Alle Kapitel von The Luna they rejected : Kapitel 21 – Kapitel 30

Lyra I spun on my heel and bolted for the side gate the second that howl died in the courtyard. “Going somewhere, Catherine?” Selene’s voice sliced the air behind me like a blade. I didn’t slow. My boots slammed the stone hard enough to send shocks up my legs. My heart hammered so hard I tasted metal on my tongue. Three more steps and I would’ve made it to the laundry tunnel. Her hand clamped my wrist like iron and yanked me back so hard my shoulder popped. “Let go, you fucking bitch!” I snarled, twisting hard enough to feel skin burn under her fingers. She didn’t. Her grip only tightened until my bones ached. “Not until you answer me.” I shoved her chest with my free hand. She staggered half a step but kept hold. We crashed into the low wall. Dust rose in a thick cloud. My elbow caught her ribs. She grunted and swung wildly. Her palm cracked across my cheek so hard stars burst behind my eyes and my ears rang. “Stop!” I hissed, tasting blood where my teeth cut the ins

Lyra I slammed my fist into the nearest guard’s jaw the second Jax hit the ground beside me. Bone cracked under my knuckles. He dropped like a sack of rocks. “Stand down!” Riven’s voice tore across the courtyard. “All of you. Surrender now.” I wiped blood from my hand and laughed. “Fuck that.” Jax rolled his shoulders, eyes already locked on Kade. “Yeah. That's not happening.” Throne cracked his neck. “We just got here.” Bells raised her sword. “Touch her and I cut you open.” Kade’s smile vanished. “You little shits think you can walk into my Citadel?” I didn’t wait. I charged straight at Riven. He moved fast, too fucking fast. His hand shot out and caught my wrist mid-swing. I twisted hard, kicked at his knee, and felt the jolt shoot up my leg when he barely shifted. “Still stubborn?” he growled. “Still an asshole?” I shot back. I ducked under his next grab and drove my elbow into his ribs. He grunted. The bond under my chest flared hot, like someone had lit a

KadeSmoke burned my throat as I tore through the western passage. Catherine’s shadow cut through the dark ahead of me.“Stop right fucking there!”She didn’t. Her boots hammered the stone. Jax, Throne, and Bells stayed tight on her heels.I pushed harder. My sword stayed in my hand—the air stank of fire and ash.“Catherine!”She glanced back once. That was all I needed. I closed the gap and lunged. My fingers locked around her arm.We both stopped.For one second the world went quiet. Her chest rose and fell fast. Blood still marked the corner of her mouth. My grip dug into her wrist hard enough to bruise.She looked up. Then she smiled, making something cold slide down my spine.“You stupid bastard,” she said.The ground under my boots cracked.The floor gave way. I dropped. My hand tore free from her arm as the floor opened like a mouth. I hit a lower ledge hard enough to knock the air out of me. Dust and broken rock rained down. Above me, I heard boots running.“Go!” Jax’s voice

RivenThe door still trembled from the force of Kade’s exit. I stood in the center of the room long after the sound of his boots had faded, the air thick with the leftover tension of the Alpha command. My hands stayed curled at my sides. The urge to follow him, to finish what his mouth had started, sat heavy under my ribs. Firnir paced just beneath my skin, a low, constant pressure.Selene’s voice cut through the quiet. “You’re going to lose him if you keep pushing like that.”I didn’t look at her. “He forgot his place.”“Or you forgot yours.” She moved toward the door, heels soft against the stone. “She’s not even here and she’s already turning this place inside out.”The door closed behind her. Darius lingered a moment longer, then left without another word. Alone, I crossed to the table and picked up the scrap of fabric again. The wolf skull split by a broken crown stared back at me under the lamplight. Ten years. The mark had been buried with the rest of that court. Now it sat i

LyraThe stranger’s words still hung in the air like smoke after a fire.My pulse slammed against my throat hard enough that I could taste it. Jax’s bulky body stayed between me and the man who called himself Lucien, but I stepped around him anyway. My dagger stayed low, point aimed at the soft place under Lucien’s ribs.“How the fuck do you know that name?”The smirk on his face didn’t move. Rain dripped from the leaves above us and traced cold lines down the back of my neck. Nyx shifted under my skin, restless, not snarling the way she did at every other threat. That alone made my teeth grind.Lucien’s eyes tracked the blade, then flicked back to mine. “Some things you have to dig up yourself, little wolf. I’m not here to hand you a map of your own head.”“Bullshit.” My voice came out raw. “You don’t get to walk out of the dark, say my name like you own it, and then play coy. Talk.”He tilted his head, studying me the way someone studies a locked door. “Kade’s battalion isn’t raci