《MARKED BY MOON 》全部章節：第 1 章 - 第 10 章

LUNA POVDeclan, the guard with the scar, shows me to a room on the second floor that's all clean lines and cold politeness. He doesn't trust me. I can tell by the way he keeps two steps behind me the entire walk, like he's waiting for me to slip up and do something wrong so he'll have an excuse to throw me out."Dinner is at seven," he says when we reach my door. "Alpha likes his guests to be punctual.""I'll remember that."He lingers in the doorway a second too long, studying me like a puzzle he can't quite solve. "You're not what I expected from Ashwood.""What did you expect?""Someone easier to read." He leaves before I can decide if that was an insult or a warning, and I'm not sure which one scares me more.Alone, I let myself breathe. My hands are shaking, just a little, and I hate that they are. I press them flat against the cool stone windowsill and look out over the training yard below, where a group of pack members are running drills in the fading light. Their movements ar

LunaI don't sleep.I sit by the window most of the night with the requisition form hidden inside my boot and my mind running through every version of tomorrow that ends badly. If Cassia connects my name to the Sorensen line before I have proof of what he's done, I lose everything. My cover. My leverage. My life, if a pack this old still holds to its uglier laws about outsiders caught lying, is not so bad.By morning I've decided on one thing. I need more proof, and I need it before Cassia finishes whatever she's building against me.I find Maren's emergency contact frequency on the small radio hidden in my bag and murmur an update she isn't going to like. "They're onto the name. I need another day.""Luna." Her voice is tight even through the static. "If they find you""They won't," I say it as I believe it.I spent the morning doing what a good liaison would do, touring the border posts with two of Kian's guards, asking careful questions, taking notes that mean nothing and hiding th

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 sib