Rebirth and Revenge:Lycan King’s Feisty Luna のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 91 - チャプター 100

[Selena's POV]I counted the campfires twice from the east tower, certain I'd miscounted the first time, and got the same number both times.There were too many fires. Too many men. Lucian had badly misjudged what taking Eileen would cost us.I’d expected Alaric to come angry. Maybe he’d send a force to hit us and leave. I hadn’t expected an entire army.. I hadn't expected an entire valley ringed with tents by the second night, South Pack banners mixed in among the North Pack ones like the two sides had forgotten they'd ever been anything but allies.The wind carried the smell of their cook fires all the way up to the tower, faint but unmistakable, and I could smell their fires from the tower. They were close. An army close enough to smell was an army close enough to reach the walls sooner than any of us had planned for.I found Lucian in the war room, still awake despite the hour, staring at a map he stopped reading. A single candle burned low beside him, wax pooling unevenly, the onl

[Eileen's POV]Dust sifted down from the ceiling while I was still deciding whether the thudding overhead was thunder. Then it came again. Six heavy blows before a crack like a tree coming down rolled through the floor.”“That’s the gate,” I whispered, palm flat against my stomach. “That’s your father, sweetheart. He’s knocking.”A guard ran in with a ring of keys, sweat running down both temples."Get up.""What's happening up there?""Nothing. Lucian wants you moved.""That was the gate. I counted six.""Six hits." His voice had gone thin. "My brother's on that wall, and they broke it in six hits.""What's his name?""Why?""Because if I get the chance, I'll ask Alaric to spare him.""You won't get the chance.""Then it costs you nothing to tell me.""...Tomas.""Tomas," I said. "I'll remember.""Shut up and hold still.""Leave the chains on," Selena said from the corridor. She stopped outside the bars with a lantern, her hair coming loose from its pins. "Lucian wants her on the wal

[Eileen's POV]Alaric set me on my feet the moment I asked, one arm locked around my waist so I wouldn't fall, The ground beneath my feet was already vibrating.”"Eileen, talk to me.""It's not in my hands this time." I stared at my fingers, at nothing, at the silver crawling up my arms. "It's in the ground, Alaric. I can feel the whole ward.""Then let it go.""I don't know how!""Take her alive!" a captain in black shouted from the left. "Lucian wants her breathing!""Alaric, they're coming," Kade said, and stepped in front of us with his sword up.Two guards charged, and I threw out my hand as I had in the cellar, and this time there was no wall of light. There was a deep sound under our feet, and both men dropped to their knees and both men went to their knees with their swords clattering away over the stones."What did she do?" one of them gasped. "I can't get up. Why can't I get up?""Lucian said she was a hostage," the captain groaned from his knees. "Nobody said she was this."

[Eileen's POV]Kade's hand closed around empty air where my arm had been a second ago. I was already back on my feet, and every part of me screamed that I shouldn't be, and I didn't care. My legs shook, my head swam, and none of it mattered next to the man I was watching lose ground on those stairs."Eileen, don't..." His voice chased after me, but the ward was already tilting, and none of it mattered except the shape of Alaric's arm rising too slow, and the blade coming fast for his throat.I didn’t decide to reach for it. My hand went out on its own, the way it had in the cellar and again when the whole ward dropped to its knees. This time, there was barely anything left. Just a thin, shaking thread of power.It was enough.Lucian's foot slid on the stone like the ground itself had turned to ice under him, just for a heartbeat, just long enough. His swing went wide. Alaric's didn't.Steel found him below the ribs, deep, and Lucian folded around it with a sound that wasn't a word."N

[Selena's POV]I watched my brother die from the north tower, too far away to do anything but grip the stone until my nails split against it.I'd climbed up there to see better, to find some angle where the fight made sense, where Lucian's blade found an opening and Alaric went down instead. It never came. I watched the sword go into his side.He folded around it, and then the whole ward went quiet around his body.Then I ran.I don't remember the stairs. I remember the horse, one of the last saddled mounts left in the stable yard, and a stable boy too frightened to stop me from taking it. I remember the gate hanging open because nobody had thought to guard an exit nobody expected anyone to use, not with the whole ward watching their alpha die in the open.Lucian's dead.I said it out loud, once, into the dark, the way I used to say Bloodhowl just to hear how the word sat in my mouth. It didn't steady anything this time. It only made the shaking worse.Nine years, Selena. Kade's voice,