All Chapters of AFTER DIVORCE, I BECAME A LUNA: Chapter 101 - Chapter 110

Chapter 102: The Silent Luna"Do not come near me," Mom said. "Please. Stay where you are."The tall Luna stopped. She stood in the middle of the courtyard with her hands open at her sides. Around us, the whole pack watched. Pups lay asleep on every step. Nobody breathed."I know you," the woman said. Her voice was cracked and rough, like she had to dig each word out of the ground. "I know your face. You have my mother's chin.""Who are you?" Mom asked."My name is Selene." She swallowed. "Selene Rivers."I felt Mom flinch. Rivers. That was her name too. The name the omegas gave her, because they said they found her by a river."I left a baby in a basket," Selene said. "Thirty years ago. At the edge of Hallow land, by the water, with a blue blanket and a wooden bird. I watched until someone picked her up. Then I went back to the mountain and let them catch me." She was shaking now. "I never saw her again. Until this morning, when I saw you in the sunlight and knew."For a long time, M

Chapter 104: The Seventh Stair"Do not look at the mirrors," Candice whispered. "I mean it this time.""Last time you said that, I looked," said Mara."And what did you see?""A very sad little wolf." Mara kept her eyes on the floor. "I do not want to see her again."We walked through Mirror Hollow in a tight line, with Selene in front. She did not need Lumen's guidance anymore. She walked the glass halls like a woman walking through her own house, quickly, her cropped silver hair bright in the torchlight. Thirty years of cage had burned every turn into her feet.At the very back, past the last empty cage, there was a small door I had never seen. It was low and round, and it was covered in a thin sheet of glass."The Seventh Stair," Selene said. She laid her hand on it. "Only an Elder's blood can open it.""Can you do it?" Dad asked."I am not sure it remembers me." She pricked her thumb on the point of Dad's black dagger. A single bright drop fell on the glass.For a moment, nothing

Chapter 106: The Hall of Seven Chairs"Please, come in," Marrow said. "You look tired. Shall I ring for a chair?"Nobody laughed. The doors slammed shut behind us with a boom that rattled my teeth, and then we were alone in the Hall of Seven Chairs.It was the biggest room I had ever seen. The floor was black glass, polished like a lake at night. The ceiling was lost in shadow. Along the walls stood a thousand soldiers in black armor, still as statues, with red eyes burning in their helmets. And at the far end, on a high stage, sat seven chairs of carved glass, each one taller than a man.Six were full. Five old, grey Elders sat stiffly in their seats, with glass pins on their collars and fear in their faces. I knew one of them. Dunmore, the bony man with the white beard, who had called Mom used. He would not look at her now.Marrow sat in the middle, relaxed, one leg crossed over the other. And on the far right stood a seventh chair, tall and empty and dark."Ah, Selene," Marrow said

Chapter 108: Riding Vesper"Nine hundred and twelve steps," Candice panted. "That is what the map says. We are on step four hundred.""Do not tell me the number," Mom gasped. "It makes it worse.""Then I will tell you a different number. Zero. That is how many times I have wanted to quit.""Liar.""Mostly a liar."It was a silly thing to say on a stair that went straight up inside a mountain. But somehow it helped. We climbed in a tight line, with Dad in front and me at the back. The Sky Stair was a spiral of black glass with no handrail, and every step shook under our boots. Above us, deep in the stone, something huge was groaning."That is Vesper," I said. "She is in pain.""I can hear her too," Mom said quietly.At step eight hundred, we saw a gray light ahead. At step nine hundred, a cold wind hit my face. And at step nine hundred and twelve, we stepped out onto the roof of the world.It was a wide, flat ring of black glass, the very top of the mountain. Around it, the sky was tur

Chapter 110:"Forty-one!" Jo shouted. "Josie! Hess found them all! Every single name!"She came running across the courtyard with a big sheet of paper in her fist, her hair sticking up in six directions. Hope ran behind her, tripping over her own paws, barking happily. It was a bright autumn morning, three weeks after the Heartdrum broke. The sky was a deep, clean blue. And for the first time since I had come to Hallow Fortress, the east gate was not crooked.Brandt had fixed it. Torin had helped. Iron and Blood had carved a new frame out of an old oak. It stood wide open, with fresh hinges, and a thousand silver pups tumbled in and out of it all day, chasing butterflies."Read it to me," I said.Jo cleared her throat. "Anna. Bree. Calla. Dessa. Edda. Fenna..." She read all forty-one, slowly, one after another, and her voice got softer with each one. By the end, she was almost whispering. "Hess says that he used the old Court ledgers. The ones Selene hid in the Hall. Every Luna who ev