All Chapters of The Vindictive Luna, Reborn In The Ice Apocalypse : Chapter 1 - Chapter 5

Tory POV "Help!" The scream tore out of me before I even registered the pain. A meteor had slammed into the ground beside me, and a shard of burning rock caught my leg, searing straight through skin. My gown, the long white one I'd worn to the annual pack ball, the one Aldrich had said made me look like I was trying too hard, was already catching fire at the hem. Everywhere was chaos. The sky wasn't a sky anymore; it was a ceiling of falling fire, and the pack grounds I'd walked a thousand times were unrecognizable, craters where the fountain used to be, the ballroom collapsed in on itself, bodies I couldn't let myself look at twice. Not a single thing was left standing. Not a single thing made sense. "Nooo......" Aldrich's voice cracked through the smoke, and for one heartbeat, one stupid, starving heartbeat, I let myself believe he was running toward me. I let myself believe that six years of his cold shoulder, six years of silence at the dinner table and empty space

Tory POV I moved across Sorrel Ridge as dawn broke over the trees, my mother's letter clutched so tightly in my fist that the wax seal had left a mark on my palm. Every instruction she'd written was seared into my memory now, past the ridge, into the woods, follow the crooked pine line until it stops being a path at all. How had she never told me any of this? Sixteen years under her roof, and not once had she given me even a hint. A secret bloodline. It still didn't make sense, no matter how many times I turned the words over in my head. But I hadn't come this far to turn back now. I needed to get to the bottom of it, whatever it cost me. The woods swallowed me whole. Every step deeper felt like a step further from anything familiar, and I couldn't shake the feeling that I wasn't just confused, I was afraid. Was the letter even talking about me? What had my mother meant by Elowen? The name sat in my chest like a stone I couldn't cough up. The pack grounds behind me ha

Tory POV "It's okay, Aldrich", Sabine's voice sliced through the standoff before I was ready to let it end. I hadn't broken eye contact with him, I wasn't going to be the one who looked away first, not after everything, but she pulled him away by the hand anyway, and he let her, that same infuriating grin still tugging at his mouth as they disappeared down the hall. I shut the door and let out a breath I hadn't realized I'd been holding. It escaped me without permission, ragged and shaking, and for one humiliating second my knees nearly gave out against the wood. I was terrified. Not of him exactly, of the threat he'd thrown at me like a blade. Ninety days to leave the only home I'd built as a wolf. Ninety days to leave the pack that was supposed to be mine. Then it hit me, cold and immediate: ninety-one days until the sky opened up and ended the world. The apocalypse wasn't a threat anymore. It was a countdown, and it had already started running the moment I woke up sc