All Chapters of The Human Luna's Goodbye: Chapter 121 - Chapter 130

Elara's POVMy heart stopped, just for a second, and then something worse than pain moved in to fill the space where it had been, something with no name I could reach for.Samuel pulled me into his arms right there, holding on tight, but even that couldn't reach me this time, couldn't touch whatever had already started shutting down inside me. I felt myself sliding down into something bottomless, something with no floor to it at all. My tears actually stopped. My eyes just stared, unfocused, fixed on nothing. My mouth opened slightly and nothing came out. My hands clamped down over my stomach, and I felt something in me tear straight down the middle, my body and this small life inside it dying together in the same instant.Samuel's voice broke. "I'll find another way. I don't care what it takes, I'm going to save this baby."I grabbed his hand. I lifted my head, tried to beg him, tried to make him promise it, but my voice had jammed somewhere in my throat

Samuel's POVI finally found her again the year she turned seventeen. She was working behind a register at a convenience store, and I nearly didn't recognize her at first, the years having changed her enough that only something in her expression finally convinced me it was really her. I was walking toward the door to introduce myself when Orion burst in ahead of me, and everything I'd planned to say died before I got the chance.I understood immediately what they were to each other. I saw the way she looked at him, love at first sight, written plainly across her face. The exact way I must have looked, staring through that glass window at a seventeen-year-old girl I hadn't seen in ten years. Stunned. Falling for the first time in my life.Except she hadn't fallen for me. Orion had. My friend Orion.I told myself I'd only be her friend. That was where we'd started, after all. The next afternoon, I went back anyway, rehearsing what I'd say the whole drive ov

Orion's POVI didn't understand what she meant. My child, dying? I wasn't a fool. I knew she wasn't talking about Mia.I didn't argue with her. I just asked, as evenly as I could manage despite the cold spreading through my chest, "You're saying Elara conceived successfully? Then what do you mean, dying? Explain that to me."Dr. Merritt leaned back in her chair, her expression giving away nothing. "Elara is roughly one month along. At this stage, the pregnancy shows no viable heartbeat and minimal development consistent with a healthy embryo. Two independent specialists have already confirmed it. Based on what we're seeing, this is very likely a missed miscarriage. Without intervention, her body is at risk the longer it continues."I listened to all of it. My hands and feet went cold.This was the first time in my life I'd asked someone to repeat themselves, the words refusing to settle into anything I could actually hold onto. "You're certain this

Elara's POVI hadn't expected Orion to track me here. For a second, I couldn't even figure out why he'd come. My head was too foggy to think straight.He'd never cared enough to look for me before. Not like this. Not across pack borders.There was no way he knew about the baby. He couldn't have gone digging with some doctor to find out what was happening today.He was probably just pissed that I hadn't answered his calls. And now he was making enough noise to be heard from the operating room.I told Dr. Callow to proceed with everything. Samuel said he'd handle Orion himself, already reaching for the door."Don't tell him about the baby," I said, catching his hand before he left, my voice steadier than I actually felt right then. "Let him think the IVF just failed. I don't want him getting the chance to pity me.""Understood." He kissed my forehead, gently. "I'll be right outside. Don't worry about anything in here." Then he was gone,

Elara's POVBecause it had only been local anesthesia, I stayed terrifyingly conscious through the entire thing, aware of every sound the instruments made, every small shift of pressure below my waist. I knew my baby was gone from my body. I didn't dare to look, not once, not even when the light overhead caught my eye, and I could have.Dr. Callow told me Samuel had already arranged a private recovery room for me, though she didn't know exactly where. We just had to wait quietly here until he came to get me. The room around us was quiet in the way hospital rooms always were, machines humming low, the fluorescent light overhead too bright for how I felt."I'm sure the Alpha will be back any minute," she said, checking a monitor beside the bed without really looking at it, more out of habit than need. "You're the first woman he's ever brought home to Golden Crown, you know. Every she-wolf in this pack is jealous of you to the point of madness. Not me, of course. I