The Human Luna's Goodbye의 모든 챕터: 챕터 141 - 챕터 150

Elara's POVSamuel was furious. He grabbed a fistful of Orion's jacket and shoved forward, his whole body coiled tight. "She's your daughter too. Your blood runs through her. And you're taking the word of a few nasty kids over her?"Orion's voice stayed cold. "What else would I do? I heard it with my own ears. You were standing right there at White Moon's preschool. Didn't you?" He shrugged Samuel off, contemptuous. "Listen carefully, Samuel. Mia is my daughter, which means you have no authority to discipline her. Not before, not now, not ever. And I don't care who you are, you don't get to cause a scene on White Moon land. If I hadn't shown up when I did, what you did today would have started a war between our packs. Idiot."Samuel's jaw locked. "Fine. Let's have that war, then. That's on you, Orion. Are you telling me there's no way to hand those kids over peacefully?""They're under the protection of the strongest Alpha in this territory right now," Or

Elara's POVVictoria and I went through the file together, and her expression darkened with every page.Celeste hadn't solved the genetic fertility defect. She'd forced pregnancy artificially, and the numbers, once we ran them properly, told the real story: roughly eighty percent maternal mortality at delivery, with another five percent at risk of dying at any point before that from the formula's own instability. Dahlia had been one of the unlucky five.I looked up at Orion. "Celeste is gambling with people's lives. Building a house with no foundation, on the edge of a cliff, betting it doesn't fall before anyone notices."He frowned, unmoved. "I don't understand any of that. Say whatever you want." He shrugged, entirely unbothered. "If you don't feel like you've made your point strongly enough, I can have Celeste come explain it to your face herself."Victoria's frown deepened. "Alpha Orion. If you insist on trusting her over the data in front of

Elara's POVI told Victoria to wait in the car and shut the door.Before it closed, I caught Celeste's eyes, still lingering near the doorway, burning with something bitter. I ignored her.I sat back down. "I'm certain those children bullied Mia. And I want you to understand something clearly. I will never make my daughter apologize. No matter what you say to me."He looked at me for a long moment, something unreadable shifting behind those blue eyes. I checked my watch, a silent nudge toward the time.He stood and crossed to sit beside me, his tone gentler than I expected, softer than anything he'd said all afternoon. "If you're that certain she was bullied, I'll take you to confront those four children and their mothers myself. But it has to be the two of us who do it. Not you and Samuel. Do you understand?"I let out a short, cold laugh through my nose. I didn't see why I should. We were completely finished. Legally, in name, in every way

Elara's POVI'd never once asked Mia to change her name. She'd done it entirely on her own, from somewhere deep and certain in herself, a decision she'd clearly already made before tonight. She addressed him formally, as Alpha Orion, not as Dad. The dad she meant was Samuel. With her own words, in front of everyone, she'd cut the tie clean.I expected him to explode. Some part of him did. His fists clenched tight, a tremor running through his whole body. But he stayed seated, silent, doing nothing.One of the boys looked at his mother, then tugged Orion's sleeve, his voice small and wobbling. "Alpha, I'm scared. I think Mia's lying. I think she's going to hit me again."The other three, given permission by their own mothers, started crying too, right on cue, like they'd been waiting for the signal.I stood very still and let the seconds stretch, watching every fidget and glance ripple through those four kids and their mothers. Before today, Orion h

Orion's POVThen Elara and Victoria arrived. I wasn't even going to think about the kiss she'd given Samuel right in front of me. The reason she'd come at all was flawed from the start. She insisted Celeste was hurting people, then had nothing left to say the moment Celeste pushed back.Honestly, for one second during that whole confrontation, I'd hoped Elara would actually win. It would have given me a real reason to admit I'd been wrong, to bow to her completely. She didn't. She wasted the chance I'd handed her, the same way she'd let our unborn child die.Over the past two weeks, I'd quietly consulted ten medical experts, one at a time, careful not to let word spread. Every one of them said, given the chance to treat Elara themselves, she and the baby would have been fine. It was already over now, though. She'd never given me the opportunity to save them. She'd trusted Samuel instead, useless as he was. That wasn't entirely her fault. Which was the only reaso