All Chapters of THE ALPHA’S UNWANTED PLUS-SIZE LUNA: Chapter 61 - Chapter 70

MERRYNThe first Dominion agent was already inside the estate. I realized that when the eastern corridor went silent. Not quiet but very silent.The kind of silence that came after something had happened. Rhydian moved ahead of me with his weapon drawn.“Stay behind me.”“I can see that you’re armed.”“Merryn.”“I’ll stay close.”He glanced at me, “Close is not the same as behind me.”“I know.”Another alarm sounded. Tavish appeared around the corner.“Three guards are down.”“Dead?”“Unconscious.”Rhydian’s expression hardened.“Where?”“East wing.”“How did they get through the barrier?”“We don’t know.”I felt the black mark on my palm burning. I stared at it.“They didn’t come because of the estate.”Rhydian looked at me.“What do you mean?”“They came because of me.”He didn’t deny it, “Which is why we’re leaving.”“No.”His eyes narrowed.“Merryn.”“They’ve been waiting.”“For what?”“For this.”I held up my marked hand.“The Eclipse awakening.”Tavish looked between us. Rhydian

SELENEI had carried the letter for six years. Six years of folding it carefully, hiding it beneath false papers, moving it whenever I changed where I slept, and checking the seal whenever I began to wonder whether keeping it had been worth the risk.Now it sat inside my coat as I walked toward the room where Merryn was waiting. For years, I had imagined the moment I would finally show it to someone.I had never imagined that person would be Merryn Vale. I stopped outside the door. My hand rested over the letter.Then I knocked.“Come in.”I opened the door. Merryn stood beside the table with Rhydian behind her. Tavish was there too, but he remained near the window, giving us space. Merryn looked at me.“You said you found something.”“I did.”Her eyes dropped toward my coat.“You brought it?”I nodded.“I’ve protected this letter longer than I protected almost anything else.”Rhydian’s expression tightened.“Why?”“Because if the wrong person knew I had it, my family would have been

Lucian’s POVThe knock came just after midnight. I was still sitting behind my desk, staring at the sealed marriage file I had opened hours earlier.MARRIAGE AGREEMENT: PURPOSE—CONTAINMENT OF ECLIPSE SUBJECT.I had read the sentence so many times that the words no longer looked real. A knock came again. I closed the file.“Enter.”The door opened, and one of the household guards stepped inside. His expression was tense.“Alpha, there’s been a report from Greyhollow.”I leaned back, “What kind of report?”“Merryn was seen there.”My fingers tightened around the edge of the desk, “With Selene.”I stood, “What were they doing?”“Investigating Alaric Thorne.”The name hit harder than I expected. Alaric Thorne. The witness from the old records.The man my father had spent years pretending didn’t exist.I looked at the guard.“Who told you this?”“One of the scouts stationed near Greyhollow. He said Merryn and Selene were attacked while searching for Thorne.”“And?”“They found him.”I wait

MERRYNThe red light disappeared.For one second, neither Selene nor I moved.Then she reached for the dagger at her waist.“Don’t,” I said.Her hand stopped.“They’re listening to us.”“I know.”“If someone is outside—”“Then we need to know who.”Selene frowned.“You want to investigate the person spying on us?”“I want to know how the device got inside the room.”She glanced toward the tiny lens.“You think whoever planted it is still here?”“I think someone had access.”I crossed the room and opened the door.The hallway was empty.A few doors down, a young woman was carrying a tray of dishes toward the stairs.She stopped when she saw us.Her eyes flicked toward the room.Then away.Too quickly.Selene noticed it too.“That woman.”The servant immediately turned around.“Wait,” I called.She froze.Selene stepped into the hallway.“Come here.”The woman’s hands began to shake.“I haven’t done anything.”That was almost an admission.Selene’s expression hardened.“We didn’t accuse

LUCIANI waited until the estate was quiet before leaving my room.My father’s words were still in my head.You were never supposed to love her. You were supposed to contain her.I had heard those words before. But tonight, they felt different. Because I finally understood what my father had refused to tell me.My marriage to Merryn had never been treated as a marriage.It had been treated as a plan.I reached the old western corridor and stopped before the door at the end.The Vale vault had been there longer than I had been alive.My father had always told me it contained family records, old contracts, and nothing worth seeing.I had believed him.Not anymore.I unlocked the outer door and stepped inside.Dust covered the shelves.Old boxes filled the walls.Nothing looked unusual.I shut the door behind me.“Show me what you hid.”My voice sounded strange in the silence.I moved toward the stone wall at the back.According to the family records, the oldest documents were stored beh