All Chapters of The Luna Took Back What Was Hers: Chapter 1 - Chapter 9

Ethan was still outside the door, barely holding back his anger."Elena is your fated mate.""Those first two surgeries—you lied to her, told her the pups had no heartbeat, then turned around and handed two living pups over to Vivian.""And now she's carrying the third. You're going to hurt her again?""I don't have a choice."Kane's voice was barely above a whisper."If Vivian hadn't taken that blade, I'd be dead right now.""The first thing she said when she woke up—she asked if I was hurt. But the healer told her she'd never be able to carry a pup of her own."His breath caught for a second."She didn't want money. Didn't want rank. She just wanted a pup to call her mom.""At first she said one would be enough. Then she wanted a second...""This time she swore on the Moon Goddess—after she gets the third, she'll really leave with them."Ethan slammed his fist against the wall."What about Elena? Did you ever ask her if she wanted to pay your debts?""She doesn't even know her pups a

I stared at those two faces—strange and familiar all at once—and dug my nails into my palms.The bond of blood didn't lie. They were the pups I'd thought were dead all along."Whose children are they?"Vivian pulled them closer to her sides."Mine, of course.""You're lying!"My voice was shaking; I couldn't stop it."Silver poison destroyed your womb. You can't carry a pup. You never could.""The healer said it was impossible. Can't the Moon Goddess give me a miracle?"Her eyes went cold on me."Elena, I sympathize with you losing pup after pup. But that doesn't give you the right to claim mine as yours."She said it so confidently. So righteously.If I hadn't heard the truth with my own ears last night, I would've started wondering if I was losing my mind."They have my blood!"Vivian let out a laugh and pressed a kiss to each child's forehead."Noah's fever? I held him all night. Lia's nightmares? I was there. First teeth, first words, first time they ran with the pack under the ful

When Kane woke, it was already dusk.He didn't wait for the healer to pull the IV from his hand. He stumbled toward the morgue.My "body" was still lying on the cold stone slab.He took the hand with the full moon ring and called my name over and over.Like if he said it enough times, I'd open my eyes and curse him out.But the next second—the corpse's fingertips crumbled to ash.The ash spread up the wrist in seconds. A few breaths later, all that was left on the slab was a wilted sprig of moonflower and the ring."A witch's decoy spell..."Ethan picked up the dried leaves and snapped his head toward Kane."She's not dead."Kane went still for a long moment. Then he dropped to his knees in the pile of ash and laughed.And as he laughed, tears hit the floor."She's not dead... Elena's still alive."But that flash of joy lasted only a second.A witch's decoy spell requires the mate bond as sacrifice. I'd chosen to tear my soul apart just to make him believe I was dead.That meant—in my

Winter came earlier in the North than in Silvermoon territory.The witch Mara settled me in a small town by the lake. It didn't belong to any pack—rogue wolves, witches, and humans all lived under the protection of the Moon Goddess Court.After the mind link was severed, I ran a fever for seven straight days.My wolf curled up in the depths of my consciousness and stopped answering my calls.Mara said the mate bond was meant to stitch two souls together. Tearing it apart by force was like carving a chunk of bone out of a living body."Any regrets?"She asked.I touched the tiny life still moving inside me and shook my head.The pain was real.But so was the freedom.Two months later, on the night of the full moon, I went into labor.The old injuries made delivery brutally hard.As blood soaked through the sheets, I saw that cold operating door again. I saw Kane holding my hand, telling me we could try for a fourth.Fear closed around my throat.I could barely breathe."Elena. Look at m

Noah and Lia didn't sleep at all their first night in the North.Lia cried for Vivian. Noah held his sister in the corner, refusing anything I offered.I didn't push them.I left the light on. Left warm milk on the table. Then I sat outside the door with Rowan and stayed there all night.The next morning, the milk was gone.Three days in, Noah let me brush Lia's hair.Ten days in, Lia fell and reached for me without thinking.So much had been stolen from us. We could only pick it back up piece by piece.Noah still wouldn't call me Mom.He'd cry in his nightmares, saying he wasn't a bad kid. Then he'd wake up with his jaw clenched, refusing to shed a single tear.Until the first snow of winter. He spiked a fever.I held him all night, wiping his forehead with cool water over and over.At dawn, he opened his eyes and found my hand still wrapped around his."Why didn't you leave?"His voice was raw."Because you were sick.""But I scratched you. I broke your plushie."His tears finally ca