Todos los capítulos de The moon lied- She chose the beast.: Capítulo 31 - Capítulo 38

POV: Kang SeraThe mountain estate looked peaceful from a distance, all stone walls and quiet pine forest. Up close, the illusion fell apart fast.Sera counted six checkpoints before they even reached the main gate, each one manned by guards from a different family, none of them speaking to each other beyond the bare minimum required to verify credentials."They don't trust the venue," Arsen said quietly beside her, reading her expression."Nobody wanted to host. Nobody wanted to travel to someone else's territory either. This was the compromise.""It doesn't feel like compromise.""It rarely does."Inside, the great hall had been arranged with five long tables, one for each family, positioned at careful, deliberate distances from each other.Armed escorts lined every wall, dozens of them, eyes tracking every movement in the room with a wariness Sera hadn't seen even during the worst of the attacks on Dragunov Manor.She understood, walking to their seats, that this wasn't a room buil

POV: Kang SeraThe disappearance of the southern bodyguard cracked whatever composure remained in the summit hall. Voices rose over each other, accusations flying faster than anyone could track, five families now openly suspicious of every face in the room."This happened under your host family's watch," the northern boss snapped toward the estate's owners."Explain that.""Perhaps it happened because someone here wanted it to look that way," came the reply, sharp, defensive.Sera stood near the back of the hall, watching the chaos ripple outward, and found herself doing what she always did in rooms like this. Not listening to what people said. Watching what they didn't.That was how she noticed him.A man near the end of the western table, mid-fifties, unremarkable in a room full of men who wanted to be remarkable.He hadn't raised his voice once, not during the earlier accusations against Arsen, not during the panic over the missing bodyguard, not even now, while the room around him

POV: Kang SeraThe count came in slow, delivered in pieces by exhausted security teams still combing through the wreckage.Hundreds dead by morning, delegates and guards alike, entire family lines that had survived decades of underworld war reduced to names on a growing list nobody wanted to finish reading.The survivors gathered on the mountainside in loose, shell-shocked clusters, and it didn't take long before grief curdled into something sharper."He knew this building better than anyone," a northern captain said, loud enough to carry, his eyes fixed on Arsen across the clearing."Knew every exit, Moved through that chaos like he'd rehearsed it.""He saved half the men standing here," another voice cut back, sharp with exhaustion."Including yours.""Convenient, isn't it... The one man untouched by any of this walks away a hero.""Say that again," a third voice muttered,"and see how untouched you walk away."Sera felt her jaw tighten, the accusation landing somewhere close to fur

POV: Arsen DragunovArsen dismissed his captains two hours earlier than usual. He gave them nothing more than exhaustion from the summit as a reason.Most accepted it without question. A few exchanged glances, quick, careful, the kind that told him they suspected something closer to the truth.None of them asked.He was grateful for that particular mercy, though gratitude sat strange and heavy in his chest tonight, tangled up with everything else he couldn't say out loud.He walked the eastern wing alone afterward. The way he always did before a night like this one.Steel doors first. He checked each hinge, each bolt, running his hand along seams he'd inspected a hundred times before. Still checking, even now, as though this time might reveal something new. His fingers lingered a beat too long on the last bolt. Heavy locks next, the mechanism reinforced twice since he'd first had this wing built.Upgraded again after the last incident left a hairline crack in the frame, one that had t