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All Chapters of Alpha, I’m No Longer Your Luna: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

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Chapter 1

The first time I realized my left hand might never recover, I was trying to drink a glass of water.It was an ordinary morning. The glass stood on my bedside table, less than an arm’s length away.It took three attempts to close my fingers around it.Then I lifted it, my grip failed, and it shattered on the floor.Darian came running.“Don’t move. You’ll hurt yourself.”He lifted me away from the edge of the bed before kneeling to collect the broken glass. Then he poured fresh water and held it to my lips.He was so gentle that my eyes burned.“Darian, what if I can’t go back into the field?”He brushed my hair away from my face.“Don’t talk like that. I’ll find the best doctors.”“All you have to do is trust me.”Back then, I did.A vault-breaching assignment had left me with severe electrical injuries. Silver contacts embedded in the security mechanism had burned through my palm, destroying tissue faster than my body could repair it.The doctors had removed damaged nerves to keep the

Chapter 2

Darian looked up.His eyes moved from my face to the records pressed against my chest.“Why are you here?”My throat tightened around the question.“Why?”He didn’t ask how much I’d heard.He merely set down his pen.“Leah, you shouldn’t have listened.”“Knowing about this isn’t good for your recovery.”I spread the records across his desk.“This wasn’t a mistake?”He said nothing.“And the assignment before it? My shoulder? My ribs? The nerves in my hand?”His gaze flicked over the papers.“It isn’t as serious as you’re making it sound.”I pulled back my sleeve.Scars crossed my arm from wrist to elbow, some pale, others still angry and raised.“What would make it serious?”“Do I have to die on an assignment before you decide she’s gone too far?”“Don’t say things like that.”His expression hardened.“The doctor said emotional distress will interfere with your recovery.”For a moment, I wanted to laugh.He was worried about me getting upset.Not about me getting hurt.I lowered my sle

Chapter 3

I thought obedience might buy me a quiet month.I was wrong.A few days later, a supposedly low-risk inspection sent me back to the clinic.My arm hadn’t healed. Now my calf was burned, too.Darian sat beside me for half the night.While the doctor tested the sensation in my leg, he held my hand and asked detailed questions.“Will there be permanent damage?”“Will she walk normally?”I kept my eyes closed.When the doctor said we needed time to assess the injury, Darian kissed my forehead.“It’s all right. I’ll get you better.”His hand moved gently through my hair.I knew that same hand would sign the next assignment without hesitation.After he and the doctor left, Vera came in.She checked the corridor before approaching my bed.“He stayed with you again last night.”I said nothing.She picked up my care sheet. Darian had written several reminders in the margin.Her smile disappeared.“I asked him to have dinner with me. He said he was busy.”She dropped the sheet.“So this is what

Chapter 4

Vera’s next message was an invitation.*Darian is throwing a banquet for my promotion to patrol district commander.**You have to come. I’ve prepared a surprise.*She thought I would spend the remaining days dreading her.Instead, I counted them.On the afternoon of the banquet, Darian arrived with a dress, jewelry, and a jacket designed to conceal my wounds.While fastening my earrings, he studied my reflection.“You’ve lost too much weight.”“When things settle down, I’ll take you away for a while.”I’d heard that promise before.I didn’t ask when.His hands paused.“Are you still angry?”“No.”Relief crossed his face.“Good. Don’t argue with Vera tonight. She’s been looking forward to this.”On my phone, Vera had posted another photograph.Her jewelry had been selected by Darian.Even the presentation case had been chosen by him.My dress had a strip of lace hastily sewn into the sleeve to cover my injuries.Outside, Darian helped me stand beside the car.My wedding ring slipped fro

Chapter 5

When I woke, the curtains were closed and the glass beside my bed was empty.A nurse eventually came in.“What date is it?” I asked.She told me.Not many days left.Darian appeared two days later.“Why did you push Vera?”“She told you that?”“I saw her fall.”“You saw me hanging there, too.”He hesitated.“You walked past me,” I said. “I called your name.”“The situation was urgent. She fell first.”I turned toward the wall.“Vera says things without thinking,” he continued. “But you shouldn’t have touched her. We’re putting this behind us.”“Fine.”He seemed unsettled by how easily I agreed.“You used to argue.”Once, I’d wanted him to believe me.Now I wanted him to leave.Instead, he sat down.“Mother thinks Vera should carry a child for us.”I turned back.“I won’t touch her,” he added quickly. “The doctors can use our embryo. Your body can’t safely carry a pregnancy, but they may still retrieve eggs.”“When did you discuss this?”He didn’t answer.The plans were already prepared

