All Chapters of Loving Luna : Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

Darkness swallowed Luna whole.Not the comforting darkness of Darius's power.Not Nyra's deep-blue night.Not even the moonless silence of Silas's land.This darkness was empty.No scent.No sound.No heartbeat.No bond.Luna's eyes flew open.“Darius?”Nothing.Her hand went immediately to her stomach.“Auren?”Silence.“Nyra?”Nothing.Fear ripped through her.“No.”She pressed both hands over her belly.“Auren!”Nothing.“NYRA!”Still nothing.Her Phoenix didn't answer.Aurora didn't answer.Terra didn't answer.Even the bond with Darius—gone.Luna's breathing quickened.“No. No, no, no.”A voice came from behind her.“They aren't gone.”Luna spun.The servant girl stood several feet away.Except she wasn't a servant anymore.Her brown hair had turned silver.Stars moved beneath her skin.Her eyes contained entire skies.Luna's fear became rage.“What did you do to my children?”“Nothing.”“Give them back.”“They are inside you.”“I can't feel them.”“Because you are outside your

Light swallowed everything.Not white.Not gold.Not fire.Something beyond all three.Darius heard Luna scream.Then the world disappeared.“LUNA!”He threw himself toward her.Power hit him like a wall.His feet left the ground.Stone shattered beneath his back.His sword flew from his hand.For one impossible second, Darius couldn't see.Couldn't hear.Couldn't breathe.But he could feel.The bond.Luna.His wolf tore through him.MATE.Darius forced himself onto one knee.“Luna!”Nothing.Then—Mother.Auren.Weak.Frightened.Nyra followed.Mother.Darius's heart stopped.“Where is she?”Neither answered.Smoke rolled through the palace hall.No.Not smoke.White mist.It curled over shattered marble and broken columns, glowing from within.Darius staggered upright.“LUNA!”A hand grabbed his shoulder.Silas.“Wait.”Darius spun.“Touch me again and lose the hand.”Silas released him.“Look.”Darius did.And froze.At the centre of the destroyed hall—something moved.White fur.

Every Phoenix in the world screamed.Luna felt them.Thousands of voices.Some strong.Some barely more than embers.Some hidden so deeply inside mortal blood that their hosts had never known what slept within them.All of them screamed at once.And then—silence.Not ordinary silence.Absence.Luna couldn't feel Seraphina.Couldn't feel Cassian.Couldn't feel the ancient Phoenix bloodlines.Couldn't even feel the distant echoes that had become part of her awareness since her awakening.Nothing.Her Phoenix had gone completely still.“Aurora?”No answer.Luna's heart stopped.“Aurora.”Nothing.Panic ripped through her.“AURORA!”Darius caught her shoulders.“Luna.”“I can't hear her.”His eyes turned black.“What?”“Aurora is gone.”The thing wearing Aurelia's face smiled.“Not gone.”Everyone looked at her.It stepped fully from the crack in the floor.White-gold blood slid down its body.But wherever the blood touched stone—the stone died.Not burned.Not melted.Died.Colour drai

Luna hit stone.Darius hit the ground beside her.His arm was around her before she could even breathe.“Luna.”“I’m fine.”“The babies?”Luna pressed both hands against her stomach.Gold answered.Then blue.Auren.Nyra.“Safe.”Darius closed his eyes for one heartbeat.Then opened them.Black.Furious.“Good.”Luna knew that tone.“Darius.”“No.”“You don’t even know what I’m going to say.”“If it involves telling me not to kill something, the answer is no.”“You can’t kill every ancient relative we meet.”“I can try.”Despite everything—Luna almost laughed.Then she looked around.And the laugh died.They were back inside the palace.Or what remained of it.The chamber where Mira had attacked her was destroyed.Marble columns lay broken across the floor. Windows had shattered. White fire crawled through cracks in the walls, mixing with Darius’s darkness.Silas was pushing himself upright.Lucien lay beneath part of a curtain.Astra stood perfectly still in the centre of the destru

Every Phoenix in existence screamed.Luna heard them.Thousands.Maybe millions.Across kingdoms.Across worlds.Across places that had forgotten Phoenixes had ever existed.Their voices ripped through her mind.Grief.Rage.Recognition.Mother.Luna collapsed.“LUNA!”Darius caught her before she struck the snow.White-gold fire erupted from her body.Not attacking.Not protecting.Mourning.Aurora was screaming.Terra had gone silent.Auren and Nyra cried through the bond.And the third—the tiny silver-white presence Luna had only just discovered—became impossibly still.Darius wrapped himself around Luna.“Look at me.”She couldn't.All she could see was the woman.Wings nailed open.Wrists chained.White-gold blood.Daughter.“She's alive.”Darius froze.“What?”Luna grabbed his shirt.“Aurelia.”Silas stopped breathing.Eira stared at her.Ronan's expression changed.Luna looked at them.“She is alive.”“No,” Silas whispered.“I saw her.”“Luna—”“She spoke to me!”White fire e