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4 Chapters
Chapter 7 The Choice Beneath the Moonlight img
Chapter 8 The Whispering Tide img
Chapter 9 Shadows on the Shore img
Chapter 10 Beneath the Drowned Sky img
Chapter 11 The Sleeping Moon's Secret img
Chapter 12 The Memory of Fire img
Chapter 13 The Forest That Remembers img
Chapter 14 The Edge of the Watchtower img
Chapter 15 When the Moon Wakes img
Chapter 16 The Silence After the Storm img
Chapter 17 The Hollow Between Worlds img
Chapter 18 The Veil Between Breaths img
Chapter 20 The Temple of First Light img
Chapter 21 The Breath of Dawn img
Chapter 22 The Pulse Beneath the World img
Chapter 23 The City of Echoes img
Chapter 24 The Tower of Remembered Silence img
Chapter 25 When the World Remembered img
Chapter 26 The One Beneath the Mountain img
Chapter 27 The Echo Who Wore Her Face img
Chapter 28 When the Echo Spoke of Tomorrow img
Chapter 29 The Price of Knowing img
Chapter 30 The World that Answered Back img
Chapter 31 The Trial Of Light img
Chapter 32 The Shattering Thread img
Chapter 33 The Shadow Who Chose Her img
Chapter 34 The Night the Stars Leaned Close img
Chapter 35 The Earth That Listened img
Chapter 36 The Road That Trembles img
Chapter 37 The Shadow That Remembers img
Chapter 38 The First Fracture img
Chapter 39 The Fracture's Warning img
Chapter 40 The Fracture's Echo img
Chapter 41 The Weight of the Third Dawn img
Chapter 42 Where Shadows Learn to Kneel img
Chapter 43 The Echo of the Second Moon img
Chapter 44 The First Betrayal img
Chapter 45 The Thread that Would Not Break img
Chapter 46 The Guardian's Fear img
Chapter 47 The Space Where Love Does Not Break img
Chapter 48 What Wakes With Love img
Chapter 49 The Door of Two Shadows img
Chapter 50 The Shattered Veil img
Chapter 51 When the Silence Learned Her Name img
Chapter 52 Where Silence Learns to Speak img
Chapter 53 When the Silence Learns a Name img
Chapter 54 Where the Quiet Watches Back img
Chapter 55 The Breath of A Breaking World img
Chapter 56 The Weight of Breaking Worlds img
Chapter 57 The Shape Of The Choice img
Chapter 58 When the Light Refused to Break img
Chapter 59 The Shape of Defiance img
Chapter 60 What the World Does Next img
Chapter 61 The Weight of Staying img
Chapter 62 What Comes After the Echo img
Chapter 63 The Weight of Tomorrow img
Chapter 64 What Grows Without Permission img
Chapter 65 The Shape of What Remains img
Chapter 66 What the World Learns to Do Alone img
Chapter 67 The Shape of What Comes After img
Chapter 68 What the World Does With Silence img
Chapter 69 The First Dawn of Choice img
Chapter 70 Echoes of Freedom img
Chapter 71 The Weight of Choice img
Chapter 72 Echoes of a New Dawn img
Chapter 73 The Veil's Whisper img
Chapter 74 Ripples Across the Veil img
Chapter 75 The First Echoes img
Chapter 76 Fractures and Ripples img
Chapter 77 The First Counterstrike img
Chapter 78 The Fractured Horizon img
Chapter 79 The Awakening Storm img
Chapter 80 The Shattered Horizon img
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Chapter 4 The Stranger at the Edge of the Woods

The next morning came too bright, too quiet.

Luna hadn't slept. Her mind replayed the night before-Kael's touch, the way the moonlight made her skin glow, the memory that shouldn't exist.

When she looked at her wrist again, the mark was different-darker, sharper, like ink burned into her flesh.

It pulsed once. Then again.

A knock shattered the silence.

A woman entered-tall, poised, wearing a sleek black suit. "I'm Mara," she said. "The Alpha asked me to make sure you eat."

"Eat?" Luna repeated, blinking. "I'm not a prisoner."

Mara gave a small, knowing smile. "Of course not." She set the tray down-coffee, fruit, toast-and added, "If you need fresh air, the southern path is unguarded. He didn't forbid it... technically."

Before Luna could ask what that meant, the woman was gone.

The woods felt alive.

The air was crisp, filled with the hum of unseen energy. Luna followed the narrow path until the compound disappeared behind her.

Every instinct said she shouldn't be there.

And yet... something called to her.

A rustle.

She turned sharply.

"Kael?"

No answer.

Then a figure stepped out of the trees-broad shoulders, dark jacket, eyes the color of molten gold. His presence was familiar, unsettlingly so.

"Hello, Luna."

Her breath caught. "Do I know you?"

"Not anymore," he said with a smile that didn't reach his eyes. "But you did. Before he erased me from your memory."

"Who are you?"

"Riven." He stepped closer, the scent of smoke and iron thick in the air. "Kael's brother."

Her mind stuttered. "Kael has a brother?"

"He doesn't talk about me. I wonder why." His gaze drifted to her wrist. "Ah. So the mark still binds you."

"You know about this?"

"I made it," he said softly. "Before Kael stole you from me."

The ground tilted beneath her. "That's not possible."

Riven's expression darkened. "You were mine first, Luna. You just don't remember."

He reached for her hand. The moment his skin brushed hers, the mark burned. A sharp flash hit her mind-Riven's face, Kael's roar, a fight under the same moon that had haunted her dreams.

She staggered back. "Stop-"

He caught her wrist, grip firm but not cruel. "He told you I cursed you, didn't he? That I was the villain. Ask him what he did to earn that curse."

"I-" she began, but footsteps crashed through the trees.

Kael.

His eyes flared gold, fangs bared, power rolling off him like heat. "Step away from her."

Riven smiled slowly. "Still territorial, brother."

Luna's pulse raced. The air between them crackled like static. "Kael-what is he talking about?"

Kael didn't look at her. "Get inside, Luna."

Riven chuckled. "He can't protect you from the truth forever."

The two men stood there-mirrors of fury, pain, and something far older than she could understand. The mark on her wrist throbbed violently, pulling toward both of them.

Luna's voice trembled. "Why does it feel like I belong to both of you?"

Neither answered.

The wind howled through the trees, and for the first time, she realized the real danger wasn't the curse-

It was remembering what had really happened the night she lost her memories.

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