All Chapters of The Alpha’s Greatest Enemy: Return of the Bastard Luna 2: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

"You're hurt?" Kaelen’s deep growl ripped through the air as he backed away from the bath basin, his face turned toward the wall to honor my privacy despite the dark Alpha urge radiating through his frame."Can you... can you take me to Moonshadow Infirmary?"My voice broke on the final word, stripped of all pride. The mortification of lying exposed on cold stone before the dominant male who controlled my life didn't even matter anymore. The excruciating, tearing ache deep inside my belly swallowed everything whole.Without another word, Kaelen strode across the blood-slicked marble, grabbed a heavy fur wrap from the wooden bench, and tossed it over my body. He scooped me up into his arms, pulling the blanket tight around my chest as he lifted me off the floor.I was light in his arms, but as he pulled me flush against his hard chest, his jaw locked tight. He could feel every shiver wracking my frame, my ragged breaths warm against his throat."Where are you cut?" Kaelen demanded, his

Orion’s panicked voice cut straight through the crystal speaker, throwing a heavy, suffocating silence across the room."Lyra!" he repeated, his breath coming out in hard, ragged gasps over the transmission. "I just crossed the border into Ironvale City. Where are you? Tell me where you are right now!"My blood turned to ice in my veins. I gripped the smooth face of the communication stone so tightly my fingernails bit into my palm, completely unable to utter a sound.Beside the bed, Kaelen shifted. His shadow fell over me, cold and absolute. His golden amber eyes burned with a dark, lethal intensity as he stared down at the glowing device in my hand. He didn't say a word, but the terrifying aura of his dominant wolf surged into the room like a physical wave, pinning my breath to the back of my throat."Speak to him," Kaelen commanded softly. His voice was smooth as velvet, yet laced with an explicit, unspoken threat.I swallowed the bitter lump in my throat, my knuckles turning white

Kaelen swung his massive frame out of the rear of the black sleigh, his golden amber eyes locking directly onto mine as the heavy snow churned around his boots. For several long seconds, the silence between us stretched taut, heavy with unspeakable tension. He pulled his gaze away, turned back toward the open carriage door, and lifted me effortlessly into his arms once more.Neither of us said a word. The dark weight of what had just transpired at the station hung like thick smoke in the air.He scaled the stone steps of the front portico, stopping dead after only a few strides. Without turning around, he tossed his voice over his shoulder. "Go back inside, Selene. I am keeping her under my direct care tonight."Selene Nightbane rushed up behind us, her boots crunching sharply in the packed ice. She stopped short, staring at Kaelen’s broad, rigid back, her lips parting as she swallowed hard. "Fine," she whispered after a agonizing silence. "She is fragile right now. Moving her between

“I’m sorry, Darius. I didn’t mean to snap at you.”I stood at the heavy timber doorway of Ember Hall, my lungs burning as the crisp, freezing mountain wind whipped through my wool tunic. I took the heavy bear-hide traveling hat from my brother’s driver, my fingers trembling slightly as I watched Darius’s massive frame pause mid-stride on the snow-covered cobblestones.He didn’t turn back immediately. He placed his iron-rimmed hat over his dark hair, his broad shoulders squared against the bitter cold of the Duskwild Expanse. “Call me if that Blackthorne Alpha bullies you. I don't care how powerful Kaelen is in Ironvale City.”His voice was a dark, gravelly growl that echoed off the stone courtyard walls, heavy with the protective rage of an elder brother. He took two long strides toward his sleigh, but I couldn’t let him leave with blood so bitter between us.I rushed down the slippery stone steps, catching up to him before he could climb onto the bench. I wrapped my arms tightly arou

“Are you still planning to cast aside your pack bond for that nameless female?” Darius’s voice cut through the dim light of the lower chamber like an iron blade. “Where has your sanity gone, Blackthorne?”Darius felt as if an enforcer’s spear had driven clean through his chest. He couldn’t wrap his mind around it. Why would the most powerful Alpha in Ironvale City risk his territory, his legacy, and the ancient alliance between their families for an unbonded female from the outer lands?“You’ve never been a male to shirk your duty or lose control over a pretty face,” Darius hissed, his dark wolf aura crackling beneath his skin. “Why is this female so breathtakingly crucial to you? What kind of dark hold does she have over your mind?”He believed Kaelen had been completely enchanted, his cold, calculating judgment stripped away by raw, reckless desire. But Darius couldn’t afford to let his own wolf snap right here. If he started an open war inside Ember Hall, Selene’s recovery would be