All Chapters of The moon King's forbidden Queen : Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

---Isolde---His words should have terrified her.I will make even the Moon bleed.Instead, they anchored her.Riven's thumb was still on her cheek. His hand was large enough to cup her entire jaw, black blood still crusted at his knuckle from the battle. He did not wipe it. He let her see what he had killed to get back to this tower."You say that like it's a vow," she whispered."It is." His voice was lower now, wolf gone, man left. Raw. "Every vow my father ever made me speak was to Moon, to pack, to throne. This one is to you. Only you."The crescent on her forehead pulsed, as if it heard him and approved.Below, the kneeling wolves had begun a low, vibrating hum — not a howl. A mourning song turning into a claiming song. Isolde had heard it once, when she was six, when her grandmother Lunaria told her the story of the first Forbidden Queen. She had thought it a lullaby. Now she knew it was a war song."They won't stop," Riven said, glancing down at the courtyard. "Not until you t

~~Isolde~~The moon-bone floor did not lie. Every truth spoken upon it glowed, and tonight, it carried the weight of a kingdom holding its breath.The Council chamber of Aelthas was carved from the mountain itself. Seven pillars rose into darkness, each bearing the sigil of a High House. No fire burned within the chamber. Only moonlight poured through the oculus above, illuminating the dais where one woman stood alone, awaiting a judgment that could destroy two lives.Isolde stood dressed in white.Not bridal white. Condemned white.Her simple gown brushed the ancient floor, leaving her crescent-shaped birthmark exposed against her collarbone. Silver threads bound her wrists, burning against her skin.Yet she did not tremble.Opposite her sat the Council: seven elders cloaked in midnight wool, their faces etched with centuries of power. Before them paced High Elder Morcant, his beard braided with oath-rings and hatred burning in his eyes."This woman is no mate!" Morcant thundered. "S

~~Isolde~~The forest beyond the northern border did not forgive exile. It punished it.Morcant knelt in the black soil where even wolves refused to hunt. His once-silver cloak hung in torn pieces, and the sigil of House Drayth had been stripped from his chest by Riven's own hand.Three moons ago, he had been second in command.Now he was nothing."You reek of desperation."The voice came from the darkness, though no mouth spoke. Shadows gathered between the ancient pines, twisting into the shape of a man with starless eyes.Moros.The forgotten god the wolves had buried in their oldest legends."I can restore what you have lost," Moros whispered. "Kill the Forbidden Queen before her coronation. Bring me her heart while it still carries the light of the Moon, and I will make you Alpha of the ashes."Morcant slowly raised his head.His lips curled into a cruel smile."Then we have a bargain."---Far from the northern forest, beneath Moonstone Keep, Riven stood behind Isolde in the roy

~~Isolde~~The crown had barely settled upon Isolde’s brow when the temple doors shuddered.Incense curled above the coronation altar, and golden light spilled across the marble floor. Through the stained-glass windows, the Blood Moon cast a crimson glow over the temple.Then a figure appeared in the doorway, cloaked in silver furs.Alive.Isolde turned, and her world stopped.Her heart recognized the woman before her eyes could believe what they were seeing.Lunaria.Her grandmother. The woman whose lullabies had haunted her childhood dreams.Isolde dropped the scepter. It struck the marble with a sharp clatter as she ran forward.“Grandmother?” she whispered, her voice trembling.Lunaria opened her arms, and Isolde collapsed against her.The familiar scent of pine smoke, snow, and ancient magic surrounded her. It was exactly as Isolde remembered from childhood, when she had curled in her grandmother’s lap while war drums thundered beyond the castle walls.“You’re alive,” Isolde sobb

~~Isolde~~Isolde's eyes were no longer silver.They burned black and gold. When she spoke, two voices emerged together—hers and his."Our baby will be King of Both Worlds," she whispered, pressing a hand against her still-flat belly. Her fingers curled into claws. "Flesh and shadow. Moon and Void. Finally, a worthy heir."Riven could barely breathe.The obsidian crown on his head cracked as his wolf recoiled with a terrified howl.His mate stood only three feet away, possessed by his own father. Every instinct screamed at him to tear the intruder from her body, but he knew one wrong move could destroy her.Selene seized his arm, her eyes bleeding silver."Don't! If you strike her, you strike them both. The possession is complete.""Isolde?" Riven whispered, dropping to his knees. "Fight him. Come back to me."The creature wearing her face smiled with Aldric Moros's cruel, sorrowful expression."She cannot hear you, son. She invited me when she bled upon Lunaria's altar to save your l