All Chapters of Love soured, broken mirrors cannot reunite: Chapter 1 - Chapter 8

8 Chapters

Chapter 1

When Rook came back from the basement, the wound on his abdomen had already mostly healed.His expression was calm, as though nothing had happened, and he was carrying a box of wild mulberries, my favorite."Don't be upset, Lira."She's just a human girl. She can't threaten your position as Luna. Why keep going after her?"I lowered my gaze to the mulberries and smiled."If she's just a human girl, then why did you get on your knees and beg me for her sake?"He knew as well as I did whether that was true.Rook stiffened.He looked away and said, "She's different from you. She's fragile and kind. She has no one but me."I fell silent.The day he first brought Elowen back to the pack, he had said the same thing."I found a young human at the border. No parents, badly injured. We're the only ones she has."Once she recovers, we'll send her on her way."By now, Elowen had long since recovered, but Rook had stopped talking about sending her away.When I didn't respond, Rook slipped an arm a

Chapter 2

Back in the bedroom, I threw myself onto the bed and stared blankly at the ceiling.If not for the mark's warning, I probably never would have discovered Rook's betrayal.After all, he had always treated me so well.I loved wild roses, so he had a gardener fill an entire garden with them.I loved collecting oil paintings, so he spent a fortune at auctions acquiring rare pieces from around the world to hang in my room.I loved meaningful gestures, so on the night he marked me, he placed a wolf-fang necklace around my neck, one he had crafted himself.Except... the wild roses had been replaced by Elowen's favorite roses, and the paintings by the relief sculptures she loved.Even the necklace. She had an identical one.So I had never been the only one.I ripped the necklace from my neck.What was once a token of love now felt like a collar, strangling me.Rook didn't return to the bedroom until midnight.The mark had been aching the whole time, keeping me from sleeping soundly.Half aslee

Chapter 3

Just when I wanted to leave Rook the most, I discovered I was pregnant.The burning pain from the mark on the back of my neck grew worse as Rook became more and more devoted to Elowen.I could no longer contain my wolf's feral instincts. I kept losing control, flying into rages and destroying everything in the room.Rook was busy all day with war preparations and had less and less patience for me.Finally, after I wrecked the bedroom yet again, he had a wrist-thick iron chain forged and locked me to the bedpost himself.I stared at him with bloodshot eyes, my voice hoarse."Do you have any idea? You're the reason I've become like this."I'm preg—""Enough!"Rook cut me off, his voice thick with irritation."All you ever do is blame everyone else. You never look at yourself."I'm running this pack day and night, and instead of helping me carry even a fraction of the burden, all you do is obsess over my relationship with Elowen and make trouble at every turn."Out of every Luna in every

Chapter 4

Word that Luna had cast aside his Luna spread through the pack like wildfire.The Omegas wasted no time piling on, gathering outside my door to gossip and mock me without restraint."Can't even compete with a human woman. What kind of Luna is that?""On the human's birthday, Luna had the whole pack put on a three-hour fireworks display for her.""That's nothing. Luna's pet snake that she raised for eight years? Luna killed it himself because the human said she was scared of it."Every cruel word drilled into my ears, but I didn't even have the strength to argue back.The battle with the Silverfang Pack finally broke out.Beyond the sealed room, war horns thundered and the roars of wolves clashing in battle rolled in, wave after wave.The sounds drew closer and closer to where I was.From the dozens of battles I had helped Rook command, I could tell our pack was losing.The corridor filled with the wailing of pups and the blare of the emergency evacuation announcement.In the chaos, I t

Chapter 5

Rook's legs gave out beneath him, and he sank to his knees in front of the pile of ash.He sniffed the air desperately, trying to catch my scent.But the wolfsbane fumes that saturated the ruins quickly left him weak and dizzy.Despite knowing full well how much damage the wolfsbane was doing to his body, Rook forced himself up and searched through every corner of the ruins, following the paths he remembered.He clung to the hope that I would come bounding out of some hiding place, whole and unharmed, and stand right in front of him.But by the time the poison had him doubled over in agony and he staggered back to the others, he hadn't caught a single trace of me.He was forced to face the worst possibility.That pile of ash was me. His Luna had truly burned to death in the prison he had built for her.The realization drove Rook to the edge of collapse. While the doctor purged the toxins from his body, he muttered deliriously, "Lira, I'm here to save you. Don't be scared..."Everything

Chapter 6

When I was young, I used to spar and roughhouse with Rook on the open grounds of the pack.Back then, there was another boy who always stood watching from a distance, gripping a rough wooden staff of his own, though he rarely came forward to talk.My memory of him was faint. All I recalled was that he vanished from pack lands by the time he was eight or nine and never came back.That boy was Silas, the man now sitting across from me.Born into the royal bloodline, he had been taken back to the capital as a child to undergo rigorous training for the throne and was forbidden from visiting ordinary packs.The first time he saw me, I was crouching off to the side, quietly watching Rook swing his wooden staff, my eyes bright and clear.That image had stayed with him, etched into his memory for decades.In the years that followed, he returned countless times under the guise of inspecting the pack, all just to catch a glimpse of me from afar, never daring to approach.He watched me grow up. H

Chapter 7

Rook listened in silence through all of it, watching Elowen twist every detail to save herself.When the guards struck her across the face, he didn't move to stop them.Before, the slightest hint of distress from Elowen would have sent him rushing to shield her, lashing out at anyone who upset her.But now, watching the ugly, selfish truth of who she really was, he finally saw clearly who had been genuine and who had been using his favoritism to drive everyone apart.He looked up at the dais. I sat quietly beside Silas, and from beginning to end, I hadn't spared Elowen a glance. Regret surged through him, bottomless and unrelenting.He braced himself on one knee and looked up at the dais. "Before the trial, I want to speak with Lira alone."Before Silas could respond, I answered. "There's no need for privacy. I have nothing to hide from Silas."Rook was silent for a moment, then inched forward on his knees to the base of the steps. He pulled out the wolf-fang necklace he had spent two

Chapter 8

Over the next three days, Silas no longer stayed constantly at my side.But he still arranged for attendants to be on call for me at all times, and healing tonics and meals to my taste arrived on schedule every day.Between official duties, he would come to the side chamber and sit with me quietly, never forcing conversation.He simply sat nearby, giving me all the space I needed to heal on my own.He never demanded anything in return. He never pressed me about when I would agree to a new royal bond. He never used twenty years of silent devotion to guilt me into a decision.Every kindness was measured, restrained, and respectful, never making me feel the slightest pressure.In my free time, I would sort through the last ten years on my own, comparing the way Rook and Silas had treated me.Rook's tenderness had always come with a condition: that I obey him and tolerate Elowen.The moment I raised the slightest objection, all warmth vanished, replaced by control, suspicion, and cruelty.

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