Semua Bab The Alpha Cursed Luna: Bab 1 - Bab 10

Dara's POVI felt the silence before I understood it.It came over the clearing like something dropping — three hundred wolves going still all at once, breath held, the night itself seeming to lean in and wait. I have never gotten used to silence like that. It has weight. It sits on your chest until breathing becomes a decision instead of a reflex.I stood at the center of the Cross pack's ceremonial circle, wrapped in white I hadn't chosen, my hair braided the exact way Damien's mother believed a Luna's hair ought to be braided. Even my hands were folded the correct way, the dutiful way, because tonight had never truly belonged to me. It belonged to the pack, to tradition, to Lady Corinne's idea of what I was supposed to become.I told myself none of that would matter once the mark was on my neck. Once his teeth found my skin and the bond settled into the marrow of me, whatever version of myself I'd had to set aside to get here would stop mattering. I would simply *be* — Luna, chosen

Dara's POVFor a long moment, all I could do was stare at him, the words hanging in the space between us like something too heavy to catch."No." It left me before I'd even decided to say it, before my mind had caught up to whatever my mouth had already committed to. "No, absolutely not."Kai didn't flinch away from the venom in my voice, which told me more than anything else could have. He'd known I would say exactly this. He'd come anyway, walked two hours through territory that wasn't his to be crossing, and stood on this porch bracing for it."Dara—""He rejected me, Kai." My hands had started shaking, and I hated that they were shaking, hated that even now, hours later, my body hadn't caught up to what my mind already understood as fact. "In front of the entire pack. He looked me in the eye and told three hundred wolves he didn't want me. And you want me to just — what? Walk back in there and save his life?""I want you to hear me out. That's all I'm asking." Kai's jaw tightened,

Dara's POVI didn't move from the doorway for a long time, my feet rooted to the spot like something in me was still deciding whether crossing that threshold meant surrender.Chidi's hand found my elbow, steady, silent, giving me the choice of whether to step forward or turn around and walk straight back out. Kai stood just behind us, not pushing, though I could feel the tension radiating off him like heat off summer pavement."Elder Mackenzie." My voice came out steadier than I felt. "How does this actually work? The proximity — does it genuinely help, or is that just something people say to make themselves feel less useless?"Mackenzie's eyes moved between me and the bed, calculating something I couldn't follow. "The bond isn't broken, Dara. Not truly, whatever it looks like from the outside. It's wounded. Proximity to you eases the wound temporarily — think of it as pressure on a bleeding cut. It won't heal him. But it slows the bleeding enough to matter.""So I'm a bandage." My mo

Damien's POV The moment her hand had touched mine, something inside my chest had eased — not gone, never fully gone, but quieter, the way a scream finally allowed to drop into a whisper after hours of raw-throated agony. I hadn't known relief could feel that specific, that tied to one person's skin against mine. I hadn't expected it to hit me the way it did. I'd braced myself for her anger, for coldness sharp enough to cut, for the very real possibility she'd take one look at me and walk straight back out that door without a single word spared for me. I hadn't braced myself for the way my whole body would recognize her touch like something coming up for air after too long underwater — instant, involuntary, entirely outside anything I could control or explain away. "That reaction," Elder Mackenzie said, returning to my room once Dara had gone, studying the veins along my wrist with new and unmistakable intensity, "was stronger than I anticipated. Considerably stronger than the text

Dara's POVNobody moved for a long moment. The silence stretched taut between the four of us, broken only by the distant sound of pups training somewhere across the yard, oblivious to the reckoning quietly unfolding just out of their sight. Mackenzie straightened her spine, unbowed despite the danger radiating off Corinne's unnatural, deliberate stillness."Enough," Mackenzie said evenly, her voice carrying none of the fear I felt clawing its way up my own throat. "More than you'd like, I imagine, though considerably less than she deserves to know."Corinne's gaze slid to me, assessing, cold in a way that made me want to take a step back — and made me plant my feet more firmly instead, refusing to give her that particular satisfaction. "You have no idea what you're stepping into, girl. None whatsoever.""Then enlighten me." I forced steel into my spine, willing my hands not to shake at my sides where she could see them. "You've spent my entire life making sure I never asked the right