All Chapters of My Alpha Buried the Wrong Luna: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

“Father!”The word seemed to hang in the room long after the boy had spoken.I stood near the doorway, unable to look away as he clung to Kael’s neck. My mate had gone completely still. The wooden wolf remained trapped in one hand while the other rested against the child’s back, as if he had forgotten what to do with it.“Elara.”Kael rose slowly.He usually called me love when we were alone or around people he trusted. The absence of that one small word should not have mattered, yet I noticed it immediately.His expression was not guilty. I knew Kael well enough to recognize guilt. What I saw was confusion and something close to shock.The boy stepped back and looked between us.“Who is she?”Before Kael could answer, the woman near the fireplace moved forward.“You must be Elara.”Something about the greeting unsettled me. Everyone in Blackridge knew who I was. More importantly, this woman had been standing inside my home with my mate. She knew exactly who I was.Kael’s jaw tightene

By the second morning, Noah’s shoes were beside Kael’s at the front door.I noticed them on my way to breakfast. One pair was large, black, and polished. The other was small and muddy, with one lace trailing across the floor.Two days ago, that space had belonged to Kael alone.I told myself it meant nothing.When I entered the dining room, Noah was already eating. Kael sat at the head of the table, reading a border report between bites. Selene occupied the chair opposite me.“Good morning,” Kael said.I kissed his cheek before sitting down. “Morning.”A servant approached with coffee, but Selene reached for the pot first.“Let me.”She poured Kael a cup and pushed it toward him. “No honey. You always hated it.”Her smile carried the warmth of an old memory.I picked up the honey jar and placed it beside Kael’s cup.“Not anymore.”Kael looked between us, then added a spoonful.Noah laughed. “Mama was wrong.”Selene’s smile tightened.It was a small victory, and I hated that I needed i

“This child has been poisoned.”For a moment, no one moved.Then I reached for Noah.“Don’t touch him!” Selene screamed.She pulled him closer, but another violent tremor passed through his body.“Put him down,” Maeve ordered. “Now.”Something in her voice cut through the panic. Selene lowered Noah onto the rug while Maeve opened her medical bag. I moved to help, but Selene blocked me with one arm.“Stay away from him.”I stared at her. “I’m trying to help.”“You helped him before.”The accusation came so quickly that I almost missed its meaning.Maeve looked up. “Both of you, stop. Elara, bring me warm water.”I ran.By the time I returned, Kael had entered the room with two guards behind him. His face changed when he saw Noah on the floor.“What happened?”“Poison,” Maeve said.Kael went still.Maeve mixed a dark binding powder into the water. She made Noah swallow small amounts between breaths, then pressed two fingers beneath his jaw. A faint glow passed through her fingertips as

I followed Kael out of the council chamber and into his private office.He knew I was behind him. He did not turn until I closed the door.For several seconds, neither of us spoke. The silence felt different without the mate bond between us. I could see the tension in his shoulders, yet I could no longer feel what lay beneath it.“Do you believe I poisoned him?”Kael’s eyes met mine.I waited.“Answer me.”He rubbed a hand over his face. “I believe I need the truth.”“You had me.”His hand dropped.“You had my word,” I continued. “You had three years beside me. You know how I treat children. You know what I would never do.”“And I have a poisoned boy upstairs.”“So that is your answer?”“I didn’t say that.”“You didn’t have to.”Kael turned toward the window. “The evidence cannot be ignored, Elara.”“I am not asking you to ignore it. I am asking you to investigate it without deciding I am guilty first.”“I suspended your authority. I did not condemn you.”A bitter laugh almost escaped

The first burning beam fell where I had been standing seconds earlier.I threw myself aside as sparks scattered across the floor, curling instinctively before my hands covered my stomach. Heat struck my back, and for one terrifying moment, I remained on my knees, afraid the fall had harmed the tiny life inside me.There was no pain in my stomach. No blood.I forced myself up.Smoke rolled across the ceiling and sank lower, swallowing the corridor in dark waves. Every breath scraped my throat, and the heat had become so intense that my eyes would not stop watering. If I panicked now, I would die before the flames reached me.I ran to the front door and wrapped part of my sleeve around the iron handle. It burned through the cloth as I pulled with both hands, but the door refused to move. I slammed my shoulder against it twice, then stopped when pain shot through my arm.The side entrance was my next chance.I ducked beneath the smoke and hurried through the hall, only to find that door