บททั้งหมดของ Forbidden Under the Blood Moon: บทที่ 141 - บทที่ 150

Point of View : KADE ASHBORNCody's wrist glowed faintly silver in the moonlight, and for one suspended heartbeat nobody in that clearing remembered how to breathe, least of all me.The light coming off his skin was not bright, nothing dramatic enough to be mistaken for fire or magic in the way the old stories described it, just a thin, patient shimmer tracing lines beneath the surface like something had been drawn there long ago and was only now deciding to show itself. Cody stared down at his own arm like it belonged to someone else.Ronan had gathered us at the edge of the training ring, Cody half asleep and confused between Wren and me, her hand gripping his while I kept my own hand steady on her shoulder, feeling the tension running through her body like a current I could not quite reach to calm. Selene held a torch close to his wrist, and where the light caught it, faint silver lines traced themselves beneath his skin, the same pattern the captured warrior carried burned into hi

Point of View : KADE ASHBORNI had been lying to Wren for exactly one day, and I felt it the moment I walked into our tent, the way you feel a storm coming before the sky ever changes color.She was sitting cross legged on the bedroll, her hair still loose from training, a small knife in her hands that she was not actually sharpening, just turning over and over like the motion helped her think. She did not look up when I entered, which somehow made it worse."You are keeping something from me," she said, before I had even fully crossed the threshold.I stopped, and I knew the guilt on my face had already answered her before I said a single word. "I am trying to protect you from something I do not understand well enough to explain yet.""That is exactly what you said the last time you kept something from me," she reminded me, her voice sharper than I had heard it in days, the knife going still in her hands. "Right before it exploded into the middle of a wedding and nearly cost us every

Point of View : KADE ASHBORNCody was gone for exactly five minutes before I understood what real terror felt like on Wren's behalf, five minutes that stretched into something closer to a lifetime.We had been training near the eastern treeline, Wren walking him through simple defensive stances while I sparred with Ronan a short distance away, the clash of wood against wood the only rhythm in the clearing, steady and familiar right up until it was not. The morning had been ordinary in a way none of us had earned in weeks, sunlight breaking clean through the branches, Cody's laughter carrying faintly whenever Wren corrected his footing.When Wren turned to check on her brother, the space where he had been standing held nothing but an overturned practice sword and a scuff mark in the dirt leading toward the trees."Cody!" Her voice tore across the clearing before I had even fully processed what I was seeing, sharp enough that Ronan and I both went still mid strike.Ronan was moving befo

Point of View :KADE ASHBORNGrief has a strange way of making a person feel closer to someone, and that night, sitting beside Wren with dawn and its terrible answers only hours away, I finally understood why Thane's disguise had worked on everyone, including me, for so long.The fire between us had burned low, more ember than flame, and the camp around us had gone quiet in the particular way it always did in the hours before something terrible was scheduled to happen, as though even the wind knew to wait."You are thinking about your father," Wren said, watching me stare into the fire without really seeing it, her voice gentle in a way that undid something tight in my chest."I am thinking that a man can spend an entire life building his son's sense of right and wrong on top of a lie he never knew was a lie," I said quietly. "My father did not invent the Rank Law to be cruel. He genuinely believed it protected this pack from ever losing another Luna the way he lost my mother. If Thane

Point of View :KADE ASHBORNFive days remained before the blood moon, and I had never felt time move so strangely, crawling and racing all at once, every hour both too long and nowhere near enough.Thane was taken into custody at dawn, bound and guarded by two of Ronan's most trusted wolves, led away past a camp that had gone almost eerily quiet, everyone watching from a careful distance, nobody quite able to look away. My father had not spoken a single word since watching him led away, standing at the edge of camp with an expression I recognized because I had felt it myself once, the particular hollowness of learning that everything you built your life around was never quite as solid as you believed."He will not run," Ronan said quietly, coming to stand beside me as I watched my father stare at nothing, words clearly failing him for the first time in my memory, his hands hanging loose and useless at his sides. "He has nowhere left to run to, and I think some part of him wanted to be