《Rise of the barren Luna 》全部章節：第 1 章 - 第 6 章

Chapter 1: The HomecomingThe kitchen smells of rosemary and seared venison, of butter browning in the pan exactly the way he likes it — just past gold, never black. I move through the steam like I've choreographed it, sleeves pushed to my elbows, a smear of flour ghosted along my jaw. Five years of marriage have taught me exactly how Kade takes his meat, exactly how long to let the roots caramelize before they turn bitter, exactly which wine he'll reach for without looking.I've learned him the way a wolf-less Omega learns everything — carefully, completely, because I have nothing else to offer this pack but my attention. I can't shift. I can't run the moonlit forests with the rest of them, can't stand shoulder to shoulder with the warriors at the border and prove my worth in blood and claws. So I built my worth out of smaller things instead. A perfectly rested cut of meat. A room that remembers his exhaustion before he ever speaks of it. A wife who notices everything, because notici

Chapter 3: LockedI make it as far as the window before the door opens behind me.I don't turn around. I stand there with my arms full of trampled blankets and broken dolls, staring out at the training yard where, only yesterday, I imagined Kade returning to a lavish dinner and a red dress and a gift box he'd never gotten the chance to open. The irony of it sits like a stone in my throat. Below, the last of the crates from the nursery are still being unloaded from the cart, dark wood furniture stacked against pale stone, and somewhere beyond them I can hear Rhea's voice, light and pleased, giving instructions to a servant about where her things should go."Elira."Kade's voice. Closer than I expect. I hear the door shut, hear the particular quiet that falls over a room when two people are finally, truly alone — the kind of quiet that used to feel safe, back when it meant just the two of us and nothing else.I set the blankets down on the chest at the foot of our bed, very carefully, a

Chapter 5: What I Didn't SeeThe Beta hasn't stopped talking in forty minutes, and I've stopped hearing him in twenty.I sit across from him in the war room, still armored, still filthy from two days of chasing rogues through frozen border scrub, and every muscle in my body is screaming for two things — sleep, and Elira. Not necessarily in that order. I want to go upstairs, sit at the edge of our bed, pull her against my chest until she stops looking at me like I put a knife between her ribs, and finally close my eyes knowing she's safe beside me.Instead I'm here. Watching Beta Corwin circle the same argument from six different directions, like a wolf that hasn't yet worked out how to close on something it desperately wants but knows it isn't allowed to simply take."You understand, Alpha, I only want what's best for the pack." He folds his hands over his stomach, settling deeper into his chair, a man clearly prepared to outlast me. "Rhea has bled beside you since you were children.