Alle Kapitel von THE ALPHA'S FORBIDDEN LUNA: Kapitel 11 – Kapitel 20

Kael shifted mid-stride, clothes tearing away as he broke into a dead sprint toward the burning east wing, and Selene barely had time to hand Aria off to Marcus before her own wolf surged forward, instinct outpacing thought entirely. Every plan they'd made in the clearing — the ritual, the three days, the fragile hope they'd carried the whole ride home — evaporated in an instant, replaced by nothing but the roar of fire and the screams still echoing from somewhere inside the burning house."Get her somewhere safe," she called back, already running. "Please.""Go," Marcus said grimly, already turning. Aria clutched protectively against his chest. "I've got her."Selene tore through the gates behind Kael, chaos erupting around her in every direction — pack members battling unfamiliar wolves in the courtyard, smoke billowing thick and black from a shattered window, the acrid smell of something worse than ordinary fire burning underneath it all."Lycan fire," Kael snarled, shifting back ju

"Where did you find him?" Kael's voice was low, controlled, though Selene could feel the tension radiating off him even from several feet away. Behind him, the ruins of the east wing still smouldered faintly, a grim backdrop to yet another crisis arriving before the last one had even settled."Patrol picked him up near the southern tree line during the fighting," Edrick said smoothly, gesturing toward the bound Lycan with an air of casual helpfulness that made Selene's skin crawl. "Thought it best to bring him directly to you rather than let the guards handle questioning. These matters require a certain delicacy.""How thoughtful," Selene said, keeping her voice carefully neutral even as suspicion coiled tight in her chest.Edrick's eyes flicked to her — sharp, assessing, gone so quickly she might have imagined the calculation behind them. "You must be the mate everyone's been discussing. A pleasure, finally." His smile didn't reach his eyes. "Though I imagine introductions can wait.

"Drop the blade." Kael's voice was low, steady, the practiced calm of a man who understood exactly how fragile the moment was, even as every instinct in him screamed to close the distance and rip the blade away by force. "No one here wants to hurt you." "You don't understand." The scout's hands shook violently, the blade trembling against his own throat, a thin line of blood already welling where the edge pressed too hard. "He said if I told you anything more, he'd know. He always knows." "How would he know?" Selene asked carefully, taking a slow step forward, palms raised. "You're inside Ashwood's walls. Vale isn't here." "He doesn't need to be." The boy's voice cracked, tears streaming freely now. "He marked me. Before he sent me out. Said it would let him know if I ever tried to betray him." Kael's expression shifted, sharp and alarmed. "Show me." With trembling fingers, the scout pulled back the collar of his torn shirt, revealing a small, blackened symbol burned into the skin

"Kael!" Selene dropped to her knees beside him, hands hovering uselessly over the blood pooling faster than the small cut should have produced, panic clawing up her throat. "Stay with me — please, stay with me—" The standing stones around them blazed brighter with every ragged breath he drew, as though feeding on something neither of them fully understood.The golden light from the standing stones intensified, and the ancient voice speaking overhead shifted, deepening, resonating not just through the clearing but through Selene's own chest, as though the words were being spoken directly into her bones.The bond is not death. The bond is balance. What you fear is not the price — it is the shape of the choice you have not yet made.Kael's eyes snapped open, gold flooding entirely through the grey, and when he spoke, his voice carried an echo underneath it that wasn't entirely his own."Selene." His hand found hers, grip fierce despite his blood-slicked palm. "I can see it. The prophecy.

Ashwood's courtyard had become a battlefield by the time they reached it — Lycan wolves pouring through breaches in the outer wall, Ashwood's warriors meeting them with desperate, coordinated fury, the air thick with smoke and blood and the terrible symphony of a pack fighting for its life. Bodies already littered the courtyard, some moving, some horribly still, and Selene forced herself not to look too closely at either."Selene, stay behind me," Kael shouted, already shifting mid-stride, black fur rippling into place as he tore into the nearest attacker.She didn't listen. She never had, not really, and this was no time to start.Selene shifted too, wolf and woman merging into something fierce and certain in a way it hadn't been even a week ago, and threw herself into the fight beside him, claiming a Lycan wolf twice her size with a ferocity that surprised even her. Every ounce of the twenty years she'd spent hiding this part of herself seemed to burn away in an instant, replaced by