Alle Kapitel von His Luna, Never His Priority: Kapitel 1 – Kapitel 9

The rescue team finally reached me.The hydraulic spreader screamed against the crushed door. A paramedic fitted an oxygen mask over my face while another braced my neck and asked how far along I was and whether I had any allergies."Thirty weeks." I caught her wrist with both hands. "Please, save the baby first."She leaned out of the wreck. "Is the patient's mate here? We need her prenatal history!"Kieran stood less than twenty feet away.Vivienne was folded against his chest, trembling so hard her teeth chattered. A thin cut marked her temple, and her wolf flashed in and out of her eyes. Damon had died in an overturned car three years earlier. Since then, sirens and the smell of gasoline had sent her into panic attacks.Kieran covered her eyes with one hand and coached her through every breath. He didn't react when the paramedic called for him a second time.I dragged off my oxygen mask and screamed his name.He looked at me. For one second, his eyes met mine through the fractured

Kieran missed my follow-up appointment too.Halfway through the examination, his voice brushed my mind through our private mindlink.[How are you feeling? Vivienne's having another episode, but I'll check on you later.]It was faint and distracted, as though he'd called from the far end of a tunnel. I shut him out without answering.The doctor checked my incision and told me to avoid strenuous activity for at least six weeks. She also recommended grief counseling. When she asked why my baby's father hadn't come, Naomi gave a humorless laugh from the chair beside me."He's taking care of someone with a scratch on her forehead."The doctor let the subject drop.On our way home, I stopped at a custom art studio. Four days later, the artist handed me a clear resin night-light. Inside it, she had sealed my son's final ultrasound and a copy of the tiny footprint card the hospital had given me.The wooden base carried the name I'd chosen for him: Little Star.I locked the light in a drawer in

Silence filled the entryway. In the hospital, I'd imagined this moment over and over, and I'd always thought I would scream at him or demand to know why it had taken him so long to notice.Now that he was standing in front of me, I was simply exhausted."Our pup is gone. The crash caused a placental abruption. He didn't survive the surgery."Kieran recoiled as though I'd struck him. "No. Vivienne said the rescue crew checked you and the baby. She said you only needed observation.""They said I had stable vital signs. That's all."I pulled the hospital contact report from my bag and put it in his hands. "The hospital called seventeen times. Naomi called nine. The ER, the operating room, and intensive care are all listed. You didn't answer once."His eyes moved over the two pages, and his breathing turned rough.He looked at Vivienne. "You had my phone."She backed away. "You asked me to hold it. I was drugged and confused, and it wouldn't stop ringing. I thought it was pack business, so

Seven people were waiting outside the firm the next morning.Three were distant Blackwood relatives. Two were online personalities holding their phones out for a live stream, and the last two had once worked with Vivienne at the pack charity.The man in front blocked the glass doors with a sign that read GIVE THE WIDOW BACK HER MONEY.The moment I approached, he pointed at me and raised his voice for the cameras. "There she is. She used her access to fake an audit and drive Blackpine's former Luna out with nothing."I swiped my key card, but he stepped across the entrance. "Move.""Not until you apologize to Vivienne.""You're trespassing. Get out of the way.""Nobody works in this building today until you tell the truth."Naomi appeared on the other side of the doors with her phone raised. "The police are already on their way. Everything you're saying and doing is being recorded by the building's security system."One of the streamers shoved her camera so close that I could see my ref

The civil divorce and the dissolution of our mate bond were scheduled for the same day.That morning, the court approved the division of property. Everything I had owned before the marriage was returned to me, and the marital assets were split under state law. The money Vivienne had to repay would be handled in a separate case.Kieran offered me a larger share. I refused.I wanted a clean accounting, not guilt money. I wasn't going to let him believe a bigger check could erase an operating room, a shattered memorial, or four years of being treated as an afterthought.In the afternoon, we entered Blackpine's council chamber.There was no moonlit altar and no ancient relic waiting between us. A modern pack required only the presence of both mates, council witnesses, and a clear rejection followed by a clear acceptance.Kieran stood opposite me in the black suit he wore for official Alpha business. He watched me for so long that it seemed he wanted to stretch these last few minutes into a