All Chapters of Erasing the Luna: Chapter 11 - Chapter 13

For one long moment, nobody moved.Maddox stood between Rhea and the council guards, his body angled toward the table while his wolf filled the chamber like a storm held inside skin. The elders stared at him with the stunned offense of men who had expected obedience and found a wall instead. Isolde’s face had gone pale beneath her perfect control, and Rowan Solmere watched from near the shelves with the grim stillness of someone who had known the ground would crack and had still hoped it might wait another day.Behind Maddox, Rhea stood very still.She could feel his power pressing through the room, dark and protective, and some broken part of her wanted to lean into it. That was the old instinct, the one that remembered him stepping in front of her during council disputes, border hearings, and ceremonies where the elders smiled too softly before trying to cut her apart with etiquette. Her body remembered safety beside his back.Her heart knew bette

By morning, Rhea was finished waiting.She had spent too many hours inside the blue sitting room listening to other people decide the shape of her life. Maddox questioned, the council demanded, Isolde warned, Scarlett measured, Rowan hid behind silence, and even the guards watched her as if the truth might break through her skin if they stared long enough. Everyone had something to say about what Rhea Moonmere might be.Danger.Disruption.Mistake.Influence.Problem.They had words for everything except wife.Rhea stood before the sealed window while pale light stretched over the black pines, and for the first time since waking in the stripped Alpha suite, her grief shifted into something steadier. She could not force Maddox to remember. She could not make the council honest by bleeding in front of them. She could not shake Isolde hard enough to loosen the fear beneath her perfect face.But she could stop sitting in a r