All Chapters of MARKED BY MOON : Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

Luna POV Declan the guard with the scar walks me to my room without a single wasted word.He doesn't trust me. I can tell by the two steps of distance he keeps the entire way, like he's waiting for me to do something that proves him right."Dinner's at seven," he says at my door. "Alpha likes his guests to be punctual.""Noted."He lingers a beat too long, reading me like a lock he can't quite pick. "You're not what I expected from Ashwood.""What did you expect?""Someone easier to read." He walks off before I can decide if that was an insult or a warning.Alone, I press my palms flat against the cold windowsill and force my breathing steady. Below, pack members run drills in the fading light, movements sharp and synchronized. Exactly what I'd expect from Blackthorn.I am not here to wonder if Kian ever thinks about me. I am here to work.I pull the folded map from my jacket, Maren's handwriting marking the last three border attacks in red, and patrol routes in blue. Ashwood took the

Luna POV "Sable." Kian's voice snaps through the courtyard, sharp with warning. "Not here."The young woman Sable presses a hand over her mouth like she's trying to shove the words back inside. Her eyes stay locked on mine, wide, glassy, searching my face for something she's clearly terrified to find."My mother told me you disappeared," she whispers. "She said the elders made sure of it. She said your name wasn't allowed to be spoken anymore.""Sable." Kian moves between us, voice low and urgent. "Whatever you think you know, you say nothing. Not to Cassia. Not to anyone. Do you understand?"Sable's gaze flicks between us, and something in her expression shifts from shock into calculation, fast enough that I catch it even through my own rising panic. She's not just surprised. She knows something else, something bigger than my name."Your mother knew who I was?" I ask, before Kian can stop me. "Why would that matter to her?"Sable's mouth opens, then closes. "I can't. Not here. Not wh

Kian POVDeclan's teeth were an inch from Luna's throat when I hit him.I didn't think so. I didn't plan it. My body just moved, and my jaw closed hard around his shoulder, and the two of us went crashing into the council table. Wood cracked under us like dry bone. Somewhere behind me, Cassia was snarling as three younger wolves pinned her against the wall.This was my best friend. The man who taught me how to throw a punch when we were kids. The man who stood next to me the day my father died and told me I could do this, I could lead this pack, I wasn't alone.And right now he was trying to kill the woman I just called my mate in front of the whole council.Luna didn't wait for me to process any of that. She slammed her weight into Declan's side, and I felt him flinch through the bite still locked in my jaw. Blood hit my tongue, hot and metallic. Through the chaos, I felt her sharp, focused, angry and for one strange second in the middle of all this violence, something in my chest se

Kian POVI watch the color drain out of Luna's face as she reads whatever's written on that paper, and every protective instinct I have surges at once."Luna." I move closer. "What is it?"She doesn't answer right away. Her hands tremble around the paper's edges, her eyes scanning it over and over like she's hoping the words will rearrange themselves into something less impossible."This says my mother wasn't my mother," she finally says, voice barely above a whisper. "It says I was born to someone named Elena Voss."The name lands in the room like a physical blow.Voss. My family's name."That's not possible," I say, though even as the words leave my mouth I feel the ground shifting under everything I thought I understood about my own bloodline. "My father had one sister. She died before I was born. Elena.""Died," Luna repeats hollowly. "Or disappeared, the way everyone assumed I did?"Sable, still standing in the doorway, looks like she might be sick. "My mother kept this hidden fo

Kian POV The words hang in the room long after Sable slips into unconsciousness, and I feel the floor tilt under me in a way it hasn't since the night my father died and left this pack in my hands at twenty-two.The true Alpha is coming home."That doesn't make sense," I say, pacing the small healer's room, my mind refusing to settle on any explanation that isn't terrifying. "I am the true Alpha. I've held this title for three years. There's no rival claim, no contested bloodline""Unless there is," Luna says quietly, "and nobody's told you."I stop pacing and look at her. Her face has gone carefully blank, the way it does when she's protecting herself from a thought too painful to let show."Elena," she says. "My mother. If she was your father's sister, and if she had a child before me a child born to carry the Voss bloodline directly instead of hidden away through adoption""Then there could be an older claim to this pack than mine," I finish, the words tasting like poison. "A sibli