All Chapters of The Unwanted Plus-Size Luna: Chapter 71 - Chapter 76

The hall did not empty after Harran finished speaking.No one moved to dismiss them. The ruling sat in the air like a weight no one wanted to be the first to touch. Outside, morning sounds continued, distant and ordinary, as if the rest of the camp had not yet felt the shift in the long hall.Darius remained against the side wall. For a long moment he did not speak. The stillness in him had always been control. What replaced it now was something older and less polite.When he pushed off the wall, the temperature in the room seemed to drop."Say that again."Harran did not flinch, but two of the younger Elders shifted in their seats. The shift was small. It was noticed. "The prior claim retains legal standing until it is formally closed. That is the position of this circle.""You are telling me a bond I claimed, a bond she accepted, a bond this pack has watched form in plain sight, is open to contest because a man who discarded he

Ilsa sent for her before the midday meal.Not a runner from the Elder circle. A junior from the healing tents with a short message and no explanation. Wren went. After the long hall and the path behind the storehouses, another formal summons would have put her back on contested ground. This one felt different. Quieter. Aimed at her specifically.Ilsa’s tent smelled of dried root and clean linen. The healer was alone, sleeves rolled, a shallow bowl of water on the work table as if she had been washing her hands for something that required steady fingers."Sit," Ilsa said. "This is not a hearing. It is information you should have before the circle decides how much longer to leave the prior claim open."Wren sat on the low stool. "The circle already said the old bond stands until it is formally closed.""They stated the law. They did not state the method." Ilsa dried her hands and did not sit. "There is a method. It is rarely used. Most

The knock on Kade’s door came after the evening meal had settled the camp.He opened it. Selene stood in the corridor with a folded cloak over one arm and no juniors behind her."I need a few minutes of your evening before the camp finishes talking," she said.Kade did not move aside at once. "If this is about the ritual again, the answer is already on the record from this afternoon.""I am not here to change your answer." She stepped past him into the room without waiting. Spare: a bunk, a chest, a single lamp burning low. "I am here because I am the woman you are marrying under the next full moon, and you spent this afternoon refusing to close a prior claim. That is my business as much as it is yours."He left the door open a hand’s width behind her. She did not ask him to close it."You could have waited for the Elder circle to summon you both.""I did not come for the circle’s timing. I came for yours. Directly. Befo