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EIGHTEEN
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2026-06-30 23:25:18
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CHASING HIS DEAD LUNA TWENTY ONE
ARIA’“You keep looking at me,” Adrian said, not turning his head.“I’m not” but I could already feel the color beginning to spread to my cheeks. My denial did not sound convincing enough, even to me.“You are.” A ghost of something tugged at his mouth. “It’s rude, Aria.”I looked away immediately embarrassed that I had been caught in the first place “I’m nervous.”“About the surgery?”“About all of it.” I twisted my fingers together. “What if something goes wrong. What if your body reacts badly.”“Nothing’s going wrong.” His voice was quiet but certain. “I’ve done worse things to this body and walked away fine.”“That’s not comforting.”“I wasn’t trying to comfort you.”I almost laughed, the sound surprising me before I could stop it, and when I glanced over he was almost smiling too.“Can I ask you something?” I said.“You’re going to anyway.”“Why are you doing this?” I turned to face him. “You hate me. You locked my son away to punish me. So why are you about to give him part of y
CHASING HIS DEAD LUNA TWENTY
ARIAI woke up with a crick in my neck so sharp it took a second to even place where I was, and Eli’s hand was still loosely curled in mine, warm, which was the first thing that registered, warm and not too warm, not the burning heat from last night, and the relief of that hit me before my eyes had even fully adjusted to the pale morning light coming through the window.For one disoriented second I forgot everything. Then it all came rushing back at once, the fever, the mask fogging with his shallow breath, the doctor’s clipped urgent voice, Adrian sitting across from me through the long hours of the night not saying a single word, just being there, present in a way I hadn’t asked for and somehow couldn’t make myself resent.The chair across the bed was empty now. Some small absurd part of me noticed the absence before I’d even processed being fully awake, I felt a sting in my chest and I pushed the feeling down hard, annoyed at myself for noticing at all, and turned my attention back
CHASING HIS DEAD LUNA NINETEEN
ADRIANThe car hadn’t even fully stopped before I was out of it, moving fast through the entrance of the house, past the guards who scrambled to keep up, my phone still gripped in my hand with the message glowing on the screen, fever spiking, breathing labored, doctor requesting immediate consultation.I heard Aria behind me, her heels slapping against the floor as she ran to keep pace, and some part of me registered that I should slow down for her and the rest of me didn’t care, didn’t have room to care, because the only thing that existed right now was the corridor ahead and whatever was waiting at the end of it. The doctor met us outside the room.“What happened?” I said, before she’d even fully turned around.“His fever spiked about twenty minutes ago. Came on fast.” She was already moving, talking as she walked, the particular clipped urgency of someone who had done this exact thing a hundred times and still hadn’t learned to find it easy. “We’re managing it but his oxygen levels
CHASING HIS DEAD LUNA EIGHTEEN
ARIAI splashed cold water on my wrists before I left the bathroom, trying to talk myself back into something resembling composure, and when I stepped back out into the hall the noise of the summit hit me again, music and conversation and the particular pressure of too many powerful people in one room. Adrian found me before I found the table.“Where did you go?” he said, and there was an edge in it that hadn’t been there before, something tighter, something that didn’t match the careful composure he’d been wearing all night.“The bathroom. Isn’t that allowed?” I raised an eyebrow at him.“With Liana.”It wasn’t a question.“You were watching me,” I said, something prickling under my skin.“I watch everything in a room I’m responsible for.” His jaw was tight. “What did she want?”I thought about the deal sitting warm and fragile in my chest, the promise of a donor, of freedom, of Eli getting better somewhere far away from all of this, and I decided, very deliberately, not to tell him.
CHASING HIS DEAD LUNA SEVENTEEN
ARIA’S POVAlpha Voss looked between Adrian and me with the kind of careful, measuring stare that made me feel like a piece of evidence at a trial I hadn’t been told I was attending, and Adrian, to his credit, didn’t flinch, just inclined his head toward the older man with the kind of formal respect that made it clear they hadn’t seen each other in some time.“Alpha Voss,” he said. “It’s been a while.”“Too long,” the man said, though his eyes hadn’t left me yet. “And who is this?”“Aria,” Adrian said.Something shifted across the old man’s face, recognition arriving slow and then all at once, and whatever filter he might have once possessed clearly hadn’t survived into old age because his expression went straight from confusion to something close to distaste without bothering to pass through anything polite in between.“Aria,” he repeated, like he was testing whether the word tasted as unpleasant as he expected. “The Aria. The one you were so in love with.” His eyes narrowed slightly
CHASING HIS DEAD LUNA SIXTEEN
ARIAI crossed the room before I’d fully decided to, the whispers and the eyes and the careful political weight of everything around me falling away because Jason was standing there, alive, smiling, real, and none of the rest of it mattered for one full glorious second.“You look good,” he said, pulling me into a hug that smelled like the years that had passed and somehow also like none of them had, and I laughed into his shoulder, an actual laugh, the first real one I think I’d had since walking into that restaurant and finding the whole careful architecture of my life come crashing down.I had no idea, in that moment, that every eye in the room had followed me across it.“Where have you been,” I said, pulling back, holding onto his arms like he might disappear again if I let go. “You just vanished. One day you were there and the next nothing, no message, no goodbye, I thought—” I stopped myself. “I thought something terrible had happened.”“Something terrible did happen.” He said it
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