Todos los capítulos de Moon bound to the ruthless alpha: Capítulo 71 - Capítulo 80

Anna’s POV — The DanceDesmond had a way of making me forget that I was supposed to be careful.We talked about everything and nothing.He told me stories about Black Ridge, including one about how he’d once fallen into a river during a training exercise and spent the next week pretending it had been intentional.I laughed so hard I nearly spilled my drink.“You expect me to believe that?” I asked.“I was saving a warrior.”“You were drowning.”“That is an unfair interpretation.”I shook my head, still laughing. “You’re ridiculous.”“I’ve been called worse.”There was something refreshing about him.He didn’t make me feel like I had to measure every word.He simply listened and when I laughed, he laughed with me.Across the courtyard, Kael watched us and Jason followed his gaze.—“You know,” Jason said quietly, “Desmond seems to be paying quite a lot of attention to Anna.”Kael’s expression remained unchanged. “So?”Jason raised an eyebrow.“So?” he repeated.“They’ve been talking for

I woke up with the uncomfortable feeling that I had spent far too much time thinking about Kael all night.I had barely slept because every time I closed my eyes, I found myself remembering the feast, the way Vanessa had danced with him, the way she had stayed close enough that I could see the small smile on his face.And then, somehow, my thoughts would shift back to Desmond.His hand beneath mine and the warmth of his lips against my knuckles.I tried to push all those thoughts away by going to the garden that morning. I needed something that would keep my hands busy and my thoughts somewhere they had no business wandering.The garden had become my little escape over the past few months. I had started with only a few plants, but somehow, it had grown into something I genuinely looked forward to tending. The quietness helped me clear my head.I walked through the garden, enjoying the cool morning air, until I noticed someone crouched beside one of my plants.I stopped. It was Kael.H

By the time the hunt ended, I was super exhausted,but it was the kind of exhaustion that left me smiling.Desmond and his men returned to the clearing after shifting back, and I immediately turned my horse around.“I’m not looking,” I announced.Desmond laughed.“You’re very considerate.Though I don’t mind if you do”“haha, very funny.” i smiled but kept my eyes fixed firmly on the trees while they dressed.“You know,” Desmond called after a moment, “you could just admit you’re embarrassed.”“I am not embarrassed.”“Then why are you facing the wrong direction?”“Because I’m giving you privacy.”His laughter grew louder.“You’re adorable.”I rolled my eyes, though he couldn’t see it.“Just hurry up.”Eventually, I heard him approach. “You can look now.”I turned around and found him fully dressed, his dark blond hair slightly messy from the shift.He looked entirely too pleased with himself.“You survived,” I said.“Barely.”I laughed.The journey back was even lighter than the journey ou

Kael’s hand remained on my cheeks , and I couldn’t seem to look away from him.There was something different in his eyes.Something softer that made the walls I had carefully built around my feelings begin to crack.His thumb moved slowly along my cheek, almost absentmindedly, before his fingers settled beneath my jaw. The touch was gentle,it was nothing like the intimidating presence he usually carried whenever he stood in front of me. For once, there was no coldness in his expression, no guarded look that made me wonder what was going on inside his head.There was only him.And the way he was looking at me made it difficult to remember why I had spent so many days avoiding him in the first place.I swallowed hard . “Kael…”He didn’t respond.Instead, his other hand found my waist.The moment his palm settled there, my breath caught and my whole body shivered.He gently drew me closer, and my body instinctively went stiff before slowly relaxing against him. Not enough to frighten me. Just

We spent the rest of the morning going through records I hadn’t thought to search before.Desmond approached the investigation differently than I had. While I had been focused mostly on familiar names, dates, and references to my bloodline, he seemed more interested in the things surrounding them. He looked for patterns in old territorial disputes, unexplained disappearances, references to wolves who had supposedly vanished, and mentions of rogue attacks that had occurred long before the incidents I had already uncovered.Every time he found something that caught his attention, he would slide the old record toward me and explain why he thought it might be important. Sometimes I agreed with him immediately. Other times, we would spend several minutes debating whether a particular name or event was connected to what I was looking for.I found myself becoming more hopeful with every passing hour.For the first time since I had started digging into my past, I didn’t feel like I was search