All Chapters of WHEN THE LUNA WALKS AWAY: Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

COURTNEYTwo weeks passed after Bryan left on the private jet. The mansion was quieter than a graveyard, and the heavy silence sat on my chest like a lead weight every single hour.My phone chimed with a reminder for my medical appointment. I had to head to the pack hospital to pick up my monthly routine medication. Three years ago, when both of Diego’s kidneys began failing due to a rare, toxic strain of wolfsbane poisoning, I didn't hesitate for even a second. The doctors said his body was rejecting standard shifter healing, and without a match, he would die. I was a direct match. I spent eight hours on an operating table, giving him one of my kidneys so he could live.Even now, my body required specialized routine drugs to keep my single kidney functioning smoothly without triggering organ rejection or complications.I drove back from the hospital holding the brown paper bag of medications on the passenger seat. As I turned down the long, tree-lined driveway of the pack estate, my

COURTNEYWhat had Diego and his mistress done to my son?They had manipulated a five-year-old child, fed him lies, and turned him completely against the only mother who had ever truly loved him. They took away his childhood, made him call another woman "Mommy," and then, the moment he fell gravely ill, they cast him aside like trash on the side of the road.I sat in my private office, staring at Bryan’s detailed medical file, my vision blurring behind a thick veil of tears. I had taken over his case completely, wiping his name from the general roster and assigning him directly to my care. I checked his medical records again and again, hoping for a miracle, but the diagnosis was undeniable.He had advanced bone marrow cancer. He desperately needed a bone marrow transplant surgery to survive.In wolf shifters, a bone marrow match requires a direct full-blooded sibling or a parent with a rare genetic alignment. Because my own system was altered from giving Diego my kidney years ago, my m