All Chapters of HOW MY FATHER BECAME A WEREWOLF (THE UNKNOWN IS HIS FATHER): Chapter 81
- Chapter 83
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CHAPTER 81 – BLOOD UNDER A WATCHFUL MOON
BLOOD UNDER A WATCHFUL MOONThe night stretched wider than the Hollow Crown, heavy with a silence that was not peace but attention. Aria felt it the moment she stepped away from the shattered ground where the hunter had fled. The land was no longer reacting to her power. It was studying it. The pulse beneath her feet slowed into a deliberate rhythm, as if the world itself had begun counting breaths.The wolves sensed it too. They did not disperse. They did not relax. They shifted closer to one another, forming an instinctive circle that placed Aria at its heart without a single word being spoken. Some lowered their heads, not in submission, but in recognition. Others kept their eyes lifted to the moon, pupils blown wide, bodies tight with the awareness that something ancient was stirring beyond sight.Rowan stood slightly behind her now, not out of weakness, but strategy. Fire was not meant to lead this moment. Fire was meant to answer it.Aria closed her eyes.The bond unfurled.It
CHAPTER 82 – THE PATH THE MOON REMEMBERS
THE PATH THE MOON REMEMBERSThe silence after the vow did not fade. It deepened.Aria felt it settle into the Hollow Crown like a held breath, thick with expectation. The wolves did not move. The remnants did not retreat. Even the wind seemed reluctant to disturb what had been set in motion. The silver mark she had released still hummed faintly through the ground, a low resonance that answered only to her blood.She had not meant to claim them.Yet the bond had tightened all the same.Rowan stayed close, his presence steady and grounding, fire held carefully in check. He could feel the shift in her, subtle but undeniable. This was no longer awakening or discovery. This was direction.“You pulled them into orbit,” he murmured. “They won’t drift away now.”Aria nodded slowly. She felt it too. Threads of connection stretching outward, not tugging, not demanding, simply existing. Choice bound them now, not fear.The remnants began to withdraw first, their forms thinning, dissolving back
CHAPTER 83 – WHEN THE BLOOD ANSWERED
WHEN THE BLOOD ANSWEREDThe howl did not fade after it was answered. It lingered in the air, threading itself through the trees, through stone, through marrow. Aria felt it travel far beyond the Hollow Crown, slipping into places untouched for generations, stirring bloodlines that had learned to sleep through fear. Some wolves lifted their heads miles away without knowing why. Some woke from dreams tasting iron and moonlight. Some felt the sudden, aching certainty that something they had lost was no longer gone.Aria stood at the edge of the fracture for a long moment after the echoes died, her breath steady, her pulse no longer racing but deliberate. The Moon Throne no longer pressed against her mind. It watched her instead, like an ancient judge that had finally seen a verdict it did not expect.Rowan broke the silence first. “They heard that,” he said quietly. “Not just the pack. Others.”Aria nodded. “That was the point.”Her mother studied her closely, silver eyes searching for