Alle Kapitel von THE REJECTED LUCA’S REVENGE : Kapitel 21 – Kapitel 30

The lower cells were cold.Water dripped somewhere in the darkness, hitting the stone floor one drop at a time.Luca walked down the narrow passage.Two guards followed behind him.At the last cell, the wounded rogue sat against the wall with his hands tied.His face was bruised from the fight.When he saw Luca, a small smile appeared.“You came.”Luca stopped in front of the bars.“You said you knew who threatened Amara.”“I do.”“Then speak.”The rogue looked at the guards.“Alone.”Luca nodded.“Leave us.”The guards hesitated.Luca turned his head.“I gave you an order.”They immediately walked away.The rogue watched them disappear.Then he looked back at Luca.“You really became powerful.”“I didn’t come here for compliments.”“No.”The rogue leaned his head against the wall.“You came for the truth.”Luca stepped closer.“Who threatened Amara?”The rogue smiled.“Do you remember the night you were banished?”Luca’s face became still.“I remember everything.”“Then you remember

The training yard remained busy long after Luca finished giving orders.The warriors continued sparring while Luca stood near the edge of the field, watching them carefully. His face remained calm, but his thoughts were elsewhere.He could still feel the mate bond.It had not disappeared.No matter how much he ignored it, the connection between him and Amara remained.Luca hated that.He had spent three years learning how to live without her.Now she was back in his life, and the bond was forcing its way into everything he did.A sharp pain suddenly spread across his chest.Luca’s jaw tightened.He did not move.He knew what it meant.Amara.She was somewhere nearby.He looked toward the palace.For a moment, he considered leaving the training yard.Then the pain became stronger.His fingers curled into fists.He refused to give the bond control over him.He had survived three years without her.He could survive this too.“King Luca.”Marcus’s voice pulled him from his thoughts.Luca

The following morning, Luca returned to the library before the palace became busy.He had spent most of the night thinking about the message he had found in his mother’s cloth. Although he had tried to push the questions aside and focus on the problems Silver Moon was facing now, the mystery surrounding his mother had become impossible to ignore.He needed to know what had happened to her.More importantly, he needed to understand why someone had once been afraid of what might happen if people discovered her child.The library was almost exactly as he had left it the previous afternoon. Pale morning light entered through the tall windows, falling across the old shelves and the wooden tables covered with years of dust.Luca walked toward the section where he had been searching.His eyes moved over the shelves until he found the place where he had been standing when he discovered the cloth.He reached for the same book.Then another.He searched through the records carefully, hoping to

The fire burned quietly between them.Luca remained standing near the table, watching Elias.“Tell me,” he said.Elias pulled the chair closer to the fire but did not sit.“Long before you were born, the Moonblood name carried a kind of power that other wolves did not understand.”Luca folded his arms.“What kind of power?”Elias looked at him.“They were not feared because they were cruel.”“Then why?”“Because they could become something others could not control.”Luca’s expression tightened.Elias walked slowly across the room.“The Moonblood bloodline was different. Their strength was not limited in the same way as ordinary wolves. The older they became, the more their abilities could develop.”Luca said nothing.“Some Moonbloods became stronger than Alphas. Some could command wolves who were stronger than themselves. Their presence alone could change the balance between packs.”Luca’s eyes narrowed.“So they were powerful.”“Powerful enough to make rulers nervous.”Elias stopped

Luca remained near the doorway, but he did not leave.Elias’s words followed him.Someone close to the Moonbloods had given their enemies a way to find them.Luca turned slowly.“What happened that night?”Elias looked toward the fire.“The Moonbloods had no warning. That is the part you need to understand first.”Luca said nothing.“They lived normally that evening. Families ate together. Children went to sleep. The warriors finished their duties and returned to their homes. No alarm was raised. No one was told to gather weapons or prepare for an attack.”Elias’s voice remained steady.“They went to sleep believing the danger they faced was the same danger they had always known—the fear and suspicion of other wolves. They did not know that someone had already exposed their location.”Luca’s face tightened.“So they were completely unaware.”“Yes.”Elias paused.“Before dawn, the attack began.”“How could the attackers reach them so easily?”“They already knew where to go.”Elias move