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When the Moon Slept
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5 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 5 The Night of the Broken Bond

The forest had gone still. Even the wind seemed to hold its breath.

Kael and Riven stood on opposite ends of the clearing-two predators locked in silence.

Luna could feel it, the pull between them, like gravity fighting itself. The air shimmered faintly, charged with the remnants of something ancient and dangerous.

Her voice broke the silence.

"Tell me the truth. Both of you."

Kael's jaw tensed. Riven's eyes gleamed with dark amusement.

Kael spoke first, his tone sharp. "You shouldn't have come here, Luna."

"Too late," she said, stepping between them. "You both keep talking about curses and bonds-then tell me what really happened."

Riven smirked. "He won't, because it makes him the villain in this story."

Kael's eyes flashed gold. "Don't push me, Riven."

"I think I already did," Riven murmured.

Lightning cracked in the distance. The scent of ozone filled the air.

"Enough!" Luna snapped. "I don't care about your feud. I just want to know who I am."

The mark on her wrist pulsed again-once, twice-then flared bright gold, forcing both men to look at her. The energy hummed in her veins, alive and angry.

Kael's gaze softened. "You were everything, Luna. My Luna. Until he-"

Riven cut him off. "Until she chose me first."

The words landed like a strike.

Kael's breath hitched. "That's not how it happened."

"Then tell her," Riven taunted.

Kael's eyes met hers. "You were part of my pack. We trained together, fought side by side. You were strong, reckless, alive. I loved that about you." He hesitated. "But he wanted you too."

"I didn't want her," Riven said, his voice low. "I needed her. You both did. That's why the Moon chose her to bear the dual mark."

"The what?" Luna asked.

Riven's expression softened just a fraction. "The mark of two Alphas. A balance the Moon rarely allows."

"She couldn't survive it," Kael said bitterly. "The bond tore her apart."

Luna's chest ached. "So you fought over me?"

"Not for you," Riven said. "For what you represented. Power. Unity. The chance to merge two packs that had been at war for generations."

Kael's voice turned cold. "And she paid the price for our ambition."

Her knees weakened. "I died?"

Kael caught her before she fell. "Almost. You stopped breathing under that moon. When the bond broke, your memories went with it."

Riven's eyes flickered with something almost like regret. "I tried to save you. He thought I cursed you."

"You didn't deny it," Kael growled.

"Would you have listened if I did?"

Luna looked between them-two men bound by blood and guilt, both telling fragments of a shattered truth.

"So which one of you is lying?" she whispered.

Kael's hand cupped her cheek. "I would never hurt you."

Riven's voice came from behind her, soft but certain. "He already did."

Thunder split the sky. The mark on her wrist burned brighter, as if responding to both voices, both hearts.

Her head spun. She tore herself free and stumbled back. "I need to think."

Kael reached for her. "Luna-"

But she was already running, the forest swallowing her whole.

Behind her, she heard Riven's low voice. "She'll remember everything soon. And when she does..."

He glanced at his brother.

"...let's see which of us she chooses."

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