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หน้าหลัก / I Bore His Heirs, Then I Vanished / บทที่ 1 - บทที่ 10

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Chapter 1

The blood on the floor was mine.It ran warm between my legs and pooled beneath the birthing bed while the healer wrapped my daughter in a blanket. He did not show her to me. He did not ask if I wanted to hold her.He carried her straight across the room and placed her in Seraphina’s arms.The door shut behind them.My baby’s cries faded down the hall.Three days later, Seraphina ordered me to appear before her in the pack hall.Pack law gave me no right to refuse a formal summons from the Luna, so I forced myself out of bed before moonrise. The tear from the birth had not healed. Every step sent a fresh bolt of pain through my body, and by the time I reached the hall, blood had soaked through the bandages beneath my dress.Seraphina sat at the head of the council table with a cushion across her lap.My daughter slept on top of it.Seraphina traced one finger over the baby’s ear. When I entered, she glanced at me but made no move to stand.“You look awful. Is there a problem?”I kept m
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Chapter 2

I had loved Lucian long before the Moon Goddess named him as mine.When I was eighteen, he returned from the northern border at the head of his guard. Blood had soaked through the bandage around his ribs, but he refused help and walked through the pack gates under his own strength.I stood in the crowd and could not look away.That night, I wrote his name in the margins of my journal. I sketched his face from memory until I knew every hard line of it.So when the mating ceremony revealed that Lucian Thorne was my fated mate, I thought the years I had spent waiting for him finally meant something.I thought they would mean something to him too.Four months into my first pregnancy, I heard Lucian and Seraphina talking behind the council hall.“When the baby is born, he goes to you,” Lucian said. “He’ll be recognized as your son from the beginning. I won’t give the elders any opening to question the succession.”He did not say my name once.That was the first time I thought about dying.B
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Chapter 3

Lucian came to my room that night.He stopped in the doorway and kept one hand on the frame, as though he had already decided not to stay.“The baby has a name now,” he said. “Nova. Seraphina chose it. You gave birth to her, so I thought you should know.”“Nova is a beautiful name.”His expression shifted, but he moved on.“The boy is three. His training starts soon, and Seraphina will choose his first instructors. He’s old enough to remember faces now.”He paused.“From now on, stay away from the training grounds. I don’t want him confused.”I looked up at him. “All right.”Lucian did not leave.My answer had been too quiet. He was used to tears, accusations, desperate promises that I would keep my distance if he only let me see my son once.I gave him nothing.“Are you angry?” he asked at last.“No.”His brows drew together.He would have known what to do with anger. He could have called me selfish. He could have reminded me that he was Alpha and that the pack came first.But I was c
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Chapter 4

Seraphina summoned me before sunrise.She made sure there was an audience.Several elders, their mates, and a line of guards were leaving the morning council when I arrived. They all saw me waiting outside the great hall while Seraphina kept me there with my head lowered.At last, she stepped through the doors.“I heard Lucian left your room angry last night,” she said. “Is that true?”“He came to tell me the baby’s name.”“In the middle of the night?” She gave a short laugh. “He went all the way to your room to tell you a name, then stormed out? Do you expect me to believe that?”“I can’t tell you why he was angry.”“Can’t, or won’t?”She moved closer, lowering her voice just enough to make everyone strain to hear.“Did you cling to him and cry the way you did after the boy was born? Or have you found a new way to get his attention? Is that why you’ve been walking around with that broken look on your face?”I did not answer.“Lucian checks on you because your father still matters to t
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Chapter 5

“What the hell is going on?”Lucian’s voice cut across the entrance to the great hall.He had come straight from the evening council. Dust still marked his boots. His gaze found me first—my hair half-fallen from its tie, my clothes gray from the quarry, my palms dripping blood onto the stone floor.Seraphina stood in front of me with several guards gathered behind her.The moment she saw him, her expression crumpled.“I gave her a simple work assignment,” she said, her voice shaking. “She threw her father’s position in my face and said I had no right to order her. Am I Luna only when it’s convenient for everyone else?”Lucian looked at my hands.His eyes lingered on the blood for one second.Then he looked away.Seraphina had the legal authority to assign pack labor. The quarry was brutal, but it was still within her power.Lucian knew exactly what she had done.He also knew that challenging her in front of the elders would weaken her position as Luna.So he chose the pack again.He ch
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Chapter 6

