All Chapters of THE ALPHA’S UNWANTED PLUS-SIZE LUNA: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

MERRYN“No.”Rhydian had barely finished speaking when I pushed away from the archive table.“I’m not leaving.”His eyes stayed on the fresh document between us. “Merryn…”“No.” I pointed at the page. “That name is my aunt’s name. It appeared on a document that was not here five minutes ago, after someone broke into your palace, and you expect me to walk upstairs and sleep?”“I expect you to get somewhere safer.”I gave him a flat look. “The safest place in this palace apparently has documents appearing out of thin air.”Tavish cleared his throat. Rhydian glanced at him.Tavish looked between us. “She has a point.”Rhydian’s jaw tightened, but he didn’t argue.I stepped closer to the table and looked at Cressida’s name again.The handwriting was unmistakable. I had seen it on birthday cards, grocery lists, old letters, even the ridiculous notes she used to leave outside my bedroom when she wanted me to wake up early.CRESSIDA VALE.My fingers curled against my palm.“She contacted Noc

MERRYNThe words followed me long after the archive doors closed. SUBJECT SIX WAS MOVED TO ALBION.I couldn't stop thinking about them.If Subject Six had been moved to Albion, then the six missing Eclipse children might not be dead. They might be somewhere in the same land as me.And for once, I wondered whether the Bloodlock had been waiting for me to discover that.That night I dreamed of Lucian standing in the Moon sanctum. The first thing I heard was my own breathing fast and loudly. I opened my eyes and found myself standing inside the Moon Sanctum.Not as it was now. As it had been three years ago. Before the divorce papers. Before Selene came back.Before I learned that my marriage had been built on secrets I had never been allowed to see.I looked down. I was wearing the dress from my wedding ceremony.“No.”My voice echoed through the empty sanctum. I turned around. There was someone standing beside the ritual basin.Lucian. He looked younger. Not much, but enough.There w

MERRY I returned to the family estate before sunset. I hadn’t told Rhydian where I was going. Not because I wanted to hide it from him.I simply didn’t want another guard following me around while I searched through my own family’s secrets.The estate looked exactly as I remembered it. That somehow made everything worse.I unlocked the front door and stepped inside.“Hello?”Only silence answered. I had no intention of explaining myself to anyone tonight. I walked upstairs and stopped outside Cressida’s old sitting room.This was where she’d kept the few things that belonged to my mother. At least, that was what she had always told me.I opened the door. Dust covered the shelves. The curtains were drawn. I walked toward the cabinet in the corner and opened the first drawer, the second drawer.Old photographs. I pulled them out one by one. My parents. Cressida. Me as a baby.I stared at the photograph. My mother was holding me.She looked young and happy. Nothing like the woman from

RHYDIANThe black mark on Merryn’s palm had not faded by morning. She had tried everything. Water and a healing slave. Even Tavish’s suggestion of holding her hand beneath moonlight. Nothing worked. She stood at the archive table, rubbing her palm with her thumb.“It’s still there.”“I can see that,” I said.She looked up.“Then stop staring at it.”“I’m trying to understand it.”“So am I.”I picked up one of the training-bond stones.“We can test it again.”Her expression changed immediately.“No.”“It isn’t a living bond.”“You said that yesterday.”“And it remains true.”“I broke the last one.”“You loosened it first.”“Then I broke it.”“Because you panicked.”She looked away.I set the stone down.“Merryn, I’m not asking you to touch anyone’s mate bond.”“I know.”“This will be a training tether. It exists only to teach young wolves how bonds feel.”She glanced at the stone“And if I break it?”“Then we’ll know the mark reacts to severing.”“And if I can’t control it?”“Then we s

MERRYNI couldn’t stop staring at the map.My name was written beneath the Eclipse symbol.Not in the corner. Not as a note. Right in the center. Like everything on that page led back to me. Tavish spread the map flat across the table.“Don’t touch it yet.”I looked at him, “Why?”“We don’t know whether there’s a tracking spell attached to it.”Rhydian’s expression hardened.“Check it.”Tavish pulled a small device from his pocket and passed it over the paper. Nothing happened.“No active spell,” he said.I reached for the map.The paper was cold beneath my fingers.I unfolded it completely. There were dates. Dozens of them. My stomach tightened.“Those aren’t recent.”Tavish leaned closer.“How far back?”I traced one of the markings.“Three years.”Another.“Four.”My voice became quieter.“Five.”Rhydian looked at me.“What?”I pointed to the date.“This was before my divorce.”He moved closer.“How far before?”“Before Lucian and I even separated.”Tavish picked up another sheet.“