《Loving Luna 》全部章節：第 91 章 - 第 100 章

The hand that emerged from beneath the roots was not monstrous.That frightened Luna more.Five fingers.Brown skin.Dirt beneath broken nails.A thin wrist wrapped in silver markings.Human.Completely human.The First Forest recoiled.Trees bent away.Roots pulled back.Even the ground seemed unwilling to touch whoever was climbing from beneath it.Darius stepped in front of Luna.She looked at his back.“Seriously?”“Yes.”“You know I can move around you.”“Yes.”“Then why?”“Marriage tradition.”“We've been married one day.”“I've become attached to it.”Despite the terror crawling through her—Luna almost smiled.Then the child cried again.Everything else disappeared.“Help me.”Luna moved.Creation grabbed her arm.“Don't.”Luna stopped.Not because Creation commanded her.Because Creation sounded terrified.Luna looked at her hand.Creation released her immediately.“Sorry.”“Who is down there?”Creation stared at the opening.“I don't know.”Cael growled.“You said the first

Isolde had committed treason before breakfast.By midday—she was reconsidering her timing.Not the treason.That still seemed reasonable.Breaking into a palace she had voluntarily walked out of less than three hours earlier?Less reasonable.She stood beneath the eastern aqueduct, staring at the drainage tunnel disappearing beneath Ebonreach Palace.Beside her, a rat stared back.“No.”The rat twitched its whiskers.“I already know this is undignified.”It continued staring.Isolde narrowed her eyes.“You're very judgmental for something standing in sewage.”The rat left.“Coward.”She pulled her hood lower and entered the tunnel.Twenty years serving Malach Voss had taught her every entrance into the palace.Official.Unofficial.Secret.And the ones Malach believed nobody else knew.Unfortunately—it had also taught Malach exactly how Isolde thought.If he suspected she'd come back—he would know where.She moved faster.The note burned against her ribs.THE RECORDS ARE UNDER THE

Something looked through the sky.Luna looked back.Every instinct inside her screamed to run.Her Phoenix had gone silent.Not frightened.Not hiding.Bowing.That frightened Luna more.“Stop that.”The Phoenix didn't move.Luna felt its enormous wings folded inside her.Its head lowered.I remember.Luna's blood chilled.“Remember what?”No answer.Above Ebonreach, the black opening widened.There was no face beyond it.No body.Nothing Luna's mind could understand as a creature.She saw—darkness.Then stars.Then forests.Then an ocean without a moon.Then millions of wolves running beneath a sky that had never known gods.The images changed whenever she tried to focus.Creation remained on her knees.Destruction stared upward.Time had gone completely still.Elara whispered—“What is it?”Creation answered.“I don't know.”Malach glanced at her.“You're Creation.”“Yes.”“And you don't know what existed before you?”Her expression tightened.“I believed nothing did.”Malach looke

Three days after Ashfall returned, Ebonreach removed its throne.Not Malach.The people.Luna stood at the edge of the royal square and watched six workers carry the enormous black chair down the palace steps.Nobody cheered.Nobody protested.Mostly, people stared.The throne had stood above them for generations.Kings had sat there.Orders had been given from it.Taxes raised.Punishments decided.Lives altered with signatures from men who rarely knew the names of those affected.Now Tomas stood at the bottom of the stairs with a hammer.Malach watched from above.Luna glanced between them.“Are they actually going to destroy it?”Isolde smiled.“That was the vote.”Darius folded his arms.“I thought today's vote was about whether Malach remains king.”“It is.”“Then what was the throne vote?”“Yesterday.”Darius stared.“They voted about furniture?”“It represented hereditary authority.”Silas appeared beside him.“Symbolism.”Darius looked at him.“Why are you here?”“I enjoy demo

By noon, Darius had been challenged seventeen times.Not to combat.To conversation.He hated it.Luna loved every second.“No.”A grey-haired pack elder slammed his palm against the council table.Darius's eyebrow twitched.Across the room, Elias lowered his head to hide a smile.The elder continued.“Removing challenge-by-combat weakens the Alpha position.”“It changes the Alpha position,” Darius corrected.“It makes you answerable to people beneath you.”The room went silent.Luna, sitting near the window with Auren sleeping against her chest, watched Darius carefully.A few months ago, that sentence might have brought darkness crawling across the walls.Today—Darius leaned back.“There are no people beneath me.”The elder blinked.Darius continued.“There are people I lead. There are people I protect. There are people whose responsibilities differ from mine.”His blue-grey eyes hardened.“But if your understanding of leadership requires someone else to be beneath you, then we hav