All Chapters of “The Luna They Betrayed: Rise of the Forsaken Wolf”: Chapter 141 - Chapter 150

The garden remained silent.Not peaceful.Not safe.Silent in the way a room becomes silent when everyone inside realizes that something is standing just outside the door.Arielle kept her eyes on the sky.The final possibility had opened its eyes.And unlike every possibility that had appeared before it, it was not waiting.It had already chosen.Elias.Cassian stepped closer to Arielle.Their shoulders touched.For once, neither of them reached for a weapon.There was nothing to fight.Not yet.Above them, the strange opening in the sky widened.Mira slowly rose from the grass.Her face had gone pale.Arielle noticed.You know what that is.Mira did not answer immediately.She stared at the opening as though she were looking at a memory she had spent an eternity trying to forget.Finally, she spoke.I have seen it before.Kael turned toward her.Where?Mira swallowed.Not here.In one of the lives that never happened.The garden seemed to grow colder.Adrian stepped forward.What di

For several minutes after the crack disappeared, nobody spoke.The garden had returned to normal.The flowers slowly opened again.The trees stopped trembling.The sky looked ordinary.But Arielle knew better.Ordinary had become one of the most dangerous words in her life.She looked at Elias.He was sitting beneath the old tree with Echo beside him.They were both staring at the grass.Neither seemed frightened anymore.That worried Arielle more than fear would have.Cassian came to stand beside her.You're thinking too loudly.Arielle gave him a tired look.I didn't know I was capable of that.You married me.You should have expected it.A tiny smile appeared on her face.Then disappeared.Cassian followed her gaze.You think it will come back.Yes.Why?Because it didn't lose.Cassian was quiet.Arielle continued.It wanted permission to exist. Elias accidentally gave Echo that permission by choosing him as a friend. But the thing beneath the possibilities didn't receive what it w

For a long moment, nobody answered Elias.The question was too simple for the weight it carried.What happens if I choose nothing?Arielle looked into her son's eyes and saw no cosmic power there.Only a child asking whether he was allowed to put something down.She pulled him into her arms.Then you rest.Elias stiffened slightly.That isn't what I meant.I know.Arielle held him tighter.And that was exactly why her heart hurt.She had spent so long teaching Elias that his choices mattered that she had failed to notice another lesson he needed just as badly.He was allowed to stop.Cassian crouched beside them.You don't have to decide the fate of the universe tonight.Elias looked between them.What about tomorrow?Cassian smiled.Tomorrow isn't here yet.That made Elias smile too.Only briefly.Because behind them, Mira had not moved.She was staring at the place where the old woman had disappeared.Her face had lost all color.Arielle noticed.Mira?Mira didn't answer.Arielle st

The baby cried again.The sound came from nowhere and everywhere at once.It was not the cry of a distant child carried through a doorway. It was close enough that Arielle felt it inside her chest.She turned toward the shattered remains of the memory-doorway.There was nothing there now.Only fragments of silver light hovered above the grass, trembling like pieces of a broken mirror.Yet the crying continued.Arielle's breath caught.Cassian stepped closer to her.Neither of them spoke.The cry came again.Small.Frightened.Alive.Elias stood completely still.His face had gone pale.He was staring at the place where the doorway had been.I know that cry, he whispered.Arielle's heart tightened.You know it?Elias nodded slowly.Not because I remember hearing it.He pressed one hand against his chest.I remember waiting for it.Mira's expression changed.Waiting for what?Elias looked at her.For my sister.Silence spread through the garden.Even the millions of possibilities overhe

Arielle could not move.Seraphina.The name echoed through her mind with a familiarity that made no sense.She had never spoken it before.Yet her heart recognized it.Not as a word.As a loss.Mira was staring at the little girl.Seraphina.She repeated the name slowly, as though testing whether it belonged in her mouth.The child nodded.Mira's face crumpled.I remember.Arielle looked at her.What do you remember?Mira pressed a hand against her chest.A room.Her breathing became uneven.A small room with white curtains.Snow outside the window.A wooden cradle.And you.She looked at Arielle.You were there.Arielle's mind suddenly filled with flashes.A candle burning beside a bed.Cassian standing near a window.Except he wasn't Cassian.His face was the same.His eyes were different.A baby crying.Mira holding the child.Arielle standing beside her.And a promise.Not spoken aloud.Felt.We cannot let them find her.Arielle staggered.Cassian caught her.What did you see?She