confusion plain on his face. He didn't know. I hadn't told him, hadn't told anyone, had barely let myself acknowledge it in the privacy of my own thoughts until the bond had torn through me strong enough to bring me to my knees."She is my mate," I said.The words left my mouth before I could pull them back. For a moment, I couldn't remember why I'd spent so long denying them.The elder's face didn't change. "Then you are already too late." He turned, gesturing for me to follow. "A king would have arrived yesterday, with guards and demands and threats of w

Chapter 67: The Blood They Buried

Kael's POVI stepped through the cabin door expecting to find her unconscious, or worse. Instead she sat upright on the narrow bed, the older woman tying off a fresh bandage at her shoulder, her eyes finding mine the moment I crossed the threshold.I crossed the room before I'd decided to move, my hand finding her uninjured shoulder, needing to feel her solid and breathing under my palm. She looked startled by it, though not unwelcoming.My shoulders loosened for the first time since she'd vanished.The elder, who had followed me inside, watched the two of us with something knowing in his expression. "The bond brought you here faster than your horse ever could."I didn't deny it.He gestured toward the door, and the older woman rose without a word, following him out until only Seraphina and I remained.Seraphina's POV>>>>>The old woman had paused at the door on her way out, looking back at me strangely, her fingers brushing once against my cheek as though checking whether I was real.

Chapter 68: The Last Ashbourne

Kael's POVShe stared at the letter long after the silence had settled, her fingers pressed white against the edges of the page. I expected relief. I expected something to finally settle in her, an answer at last after months of chasing shadows.Instead she looked lost."Then who have I been all my life?" she whispered.That landed harder than anything the elder had said yet.The old man rose from his stool. "Leave us.""No.""Some truths belong to blood before they belong to mates."I looked at Seraphina. She didn't ask me to stay, didn't reach for my hand the way I half expected her to. She only nodded once, small and certain, and I understood I had no place in whatever came next.I walked out into the cold evening air, my jaw tight, hating every second I stood outside that door unable to hear what was happening on the other side of it.Seraphina's POV>>>>>The elder sat back down once Kael had gone, folding his hands in his lap."Your mother's people weren't destroyed because they

Chapter 69: The Council Comes

Kael's POVI counted before I felt anything else. Five Alpha houses. An army marching behind them. The warriors had said before dawn, so I gave myself until then to prepare, though I already knew that wasn't enough time to do anything more than watch."Call your fighters," I told the elder. "I'll bring mine in from the ridge.""No.""They're coming for my mate.""No," the elder said again, calm in a way that made the refusal worse. "They're coming for the blood in her veins. This valley has survived by staying hidden. Bring your soldiers here, and you expose every family who's sheltered her mother's people for twenty years. I won't allow that, King or not."I clenched my jaw and said nothing further, though the refusal sat like a stone in my chest.Then a colder thought settled over the first. Five houses, arriving within a day of her reaching this valley, a place hidden well enough that even I hadn't known it existed until an archivist led me to Black Lake.Someone had told them exac

Chapter 70: What Her Mother Hid

Kael's POVThey led us into a wide hall built into the mountainside itself, five Alpha houses seated across from the elder, from Seraphina, from me. Within minutes I understood this Council hadn't ridden here as one body with one purpose.The first Alpha watched her with something close to reverence, the way a man watches a relic he'd believed lost forever. The second wouldn't look at her directly at all, his eyes fixed on the table between us. The third, the one who'd refused to kneel in the clearing, sat with his arms crossed and his jaw set, openly hostile in a way none of the others matched. The fourth studied her the way I'd seen merchants study a rare commodity. The fifth, as before, gave away nothing at all.They spoke over each other, around her, through her, as though she were a treaty to be negotiated rather than a woman sitting three feet away from every one of them.Beside me, I felt her anger rise before she spoke a word of it, sharp and sudden through the bond, and my wo

Chapter 71: The Awakening

Seraphina's POVI walked the corridor alone after Kael left, his half-answer still sitting uneasily in my chest. I wasn't angry at him, not entirely. I was angry at everyone who had known some piece of me before I did.Near the end of the corridor, a support beam caught my eye, the same carved symbol from my pendant scratched crudely into its base, half hidden behind years of dust. Nothing had guided me there. I'd simply looked, the way I'd learned to look at everything twice since leaving the Citadel. Behind the beam, a narrow stairwell dropped into darkness.I went down it myself.The stairs ended in a small stone chamber, cold and undisturbed, its walls covered in carved markings. The same three wolves, the same broken crown, repeated dozens of times across the stone in patterns I didn't understand. One symbol, larger than the rest, sat at the chamber's center. I reached out and touched it.A voice filled the room, faint, worn thin by years, but unmistakably my mother's."If you're

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