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When the Moon Slept
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6 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 6 The Memory That Changes Everything

Rain began to fall again-soft at first, then relentless.

Luna didn't stop running until her legs gave out. She collapsed beside an old stone ruin at the forest's edge, chest heaving, clothes soaked through.

She pressed her back against the wall and closed her eyes. Breathe. Just breathe.

But her pulse wouldn't slow. The mark on her wrist glowed faintly through the rain, pulsing like a heartbeat that wasn't hers.

Then-like glass breaking inside her mind-the memories began to return.

Flashes.

A full moon over the same forest.

Kael, bare-chested, kneeling before her. "If we complete the bond, our packs will never fight again."

Riven standing behind him, jaw tight. "This isn't what she wants."

"I can choose for myself," she'd said.

Kael had looked at her then, eyes full of fire. "Choose me."

But when she looked at Riven, she saw something different. Not power-peace. "We could stop this war," he'd whispered. "If we stand together, not as mates, but as equals."

And that's when the Moon had appeared-its light so bright it burned.

Two Alphas. One Luna.

A bond forged in unity, then broken by jealousy.

The pain returned with it-the moment everything went wrong. Kael, blinded by rage, had attacked his brother. Luna had tried to stop him. The Moon had punished them all.

Her body had failed first.

Her last memory was Kael holding her lifeless form and Riven's voice breaking as he begged the Moon to bring her back.

Then-nothing.

Luna gasped, gripping her chest as tears mixed with rain.

That's what happened.

She'd loved them both, but not the same way.

Kael had been her fire.

Riven, her calm.

Together, they'd broken something sacred.

The wind shifted. She felt him before she saw him.

"Luna."

Kael stood a few feet away, drenched, his expression unreadable. "I felt the bond stir. You remember."

She nodded slowly. "All of it."

He took a hesitant step forward. "Then you know why I did what I did."

Her voice trembled. "You killed the bond."

"I had to." His eyes burned with pain. "The Moon chose you for both of us, but I couldn't share you. I wasn't built for that. I tried to break the connection before it destroyed you."

"And it did," she whispered. "I died, Kael."

His voice broke. "And I've been dying every day since."

The confession hit her like a wave. He looked wrecked-haunted by his own choices, by the love that had consumed them all.

"I can't undo the past," he said. "But I can protect you now. From Riven. From the Moon. From anything that wants to claim you again."

Luna stepped closer, so close she could feel his breath. "And if I don't want protection?"

His eyes darkened. "Then tell me what you want."

She hesitated. Her pulse stuttered. Every instinct screamed don't, but her heart whispered stay.

Her fingers brushed his chest, right over his heart. "I want the truth. No more lies."

Kael's hands came up slowly, one resting on her waist, the other tangling in her wet hair. "Then I'll give you everything-" he whispered, "-even if it destroys me."

The world narrowed to that moment. The rain, the scent of him, the heat that shouldn't exist between two people bound by so much pain.

But before their lips met, the air shifted again-cold, sharp, wrong.

A voice echoed through the clearing.

"Too late for confessions, brother."

Riven stepped out of the shadows, eyes glowing gold. "The Moon's chosen her again. But this time... she won't survive both of us."

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