Chapter 41: THE WOLVES OUTSIDE THE TEMPLE

Aina's POV The doors slammed shut, and the howling rushed in to fill the silence.It came through the stone, through the floor, through my ribs. My mother's thin arm lay across my hands, and for one strange moment I couldn't tell which was louder, the wolves or my own heartbeat.She was real. Warm. Breathing. She smelled of smoke and pine, and she was leaning on me as if I were the only solid thing left in the world.I wanted to hold her until my arms ached. I wanted to scream until the roof came down. I wanted to ask why I had grown up believing she was gone, why she had let me believe it, and why not one person had ever told me different.I opened my mouth.Her hands closed on my shoulders. Her grip was shockingly strong for someone so frail."Whatever happens," she said, low and fast, "do not let Osborne complete the bond with you."I froze.Osborne? The man who had stood before the council and refused to send me away? The man who had put every secret he owned into my hands withou

Last Updated : 2026-10-17

CHAPTER 42:THE WOLF WHO REMEMBERED THE WAR

Osborne's POV *One of his ancestors.*The words rang in my head long after Aina's mother stopped speaking.My first instinct was to reject them. My family had ruled Silver Crest for generations. We buried our dead with honor. We did not murder people to keep them apart.My second instinct was to demand proof. Names, dates, a witness. Something I could hold in my hands and test.But I said nothing. Aina was looking at me, pale and unreadable, and I couldn't find my voice.I reached for Varg instead. He always had an answer, even if it was a snarl.Nothing.*Varg.*Silence. Not the peaceful hush the temple had given me. This was the silence of a man who had gone into a room and locked the door.For eleven years, Varg had fought me for every inch of control. He had clawed at my mind, burned through my sleep, and driven me to the edge of every battle. I had wished him quiet a thousand times.Now he was quiet, and I was terrified.*Varg. Answer me.*I felt along the walls of our shared mi

Last Updated : 2026-10-18

CHAPTER 43:THE MOTHER WHO ABANDONED ME

Aina's POV Osborne walked out of the temple without a word.I watched his back disappear through the broken doors, Kade following close behind. A part of me wanted to go after him. A bigger part couldn't move. My mother's hand was still wrapped around mine, and I couldn't let go of it yet.I had imagined this moment so many times.In some versions, she ran to me and held me until I couldn't breathe, and the words poured out of her. In others, I asked why she had left, and she wept and said sorry, and the hurt melted away like frost in the sun.I had never imagined this. Cold stone. Broken doors. Blood on the floor, and my mother whispering a warning about the one man who had never made me feel small.I pulled my hand free. It was harder than I expected."Why did you leave?"Elara Wilfred sat down on the step as if her legs had finally given up. Up close, she looked even more fragile. Gray in her hair. A scar that ran down her jaw like a crack in porcelain."Someone found out what I w

Last Updated : 2026-10-19

CHAPTER 44: MY FATHER'S GREATEST LIE

Osborne's POV We reached Silver Crest just before dawn, and for the first time in my life, the gates looked like the mouth of a trap.The same stone walls. The same guards bowing as I passed. But every face seemed to hide a door I couldn't see behind. My father had known about the Moonbinders. My mother had vanished because of a secret. And somewhere in my own council, a member of the First Circle was nodding politely at my orders.I had inherited a pack I could no longer trust.I couldn't accuse everyone. Without proof, I would only split the pack in half and hand the Circle the chaos it wanted. I needed evidence."Your father's private archive," Kade said quietly. "Not the official one.""Behind the east library."We went alone.The room had been sealed since my father's death. Dust lay thick on the shelves, and the air smelled of old paper and cold ash. Behind a false panel, we found rows of boxes tied with black ribbon.Inside were letters. Hundreds of them, written to and from t

Last Updated : 2026-10-20

All Chapters of THE CHUBBY LUNA THEY REJECTED : Chapter 41 - Chapter 44

Chapter 41: THE WOLVES OUTSIDE THE TEMPLE

CHAPTER 42:THE WOLF WHO REMEMBERED THE WAR

CHAPTER 43:THE MOTHER WHO ABANDONED ME

CHAPTER 44: MY FATHER'S GREATEST LIE