Lucian came to the west cabin the next morning.“I’m leaving for the northern border,” he said. “I’ll be gone a few days.”His gaze dropped to my bandaged hands, then moved away.For a moment, neither of us spoke.He reached into his coat and placed a small jar beside the door.“The healer made this. It’s the strongest ointment we have.”I picked it up. “Thank you.”Lucian remained in the doorway, as if he were waiting for me to say more. Perhaps he expected gratitude. Perhaps he wanted me to understand that bringing medicine meant he cared, even if he had been the one to send me here.I gave him nothing else.At last, he turned and walked down the gravel path.I watched until he disappeared between the trees.Then I set the ointment on the windowsill beside an old hunting knife. My father had given me the knife years ago, before I came to Bloodmoon.I ran my thumb over the worn handle and slipped it inside my coat.By the following morning, a rumor had spread through the compound.Bef
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Chapter 7

Lucian's car sped through the Bloodmoon gates before midnight. Smoke still hung above the western grounds where the old cabin had collapsed into a blackened pit. He was out of the vehicle before the engine had fully stopped."Where is she?"His Beta followed him toward the ruins. "The roof collapsed before the guards could break through. The healer is searching the remains."Lucian stared at the burned frame. The windows had been covered with planks, iron nails still protruding from the surviving wood. "Why were the windows sealed?"Seraphina stood nearby with their daughter in her arms, their son clinging to her dress. "She needed discipline. I ordered the guards to confine her until you returned.""You locked her inside and sealed every exit?""I did not start the fire.""That was not my question."Seraphina shifted the baby against her chest. "She humiliated me in front of my own guards. She suggested you would abandon me for the mother of your heirs. I had to remind her who the Lun
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Chapter 8

The Silvercrest healer kept me in bed for four days. The wolfsbane had suppressed my wolf but slowed the healing of every injury. The wound from Nova's birth had reopened during the escape, and the cuts across my palms had become infected.Kael visited each morning. He never stayed long and never asked questions I was not ready to answer. On the fifth day, he entered with my father.My father stopped just inside the room. Then he crossed the floor and wrapped both arms around me. "I thought you were dead." His voice broke against my hair."I'm sorry."He pulled back and looked at the bandages around my hands. "Why did you never tell me?""Your enemies were waiting for a reason to remove you from the council. The northern border was under attack, and Lucian's protection was the only thing keeping them back.""I would rather have lost every title than let you endure this alone.""I know that now."My father sat beside the bed and listened while I told him everything. When I reached the q
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Chapter 9

The Bloodmoon elders were waiting when Lucian returned from the border. They filled the council chamber before he arrived, speaking over one another about the closed northern road and the warriors gathering beneath Silvercrest banners.Elder Garrick struck his fist against the table. "The Vale family has withdrawn its guards, our merchants cannot reach the northern settlements, and Silvercrest has three hundred warriors at the border. We cannot allow one woman to hold the pack hostage."Lucian removed his coat. "That woman gave birth to both of our heirs.""She is also your fated mate. Bring her back under guard. Once she is inside Bloodmoon territory, her father will not risk attacking us."Several elders voiced their agreement."No one will force her back into this territory."Garrick stared at him. "You would surrender two heirs because she has become emotional?""I said no." The elders lowered their eyes, but their anger remained. "The children stay in Bloodmoon until I decide ho
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Chapter 10

Silvercrest received Bloodmoon's emergency mobilization alert before sunrise. Kael entered the healer's room while I was changing my bandages. "Bloodmoon claims we attacked their nursery and took the children."My fingers stopped. "Where are Lucian's soldiers?""Gathering near the northern road. They have not crossed the border."A Vale scout appeared behind him. "Traffic cameras recorded a Bloodmoon transport van leaving the closed northern road. Its tracking signal disappeared near the old border stronghold."I knew the place. Bloodmoon had abandoned the reinforced compound years ago. "My children are there."Kael looked at my father. "I'll take twelve warriors and confirm it.""I'm going with you.""You are still healing.""I did not survive the fire so someone else could bring my children home."Kael held my gaze for a moment, then handed me a combat knife. "You decide how far you can go. I'll match your pace."We followed the van's tire tracks along an overgrown service road. Near
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