Alle Kapitel von THE LUNA WHO WASN'T SUPPOSED TO EXIST: Kapitel 11 – Kapitel 20

Chapter 12:"Marta," Luna breathed, and the word cracked something open in her chest, fear overriding every careful, diplomatic instinct that had carried her through the last hour. "That's my pack. That's my home.""It's not safe," Kade said immediately, closing the distance between them in a few long strides, his hand finding her arm. "Luna, if the Envoy's people are attacking Silver Moon—""Then Marta needs help," Luna said, already turning toward the sound of the horn, every instinct in her body screaming to run. "She raised me, Kade. She gave up her own life to become my mother so I could grow up safe. I am not going to stand here in Thornwood territory debating diplomacy while she's in danger."Rowan's sharp eyes moved between them, weighing something quickly. "Silver Moon isn't far from here," he said. "Half a day's run, less if we push hard. If you're going, Moonfire heir, you're not going alone. Whatever else I decide about standing with you long-term, I'm not sending a wolf w

Chapter 14: The camp broke into controlled chaos within minutes, Selene organizing search parties among her most trusted Ashwood warriors, Rowan's Thornwood contingent grouping warily apart from the others, every alliance built over the last three days suddenly straining under the weight of fresh suspicion."This is exactly what they wanted," Damon said grimly, appearing at Luna's side as she watched the fracturing camp with a sick, sinking feeling in her stomach. "A spy doesn't just feed them information, Luna. It sows distrust. Half these packs barely know each other. Give them a reason to suspect one another, and the coalition falls apart before we ever reach the Council hall.""Then we can't let it," Luna said, though she had no idea, in that moment, how to stop it. "Damon, help me think. Who would even have access to information about our timeline, our route, the strength of what we've built?""Almost everyone," Damon admitted grimly. "That's the problem. Four packs' worth of wa

Chapter 16: Sleep didn't come easily that night, and Luna eventually gave up chasing it entirely, slipping quietly out of the small tent Marta had insisted she rest in and making her way toward the dying embers of the main fire, where she found Kade already awake, sitting alone with his elbows braced against his knees, staring into the coals."Couldn't sleep either," she said, settling down beside him."Couldn't stop thinking," Kade admitted, glancing over at her with a tired, honest smile. "Tomorrow's a lot to carry into dreams, even exhausted ones."Luna leaned against his shoulder, and for a while they simply sat together in the quiet, the camp settled into the particular hush of allies gathering strength before a storm. She thought of everything Corinne had told them — the Council hall built on the same ground where her mother had once stood and survived, the ancient laws that might offer some thin protection, the certainty that the crown's patience had worn thinner with every ye

Chapter 18: They were given three days to prepare, and a wide, abandoned stretch of land at the kingdom's northern edge in which to do it — close enough to the sealed border of the Hollow Wastes that Luna could feel, even from a distance, a faint, wrong pressure in the air, the same metallic wrongness she remembered from crossing into the Forbidden Woods a lifetime ago."We don't have nearly enough information," Kade said, pacing the length of their makeshift war tent late into the first night, maps and old scraps of research spread across a low table where Corinne and Selene pored over every scrap of history they could find. "A hundred years is a long time for records to get lost, distorted, or deliberately buried.""The Council isn't going to hand us a clearer picture," Damon said grimly, from where he sat cleaning a blade with the methodical focus of someone trying to keep his hands busy while his mind raced. "They want this to be difficult. Maybe impossible. A convenient way to b

Chapter 20: The celebration lasted long into the evening, spilling across the camp in waves of bonfire light and raised voices, and Luna moved through it all in a kind of exhausted, disbelieving daze, accepting embraces from warriors she barely knew a week ago as though they were old friends returned from the edge of death together — which, she supposed, watching Selene laugh freely for the first time since Luna had met her, was exactly what they were.Ashwood wolves shared food with Thornwood wolves who, three days ago, had eyed each other with the particular wariness of strangers thrown together by desperate necessity. Silver Moon warriors sat close beside Rowan's people, trading exaggerated accounts of the battle already growing taller with every retelling, and somewhere near the largest bonfire, Finn — the young Thornwood wolf who had betrayed them all under threat to his sister — sat quietly at the fire's edge, watching the celebration with a complicated, grateful expression, hi