All Chapters of The Sleeping Luna: Chapter 1 - Chapter 9

9 Chapters

Chapter 1

It was late, and I was sleeping deeply.If anything, that year under the spell hadn't been all bad. It cured my light sleeping, something I'd struggled with for years.Then the bed dipped behind me.The moment his burning chest pressed against my back, my eyes snapped open. My wolf's fur bristled inside me.My hand shot under the pillow. The silver dagger came out, its tip pressing right against his throat.Kyle froze.He raised his hands slowly, his voice low. "It's me. Did I scare you?"Moonlight fell across his face.I'd been looking at that face since I was twelve. Back then, just having him close would send my wolf rolling around in pure joy inside my chest.Now she cowered in the deepest corner, eyes shut tight.Kyle reeked of Freya. That cloying, sickly sweetness.My chest clenched. The mate bond backlash hit me, pain slicing along my ribs from the inside out.I bit my tongue and put the dagger back."Sorry. I was half asleep."His brow relaxed."You used to recognize me by my f

Chapter 2

Half asleep, the same grating voices from a year ago crept back into my ears.The witch said, "The sleeping spell has taken effect. She won't know what's happening out there."Kyle was quiet for a long time."Will it hurt her?""She'll be weak when she wakes up.""Then do it."But the witch lied to Kyle.I could feel everything. In that coma, the pain was magnified tenfold.I screamed his name in my head, over and over. No one answered.Then Freya started crying."Kyle, I shouldn't have made that wish. If Sylvie finds out, she'll hate me forever."Kyle's voice dropped low, soothing her."It's just a temporary mark. Once your wolf stabilizes, I'll break it."When the ceremony began under the moon, his fangs pierced the back of her neck.The temporary mate link snapped open between them.And the real bond between him and me—the one that was supposed to be sacred—got shoved aside.It hurt. God, it hurt so much.I could hear them breathing. I could hear my own heart cracking open.But my e

Chapter 3

Kyle didn't come back the whole day.At dusk, Freya showed up at my door instead. No knock. Just walked right in.She settled across from me, one hand resting on her slightly rounded belly, a sweet smile on her face."I heard you told Kyle to come keep me company."I didn't look up. Just kept sorting through the old letters on my desk.Freya's smile thinned when I ignored her. She reached up and swept her hair aside, showing off the dark red bite mark on the back of her neck."See this?""I see it.""Kyle gave it to me.""I know.""Doesn't it bother you?"She leaned forward, a little desperate now. The scent of her temporary mark washed over me.The blood marks on my wrist burned.Pain shot through my chest out of nowhere. The letters scattered from my hands.Freya's smile crept back."So it does hurt."She let out more of that temporary mate scent on purpose.My wolf whimpered deep inside me. My ribs felt like they were being pried apart by claws. Every breath came with the taste of b

Chapter 4

The Winter Hunt hadn't even started when I collapsed.Early morning. The temporary link between Kyle and Freya flared up out of nowhere. Their voices crashed into my head uninvited."Kyle, I'm so cold.""Come closer.""Will your wolf hate me?""No."The next second, mate scent exploded through the link. The backlash hit me like a freight train.I fell off the bed. Every bone in my body felt like it was being twisted apart by invisible hands.Blood rose in my throat. I coughed it up onto the white carpet. The red was blinding.Eve panicked.She ran out to get the healer, but the guards stopped her at the door when she came back.Freya stood at the end of the hallway, wrapped in Kyle's robe. The mark on her neck was blazing red."What's going on?"Eve was crying, desperate."The Luna is coughing up blood! Let the healer through!"Freya walked into my room and looked at the blood on the floor. No surprise on her face at all."What a coincidence."I was slumped by the bed, too weak to even

