All Chapters of His Moon Chosen Omega : Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

The black feather lay on the broken stone. No one moved. Kael stared at it. He knew that feather. He had seen one before. Eighteen years ago, when he was still a child hidden deep within Moonwood, a single black feather had appeared on the windowsill of his home. The same symbol had marked the Shadow Hunters. But this one felt different. Colder. Older. Kael slowly crouched and picked it up. The moment his fingers touched it, pain shot through his hand. He dropped it. A flash of silver filled the chamber. For a heartbeat, Kael saw a woman standing beneath an Eclipse Moon. Elara. But she wasn't alone. Beside her stood a man wearing a black crown. Kael couldn't see his face. Then Elara turned toward him. Her lips moved. He is not your enemy. The vision vanished. Kael staggered. Lucien caught him. “Kael.” He looked at Lucien. “I saw my mother.” “What did she say?” Kael glanced at the feather. “She said not to trust the Hollow King

The doors slammed shut behind them.Kael spun around.The ancient stone sealed itself with a sound like a mountain grinding its teeth. For a moment, there was nothing but darkness.Then the walls began to glow.Thin red veins of light spread across the stone, branching like roots beneath skin.Kael's breath caught.The Blood Engine.They had expected a machine.They had not expected it to look alive.Lucien stepped closer, his black wolf stirring beneath his skin.“Stay behind me.”Kael looked at him.“No.”Lucien paused.A faint smile touched his mouth.“I should have known.”Kael moved beside him instead.“Beside you,” he corrected. “Not behind you.”Something warm flickered through Lucien's eyes.“Beside me, then.”Their shoulders nearly touched.The Moon Bond pulsed between them.Not commanding.Not pulling.Simply reminding them that they were there.Together.The chamber stretched farther than Kael could see. Massive pillars rose from the ground, each carved with ancient wolves.

The creature's words remained in the chamber long after its voice fell silent.The Moon Kingdom will have to choose a new king.Kael couldn't move.His eyes remained fixed on the enormous beast standing before them.It was a wolf.And yet it wasn't.Its body was larger than any wolf Kael had ever seen, its black fur appearing almost liquid beneath the silver light. Ancient silver markings covered its chest and traveled down its legs like cracks in stone.Its golden eyes held no madness.Only age.And something Kael couldn't explain.Recognition.Lucien stepped slightly forward.The beast's gaze immediately shifted to him.The air tightened.Lucien's wolf pushed against his skin, demanding release.Kael felt the instinct.Protect.But Lucien didn't shift.He simply stood there.The beast studied him.Then it spoke.“You are afraid.”Lucien's jaw tightened.“Yes.”Kael looked at him.The admission surprised him.The beast tilted its enormous head.“Why?”Lucien's eyes remained fixed on

For several seconds, nobody moved.The army filled the valley below them.Thousands of soldiers stood beneath black banners, their weapons reflecting the cold light of the Eclipse Moon.At their center stood the woman who claimed to be the last Queen of the Moon Kingdom.Kael couldn't look away.Something about her felt familiar.Not her face.Not her voice.Her presence.His Moon Seal burned beneath his clothes.Beside him, Elyon looked as though he had seen a ghost.“My mother,” he whispered.Kael turned toward him.“You said she was dead.”“I believed she was.”The woman laughed softly from the valley.“You always did believe what you were told, Elyon.”Elyon's face tightened.“Mother.”She smiled.“You finally remember how to call me that.”Kael looked between them.“What's her name?”Elyon hesitated.“Queen Maerith.”The name seemed to echo through Kael's mind.Maerith.Queen Maerith.He had never heard it before, yet his wolf reacted immediately.Danger.Kael's instincts sharpen

The words hung in the cold air.It chooses a sacrifice.Kael looked at Lucien.For a moment, neither of them spoke.Then Kael turned toward his father.“No.”Cassian's expression remained grim.“You haven't heard the rest.”“I don't need to.”“Kael”“No.”Kael stepped closer.“I've spent my entire life being told what I was born for. What my blood means. What the prophecy says. What the Moon wants.”His voice hardened.“I refuse to let another throne decide who dies.”Lucien moved beside him.“Neither will I.”Cassian studied them.“You don't understand how old this power is.”“Then we'll learn,” Lucien replied.Cassian looked toward the mountains.“The Black Moon Gate was sealed because the first Moon King discovered that the throne could not be ruled without a price.”Kael frowned.“What price?”“The ruler's life.”Silence.“The throne doesn't simply take a person's life,” Cassian continued. “It takes their will. Their memories. Their identity. Eventually, the person becomes part of