All Chapters of HE CALLED HER PLUMP, NOW HE’LL BEG TO KEEP HER: Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

POV: EVANAI read the letter three times.Each time, the words remained the same.Your mother did not die.My mother was alive.Somewhere.After twenty-four years of believing I had lost her before I was old enough to remember her properly, I suddenly had to consider the possibility that she had been living all this time.Hiding.Waiting.Or perhaps running.I lowered the letter slowly.“Who sent this?”The messenger shook his head.“They didn’t leave a name.”“Where did they find it?”“Near the northern border.”Arthur took the letter from my hand.He studied the seal.“This isn’t a pack seal.”“What is it?”“I don’t know.”I looked at him.“You said we’d find her.”“We will.”“You don’t even know where she is.”“No.”“Then how can you promise that?”Arthur’s gaze held mine.“Because I’m not going to let another person decide what you deserve to know.”The words struck something inside me.Once, I would have believed them immediately.Now, I simply nodded.“We start with my father’s

POV: ARTHURI didn’t sleep last night.Not after what Evana’s mother had told us.(The person hunting you is inside Arthur’s pack.)The words followed me through every corridor of the manor.They followed me into my study.They followed me when I stood before the council the next morning and watched men I’d known my entire life pretend nothing had changed.I looked at every face differently.Every elder.Every guard.Every servant.Anyone could be the person who had been watching Evana.Anyone could have ordered the attack.And if Evana’s mother was right, whoever it was had been waiting for years.I closed the council records and leaned back in my chair.My father’s death had never been an accident.My mother’s secrets had never been random.The council knew about Evana’s bloodline.Someone had tried to frighten her into leaving.And now someone wanted me removed as Alpha.It was too connected to be coincidence.A knock sounded.“Enter,” I said Corwin stepped inside.He shut the doo

POV: EVANAFor the first time in my life, I was being taught what my body could do instead of being taught to hate it.My mother stood across from me in the forest clearing, watching carefully as I shifted.My wolf emerged smoothly.No pain.No struggle.Only power.Silver light shimmered through my fur.My mother smiled faintly.“Again.”I crouched.“Again?”“You’re strong, Evana. But strength isn’t control.”I attacked the training dummy.My claws struck its chest.The wooden structure exploded.Pieces flew across the clearing.I stared at the wreckage.“I didn’t mean to do that.”“I know.”My mother walked toward the broken pieces.“That’s why we’re here.”She explained that the Moon-Blood wasn’t simply an unusually powerful wolf.It was a bloodline capable of affecting the wolves around it.I could strengthen another wolf.Sense emotional disturbances.Feel fear, anger, grief, even deception when my instincts were developed enough.And eventually, if I learned control, I could inf

POV: ARTHURI had spent too many years believing an apology was something you gave when you wanted forgiveness.That morning, I finally understood it wasn’t.An apology was what you gave when you were willing to admit that someone had been hurt because of you, even if they never forgave you for it.Evana was in the garden when I saw her.She stood beside the fountain, reading one of her mother’s old journals.She looked peaceful.I almost turned around.Not because I was afraid of her.Because I was afraid of saying the wrong thing again.But I had spent enough of my life running from uncomfortable truths.“Evana.”She looked up.“What do you want?”Her tone wasn’t cruel.It was simply guarded.“I came to apologize.”She closed the journal.“For what?”I deserved that question.“For everything.”She waited.I took a breath.“I blamed you for the mate bond.”Her expression remained still.“I hated feeling like fate had taken the choice away from me. I was angry that my father believed

POV: EVANAThe hall remained silent long after the elder dropped to his knees.I could still feel the pack through my wolf.Hundreds of heartbeats.Hundreds of emotions.And beneath all of them, something I had never experienced before.Recognition.My mother stepped toward me, her expression filled with something between pride and concern.“Evana.”I turned to her.“What just happened?”She looked around the hall.“They recognized you.”“As what?”Her eyes met mine.“As the Moon-Blood Luna.”The words sent a strange chill through me.I had spent my entire life believing I was ordinary.Then, within weeks, everything I knew about myself had been torn apart.My blood.My parents.My abilities.My connection to Arthur.Nothing was ordinary anymore.My mother lowered her voice.“The Moon-Blood wasn’t created to rule one pack.”I frowned.“Then what was it created for?”“To unite many.”My stomach tightened.“Many packs?”She nodded.“Long ago, Moon-Blood Lunas were able to strengthen the