Chapter 5

Cyril didn't ask me what happened.He took off his cloak and wrapped it around me, lifting me into the carriage. When the warmth hit me, the tension I'd been holding for three days finally snapped."Cyril... Kyle cheated. I have no home now..."Cyril wiped the blood from the corner of my mouth. His silver-gray eyes were cold as ice."Nonsense. The Frost Pack's doors have never been closed to you."I wanted to laugh, but tears came first.At twelve, I was sent to Silvermoon to grow up with Kyle, the heir, as part of a treaty between our packs. Before I left, Cyril chased our carriage for three miles, telling me to come home if I was ever wronged.But then I made Silvermoon my home. And I forgot the way back."Sleep."Cyril covered my eyes with his palm."I'll take you the rest of the way, Sylvie."I slept for two days.When I woke up, the healers of Frost were arguing around my wrist. The black blood marks had spread to my chest, forming a web that trapped my heart in its center.Cyril

Chapter 6

Kyle agreed to break Freya's temporary mark. But no matter what, he refused to sever the mate bond.A fated bond couldn't be broken by one side alone. It took both parties renouncing their rights to each other under the Moon Goddess.Kyle stayed outside Frost's stone fortress for three full days.On the first day, he sent my favorite honey cakes. I didn't take them.On the second day, he sent the little wolf carving he'd made for me when I was twelve. I had the guards return it untouched.On the third day, he sent nothing at all. He just knelt in the snow, staring at me from a distance.Eve snuck glances at him a few times. When she came back, she kept hesitating."Want to speak up for him?"She shook her head quickly."I've just never seen the Alpha like this.""Neither have I."It used to be me waiting outside in the rain.The Silvermoon council hall had no awning. I'd hold a cold dinner in my arms until late at night, just to steal a few words with him. When he finally came out, he'

Chapter 7

I didn't agree.On the night of the full moon, the Frost priest lit twelve silver lamps.Before the severing ceremony began, Kyle still refused to take the silver blade."Sylvie. Give me one more chance."His back, always so straight, finally bent."I've already broken the temporary mark. I've lifted the sleeping spell. I've handed Freya over to the elders for judgment.""You don't like the main house? We'll move to another fortress.""You hate Silvermoon? I'll stay here in Frost with you."He said it all so fast. Like if he just replaced everything he'd taken from me, things could go back to the way they were.But even a mended bone leaves a scar. Let alone a heart."Kyle."I cut him off."I never wanted a room. I never wanted a Luna badge.""Then what did you want?""I wanted you to believe me when I said it hurt.""I wanted you to at least hear me out when someone was hurting me.""I wanted a mate who wouldn't order me to stand up from my own blood for another woman."Moonlight fell

Chapter 8

Kyle left Frost the day the northern rogues crossed the ice river.They'd tracked his weakened Alpha scent, hoping to breach the north gate while the two packs were in transition. When the howls echoed across the snowfield, Cyril suited up immediately. Before he left, he assigned his four best guards to me."Cyril. I don't need this many people.""But I do."He fastened my cloak, careful to avoid my neck. He didn't touch that patch of skin that still made me flinch."Knowing you're safe is the only way I can fight without distraction."Then he turned and walked away. No orders to stay in my room. No this is for your own good. He just left the choice to me.I went to the north gate anyway.Not for Kyle.I was a wolf of Frost. This was my home.A dozen rogue corpses already lay beneath the wall. Kyle could have slipped away in the chaos. But he didn't. He held the outermost line, holding off the first wave while our wolves scrambled to form ranks.The broken mate bond had drained his str

Chapter 9

The second spring came. The snow on the ground began to melt, and the wounds on my body finally healed.My wolf, silent for so long, slowly stirred inside me. First, she twitched her ears, testing. Then she lifted her head and let out a low howl, one I hadn't heard in ages.The sound was weak. But it was like she was finally crying out the pain I'd held inside for that whole year in the dark.I crouched down. Tears fell into the snow without warning.Cyril didn't try to comfort me. He just dismissed the guards and stood by me alone.I don't know how long passed before a handkerchief appeared in front of me."Done crying yet?"I took it and shook my head."No.""Then keep going. Let out every bit of hurt you've been holding in."I looked up at him with red-rimmed eyes."You don't mind the noise?"Cyril let out a low laugh."You used to sit outside my door and cry all day when you were little. If I minded, I'd have thrown you out years ago."Tears still clinging to my lashes, I laughed a

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