Chapter 6

When Leah left Blackthorn Estate, Darian was choosing wallpaper for the nursery.The designer had sent three colors. He handed Vera his phone and asked which one she preferred.Reclining on the sofa, she glanced at the screen. The sapphire necklace at her throat shifted as she shook her head.“None of them.”She pointed toward the stairs.“I want the nursery beside the master bedroom. That room gets the best light.”Leah’s studio.Darian remembered the tools she kept there, along with several battered technical books. For a moment, he hesitated.Then he said, “I’ll have someone clear it out.”Satisfied, Vera reached up to straighten his collar.“Once the baby comes, Darian, we can finally be a real family.”He didn’t answer. His gaze lowered to her stomach.He had imagined the child already. Perhaps it would have Leah’s eyes—clear and bright, the way they had been in college when she laughed.If the baby looked like her, perhaps she would finally stop dwelling on everything that had ha

Chapter 7

Several documents appeared side by side.Private information had been redacted, but the essential details remained visible.The planning officer’s signature.The Alpha’s approval.The injuries sustained during the operation.Each date matched.Darian had signed those pages almost automatically. Now every signature stood before him as evidence of a decision he could no longer dismiss.Vera leaned closer.After only a few seconds, she shrieked.“It was Leah!”“She recorded us. She stole documents and told everyone about private family matters!”She seized his arm.“Call her back! She was just here!”Darian remembered Leah standing near the door.Neatly dressed. A small bag in her hand.She hadn’t complained. She hadn’t asked when he would be home.When he told her to look after Vera, she had even agreed.Why had that relieved him?Because she had finally stopped arguing.He called her.The call would not connect.He opened another messaging app. A red notification appeared beneath his me

Chapter 8

Elsewhere, Leah’s evidence-preservation representative had already received interview requests.Leah agreed to none of them.She did not arrange a livestream. She did not sell her story. She authorized only a brief statement to be published alongside the investigative update.“I have left the territory involved and am currently safe.“Original versions of all submitted materials have been preserved and are available for independent verification.“Please do not disclose my location to anyone without my authorization.“I am seeking investigation and accountability. I will not accept a private settlement in place of either.”Beneath the final sentence was an image of a settlement agreement.The signature was so crooked it barely resembled handwriting.Beside it appeared a medical record documenting fractures to her hand on the same date.Darian had once believed that making her sign that paper would put an end to the matter.Now the agreement itself helped establish that she had been coer

Chapter 9

Darian slowly lowered the phone.Vera stood in front of him, one hand spread protectively across her stomach.She would not meet his eyes.A memory surfaced.Several days earlier, an employee had brought him a report that still needed verification. Darian had been testing the rail on Vera’s new crib.The employee had mentioned a discrepancy between the examination dates and the embryo-transfer records.Darian remembered his own response.“Let the doctor handle it. Stop bothering me with minor details.”He had been given a chance to know.He had wanted good news badly enough that he had not bothered to distinguish it from a lie.“Bring me the original records.”His voice was quiet.Vera caught his hand.“Leah is trying to destroy us. You can’t trust her.”“Then prove she’s lying.”He pulled away.“Now.”The doctor responsible for the reproductive treatment was brought into the room soon afterward.He saw the report on the table. Even his attempt to explain came too slowly.“Alpha, I—”“

Chapter 10

Darian went still.Vera looked up at him from the floor, crying and laughing at once.“I said I didn’t want her at the celebration, and you ordered her to put on a dress and come anyway.”“I said she hurt my hand, and you sent me a video.”Her voice rose.“You taught me how this worked. Every time I was unhappy, she had to pay.”“And now you’re blaming me?”Darian took a step toward her.Vera covered her head.The movement stopped him.He stared at her raised arms.For an instant, he seemed to see someone else curled in front of him, waiting for the next thing he would allow.A knock sounded at the door.House Blackthorne’s enforcers stood outside.Aldric had sent them.At nearly the same time, the alliance bureau delivered its formal demand that Vera appear for questioning.But the former Alpha had no intention of surrendering her immediately.The family’s plan was to remove her first, publicly disown her, then have the lawyers negotiate with investigators.When Vera heard that she wa

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