All Chapters of The Cursed Alpha King's Forbidden Luna: Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

Yvaine’s POVA soft, insistent voice pulled me out of sleep, calling my name.“Hey.”I blinked toward the doorway. Rhett stood there, smiling like the morning promised him a surprise.“Morning," he said, “”Breakfast is ready, come down when you can.”“I’ll join soon.” I mumbled, pushing myself upright.He nodded and disappeared, only to reappear a minute later with a bottle of water, which he set on the side table saying, "Figured you'd want this first." I thanked him. He gave the doorframe a light tap, and left.I sat up slowly, pressed a hand to my throat, yawning so hard that my jaw ached. Then I dragged myself out of bed, and my leg was quick to remind me to be careful. I picked up the cup and made my way to the door. The moment I stepped into the hall, the smell found me. Aroma of something rich and buttery, herbs and smoke oil, and something sweet.Who the hell was cooking?A little farther down, Rhett was setting dishes on the round table where we had sat and talked yesterday.

Zayden’s POV I already knew where I would find her. Her scent had been tangled with Rhett’s the whole way through the trees, her distinct human warmth threaded through his like she had been walking in his shadow for hours. That should have been nothing more than the needed information. Instead it sat under my ribs like a splinter I couldn’t dig out. The burn in my chest had started before I reached the water. I heard her laughing from a distance. Loud and unguarded in a way I'd never once heard directed at me, and then Rhett's voice beneath it, low and easy. I found them at the pool below the falls. The first thing I saw was the flowers. One in her hair, and one in his. It looked wrong on both of them in ways that made my jaw tighten before I had a reason for it. Something stirred in my chest, and then the Veilbrand hummed in amusement in my head. Rhett stood behind her on the rock, close enough that his chest nearly met her back. His hands wrapped over hers on the bow, guiding h

Yvaine's POV My hand went to the gun at my waistband so fast, pulling it free, steadying it with both hands the way Nikolai himself had once drilled into me, back when he still bothered pretending the lessons were for my safety and not his convenience. "Who are you," I called down, proud of how steady my voice came out despite the way my pulse was slamming in my throat. "This isn't your house." The taller of the two looked up first. Something shifted across his face when he saw me. "Well," he said, almost amused, nudging his companion. "Look who it is." The second man's eyes narrowed, raking over me in a way that made my skin crawl. "I think she remembers us." No, I did not remember such ugly faces, not clearly, but strangely, something in my body did. "Stay back," I said, and when neither of them did, I fired. The sound cracked through the house, deafening in the stillness. I aimed for center mass, the way I'd been trained, and I didn't miss. I watched the bullet strike him, w

Three days.That was how long it had been since the cottage went up in blood and splinters, though it felt both shorter and impossibly longer than that, time folding strangely around everything that had happened since.The first day was a blur of trees and aching muscles, Rhett's pace relentless beneath me, the forest thinning in turns as he and Kael pushed through ground I didn't recognize. We stopped only for water, brief pauses where I slid off his back and stood apart from both of them, not saying anything.I had questions enough to fill the silence twice over. What it felt like to shift. Whether it hurts. How long they'd lived this way, hiding and pretending. But every time I opened my mouth, something stopped me, maybe it was the exhaustion, maybe the simple fact that I didn't know how to talk to a wolf, let alone two who'd spent weeks lying to me by omission. So I kept the questions to myself, and they let me.Rhett tried talking to me once, somewhere past midday. He didn't off

Zayden's POV I didn't have an answer for her. Not one that would land the way it should, not with Varek still watching, not with half the crowd still murmuring behind us. The title never gave me the confidence it was supposed to give anyone else who held it. So I didn't answer at all. "Let's get inside," I said instead, and started walking. Varek let Rhett and Kael pass without a word, but when Yvaine moved to follow, I saw the small flick of his hand in a signal, and the two guards nearest the gate shifted to close the gap in front of her. "And who," Varek said, falling into step beside me, "is this." I didn't stop walking. "Someone under my protection." “You return after all these years and the first thing you do is drag riffraff through the front gate? A human, no less.” His mouth curled. "I won't have a lowly human wandering these halls, Your Highness.” I stopped walking. I turned to face him properly, close enough that he had to tip his head back slightly to hold my gaze,