All Chapters of CHASING HIS DEAD LUNA: Chapter 61

ARIAHe stayed until past midnight. And it was not in the way I’d been afraid of, not in the way that would have required explaining to Eli in the morning, just sitting on the edge of my bed while I sat in the chair across from him, both of us talking in the low quiet way you talk when there’s a child sleeping nearby.The rest of the house was silent, it was the most honest conversation we’d had since any of this began, which wasn’t saying much given the week, but it felt like something.He told me about his father’s call, the exact words, the threats Aaron had made about the Council seat and the pack’s political standing and the alliance money.I imagined all of it being delivered in that flat, cold voice Aaron used when he wanted you to understand the full weight of what he was prepared to do.I listened and felt the familiar cold of it, the cold audacity of a man who planned Adrian’s future c the way other people arranged furniture.“He’ll follow through,” I said.“Some of it,”