Lahat ng Kabanata ng His Rejected Luna is The Lycan’s Queen: Kabanata 61 - Kabanata 70

The current had her, and she was too tired and too hurt to fight it head-on, so she didn't. She worked with it instead — angling herself, conserving, reading the water rather than battling it.It was the right call. It wasn’t the call an experienced swimmer made, she that was panicking suddenly gain a real energy and strength all of a sudden.She was battered and bleeding and half-drowned and she suddenly changed the table with such boost.Something definitely had happened there.I had been told this girl had no wolf. No power. Nothing exceptional.But with what I just saw I was revising that assessment in real time.The branch caught her, or she caught it — I couldn't tell anymore which was which. She pulled herself hand over hand along it with arms that had no business still functioning, clawed up the bank on sheer will, and collapsed face-first into the mud.I came in downstream and surfaced quietly, moving to the bank twenty feet from her. Stood in the shallows and watched her I s

AIDEN’S POVI’ve been in this world long enough to know that both humans and creatures — werewolves, vampires, and everything that moves in the spaces between — have a tendency to mythologize violence. They dress it up. Give it weight it doesn’t always deserve. Some call it the warrior’s call. Some call it the honor of a clean kill. Some call it a fair fight.I understand the impulse. Mythology makes uncomfortable things easier to live with. It turns brutality into something the mind can file away neatly, something with shape and meaning and a story attached to it.I’ve never found it useful.Violence, to me, has always been a transaction. You weigh the cost. You check if it’s worth the return. Then you execute. Sentiment about the method is a luxury that belongs to people who don’t do it for reasons that actually matter.Tonight, like I had said, the reason I was going to be violent didn’t matter at all. I needed no reason to.I gave out the order and my pack went to it immediately.

I moved before they turned — cutting wide, fast, silent through the dark until I was positioned exactly where the treeline would funnel them. When they broke and bolted, I was already there, stepping out of the shadow directly into their path.The first one had no time to stop. I drove my hand into his chest before he’d finished registering my face. The second one tried to redirect — too late. My other hand found him before he’d taken a second step.I dropped both of them and turned around.That action alone froze Maxwell.It froze him long enough for Cade and Finn to bring him down — one blow each, coordinated, driving him tuo his knees in the wet earth. He hit the ground hard and stayed there, breathing ragged, his head down.The third guard was already running deeper into the trees. I let him go. He would be handled before he cleared the territory. That was already arranged.The rain came down steadily now, soft and indifferent, filling the silence where the fight had been.Maxwell

"I'm asking you to let her live."The silence that followed was a functional one. I was thinking. She knew I was thinking, and she did not interrupt, which was the correct decision.My friend was asking me to spare a life. Not just a life, a life of my enemy. I weighed the request against the plan, I weighed the person making the request against their value to the plan, and I made a decision based on what produced the best outcome. That was the framework.The framework was clean and it had served me well for a long time.From this strange request I knew she had somehow gotten close to the enemy and had some attached.And I was aware of that.“Mirabel, should I start tagging you as the enemy?”"Aiden, listen she's not involved in any of this," Mirabel said quietly, but with a steadiness that told me she had rehearsed this — not the words, but the steadiness. She had decided, somewhere between the compound and here, that she was going to say this without falling apart, and she was holdi

After giving Nathan my final word he decided not to say anything about it.Just immediately the door opened up and I watched members of my pack, Josh and Marcus, walk in, and that gave me the cue to move closer to them.My hand stroked my hair backwards and then my Alpha eyes glowed red.“Alpha, Aiden” they said together slightly bowing their heads. And then I looked at them into their eyes and I spoke. “I'm quite sure everyone is aware of what happened tonight. I personally captured the daughter of our enemy, Howard Queen, the Alpha of the Black Shadow Pack. And I know how everyone feels, because I feel it more tremendously. Now, you two are going to go out and pass my word to every single person in this pack.”“The girl will be guarded at all times, and no one, I repeat, no one should dare lay a finger on her until I give the go ahead. Anyone that does that will answer to me, and I won't be merciful. Now go and inform everyone and also prepare for the Hunt.”“Yes, Alpha Aiden” they