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CHAPTER 42: THE PRICE OF RETURN
Rowan woke screaming.The sound tore out of him like his soul was being ripped back into his body by force, sharp and raw and animal. His lungs burned as air flooded them too fast, too cold, as if he had been drowning in moonlight and darkness both. His back arched off the ground, fingers clawing at the earth, every nerve ending on fire.He was alive.But something was wrong.The moon above the forest was gone.Not hidden by clouds. Not eclipsed.Gone.The sky was a wound of darkness, stars dim and trembling like they feared being next.Lucian staggered backward, staring upward, horror finally breaking through his composure. “No she wouldn’t.”Rowan rolled onto his side, gasping, his body shaking violently. The bond his bond with Aria was still there. He could feel it like a distant heartbeat, faint but undeniable.She was alive.But impossibly far away.“Aria,” he rasped, trying to push himself up. Pain exploded through his spine, dropping him back to the ground with a strangled groa
CHAPTER 41 — BLOOD UNDER THE MOON
The night refused to move forward.The forest stood frozen, branches bowed low beneath the weight of a moon that burned too brightly, too close, as if watching. Aria knelt in the torn earth, Rowan’s body cradled against her chest, his weight familiar and unbearable all at once. His scent was still him pine, iron, and moon but something vital was missing, something that made the silence around him scream.“Rowan,” she whispered again, her voice hoarse, broken raw. She pressed her forehead to his. Cold.Her hands shook as she searched his chest, as if she could will his heart to start again by touch alone. Nothing. No rise. No breath. The bond between them newly sealed, violently forged throbbed inside her like a wound that refused to close.She could feel him.But he wasn’t there.Around them, the forest began to stir.Low sounds echoed through the trees bones shifting, dirt collapsing inward, claws scraping against stone. The Graveborn were rising again, drawn not by command this time
CHAPTER 40: THE WOLF THAT FORGOT HER NAME
THE WOLF THAT FORGOT HER NAMERowan lunged.Not the Rowan she knew. Not the Alpha who held her as if she were the last breath in his lungs. Not the man who kissed her like he was praying.This Rowan was made of moonfire and ruin, a creature sculpted for killing. His wings ethereal, silver, and burning with ancient runes ripped the air as he launched forward with a speed that cracked the ground beneath him.Aria barely dodged.He slammed past her, skidding through the dirt and leaving a burning trail as his claws dug trenches into the earth. When he turned, the night shook with the force of his snarl.Her heart shattered.“Rowan,” she whispered, stepping back but refusing to run. “It’s me.”He didn’t blink.Didn’t hesitate.He charged again.She dodged only at the last second, flipping backward as his claws tore through the space where her chest had been a heartbeat earlier. The force of his attack uprooted a tree behind her, splintering it in half.Aria swallowed hard.This wasn’t lik
CHAPTER 39: THE KING WHO SHOULD NEVER RISE
THE KING WHO SHOULD NEVER RISEThe ground trembled beneath Aria’s paws not from the Graveborn bowing, not from Lucian’s overwhelming presence, but from Rowan.His body convulsed violently where he had fallen, limbs twisting, bones cracking in sickening rhythm. Aria stumbled toward him, still in her blazing Moonborn form, but Lucian’s arm shot out lazily, blocking her path with a wall of shimmering force.“Touch him now,” Lucian said quietly, “and you may kill him.”Aria snarled, her glow flaring, but Lucian didn’t budge. His eyes never left Rowan’s trembling form.“You see?” Lucian said. “The Moonbond between you, the one he tried so hard to deny, has awakened. And now it’s consuming him.”Rowan’s back arched violently, his scream ripping through the clearing human, wolf, and something else layered beneath. His skin glowed faintly at first, then brighter, crawling upward like liquid gold veining through his blood.“No,” Aria cried. Her voice cracked, sounding more dragon than wolf. “R
CHAPTER 38 : THE WOLVES WHO BLEED FOR THE MOON
THE WOLVES WHO BLEED FOR THE MOONThe world split open with teeth.Aria hit the ground mid-shift, her wolf bursting out of her in a blast of gold-white moonfire. Her paws skidded through torn earth as the forest erupted into a battlefield living wolves against the dead.Her pack slammed into the Graveborn with raw fury. Snarls, claws, bone snapping, the wet sound of flesh tearing. Rowan, now in wolf form, met the charge head-on, striking like a bolt of midnight lightning. His jaws latched onto the throat of a Graveborn beta, ripping through dead sinew that refused to bleed.The creature didn’t fall.It just turned its head, white eyes glowing, and lunged again.Aria saw it too late.Golden rage exploded inside her. She launched herself at the corpse-wolf, slamming into it with enough force to crack the ground beneath them. Her claws burned bright as she tore through its spine this time releasing a burst of moonfire that reduced it to ash.Her power hit the battlefield like a shockwa
CHAPTER 37: THE MOON THAT DEMANDS BLOOD
THE MOON THAT DEMANDS BLOODThe night had teeth.Aria felt it the moment she stepped out of the ruined hall, Rowan close behind her, his scent sharp with fury and something darker fear wrapped in the pride he never let slip. The wind carried the metallic tang of blood and the heavy breath of something hunting them. Something old. Something awakened.The Moon.Not the gentle silver disc that once guided her shifts. No this was the Blood Moon rising early, forcing its crimson haze across the trees as if tearing the sky open just to watch her bleed.“Don’t look at it too long,” Rowan warned, voice low, almost a growl. “It pulls stronger on you than the rest of us.”She knew he was right. Ever since the night she’d absorbed Lucian’s moon-bond, the lunar pull clawed harder at her veins. Her wolf surged beneath her skin now, restless, pacing, snarling, wanting out.Not yet, she told it.Her wolf didn’t answer but it listened.For now.Rowan caught her wrist, pulling her behind a fallen tre
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